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The Right-Wing Terror Plot You Didn't Hear About This Week (AlterNet)
Members of a right-wing militia in Georgia plotted to attack police and other government agents.Following the murder of two NYPD officers in New York City, much of the political right moved to blame Mayor de Blasio and other progressive critics of police brutality for inciting the violence, claiming that the mentally ill man who was behind the attack was motivated by left-wing rhetoric.
That narrative doesn't fit very well with a terror case brought this week by the FBI against three Georgia men, all members of a right-wing militia that plotted to attack police and others. Yesterday, Terry Peace, Brian Cannon and Cory Williamson pleaded not guilty to a charge of domestic terrorism, as well as charges of conspiring to defraud the government. Northwest Georgia News explains:
Peace, Cannon and Williamson all members of a militia in Georgia participated in online chat discussions between Jan. 23 and Feb. 15, 2014, that were monitored by the FBI.
During the conversations online, they discussed using guerilla war tactics and planned to launch attacks against a metro Atlanta police station and several government agencies in February 2014.
During the conversations online, they discussed using guerilla war tactics and planned to launch attacks against a metro Atlanta police station and several government agencies in February 2014.
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Only two news outlets, the Rome News-Tribune and Northwest Georgia News, have reported the charges.
Link: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/right-wing-terror-plot-you-didnt-hear-about-week
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The Right-Wing Terror Plot You Didn't Hear About This Week (AlterNet) (Original Post)
inanna
Jan 2015
OP
Not just the South, this time, though... It's a nationwide epidemic induced by media.
freshwest
Jan 2015
#7
pipoman
(16,038 posts)1. Did we not hear about it because it is a year old?
How could conversations from a year ago have anything to do with something that happened a month ago?
According to the article, the case was brought this week. That would make it public news this week.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)3. Alternet....the article makes no sense
freshwest
(53,661 posts)4. New part is charges were upgraded to reflect WMD, that's a life sentence.
3 Rome, Georgia men now face domestic terrorism charge
Jan 6, 2015 by John Bailey
Three Rome men accused of conspiring to obtain explosives now face a much more serious domestic terrorism charge conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction...
The three men attempted to recruit other individuals to join them and to carry out similar operations in those individuals home states.
Peace allegedly told other militia members to choose targets including road blocks, TSA checkpoints, sheriffs/police conducting operations outside the Constitution as well as to participate in the removal of government people who support extra-Constitutional activities.
In February 2014, the men traveled from Rome to Tennessee for a meeting with an undercover FBI source about getting several explosive devices, including a thermite-mix charge and a dozen pipe bombs constructed for maximum fragmentation...
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/rome-men-now-face-domestic-terrorism-charge/article_9c2bd03e-9512-11e4-bbb8-b73fb9e6e225.html
They didn't just chat online. They were enacting a plan and likely had like minded 'patriots' ready to attack a lot of people.
Between the Richard Mack, KKK, and standard RWNJ types, these guys could have done this. There are things going on in rural areas now, with the Constitutional County folks who have decided they will follow no federal law.
Skirmishes on the road to what may end up very badly for those who get in their way.
So this is news, the new charges. But it's not just Alternet reporting. It's been out there and at the link you can follow through and get the court documents.
Jan 6, 2015 by John Bailey
Three Rome men accused of conspiring to obtain explosives now face a much more serious domestic terrorism charge conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction...
The three men attempted to recruit other individuals to join them and to carry out similar operations in those individuals home states.
Peace allegedly told other militia members to choose targets including road blocks, TSA checkpoints, sheriffs/police conducting operations outside the Constitution as well as to participate in the removal of government people who support extra-Constitutional activities.
In February 2014, the men traveled from Rome to Tennessee for a meeting with an undercover FBI source about getting several explosive devices, including a thermite-mix charge and a dozen pipe bombs constructed for maximum fragmentation...
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/rome-men-now-face-domestic-terrorism-charge/article_9c2bd03e-9512-11e4-bbb8-b73fb9e6e225.html
They didn't just chat online. They were enacting a plan and likely had like minded 'patriots' ready to attack a lot of people.
Between the Richard Mack, KKK, and standard RWNJ types, these guys could have done this. There are things going on in rural areas now, with the Constitutional County folks who have decided they will follow no federal law.
Skirmishes on the road to what may end up very badly for those who get in their way.
So this is news, the new charges. But it's not just Alternet reporting. It's been out there and at the link you can follow through and get the court documents.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)5. How adorable it is getting to see their wonderful, right-wing genius faces!
[center]
Terry Eugene Peace
Brian Edward Cannon
Cory Robert Williamson[/center]
What magnificent specimens! Through them the South will rise again, or will it?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)7. Not just the South, this time, though... It's a nationwide epidemic induced by media.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)6. You can be very sure if it hadn't been for seeing your post, many of us would have never known.
This quote is amazing in its unparalleled stupidity:
Peace allegedly told other militia members to choose targets including road blocks, TSA checkpoints, sheriffs/police conducting operations outside the Constitution as well as to participate in the removal of government people who support extra-Constitutional activities.
~snip~
In other words, the men plotted to launch large-scale explosive attacks against local government and police that, if successfully carried out, would have been the largest terror attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Actually murdering US officials for supporting "extra-Constitutional activities" would mean that those officials would have to support people like them, the dumbshit would-be terrorists! Committing terrorism, murder, according to anything I've heard is somewhat "extra-Constitutional", of course.
Thank you, inanna.
inanna
(3,547 posts)8. I follow the SPLC Hatewatch blog closely and if memory serves
they've been reporting on this as well.