Armed Militia "hunting FEMA" causes hurricane responders to evacuate—report
Armed Militia "hunting FEMA" causes hurricane responders to evacuate—report
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So how about the cops do their fuckin jobs and go round up these people.
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They did. The threat was established to be incorrect and the lone person making the threat was detained, and workers are back in the area.
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Maybe some of them ARE cops.
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Maybe?
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They can’t be threatening FEMA and helping them!!!
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Because that's how you get reactionary keyboad warriors going "OMG ACAB WHY ARE THEY ARRESTING THEM THIS IS LITERALLY 1984" on every website and media outlet. Also, probably firefights, officer-involved shootings, and further inflammation of a situation that was fucked from the start.
People don't tend to use their best judgement when blues are involved, especially in America.
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How are those fuckers not in jail?
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This is why we can't have nice things.
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It really is. One of the reasons, anyway.
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Another article said this is wrong. There was one 44 yr old from Bothic that's been arrested but no militia... Yet.
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Just to clarify, as far as I can tell, the trucks were reported by the National Guard to the US Forest Service who notified FEMA. The other was a call to a sheriff's office about a single individual. It's quite possible these are two actual but different things.
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They aren't organized by the Sate. They have no official authority. So they aren't really a Militia.
They are a literal gang.
Stop calling them Militia.
Militia isn't defined by being part of the State.
It's a term used to describe a military force comprised of civilians. There's even a modern connotation of being against the state.
Gangs aren't purely for military purposes, so if the purpose of this gang is an armed attack against a govenrment agency, then it's not unreasonable to call them a militia.
So a militia, comprised of terrorists.... seems fair.
I think the term is private vs state militias, and with this article being about armed militias, we are talking about armed private vs armed state militias. I think technically all 50 states have laws on the books that prohobit various forms of private armed militia activity. Is it enforceable? Maybe, but that would maybe probably cause a nation wide incident given the amount of violence these groups can wield (though they would probably still lose against any organized state militias or any official state/federal military force), as well as increase the chance of a homegrown insurgency popping up. That's just my armchair opinion or thought about it though, I'm just armchairing here.
Call them terrorists. That's what they are.
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