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Bonobo

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3. When the FBI starts throwing around terms like "Anti-Government Extremist"...

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 03:26 AM

Feb 2012

It is time to start paying LOTS of attention to what is going on.

That kind of rhetoric REEKS of danger to me. It is wide open to abuse.

One thinks of J Edgar Hoover and secret files.

Extreme caution is called for because not all will agree on WHAT constitutes a threat to the govt. and once a person is defined in those terms, they CAN be assassinated by the government or hauled away in secret for secret trials.

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'Sovereign citizen' movement now on FBI's radar [View all] ellisonz Feb 2012 OP

I read the article and what crime did Shawn Rice commit to bring the FBI Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #1

Yeah that was an oversight in the article... ellisonz Feb 2012 #2

Ah. Another FBI plot of committing the crime in order to prosecute the crime. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #4

Entrapment has a very clear legal meaning. ellisonz Feb 2012 #5

How was he armed and dangerous? Was he threatening to kill Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #7

Yes he was armed dangerous and threatening. ellisonz Feb 2012 #8

Prior to that. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #9

Prior to that he failed to appear. ellisonz Feb 2012 #10

Failure to appear for a crime that the FBI organized. Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #11

No one induced him to be a threat... ellisonz Feb 2012 #14

When the FBI starts throwing around terms like "Anti-Government Extremist"... Bonobo Feb 2012 #3

Let's get down to brass tacks. ellisonz Feb 2012 #6

Yes, unfortunately it may not just be rhetoric aimed at those people Bonobo Feb 2012 #12

Power is always open to abuse and the balance always isn't there... ellisonz Feb 2012 #15

No argument there. nt Bonobo Feb 2012 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #18

Agree with everything you've said here, ellisonz. countryjake Feb 2012 #13

Their whacko theory of individual sovereignty... ellisonz Feb 2012 #16

I worry about them, too. The ones up here are vehemently anti-Semitic... countryjake Feb 2012 #19

It's a marriage made in heaven... ellisonz Feb 2012 #24

Timothy McVeigh clones NNN0LHI Feb 2012 #20

the federal government has always targeted extreme right wing groups. madrchsod Feb 2012 #21

This is far more insidious in our communities than people realize. The Backlash Cometh Feb 2012 #22

Ooooh, money laundering. If only he was married to a congressperson, hughee99 Feb 2012 #23