Burn with fire

Young people planned a terrorist attack on the White House to hasten the end of a society beyond repair

By last Sunday, on the South Lawn of the White House there were stands for more than 4 thousand spectators and an octagon, which in the evening hosted a mixed martial arts tournament, organized by their largest promoter UFC and dedicated to both the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the 80th birthday of the current president of the country, Donald Trump.

Four days earlier, an Ohio woman called local police at 9:18 p.m. and may have prevented one of the most significant terrorist attacks in American history, planned by her son and his accomplices.

The conspirators planned to blow up several drones over the Trump event and then shoot the spectators fleeing in panic, focusing on dignitaries, members of Congress and the rich, led by the newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk.

The caller turned out to be the mother of 19-year-old Tysen Proper, who lives with his parents and is currently unemployed. She contacted the police because her son had recently alarmed her and her husband by buying weapons and related products and communicating online with peculiar people. Police arrived at the Propers' home 20 minutes later and spoke with both Tysen and his parents.

His father said that Theisen had recently met some strange people online and was planning to “scout” something with them, and that next weekend, that is, June 13-14, he was going to go somewhere and meet with them.

He recently bought camping gear, food, armor plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, “piles” of ammo, extra magazines and light body armor, using the $3,000 gift he received as a high school graduation gift. Finally, the father was alarmed that in anticipation of the meeting with these people, Theisen quit his job and was discussing some “operations” and “reconnaissance” with them online. He knew nothing more about his son's new friends.

The above sounded strange, but it was legal, and the police limited themselves to photographing Theisen's purchases, which included several boxes of ammunition that looked to contain thousands of rounds of ammunition, two slab carriers with magazines for semi-automatic rifles, and two rifles of different models, one of which had an American flag on it. Finally, the police took Theisen to a local hospital, where he was hospitalized with... here in the text of the quoted court document there is a note, but in others I saw that Proper Jr. was diagnosed with homicidal ideation, that is, an unhealthy urge to kill.

I read in one document that before retraining as a potential regicide, Proper allegedly dreamed of becoming a military man or police officer “to be able to kill.”

The next day, June 11, the police contacted the FBI because they realized that the feds should be looking into Proper. FBI investigator Mercedes Smith called his mother and took her statement. She reported that her son has recently been communicating online with a group of people who call themselves former military men and devout Christians. She had no idea what the group was called, but its members expressed "ultra-religious and anti-government" views. In particular, they complained about government corruption, their concealment of the files of pedophile Joseph Epstein, and data centers that allegedly deprive local residents of water (these AI facilities have recently taken over the villainous role that not long ago belonged to climate change).

Conversations with new friends prompted Proper to delve deeper into religion, his mother said. She got the impression that they were using faith to manipulate her son.

She noted that in addition to purchasing weapons and equipment, Tysen had recently begun to train. At first, his mother decided that he was preparing for the army or the police, but then she realized that this was also being done for the sake of his new acquaintances, with whom he communicated on his cell phone, whose number she provided to investigator Smith.

Theisen's mother testified that in recent days she had seen him studying areas on a map in northwest Washington, and added that he received additional images and maps of these places from people she did not know via SMS or messages on the social network Discord, which periodically appears in the court chronicle.

When the mother asked what they were up to, the son replied that he could not explain it to her fully, but said that in general terms they were studying various points and planning a “reconnaissance” in order to carry out a lightning-fast “hit and run” operation (quickly do something and get away with it). The mother understood this to mean that they meant to open fire and then run away. On the same day, the police searched their home.

Among other things, she immediately came across a pile of ammunition boxes, spent cartridges and equipment. Investigators also spoke with the defendant’s father and grandmother, who noted that he had recently become estranged from his family and was spending the lion’s share of his time communicating online with some people they didn’t know. Relatives also reported that they heard statements from him that alarmed them: Theisen, for example, expressed sympathy for Hitler and posted anti-Semitic posts on Facebook*.

On the same day, the police got acquainted with the contents of his iPhone and found in the Signal messenger, which has end-to-end encryption, a chat with details of the operation being prepared by the conspirators in the US capital. There were also photographs and maps of the Washington area, which Proper received online from his mysterious acquaintances, with designated sniper positions, launch points for drones with explosives and other details of the operation.

The next day, June 12, investigators interviewed Proper at the hospital where police had previously taken him. He was not yet officially listed as a prisoner and answered questions voluntarily. He expressed no desire to go into oblivion and admitted that he and a group of accomplices were preparing an attack on a Sunday performance in front of the White House, the highlight of which would be a tournament called UFC Freedom 250, whose promoter spent $60 million on it.

According to Proper, the conspirators began discussing the operation in March in a TikTok group called “Old Man Vanguard.” Over time, leading members of the group, including Proper, moved to Signal. Guiding them

the idea was to protect a country that this collective felt was going in the wrong direction. The conspirators believed that the United States needed to be destroyed in order to later be rebuilt.

Some said people who hung out with Epstein shouldn't be running the country. Everyone showed each other their IDs and videos of themselves at the shooting range or in the gym on TikTok to prove their trustworthiness and fitness for duty.

The group was divided into three levels. Members of the first had to prove their physical fitness and acquire equipment, armor and weapons. Proper admitted during interrogation that he was one of the leaders of the group. He outlined to investigators a general plan of attack on the tournament at the White House. All participants in the operation were supposed to leave home on Friday or Saturday, that is, June 12 or 13, and meet in Fredericksburg (Virginia). Proper planned to sit behind the wheel and carry his weapons and armor, including an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and all its ammunition, body armor and armor plates. He was going to grab spare armor for his colleagues. His plan was to pick up an unarmed comrade-in-arms along the way, who hoped to borrow a gun from a friend or employer.

Proper claimed that he was going only to participate in the protest and was not going to shoot at anyone, but noted that some of his comrades were more bloodthirsty.

According to him, to begin with, the insurgents are going to organize a protest demonstration on the north side of the White House. While she is walking, their colleagues will launch small drones with explosive devices that should go off from the north side of the UFC octagon. The idea is that the crowd and VIPs, frightened by the explosions, will rush to the south, where they will be met by sniper bullets.

The purpose of the terrorist attack is to give impetus to the revolution. I know from other court documents that at that time the revolutionaries had $1,300, which is much less than Proper alone paid for his guns, cartridges and equipment.

During the interrogation, Proper several times mentioned a man whom he knew only by the nickname Shepherd. It was from him that Proper first heard on TikTok about the planned demonstration at the White House. Over time, he learned that it was the Shepherd who played the main role in planning the upcoming operation and generally led the team. Proper said that, according to his data, he was about 30 years old (actually 31) and that it was he who came up with the division of the conspirators into levels (of which there were actually 4, not 3, as Proper thought).

Proper said during interrogation who the accomplices were going to eliminate. These were, for example, members of Congress who supported Israel or took campaign donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), known as the Israel lobby. There were rumors on social networks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would also appear at the Trump celebration, but this was a canard. Proper also named a number of Republican legislators. Together with them, the conspirators had to look out for “billionaires” and “capitalist elites” in general in the running crowd and take them at gunpoint.

In the Signal user group called “Hunters,” the investigation caught the same Shepherd. On September 11, he sent the following list of liquidation targets to his comrades: “1. 2. VP. 3. N. 4. Musk.” Investigator Smith deciphered them as “Trump, Vice President Vance, Netanyahu and Elon Musk.”

Another message from Shepherd indicated that the operation would involve three snipers and one drone operator, of which there should have been three to five. In the third, the Shepherd suggested that his comrades take refuge after the operation in an ancient church in Nebraska and attached a photo of it.

The FBI quickly figured out that under the nickname Shepherd was hiding the Mexican illegal immigrant Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, left by Barack Obama in the United States because he was taken across the border as a child, and he belonged to the preferential category of so-called “Dreamers” introduced under Obama. The leader lives in Omaha and actually owns an abandoned Methodist church. On June 14, Investigator Smith petitioned the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.

In total, there are five people involved in the case, who face a maximum of life imprisonment and up to a $250,000 fine.

They had another 19 interlocutors in a large chat and additionally several chats for 4-5 people. So far there have been no more arrests.

Since most of the riots and assassinations in the United States lately have been carried out by progressive forces, their opponents at first, out of habit, decided that the planned terrorist attack near the White House with exploding drones and snipers on the roofs was planned by the left. But from the above it is clear that we are most likely talking about the so-called accelerationists, moreover, of their right, rather than left, variety. One of the first to identify Proper and his accomplices in this way was former US Secret Service employee Paul Ekloff, who noted in a podcast that “accelerationism has been around for decades. These are people who believe that society is irredeemable, be it capitalism or anything else, and they believe that if they accelerate its end, it can be rebuilt in the way they want."

* Belongs to Meta, a company recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.