Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law Enforcement, Lose

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Source: Talking Points Memo

Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law Enforcement, Lose
Zachary Roth | May 6, 2010, 11:54AM

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First, a Tennessee man was arrested after walking into his local county courthouse to try to effect a citizen's arrest of a grand jury foreman who had refused to investigate President Obama's legitimacy to serve -- an encounter partially caught on video. That enraged one Georgia-based member of the far-right OathKeepers group. Responding to a call from an extremist leader, he drove to Tennessee with an AK-47 in a bid to get his comrade released -- only to wind up getting arrested himself.

The bizarre sequence of events began on April 1, when Walter Fitzpatrick walked into the Monroe county courthouse in Madisonville, Tenn., and approached Grand Jury foreman Gary Pettway. "I'm charging you with official misconduct," Fitzpatrick calmly told Pettway. "I'm placing you under arrest. You must now come with me."

Why was Pettway targeted? Fitzpatrick, a retired Navy commander, is a leading member of the American Grand Jury (AGJ), which seeks to convene a grand jury of citizens to indict President Obama for treason, on the grounds that he's not a natural-born U.S. citizen. Fitzpatrick had previously tried unsuccessfully to get Pettway, an African-American, to convene a grand jury to investigate charges of voter fraud in connection with President Obama's election, according to an online account written by Carl Swensson, another AGJ leader. In response, AGJ accused Pettway of violating state laws governing the length of time that a grand jury foreman can serve -- giving Fitzpatrick the basis for his attempted citizens arrest.

Predictably, Pettway did not agree to be arrested by Fitzpatrick, and it was Fitzpatrick himself who was arrested and jailed for several days.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Is it something in the water? Isn't delusion a mental health issue?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Well, Tennessee has plenty of water at the moment.

[unpossibles]

9. Yes, but the floods can negatively affect the quality of potable water nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. agreed. it sure seems that it is not water they drink

[Abq_Sarah]

14. People who try to carry out

Citizens arrest of public officials are all delusional.

[sakabatou]

2. The stupid is strong with the Birthers

... and pretty much every other "er."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Hey, I'm a programmER! I resent that remark!

[MindandSoul]

3. Collective hysteria! Could it be the tea???

[Robbien]

5. RW hate talk radio has a lot to answer for

They keep pumping up these crazies.

[RandomThoughts]

6. Their arguments are silly. It is spin, to only talk on those discussions.

I would say those that push that conflict of ideas do that to keep people from thinking on the many topics of concern, an action of diversion. That is a game. Although I do like smiles, that is a smirk, and not in the same category.


Look at the arguments they make, their claim is simply a dispute of what is fact. Then using that to make their points.

You could argue all views are disputes of facts, and there are many ways to create false facts being used by many people. They argue on the playing field of diversion.




So I would ask, why are they against President Obama, and can they speak their real reasons.


I have spoken my real reasons, my discussions, and why I am for transparency and accountability, I am against a concept not a person. And I actually think President Obama has done many good things and does have character. But I do not support everything a person does, nor every claim not backed up by an argument.

Spin away, but know what you face and what you turn to. And that applies to all people including me, not only right wingers, left wingers, centrist, CEO's or government officials.

Make your best decisions.

[rrneck]

7. Clowns. The lot of 'em. nt

[callous taoboy]

8. The AK-47 only had one bullet that his mom gave him that morning.

[Iliyah]

10. All in the

name of their God.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Thank you Fox news.........

for creating an astroturf movement for the most idiotic people
trying to take YOUR country back. Own it bitches !

[Xenotime]

12. RW terrorism is at a simmer.