Does anyone want to guess which candidate these guys support for president?
Courtesy of NYT:
Storming the State Capitol. Instigating a civil war. Abducting a sitting governor ahead of the presidential election.
Those were among the plots described by federal and state officials in Michigan on Thursday as they announced terrorism, conspiracy and weapons charges against 13 men. At least six of them, officials said, had hatched a detailed plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who has become a focal point of anti-government views and anger over coronavirus control measures.
The group that planned the kidnapping met repeatedly over the summer for firearms training and combat drills and practiced building explosives, the F.B.I. said; members also gathered several times to discuss the mission, including in the basement of a shop that was accessible only through a “trap door” under a rug.
The men spied on Ms. Whitmer’s vacation home in August and September, even looking under a highway bridge for places they could place and detonate a bomb to distract the authorities, the F.B.I. said. They indicated that they wanted to take Ms. Whitmer hostage before the election in November, and one man said they should take her to a “secure location” in Wisconsin for a “trial,” Richard J. Trask II, an F.B.I. special agent, said in the criminal complaint.
Mr. Trask said that one of those arrested had bought a Taser for the mission last week and that the men had been planning to buy explosives on Wednesday. Court records indicated that at least five of the men had been arrested on Wednesday in Ypsilanti, Mich.; it was not immediately clear if the sixth man had been taken into custody.
“I knew this job would be hard,” Ms. Whitmer said on Thursday, in reaction to news of the arrests. “But I’ll be honest, I never could have imagined anything like this.”
As terrifying as all of that was, the group also had plans to target police officers and foment a civil war.
They were affiliated with a group called the Wolverine Watchmen, which sounds like a football fantasy team to me.
Whitmer did not mince words when she targeted the individual who she believes is at least partially responsible for these actions:
“Just last week, the president of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups,” Ms. Whitmer said. There is no indication in the court documents that any of the men were inspired by the president, but Ms. Whitmer said extremists had “heard the president’s words not as a rebuke but as a rallying cry — as a call to action.”
That really pissed Trump off and he went after the Governor hard on Twitter.
However, that attack on her character does not erase his complicity.
These were Trump’s thugs trying to illegally LIBERATE MICHIGAN! pic.twitter.com/Q33oTOLDE5
— 🇺🇸🇵🇷 Name is Bishop🌊 (@BishesBrew) October 8, 2020
Yeah asshole, words matter.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/bill-barr-insisted-he-was-unaware-of-threats-against-michigan-governor-as-fbi-was-unraveling-kidnap-plot/
Jayapal pointed out that Trump and Barr had taken an “aggressive approach” against Black Lives Matter protesters but hadn’t cracked down on armed protests by “right-wing extremists threatening to lynch a governor.”
“Are you aware that these protesters called for the governor to be lynched, shot and beheaded?” Jayapal asked Barr at the July 28 hearing.
“There are a lot of protests around the U.S.,” Barr said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jason-miller-attacks-gretchen-whitmer_n_5f7f839ac5b664c95bd6fc34
“Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller trashed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, on Thursday a short time after she addressed the press about an alleged Michigan militia plot to kidnap her.
“President Trump is the one out there condemning these radical groups, whether they be on the right or be on the left,” he added. Miller then touted the president’s “platinum plan” to win over Black Americans by labeling the Ku Klux Klan and anti-fascist groups as terrorist organizations.”
“Asked about Miller’s remarks, Whitmer said on CNN later on Thursday that “it tells you everything you need to know about the White House.”
“After a plot to kidnap and to kill me, this is what they come out with. They start attacking me,” she said. “As opposed to what good, decent people would do, which is to check in and say, ‘Are you OK?’ — which is what Joe Biden did. And I think that tells you everything that’s at stake in this election.””
And yet, even if Republican voters are horrified by all of this…they’ll still vote for Trump.
Obviously trump has not learned his lesson, and Jason Miller can go to hell as far as I am concerned
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Trump Fundraising Letter Explicitly Threatens Joe Biden
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/10/trump-fundraising-letter-explicitly
Remember 2-4-1?
“One of those informants came from a militia group in Michigan and as a result they were able to speak with this person who came forward because they were concerned that the militia was seeking the addresses of police officers and wanted to kill police officers,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/militia-that-targeted-michigan-governor-also-sought-to-cops/
ALASKA
‘It’s a money bomb’: Parties rush to surprising Alaska Senate race
Democratic and Republican outside groups are flooding the state with new spending in the final four weeks of the campaign between GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democratic-backed independent Al Gross.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/08/alaska-senate-race-spending-428257
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-coronavirus-nyc-trump-borough-park-protests-20201009-4mwyge427bdxnkmdpjrqmrzupu-story.html
A robocall purporting to be at the behest of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign directed hundreds of Borough Park residents to take to the streets earlier this week in what became violent protests, according to the recording, which was obtained Friday by the Daily News.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ag-michigan-governor-family-were-moved-as-plotters-tracked_n_5f807e10c5b618df3e80165e
Ironic- Since she has kidnapped the whole state.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whitmer-kidnapping-michigan-militia-trump_n_5f7f32a5c5b600470a99510d
“Defendants Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to court documents.
In an affidavit, an FBI agent wrote that the bureau learned through social media in early 2020 that a group was “discussing the violent overthrow of certain government and law-enforcement components.” At a meeting in June, several members of the group “talked about murdering ‘tyrants” or ‘taking’ a sitting governor.””
““Snatch and grab, man. Grab the fuckin’ Governor. Just grab the bitch,” Fox allegedly wrote in one message when discussing kidnapping Whitmer at her vacation home or official summer residence.
“I just wanna make the world glow, dude. I’m not even fuckin’ kidding. I just wanna make it all glow dude. I don’t fuckin’ care anymore, I’m just so sick of it. That’s what it’s gonna take for us to take it back, we’re just gonna have to ― everything’s gonna have to be annihilated man,” Fox said in one phone call. “We’re gonna topple it all, dude.””
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whitmer-kidnapping-michigan-militia-trump_n_5f7f32a5c5b600470a99510d
“At a meeting in June, defendants Fox and Croft allegedly met with about 13 others in Dublin, Ohio, where they discussed “creating a society that followed the U.S. Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient.” Several members of the group “talked about murdering ‘tyrants’ or ‘taking’ a sitting governor.”
Fox then reached out to a Michigan militia group, the Wolverine Watchmen, which was already on the FBI’s radar after a local police department said the group was trying to get addresses of local law enforcement officers. One of the members of that militia group was interviewed by the FBI and agreed to become an FBI informant because they were “concerned about the group’s plans to target and kill police officers,” according to the affidavit.
In June, Fox met with defendant Garbin at a rally supporting the Second Amendment at the Michigan State Capitol, where Fox allegedly told Garbin and one of the informants that he planned to attack the Capitol.”
Remember that “rally”? All the ammosexuals showing up with their guns?
“Fox later said he needed 200 men to “storm” the Capitol building and take hostages, including Whitmer, whom they said they would put on trial for “treason.” The plan would be executed before the November 2020 election, the FBI affidavit said.
The Wolverine Watchmen belong to a far-right, anti-government extremist movement called the “Boogaloo,” Michigan state court records revealed. Members of the group met in remote areas where “they engaged in firearms training and tactical drills to prepare for the ‘boogaloo,’” according to court records. In June, a follower of the Boogaloo movement allegedly killed a federal protective security officer in California.
Joseph Morrison, who also faces terrorism charges in connection to the kidnapping plot, is considered to be the group’s “commander” and went by the online screen name “Boogaloo Bunyan.” ”
In what way are these redneck Bozos different than the Taliban? And they consider themselves “patriots.” They are committing domestic terrorism, sedition, and they beileve they are patriotic to do so. We have gotten to the point where the opposite political party is believed to be traitors and civil war is the only way to “take your party back.” Actually, I should clarify. The RIGHT believes this. I have yet to read of left-wing nutjob crazies plotting to do anything like this.
“Seven additional defendants face state terrorism charges in connection with a plot to attack the state capitol, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. These defendants — members of the Wolverine Watchmen, who are likely not facing federal charges due to the lack of a broad domestic terrorism statute — allegedly researched the home addresses of members of law enforcement, and trained and planned for an operation to attack the state capitol building.”
*THIS* is why we have to legally define “militia” in the law and then further regulate all of the parameters for when you are a member of a militia. The Constitution says regulated militia. So we define it, regulate it, and then maybe we can move forward on gun control and domestic terrorism. A two-fer.
I shudder to think what would have happen to Whitmer if they had gotten a hold of her.
Now we have some right wing nut Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf suggested they may have been planning to lawfully arrest the Democratic governor for allegedly violating the law with her coronavirus orders.
Leave to the right wing nuts in DeVos country to sanction terrorists and anarchists.
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Michigan attorney general crushes right-wing sheriff’s defense of militia plot to kidnap governor
“As Michigan’s top law enforcement official, let me make this abundantly clear,” tweeted attorney general Dana Nessel. “Persons who are not sworn, licensed members of a law enforcement agency cannot and should not ‘arrest’ government offficials [sic] with whom they have disagreements. These comments are dangerous.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/michigan-attorney-general-crushes-right-wing-sheriffs-defense-of-militia-plot-to-kidnap-governor/
Wolverine Watchmen, which sounds like a football fantasy team to me.
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Michigan is known as the wolverine state, alas there are no wolverines left in the state except for University of Michigan “wolverines”.
Gretchen Whitmer boogaloo kidnapping plot was just the beginning: report
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/gretchen-whitmer-boogaloo-kidnapping-plot-was-just-the-beginning-report/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-gave-his-blessing-for-right-wing-groups-to-threaten-the-election-and-voting-advocates-are-worried/
This is the result of the vatican, pushing their cult of Jesus. When you are indoctrinated from birth with this cult trash, it can take a long long time to extricate oneself. Many lifetimes. Not always, but mostly. There is no such thing as god, being under god, fearing god, worshipping god, serving god, or any of the usual tertiary christian behaviors including but not limited to tithing, subjugation, violence, entitlement, dominance, bravado, negation of nature, and systemic denial of the self.
Does this remind you of Schaeffer Cox, Gryphen? “Alaska” above queried “Remember 2-4-1?”
I was surprised to see an appellate court has cut his sentence, but he still has about 7 years to serve. Wonder if he gets out on “good behavior” just in time to join the Boogaloo Bois?
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/11/06/alaska-militia-leader-schaeffer-coxs-murder-conspiracy-sentence-cut-by-10-years/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/watch-accused-whitmer-kidnap-plotter-accuses-trump-of-being-a-tyrant-in-video-rant/
@robbystarbuck
Wow! This is big. Brandon Caserta, one of the ringleaders of the group of men arrested for a plot where the group planned to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, hated President Trump too!
“Trump is not your friend dude”
He says Trump is “a tyrant” & calls President Trump an “enemy”.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/michigan-militia-dar-leaf-constitutional-sheriff-180828690.html
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
Leaf, according to a database created by the social justice think tank Political Research Associates, attended the 2019 conference of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
The CSPOA is the flagship organization of the constitutional sheriff’s movement, which maintains that sheriffs are the ultimate law-enforcement authority in their respective counties, outranking officials from the federal or state government. Constitutional sheriffs are part of the broader antigovernment “patriot” movement in the U.S., which is animated by a multitude of conspiracy theories about immigrants, Muslims, Jews, gun control measures, and a coming “New World Order.”
The CSPOA also has a close working relationship with armed far-right paramilitary groups. Among those who attended the 2019 CSPOA conference with Leaf was Stewart Rhodes, leader of the national militia organization the Oath Keepers.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/2-marine-veterans-charged-in-connection-with-alleged-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/delaware-man-charged-in-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-was-previously-pardoned-on-weapons-charge/
https://this.kiji.is/687756073373221985?c=592622757532812385
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-terror-trump-militias_n_5f832f7ec5b62f97bac42a7c