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freshwest

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18. Not sure he's in Germany. See more from the SPLC at ashling's thread:
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:57 PM
Mar 2015
Man Who Claims Ties to ‘Christian American Patriot Militia’ Threatens Obama in Facebook Post

By Bill Morlin on November 22, 2013

The U.S. Secret Service is aware of a man with ties to a group called the Christian American Patriots Militia who is the apparent author of a Facebook post that says the antigovernment group has the “authority” to assassinate President Obama.

“We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him,” Everest Wilhelmsen wrote on his Facebook page on Nov. 19 – the same day Larry Klayman and his Reclaim America Coalition held a rally across from the White House to begin a “second American Revolution...”




It’s not immediately clear whether Wilhelmsen’s public statements cross the line from free speech protected by the First Amendment to an actual threat against the president, which is a federal crime...

It continues: “The authority to kill Obama comes from the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution: He is levying war on the United States and aiding and comforting our foreign enemies – the 2nd Amendment gives us the right and duty (authority) to engage an enemy of the United States that does so with the design to reduce us under absolute Despotism. I would be very surprised, if Obama does not leave Washington DC today (Nov. 19th)… never to return, if he is not dead within the month.”

Wilhelmsen is listed as the administrator of the Christian American Patriots Militia. Its Facebook page says it has 1,405 members, who operate as a “closed group.”

“The foundations of our nation are Christian principles built upon the bedrock of Truth, not on the shifting sands of lies,” the group’s Facebook page says. Further, it says the “founding fathers” and the Constitution give modern day Christians the “rights and duty to bear arms against any government having a design to reduce us under absolute Despotism.”

Wilhelmsen has posted other anti-Obama and anti-Muslim comments on Facebook in recent weeks, as well on a Twitter account, where he says he is “fighting illegitimate public authorities and oppression, lifting up the downtrodden and freeing the enslaved.”

His Facebook page says he has “work and education” connections with the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., and the “Teheran American School,” in Tehran, Iran.
A spokeswoman for the art college said Wilhelmsen is not currently on the faculty or enrolled there.


 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/11/22/man-who-claims-ties-to-christian-american-patriot-militia-threatens-obama-in-facebook-post/

to Cooley Hurd for posting it on ashling's thread. It appears to be public domain with no copyright restrictions, so I have posted most of it.

Huge uptick on internet about 'urban warfare' recently. Some think it's unimportant. blm Mar 2015 #1
I agree, I feel something bad coming...All the more reason to work 24/7 against a con in WH NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #3
if by chance a Republican is elected in 2016, where do you suppose they will all go? Voice for Peace Mar 2015 #14
Some of them have gone off the deep end to hating all government, the majority NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #15
The mere idea of a race war is fucking scary. Initech Mar 2015 #4
It's gone far beyond Alex Jones and is now standard fare on most RW sites. blm Mar 2015 #7
I'm white and I live on an Indian reservation and liberalhistorian Mar 2015 #10
Thank you for the additional perspective... blm Mar 2015 #11
And the acting-out continues unabated. }=( calimary Mar 2015 #2
I would be surprised if they weren't but equally I'd be surprised if they publicized it el_bryanto Mar 2015 #6
And that is why I think law enforcement doesn't want widespread coverage blm Mar 2015 #8
Or the US "protective services" are bred from the same pool erronis Mar 2015 #13
K&R nt WhiteTara Mar 2015 #5
Hopefully they are, Skidmore. sheshe2 Mar 2015 #9
"Why these people aren't explaining things to the Secret Service, I'll never know." TrollBuster9090 Mar 2015 #12
No, I dont. Township75 Mar 2015 #16
Dude is in Germany, spewing this stuff. SS can't touch him: freshwest Mar 2015 #17
Not sure he's in Germany. See more from the SPLC at ashling's thread: freshwest Mar 2015 #18
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