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Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts) Fri Jan 9, 2015, 08:44 AM Jan 2015

The right-wing domestic terror plot you didn’t hear about this week

llowing the murder of two NYPD officers in New York City, much of the political right moved to blame Mayor de Blasio and other progressive critics of police brutality for inciting the violence, claiming that the mentally ill man who was behind the attack was motivated by left-wing rhetoric.

That narrative doesn’t fit very well with a terror case brought this week by the FBI against three Georgia men, all members of a right-wing militia that plotted to attack police and others. Wednesday, Terry Peace, Brian Cannon and Cory Williamson pleaded not guilty to a charge of domestic terrorism, as well as charges of conspiring to defraud the government. Northwest Georgia News explains:

Peace, Cannon and Williamson — all members of a militia in Georgia — participated in online chat discussions between Jan. 23 and Feb. 15, 2014, that were monitored by the FBI.

During the conversations online, they discussed using guerilla war tactics and planned to launch attacks against a metro Atlanta police station and several government agencies in February 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/the-right-wing-domestic-terror-plot-you-didnt-hear-about-this-week/

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The right-wing domestic terror plot you didn’t hear about this week (Original Post) Katashi_itto Jan 2015 OP

Hmmm, I wonder why the US media wasn't all over this story nt MrScorpio Jan 2015 #1

Not brown enough NewJeffCT Jan 2015 #2

Bingo! Scuba Jan 2015 #4

at least their gun rights were not taken away. rurallib Jan 2015 #3

A lot of the more hardcore RW media LuvNewcastle Jan 2015 #5

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)

1. Hmmm, I wonder why the US media wasn't all over this story nt

Reply to Katashi_itto (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 10:11 AM

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NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

2. Not brown enough

Reply to MrScorpio (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 10:25 AM

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for the media?

just a guess.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

4. Bingo!

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 10:40 AM

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rurallib

(62,423 posts)

3. at least their gun rights were not taken away.

Reply to Katashi_itto (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 10:31 AM

Jan 2015

for the humor impaired

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)

5. A lot of the more hardcore RW media

Reply to Katashi_itto (Original post)

Fri Jan 9, 2015, 11:16 AM

Jan 2015

have been alarmed about police brutality and the militarization of the police for a long time. People like Alex Jones have been documenting incidents of brutality and overreach by the police for years. The Garner case has brought out sympathy from the right as well as the left.

I suspect there's some cognitive dissonance in the minds of RWers now because Fox and Limbaugh are still saying that the police do no wrong, but everyone is seeing videos every day of police abusing their authority. We're seeing some opinions on the left and right converge on this issue, and the people in charge aren't going to like that at all. The media are going to do their best to downplay resistance from the right and try to make the lefties out to be the troublemakers, but it might not work this time.

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