Civil War reenactor sentenced after planting pipe bomb and blaming it on Antifa

After getting kicked out of his Civil War reenactment unit, a man terrorized a related organization by planting a pipe bomb and writing anonymous letters in which he pretended to be “Antifa.” Gerald Leonard Drake, 64, was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in federal prison for unregistered explosive device and stalking.

Taking advantage of the tragic and recent riots at the far-right, white supremacist Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia, Drake wrote threatening letters in the guise of someone who was “Antifa.” In a typewritten letter postmarked Sept. 21, 2017, the author said the event “clearly celebrates the war to keep African-Americans in chains,” and that if they did not cancel it, Antifa would inflict trouble on the battlefield that would make the Charlottesville riots look like “a Sunday picnic.” Then on Oct. 14, 2017, when the CCBF hosted a reenactment, an unexploded pipe bomb was found in one of the merchant tents.

Even after that, Drake kept writing threatening, vulgar letters in which he, pretending to be antifa, threatened violence and sexual assault against people. “Many of us have dogs, so will bring dog feces to throw on people!” said the letter postmarked Sept. 21, 2017.

In a letter postmarked June 29, 2018, Drake wrote, “I like the idea of burning your mother alive in a car bomb.” In one letter postmarked, Oct. 5, 2018, Drake threatened a person’s daughters, writing, “We have a convicted rapist that would love to introduce them to his penis.”

Civil war reenactor sentenced after planting pipe bomb and blaming it on antifa

Another deranged scumbag who used righty boogeyman Antifa as a convenient cover for his terrorist actions. Lock him up!

 

Hmm now that you mention it, I do remember one of our resident righties randomly blame Antifa for a MAGA crime a few days ago...

 

“Civil War reenactment” is equally funny and pathetic. These people need to get a life and a job.