FBI arrest 6 men in a militia plot to kidnap Michigan governor who also wanted to kill police officers.

hanimmal

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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson had just finished wrapping string lights around her home’s portico on Saturday evening and was about to watch “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” with her 4-year-old son when a crowd of protesters marched up carrying American flags and guns.

About two dozen protesters chanted “Stop the Steal” and accused Benson, a Democrat and Michigan’s chief election officer, of ignoring widespread voter fraud — an echo of President Trump’s continued unfounded claims as he seeks to overturn the results of the election that President-elect Joe Biden won.

“She’s decided to completely ignore all of the credible, credible, fraudulent evidence that has been continually pointed out,” demonstrator Genevieve Peters said of Benson, as she live-streamed the protest in Detroit on Facebook. “We’re out here in front of the secretary of state’s house and we want her to know we will continue to be here.”

Although the group dispersed with no arrests when police responded just before 10 p.m. Saturday, Michigan state officials accused the group of “terrorizing” Benson’s family.

“They shouted baseless conspiracy theories about the election, and in videos uploaded to social media, at least one individual could be heard shouting ‘you’re murderers’ within earshot of her child’s bedroom,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy (D) said in a joint statement on Sunday. “This mob-like behavior is an affront to basic morality and decency.”

They added that “terrorizing children and families at their own homes is not activism.”

Vitriolic rhetoric has led bipartisan leaders to warn that Trump’s baseless attacks on the election are endangering election officials’ lives. Multiple Michigan officials have reported being threatened and harassed over the election results, as have officials in Georgia, Arizona, Vermont, Kentucky, Minnesota and Colorado.

Election officials warn Trump’s escalating attacks on voting are putting their staffs at risk

Benson also tied the Saturday protest to ongoing efforts by Trump’s supporters to undermine the election since polls closed on Election Day. On Nov. 4, election challengers shouted “Stop the count” inside a Detroit vote-counting center. About two weeks later, GOP appointees on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers initially refused to certify election results in the Detroit area, but later reversed course and formalized Biden’s victory.

Trump and his campaign have also challenged the election results in Michigan, calling on a discredited witness who went viral for her strange testimony on alleged election fraud, which she presented without evidence, in front of a state House panel.

Trump campaign’s star witness in Michigan was deemed ‘not credible.’ Then, her loud testimony went viral.

“Through blatantly false press releases, purely political legislative hearings, bogus legal claims and so called ‘affidavits’ that fail to allege any clear or cogent evidence of wrongdoing, those unhappy with the results of this election have perpetuated an unprecedented, dangerous, egregious campaign to erode the public’s confidence in the results of one of the most secure, accessible and transparent elections in our state’s history,” Benson said in a statement Sunday.

The individuals gathered outside my home targeted me as Michigan’s Chief Election officer. But their threats were actually aimed at the 5.5million Michigan citizens who voted in this fall’s election, seeking to overturn their will. They will not succeed in doing so. My statement: pic.twitter.com/RSUnPSN4Aa
— Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) December 7, 2020
Benson is far from the only elected official who has been targeted this year by protesters at their residences.

People displeased with the coronavirus restrictions put in place by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) gathered in front of her Lansing home in April. Protesters opposing police violence against Black men this summer targeted mayors at their homes in Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; Chicago; Seattle and St. Louis.

Armed protesters also flooded the Michigan Capitol in April to demand that legislators put an end to a stay-at-home order in the state. The state’s Republican lawmakers complied, but Whitmer extended restrictions with executive orders anyway.

Public officials, including Benson on Sunday, have largely defended the right to protest while opposing demonstrations that target elected leaders at their homes.

“A line is crossed when gatherings are done with the primary purpose of intimidation of public officials who are carrying out the oath of office they solemnly took,” Benson said.

But Benson also said Saturday’s protest wouldn’t lead her to abandon her responsibility to defend the election results.

“Through threats of violence, intimidation, and bullying, the armed people outside my home and their political allies seek to undermine and silence the will and voices of every voter in this state, no matter who they voted for,” Benson said. “But their efforts won’t carry the day.”

She called Michigan’s election results “unequivocal” and said she would defend the votes of 5.5 million Michigan citizens. With 2,804,040 votes, Biden won 50.62 percent of the vote in Michigan, surpassing Trump by more than 154,000 votes. The state’s results were certified on Nov. 23.

“The will of the people is clear,” she said. “And I will stand up every day in my job for all voters, even the votes of the protesters who banded together outside my home.”

Propaganda video:

Imagine how shitty it would be if a bunch of armed people were to show up at the people who made the above videos home in the dead of the night.
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I don't even think this idiot is even from Michigan.

https://www.towleroad.com/2020/12/jocelyn-benson-home/
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Astroturf 'movement'. We have enough crazies, so please quit sending yours.

In her video she bitches about all the leaves being a fire hazard. Yeah this crazy is not from Michigan.
 

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hanimmal

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'be willing to die to re-seat Trump'.

where's the FBI?
My guess is investigating and stopping these would be domestic terrorists and ones like the idiots that were being a danger to the Biden bus in Texas, and everything else is keeping them pretty busy.
 

hanimmal

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I'm having trouble understanding how they weren't more well-prepared. They knew of the potential for violence from these knuckle-dragging cretins. Does anyone remember the plan by those yahoos in Michigan to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer or the breach of the capitol building in Oregon? Yet here there was a skeleton crew of security allowing these idiots to storm the capitol building. These people are stupid and dangerous, and they're being enabled by high-ranking government officials. That is a recipe for catastrophe, and I fear that we have yet to see the worst from these morons.
Trump has been enabling our nation to be under attack since he took office.

It is very hard to believe that it is by accident that this riot was allowed to take place.

I dont blame all of the police, they took a lot of damage keeping people working for us safe.

But no question that a select and well placed handful allowed this MAGA photo-op happen. And Trump endorsed it, and his militarized troll army (foreign and domestic) sold it.

A lot of these people are the vulnerable that we have abandoned since Reagan shut down our federal mental health response in the 80's. They were not ready for the brainwashing that they got on social media.

None of us were.
 

hanimmal

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https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-michigan-lansing-9124ecf75518f94c43d53c64c6ba3348
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One of Michigan’s highest-ranking Republicans on Wednesday stood by his false claims that it is a “hoax” to blame supporters of then-President Donald Trump for the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In a private conversation with Democratic Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II in the Michigan Senate that was captured by the chamber’s video feed, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said: “I frankly don’t take back any of the points I was trying to make” but rather “some of the words I chose.” He said the siege was “very real, but the assignment of cause — that was planned weeks and months in advance.”

Shirkey apologized Tuesday after the release of an hourlong video of a Feb. 3 meeting in which he told Republicans that the siege at the Capitol “wasn’t Trump people. That’s been a hoax from day one. That was all prearranged.” He questioned why there was not more security and suggested the “staged” event was “done from high,” claiming then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “was part of it. ... They wanted to have a mess.”

The statement did not specify the remarks for which he was apologizing, and he did not speak to reporters following the session on Wednesday.

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The controversy was the latest involving Shirkey and the GOP more broadly in a battleground state that Joe Biden won by 153,000 votes but where Trump continues to hold grip. Shirkey came under fire for meeting with paramilitary group leaders last year and attending a rally with extremists, weeks after armed men entered the Statehouse to protest Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus restrictions. Some were later charged i n a plot to kidnap the governor.

GOP leaders in Hillsdale County, which is in Shirkey’s district, censured him Feb. 4 for backing a ban on the open carry of guns in the Statehouse and his alleged inaction against Whitmer’s COVID-19 orders. Shirkey countered that Republicans had “spanked her hard” and he joked about having contemplated inviting Whitmer to a fist fight on the Capitol lawn.

Earlier Wednesday, Shirkey told an activist with the liberal group Progress Michigan that he was saying the hoax was “the fact that it was blamed on Trump. The actual event was very real and very, very unfortunate.” He said he would not resign.

Asked if Shirkey should step down, the governor told The Associated Press she is focused on the pandemic.

“I do not have the time or energy to indulge anyone in terms of conspiracy theories or even threats of violence against me personally,” she said. “I’m going to stay focused on my job. Any legislator who actually wants to get these important issues done and wants to show some leadership on those fronts will find a willing partner in me.”

Gilchrist said he found Shirkey’s latest statements “quite disturbing” but also unsurprising, saying it “connects to the broader rhetoric that he’s been spewing toward the governor.”

“I certainly think there needs to be some accountability and that’s up to, frankly, his caucus,” he told AP. “That’s up to the Michigan Republican Party to choose if that’s the kind of party they want to be.”

Trump’s second impeachment trial is underway. Democrats say the former president was responsible for inciting the mob who broke into the Capitol and interrupted the presidential electoral count. Five people died, including a police officer.

Shirkey is no stranger to controversy.

In 2019, he used the words “bat” and “crazy,” plus an obscenity in his description of the governor. After her recent State of the State speech, he said she looked “delightful” without a mask on. Shirkey, who caught COVID-19 in late December, referred to it as the “Chinese flu,” which Democrats said was racist.

House Speaker Jason Wentworth, a Republican, said Shirkey’s latest comments “are his own and don’t reflect my feelings or beliefs. It’s disappointing that this situation is detracting from the important work we are doing every day.”

Jeff Timmer, a vocal Trump critic who once was executive director of the Michigan GOP, tweeted that donors should stop giving to all Senate Republican-related committees until Shirkey is replaced as leader. Liberals called for sponsors of a Wednesday fundraiser for one of Shirkey’s political action committees, who paid $1,000 to $5,000 each, to cut ties.

A spokesman for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, whose PAC was among six gold sponsors, said the event was arranged before the insurer became aware of Shirkey’s statements.

“We are deeply disappointed and strongly disagree with (his) comments about the riot at the Capitol ... as well as his inappropriate language about the governor,” Andy Hetzel said.
 

mooray

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printer

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Those guys are so fucked. Being a Trump supporter might seem cute for a minute, but at some point you have to really cross some lines to maintain it. Not so different from being addicted to opiates.
"BUT IT GIVES MEANING TO MY LIFE!!!"
 

Rob Roy

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Hmmm.... Robert Deniro...your choice of "nice person". Tsk tsk .

Wasn't he in a movie, TAXI DRIVER, where he consorted with a 12 year old prostitute ? I'm sure that's just an odd coincidence that you chose that meme.
 

hanimmal

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Hmmm.... Robert Deniro...your choice of "nice person". Tsk tsk .

Wasn't he in a movie, TAXI DRIVER, where he consorted with a 12 year old prostitute ? I'm sure that's just an odd coincidence that you chose that meme.
I don't think I have ever actually seen Taxi Driver.
 
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