Posted on 07/21/2021 6:54:22 AM PDT by RandFan
In the inky darkness of a late summer night last September, three cars filled with armed men began circling Birch Lake in northern Michigan, looking for ways to approach Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s three-bedroom vacation cottage, subdue her — using a stun gun if necessary — and drag her away.
One vehicle stopped to check out a boat launch while a second searched in vain for the right house in the thick woods ringing the lake. The third car ran countersurveillance, using night vision goggles to look out for cops and handheld radios to communicate with the others.
Earlier, they had scoped out a bridge over the Elk River, just a few miles away, scrambling down under the span to figure out where plastic explosives would need to be placed to blow it sky-high. That would slow police response, giving the men time to escape with the governor — who had infuriated them by imposing COVID lockdowns, among other outrages — and either take her to Lake Michigan, where they could abandon her on a boat, or whisk her to Wisconsin, where she would be tried as a “tyrant.”
“Everybody down with what’s going on?” an Iraq War veteran in the group demanded to know when they ended their recon mission, well past midnight, at a campsite where they were all staying.
“If you’re not down with the thought of kidnapping,” someone else replied, “don’t sit here.”
The men planned for all kinds of obstacles, but there was one they didn’t anticipate: The FBI had been listening in all along.
For six months, the Iraq War vet had been wearing a wire, gathering hundreds of hours of recordings. He wasn’t the only one. A biker who had traveled from Wisconsin to join the group was another informant. The man who’d advised them on where to put the explosives — and offered to get them as much as the task would require — was an undercover FBI agent. So was a man in one of the other cars who said little and went by the name Mark.
Just like they did on January 6
The rank and file feebies are honest sez hannity.
Not trying to be snarky, but if they are doing their site recon on the night of the kidnap, then that was a total farce.
A real action like that would have done (++) hours of site recon, from boats and drivebys, to long range and very specific Google research.
You don’t just drive up to someone’s house unless the leader of the group is trying to get caught.
Apparently, something like 3/4 of those involved were feebs.
Were the Feds all undercover from each other?
It’s interesting that here in Michigan, there has been a story floating around that some of these ‘militia men’ were intending to make a “Citizen’s arrest” of Whitmer for some of the obvious violations of law that she has made in response to COVID. It’s obvious that one man’s “citizen’s arrest” could easily be another’s “kidnapping”. Selective editing of transcripts and videos could easily hide this distinction.
Sometimes they are. Like years ago when the Aryan Nations group was in the news in Idaho. Around Ruby Ridge time. There were so many ATF, FBI and US Marshals infiltrating the AN that some instigators tried to arrest other instigators. Lol. Unfortunately they didn’t shoot each other.
They did at Waco though. Most of the AFT thugs shot were hit by their own people. Incompetent. Wearing fancy military gear doesn’t change a thug from being an incompetent arrogant thug. Once a federal thug.. always a federal thug.
Bttt.
5.56mm
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