The kidnapping plot against Governor Whitmer – more evidence that it was entrapment all along
We’ve already discussed this general topic here, but now there’s a new article with even more details of the enormous role of undercover FBI agents in the supposed plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer of Michigan.
It would be shocking if we still had the capacity to be shocked by something like this. But even if it’s no longer shocking, it’s outrageous, despicable, and should be condemned by every American.
But there’s no chance of that last bit happening, unfortunately.
Excerpt:
The audacious plot to kidnap a sitting governor — seen by many as a precursor to the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by hundreds of Trump-supporting protesters — has become one of the most important domestic terrorism investigations in a generation…
The government has documented at least 12 confidential informants who assisted the sprawling investigation. The trove of evidence they helped gather provides an unprecedented view into American extremism, laying out in often stunning detail the ways that anti-government groups network with each other and, in some cases, discuss violent actions.
An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.
A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one another and the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say. The Wisconsin informant even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come.
The Iraq War vet, for his part, became so deeply enmeshed in a Michigan militant group that he rose to become its second-in-command, encouraging members to collaborate with other potential suspects and paying for their transportation to meetings. He prodded the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping plot to advance his plan, then baited the trap that led to the arrest.
The piece is long, and I haven’t read the whole thing although I plan to.
There’s also this, which is tangential but certainly interesting:
Meanwhile, Gregory Townsend, one of the lead prosecutors handling the cases against eight of the defendants in Michigan state court, was reassigned in May pending an attorney general audit into whether he had withheld evidence about deals cut with informants during a murder and arson trial in Oakland County in 2000. And on Sunday, in a matter apparently unrelated to the alleged kidnapping conspiracy, one of the lead FBI agents in the case, Richard J. Trask, was charged in state court in Kalamazoo with assault with intent to do great bodily harm.
We have certainly learned not to trust the FBI. But the need for distrust goes way back, and fifty years ago (!) I remember being very concerned when I learned about entrapment in law school. So there’s this:
Informants have helped make cases that averted terrible violence. But informants have also coerced innocent people, falsified evidence, and even committed murder while working for the FBI. The bureau’s reliance on informants, much criticized in the 1970s, received renewed scrutiny in the wake of 9/11, when they were used to probe Muslim groups for alleged involvement in Islamic terrorism.
I went to law school in the 1970s, and that’s when I realized how pernicious – and perhaps widespread – entrapment is.
The Whitmer “kidnapping” case is not directly related to the January 6th “insurrection” cases. But it rhymes. The latter even is being used to implicate those involved in the former:
In court, the government has drawn a direct line between the alleged kidnapping plot and the Jan. 6 insurrection, holding up the storming of the US Capitol as evidence that the Michigan defendants posed a profound threat.
Last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland stressed in a speech about the government’s approach to domestic terrorism that it is focused “on violence, not ideology,” adding that “in America, espousing a hateful ideology is not unlawful.” But if the defense is able to undermine the methods used to build the Michigan case, it could add weight to the theory that the administration is conducting a witch hunt against militant groups — and, by extension, that the Jan. 6 insurrection was a black op engineered by the FBI.
Speaking of ideology, note some of the court proceedings yesterday involving a January 6th defendant:
This is so creepy and manipulative from the US Attorney arguing to give a Jan 6 defendant longer prison time. Judge says the defendant was not accused of committing violence or causing injury. US Attorney says sure, but he "injured" democracy — and caused emotional injury! pic.twitter.com/5VDkoWgz2b
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 20, 2021
One of the replies to that tweet is “Sounds like a charge of blasphemy.”
For me one of the most really shocking parts about all this is this is actually being reported by Buzzfeed(!)… pretty much the very last place I’d expect to see actual Real Journalism going on.
There is some evidence that January 6 was partly naivete by Trump supporters with a significant role by agents provocateur and the FBI may well have had a role in the organization. I doubt we will learn the truth unless this regime is ousted.
Anyone else read the part of the Buzzfeed article where the informant described going to a protest at the Michigan capitol? He reported to his FBI contacts that the people he was with might get violent. A few minutes later the security guards opened up the capitol building and let all the protestors (including those who were armed) inside to wander around the building. And several news photographers were following the informant’s group. Interesting set of events
Baltimoron, even the leftwing author said that it was a “surprising thing” that they opened the doors of the capitol right after the informant made contact with the FBI and told them his rubes looked violent. Not so surprising if the FBI’s whole plan was hoping that the rubes would engage in a shootout with the police in an otherwise evacuated building. Instead all that happened was some banging on Whitmer’s empty office’s door. Sounds like the FBI already had the plan for January 6th ready to go months before, and were hoping for gunfire and violence, but instead got tresspassing and a few broken windows, which was still enough to portray as the “worst tragedy in American history”
When you see the disconnect between what reportedly went on on January 6th and how the Democrats and media portray it, it was almost as if they had a prewritten script for the aftermath and stuck with it word for word despite the actual events of the day. You can best believe they wouldn’t be hiding all the ample video of the day if they got the violence from the protestors that they hoped for. Instead the video, if produced, would show the malfeasance of their actors.
“…pre-written script…”
Yep. That’s how it works. (Though it looks like “fire-extinguisher man” was MIA. Or developed cold feet. Or couldn’t find the damn fire extinguisher…unless he was indeed there and brandishing his vorpal canister like Excalibur. No matter. His role, symbolic but vital, is now enshrined in the national mythology….)
As far as “injur[ing] democracy”(heh!) goes, I guess stealing elections just doesn’t count…as long as it’s a Democratic Party cabal that does the stealing, in which case it is referred to as “nurturing democracy” or—even better—“protecting democracy from those who would destroy it”, etc., etc., “ad infinitum”, “ad nauseum”….
The FBI’s politization is a clear and present danger to national security. So too for every politicized federal agency.
Shutting down the Senate and threatening the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh hearings weren’t “injuring democracy” because those were the right kind of delinquents.
Remember the jihadist who drove to the Muhammad cartoon seminar in Texas to shoot the participants, trailed by an FBI agent who did nothing to stop him? How much of that was incitement?
Indeed. Isn’t almost axiomatic now that the one person in the counter-culture discussion group urging violence … is, in fact, a government agent?
Yeah, I was around in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I remember the joke about the percentage of government agents present at KKK meetings. The current cartoon about his encapsulates that very nicely: six stick figures, four are informants, one is a government law enforcement agent, and the sixth is a disaffected incel who thinks he has friends now …
There’s an old joke that there are only 10,000 KKK members anymore (the number varies) and half of them work for the FBI. If you get the agency’s money, there would be a great incentive to make it seem like you’re worth what you’re paid by making sure that whatever group you’ve infiltrated does something illegal. This apart from the ideological bias the agency has developed that would encourage going after the right the way they’d never consider going after the left.
TG…and the other half work for ATF.
But in all seriousness…
This is how you get a real insurrection & real violence designed to restore the US to its footings & foundations in God-given liberty.
And woe betide if we ever bring back genuine blasphemy laws.
More FBI informers than there were people to inform on
The FBI and some other agencies didn’t become like this yesterday. That’s not news to anyone reading this blog, sure. But it’s slowly dawning on Normie. Not all Normies. Some are always unreachable. Just Cattle (heh).
(While it’s not news to most of us here, there’s value in gradual reinforcement and in one’s vision becoming clearer. A good exercise for some readers would be to think back to Vietnam and then the Middle-Eastern Forever Wars — easier on your operant conditioning if you focus at first on Gulf War 2 and work backwards — you’ll probably end up with the sneaking suspicion that you’ve been manipulated and lied to before — I know I was fooled more than once.)
The larger question is does it even matter what Noticing Normie thinks? Could Normie be Normie if he/she were capable of that thing we call Thought? All that matters is that Normie follows *your* preference cascade rather than *their* preference cascade.
Our enemies have a hundred-plus year head start in moving the needle. Where do we even begin?
Interesting FBI story here:
https://www.newsweek.com/2018/01/19/boston-marathon-bomb-maker-loose-776742.html
Didn’t know this.
Decades ago, I knew of a couple of guys who practiced running through the woods with guns on account of something like this happening. They expected it.
@Richard Aubrey:
But were they Feds or not? 😀
It’s becoming axiomatic that “if you have government you have corruption,” with, usually, Chicago being the long serving poster child.
A) There are people who are fundamentally corrupt, and they are attracted to government because of the opportunities for power and funding.
B) Government itself, because of the power and money it controls, creates corrupt people.
I do not know which is true, or is there is another, or several more, categories I’m missing. I am wondering, though, what happens to the army of corruptees in government if we succeed in drastically reducing the size of government. Roaches zoom back into the woodwork when the light is turned on; where will all the currently corrupt go when government agencies are abolished or severely downsized?
These democRATS make a mockery of democracy.
As Merrick Garland stated there is a direct line between the Whitmer plot, the storming of Michigan Statehouse with armed protesters and the January 6th protest (not insurrection). It is not what you think.
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-if.html
The FBI and CIA needs abolished and those people need to get a job in the real world.
Of the 6 kidnappers, 12 were FBI informants. Yeah, that sounds right.
The FBI and CIA needs abolished and those people need to get a job in the real world.
The behavior of the FBI in particular over the last four years has persuaded me that dissolving the agency and starting from scratch (with current employees blackballed if they were in line positions) might yield better results than attempting to fix it.
People say that the FBI field agents are good guys. No, they follow orders to prevent having their pension taken away when they are canned for having integrity. Notice there have been very few leaks about FBI illegalities. They need to be canned for violating their oath.