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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:12 PM Sep 2015

Plot to overthrow West Virginia government

Last edited Fri Sep 25, 2015, 04:43 PM - Edit history (1)

and - surprise, surprise - it's not one of those Ahrabs terrorists.

Now , I wonder how much airtime this will get on Fox?


Wood County man is behind bars on a state charge of threatening to commit a terrorist act for allegedly plotting to overthrow West Virginia’s state government by targeting the State Capitol, State Police headquarters, the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department and West Virginia National Guard facilities in Kanawha County.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Wood County Magistrate Court, Thomas David Deegan, 39, of Mineral Wells, a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen, lead several conference calls earlier this month focused on a plot to remove “multiple West Virginia government leaders from their office in Charleston.”

Plans called for members of the sovereign citizen movement, made up of people with anti-government views, to take over West Virginia’s government on Sept. 24 and use it as a foothold for the sovereign movement to “take back the United States,” according to the complaint.

more at http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/318141_Sovereign_Citizen_Militia_Terr#4mHfZlA4ZPdWhQvq.99

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Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. The M$M loves them some homemade, white male, domestic terrorists.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:14 PM
Sep 2015

It makes them a lot money to pretend there is only one kind of terrorist.

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
3. LOL That's some serious crazy
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:29 PM
Sep 2015

Conspiracy theories, growing operation, attempted overthrow of the government all from his mother's basement?


"…on February 28, 2010, while living with his mother, Thomas Deegan called a crisis hotline and threatened to commit suicide. (ECF No. 1 at 2-3, ¶ 5.) When law enforcement officials responded to the plaintiffs’ home, they found what the Complaint describes as a “small indoor hydroponics natural herb garden growing with the herb Cannabis sativa..."


and

"TD: What I am going to tell you is happening on an international level. The entire world is under a threat of conquest right now - so there are no rules, there are no laws. Everyone is vying for territory and control of custody of the Cestui que Vie Accounts. accounts. That is why you see refugees going to other places. They are being transferred to other territories. This is what’s happening. When the Pope leaves the UN it’s done. After that you will have a very hard time getting your country back.

So we are on a very limited time-span here. Documents are being drawn for the entire nation. The soil needs to be maintained and controlled. That is the only way to do it — through the Doctrine of Conquest. It can be done on paper, but if they can test us on the soil you have to be able to maintain it. I think that is why a lot of you are here right now — is so we can control the soil of this country — and that is every state.

Each person on this Earth at birth is worth $50,000 in gold and that is paid for out of the Vatican. Every refugee you see being transferred is worth $50,000 in gold. That is put up under a bond that is hypothicated 20 -40- 1000 times into a Cestui que Vie account. That is what they are going after — the territory and the Cestui que Vie account."


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So much more crazy at the link in the op

One_Life_To_Give

(6,036 posts)
4. Sovereign Citizens are some seriously messed up people
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:38 PM
Sep 2015

They hate everything Government, especially the Police.

ileus

(15,396 posts)
6. Ha.....there's 54 other counties they'd have to contend with.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 03:07 PM
Sep 2015

And the folks in those counties...

Did he not realize there's several different SP "stations" in Kanawha county? Not to mention 54 other counties?

How many people did he have? 2? 3???

something tells me they'd have been shot to doll rags in a matter of minutes...


Did they believe the citizens of WV would just fall in line with them???

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
9. You know, I used to wonder about the motivations of all these "militias".
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 07:19 PM
Sep 2015

Until I realized it isn't government that they hate, but the fact that they aren't the ones running the government. They'd be perfectly happy to be in charge, telling people what to do, making all kinds of laws they don't have to follow, and rolling in all that graft and corruption.

And this dude was growing pot? Weed smokers tend to be very mellow and not worried too much more than their next toke.

appalachiablue

(41,105 posts)
10. IMO it's the perception that Manhood is threatened, and power and status. The very
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 07:45 PM
Sep 2015

basis of one's existence in other words however misguided and dangerous that is.

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