We'll kill the men, take the women: The FBI caught "revolutionaries" who dreamed of slaves (4 photos)
Two Texan boys decided the world was too boring and it was time to stage a personal revolution.
Gavin Rivers Weisenberg, twenty-one, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, a year his junior, spent a year preparing to seize the island of Gonâve in Haiti: they learned Haitian Creole, took sailing classes, bought weapons, and even recruited homeless people from Washington, D.C., promising them a "share in the spoils."
Tanner specifically enlisted in the US Air Force to learn how to properly command future troops. All for a greater goal: to land on an island with a population of nearly 100,000, kill all the men, and turn the women and children into personal sexual slavery.
The plan was so detailed that the FBI read their correspondence and was quietly horrified. It turned out that the guys not only dreamed of genocide, but also managed to film a video of themselves forcing a minor to perform sexual acts—apparently to later show to "recruits" as a visual motivational video.
On November 20th, both were charged with conspiracy to commit murder abroad and producing child pornography. Each now faces life imprisonment without parole.
The moral of this story is this: if you're dreaming of your own island with a harem, it's better to limit yourself to a ticket to the Maldives and a couple of cocktails. At least there you won't have to explain to a federal judge why you wanted to cause an apocalypse for the sake of your own fantasies. Otherwise, it turns out your dream of a tropical paradise has ended in a six-by-nine-meter cage—and that, by the way, is forever.

















