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WillyT

(72,631 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 04:21 PM Oct 2014

Texas GOP’s Greg Abbott Met Border Militia Leader Busted Days Later With Explosives - RawStory

Texas GOP’s Greg Abbott met border militia leader busted days later with explosives
Travis Gettys - RawStory
31 Oct 2014 at 12:36 ET



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Border militia leader K.C. Massey briefly met and posed for a photo with Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott four days before he was arrested on federal weapons charges.

The 48-year-old Massey was charged last week with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Court documents released this week show that agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized weapons, ammunition, a ballistic helmet, and suspected ammonium nitrate – the same explosive used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Agents found an AK-47 with six loaded magazines, a loaded handgun, and fuel along with the ammunition and explosive materials in Massey’s hotel room during the Oct. 20 arrest, reported the San Antonio Express-News.

Massey, who described himself as the commanding officer of the “American Patriot” militia group patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, was convicted of burglary in 1988.


A photo taken Oct. 16 at a Brownsville restaurant shows the militia leader meeting with Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general running for governor against Democrat Wendy Davis.

Massey is wearing an “Abbott for Governor” sticker on his...

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More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/texas-gops-greg-abbott-met-border-militia-leader-busted-days-later-with-explosives/



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Texas GOP’s Greg Abbott Met Border Militia Leader Busted Days Later With Explosives - RawStory (Original Post) WillyT Oct 2014 OP
Pallin' around with terrorists.... AZ Mike Oct 2014 #1
That't What It Looks Like To Me... WillyT Oct 2014 #2
Wrong! gratuitous Oct 2014 #7
Above pic will assure more votes for Abbott by rightwing racists randys1 Oct 2014 #3
How? abbott is married to a Mexican-American woman? BP2 Oct 2014 #4
How what, I said that Abbott buddying up to a known racist bigot xenophobe jackass will randys1 Oct 2014 #5
So you are planning to vote for Abbott? Trajan Oct 2014 #6

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Wrong!
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 04:43 PM
Oct 2014

K.C. Massey couldn't possibly be a terrorist, for reasons that the picture in the original post should make obvious.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
3. Above pic will assure more votes for Abbott by rightwing racists
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 04:23 PM
Oct 2014

Abbott doesnt need the endorsement though, the United States SC 5 criminals made sure of that.

The experiment failed, time to start over...200 plus years was a good run but we have failed

randys1

(16,286 posts)
5. How what, I said that Abbott buddying up to a known racist bigot xenophobe jackass will
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 04:30 PM
Oct 2014

assure that even MORE racist, bigot xenophobe jackasses will vote for him

Surely you dont think it matters who he is married to?

Surely you understand this asshole is just another rightwing racist asshole who budddies up with garbage like this guy?

right?

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