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RandySF

(58,473 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2014, 01:42 AM Jun 2014

BLM Shooting Suspect Is Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist With Pending Gun Charge

The man accused of shooting two law enforcement members in California, including a Bureau of Land Management ranger, has had at least one previous run-in with law enforcement and has described himself as the target of a massive government conspiracy.

Brent Douglas Cole, 60, was named by the Nevada County Sheriff's Office on Monday as the suspect in Saturday's shooting that also left him wounded.

Anna Ferguson, assistant district attorney for Nevada County, confirmed to TPM that Cole was also facing misdemeanor charges in Nevada County Superior Court for allegedly carrying a loaded firearm. He was charged on Jan. 26.

On Tuesday, the Union newspaper in Grass Valley, Calif., published an article that quoted from court documents in the case. The documents showed Cole believed he was the target of a massive conspiracy:

Officers acted without warrant or any probable cause to seize my person using a swat team style assault, and then started looking for something to charge me with. I was attacked and molested, unconstitutionally arrested, unlawfully incarcerated, repeatedly intimidated and coerced to plead guilty to having committed a crime, held in secret for five days, and my property and liberty taken from me since January 26, 2014. I am being persecuted for being a gun owner, and for exercising my inherent Right by unwitting or unknowing accomplices of a seditious conspiracy against rights instituted by foreign powers inimical to the United States of America.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/brent-douglas-cole-blm-shooting-suspect

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BLM Shooting Suspect Is Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist With Pending Gun Charge (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2014 OP

Surprise, surprise! silverweb Jun 2014 #1

The Hell You Say, Sir.... The Magistrate Jun 2014 #2

No, Brent, you are not being 'persecuted' shenmue Jun 2014 #3

Surprise, surprise, he calls himself a 'sovereign citizen' muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #4

Sovereign Citizen types are probably the biggest threat on our soil Lee-Lee Jun 2014 #5

silverweb

(16,402 posts)

1. Surprise, surprise!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 01:56 AM

Jun 2014

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]And here I thought it might be illegal pot farmers.

The Magistrate

(95,241 posts)

2. The Hell You Say, Sir....

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 02:04 AM

Jun 2014

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

3. No, Brent, you are not being 'persecuted'

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 06:45 AM

Jun 2014

You are being prosecuted, because you shot people.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,265 posts)

4. Surprise, surprise, he calls himself a 'sovereign citizen'

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:30 AM

Jun 2014

Cole also has a history of indulging in far-right conspiracies on the Internet. At one site, he described himself as a “sovereign American Citizen attempting to thwart the obvious conspiracy and subterfuges of powers inimical to the United States.”

On his Facebook page, he has posted a number of conspiracy-related stories, including pieces describing the so-called “Bilderburger conspiracy” to control the world and various “Federal Reserve” conspiracy pieces. Likewise, his Twitter account is full of posts with a similar conspiracist bent.

After his January arrest, Cole flooded the Nevada County Court clerk with a blizzard of nonsensical, pseudo-legal filings – a typical tactic of so-called “sovereign citizens.” In one of these, Cole spelled his name in lowercase letters and called himself “a natural born, flesh and blood, living man.”
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“Officers acted without warrant or any probable cause to seize my person using a swat team style assault, and then started looking for something to charge me with,” he complained. “I was attacked and molested, unconstitutionally arrested, unlawfully incarcerated, repeatedly intimidated and coerced to plead guilty to having committed a crime, held in secret for five days, and my property and liberty taken from me since January 26, 2014. I am being persecuted for being a gun owner, and for exercising my inherent Right by unwitting or unknowing accomplices of a seditious conspiracy against rights instituted by foreign powers inimical to the United States of America.”

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/06/17/sovereign-citizen-wounded-in-california-campground-shootout-with-blm-ranger-highway-patrol-officer/

http://www.opednews.com/author/articles/author1870.html

And he's chock full of conspiracy theories - in a comment to an OpEdNews piece about American support for herbicide spraying of coca and poppy crops:

Poisoning is Deliberate: The Motive being Genocide.: The purportedly "inert" ingredients are deadly poisons and this poisoning of the environment and the human population is now standard practice. The purpose is to implement an agenda of reducing the world population. This deliberate attempt to poison the environment and human population is in fact genocide. The deliberate poisoning of the environment and human population has been ongoing since 1898 with the introduction of nitrate fetilizers and dioxins. it is in keeping with the Satanic creed.

(and that comment is with links to the Rense and DailyPaul sites); or another comment there, claiming 9/11 was not only an inside job by Bush and Cheney, but they were really working for 'the Zionists' and the British Crown to subjugate the USA.

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)

5. Sovereign Citizen types are probably the biggest threat on our soil

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:39 AM

Jun 2014

They are crazy. As in this should qualify as a mental illness.

There are not many times where I would advocate locking people up just for their beliefs, but these guys qualify.

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