Just so you know, this isn’t one of those “let’s put in a confidential informant and see what we can egg them on to do” indictments. The details are pretty scary, and I’m glad that at least Chris Wray (who Trump plans to fire) is doing his job.
They were affiliated with a separate white nationalist extremist group, known as the Wolverine Watchmen, and the state’s attorney general accused them of publicizing addresses of police officers, threatening to start a civil war “leading to societal collapse” and planning to kidnap the governor and other government officials.
Notice, as always, the special kind of hate they reserve for women.
The F.B.I. said it had learned about the six men it charged by intercepting encrypted messages the men had sent and because it had undercover agents and confidential informants working with the group. https://t.co/2vxbjccXTD
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) October 8, 2020
JUST IN: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer responds to kidnapping plot, says Trump “complicit” in stoking extremists https://t.co/zmAnpFBZpl pic.twitter.com/IE0y1cJmx4
— The Hill (@thehill) October 8, 2020
This is our first look at four of the suspects state and local officials say targeted Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
— WXYZ Detroit (@wxyzdetroit) October 8, 2020
STORY: https://t.co/t2eaa5pJnG pic.twitter.com/uyi8J9OUhs
Bill Barr and Trump paved the way for what is happening in Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer, as @PramilaJayapal lays our perfectly. pic.twitter.com/Z5BP2k24Xy
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) October 8, 2020
Trump campaign official Jason Miller is on Fox News attacking Gretchen Whitmer, the victim of a kidnapping plot: “If we want to talk about hatred, then Gov. Whitmer, go look in the mirror — the fact that she wakes up everyday with such hatred in her heart for President Trump.” pic.twitter.com/sMXv7mgBfa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 8, 2020
The Oklahoma City Bomber (1995), Timothy McVeigh, was a product of the Michigan militias and of the U.S Marine Corp.
This is not a new phenomenon and these neo-Nazis generally strike on Hitler’s birthday in April.
The Michigan militias are the most radical and violent of all of the Fascist, neo-Nazi militias in the US.
The Fascist militias in the Northwest (Seattle and Portland) come in a very close second.
These sectarian, separatists have had one, single goal since George Lincoln Rockwell was discharged from the military in 1959 for forming the American Nazi Party.
They want to overthrow the government of the United States.
After they’ve accomplished that goal what comes next is all over the board.
Once the dog catches the car he has absolutely no idea what to do with it.
Right wing militias, the Proud Bois, the Bugaloo Boys and the rest of these Fascist groups promote and practice violence and insurrection.
Trump supplies the oxygen and feeds the irrational paranoia of these bigoted supremacists every time he talks about the “radical Left,” the “Socialist Democrats,” “in the old days we’d punch them in the face,” and “there a good people on both sides.”
And the Republican Party allows Trump to get away with these outrages because these same Fascist zombies all vote Red. Isn’t that right Moscow Mitch?
ANTIFA–the anti-Fascists–stand in opposition to all of the neo-Nazi militias located in Michigan and everywhere else in the country.
Some of them were the same armed morons who tried to storm the capitol when the anti-covid measures were first imposed, apparently believing that they could carry their ARs into the gallery above the senate chamber and sashay away without being positively identified and investigated.
Pro tip for any other morons thinking about armed assault of seats of state government: like that scene in the movie “And Justice For All” … they gear up for that.