Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men, including the self-proclaimed leader of "The Base", a white supremacist group, as part of a continuing crackdown on radical militia extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This white supremacy extremism crackdown in Michigan was led by a team of FBI agents that arrested Justen Watkins, 25, of Bad Axe, the self-proclaimed leader of "The Base", and Alfred Gorman, 35, of Taylor, during a pair of raids Thursday, including at a rural farmhouse in Bad Axe, 100 miles north of Detroit. According to Michigan Attorney General Dana, the 3 1/2-acre farm was being converted into a "hate camp" for members of the group to prepare to start civil war and overthrow the government, according to the criminal case, which also accused "Base" leaders of encouraging others to harass a Washtenaw County family online. Watkins and Gorman are linked to a December incident in Dexter in which a local family was terrorized by the men, who tried to intimidate a husband and wife and shared their address with members of the Base, Nessel said in a statement. The developments continue a string of arrests, raids and operations targeting far-right, anti-government extremists and white supremacists this month. Pictured are a law enforcement official walking into an out-building on the 3-1/2 acre property that was being converted as what Law Enforcement officials called a "Hate Camp"
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