Murder Tonight at the Trailer Park
By mistermix November 3rd, 2011
ABL posted about the Waffle House terror cell, a group of senior citizen militia members who were trying to cook ricin, buy explosives and get silencers in a plot to kill a “bucket list” of federal and state government officials. The court documents said they could shoot IRS and ATF agents “all day long”. But apparently some government employees are more equal than others:
[O]ne of them, Mr. Thomas [...] his wife says he’s a 30-year Navy veteran. Another man had worked for the USDA —USDA agency, and has even boasted of showing off some of his certificates he obtained from the USDA or from training certifications to the other suspects. And one of the men was a contractor for the CDC in Atlanta.
We all know Medicare isn’t a government program. Apparently the tax money that funds the CDC and the USDA, as well as Navy pensions, aren’t collected by the IRS, either.
Posted in Teabagger Stupidity
You probably wouldn’t be surprised at the number of wingers I work with who think that the only two federal agencies worth a damn are DoD and DVA.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:31 am
one of my least fav songs from one my all-time fav bands.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:32 am
Just what do you expect, when the TeaTards have given full-throated outrage for “keep the government out of my Medicare!”
Half the population has an IQ less than 100. The GOP calls them “the base”.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:36 am
@cleek: Fie on you. I like it. I’ll admit it isn’t Timmins best work, but it ain’t bad.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:38 am
Also, I don’t have video yet, but apparently the Occupy Tulsa protest was hit by Tulsa PD SWAT last night. The story that I hear is that everybody there was standing or kneeling with their hands above their heads and were sprayed with pepper spray and then attacked with batons.
I have no numbers on arrested, injuries, or otherwise at this time.
Occupy Tulsa, being in a somewhat more liberal (or, in Oklahoma, a less conservative) city, has always had a lot more participants than Occupy OKC, which varies between 20 and 50 people on site on the weekdays and up to 100 on the weekends.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:38 am
@soonergrunt: Any ostensible reason given for the police behavior? Clearing the park so the tennis courts could be rolled, perhaps? Someone dropped a pro-biotic yoghurt container lid? Creeping fascism?
Edited slightly.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:42 am
It’s only Wasteful Government Spending if Those People get it.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:44 am
I think the quote is incomplete in explaining what you’re getting at. Had to read the whole article to understand what the point was. Suggest to include the prior 2 paragraphs of the story as well.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:51 am
@Omnes Omnibus: a curfew that wasn’t enforced until last night, apparently.
Video 1—cop tipping head of protester up and shooting pepper spray into protester’s eyes at range of six inches. Protester has already been subdued and flex-cuffed.
Video 2—several dozen police cordon and move against the Occupy Tulsa
I haven’t viewed video 2 in its entirety, so I do not know if what has been alleged (batons, SWAT) was caught on camera but at the 6 min mark, it’s only patrol officers in street blues.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:57 am
So what it really boils down to is “keep yer government hands off my money, alcohol, tobacco and firearms.”
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:59 am
@soonergrunt: re: video 1 – holy shit that is disgusting. WTF is wrong with these people?
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:02 am
@arguingwithsignposts: seconded.
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:19 am
Time to start profiling senior citizens at the air ports.
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:22 am
This story about the Teabagger Terrorists® shows the difference between the right and left. If four people who fit the Occupy Wall Street hippie profile were planning a similar attack every right wing outlet would be bleating on about how the four terrorist hippies represented every hippy involved with OWS. Could you imagine what FOX News would do with this story if the four people had dark skin?
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:28 am
@mikefromArlington:
Now, let’s not be hasty; I think profiling senior citizens with extreme right-wing views will suffice.
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:30 am
‘Going Postal’ is now obsolete. The new term is ‘Going Former Public Employee’.
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:53 am
I have to commend the protester in the OT video for his Ghandi-esqe calm in the face of police brutality.
Non-violent protest was the key to both Ghandi and MLK’s success. I hope OWS can be as successful.
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:17 am
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
“This just goes to show how you can’t trust those left-wing union thugs in the federal government.”
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:23 am
To explain this, I’ll refer to Craig T. Nelson, who was on foodstamps and welfare, but nobody helped him.
Fearful, resentful white people have an amazing blind spot with respect to their own dependency. They believe they are rugged bootstrappers from the moment the doctor (who received government loans at a state medical school)delivered them (in a hospital receiving 10 figures of federal money per year). And after they die, as the pallbearers carry the coffin, if they could talk they’d still insist nobody carried them.
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:34 am
I am surprised that these men were employed by the government or by government contractors. It was just as astounding to see the number of government employees attending the “tea baggers” astroturf protests.
How can you possibly work for something that you despise so much and supply high quality service if you don’t support the mission?
I guess criticism of those sorts of dependencies are only valid when used against those on the other side.
November 3rd, 2011 at 10:06 am
One of the most adamant Tea Party voices here in Louisville is a newspaper blogger who lives on a government pension. I’ve argued with him about it, and he sees no essential conflict.
November 3rd, 2011 at 10:47 am
@Tom Johnson:
I’ve run into people like this, too. Some of them will say that they’re only taking out of the system what they put into it (without ever having run the numbers, of course); others will say that they’re just accommodating themselves to the system that’s in place, the way that a Republican Senator might vote against a funding bill and yet still fight for his share after it gets passed.
But then there are the people who actively hate those receiving specific government benefits, even when they’re in that same group. For those folks, justifying their beliefs must be like walking through a mine field.
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:08 pm
If you’re receiving a government pension, you freaking worked for the ENEMY for a considerable length of time.
Justify THAT.
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:24 pm
“Murder at the Trailer Park” sounds like the least-extravagant dinner theater mystery ever.
I invite those clever than I am to invent Clue-level weapons and suspects.
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Someone on TPM compared them to Squidbillies. I can’t think of a better template.
As the eminent political commentator Charles Barkley astutely pointed out some years ago, the intersection of class and race is a great way to fuck over the poor—it persuades old white guys in rural Appalachia, which is mostly really fucking poor, that the government which makes them slightly less fucking poor is somehow their enemy.
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:23 pm
@pseudonymous in nc: “Only two sources I trust: Glenn Beck and singin’ woodland creatures.”
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:40 pm
@ThresherK:
Bobby Ray at the Porta-John with the broken Jim Beam bottle.
Brenda Sue behind the abandoned car with a chunk of concrete.
November 4th, 2011 at 12:22 am