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True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:21 PM Sep 2014

Militia group planning armed interdiction of Democratic voters at the polls.

Something this...blood-boilingly infuriating...is probably old news, but it's the first I've heard of it.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/winsconsin-poll-watcher-militia-target-voters-walker

I could churn out some long-winded intellectual exposition about this kind of reptilian fuckery, but I think I'll just say...

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...it looks delicious.

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Militia group planning armed interdiction of Democratic voters at the polls. (Original Post) True Blue Door Sep 2014 OP
"Winsconsin?" Archae Sep 2014 #1
I hope it is a fake. It sounds downright unAmerican. Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #2
MSM, Misanthrope Sycophant Monsters orpupilofnature57 Sep 2014 #3
Not a "hoax" - stochastic terrorism. True Blue Door Sep 2014 #4
I WISH I lived there. arcane1 Sep 2014 #5
I think this has pretty much been exposed as a hoax. NaturalHigh Sep 2014 #6
Yup.. last year and the year before and well whistler162 Sep 2014 #8
I think you're misreading the information. True Blue Door Sep 2014 #9
I've been thinking, we could send the self proclaimed militia to Syria and Iraq. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #7
Yup. Along with the Cliven Bundy brigade. True Blue Door Sep 2014 #10

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
4. Not a "hoax" - stochastic terrorism.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:28 PM
Sep 2014

There was every evidence it was a serious attempt to whip up exactly what it claimed.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
5. I WISH I lived there.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 07:20 PM
Sep 2014

While I'm sure this is 99.9% impotent attention-getting, I'd love to see one of these idiots try to mess with me when I vite!

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
8. Yup.. last year and the year before and well
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 08:27 PM
Sep 2014

you get the idea. Hey, maybe someday the scarticle will get their wish.

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
9. I think you're misreading the information.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 02:22 AM
Sep 2014

The same people or persons who called for it, claimed they were just kidding only after drawing massively negative attention. That's stochastic terrorism.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
7. I've been thinking, we could send the self proclaimed militia to Syria and Iraq.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 08:07 PM
Sep 2014

In some cases there will not be a cost of wages because some are already on the take, they have the weapons and equipment, want to get a fight going and claim they want to stop the bad guys. They would be happy with being able to show off their marksmanship.

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