This shit is bonkers crazy, where do these people come up with this stuff? It’s lunacy to the core.
My guess is a foreign campaign that found some useful idiots, but maybe I’m too optimistic that’s the case.
Blowing up cellular and electrical infrastructure is BIG in white supremacist communities, the idea being that somehow these acts will push white people to an open race war.
Over the past three weeks, members of the group, which falsely claims that Helene was caused by a “weather weapon,” have been making conspiracy-driven claims that the U.S. military is attempting to kill U.S. citizens with “directed energy weapons.”
I’m directing some energy at them right now, let’s see if they can pick up on it.
You want to pour sugar in tanks, like whatever. I’m not sure North Carolina has a legitimate need for armoured vehicles and the military industrial complex is pretty whack. But they also want to destabilize the cellular and electrical infrastructure which would be essential to provide relief for hurricane victims.
Doxxing elected officials and threatening the police is a bold choice. Usually these nutcases are making allies with the police.
By golly, this almost seems like it could be terrorism.
They probably wanted to target Ft. Liberty which is the home of 18th Airborne Corps
I fully agree with your comment - thank you for sharing this.
Why are we worried about doxxing elected officials? Shouldn’t they self-doxx as a matter of principle?
I think there’s a difference between saying, “This is my name and I work here for the city,” and, “This is the home address of my opponent whom I’m sharing lies about and threatening violence towards”
Especially when you consider that it’s not just the officials, but their families who are exposed too
I naturally draw a distinction between city employees and elected officials.
I’m sort of the school of thought that transparency of who they are and conflicts of interest should be a given. Release of tax returns, etc.
Watching republicans turn against the military is very interesting. They say trump is anti war but anti military might be a better description. Meanwhile, the military has more respect for the US Constitution and might be the ultimate check against the power of trumpists. Methinks the US is fucked.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Veterans on Patrol founder, Michael Meyer is not a veteran. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/veterans-patrol
Oh, I’m sure. All of these extremist and militia nutjobs are just LARPing fools who wish for the worst, but would actually shit their pants if things really went down. They like feeling important in their otherwise mundane lives, not actually having to do anything dangerous.
What’s kinda crazy to me is that if we rounded the whole group up, we’d probably get a few cops and military personnel working with them.
“Some of those that work forces…”
Ah, veterans on patrol, they have been all over social media and the local news since showing up in NC. Complete bunch of lunatics.
