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In reply to the discussion: Concealed carry holder arrested for threatening President Obama [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)22. Please note who and what these guys represent:
An Ominous Alliance: Militiamen Showing Up in Wisconsin as Mining Co. 'Security'
Imagine taking a hike in your local woods and coming upon characters toting semi-automatic weapons, dressed in camo and wearing masks. Then imagine finding out they are militia-movement followers hired by a mining operation to protect against "eco-terrorists." That's what's been happening to people living in northern Wisconsin lately...Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones has been on the scene and monitoring these developments:
Local activist Rob Ganson, 56, first came upon three heavily armed guards while leading a small group on a hike to view the mining site. (The drilling site is on private land, but the owner has been given a tax break in exchange for keeping it open to public use.) The guards, said Ganson, carried semi-automatic guns, were dressed in camouflage, and wore masks covering their faces...After they determined that the guards worked for Arizona-based Bulletproof Security, Ganson and the other activists posted their photos of the guards online, drawing local and national news coverage of the mine, a proposed four-mile-long, 1,000-feet-deep open pit operation in Ashland and Iron counties. In June, the company began exploratory drilling in the region for taconite, a type of iron ore used in steel.
Last Wednesday, the mining company, Gogebic TaconiteG-Tac for shorta subsidiary of the West Virginia-based Cline Group, pulled the armed guards after finding that the security firm lacked permits to work in the state. A spokesman for the company has said that the Bulletproof guards will be back once they're properly licensed.
One of the activists in the area, however, told Mother Jones on Monday that a new group of armed guardsincluding one whose shirt bore the insignia for Watchmen of America, a militia group active in at least 21 stateswas on patrol last Thursday, the day after Gogebic Taconite pulled the Bulletproof guards. This was followed shortly by heated denials from the Watchmen...
As Mary Catherine O'Connor at Outside reports, this is all taking place in a context where the mining officials are labeling local protesters "eco terrorists" and using the flimsiest of pretexts to bring in militia-style thugs to intimidate the locals.
Let's hope Americans remember that in Italy and Germany, fascists first gained political traction and moved out of the fringe of politics in the 1920s when they were hired by large landowners and businessmen as thugs to beat up and harass union organizers and land reformers, all under the rubric of calling them "communists". This is an ominous development indeed.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/ominous-alliance-militiamen-showing-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023340239
Imagine taking a hike in your local woods and coming upon characters toting semi-automatic weapons, dressed in camo and wearing masks. Then imagine finding out they are militia-movement followers hired by a mining operation to protect against "eco-terrorists." That's what's been happening to people living in northern Wisconsin lately...Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones has been on the scene and monitoring these developments:
Local activist Rob Ganson, 56, first came upon three heavily armed guards while leading a small group on a hike to view the mining site. (The drilling site is on private land, but the owner has been given a tax break in exchange for keeping it open to public use.) The guards, said Ganson, carried semi-automatic guns, were dressed in camouflage, and wore masks covering their faces...After they determined that the guards worked for Arizona-based Bulletproof Security, Ganson and the other activists posted their photos of the guards online, drawing local and national news coverage of the mine, a proposed four-mile-long, 1,000-feet-deep open pit operation in Ashland and Iron counties. In June, the company began exploratory drilling in the region for taconite, a type of iron ore used in steel.
Last Wednesday, the mining company, Gogebic TaconiteG-Tac for shorta subsidiary of the West Virginia-based Cline Group, pulled the armed guards after finding that the security firm lacked permits to work in the state. A spokesman for the company has said that the Bulletproof guards will be back once they're properly licensed.
One of the activists in the area, however, told Mother Jones on Monday that a new group of armed guardsincluding one whose shirt bore the insignia for Watchmen of America, a militia group active in at least 21 stateswas on patrol last Thursday, the day after Gogebic Taconite pulled the Bulletproof guards. This was followed shortly by heated denials from the Watchmen...
As Mary Catherine O'Connor at Outside reports, this is all taking place in a context where the mining officials are labeling local protesters "eco terrorists" and using the flimsiest of pretexts to bring in militia-style thugs to intimidate the locals.
Let's hope Americans remember that in Italy and Germany, fascists first gained political traction and moved out of the fringe of politics in the 1920s when they were hired by large landowners and businessmen as thugs to beat up and harass union organizers and land reformers, all under the rubric of calling them "communists". This is an ominous development indeed.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/ominous-alliance-militiamen-showing-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023340239
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Ooops. CCWer acting "responsibly" and like a bigoted militia type (common among toters).
Hoyt
Sep 2013
#2
In America it seems a.o.k. to own an AK-15, 11,000 rounds of ammunition, a long-range scope,
indepat
Sep 2013
#7
A people who don't even flinch over a reported 30,000 guns deaths a year, but who shake in their
indepat
Sep 2013
#48
11,000 rounds of ammo. How many people do you think will have to die at one time in order
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#14
If someone who had mental issues in the 90's (overdosed/whatever) should that person be branded ....
rdharma
Sep 2013
#36
And what other rights do you want to deny people - voting, free speech
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#37
So can you point to what he did to be denied a ccw before hand? (nt)
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#39
Again, can you point to an episode/reason prior to this to deny him?
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#42