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malaise

(297,947 posts) Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:44 PM Oct 2025

Remember this -letter and what followed 31 years ago

https://www.splcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/files/d6_legacy_files/media/splc_letterjanetreno_okc.pdf

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Remember this -letter and what followed 31 years ago (Original Post) malaise Oct 2025 OP

Remember how incensed the R's were... and how Bush quashed every warning slightlv Oct 2025 #1

In the late '90s the FBI began a program of targeting militia groups by seeking to bankrupt them Gaugamela Oct 2025 #2

slightlv

(7,945 posts)

1. Remember how incensed the R's were... and how Bush quashed every warning

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 11:38 PM

Oct 2025

he received about them? The R's own this, lock stock and barrel. In fact, I've said before and I'll say again. Once they're out of power, the militias AND the R party... and any form thereof (conservative, maga, etc) should all be declared domestic terrorists and broken up. Period.

Gaugamela

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2. In the late '90s the FBI began a program of targeting militia groups by seeking to bankrupt them

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 11:40 PM

Oct 2025

through lawsuits and indictments. They succeeded in eliminating many of the groups. Then under George W Bush congressional republicans complained and eliminated the program and policy in the FBI. Now we’re here.

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