…. in addition to planning and carrying out lots of other mayhem. I haven’t heard this on the news, but saw it online. Information still seems to be coming in, but the short story is that Army soldiers at Ft. Stewart in Georgia bought about $87K in guns and bomb-making materials, killed two people who looked like they were going to talk about the group and were working out a plan to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama:
The prosecutor said the militia group had big plans. It plotted to take over Fort Stewart by seizing its ammunition control point and talked of bombing the Forsyth Park fountain in nearby Savannah, she said. In Washington state, she added, the group plotted to bomb a dam and poison the state’s apple crop. Ultimately, prosecutors said, the militia’s goal was to overthrow the government and assassinate the president.
More from The Atlantic who has been watching this all afternoonwhich includes some photos and some of the local TV footage.
And the inestimable Elon James White considers this in the long term effort by some extremist conservatives to always view President Obama as the “Other” — the non-American, non-Christian who has no legitimate claim to the office:
When you keep yelling how you want your country back and how the sitting president isn’t really American — how he may not even have a legitimate claim to the office — can you be that surprised when extremists contort this into plans of madness? Ex-military-personnel groups — one of which just so happens to include a Birther — have created campaigns accusing the president of leaking sensitive materials for personal gain while putting soldiers’ lives at risk. This is the state of politics today.
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