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They robbed an armored car outside a sprawling Seattle shopping mall. They bombed a synagogue in Boise, Idaho, and within weeks assassinated a Jewish talk radio host in Denver. Then a month later, they plundered another armored car on a California highway in a spectacular daylight heist that netted more than $3.6 million.
What initially seemed to FBI agents like distant, disparate crimes turned out to be the opening salvos in a war against the federal government by members of a violent extremist group called the Order, who sought to establish a whites-only homeland out West.
Their crime spree played out in 1984. Fast forward to 2021. Federal agents and prosecutors who dismantled the Order see troubling echoes of its threat to democracy in the Capitol riot and the growing extremist activity across the country.
When you see the country as politically and philosophically divided as it is today, that makes it more likely that somebody could take advantage of these times to bring about another revolutionary concept like the Order, said Wayne Manis, the main FBI agent on the case. We stopped the Order. We did not stop the ideology.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/past-chilling-warning-extremists-present-151112883.html
Read the whole article here's a bit that's interesting, and a bit chilling...
I had the impression that these were normal guys who you could have a beer with in a bar and you would not notice anything unusual about them unless you talked about race or about Jews, said (Peter) Robinson, now an international criminal defense lawyer.
Normal guys, you could have a beer with them, you might not notice anything unusual about them - Just don't talk about politics around them (Probably don't mention race or "globalists" either)
The "just don't talk politics around them"-type people, we all know some...
Budi
(15,325 posts)He was a bachelor, a neighbor & a small acerage rancher, always good to us, went to same church, community gatherings, a musical gift that matched our family thru generations before.
He was a great story teller to all who listened, an educated man...and a die hard John Bircher.
All I recall of the ONE political screaming match between he & my mom (who was a serious Democrat), was the raised voices, red faces & my dad walking him to his truck.
Other than anything political, they were friendly, respectable & always-reliable neighbors.
I asked my mom about that incident later in life, & she revealed the dirty truth about the John Birch Society.
I honestly never would have been able to carry on a friendship of any kind after that bitter debate.
My mom was an educated political dynamo!
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Your OP brought my flashback moment right front & center.
Whew.