Growing body of evidence shows GOP has a paramilitary wing

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18. Shame that only the good have a conscience.

People who think violence for personal gain can be justified know them not.

Inside Michigan’s Capitol, April 2020

The Men Accused Of Plotting To Kidnap Michigan’s Governor Also Practiced Breaching The State Capitol

New details have emerged as part of a guilty plea by one of the defendants, and they include the allegation that extremists also discussed the best way to attack a Secret Service convoy.

Ken Bensinger, Jessica Garrison
Jan. 27, 2021, BuzzFeed News

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According to that document and other filings in the case, Garbin was a member of a group called the Wolverine Watchmen whose members linked up with two other like-minded individuals last June and began planning actions against the state government at a time of mounting anger over COVID-19 lockdowns. The men used social media, including Facebook, as well as encrypted messaging services to recruit and organize. They referred to elected officials as “tyrants” and expressed desires to provoke a civil war and potentially overthrow the government.

Whitmer, a Democrat, was a particular target of their ire, apparently because of the lockdown she imposed starting in March to control the spread of the coronavirus in the state. The restrictions provoked anger among many Michigan residents, resentment that was stoked in April when then-president Donald Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” Soon thereafter, the Wolverine Watchmen, who allegedly had discussed killing police officers prior to that time, shifted their attention to the state’s elected officials.

One of the defendants, Adam Fox, initially pushed the group toward a plan to storm the state Capitol in Lansing, barricade the doors, and then execute state legislators on live television, according to affidavits and court filings in the case. According to Garbin’s plea agreement, the men specifically discussed hanging the public officials and using Molotov cocktails and improvised explosive devices as a distraction at the time of the assault.

In subsequent training exercises in both Michigan and out of state, a second man, Barry Croft, allegedly introduced homemade explosives and heavy armament into the scheme, attempting on multiple occasions to construct bombs using gunpowder, shrapnel, and fireworks.

Fox told Garbin and other members of the Wolverine Watchmen that Croft wanted to “restore our Constitutional right by any means,” according to the plea agreement.

In July, the conspirators traveled to Cambria, Wisconsin, to conduct what they called “field training exercises” with militant extremists from other states. Once there, the plea agreement said, they used plywood, shipping pallets, and a door frame to build what they called a “shoot house,” according to the plea agreement, and then “practiced breaching it with firearms to simulate assaulting the Capitol or elsewhere.”

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-plotters-practiced-breaching-state

For some reason, corporate media have turned their attention elsewhere.

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