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That would not be in Capitol Insurrection you're thinking of then. It might be a Smithsonian Seduction, or perhaps Bawdy Babes In Bustiers Break Into The Bureau Of The Interior, or the classic Check Out The Librarian Of Congress, She's Stacked.

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26 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Putting this on notice. Also, can we press forward with the issue of the church and tax status and where the line is regarding politics? It seems to be much more prevalent with the evangelical 'lone preacher' types, but it's getting worse not better.

 

When Southern Baptist "ministers" figure out a way to sanctify suicide bombings for Jesus, they'll officially become the American Taliban.  Give it 5 or so years.

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I'm sure this will end well.

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/10/ammon-bundy-and-allies-build-dangerous-network-of-militia-members-report-says.html

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Ammon Bundy and allies build dangerous network of militia members, report says

Oregon refuge occupation leader Ammon Bundy and his allies have exploited COVID-19 fears to build a dangerous network of militia members and other far-right factions, according to a new report by two groups that track extremism.

Bundy, who led a 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon in 2016, began building the People’s Rights network in March, says the report by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights and the Montana Human Rights Network.

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Since then, the report says, the network has rapidly grown to more than 20,000 members across the country.

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The network, which the report refers to as “Ammon’s Army,” includes militia members, anti-maskers, conspiracy theorists, preppers and anti-vaccination activists. Its rapid growth has been boosted by the joining of Bundy’s far-right paramilitary supporters cultivated from armed standoffs over the years with a large base of new activists radicalized through protests over COVID-19 health directives, the report says.

Bundy has put together a team of 153 “assistants” in 16 states, it says. They are Oregon, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Washington.

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“Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve documented the division and violence sown by Ammon Bundy and his far-right followers in the Northwest,” said Devin Burghart, president and executive director of Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

Despite all the talk of rights and freedom, the report says, “a culture of violence and fear lies at the center of the People’s Rights message.”

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“As Bundy told the crowd at the third meeting of the group, if local, state, or federal officials attempt to enforce laws that the group doesn’t like, People’s Rights is prepared to adopt a violent posture. ... Already there have been significant clashes and growing rage. In the context of the pandemic, it puts the lives of community members and public servants at risk, straining democratic institutions and damaging civil society.”

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Many of the “assistants,” the report says, have been involved in extensive far-right activism. And the majority of those in its local leadership positions are women, which the report says is a first for modern far-right networks.

While some describe the People’s Rights network as “anti-government,” the report says, its leaders actually want governmental power to be used to protect the “righteous” against “wicked” liberals.

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People’s Rights leaders also have proposed armed enclaves in which “righteous” neighbors stand against the “wicked,” the report says. Bundy’s violence-tinged rhetoric -- such as telling followers that they would “be like a den of rattlesnakes” if their rights are threatened -- has attracted many militia members, Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and other paramilitary groups, according to the report.

People’s Rights leaders have been members in the Southwest Missouri Militia, Montana Militia, Washington State Militia, III% United Patriots and Southern California Patriots, among others, it says.

 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:


Now you have my attention...

 

It's definitely a niche market for DC Romance as a genre; but then again, there are a lot of secluded shadowy niches in DC, pun intended. Plus for some the pursuit is part of the climax. Slow build during the day's work and hot frenzied lust culminating on the expansive gleaming oak desk after a pursuit through the Treasury Department halls at dusk. May not have been what the non romance insurrectionists had in mind, but there is a segment of the populace where power, money, and sex will always bring readers. I think the Treasury Department title should have been 'Money for Nothing, Chicks For Free' but that one was taken obviously so they went with "He Made A Deposit In The Burglar-Proof Vault."

Those pesky cameras and security guards, though. Much easier to write historical in a way and avoid the tech altogether.

 

 

 

 

ICYMI, the Burglar-Proof Vault is real and is part of the Treasurer's Office.

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2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

That reminded me of something I saw last night--is that (ten pounds) a lot?

 

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How do these self-described hard-working Americans find the free time to form militias? I know I sure as fuck don't have it. "Government's taking away my freedom but somehow I've got loads of free time to form militias" reeks of Clive Bundy arguing that  having to pay rent on taxpayer land is oppressive while having enough free time and disposable income to blow in Vegas. So sick of these addicted to victimhood traitors claiming to be patriots, who have lived their entire adult lives in the Overton Window set by the Reagan Revolution that they supported (and still do), and who freely avail themselves to the benefits of socialism, never acknowledge it, then preach how they're opposed to it.

Eat shit and die, fuckwits.

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1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

How do these self-described hard-working Americans find the free time to form militias? I know I sure as fuck don't have it. "Government's taking away my freedom but somehow I've got loads of free time to form militias" reeks of Clive Bundy arguing that  having to pay rent on taxpayer land is oppressive while having enough free time and disposable income to blow in Vegas. So sick of these addicted to victimhood traitors claiming to be patriots, who have lived their entire adult lives in the Overton Window set by the Reagan Revolution that they supported (and still do), and who freely avail themselves to the benefits of socialism, never acknowledge it, then preach how they're opposed to it.

Eat shit and die, fuckwits.

Self employed (Real-Estate, Contractors, Landscaping, etc)

People see you having fun just a-lying in the sun
Tell them that you like it this way
It's the work that we avoid, and we're all self-employed
We love to work at nothing all day
And we be taking care of business and working overtime
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Wait, the ranking members got to invite witnesses.  They picked one, and the one they picked is himself a Domestic Terrorist?  

I'm sure there's a long game here I'm not seeing, but that's a bold move Cotton.  

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54 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Wait, the ranking members got to invite witnesses.  They picked one, and the one they picked is himself a Domestic Terrorist?  

I'm sure there's a long game here I'm not seeing, but that's a bold move Cotton.  

The long and short game is they don't give a fuck and they know their base doesn't give a fuck either.  This is what they want.  It's a feature, not a bug.

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White Nationalist on White Nationalist hate speech gets one of the leaders of the Charlottesville, VA protest in jail.

The guy whose wife was threatened is the leader of a group called the "Bowl Patrol" which is named after the haircut of Dylann Roof who was sentenced to death for killing 9 black people in their South Carolina church.

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CONCORD, N.H (AP) — A self-proclaimed white nationalist was sentenced Wednesday to nearly three-and-a-half years in federal prison for threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a separate racist group that he believed was harassing him.

Christopher Cantwell, a 40-year-old New Hampshire resident and radio host, was found guilty in September of extortion and threatening to injure property or reputation, but not guilty of cyberstalking related to a series of threats he made toward a Missouri man over the Telegram messaging app.

Remember this guy?

Christopher Cantwell in a Vice documentary.

Here he was in the vice video from Charlottesville saying his goal is to be more capable of violence:


 

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On 3/3/2021 at 7:03 PM, Captainant said:

Not sure if I should post this in the voter suppression thread or this one, but:

Police: Live pipe bomb found at polling place in Iowa

imagine bombing a fucking school board special election. Fucking right wing domestic terrorists

Nothing in that article suggests any motive of any kind by any party in any way, shape, or form.

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“I want to also add that there is no way of knowing how long this device had been at the Lakeside Center,” Fitzgerald said in a tweet, saying officials don't know whether the pipe bomb was related to the election.

Don’t rush to judgment. 

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On 2/5/2021 at 5:05 PM, Degenerate Gardner said:

Motion to drop "Extremist" from the thread title. When the majority of Rs support seditious violence, we should call it what it is.

similarly, there is really no longer a need for specific  “X Republican” is a Piece of Shit threads - since, well, they all are.  

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4 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Dunno if this off-brand Bhad Bhabie is right-wing, but she sounds dumb enough to qualify. FAAFO.

 

 

That video is rage inducing.  And no remorse either in the follow up video.  I don't think I could drive for uber or lyft without some kind of barrier between the front and the back like taxis and police vehicles have.  Too many spoiled and entitled psychos out there and plenty of these types of videos on the internet to prove it.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Vienna man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that involved multiple swatting attacks targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, an Islamic Center in Arlington, Texas, and a former U.S. Cabinet member.

 

“Swatting attacks are serious crimes that disrupt the operations of local emergency agencies, take first responders away from real emergencies, and place victims, community members, and law enforcement officers in grave danger,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “EDVA will continue to bring to justice those who threaten public safety with these menacing hoaxes, especially when those threats are motivated by racial or religious animus, which are intolerable and have no place in our society.”

According to court documents, John William Kirby Kelley, 20, conspired with John Cameron Denton, a former leader of the Atomwaffen Division in Texas, and others to conduct “swatting” calls. Swatting is a harassment tactic that involves deceiving emergency dispatchers into believing that a person or persons are in imminent danger of death or bodily harm, thus causing the dispatchers to send police and emergency services to an unwitting third party’s address.

“Swatting is not only harassment, but these calls also waste resources and put innocent people and first responders in danger,” said James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office Criminal Division. “The FBI and our law enforcement partners take all threats seriously and investigate instances of swatting. Law enforcement and first responders put their lives at risk every day, and swatting instances which increase that risk will not be tolerated.”

Kelley managed the online chatroom where conspirators chose targets and regularly coordinated the swatting calls. Many of the conspirators held white supremacist views and targeted individuals because they were motivated by racial animus. Kelley communicated with these white supremacists and used racial epithets.

Kelley is a former student at Old Dominion University. In early November 2018, he asked conspirators to swat Old Dominion University, which conspirators ultimately did on November 29 and December 4, 2018. In response to the bomb threat on November 29, 2018, university officials issued a shelter-in-place order and law enforcement officers were forced to search and clear every building on campus.

During the conspiracy, members placed at least 134 swatting calls to jurisdictions across the country. In addition to the swatting calls against Old Dominion University, conspirators conducted two additional swatting calls in the Eastern District of Virginia, including a call to the Alfred Street Baptist Church in November 2018, and to a former U.S. Cabinet member living in northern Virginia in January 2019.

During today’s sentencing, the Court applied both a hate crime and an official victim enhancement after finding that Kelley participated in a conspiracy that, in part, targeted individuals because of their race or status as government officials.

Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, FBI Washington Field Office, made the announcement after sentencing by Senior U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Carina A. Cuellar prosecuted the case. FBI’s Memphis Field Office provided significant assistance investigating this case.

A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Related court documents and information are located on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case No. 1:20-cr-82.

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I'm sure y'all remember when it was being discussed on TOS that a lot of the alt.right and white nationalist types were making trips to St. Petersburg in Russia for those conventions full of racists. Check the bolded in the spoiler.

New Report Warns of Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism
President Biden requested the intelligence community complete the assessment shortly after taking office, and his administration has made fighting domestic terrorism a priority.

WASHINGTON — A new intelligence report delivered to Congress on Wednesday by the Biden administration warned about the rising threat of militias and white supremacists, adding urgency to calls for more resources to fight the growing problem of homegrown extremism in the United States.

In particular, the intelligence assessment highlighted the threat from militias, predicting that it would be elevated in the coming months because of “contentious sociopolitical factors,” likely a reference to the fallout from the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob and the increasingly partisan political climate.

Racially motivated violent extremists, such as white supremacists, were most likely to conduct mass casualty attacks against civilians while militias typically targeted law enforcement and government personnel and facilities, the report said. Lone offenders or small cells of extremists were more likely than organizations to carry out attacks, it said.

President Biden requested the comprehensive threat assessment shortly after he took office in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, which laid bare the toxic domestic extremism that has shaken the country. Only the brief executive summary was declassified and made public while a classified version was sent to Congress and the White House.

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The top-line assessment echoed earlier analyses by the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security warning of the looming dangers of domestic terrorism, including after followers of President Donald J. Trump embraced his baseless claims of election fraud. An internal F.B.I. report that appeared to have been compiled before Jan. 6 and was published days after the breach predicted the violence to come, saying the events in 2020 were “likely to embolden U.S. domestic violent extremists in 2021.”

The Homeland Security Department also previously issued a rare terrorism bulletin warning that extremists continue to be galvanized over “the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives,” a clear reference to Mr. Trump’s false accusations that the election was stolen.

Domestic extremism “poses the most lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat to the homeland today,” Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, told a House committee on Wednesday.

“The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and on American democracy is a searing example of this threat,” Mr. Mayorkas said.

The F.B.I. said in statement that the “threat is persistent and evolving.”

The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security have warned that the Jan. 6 riot could have lasting consequences. Some domestic violent extremists “have been emboldened in the aftermath of the breach of the U.S. Capitol,” Jill Sanborn, the head of counterterrorism at the F.B.I., told Congress this month.

The Biden administration has made fighting domestic terrorism a priority. Along with the threat assessment, the administration is also reviewing what law enforcement and intelligence agencies can do to combat domestic terrorism. The report came out the day after a deadly rampage at three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent. The shooter’s motivations were not immediately clear, but crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders have been on the rise.

“Whatever the motivation here,” Mr. Biden told reporters on Wednesday, “I know that Asian-Americans are very concerned. Because as you know I have been speaking about the brutality against Asian-Americans for the last couple months, and I think it’s very, very troublesome.”

The Trump administration had added combating domestic terrorism to its National Strategy for Counterterrorism, but Mr. Trump was repeatedly reluctant to denounce the violent extremism carried out by far-right nationalists and white supremacists, sometimes embracing them and focusing his criticism instead on anarchists and other left-wing agitators.

Critics of Mr. Trump accused him of exploiting racial and socioeconomic divisions for political gain and fueling dangerous conspiracy theories that helped incite the events of Jan. 6, where hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol. The F.B.I. has charged more than 300 people in connection with the riots, including members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, far-right groups that backed Mr. Trump. Others charged include white supremacists.

The rise of domestic terrorism has gradually increased in recent years as the F.B.I. made fighting white supremacists a top priority in 2019 after a slew of deadly shootings in Texas, California and Pennsylvania. Last year, the F.B.I. raised the threat poised by antigovernment extremists such as militias and anarchists.

The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, has been blunt about the dangers of domestic terrorism, telling Congress this month that the events of Jan. 6 were appalling.

“That siege was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it’s behavior that we, the F.B.I., view as domestic terrorism,” Mr. Wray said during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, adding, “The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and it’s not going away anytime soon.”

During the hearing, Mr. Wray revealed that the number of domestic terrorism cases had grown to 2,000, a significant increase since he became director in 2017. Arrests of white supremacists had also surged.

As part of F.B.I. efforts to crack down on violent white supremacists, agents have arrested members of neo-Nazi groups, including one known as the Base. The leader of the group, an American citizen who once worked in the intelligence community, moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where the authorities believe he is recruiting new members and spreading his hateful ideology. The leader, Rinaldo Nazzaro, denies that he is working with the Russian government to sow discord in the United States as the Kremlin had done during the 2016 and 2020 elections.

The report noted that white supremacists had “the most persistent and concerning transnational connections because individuals with similar ideological beliefs exist outside of the United States.” In addition, it said that a small number of white supremacists had “traveled abroad to network with like-minded individuals.”

It also added that “several factors could increase the likelihood or lethality” of domestic terrorist attacks in 2021 and beyond, including “escalating support from persons in the United States or abroad.”

At the Senate hearing this month, Mr. Wray said he welcomed more resources such as agents and analysts to fight a variety threats facing the country — not just domestic terrorism. It is not clear if the F.B.I. will receive the funding for more personnel but the issue could receive bipartisan support. At least one prominent Republican lawmaker, Senator Lindsey Graham, seemed to embrace the idea.

“So, here’s my challenge to you, sit down and put pen to paper and in the think big, not small — what do you need that you don’t have in terms of agents and resources and put it to paper,” Mr. Graham told Mr. Wray.

 

 

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