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FBI warns letters to governors could stir violence ["Guardians of the Free Republics"]
Associated Press via Yahoo! ^ | Friday, April 2, 2010 | Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, La., Brian Bakst in St. Paul, Minn., and David Aguilar in Detroit

Posted on 04/02/2010 1:33:53 PM PDT by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

WASHINGTON – The FBI is warning police across the country that an anti-government group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence.
 
The group called the Guardians of the free Republics wants to "restore America" by peacefully dismantling parts of the government, according to its Web site. It sent letters to governors demanding they leave office or be removed.
 
Investigators do not see threats of violence in the group's message, but fear the broad call for removal of top state officials could lead others to act out violently. At least two states beefed up security in response...

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To: worst-case scenario

I thought that threat came of the Sovereign Citizens?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2484144/posts

The letters advises those governors that, if they don’t resign, members of the group will come and “commandeer” their offices. It was received by the Capitol Police at noon Monday and immediately turned over to FBI investigators.

The letters are apparently from an organization allied with Sovereign Citizens,


This is a different group!?


81 posted on 04/02/2010 4:48:03 PM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: GeronL

chock full o’ nuts, IMO.


82 posted on 04/02/2010 5:07:06 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: potlatch

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Yup

I see they co-opted an Eagle graphic

FR has lots of LEO and some FBI people as members

I spoke with one FBI profiler several years ago that mentioned FR was popular with some agents and they had signed up here

I doubt that attempting to link us to this would fly with them


83 posted on 04/02/2010 5:07:51 PM PDT by devolve
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To: EBH

I think so ... here is a Google search of articles about all the different governors (of over 30) receiving mildly threatening letters telling them to relinquish their offices.

It must be a fad.


84 posted on 04/02/2010 5:34:59 PM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Indy Pendance

Secret Service is part of the Treasury Department ... the same group that chases counterfeiters.


85 posted on 04/02/2010 5:59:40 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: bamahead

Yeah, but if they start killing us too soon it’ll screw their tax base.


86 posted on 04/02/2010 6:13:04 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
Leaves no doubt about where Freepers stand in the eyes of our National Socialist/Marxist masters...

IAC, For the past 35 years the FBI (Fumbling Bumbling Idiots) has been infested with America-hating leftist thugs as badly as the State Dept. has for the past 60-70 years...

87 posted on 04/02/2010 6:29:48 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: nmh
It is a political takeover of the government over the will of the people.

Exactly.

Coups d'état literally means "stroke of State", and refers to a violent sudden overtake of the government. Putsch, as in the Beer Hall Putsch, is the German word for the same event. Also called a coup sometimes.

88 posted on 04/02/2010 6:55:27 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney is the answer to a question no one asked.)
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To: Lady Jag

They don’t plan on killing us. They plan on re-educating and re-habilitating us. They’ll schedule us for voluntary evening and weekend sessions. If that doesn’t work then they will become less voluntary.

Advances in psychotropic drugs will be tested on the volunteers.


89 posted on 04/02/2010 7:23:07 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: devolve

“It does not appear to be a threat!

It more an expression of the 1st Amendment!”


wow


90 posted on 04/02/2010 7:31:18 PM PDT by txhurl (The Ron Paul Crowd makes perfect senselessness.)
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To: spintreebob
It's the CO2 excuse. We expel CO2, it's all our fault and we must die.

That's a big reason for the New death care plan.

We can make ourselves useful and fertilize the soil.



91 posted on 04/02/2010 8:08:04 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: devolve
[I see they co-opted an Eagle graphic ]

Eagles in a lot of things.
Symbols

92 posted on 04/02/2010 9:43:11 PM PDT by potlatch (~~"Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. "~~)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
Investigators do not see threats of violence in the group's message, but fear the broad call for removal of top state officials could lead others to act out violently.

If the FBI hadn't made the letters public (faxing it as a Press Release to every news outlet in the country), just how would these (non-violent) letters incite violence?

It seems like the FBI is the ones trying to fan the flames of every nutcase out there.

Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.

93 posted on 04/02/2010 10:22:18 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Indy Pendance

I don’t think they are part of the military - maybe Dept of Treasury?


94 posted on 04/02/2010 10:50:08 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Lady Jag

They’ll just liquidate all our assets after they off us for more handout money. Social justice, after all.


95 posted on 04/02/2010 11:15:32 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: potlatch

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Yup


96 posted on 04/03/2010 11:24:33 AM PDT by devolve
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To: NormsRevenge
Wake up America! You've been duped!

End the use of covert contracts such as Form 1040, car registrations, birth certificate applications, and bank signature cards which confess the signer to be a legal fiction subject of the United States Federal Corporation (“U.S. person”) that has waved his/her rights in favor of state-issued privileges.

97 posted on 04/09/2010 12:25:59 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: unkus
Bogus group..

....and disinformation. Communists use these tactics to deceive the ignorant. Divide and conquer.

Please provide evidence to back up your statement for my examination.

98 posted on 04/09/2010 12:29:04 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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