Posted on 09/05/2020 8:00:22 AM PDT by Aquamarine
Two self-described supporters of the anti-government 'Boogaloo' movement have been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to Hamas in a bizarre alleged plot to bomb a county courthouse and assassinate white supremacists and national politicians.
Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, were arrested on Thursday in Minnesota on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
The Boogaloo movement is a loosely organized network of anti-government extremists who advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, and predict and hope for an impending civil war, which they refer to as 'Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo,' a reference to the title of the 1984 sequel to the film Breakin'......
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Thanks for posting the actual document. Takeaways:
1) The informants were paid by the FBI.
2) The accused were paid by the FBI.
3) The accused id themselves as anarchists, who seek elimination of the police, and to overthrow the US government, so they can build a new one (kind of contradicts that anarchist thing).
4) The accused express a desire to kill white supremacists.
5) The accused come across as childish fantasists blowing smoke. “I normally shoot at 1500 yards.” “I don’t know anything about explosives, but I can blow up a courthouse with 12 sticks of dynamite.” Uh huh.
6) The accused seemed mostly to be scamming the fake Hamas guys for $, then not delivering.
Conclusions and questions:
1) I’m not clear on how these losers are any different from Antifa losers. What makes them “right wing” (right wingers support strong government and law & order — not anarchy)?
2) Were any of the devices these fools sold the FBI actually functional? Do it yourself suppressors made with a drill press? Drop in AutoSears made of plastic in a printer that don’t fit in the rifles, the maker and seller haven’t tested them, and the accused think they might last for a few bursts. Wow.
3) Charge them with fraud, gross immaturity, and aggravated stupidity. They remind me of when my wife’s nephew bragged about he and his friends were going to build a “transporter”, a la Star Trek. If was mighty sad pretense, since he couldn’t pass high school math and science classes.
We’ve had plants here from the beginning. Some of the early ones really glowed. Theres one Ive been monitoring for over 16 years maybe closer to 18. There were a whole bunch of old zombie accounts that suddenly had something to say when Trump was elected and there were a number of active accounts that suddenly changed sides in discussions (this one changes to pro-public school and arrives on every school thread, this one over here is now anti-second and clings to those threads, etc).
Betcha those bugaloo bois queitly disappear after a while with no disposition records or any other trace.
'Lock and load boys. Boog flags are in the air, and the national network is going off,' Teeter wrote in a Facebook post the day after Floyd's death.
In Minnesota, Teeter teamed up with Solomon, a resident of the Minneapolis suburb of New Brighton, according to prosecutors.
In late May, DailyMail.com interviewed an associate of Solomon, who was not named in the indictment, after he and Solomon were spotted standing guard in front of a tobacco store in Minneapolis armed with AR-15-style weapons. . .
According to the indictment, Solomon and Teeter first came onto the FBI's radar when a witness came forward and reported disturbing encounters with the two men, who were staying temporarily at the witness's home with firearms and 'substantial quantities' of ammunition.
The witness said that Solomon claimed his group, the 'Boojahideen', was opposed to the police, white supremacists and looters, and that his ultimate goal was to remove the police from Minneapolis and overthrow the U.S. government, prosecutors say. . .
Photos show them posing with a black man wearing a BLM shirt and standing behind a "Justice 4 George" sign.
Benjamin Ryan Teater is a clueless, disillusioned Bernie Bro.
He thinks capitalism oppresses people and is an “anti government libertarian”, but still wants free shit.
He sings the praises of Marxism and Maoism... but is “anti Government”
The stupidity, it burns.
Benjamin Ryan Teater is a clueless, disillusioned Bernie Bro.
He thinks capitalism oppresses people and is an “anti government libertarian”, but still wants free shit.
He sings the praises of Marxism and Maoism... but is “anti Government”
The stupidity, it burns.
I’d guess that it’s Antifa slugs who got arrested, and our fair-haired, nazi propaganda boys at Daily Mail tried to paint their buddies as “right wing.”
Take one for the team, say the nazis at Daily Mail. We’ll pay your $50 bail and have you back on the street before breakfast.
Kabuki, kabuki, rah-rah-rah.
Leftist LARPers.
Is there no end to the insanities we are experiencing this year? I have had enough but know more Dem operations against Trump are coming and will be advertised in the MSM as the latest scandal in order to help Biden
“ I’m not clear on how these losers are any different from Antifa losers.”
But, because they’re “ right wing”, which means YOUR side is doing it too, and stuff.
Seriously. So what, is my response every time some Lib moron thinks they’re scoring points by claiming the existence of such a group. Even if true, all it means is there’s even more white idiots than those with BLM /Antifa which a actually out rioting.
I’d also be more inclined to accept the premise of White Supremacists rioting along with BLM when I see graffiti or signage indicating such.
Talking to Hamas is never a good idea.
These guys aren’t right wing, they’re antigovernment, not pro-constitution.
The Atlantic Story
JANUARY 15, 2021
The Boogaloo Bois Prepare for Civil War!
Story by Michael J. Mooney
As the FBI warns of violence, anti-government extremists are ready to get in on the chaos.
Let’s start with what boogaloo isn’t.
It isn’t, mainly, a white-supremacist organization, though there are some white-supremacist boogaloo bois.
It isn’t a collection of Trump supporters ready to fight for the president, like, say, the Proud Boys. Despite the various attacks—planned or carried out—against police officers and government officials, boogaloo also isn’t a militia in any traditional sense of the word. It isn’t even really a movement.
It’s more like an absurdist internet culture propagated by libertarian-leaning gun enthusiasts on 4chan—the anonymous, Wild West version of Reddit—that has somehow moved into the real world. It’s jargon and memes and jokes and a sometimes-serious desire to bring about a violent revolution to overthrow the U.S. government.
Like nearly everything about boogaloo, the ideas and terminology are simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying.
The term boogaloo, for example, can refer to the purveyors of this culture or to an event: a violent revolution some of them hope to hasten, dubbed Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo. The name itself is a takeoff on a pervasive internet joke, an allusion to a 1980s dance movie, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. (Take a moment to pity historians, centuries from now, as they try to understand how the name of a dance-movie sequel turned into the name of a proposed nationwide insurrection.)
JJ MacNab has studied anti-government extremist groups for more than 20 years. As a fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, she’s tracked the boogaloo bois online since last fall, when she saw an uptick in memes calling—in a jokey way—for a civil war.
Excerpted: More at the link below & become totally confused!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11-VH-CHC-sr_Olsqf9jutQy6qYJBlPeoL-3SvqhPAAU/edit
The Atlantic Story
JANUARY 15, 2021
The Boogaloo Bois Prepare for Civil War!
Story by Michael J. Mooney
As the FBI warns of violence, anti-government extremists are ready to get in on the chaos.
Let’s start with what boogaloo isn’t.
It isn’t, mainly, a white-supremacist organization, though there are some white-supremacist boogaloo bois.
It isn’t a collection of Trump supporters ready to fight for the president, like, say, the Proud Boys. Despite the various attacks—planned or carried out—against police officers and government officials, boogaloo also isn’t a militia in any traditional sense of the word. It isn’t even really a movement.
It’s more like an absurdist internet culture propagated by libertarian-leaning gun enthusiasts on 4chan—the anonymous, Wild West version of Reddit—that has somehow moved into the real world. It’s jargon and memes and jokes and a sometimes-serious desire to bring about a violent revolution to overthrow the U.S. government.
Like nearly everything about boogaloo, the ideas and terminology are simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying.
The term boogaloo, for example, can refer to the purveyors of this culture or to an event: a violent revolution some of them hope to hasten, dubbed Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo. The name itself is a takeoff on a pervasive internet joke, an allusion to a 1980s dance movie, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. (Take a moment to pity historians, centuries from now, as they try to understand how the name of a dance-movie sequel turned into the name of a proposed nationwide insurrection.)
JJ MacNab has studied anti-government extremist groups for more than 20 years. As a fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, she’s tracked the boogaloo bois online since last fall, when she saw an uptick in memes calling—in a jokey way—for a civil war.
Excerpted: More at the link below & become totally confused!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11-VH-CHC-sr_Olsqf9jutQy6qYJBlPeoL-3SvqhPAAU/edit
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