Michigan plot, October 2020

[David Horn]

(02-07-2022, 01:27 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The legal process has been slow, but guilty pleas suggest that a plea deal will work out better for a defendant than will  a jury trial.

Michigan is Ground Zero in the struggle between freedom and fascism in America.

I spent a fair amount of time in Michigan during the early to mid-90s, when my company was deploying a new radio system throughout the Consumers Power service area. I was all over the state, from Benton Harbor to Ann Arbor to Cheboygan, and most of the territory in between.  I was surprised to be warned on several occasions that this or that bar or restaurant was a militia hangout, and best avoided.  Most were in rural areas, but a few were in solid blue-collar towns, that seemed about as normal to me as any other.

I never took the time to find the reason that these militia existed, but it's obvious that being in the north was no exception to the rule: radicalism grows organically anywhere people feel threatened or unappreciated.