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The Whitmer Kidnapping Case Reveals The FBI’s New Counterterrorism Target Is You
The Federalist ^ | July 23, 2021 | Matthew Braun

Posted on 07/23/2021 8:02:13 AM PDT by Who is John Galt?

This week included interesting revelations about the FBI’s case against the handful of people charged with plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Of 14 people indicted, five (or more) were working as informants for the FBI.

...[T]he five people who seem to be the FBI informants were also the people who seemed to have all the kidnapping ideas and access to all the equipment needed for a paramilitary assault on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home. At one point, the leadership of the conspiracy met, and three of the five people in that discussion were FBI...

In case after case, it’s the FBI that creates the illusion of the ability to do harm. There are no bombs, no ability to launch an attack. There is no group ready to meet and support them, no weapons smugglers, or expert marksmen. There is only the anger of a lonely person screaming into the void of the internet, and the only one who answers that screaming is the FBI...

The problem is not that we’re going to find out that the January 6 case is going to be full of FBI agents and informants, just like the Whitmer kidnapping case. The problem is we are starting to understand this is standard procedure for counterterrorism. This is a 20-year-old charade the FBI brass has been pulling...

Now, 20 years later, with Osama bin Laden dead and the United States leaving Afghanistan, do we think those GS-15 positions, or those Joint Terrorism Task Forces, or the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, are going to go away? No. They need work to justify those budgets, and America needs a new enemy.

The difference is that the government has begun to use the tools that were developed to fight a credible foreign threat now to fight against the political opponents of Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; fbi; fbiwhitmerbanglist; whitmer
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Coming soon to a community near you: yet another "terrorist plot" to justify all of the extreme legislation the Democrats are trying to pass.

The article is worth reading in its entirety - visit thefederalist.com (it's a great web site)...

1 posted on 07/23/2021 8:02:13 AM PDT by Who is John Galt?
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To: Who is John Galt?

Their target is not me.

Their target is those stupid enough to get caught up in an FBI conspiracy.

These 9 didn’t have a lick of sense between them.

Stupid.

Stupid.

Stupid.


2 posted on 07/23/2021 8:06:14 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Yet another example that the greatest threat to our freedoms, peace, and wellbeing is not “Big Tech”, or “Big Business”, or China - it is our own massively unconstitutional, totalitarian federal government.

Patriots, don’t let all the flak confuse you from this fact. Take this to heart. We MUST do whatever it takes to dismantle the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government or the feds will do whatever it takes to dismantle us!


3 posted on 07/23/2021 8:09:01 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Who is John Galt?

The FBI did the same thing during the Obama administration. Filed a bunch of conspiracy charges against 7 people in an Ohio based militia called The Huteree. Lots of press at the time about this group being domestic terrorists. All the federal conspiracy charges were dismissed and the judge gave a scathing rebuke to the FBI for manufacturing the whole thing. I think two of the defendants were convicted of possessing an automatic weapon, but that had nothing to do with the massive conspiracy case alleged in the indictment.


4 posted on 07/23/2021 8:10:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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Because framing POTUS Trump for espionage wasn’t convincing enough...


5 posted on 07/23/2021 8:15:30 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Their target has always been you.


6 posted on 07/23/2021 8:16:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Mariner
Their target is not me.
Their target is those stupid enough to get caught up in an FBI conspiracy.

Good for you! However, as a conservative/Trump supporter/Republican/caucasian/"bitter clinger"/whatever, you may be the target of any radical legislation the Dems push through, in supposed response to the next big FBI sting "terrorist" arrest...

7 posted on 07/23/2021 8:16:51 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Simply do not comply with the law.

Keep your mouth shut and your head low.

Lay and wait.


8 posted on 07/23/2021 8:19:42 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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>> Their target is those stupid enough to get caught up in an FBI conspiracy.

Coercing, persuading, leading individuals into criminal activity is unacceptable regardless of one’s stupidity.

Hell, the morons were apparently too stupid to go it alone — arguably protected by their stupidity. But evidently, the FBI made the impossible possible. Obscene.


9 posted on 07/23/2021 8:20:42 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: circlecity
The FBI did the same thing during the Obama administration...

I think that approach goes back decades. For example, many (possibly most?) of the so-called 'white supremacists' in the country, including those supposedly in leadership, are or have been government informants or agents. It lets the feds trot out an arrest, just about anytime they need one. The author of the article linked above highlights the fact that 9/11 opened the floodgates of federal funding - the FBI has a lot bigger budget today, for that kind of theatrics...

10 posted on 07/23/2021 8:26:29 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: Who is John Galt?

They could do something more useful, like go after Antifa types, not to mention Chinese spies.


11 posted on 07/23/2021 8:28:48 AM PDT by KittyKares (I miss President Trump!)
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They have orders not to do that.


12 posted on 07/23/2021 8:33:35 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim W N
We MUST do whatever it takes to dismantle the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government or the feds will do whatever it takes to dismantle us!

Once the feds get an agency or department started, it rarely gets axed. Do we need a Department of Education, or Interior? The States are fully able to handle education, and manage public lands. Mr. Reagan hoped to get rid of the Department of Education, but didn't get it done - I'm not sure it's possible for the federal government to limit its own size or power.

I keep hoping the States will get together behind a balanced budget amendment, that actually has some 'teeth' in it...

13 posted on 07/23/2021 8:35:47 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: Who is John Galt?

CTU - Will Jack be working there?


14 posted on 07/23/2021 8:37:26 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Jim W N

So the
F B I
initiated the Jan 6 conflagration at the capital also.
Probably intimated and organized using their Antifa/BLM pawns.


15 posted on 07/23/2021 8:40:46 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Who is John Galt?

Whitmer had a better chance of being Abducted by Aliens.


16 posted on 07/23/2021 8:43:11 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: Who is John Galt?

Hi.

I hope you are doing well.

You got that perpetual energy device oppositional yet? Let me know.

Many years ago I belonged to a militia in Virginia. We would train in Cumberland county, near Appomattox.
Mainly commo, logistics, PT, and small arms training.

There were about 75 of us (mainly vets), but there were three or four FBI in the mix. One would leave, another would come.

This has been a PSA.

5.56mm


17 posted on 07/23/2021 8:54:20 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: M Kehoe

Operational.

Sheesh.

5.56mm


18 posted on 07/23/2021 8:56:14 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Whitmer had a better chance of being Abducted by Aliens.

True. It's almost funny - when you actually do see a "terrorist attack" take place, it's not unusual to learn (after the fact) that the FBI had agents or informants inside the operation, but screwed things up enough that the attack happened anyway. The first World Trade Center attack is s prime example, but we only know about the FBI's involvement because the informant recorded his phone calls. The FBI initially claimed their own informant was one of the terrorists, and he had to release the recordings to save his own butt...

19 posted on 07/23/2021 8:59:37 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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Stupid maybe, are just simple minded and easily lead. No matter which, we cannot allow the Government to destroy these people with terrorist hoaxes.
20 posted on 07/23/2021 9:07:24 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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