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First, back in April of this year, after Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer invoked a lockdown to protect the state's citizens, Mr. Trump screamed the following in all caps:
Then, a few weeks later, protesters, a number of them armed members of 'militia' groups, stormed the Michigan statehouse as part of what was a decidedly non-theological liberation-based strategy:
And now, in early October, there is this:
The FBI says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Mrs Whitmer has become a target of coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict mitigation measures that were overturned by a judge last week.
Officials say the kidnapping plot involved six men who planned to hold a "treason trial" for her. Mrs Whitmer's office has yet to comment...
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..."Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," the charging document states. In one video, a suspect denounced the state's role in deciding when to reopen gyms during the coronavirus lockdown...
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...The group wished to gather about "200 men" to storm the capitol building and take hostages, including the governor. They hoped to enact their plan before the November presidential election. If that failed, they planned to attack the governor at her home, officials say...
Enough said?
The FBI says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Mrs Whitmer has become a target of coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict mitigation measures that were overturned by a judge last week.
Officials say the kidnapping plot involved six men who planned to hold a "treason trial" for her. Mrs Whitmer's office has yet to comment...
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..."Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," the charging document states. In one video, a suspect denounced the state's role in deciding when to reopen gyms during the coronavirus lockdown...
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...The group wished to gather about "200 men" to storm the capitol building and take hostages, including the governor. They hoped to enact their plan before the November presidential election. If that failed, they planned to attack the governor at her home, officials say...
Enough said?
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4 comments:
Nothing a Republican judge and a note from Bill Barr can’t fix. After all, in their minds they’re a well regulated militia freeing the state on direction of the President.
The lads will probably be out for Christmas.
C'mon, man, you have to know there's so much more to this story.
Consider that, as Trevor Aronson has documented*, the FBI creates more terrorism than all other terror groups combined; and then factor in that their dirty paws are all over this latest episode, too.
Consider that the FBI has much to worry about from a second term DOJ under Trump, and that Dir. Wray issued the recent white-supremicist charge without evidence right when the public was becoming aware of evidence that BLM and Anti-fa are marxists proxies with links to the DNC and the Biden campaign.
Consider that Gov. Whitmer just suffered a resounding constitutional defeat over her decision to take implement excessive quarantine measures.
If this little nudge hasn't at least moved you to consider the possibility that we're looking at another synthetic terror plot, then it's time for you to pack it in and go fishing full time.
Cheers
*Trevor Aaronson is an American journalist. He is the executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting[1] and author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism. He is a 2015 TED Fellow.[2] Aaronson has won the Molly National Journalism Prize,[3] the Data Journalism Award[4] and the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.[5]
Point taken Lew.
And then, on the flip side, there are those who hop on to that 17th letter express - see, for example, directly above.
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Anon-A-Couple-Above--
And just to follow-up...I know of Mr. Aaronson's work (thanks for the unattributed Wiki page quote, by the way). Much of that work points out what he views to be overzealous attempts by the FBI to root out terrorists of a very different kind in the context of a post-9/11 America. I do not disagree that much of what he has to say is worth paying attention to. However, to my knowledge he has not yet written about this particular incident, either in the Intercept or elsewhere. Regardless, if you would like to provide specific evidence of entrapment in this case I would be happy to reconsider the post under consideration.
My question for you based on your comment is the following....Are you arguing that there are not self-styled, armed militia groups who are fomenting unrest in places like Michigan after they have been exhorted to do so by the current president of the United States?
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