They will try to kill us

Yesterday I wrote about the armed anti-quarantine protestors who showed up at the Kentucky and Michigan Capitol Buildings with the clear intention of bullying their duly elected officials. I argued that they were truly dangerous people who, deep down, just want to kill someone.

The more we learn about these people, the more I believe that. We learn, for instance, that not only are they connected to right-wing organizations, like Betsy DeVos’ people, but, indeed, to fringe groups--armed militias, white separatists, even Neo-Nazis, as evidenced by the Swastika flags on display at the protests.

And, frankly, it is clear that they brought their firearms to these anti-quarantine protests not just to show that they have a right to carry them (though how guns rights got mixed up with a virus I don’t understand), but to demonstrate to lawmakers that they will use them. Their intent, in other words, was to threaten legislators -- and anyone -- who dared to disagree with them.

The next logical step is for them to actually use those weapons, to start killing people...to move to political violence...and to wage war upon the body politic.

And given their connections...their links upwards to the White House...

Who could say where that would end?


Source: Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists)

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