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originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: sooth
Funny how when one of their own actually carried out an act of extremist violence and opened fire on a baseball field where our nation's congresspeople were gathered that incident is swept under the rug and never cited again by news sources when talking about examples of extremist violence.
You mean a Bernie Sanders supporter with a list of people on the right that he wanted to kill who took the time and energy to attempt to assassinate Republican politicians shouldn't be compared to a guy who wanted to kill everyone on the planet with biological weapons?
Nah... Orange Man Bad, all Deplorables bad is the narrative.
Everything else just isn't news.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: XAnarchistX
Did he act on any of his words? Writing letters to a neo nazi, possessing 1,000 rounds of ammo, keeping a spreadsheet of politicians who you consider traitors, waxing poetically about an apocalypse... none of these are themselves criminal. They'll never manage to convict him on any of it EXCEPT they've got the drug charge, which automatically makes possession of any firearms an additional federal crime. They are publicizing a list of distasteful issues surrounding the man, but ultimately that just seems to be an effort to sour public opinion on him and sensationalize a story which, otherwise, would be bland "Coast Guard officer arrested on drug and weapon charges" end.
They will add "charges" based on these findings, but at the end of the day he's going to prison for illegal possession of Tramadol and human growth hormone while (otherwise legally) owning firearms. Had they found no drugs, this would have ended up with them extrajudicially seizing his firearms while sending him for psych evaluations and, as has historically been the case on federal cases like this, he'd have spent his years in a padded cell jacked to the moon on government orders tranquilizers, unable to coherently speak, let alone defend himself in court while the State explained what a "danger" he was and how he must be kept medicated and in custody so his mental models could be "further analyzed" by criminal psychologists.
We've seen this before.
ETA: I am not defending this dude... he may well be a dangerous individual, but I'm opposed to the media and establishment driven narratives that try to tie the number of firearms, ammo, reading habits, and loosely related Google searches to terrorism when they absolutely have no bearing to the story in absence of the fact he was simply arrested for possession of controlled substances.
and an Officer in the Coast Guard for almost 30 years.
originally posted by: highvein
a reply to: Lucidparadox
and an Officer in the Coast Guard for almost 30 years.
Almost 30 years? That is odd. He should be a lot higher rank than a Lieutenant. He could have been prior enlisted though.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
This guy is definitely nuts...but it sounds like he is also a big ol' drama queen who likes to talk like he's a Bond villain.
The dude bragged about destroying the world's food supply and getting Spanish Flu & Anthrax and killing everyone on the planet.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: IAMTAT
This guy is definitely nuts...but it sounds like he is also a big ol' drama queen who likes to talk like he's a Bond villain.
The dude bragged about destroying the world's food supply and getting Spanish Flu & Anthrax and killing everyone on the planet.
Well. . . . have you been to Walmart lately?
originally posted by: projectvxn
2 things:
Coast Guard.
Lieutenant.
Sorry Coasties, you aren't real military. You are DHS.
Lieutenants are dumber than privates with an unjustifiably bigger paycheck. That's true no matter what branch or "branch" you're in.
If you don't understand the post, it wasn't for you.
originally posted by: highvein
a reply to: Lucidparadox
and an Officer in the Coast Guard for almost 30 years.
Almost 30 years? That is odd. He should be a lot higher rank than a Lieutenant. He could have been prior enlisted though.
Where are you from, Trego?
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: MisterSpock
Also, I hate to sound like a broken record, but 1000 rounds of ammo isn't a "stockpile" of ammo.
It's literally a shoebox, in most cases. It's just not a lot of ammo, let alone a stockpile.
Now now...
I "stockpiled" the other day... 1,400 rounds!!!
Cost me 100 bucks at a gas station in Montana.
I like the sound of "stockpile" better than "bought"... makes me sound like I got a lot more bang for my buck, as it were. And it has an "edgy" sound to it!!
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
The letters he wrote were just leaked on Twitter, the guy is a big Trump supporter.. and an Officer in the Coast Guard for almost 30 years.
He wrote letters to the Neo Nazis praising their ideology... Saying we need an all white state... Using racial slurs... And saying g action needs to be taken on officials and citizens.
How this guy made it 30 years in the military without being discovered is beyond me.
Another white conservative terrorist who won't get the 'terrorist" label
originally posted by: IAMTAT
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: IAMTAT
This guy is definitely nuts...but it sounds like he is also a big ol' drama queen who likes to talk like he's a Bond villain.
The dude bragged about destroying the world's food supply and getting Spanish Flu & Anthrax and killing everyone on the planet.
Well. . . . have you been to Walmart lately?
Just to buy ski masks and red hats.