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Think. Again.

(16,636 posts)
3. Well that's one of them anyway....
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 02:14 PM
Monday

Let's not allow the media to change this to a "one lone rogue" thing, there were reports of truckloads of rightwingers driving around harassing aid workers.

wnylib

(23,951 posts)
7. According to a few articles that I've read from different sources,
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 02:43 PM
Monday

Last edited Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:34 PM - Edit history (1)

the belief that truckloads of militia were hunting down FEMA workers was based on what Parsons told some forest rangers when they encountered him at a gas station. The forest rangers sent a warning to FEMA, but did not actually see any truckloads of armed militia.

wnylib

(23,951 posts)
16. Did those civilian reports include a militia threat to specifically hunt down FEMA workers
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:38 PM
Monday

or were the militias just roaming around acting as if they represented law enforcement?

Think. Again.

(16,636 posts)
17. I don't know if specific threats to specific targets were verbalized, but the civilians said they did feel threatened...
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:09 PM
Monday

...and obviously FEMA felt workers threatened enough to adapt their work.

This was not a single person who was causing people to feel threatened, as the news is now reporting.

moondust

(20,345 posts)
18. Neo-Confederate?
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:53 PM
Monday

Raised in Carolina to hate the damn big gubment for its "war of northern aggression" that took his family's slaves?

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