Geezer terrorists thwarted
Four men, in their 60s and 70s were arrested yesterday when federal agents busted them for plotting against government facilities and employees. AT least one of them is a Navy veteran, according to Fox News;
The four listed in the indictment are Frederick Thomas, 73; Dan Roberts, 67; Ray Adams, 65; and Samuel Crump, 68. The men live in the north Georgia towns of Cleveland and Toccoa.
“I’ve been to war, and I’ve taken life before, and I can do it again,” [Frederick Thomas] told an undercover investigator, according to the records.
Thomas’ wife, Charlotte, called the charges “baloney.”
“He spent 30 years in the U.S. Navy. He would not do anything against his country,” she said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
I call them “geezers” fully understanding that I’m only a few years behind them in age, so you other geezers don’t get your panties in a wad. Of course, we know that Mark Potok and the SPLC will use this as an opportunity to tell us that they told us so – that veterans and the right wing are plotting terrorism against the government.
They have been talking about “covert” operations since at least March 2011, according to court records, discussing murder, theft and using toxic agents and assassinations to undermine the state and federal government.
Four crotchety old braggarts in the mountains of Georgia do not a movement make.
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This sounds like someone threw in parts of an old JAG episode where Ernest Borgnine and 3 other old retired UDT/SEAL types went after a drug lord in Florida.
Since they were supposedly “inspired” by an online novel written by Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars, I’m betting that Eric Holder’s Justice Department is behind this, and Vanderboegh is in danger of being jailed to shut him up over his Fast and Furious blogging. It’s not even particularly subtle.
I’m already seeing my leftard friends point out the McVeigh angle, in addition to noting that none of these idiots were Muslims…as if that makes any flippin’ difference. What I don’t understand is how anyone with a partially functioning brain could sit around and openly ponder what these dudes were contemplating and not think it was going to raise flags. If guilty, they are the biggest fucking morons I’ve seen outside of a OWS rally.
The minute the navy got involved, it was doomed to fail….
Cleveland, Georgia? The worst thing to ever come out of Cleveland were the Cabbage Patch Kids. Coincidence? I think not.
“Four crotchety old braggarts in the mountains of Georgia do not a movement make.”
A little prune juice and some fiber can fix that. 😀
Sorry, I just had to do that.
Goes to show you shouldn’t take Geritol with a double espresso in the morning.
AARP. Kill ’em all and. . . uhhh. . .let God. . . uhh. . . umm. . . what was I saying?
Oh, hey, it’s 3:55. Early bird specials start in 5 minutes!
AP–you notice those places never stay open long. Mostly because of property damage when the “rush crowd” can’t remember the difference between the accelerator and the brake, but by GOD, that left turn signal is still blinking when they’re 20 feet inside the front of the restaurant!
Sadly, Janet Napolitano is crowing behind doors about her “right wing veteran statement.” Now I’ll have to on the defensive in anything and everything I do and say regarding the government. November 2012 can’t come fast enough for me.
I guess these clowns didn’t enjoy the Airborne reunion in Toccoa last month, and had to play guerilla army on their own terms.
this old geezer found the above comments hilarious. Thanks
#9, NHS Sparky: They also have an expensive inventory problem with “seasoned citizens” who help themselves to ALL the Sweet and Low packets, Equal packets, Ketchup packets and napkins.
Like Uncle Leo in Seinfeld would say when he was caught shoplifting, “Come on! I’m an old man. I’m confused! I thought I paid for it. What’s my name? Will you take me home?”
Their right-wing motivations were made evident by their four-word manifesto, which read:
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Wonder if one of the arrestees is the “Confidential Human Source.”
During the Hutaree mess, it turned out that the one guy most vociferously in favor of illegal violent acts was the FBI informant.