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A Colorado man who planned to attend a Reopen rally in Denver on May 1 before he was arrested by the FBI for possessing pipe bombs was involved in the boogaloo movement, a far-right militia offshoot that uses cryptic pop-culture references to prepare for a future civil war.
FBI agents and other law enforcement executing search warrants on Bradley Bunns residence in Loveland, Colo. on May 1 discovered four pipe bombs at the 53-year-old mans home, according to a press release issued by the US Attorneys office in Denver. Agents also discovered two one-pound containers of .308 caliber cartridge reloading gunpowder, a potential pipe bomb component, in Bunns vehicle. If convicted for possession of destructive devices, Bunn faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The arrest set off a flurry panicked texts from Bunns extremist associates in Colorado to allies networked across the country through boogaloo-inspired Facebook pages. On the morning of Bunns arrest, Chevy Lee McGee wrote on his Facebook page in all caps: I might need backup ASAP. Possible police raid at my house. Then he posted the address of his mothers house in Fort Collins. He ended with a request: Need QRF teams, using a military term for quick reaction force.
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...McGee wrote, I knew I was going to be next, so I made that post for everyone to standby just in case something happened. Then my moms freaking out because she works with the sheriffs office [in Larimer County] and they were talking about me and how I talked to Bradleys etc. [sic], so she told me to get my ass home. It couldve been a setup so I have a couple bois roll with me there etc.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/homeland-security-issues-a-startling-internal-alert-after-lockdown-protester-gets-arrested-for-building-pipe-bombs/
malaise
(268,968 posts)Fucking idiots
CatMor
(6,212 posts)smb
(3,471 posts)One bit (from memory): "Chins and foreheads were a MUST for membership in the Master Race back in the day; also you had to have EXACTLY ten fingers and toes each!" The commentary concluded by noting that these losers would be among the first to be exterminated as inferior by any REAL Nazi regime.
randr
(12,412 posts)Put them up against any nurse and watch em weep
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)I bet not a one of them is even close...just deluded and violence prone.
In their 40s and 50s and they still play soldier.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)They don't have to play pretend.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)::::Loud groaning sounds::::
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHUH!
uuuuuuuuuuuuAAAAAHHHHHHUH!
UUUUUUUUUUUHUH!
Nope. Not a sausage. No matter how hard I try, I just can not be too concerned these nimrods are going to do anything.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... playing "Call of Duty" down there too.
BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)sewed the outfits for them?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Their plans and behavior are not humorous at all, but now they are turning on law enforcement in general from police to FBI. That's one way to get rid of themselves, (more Darwin here) in short order, which would be good for us all. They are asking for it and I suspect that law enforcement will change its permissive tune if they become boogaloo targets.
The thing is, how much blood are they going to shed from their parent's basements? They are itching for confrontations now and I certainly put a lot of blame on Dictator Don for giving them the green light and encouraging them both by making direct comments and overlooking their threat to the safety of Americans, and even state officials now.
budkin
(6,703 posts)Bwahahahahahahaha
crickets
(25,969 posts)The FBI will never catch the secret squirrel! Good grief, what an idiot.
I would ask a silly question like, "why is he still living at home with mom?" but it sort of answers itself.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Dukkha
(7,341 posts)Any other civilized country would be killing these scumbags where they stand and eliminate the threat once and for all.
But no, right wing Facebook openly looks the other way and promotes them under the false guise of so-called "freedom of speech" and the weak cowards are always afraid to use force in putting them down.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Right?
That'll go over well.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)I served with some of the toughest and bravest people it has ever been my privilege to encounter.
None of them looked anything like the gear-geek, candy-ass, fake tough guys I now see parading around - first at MAGA rallies - and now at these bullshit "Reopen" circle jerks.
Paintball warriors, every fucking one. I shit on all of them.
ornotna
(10,800 posts)They look expensive.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,585 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)In reading that Raw Story article I was reminded of this famous quote from another famous Republican:
If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, theyre wearing flak jackets and youre better off shooting for the head. - G. Gordon Liddy, 15 Sept 1994.
Shoot for the head. Got it. He also called federal agents brutal thugs.
The NRA would pile-on with:
"...jack-booted government thugs, federal agents wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms.
And you wonder where these idiots got their ideas...?
Nice, eh? Law and Order! Republicans.