By Stephen D Foster Jr ·
EDITOR’S NOTE: local state representatives Justin
Price and Blake “Flip” Filippi have both publicly supported radical militia
groups labelled by several civil liberties groups as hate groups and domestic
terrorists. Price praised the “Three Percenters” and Filippi has representedand spoke at rallies for The Oathkeepers. Both of these groups are featured in
this article.
As Election Day
approaches, the threat of violence and bloodshed is becoming more and more
likely.
So far, the threats of
a violent coup against the federal government had only been coming from a few
deplorable Trump supporters like Dan Bowman who told the Boston Globe last month that he is literally
hoping that conservatives overthrow the federal government in the event that
Trump loses to Hillary Clinton on November 8th.
“If she’s in office, I
hope we can start a coup,” he said. “She should be in prison or shot. That’s
how I feel about it. We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of
office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But
that’s what it’s going to take…I would do whatever I can for my country.”
And now things just
escalated because right-wing militias are actively preparing to join such a
movement should their fellow Trump supporters follow through on their threats.
The Oathkeepers and
Three Percent Security Force are right-wing militia groups that have been
conducting training sessions in recent weeks in preparation for a violent
rebellion if Donald Trump loses the election.
Right-wing terrorist
wannabe Chris Hill told Reuters that his militia group is training to “save
America.”
“This is the last chance to save America from ruin,” Hill said.
“I’m surprised I was able to survive or suffer through eight years of Obama
without literally going insane, but Hillary is going to be more of the same.”
Hill
further implied that his group will act to “protect” any so-called “protesters”
who try to overthrow the government, which means shooting federal authorities
who try to disarm them.
“I
will be there to render assistance to my fellow countrymen, and prevent them
from being disarmed, and I will fight and I will kill and I may die in the
process,” Hill said. “We’ve been building up for this, just like the Marines,”
he continued. “We are going to really train harder and try to increase our
operational capabilities in the event that this is the day that we hoped would
never come.”
In
other words, these Trump supporting militias are have literally been preparing
to launch a terrorist attack against the United States if the election does not
go their way.
And
it’s even scarier because these gun nuts don’t think they can be punished for
their actions since the Bundy brothers and their fellow terrorists were
acquitted by a jury in what is one of the worst miscarriages of justice in
American history. Now right-wing militias are only emboldened.
If the Bundys can seize a federal building and get away with it,
maybe they think they can get away with overthrowing the federal government.
These
people are a threat to our democracy and our institutions and they should be
arrested before Election Day to ensure public safety. If Trump loses he needs
to grow a pair and concede, because if he doesn’t he should be charged and
imprisoned for any blood that is spilled as a result of his refusal to do what
every other losing presidential contender has done throughout American history.