Pratt, Stein’s attorney, later said that after Stein’s arrest, the two of them “talked a lot” about “conservative media pushing these three to a point where they could be convinced” that carrying out an attack on refugees “was the right thing to do.”įormer FBI informant Dan Day is seen in Garden City, Kan., in July 2021. On one of Day’s recordings, Stein said Somali refugees fleeing civil war in East Africa, and Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS on a different continent thousands of miles away, were “one and the same.” Meanwhile, in summer 2015, militias and others in southwest Kansas were becoming increasingly nasty toward the large community of Somali refugees in the area.ĭay recalled that one Facebook post in particular “went viral,” spreading bogus rumors that Somalis were trying to recruit for ISIS at the local library in Garden City. “He’s saying, ‘Militia, get off your a-es.’”
“He’s gone on his radio show, his TV shows that I was watching – he’s gone on there and said, ‘Dude, this is a call to arms,’” Allen claimed on one of Day’s recordings.
Allen believed Jones was telling listeners to take action. In 2015, Jones and guests he invited on his show broadcasted an array of anti-Muslim and anti-government screeds. “We’re going to try to trigger the other like-minded people across the nation to stand up and start Muslims and government,” Allen, now 54, said during a conversation Day recorded in August 2016.Īs for Stein, now 52, he never endured a war zone, but he was always a troubled, vulnerable man.Īlex Jones, conservative conspiracy theorist host of, is briefed by a staffer as he prepares to host his live show in his studio in Austin, Texas, Feb. By 2011, he became “disappointed” in his military experience and “very skeptical of the federal government,” his attorney said in court.
Then, after returning home, Allen heard rumors that Muslim doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs were pushing patients to take copies of the Koran.Īt the same time, he was lonely and depressed, and for years he battled with the department to award him benefits for war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder. The birth of Allen’s bigotry was much earlier.Īs a member of the Kansas National Guard in the mid-2000s, he was deployed twice to Iraq, where he grew “angry over the enemy’s use of IEDs to wound and kill American personnel,” according to court records filed in the case by his attorney.
Curtis Allen with his daughter in an undated photo.
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