Discussion: Arrested Militia Leader Drew FBI Attention For Alleged Plans To Kill Obama, Clinton

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Gives me warm feelings to know that the FBI visited someone who boasted of committing multiple felonies, observed additional apparent felonies, but didn’t bother to take action or (apparently) investigate further until pressed.

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This is the second time in two days that I’ve heard about potential physical violence against my fellow Americans. I am deeply concerned that the Republican Party — running on a conservative “movement” that speaks of exterminating liberals, me and my family — would be perfectly content to let society deteriorate into out-and-out violence.

In the past, I’ve heard of bomb threats against Democrats, murder threats, abduction threats. Is our government our enemy? Does the Republican Party really seek genocide?

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His lawyer says the allegations aren’t true. So on the one hand there’s that. On the other hand is everything you know about life in general and thuggish hysterical morons like these militia loons in particular.

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So as long as you don’t make public threats to kill a sitting POTUS, you can get away with kidnapping people at gun point if they are brown.

Got it.

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They probably gave him a fist bump when leaving. They’ve never been known as a bunch of liberal pansies.

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it’s the fascistgop as well as the abomination that’s responsible for encouraging violence against perceived political opponents and non-fascist citizens. there has to be a non-violent way to hold them legally responsible for their stochastic terrorism, though I’m not sure what it is exactly.

They need to be held accountable in other ways than just the ballot box, and even that remedy is questionable given their all out assault on free and fair elections.

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Trump would pardon him, right?

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“common law wife”

No doubt so she’d have no rights in a divorce. Funny how these people always seem to be a bundle of the same old crap shoved into a white skinbag, eh?

They are who we think they are.

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Do we call armed groups of Muslims that talk about attacking people “Militia’s”.

Then why are we doing it here?! Stop using the language of the Right.

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Charming photo.

Captain Avenger he ain’t. Lonnie Loser, perhaps.

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And have guns, even though prior convictions should have prevented this- well if you get your “common law wife,” aka straw woman, to purchase them for you I guess it’s all honky dory.

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It’s all just fun and games until somebody gets hurt; then it’s “who could have predicted blah,blah,blah.”

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with a side of thoughts and prayers, well maybe not if the hurt ones are brown.

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Then it’ll be, “They deserved it because they tried to come here illegally.”

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FBI agents “immediately observed approximately 10 firearms” upon entering what Hopkins told them was his “office,” inside his home in northern New Mexico in November 2017. Per the filing, Hopkins told the officers the guns belonged to his “common law wife.”

“I am not a felon in possession of ten firearms because the ten firearms in question actually belong to my Sovereign Citizen, Common Law Wife.” Hopkins then broke into a falsetto Joni Mitchell chorus “We don’t need no piece of paper from the city hall…”

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Time to lock them up and throw away the key.

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“Hopkins told the officers the guns belonged to his ‘common law wife’.”

Is she the one on the right, or on the left, in that photo?

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Yeah, a militia is an organised arm of the State, period. Without state sanction, a bunch of assholes with guns is just a gang of thugs. They insist on “militia” because it imparts an impression of legitimacy and organisation that they simply don’t have. Media had no trouble calling analogous gangs “right-wing death squads” back during the Centra American civil conflicts of the 80’s, why the reticence now just because they happen to be your countrymen?

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She’s the one hiding under the table.

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