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Jilly_in_VA

(9,965 posts)
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 02:36 PM Jul 2022

This North Carolina veteran claimed inspiration from God to prepare for civil war

Earlier this year, a client of Christopher “Kit” Arthur told him that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms had come to his home and taken an inventory of his weapons.

A retired Army scout and former sheriff’s deputy from Mount Olive, NC, Arthur’s business, Tackleberry Solutions, taught “wartime tactics to civilians for civil defense purposes,” as he described it in a promotional video. Arthur sold manuals that he said were developed from his direct experience in two combat tours in Iraq, and later from working in a covert drug enforcement and anti-terrorism unit in the Army National Guard.

Arthur allegedly counseled his client that he had two options: Stand and fight or flee. If he chose to stand and fight, Arthur had a specific set of instructions.

“It evolves back to this technique,” FBI Special Agent Greg Garey would later testify before a magistrate in federal court in Wilmington. “Or a theory behind the spiderweb or creating fatal funnels on your property, setting up perimeter charges — explosives — around the CHS’ house, installing explosives in the walls to, to, to render the ATF or any other law enforcement to, when they come to the house, to render them useless — to kill them.”

Garey explained the “spiderweb,” based on Arthur’s public YouTube videos and manuals, as a “death box,” or technique allowing the individual resisting a federal siege to “effectively kill more people without exposing yourself, and do it with, essentially, one person against an entire SWAT team.”

https://www.rawstory.com/christopher-arthur/

This guy will not be the first or only

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This North Carolina veteran claimed inspiration from God to prepare for civil war (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 2022 OP
Arthur is 38, so he was deployed in Iraq during junior's term ck4829 Jul 2022 #1
"Tackleberry Solutions"? Tackleberry is the name of the gun crazy cop in Police Academy movies. Midnight Writer Jul 2022 #2
So, he made money by offering 'laser tag' essentially. OldBaldy1701E Jul 2022 #3
shithole's cult is already saying if they indict him . . ... Lovie777 Jul 2022 #4
and then what? Tickle Jul 2022 #5

ck4829

(35,045 posts)
1. Arthur is 38, so he was deployed in Iraq during junior's term
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 02:47 PM
Jul 2022

Did God not bother to tell him where the WMDs were for some reason?

OldBaldy1701E

(5,117 posts)
3. So, he made money by offering 'laser tag' essentially.
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 03:01 PM
Jul 2022

And dreams of running around killing anyone who he thinks is not worth his time. Marvelous. And, par for the course for my home state. It is not the home of the crazies, but it tries to take that title on occasion.

Lovie777

(12,232 posts)
4. shithole's cult is already saying if they indict him . . ...
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 03:12 PM
Jul 2022

violence will break out and it will be the beginning of the "new" civil war.

Fine then, but alas assholes, President Biden is in the WH. Start that bullshit and guess what, he can call for "Martial Law".

Tickle

(2,514 posts)
5. and then what?
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 03:18 PM
Jul 2022

The UN comes in and takes over the country? This is not a small thing, we need some middle people in here to calm this country down. I would prefer it not be another country or the UN that gets called in. Half the country will fight in the streets and it won't be pretty for anyone! The end result could be horrific

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