Friday, October 9, 2020

REVOLUTION IN AMERICA - HERE'S WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE - Thirteen arrested in far-advanced pro-Trump conspiracy to murder Michigan’s governor and overthrow the state government

Thirteen arrested in far-advanced pro-Trump conspiracy to murder Michigan’s governor and overthrow the state government


The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Michigan State Police have arrested more than a dozen men across the state in connection with well-developed plans to kidnap and kill Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, seize power in Lansing and install a pro-Trump regime.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the raids and search warrants at a 1 p.m. Thursday press conference. She listed more than a dozen towns and cities where raids were carried out overnight, including Sterling Heights, Belleville, Cadillac, Canton, Charlotte, Clarkston, Grand Rapids, Hartland, Luther, Munith, Orion Township, Ovid, Shelby Township and Waterford Township.

Both Nessel and Governor Whitmer put the political blame for the right-wing terrorist conspiracy on President Trump and his open alignment with ultra-right and white supremacist groups.

Initial statements as well as the indictment filed by the attorney general indicate that the Michigan conspiracy is just one element of a historically-unprecedented plot inspired and very possibly directed by a sitting president to violently overthrow the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

“We have a president who seems to condone these actions,” Nessel told MSNBC, citing his “tweets to ‘liberate Michigan,’” which followed armed right-wing protests at the state Capitol. She argued that Trump’s statements were “not a dog whistle, but a command to action.”

Six men face federal charges of terrorism and conspiracy: Brandon Caserta, Adam Fox, Kaleb Franks, Ty Garbin, and Daniel Harris, all of Michigan, and Barry Croft of Delaware. Seven more, all of Michigan, and all linked to the militia group Wolverine Watchmen, face felony state charges of terrorism, material support to terrorism, gang membership, and possession of firearms during the commission of a felony: Paul Bellar, Shawn Fix, Eric Molitor, Joseph Morrison, Pete Musico, Michael Null and William Null.

Garbin and Franks made a court appearance in Grand Rapids on Thursday morning and asked for court-appointed attorneys, based on their financial status.

According to the press conference and the charging document, the FBI initially learned of discussions about the violent overthrow of the state government over social media. Federal agents recruited at least two informants within the group and sent in several undercover agents. Both the informants and the agents made recordings of conversations and entire meetings, which will comprise much of the evidence in any future trial.

The plans to kidnap and kill Whitmer were carefully prepared. The charged individuals allegedly conducted surveillance of Whitmer’s vacation home on two occasions in late August and early September, having concluded that this location offered the best opportunity to seize her. They prepared maps showing the location of nearby police stations and state police barracks and calculated how long it would take police to respond to an emergency.

One of the participants built an improvised explosive device, which they detonated to test its effectiveness. A similar device was to be placed on a highway underpass to be used against police pursuit in the event of a successful kidnapping. Another participant purchased an 800,000-volt Taser to be used in the attack on the governor. There were discussions about removing Whitmer to the state of Wisconsin where she would be put on “trial” for treason and then executed.

The state charges include preparations to attack and kill policemen and state troopers involved in protecting Whitmer or in enforcing various aspects of the statewide lockdown that she imposed last spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The plans included seizing control of the state Capitol.

Michigan was at one point the third-worst state in terms of deaths and infections, but the lockdown and other restrictions have had a significant effect in recent months. It now ranks 10th in total deaths and 17th in terms of infections.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP)

Whitmer, in a prepared statement delivered at the statehouse, said “Trump has spent the past seven months ignoring science, giving comfort to those who spread fear, hatred and division.”

Trump “stood before the American people just last week and refused to condemn white supremacist groups,” she continued, referring to Trump’s debate with Democrat Joe Biden. “Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke but as a call to action.”

It was noteworthy that three federal officials stood with Nessel at the announcement of the arrests and backed her claims that the armed right-wingers were seeking to overthrow the state government. FBI assistant special agent Josh Hauxhurst said that the FBI’s “primary mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.”

US attorneys Matthew Schneider and Andrew Birge made similar declarations, which in the context of Trump’s threats to defy the results of the November 3 election seemed to pit them directly against the president who appointed them.

“All of us standing here today want the public to know that federal and state law enforcement are committed to working together to make sure violent extremists never succeed with their plans, particularly when they target our duly elected leaders,” Birge said.

The fascist conspirators were planning to attack Whitmer just before the election. The timing strongly indicates direct coordination with the plans by Trump to incite violence, declare martial law, suspend the voting and arrest his political opponents. Given the scale of the effort in Michigan, whose designation as a “battleground” state now seems ominously apt, the obvious question is what plans are ongoing in similar states: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida and Arizona, among others. Two other states were targeted, like Michigan, by Trump’s tweets: “Liberate Virginia” and “Liberate Minnesota.”

There are many more questions than answers about this conspiracy. It is not clear whether the FBI even informed Trump or the White House, or even their Justice Department boss, Attorney General William Barr, about the ongoing Michigan operation. Certainly, Trump himself seems to have been unaware of the impending raids. Only hours before the FBI and state troopers began rounding up his armed supporters, Trump was tweeting venom against Whitmer, praising last week’s ruling by the Michigan state supreme court that the 1945 law under which Whitmer issued her lockdown orders was unconstitutional.

There was a public conflict between the FBI and the White House two weeks ago after FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress on September 24 that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in mail balloting, and that white supremacist groups were the largest threat of domestic terrorism in the United States, not Antifa, which he described as an ideology rather than an organization. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows denounced these claims in a vitriolic rebuke of the FBI director.

The Elements of Revolution Are All in Place

Including an election from which there could be no turning back.

 

Don Feder

 

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In a recent poll, 61 % of Americans said we’re on the verge of civil war. What’s coming is cataclysmic, but there are better ways to describe it. Instead of civil war, think revolution.

Some believed the proletarian revolution was coming in the 1930s, during the Great Depression – others, during the rise of the New Left in the 1960s.

But they were only sparks that never ignited.

What was kindled decades ago, now has burst into flames.

The pieces are all in place: rioting without end, war on the police, government complicity with anarchy, one party firmly in the grasp of revolutionaries, ongoing efforts to erase our history, radicals with a death-grip on the culture and an election from which there could be no turning back. To view any of these elements in isolation would be a tragic mistake.

The riots following the death of George Floyd have been anything but spontaneous. They were planned and organized by Black Lives Matter, Antifa and others. The founders of BLM describe themselves as “trained Marxists.”

Every time there are charges of police brutality (given the sort of characters the police are forced to deal with on a daily basis, these are inevitable), the switch is thrown: first come the useful idiots with their signs and slogans, then the outside agitators (with U-Hauls disgorging riot gear), then the looting and burning, then the assaults on police, then the calls to defund the police and on and on.

The goal is chaos, leading to uncertainty, apprehension and politicians willing to give the terrorists whatever they want to buy peace. What they want is to raze this country and build something resembling Cuba or Venezuela on the ruins. That’s how the Biden camp intends to Build Back Better.

The police have taken the brunt of this. According to a story in the September 26th New York Post, in New York City alone, 472 officers have been injured in rioting -- 319 seriously enough to be hospitalized. Across the country, cops have been shot, stabbed, burned and run over with cars.

Police retirements have reached a record high. Police chiefs have resigned and ordinary crime has soared. Calls to defund the police grow. Biden wants to put shrinks in squad cars to help the police deal with domestic violence.

Cops are our first line of defense against the jungle. Joseph Wambaugh called them The New Centurions in his 1971 novel of the same title. Crippling law enforcement is an all-important step on the road to revolution.

Democratic mayors and governors are complicit. In September, the Department of Justice designated New York City, Seattle and Portland jurisdictions where “local governments … are permitting anarchy, violence and destruction.”

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler refused to allow police to use tear gas to dispel rioters. (The city’s chief of police rhetorically asked, “How much violence is enough?”) The mayor of Seattle allowed Antifa to occupy an historic area of the city for a month.

In the first Presidential Debate, Joe Biden declared, “I am the Democratic Party right now.” When queried if he’d asked Democratic mayors to address the rioting more forcefully, he responded, in effect: What can I do. I’m a private citizen? That’s how much the Biden Party wants urban anarchy to end.

Prosecutors elected by George Soros’ PACs refuse to prosecute rioters, who are often back on the streets in a matter of hours. St Louis City Attorney Kimberly Gardner was elected with $190,00 of Soros money and reelected with $119,000. A police official described his department’s relationship with her as “abysmal.” Gardner is prosecuting a couple for defending their home with guns, while refusing to charge the trespassers who were menacing them.

Kamala Harris tweeted out a link to a group raising bail money for Minnesota rioters. Biden campaign workers contributed themselves. Biden described Antifa as “an idea.” Try to imagine Churchill calling the brown shirts “an idea.”

Biden’s condemnation of the war on civilization is worse than nothing at all.

After avoiding the matter for months, at last, when the polls turned against him on the issue, he disavowed “all forms of violence,” while refusing to condemn Black Lives Matter or Antifa (which is a fantasy, after all). He equated isolated instances of police misconduct (“police violence”) and mythical “right-wing militia groups” with the Marxists and anarchists who have set our cities ablaze. How can you spot the white supremacist at a race riot? He’s the one on the ground, bleeding from multiple wounds.

Public schools and higher education are the breeding grounds for the next generation of incendiaries. As the president said in his July 4 Mt. Rushmore speech: “Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but were villains.”

When they’re not distorting history, our schools simply refuse to teach it. In one survey, only 27% of those under 45 years of age had a basic understanding of U.S. history. Only one in three could correctly identify the three branches of government.

Indoctrination (like the 1619 project) is complimented by the steady stream of anti-American, anti-Caucasian propaganda from Hollywood, and the wealth of Fortune 500 firms poured into Black Lives Matter. They’re marching through the institutions -- from the classroom to the newsroom, to the screening room to the boardroom.

Against this backdrop we face the most consequential election of our lifetime, now less than 30 days away.

The Democratic Party is ruled by the revolutionary left. Vice President Biden is its Marshal Petain – the smiling, doddering old fool. Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talaib, Schumer and Pelosi will pull the strings behind the scene.

If they win, Antifa and BLM will be used to attack and intimidate opponents of the regime -- morphing from storm troopers to S.S. Resistance will be labeled racism.

With statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico (and who knows where else), court-packing and ending the filibuster, our system of government will be permanently altered to assure that this election will be the last real election.

Like France in 1789, Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1932, we stand at the brink. Thank God Trump is no Louis XVI.

Don’t think civil war. Think firing squads, gulags and death camps. Think the Black Lives Matter flag flying over the White House and Capitol.  

Kamala Harris Did Not Condemn the Riots Until Late August

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When Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) faces Vice President Mike Pence on the debate stage Wednesday night in Salt Lake City, it will be one of the first times she has faced questions publicly since becoming Joe Biden’s running mate two months ago.

One of the few times she has answered questions was in an interview with the NAACP last week, when Harris praised the “brilliance” of the Black Lives Matter movement and its Marxist founders. She also said people should protest “peacefully.”

It was one of the few times that Harris has spoken out in any way against the violence that has swept through the streets of American cities over the past few months as Black Lives Matter protests led to looting, vandalism, arson, and attacks on police and journalists.

In fact, Harris did not speak out against the violence until the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August — when poll numbers began to turn against the Democratic ticket, who failed to mention the riots at their party convention.

Harris also called on supporters to donate money to bail out those arrested during riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody:

Those released included violent criminals, such as domestic abusers.

On May 30, just hours after “peaceful protesters” outside the White House in Lafayette Park attacked police, and assaulted journalists, Harris joined the demonstration. That same day in her home state of California, Black Lives Matter protests were exploding into riots. “Peaceful protesters” in L.A. destroyed police cars, looted stores, and vandalized synagogues. The next day, the “peaceful protesters” in D.C. partially burned St. John’s Episcopal Church across the street from Lafayette Park.

In a statement she delivered at the Senate Judiciary Committee two-and-a-half weeks later, Harris praised the nationwide protests: “There are thousands of people marching in the streets in 50 states demanding meaningful change. The people are demanding action.”

She added that “we must re-imagine what public safety looks like,” which is a euphemism for defunding the police. She did not condemn the riots, nor did she emphasize the importance of nonviolent protest as a means of change.

Instead, Harris insisted — against glaring evidence to the contrary — that the riots were, in fact, “peaceful” protests. And she led the charge against law enforcement.

In July, as rioters attacked a federal courthouse in Portland, she introduced a bill to block what she called “federal paramilitary occupations in Portland and other American cities.” Harris did not condemn the rioters; instead she condemned the Trump administration’s response to the riots as the actions of “an authoritarian regime.”

Harris and Biden only began to condemn the riots forcefully after Kenosha in late August. Like Biden, Harris’s initial response was to blame police.

She began speaking out more clearly against violence after a right-wing protester was murdered in Portland days later by a left-wing protester who described himself as “100% Antifa.”

Biden, at least, had condemned violence before — though usually while blaming police and describing rioters as “peaceful.” Kamala Harris left it until very late.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His newest e-book is The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

This article has been updated to include Harris’s call for bail for rioters arrested in Minneapolis.

Looting Begins as Violent Protest Continues in Wisconsin

Dozens of "peaceful protesters" loot a Wisconsin convenience store. (Twitter Video Screenshot/Julio Rosas)
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The march from Milwaukee to Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, descended from peaceful protest to vandalism to looting on Wednesday night. Under the cover of darkness, dozens of protesters began smashing windows of homes and businesses and moved on to loot a convenience store.

Independent journalist Brendan Gutenschwager captured video of multiple looting a gas station convenience store in Milwaukee Wednesday night.

As the looting continued, a store employee began handing out bags to looters.

Not content with simply stealing goods from the store, the “peaceful protesters” also destroyed property and turned over coffee machines.

Rioters finally dispersed as police began to arrive. But, not before gathering up more goods from the convenience store.

Another video tweeted by Townhall Media shows dozens of people ransacking the store and leaving with whatever they could carry.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

 

BLM rioters move into rich, liberal suburb as resident complains that they are supporters

By Thomas Lifson

Affluent liberals deceive themselves that they will get a "pass" from violent radical revolutionaries if they sympathize enough with their causes.  The latest group to begin to learn the hard way lives in swing state Wisconsin.

The latest Black Lives Matter mostly peaceful™ protest is in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, an affluent (average household income above $100,00) Milwaukee suburb that gave Hillary Clinton 62% more votes than Donald Trump in 2016.  The casus belli is explained by the New York Times:

The Milwaukee [County] district attorney said Wednesday that he would not prosecute a Wisconsin police officer who fatally shot an armed Black teenager in a mall parking lot in February, setting off renewed protests over the killing.

Joseph Mensah, a Black police officer in the Wauwatosa Police Department, shot the teenager, Alvin Cole, 17, on Feb. 2 after he refused to put down a firearm and ran away from the police following a confrontation at the Mayfair Mall, John Chisholm, the Milwaukee district attorney, said on Wednesday. He said officers reported that Mr. Cole had pointed the gun at them at one point, and that he had fired the gun while running away.

Rioters obviously believe that firing a gun at cops does not justify cops firing back, and in support of this proposition, they trashed store windows in Wauwatosa;

spraying graffiti;

and, of course, looting because stealing free stuff is lots more fun than working for it.

But, as in Portland, OR, the mostly peaceful™ demonstrators moved into residential areas, where they broke windows and drove over lawns and shrubbery.  Hey, libs, you're not safe in your home, especially if the police are defunded!

One resident, later identified as Jason Fritz, engaged the demonstrators in conversation as they drove motorcycles over his front lawn and shrubbery, complaining that this is a liberal neighborhood that largely supports their cause.

Interviewed this morning on Fox & Friends, Fritz stated that this was the fourth time that mostly peaceful™ demonstrators had come by his house, and stated, "Something clicked inside me and said, 'No more.'"

It will be interesting to see how Wauwatosa votes this time.

Crush and Destroy Culture

By Richard Moss

I have always felt that the term “cancel culture” was far too mannerly and tame.  It scarcely captured the degree of hatred the Left and its social-media zealots unleashed with any transgression from woke orthodoxy.  Even doctrinaire liberals, tried and true “progressives” with a lifetime of fidelity, have felt the sting of leftist vengeance after betraying the cause on a single, isolated point.  Individuals have been disgraced, careers ended, livelihoods wrecked, and reputations trashed over minor infractions of the ever-evolving progressive canon.  And that is how they treat former friends and allies.  Conservative foes are filleted and quartered outright in broad daylight. 

I recently found myself the target of leftist vitriol and experienced the full fury of “cancel culture.” The events and tactics are worth reviewing. 

I produced a 50-second pro-2nd amendment video in my backyard with my 25-year-old son.  I placed two Trump-Pence signs in front of us.  An American flag behind us. I spoke of my love of country, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights, in particular our Second Amendment.  I said that we were not looking for trouble but would not run from it, and tossed out a challenge to “BLM” (Black Lives Matter, the organization).  I closed by saying that I liked President Trump.  Of note, my son and I were holding our respective AR-15s.  Not pointing them, mind you, just holding them.

The context, of course, is the more than four-month siege on America’s cities, the violence, rioting, and arson occurring since the George Floyd incident on May 25.  Many of us seethe at this ongoing disorder and the unwillingness of Democrat politicians that govern these cities and states to control it.  It is also galling to find our dominant institutions supporting the radical street thugs. 

Into this maelstrom, I posted my 50-second video on my Facebook and Twitter pages.  The next morning, I was seeing patients in my medical practice.  One of my employees who monitors my social media noticed tens of thousands of views and thousands of comments, reactions, and shares.  By the end of the day, it was going “viral,” with both supporters and detractors responding and sharing.  The insults, hatred, and threats, however, were extreme. 

“I’d rather die from cancer than have you as a doctor,” one cheerful commentator asserted, among many other choice statements far more appalling. 

Then came the menacing comments and “doxing” of my home and office as detractors posted my name and address on Facebook and Twitter.  Individuals I had never met called my office, disparaging my work as a physician.  Some asked for the office manager, thinking I was employed, attempting to pressure the employer into firing me.  I am self-employed, and so that ploy was not effective. 

The attackers took to my Google business page and left nasty comments and one-star reviews to damage my reputation and practice.  There were threatening and derogatory calls to my local hospital, which had to increase security.  The hecklers contacted my State Medical Board, prodding them to revoke my medical license.  There were also plans for a demonstration at my house that same week on Friday at 6:00 P.M. 

On the first night of the video, my son, who appeared in the video, was concerned because of the threats and doxing.  He worried about the safety of our home and family but also the impact on his career.  At his request, I deleted the video.  It did not help him.  The next day, he lost his job.  Furthermore, it had already been “screen captured” and spread by others throughout the internet despite removing it from my page. 

On Friday at 6:00 P.M., the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath, four police cars were outside my house to provide protection.  I met with the police and thanked them.  They seemed supportive.  As it turned out, the protesters did not show. 

As yet, my practice remains busy.  I live my life as always, but with greater awareness of my surroundings.  I have installed security cameras.  And, yes, I carry.

There is a great divide in the country today.  Our opponents have declared war.  Consider that, in this case, there was my 50-second video.  Patriotic, pro-American, pro-2nd Amendment, and, perhaps, a bit provocative.  But merely a video.  On the other side, there have been four months of continuous burning, looting, assault, and murder in our cities.  There have been calls for defunding and abolishing the police.  Democrat politicians, local, state, and national, rather than condemn the mayhem and violence, encourage it as do their media allies.  So, too, the academy, Hollywood, corporate America, and professional athletes.  BLM and Antifa, the Marxist perpetrators of the turmoil, with the open support of our principal institutions and the Democrat Party, call for “burning down the system.”  They deface synagogues and churches and refer to Jesus as a “white supremacist.”  Yet, in this contest, hardly equivalent, my otherwise harmless little video was sufficient cause to denounce and threaten me in the vilest ways, including attacks against me personally, my home and family, reputation, career, and livelihood. 

We are in the midst of an assault on our Republic, a Marxist revolution under the guise of “racial justice.”  Who knows what will come after the election in November?  The passions today are no less extreme than they were in 1860.  Both times, Democrats were attempting to dismantle the nation. 

We are well beyond cancel culture.  The proper term is “crush and destroy culture.”  But it is worse than that.  It is an insurrection, and the enemy has taken over our leading institutions.  Unwittingly, though, these forces of darkness have roused the sleeping giant.  Patriots and citizens, modern-day Paul Reveres, have organized and pushed back as we have seen in Kenosha, Oregon, Ohio, Colorado, Seattle, and elsewhere, including outside Walter Reed Medical Center during President Trump’s brief hospitalization. Thousands I have never met rose to defend me in the social media and telephone blitz against me.  We outnumber them.  We can and must defeat these, the enemies of civilization.   

Richard Moss, M.D., a surgeon practicing in Jasper, IN, was a candidate for Congress in 2016 and 2018. He has written A Surgeon’s Odyssey and Matilda’s Triumph, available on amazon.com.  Contact him at richardmossmd.com or Richard Moss, M.D. on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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