Members of anti-government militia groups charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ahead of the November election also discussed abducting the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, according to new information disclosed by an FBI agent at a hearing in Grand Rapids federal court Tuesday.
According to the federal complaint filed last week, that June meeting set in motion an effort to recruit accomplices and take steps toward kidnapping Whitmer, including surveillance at her vacation home, tactical and explosives training. It’s unclear if the discussion about targeting Northam extended beyond that one meeting — neither the criminal complaint nor Trask’s testimony mention further activity directed against the Virginia governor.
The somewhat vague language and lack of details about the kinds of groups that fall into this category or the ideologies behind them seems intended to suggest that the threats posed by “anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists” are equal or even interchangeable.
While the federal complaint doesn’t mention the boogaloo directly, the quotes attributed to some of the accused — obtained via secret recordings provided by confidential informants and undercover agents who infiltrated the group — are littered with boogaloo rhetoric: repeated references to “tyrants” and complaints that Whitmer “has uncontrolled power;” they often express a willingness to use deadly force to accomplish their goal of dismantling the “tyrannical government” as well the belief that...
Descriptions of Northam as a tyrant that had already begun to circulate online ahead of the January rally only grew more fervent in response to the Governor’s statewide stay-at-home measures implemented to control the coronavirus pandemic this spring. As in Michigan and several other states, protests in April calling for Virginia to “reopen” attracted gun-toting followers of the anti-government faction of the boogaloo who viewed the coronavirus restrictions as a form of tyranny.
Hey. They're all White guys. These are the guys who realDonaldTrump give praise to recently?
Terrorists. Call them by name. TERRORISTS.
Their collective IQ is 1.
DOMESTIC WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORISTS!
The real dangerous militias are our rioting i our streets, and have caused 8 billion in damages in US cities thus far
The new taliban
Thank you Trump, not
The boogaloo groups are a problem. Unlike the proud boys or patriot prayer, they are a serious threat to police. At least one of the Boogoloo bois is linked the killing of a police officer in California. Proud boys on the other hand allow gays and people of color in their ranks.
. PANSY BOYS...COWARDS ALL .
Wait, they're all white?