U.S. troops at Ft. Stewart plotted to kill Obama?
Boy, I’d sure like to know more about this, and I suspect that we will in time. But for the moment, this is all we know, via AP:
“LUDOWICI, Ga. — Prosecutors say a murder case against four soldiers in Georgia has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government.
One of the accused troops, Pfc. Michael Burnett, pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter and gang charges in the December slayings of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York.
Burnett told a Long County judge that Roark, who had just left the Army, knew of the militia group’s plans and was killed because he was “a loose end.”
Prosecutor Isabel Pauley says the group bought $87,000 worth of guns and bomb-making materials and plotted to take over Fort Stewart, bomb targets in nearby Savannah and Washington state, as well as assassinate the president.”
Sometimes these things get blown out of proportion, but $87,000 in weaponry suggests otherwise. And when you’re willing to murder two people to keep the plot secret, you’re pretty serious about it. The bodies of Roark and York were found by fishermen along a deserted rural road. They had apparently been executed.
Michael Roark
Tiffany York
– Jay Bookman
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Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
August 27th, 2012
7:59 pm
Four people going to overthrow the U.S. government. Unfortunately for these folks, they sound like victims of our democrat controlled public school system.
ireadmogulmag.com – Prosecutors: U.S. Soldiers Plotted to Kill President Obama
August 27th, 2012
8:13 pm
[...] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jay Bookman notes, “Sometimes these things get blown out of proportion, but $87,000 in weaponry suggests [...]
independent thinker
August 27th, 2012
8:15 pm
Paul – That was Scalia doing a mea culpa for all the gun toting nut jobs he unleashed by making gun ownership a fundamental individual right.
dANDY
August 28th, 2012
12:59 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/military-terror-plot-murd_n_1833435.html
RailroadMike
August 28th, 2012
1:31 am
Proof the “Business Plot” is alive and well. To the uniformed it was the Republican Plot to overthrow the US Government in 1934. Google, USMC Maj. General Smedley D Butler the General who discovered the plot. I’m sure if you Google the “Business Plot” you will find the same names today in the news.
Joel Edge
August 28th, 2012
5:58 am
http://goo.gl/MMAOw
“Prosecutors in the Long County, Ga., case say that the militia group planned to overtake the nearby Fort Stewart, to bomb a dam in Washington state and poison the state’s apple crop and ultimately overthrow the government and assassinate the president, according to reports.”
Really? With four guys? Were they planning to do this all at one time or over an extended period? This is being left in the hands of the local prosecutors? The Army isn’t filing charges? Sounds like somebody in the prosecutors office is making stuff up or hoping more sticks.
http://goo.gl/oFZUc
Prosecutors: U.S. Soldiers Plotted to Kill President Obama |
August 28th, 2012
8:08 am
[...] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jay Bookman notes, “Sometimes these things get blown out of proportion, but $87,000 in weaponry suggests [...]
Woody
August 28th, 2012
8:08 am
Some plausible options, given the variability of human nature (pick one, and run with it):
- a love triangle with guns for windowdressing.
- some wild youngsters with big talk, exacerbated by FBI agents who had penetrated their club.
- a charismatic dude who is actually impotent, and all the guns are a proxy for… well, you know what. The takeover plans (with the guns) are just a proxy for… well, you know what.
- just the tip of the iceberg, this is a huge organization with members everywhere.
- a whole page of DSM V that didn’t get put in.
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August 28th, 2012
9:54 am
[...] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jay Bookman noted that, “Sometimes these things get blown out of proportion, but $87,000 in weaponry suggests otherwise. And when you’re willing to murder two people to keep the plot secret, you’re pretty serious about it.” [...]
andyv2k14
August 28th, 2012
11:51 am
Makes me wonder what is happening the the Army. Over my eight years in, I have seen the discipline, honor and fidelity of the US Army take a shocking plummet. NCO’s are no longer allowed to maintain discipline, our Generals are more concerned about bowing to the Concerned Mothers of America than hammering our young soldiers into line.
This, massacres in Afghan villages and many other issues and problems are the end result. We need to take a good look at ourselves, slow down the promotion system and ensure that we are again promoting calm, competent, and professional individuals into leadership positions, and then give leaders back the tools to maintain discipline. I’m very anti-Obama, but this is disgusting and disgraceful to the Army. Stand them against a wall and shoot them.
gb
August 29th, 2012
12:06 pm
FYI, after talking to other soldiers stationed with these guys, the money came from the leader’s wife’s life insurance after she died. Not much of a conspiracy there.
emac2
August 30th, 2012
10:52 am
This isn’t an isolated incident. Let a tea party supporter talk long enough and they will all mention taking matters into their own hands of Obama wins. Not alone but as a coordinated group that will require the rest of us to take sides. When desperate rich people embrace enemies of the state to cut their taxes something is really wrong.