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FBI uncovers armed militia plot to abduct Michigan Gov. Whitmer
FOX News ^ | 10-8-2020 | Danielle Wallace

Posted on 10/08/2020 11:59:57 AM PDT by NRx

The FBI said Thursday it uncovered a plot carried out by an armed militia in Michigan to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

In total, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed 19 state felony charges against seven individuals known to be members of the militia group, Wolverine Watchmen or associates of Wolverine Watchmen. Separately, six individuals were also charged by U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge with federal felony charges as a result of the execution of search warrants Wednesday.

The suspects, now under arrest, are alleged to have called on the groups’ members to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them; made threats of violence to instigate a civil war leading to societal collapse; and engaged in the planning and training for an operation to attack the state Capitol building and kidnap government officials, including Gov. Whitmer.

“There has been a disturbing increase in anti-government rhetoric and the re-emergence of groups that embrace extremist ideologies,” Nessel said. “These groups often seek to recruit new members by seizing on a moment of civil unrest and using it to advance their agenda of self-reliance and armed resistance. This is more than just political disagreement or passionate advocacy, some of these groups’ mission is simply to create chaos and inflict harm upon others.”

Through the efforts of more than 200 state and federal law enforcement officials, officers executed a series of search warrants and arrest warrants in more than a dozen cities around the state, including, Belleville, Cadillac, Canton, Charlotte, Clarkston, Grand Rapids, Luther, Munith, Orion Township, Ovid, Portage, Shelby Township and Waterford, according to a press release.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: antifafbi; ftroop; search; whitmer
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To: Mr. K
Never mind all the hundreds of ANTIFA mobs rioting and looting and burning down businesses and blocking streets... There was this ONE GROUP of ‘militia’...

So the FBI has no idea how to find and prosecute Antifa and BLM types who actively want to destroy cities, kill police, kill citizens and replace our system with a new Marxist one? Who call each other on cell phones and arrive with Molotov cocktails and bricks? No ideas at all? Minds are blank?/S

21 posted on 10/08/2020 12:08:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: NRx

I suspect the FBI had and undercover egging them on. This is a false flag designed to drum up sympathy for the tyrant governor Bitchmer.


22 posted on 10/08/2020 12:08:54 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: Bama_84_928

You beat me by a minute and a half!

Great minds and all that.


23 posted on 10/08/2020 12:09:20 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: woweeitsme

Nah, i would bet that people from Michigan could care less about allegations from F-Troop.


24 posted on 10/08/2020 12:10:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: NRx

Where’s the FBI on the plot to overthrow the President? Oh right, they hatched the plot.


25 posted on 10/08/2020 12:10:31 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: NRx

Standard FBI False Flag op
Following on several days of declassified docs exposing Wray as a traitor and seditionist.


26 posted on 10/08/2020 12:11:12 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: eyeamok

yes or they gathered weekly to read the Declaration of Independence


27 posted on 10/08/2020 12:11:25 PM PDT by magna carta (TX all you have to do is send an email to principal with a witness included on the communication.)
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To: ScholarWarrior

All I’m saying is that they desperately needed something to
pin in the Right, to take Clinton, Obama, Brennan, and
others off the front page.

This is just too perfect for that purpose.


28 posted on 10/08/2020 12:11:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just never United States.)
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To: NRx

Where’s the fbi on antiFA? BLM?


29 posted on 10/08/2020 12:11:36 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See George Fetanyl's mile-long Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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To: NRx

“militia plot to abduct Michigan Gov. Whitmer

This doesn’t seem credible. Why would they go out of their way to torture themselves?


30 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:06 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: NRx
and the name of this so called "militia" is???
31 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:16 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: NRx

She was just on TV blaming Trump for this.


32 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:29 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: mojito

That link shines billion candlepower sunlight on what really happened. Now it’s clear: Antifa wackos planned this. Yet, she’s out there today trying to blame Trump.


33 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:32 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: woweeitsme
I hope I’m wrong, but I can definitely see this as a huge problem for the campaign.

These folks have more in common with ANTIFA.

Wowee, you're wrong.

34 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:46 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: woweeitsme

Buh-bye Michigan for Trump. They’ll be able to pin this to him, even though he’ll disown this group. I hope I’m wrong, but I can definitely see this as a huge problem for the campaign. One more thing for the media to crow about.

This is crazy talk!


35 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:57 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: NRx

Occam’s Razor

A bunch of STOOOOOOPID people, perhaps justifiably torked-off by her unconstitutional overreach, react to the situation in the worst possible way.

Probably egged-on by some agents provocateur who were eager to earn a medal.


36 posted on 10/08/2020 12:12:59 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: noiseman

It would be like listening to Baby Shark...


37 posted on 10/08/2020 12:13:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Whole thing is already unraveling the leader of this group is on twitter rants WITH Antifa flags in the background ranting about the police NICE TRY LIBS!!


38 posted on 10/08/2020 12:13:50 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: NRx

Who, whom had ever read The Ransom of Red Chief in the 9th grade, would want to forcibly kidnap Cruella Deville’s little sister and hold her captive against her will?

Like you said, either some seriously insane people, or one hell of a false flag operation.


39 posted on 10/08/2020 12:14:05 PM PDT by OKSooner (We are not allowed to criticize George Soros or BurnLootMurder.)
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To: woweeitsme

Tomorrow this will be forgotten. This will have no effect on MI elections.


40 posted on 10/08/2020 12:14:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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