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Facebook shuts down far-right group planning to bring weapons to protests

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    Soros probably, triple reverse flag operation.

    - Trumpanzees
     
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    good...we need to keep an eye on these right wing domestic terrorists...they are the biggest terroristic threat to this country
     
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    Federal prosecutors say the three white men with U.S. military experience are accused of conspiring to carry out a plan that began in April in conjunction with protests to reopen businesses closed because of the coronavirus and later sought to capitalize on protests over the death of George Floyd

    The three men were arrested Saturday on the way to a protest in downtown Las Vegas after filling gas cans at a parking lot and making Molotov cocktails in glass bottles, according to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by The Associated Press.

    The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Wednesday said they self-identified as part of the “boogaloo” movement, which U.S. prosecutors said in the document is “a term used by extremists to signify coming civil war and/or fall of civilization.”

    Stephen T. Parshall, 35, Andrew T. Lynam Jr., 23, and William L. Loomis, 40, were being held on $1 million bond each in the Clark County jail Wednesday, according to court records.

    Each currently faces two federal charges — conspiracy to damage and destroy by fire and explosive, and possession of unregistered firearms. In state court, they’ve been accused of felony conspiracy, terrorism and explosives possession.

    The complaint said Lynam is an Army reservist, with Parshall formerly enlisted in the Navy and Loomis formerly enlisted in the Air Force.

    A confidential informant met Lynam and Parshall at an early April rally in Las Vegas calling for the reopening of the state’s economy, the federal complaint said. The men were carrying firearms and during the rally, Lynam said the group “was not for joking around and that it was for people who wanted to violently overthrow the United States government,” according to the complaint.

    The informant said that during a May 27 meeting, Parshall and Loomis “discussed causing an incident to incite chaos and possibly a riot, in response to the death of a suspect (referring to George Floyd) in police custody in Minneapolis.”

    “Loomis stated he wanted to target a power substation and wanted to throw a type of ‘firebomb’ or incendiary to cause destruction,” the complaint said.

    However, on May 28, Lynam instructed the group to observe the riots occurring throughout the country and use that momentum as a driving force to possibly take action against the Lake Mead Fee Station, federal land north of the Hoover Dam, on May 30.

    The informant stated that Parshall and Loomis’ “idea behind the explosion was to hopefully create civil unrest and rioting throughout Las Vegas.”

    “They wanted to use the momentum of the George Floyd death in police custody in the city of Minneapolis to hopefully stir enough confusion and excitement, that others see the explosions and police presence and begin to riot in the streets out of anger,” the complaint said.

    On May 28, FBI agents observed Parshall buy fireworks at Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza. The next day Parshall indicated to the informant that he had glass bottles, rags and gasoline Molotov cocktails, the complaint said.

    On May 30, all three and the informant agreed to take part in the Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Las Vegas, the complaint said.
     
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    Zorros. I keep hearing that name.
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    @B@ffled

    @Commodore

    @AllOtherBrainwashedTrumpSupporters
     
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    Exactly.

    That is a interesting read.

    Boogaloo members appear to hold conflicting ideological views with some identifying as anarchists and others rejecting formal titles. Some pockets of the group have espoused white supremacy while others reject it. But they have at least two things in common: an affinity for toting around guns in public and a "boogaloo" rallying cry, which is commonly viewed as code for another US civil war.
     
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    They are basically memers and internet trolls with guns.
     
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    Once again, Facebook is oppressing the right's right to plot murder!
     
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    unfair to Trump voters...
     
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    Antifa Who? Electric Boogaloo.
     
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    It seems there might be pattern here. Fb say one thing and doesn’t deliver on it. Latest one - we will remove ‘stop the steal’ content and yet ...

     
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    A strict reading of the US Constitution agrees.
     
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    This type of blanket censorship is extremely dangerous.
     

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