FBI Categorizes Militia Groups As Violent Home Grown Extremists
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 11 months ago
What They Believe: A militia is a group of citizens who come together to protect the country, usually during an emergency. Some militia extremists, however, seek to violently attack or overthrow the U.S. government. Often calling themselves “patriots,” they believe the government has become corrupt, has overstepped its constitutional limits, or has not been able to protect the country against global dangers.
This is what interests the FBI. No, I’m not making this up. The CIA coupled with DynCorp and the Clinton Global Initiative is toppling countries and trafficking in weapons, money, oil and humans in Haiti and North Africa, and the ATF has trafficked weapons to the Mexican cartels, and the FBI is all in a faint over stateside militias.
The operative word here is “seek.” Very few people actually seek something like that. All peaceable men want to reconcile and are slow to anger. But what we can conclude here is that if you believe in such a thing as the second amendment remedy, you’re an extremist and the FBI is interested in you.
And so the founding fathers would have been as well. But no one cares about history any more – certainly not the FBI.
On January 25, 2017 at 1:53 am, Frank_in_Spokane said:
Herschel, I’d be very interested in your analysis of Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.
In winter of 2014, the SCSO did a Toys for Tots-type event out front of a Walmart. Numerous SO vehicles were on display, including a military-surplus MRAP. A passerby filmed her cordial conversation with one of the deputies, during which she asked him what something like that would be used for. The deputy replied that there are lots of constitutionalists out there stockpiling guns and ammo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwGjOY_Cq7s — 5 mins).
Sheriff K. got a good deal of pushback from the constitutionalists / patriots / Tea Partiers / “conservo-libertarians,” who heretofore mostly seems to have thought Ozzie was a constitution-minded sheriff. “Why does one of his deputies think it is perfectly appropriate to refer to violent criminals as ‘constitutionalists’?” Many people concluded that it was because that mindset has flowed down from the top.
In response, Ozzie delivered a public presentation at several high school auditoriums he called “The Threats We Face: The Myth of Police Militarization” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wC8Sq7h1AU — 2 hours). I attended one of them. For the most part, he talks about overseas and “home-grown” terrorists, and how local police agencies around the country are working with theirs states and the feds to identify and fight back against them. Why, what reasonable person could oppose that?
But his major disconnect (IMO) comes when he scolds the “patriot / Tea Partier / militia” community (for lack of a better word) for the criminal actions of sovereign citizen-type terrorists — e.g., those who claim they can drive on the public roads without vehicle registration or a driver license, and who are ready to shoot and kill any cop who pulls them over to investigate. (He shows dashcam video of just that happening.) His logic seems to be, “They [murderous sovereign-citizens] call themselves ‘constitutionalists,’ and you [patriot / militia types] call yourselves ‘constitutionalists.’ So you need to police the ‘constitutionalist’ community better, in order to weed out and report the criminals and terrorists.”
Lastly, here are some thoughts on the matter from Chuck Baldwin: http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin871.htm
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Peace …
On January 25, 2017 at 1:26 pm, Fred said:
Knew this. It’s interesting. I immediately thought of DHS and Fusion Centers. BHO removed any and all mention of actual threats, like 7th century barbarian hordes gang raping and killing in an ever so peaceful manner for diversity’s sake. So, having spent hundreds of billions a year on forcing us to be safe at gun point or else, who or what then must justify the existence and expense of DHS? Well, you Frank, naturally, for your own good, under color of law, are made to be the threat, of course. After all, you want to be free and this is unacceptable to the Police State turned Prison Planet aspiring to a NWO.
I just hope they spelled my name correctly. It’s the little things that irritate me.
On January 26, 2017 at 10:37 am, Col. Douglas Mortimer said:
If I wasn’t on some sort of list, I’d be quite insulted.