Paranoid? Yeah But… Food for Thought?
I WILL NOT vouch for the veracity of this story. When “Oath Keepers” are involved alarms go off.
I’m posting about it as a heads-up. It IS a way to track citizens, and so of some note.
Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility, demand list of customers storing emergency food
Oath Keepers, an association of active servicemen devoted to upholding their oath of guarding the republic and protecting individual liberty, has reported that federal agents recently paid a visit to a Latter Day Saints food storage cannery in Tennessee. Though they had no reason to be there, these agents allegedly interrogated the facility’s manager and demanded to see a list of customers that had purchased, and were storing, food there.
YMMV
Category: Geezer Alert!, Occupy
Yeah, I saw this earlier. There’s an interview with Stewart Rhodes on Alex Jones’s show in which they discuss how an Oathkeepers senior officer in TN is told by the owner of the storage facility that two federal agents approached him for the list of his customers. There was no raid, there was no demand for a list, and it’s difficult to believe that it ever happened since the only source is some unnamed Oathkeeper officer.
Try as I might, I couldn’t find anything that didn’t lead back to Stuart Rhodes as the source. Stuart Rhodes, the former Ron Paul staffer who defended OK’s support of Adam Kokesh’s congressional campaign to me and Bev Perlson. And Alex Jones, that’s self explanatory.
On the other hand, there have been so many absurd (lefty instigated) events occurring the past few years that there in nothing too insane, too incredible or unbelievable to be outside the realm of possibility. Sad.
But until there is evidence that this actually happened it remains in the “someone said that their aunt Suzy heard the neighbor’s mother-in-law’s second cousin saw” category.
“Federal Agents”
That is a broad description. I would think that any lucid person relating this incident would know the branch of the Feds at least. I think it is a crock, or possibly a couple of “off-duty federal agents” were out drinking and wanted to see some o that mormon food.
Here’s the link to Oathkeepers and the interview video with Stuart Rhodes and Alex Jones if anyone wants to see why I’m skeptical.
I mistrust Oathkeepers because they think they need to have an organization to force peace officers and the troops to obey their oaths of office. Just their existence feeds conspiracy theorists.
this kinda sounds like the stuff Duff put out.
A blog I read, which in general is not a big fan of the Federal gov., is claiming this story is false. http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/mormon-cannery-raid-tn-oathkeepers-fabrication/#comments
Read and decide for yourself. Sounds to me like the oath keepers are being the Paulbots that everyone knows they are.
I got an email earlier today from Oathkeepers retracting the story. Yeah, I know…I looked into them when they first came out and never took my name off their mailing list when I figured out they were kooks. Makes for entertaining reading sometimes.
Yeah, I just went back to the link I posted above and OK just pulled the story. They’re not saying it’s untrue, they’re saying they don’t have video or audio or anyone “willing” to attest to the veracity;
Thus, now that we no longer have an eye witness willing to stick with his story, we no longer have a story we feel comfortable having on our site and we have pulled this story so we are not accused of still disseminating it.
Yeah, too late for not being blamed for disseminating it, numbnuts. So now they have a new editorial policy. It seems to me they would have thought of that before this little excursion into journalism. I noticed that they didn’t pull it until we linked to them. I guess they didn’t want a repeat of the battle with us over Kokesh which hurt their membership.
As they say on teh internets “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
As your resident “scumbag journalist” I called the Public Affairs office at Mormon HQ in Salt Lake last Friday when I heard this story on another board. The guy I spoke with hadn’t heard anything before my call, but said he would check it out and call me back today (Monday). Will keep you posted, but considering the source and the fact that the story is being posted almost verbatim on many tin-hat sites, I’d guess there is way less to it than it sounds.
There are folks that hear hoof beats, and automatically start looking for zebras.
There needs to be more of a story before there IS a story!