According to the FBI and the US Justice Department, plotting by a heretofore unknown group called the Wolverine Watchdogs was advancing on a scheme to kidnap Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer, with an eye toward taking her from her vacation home in northern Michigan.
13 people were charged in the plot, six of them by the federal government for the plot, and seven others by the Michigan Attorney General for their own involvement. The FBI criminal complaint cites information gathered from at least two informants and two undercover FBI employees involved in the plot.
The FBI has been looking into the militia since early 2020, related to plotting to violently overthrow parts of the government. In early June the group met in Dublin, Ohio, talking up the idea of killing police to collapse the state government, or kidnap the governor outright.
There was also talk during a meeting in a Grand Rapids store’s basement, of getting 200 men to attack the Capitol building and capture Whitmer there, though it doesn’t appear the group ever had access to anywhere near that many. Most meetings had around 13 people, and at least four of them were informants or FBI plants.
By mid-July, the plot coalesced around the idea of kidnapping Whitmer from her vacation home, spiriting her to Wisconsin, and then trying her for treason, potentially executing her afterwards. The goal was to get this done ahead of the November election.
As with a lot of plots with deep FBI involvement, it’s not clear how functional it ever was, or if the FBI simply kept coaxing it along until it was enough to arrest people over. The FBI, naturally, is keen to present themselves as having foiled something real and serious.
And as with anything else that happens in 2020, this is already shaping up political dimensions, as Whitmer suggested President Trump’s comments on white supremacist groups may have spurring this group to act, and the Trump campaign condemned her for hating Trump so.
in a collapsing empire the peasants burn witches—the US unintelligence agencies r improving—after their previous humiliations in 9/11 and their creation of WMD’s in Atlantis they can now send brigades to WACO to kill more religious zealots
These guys must have gotten their ideas from the idiots that did the Venezuela debacle. But they had legit reasons:
“In one video, a suspect denounced the state’s role in deciding when to reopen gyms during the coronavirus lockdown.”
As a Michigander, I can only apologize for our inbreeding. Not a big fan of Whitmer but you have to be out of your mind to think kidnapping her, trying her for treason and then executing her would help your cause.
They train and brain-wash these types to kill, providing lots of experience in the Mid East. And unsurprisingly there would always exist an element not unwilling to grasp the nettle and use their skills here at home. But, As Jason Ditz alludes, of all the prosecutions of “terrorist conspiracy” over the last 20 yrs 95% have been FBI entrapment. This is most likely another.
Its all bogus. The FBI has been doing these entrapment stings for decades. Randy Weaver successfully sued the feds for $3.1 million for something like this after it got his wife and son murdered. It’s what they do; AIM, Black Panthers, Muslim kids, ANTIFA, militiamen. It’s all the same damn thing. Anyone who doesn’t consent to Amerika’s manufactured reality gets schtooked.
True. But there is a difference with this. The FBI will find some Muslim kid that they can convince to agree to a plot that the FBI themselves plans and funds. In this case they only have to infiltrate these groups. They might help with the funding but the plans are originated with the “militias”. I live here in Michigan and our state is crawling with these people. The hate for Whitmer is obvious. I don’t doubt for a minute that these morons actually planned this themselves. The sad part is that if there is ever an actual revolution these idiots will be fighting each if they are ever successful in overthrowing the government. Syria will look good in comparison.
The feds were in on this from the beginning. My guess is that it started as harmless locker room talk until the crowd exciters began pushing, pushing, pushing.
I’m not defending the feds or their tactics. My point is that it’s not out of the realm of possibility that these people were actually plotting what they are accused of plotting. I live here. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one of these morons. I was on my way home recently and there was a string of vehicles behind someone going 10 MPH under the speed limit. When I finally got behind the slow vehicle I saw a pickup truck with a confederate flag mounted in the bed and “White Lives Matter” hand written on the back window. I wish I could say that it was an isolated incident but it wasn’t. I’m not saying we have people parading around in vehicles like that but the overall tone is scary. MAGA.
Obviously a fake set up.. the order for FBI was to find the white supremacists…so they did..four out of 13 “plotters” worked for FBI to promulgate this fake conspiracy. Policing the thought is in our future if we believe such fake news and worse, believe that Americans are not allowed to protest oppressive state government actions without being branded as “enemies of the state”.