It was all a dream about Tennessee
I don’t know why this genuinely amusing bit of wingnuttery isn’t getting more attention. Admittedly, it’s a fairly complicated story, but The Commander Guy sums it up pretty succinctly:
[T]he craziness started after a wingnut named Fitzpatrick was arrested after a failed effort to conduct citizen arrests of local, state and federal traitors officials blocking the indictment of President Obama as an domestic enemy of the United States.
In typical Teabagger fashion, Darren Wesley Huff reportedly decided to take matters into his own hands hatching a scheme involving Oath Keepers, Birthers and the Georgia Militia to free Fitzpatrick and to effect the citizens arrests of the accused traitors. Huff would travel from Georgia and meet up with his mob of fellow travelers at the Madisonville (TN) Courthouse and quote “take over the city” by force of arms if necessary. The plan was then to use their own “Judge” and “Grand Jury” and arrest the traitors turning them over to the State Police for jail time afterward.
It just doesn’t surprise us when people around here do things like that. LOL
June 12th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
That is a cute story. It must be true because as fiction, it is not believable.
I don’t suppose it occurred to him that some people in Tennessee don’t want Georgia boys coming up and commandeering their court houses. People are funny that way.
June 12th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Not that I’m surprised it isn’t getting more attention (After all, it shall not do to call attention to God’s Own Holy Honkies engaging in acts of domestic terrorism), but the story just made me nervous.
The idea of 20 heavily-armed psychotics trying to take over a small town is only funny when they don’t succeed. If a smarter bunch of heavily-armed psychotics succeeds… Well, I’ve lived in some very small towns, and I worry that they’d end up going door-to-door, executing everyone they had a grudge against—and the small-town psychos always carry lots and lots of grudges…
June 12th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
It’s not getting more attention because these terrorists (and that’s what they are) are not brown people with hard to pronounce names. Everyone knows that there’s no way a white guy from Georgia could possibly be a terrorist. Duh!
June 12th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I don’t know why this genuinely amusing bit of wingnuttery isn’t getting more attention.
Be cause they are not a bunch of A-rabs.
But seriously, if this was a bunch of Black Panthers trying to break one of their brothers out of prison and conduct “citizens’ arrests” with guns, not even a whole herd of missing white girls would get the story off the airwaves
June 12th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
he looks like joe the plumber.
June 12th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
How is this story not getting wall-to-wall coverage on CNN and MSNBC?
June 12th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
C’mon fellas, these stories won’t write themselves.
June 12th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
and to think, I never knew Madisonville to be America’s true seat of power. the things you learn.
fortunately for the good people who actually work in the m’ville courthouse, he bragged his plans to a state trooper on the way there.
June 12th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Because that wouldn’t be balanced.
June 12th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
And it would have worked, if it weren’t for those meddling cops I told beforehand!
June 12th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
HUFF would not consent to the officers searching his truck.
He just said he had an AK-47 in his truck and that he had the right to use it, and they needed his consent? If that ain’t probable cause, Law and Order has been lying to me.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Sooner or later one of these winger revolts is going to blow up in a really nasty way.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
@Delia:
That’s what worries me. They can’t all be as dumb as a sack of hammers. Eventually one of them is going to be successful and it will be Oklahoma City redux. At which point all the GOP who have been demonizing the report from Homeland Security about the rise of domestic terrorism will be falling all over themselves to paint the perpetrators as “lone wolves” and not at all a result of their over-heated rhetoric and dog-whistle politics.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Why didn’t the cops blow these nutbags away? (And their little dog, too (Also)?) Armed insurrection, conspiracy, crossing state lines to commit a crime – I assume “taking over the town” by armed force is a crime – but IANAL, kidnapping (those Traitors© they were going to hold against their will by force,) crossing state lines invokes the Lindberg Law (? IANAL) ... the list kinda goes on & on & on.
Oh that’s right. The alleged incident allegedly occurred in the South and the perps are Crackers.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Apparently he wasn’t quite as ready as he said he was if they captured him alive.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
@Anoniminous:
It does make one wonder how sympathetic some of the local law enforcement might be to this guy’s “cause”.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
c’mon these guys are left wingers, only a hippie pinko would use a grand jury to “indict” when all right thinking americans know “bho” is the antichrist. you can’t fight an antichrist in court.
we should just be glad that moderate voices like the birthers, oath keepers and georgia militia haven’t been co-opted by the left wing agenda. when they do we true patriots will have to take our country back by seceding.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
@madmommy:
Back when I was living in the South, during Jim Crow, that the KKK would be heavily “infiltrated” by the local and state police. I haven’t lived in the South for decades but my experience makes me … suspicious.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
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June 12th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Sounds legit.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
@Anoniminous:
I live in the deep south. It’s not that far-fetched an idea.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Huff was granted bail yesterday.
The judge says he can’t practice his constitutional right to bear arms as a condition of his bail.
Too bad.
June 12th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
In 2008, my dad was very upset that I had an Obama sign in my front yard. Not because he disliked Obama—he voted for Obama too—but because he was worried that I might get hassled by neighbors or that some crazy cracker might try to start something. I thought that was silly. Now? I’m not sure I’ll put any political signs out this year or in 2012. I live in a very red state and quite honestly, I now genuinely do believe that if my political views were widely known, some tea-bagging nutjob might try to pull a drive-by shooting on my house.
I’m also seriously considering buying a gun and getting a concealed weapons permit—just because I’m a liberal in North Mississippi. How did it ever get to this?
June 12th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Thank GOD for Epistoliturgical Closure. These idiots were able to put together this plot because they firmly believe that everyone knows Obama is a traitor. And because they know it, it was simply obvious to them that the FBI and state police were sympathetic to their cause, and were waiting for a legal opportunity to act.
Because liberals are some tiny rump minority, and America is a Center Right Nation, and Obama is an openly communist muslim Kenyan! They knew they weren’t just a few crazy whackaloons and everyone would support them.
June 12th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
and we are still hearing about that guy that compared Bush to Hitler in that video he submitted to a Moveon contest
June 12th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
We won’t see things like this reported until a “firebagger” does it too, only the attention payed then will be wall to wall weeks of coverage and Serious Questions about why the president hasn’t had them executed on the national mall yet.
June 13th, 2010 at 12:05 am
I guess that would be a clue as to why he was yapping about his plans to all and sundry.
June 13th, 2010 at 12:34 am
It’s a race between incompetent jihadists & incompetent ‘Baggers to see which group can actually terrorize someone.
Next: One or another blow themselves up while making a bomb.
June 13th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Soon enough, Harold Ford, Jr. will be back in his home state, trolling for these peoples’ votes with a bunch of ads urging them to celebrate guns and god, and forgive him for his brief stop in fake America.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:17 am
@M. Bouffant:
The jihadists have an advantage—the entire conservative media-political infrastructure is geared towards making them seem scarier than they are while minimizing the danger of the Teabag Terrorists.
@Jared:
Since Ford lost the TN Senate race over ads that practically accused him of being a mandingo, I think he’s grasped the fact that he has no political future in that state, no matter how much he tries to win the Klan vote.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:21 am
Remember, both sides do it.
Oh, wait, that’s bullshit. The violent extremist terrorists are all on the Right and have been for some time now.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:22 am
I remember that at least part of this got some play on Rachel Maddow a while back.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:28 am
I set myself on a quest for truth
And he was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty…
Tennessee.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:41 am
A friend once asked me why all the men in her life were coming down with cancer. I said, maybe you should stop picking up guys at the Sloan Kettering Institute. She didn’t, but that’s a story for another day.
Okay, so maybe if we don’t want to know what all the lunatics are doing today, we shouldn’t hang around the day room at the local mental health ward all the time?
Just saying. Isn’t there a blond white girl reported missing somewhere?
June 13th, 2010 at 1:58 am
@LikeableInMyOwnWay: They found her.
June 13th, 2010 at 2:38 am
And yeah, I made sure to push this story out via Facebook and Twitter. It’s up to us to make these guys famous.
Chip and Jake and Chuck and Major and all the rest of the frat pack are busy using calipers to measure the clench in Obama’s jaw during his public addresses. Thank God we finally got that smelly old A-rab lady out of our clubhouse!
June 13th, 2010 at 2:42 am
@Allan:
I’d be more inclined to just ignore them. I have no particular interest in the activities of stupid crazy people. If they break the law, we have plenty of room in the jails.
June 13th, 2010 at 3:23 am
So let me get this straight…some guy who is pissed that a bunch of people killed innocent Americans, dying in the process, thinks the president sides with those terrorists, and decides that the right course of action is to…kill innocent Americans, dying in the process.
The dude is just another suicide terrorists, only not as smart and more of a chicken shit.
June 13th, 2010 at 3:49 am
You need to remember the other part of the story where the guy vocally and repeatedly shares his intentions to attempt this violent takeover, such that the FBI had been monitoring him, and he even announced his imminent plans on a talk radio show.
Thankfully most—but not all—of these militia-TeaTard freaks is that they screw themselves up.
June 13th, 2010 at 5:59 am
Guy was from Dalton, GA. The carpet fumes made him do it.
June 13th, 2010 at 6:57 am
This is just fucking depressing. I live about 30 miles from there. I have driven through Madisonville many times. It’s beautiful country, lots of picturesque horse farms, rolling green hills—gorgeous.
And the entire population has about seventeen teeth between ‘em. God. Why did I move here?
June 13th, 2010 at 7:34 am
@ItAintEazy: Thank you and Amen.
June 13th, 2010 at 7:41 am
See? This is why it was bound to fail. You can’t depend on those traitor-executioners, you need your own if you want to be sure the job will be done. Amateurs…
June 13th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Anyone who wants more detail on this story will find that it’s been covered over at Obama Conspiracy Theories since the beginning, as well as at Bad Fiction and Oh, For Goodness Sake!
June 13th, 2010 at 9:33 am
@d0n camillo: re: #16 . . . I haven’t yet read further, but FTW!
June 13th, 2010 at 9:52 am
@elmo: That’s what John Brown said (about the Virginia countryside), on his way to being hanged.
June 13th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Obligatory echo chamber post.
June 13th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
HUFF said he had the constitutional right to bear arms, that he had an AK-47 and ammunition in the tool box of his truck and that he had the right to take it out to protect himself. ... HUFF said he was ready to die for his rights and what he believed in.
See, this is the sort of person I really wish the FBI would walk up to and say ‘Hey, we’re going to be arresting you in ten minutes. Feel free to wander around and even get stuff from your truck until then.’
Either this guy just looks like a coward when it comes out that he was not, in fact, willing to die for his rights, and he surrendered peacefully, despite having every chance to do what he said he was going to do, or the idiot actually pulls out a gun and we save the cost of a trial.
People who are engaging in ‘civil disobedience’ that includes weapons, and boasting that they’ll shoot people who try to stop them, shouldn’t be stopped from ‘defending themselves’ from police. Either they end up dead, or they look like the cowardly braggarts they are.
I understand why law enforcement can’t actually do that, though. I just wish they could.
June 15th, 2010 at 5:06 pm