Disturbing new details in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

[Nevilledog]

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Jonathan Lemire
@JonLemire
“New filings claim there was a Plan B the militiamen had drawn up, that involved a takeover of the Michigan capitol building by 200 combatants who would stage a week-long series of televised executions of public officials”

Disturbing new details in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
There is new and disturbing information in the alleged militia plot against the governor of Michigan.
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[CincyDem]

1. American ISIS. Wonder what flag they'd choose for the background? n/t

[soothsayer]

2. Drumpf 2020

[malaise]

4. THIS

the truth

[soothsayer]

3. Week long. They've embraced Drumpf's love of tv ratings

[Dream Girl]

5. Wonder wat they were planning for the finale?

[Sherman A1]

10. Agreed

[JHB]

28. Burning the building.

[dware]

6. And just how long do these domestic ISIS terrorists

think that Law Enforcement, IE, Michigan State Police would just stand by and allow this to happen?
Just how long would the FBI's HRT stand by and allow executions to go on?

These terrorists aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer are they.

[LakeArenal]

7. Funny how syntax can work:

“alleged militia”. Even though the plot is alleged, I think they are an “alleged” militia.

They are not what the Constitution meant as a “well regulated” militia.

[lagomorph777]

8. This is Trump's ultimate strategy. He controls the terror groups.

[pamdb]

9. sure

I don't care if there were 200 of those terrorists, if they want to invade the capitol building, there's no way the Army or Air Force or any part of the military would not deal with
them. Harshly. These idiots live in a fantasy world and I hope they get to experience it in prison.

[dware]

12. The military would not be involved in this,

it would have been either the Michigan State Police or the FBI's HRT or both that would root them out, and they are quite capable of taking these terrorists down.

[abqtommy]

11. This whole situation is terrible. But what's interesting to me is that U.S. Intelligence and

Law Enforcement can prevent these acts before they're carried out while a country like France
acts swiftly after the fact.

[Mike 03]

15. This is why I shiver at the thought of Chris Wray being fired, more than any

other person on Trump's hit list.

The FBI made some (pre-emptive?) arrests the week before the election. I truly think they have been on the ball. But it's probably like whack-a-mole: if they miss just one nutjob, it could be a problem.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Vanilla Isis

[Biophilic]

14. The fact that the whole country is not totally enraged about this enrages me

That these people would even consider a week long series of televised executions of public officials is beyond my comprehension. As much as I dislike Trump and his crew I've never even come close to envisioning executing them.

How do we deal with people who would do something beyond our comprehension?

Especially when the hysteria was about wearing masks to save lives, for god's sake. Yes, I'm sure the list of misdeeds go beyond mandating masks and closing bars, but ...

Nope, I'm going outside to rake some leaves or cut some grasses and hope that my brain will move beyond these people.

[TomDaisy]

25. we are really through the looking glass now.

[wnylib]

31. Down the rabbit hole.

[luvtheGWN]

26. After the past 4 years with IQ45's behaviours,

I suspect that there is very little that is surprising to many Americans. It's simply one shitshow after another, and all too soon the mind becomes numb. I have friends in the US who have said they just avoid TV or radio newscasts because it's all too, too depressing and upsetting.

How many others are like them? We on the northern border are horrified by it all -- just as much as you all are here.

[wnylib]

32. So if it gets worse, which it probably

will, as a backlash when Biden is sworn in, will you take us in as refugees? Asylum seekers?

[Hekate]

16. Domestic terrorists -- not "militiamen". White thugs heavily armed with military-grade weapons.

God help us

[Midnight Writer]

17. How does someone sit in a meeting with their "militia brothers", hear this plan, and say Okey Dokey?

[TheBlackAdder]

18. Time to track down those 200.

[crickets]

20. Agreed. The whole thing is horrifying. nt

[Blue Owl]

19. JFC

Lock 'em up -- they need to be made an example of...

[gibraltar72]

21. Willing to bet if they had 200

some were from the Sons of MvVeigh from Hillsdale.

[catbyte]

22. I wish the media would stop calling them "militias." They're terrorist cells, nothing more, nothing

less.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Domestic right wing terrorists. . . . nt

[OverBurn]

23. It's the Hillbilly Taiban.

[ffr]

27. Disturbing to think we have such terrorists, but more chilling to know that GOP enables them.

By proxy the GOP wants the civil war carried out. What have they done that is so sinister & despicable, that they would go to such lengths to overturn an election. Hmmmm.

[Judi Lynn]

29. Thank you, Nevilledog. Can't believe these monsters are still out running around loose. n/t

[Hestia]

30. Who is supposed to be Robespierre in all this? Remember, he too came to the same end...