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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:08 PM May 2020

White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says

The whole point of these protests that Trump is encouraging in blue leaning states is to purposely spread the virus to wipe out the weak as a city official in California argued that the coronavirus should be allowed to kill the weak and old. To them, evidence that the virus has a dispropotionate impact on the poor, minorities and the old is a reason to encourage its spread. Afterall, this is the reason why Trump is cheer leading such protests.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-supremacists-encouraging-members-spread-coronavirus-cops-jews/story?id=69737522

Racist extremist groups, including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, are encouraging members who contract novel coronavirus disease to spread the contagion to cops and Jews, according to intelligence gathered by the FBI.

In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBI’s New York office reports that "members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions."

The FBI alert, which went out on Thursday, told local police agencies that extremists want their followers to try to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to cops on the street. The extremists are also directing followers to spread the disease to Jews by going "any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship."

The FBI declined to comment on the alert, but issued a statement saying: "FBI field offices routinely share information with their local law enforcement partners to assist in protecting the communities they serve. These products are intended to be informative in nature, and as such, they contain appropriate caveats to describe the confidence in the sourcing of information and the likelihood of the assessment. Additionally, when written at a local level, these products will note that the perspective offered may be limited to the field office’s area of responsibility."
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White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says (Original Post) TomCADem May 2020 OP
No doubt in my mind that they will/are trying to do this. 58Sunliner May 2020 #1
So wait. Do these people really think that they can contract the virus, spread it to other smirkymonkey May 2020 #2
In order for that to work well Turbineguy May 2020 #3
Antioch official who said coronavirus should be allowed to kill the weak and old may be ousted TomCADem May 2020 #4
Well, I hope it works out for them like failed suicide bombers tulipsandroses May 2020 #7
Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch Hekate May 2020 #5
Just a bunch of fucking assholes. dware May 2020 #6
Viral warfare. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #8
Like so: Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #9
And they say that we're the unhinged lunatics. Initech May 2020 #10
wonder where they get tested? stillcool May 2020 #11
Cops!?!?!? - Is Trump disavowing/condemning this? keithbvadu2 May 2020 #12
Jews are almost always a target with those people. Behind the Aegis May 2020 #13
Santee CA KKK Hood at the grocery store FreeState May 2020 #14
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. So wait. Do these people really think that they can contract the virus, spread it to other
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:11 PM
May 2020

people they don't like, not spread it to people who are on their "team", and not be sickened or killed by it? Am I missing something here?

Turbineguy

(37,361 posts)
3. In order for that to work well
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:16 PM
May 2020

you would really have to know a lot about how the virus works. Like know a lot more than the experts know.

Somehow I would think if you are smart enough to be an expert, you would not want to hang around with this ignorant knuckle- draggers.

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
4. Antioch official who said coronavirus should be allowed to kill the weak and old may be ousted
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:17 PM
May 2020

Between Rush Limbaugh describing COVID-19 as no worse than a cold, and reports that the elderly and minorities are heavily hit it is no wonder that you have some right wing extremist groups wanting to promote the spread of COVID-19.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/30/antioch-city-council-calls-meeting-to-remove-outspoken-commissioner/



The Antioch City Council will have a special meeting Friday to consider booting Ken Turnage II off the Planning Commission after his controversial post on Facebook that the coronavirus should be allowed to weed out the weak, elderly, homeless and others who can’t resist it.

Mayor Sean Wright called for the special session after Turnage refused his request Thursday morning to resign. The mayor cited the need for “swift action” in seeking the meeting, according to a city statement.

Turnage has been under fire since calling for an end to shelter-in-place orders and comparing the spread of coronavirus to a forest fire that burns off all the “old trees, fallen brush and scrub-shrub sucklings” that drain its resources.

In a long post on his personal Facebook page on April 23, the commission chairman drew ire — and some praise — for his suggestion that society should “let nature take its course,” allowing the weak, elderly, homeless and others to perish so the nation and planet “would strengthen when this is all settled.

tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)
7. Well, I hope it works out for them like failed suicide bombers
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:23 PM
May 2020

Hope the bomb detonates before it gets to the intended target.

dware

(12,423 posts)
6. Just a bunch of fucking assholes.
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:22 PM
May 2020

If they're caught doing that, they should be charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and any other charge they can stick them with.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,856 posts)
8. Viral warfare.
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:30 PM
May 2020

It will get worse without greater government intervention and punishment.

I suspect this will happen:
1. It will morph into general anti-liberal hate.
2. Liberals will be associated with wearing masks and social distancing in public.
3. The bullies will try to remove those masks and cough/spit in faces.

keithbvadu2

(36,869 posts)
12. Cops!?!?!? - Is Trump disavowing/condemning this?
Sun May 3, 2020, 11:13 PM
May 2020

Cops!?!?!? - Is Trump disavowing/condemning this?

Or are they 'very good/fine people'?

Behind the Aegis

(53,975 posts)
13. Jews are almost always a target with those people.
Mon May 4, 2020, 12:41 AM
May 2020

Sadly, until something big happens, few ever seem to notice; except us. I read a number of Jewish papers and sites. Our people are being warned with reopenings to be cautious as there are those who blame us for the virus, those who claim we are controlling it, Israel is behind it, therefore anti-Semitic actions against any Jew is acceptable as it is not "real" anti-Semitism (not just a right-wing thought, either), and those who plan to target us en masse.

FreeState

(10,575 posts)
14. Santee CA KKK Hood at the grocery store
Mon May 4, 2020, 01:35 AM
May 2020

The haters are out in force and empowered by Trump.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tgilliesADL/status/1257003111371075584?s=20



@tgilliesADL
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Don’t know which angers me more - the person wearing this or the fact that no one in management
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Santee did anything about it. ⁦
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⁩ would be happy to educate your team. San Diego is #NoPlaceForHate

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