Posted on 05/11/2025 5:54:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
The National Weather Service (NWS) is on heightened alert after recent threats from a militia-style group that believes the agency’s Doppler radar systems are being used as “weather weapons.”
Initial reports indicate the group, identified by CNN as Veterans on Patrol, has targeted radar facilities operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The group reportedly sent threats, calling the radar network a weapon and encouraging attacks on weather sites.
“They are the number one tool in our toolbox,” said Herb Simmons, director of St. Clair County Emergency Management.
Simmons emphasized the critical role Doppler radar plays in severe weather forecasting and emergency response. The NWS data reaches nearly 4 million people in the St. Louis region alone.
The group’s actions have raised concerns about the safety of NWS infrastructure and personnel, as well as the potential disruption of critical weather forecasting services.
Veterans on Patrol, based in Pima County, Arizona, is an anti-government militia founded by Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer, a Christian nationalist who is not a military veteran.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), VOP has evolved from a group focused on veteran suicide awareness to one that promotes conspiracy theories, including QAnon, and engages in vigilantism.
The group has a history of mobilizing during natural disasters, such as Hurricane Helene in 2024, where it spread misinformation about government responses while distributing aid in affected areas.
VOP’s current campaign targets the NWS’s Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) systems, which are Doppler radars used to detect precipitation, wind, and thunderstorms.
The group alleges, without evidence, that these radars are military-controlled “weather weapons” capable of manipulating weather patterns. This claim aligns with broader anti-government conspiracy theories that question the legitimacy of federal agencies.
Internal emails from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the NWS, reveal that VOP has been recruiting individuals for “penetration drills” targeting NEXRAD radar sites.
While NOAA has stated there are no specific or credible threats at this time, the agency has taken precautionary measures, including advising NWS staff to implement a buddy system at remote sites and to report suspicious activity to local law enforcement rather than engaging directly.
The FBI and other federal authorities are reportedly monitoring VOP’s activities, though independent confirmation of their involvement is lacking.
The threats come at a challenging time for the NWS, which has seen a 10% reduction in staffing since January 2025 due to layoffs and early retirements under the Trump administration.
This staffing shortage exacerbates concerns about the agency’s ability to maintain operations under heightened security risks.
Doppler radar systems are critical for weather forecasting, providing data that helps predict severe storms, hurricanes, and other hazardous conditions.
Disrupting these systems could have dire consequences for communities reliant on accurate weather warnings.
As NWS meteorologist Simmons noted, “Without their monitoring, without their prediction, it will create problems for these communities when storms decide to raise their ugly heads.”
Simmons also warned that the threats could incite violence, describing the potential outcomes as “terrible” and urging swift legal action.
According to experts like Luke Baumgartner from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, VOP’s rhetoric taps into a broader wave of domestic extremism fueled by conspiracy theories.
Such groups exploit public distrust, particularly in the wake of natural disasters, to promote narratives of government malfeasance. This not only endangers federal employees but also undermines public confidence in essential services like weather forecasting.
“Artificial intelligence”.
Good catch.
This propaganda did seem to fit the formula of left wing hysteria.
No humans required.
:)
“”””Are the Militias still around!?? havent heard peep from them in 20 years!””””
Individual militias come and go but there will always be militias around and there are plenty today as there was plenty of them 40 years ago, and before that, some guys get together and form up their little militias and sometimes one gets big or gets some publicity.
Freakin morons…what are their screen names?
lol... Classic movie!!
btt!
Issuing threats is terrorism. Throw them in jail. Do that and when it (finally) comes time to jail some commie trash it will be easier.
“Are the Militias still around!?? havent heard peep from them in 20 years!”
I think the FBI started a few back up.
Ya see… THIS is how the 5G nanoparticles get activated after they’re absorbed from mRNA shots or ingested/inhaled from chemtrails.
Everybody… EVERYBODY… knows this.
[among the lunatic fringe, that is]
Expectations are that women, children and especially people of color will be hardest hit.
“In today’s America, you can’t start a flower sniffing club with more than two people without one being a fed.
More than ten, there are fed’s on the board of directors or management.
Over 100? The feds are running the group.”
From a friend about thirty years ago.
I do believe that about the big, dangerous, or potentially threatening large organizations and have since we learned so much from the 1960s groups, 60s/70s terrorists groups, and the KKK.
At times it helps but it is so much abused and the federal plants have sometimes been the element and/or leadership that turned peaceful groups into what it took to get them to cross a line leading to arrest.
One of the oddest recent fed mysteries is their role in that attempted mass shooting at the Mohamed drawing contest in Texas, where the informants or agents were in a car behind the shooters.
“ONE of the oddest recent FED mysteries”…
and the list goes on.
Who gave word to release Mohammed Ata from a traffic stop in Virginia the night of 9-10-2001?
Who gave word to have that “Maryland Man” human trafficker MS-13 gangbanger let go from a traffic stop in TN back in 2019 (18?).
Then there’s the whole BUTLER thing and all the times the feds have said “We had him on our radar” to the extent it’s become a Simpson’s cartoon internet meme.
The feds aren’t just “agents”, they’re perennial agents provocateur going back a century now.
Who are their FBI handlers?
I was thinking more of what we have seen since the 60s, things that are more concrete and obviously deliberate, such as the plant being so aggressive that he becomes the leader of an already existing group of non-violent guys and then steers them into a new violent direction, and then even becomes the source for finding the illegal tools such as explosives, for the group that he has badgered into some illegal deed.
Got it.
We STILL don’t know what federal agency was responsible for planting the bomb that wasn’t a bomb in front of the DNC the morning of J6.
It’s likely We The People will NEVER know the answer to this one much less any of the dozens, hundreds of other “suspicious” mass shootings and events that are FED-linked.
This kind of stuff was getting revealed in some of the trials during the 60s/70s, it will be interesting what will come to light under this administration and if concrete changes will be made.
Radar is not really a very likely part of any weather modification efforts whether for good or bad purposes. Even if harmful weather modification is really happening, it’s not being spread by weather radar technology.
SPLC has gotten away with a lot of things. The are and evil group. The Left has always protected them.
Feds!
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