October 9, 2019
THE RED HAT IS THE RED FLAG:
Armed conspiracy group will defend Republicans at Minneapolis Trump rally (Pete Kotz, 10/09/19, City Pages)
The group was launched in 2009 after--not coincidentally--we elected a black president. Its beliefs roughly mirrored the conspiracy theories of the day: that the black guy was preparing to invoke martial law. That he would take away your guns. That he would relegate patriots to detention camps. [...]The president of a suburban Cleveland chapter got 20 years for stockpiling bombs. Another member was imprisoned for tweeting violent threats about attacking the Oklahoma state government over taxes. Still another was convicted of raping his 7-year-old daughter.The group has shown up heavily armed at the Ferguson, Missouri protests and Cliven Bundy's Nevada standoff with the federal government. So bringing them to Minneapolis is a bit like dumping lighter fluid on a national forest.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 9, 2019 1:36 PM