The greater likelihood is that the radical guy you are talking to is working for the Fedgov.
Much wisdom in your posting, there seems to me to be a lot of enthusiastic melodramatic sensationalistic "theater" going on nowadays -- and I sometimes wonder how much of it consists of intentional attempts to enflame & ensnare & entrap elsewise innocent naive individuals.
Do you happen to believe, as many have posited, that our country is on the brink of a civil war?