Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia... out hunting FEMA.’
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia... out hunting FEMA.’
The Washington Post is reporting that Federal emergency-response staffers in hard-hit Rutherford County, North Carolina were directed on Saturday to stop working and move to a different area due to concerns about “armed militia” members on the prowl...
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia... out hunting FEMA.’
Oh look at the hood! How original
It's like the hood scene in Django Unchained. But even dumber.
I immediately went to the Rorschach-inspired masked gang from the Watchmen show.
Though that's very obviously playing off of the Klan and modern Militias.
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God, I remember a bunch of my old 'friends' noping out of that show by the end of episode 2 or 3, because it was 'obviously politically biased' and 'waaay too farfetched', 'of course they made the Rorschach guys into racists'.
Yep.
Totally implausible and needlessly mean spirited portrayal.
Definitely no connection to real life racist yokel moral absolutist hypocrite conspiricists.
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It's particularly amazing because this group fashioned themselves movie buffs, often going into trivia around what various actors, directors and what not said in interviews about their own work and methods, differences between different cuts of movies or how true they were to the events or works that inspired them.
Guess they just conveniently dismissed what Alan Moore said about reception of Rorschach.
A bunch of weak cowardly racist assholes... It shows they know what they're doing is wrong & fear the repercussions of their actions.
The "alpha male" personas they're trying to shovel, the moment they're upset about anything they immediately turn into cry babies. They're literally a cult following a orange turd with dementia.
Ah, the banal evil of conservatism in play. With only a few idiots, they hurt entire communities who are desperate for aid.
No talk of sending the national guard in to "quell" them, yet, it seems. How unlike the response to the George Floyd protests...
The National Guard were the ones who found them.
This group has guns of their own, they don’t want to risk someone getting hurt, and would rather target the unarmed minorities instead.
Domestic terrorists.
It's a Good Thing these people are ONLY trying to Murder Federal Disaster Relief Agents! IMAGINE what might happen if they were a Black Kid with a Backpack!
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia... out hunting FEMA.’
Red. Neck.
Nah, just dumbasses. You can work outside and not have your head stuck up your arse
Culture war? No thankyou. Only Class War for me.
Its worth pointing out they're doing this because if the Biden admin effectively helps people in states like NC, FL, GA it could win Harris the election.
It's also worth pointing out that the other side will say "see this is why we don't need FEMA, they didn't get timely aid to these parts"
Currently front page news on wbtv.com
Article updated with an arrest.
William Jacob Parsons, 44, from Bostic was arrested after dispatchers were told a white male holding an assault rifle and making comments about harming FEMA employees.
I think I put my thought poorly. Negligent would.have been a better word.
FEMA was hamstrung, but "doing the best with what you have" and "doing a great job" arent the same thing and thats likely the perception a bunch of guys who will grab guns and jump in the back of a pickup have. "FEMA screwed up Katrina and we arent going to let them do it to us!"
That's quite the picture, but there's no snow in NC right now. Also, as crazy as this is, FEMA has a little bit of a reputation that has contributed to this.
What have they done to contribute to this?
I think I see the source of your confusion and I can help to clear it up!
See, you start with the conclusion “the government is bad because my pastor told me so and I can’t think for myself” and then you work backwards from there. The justifications don’t have to make any sense because you already started from the conclusion.
Hope this helps.
I mean Katrina was pretty much a balls-up by everyone involved and
Not saying FEMA was negligent it just showed how woefully under prepared for an actual huge crisis they were. (I believe they did try their best) these idiots just remember FEMA not immediately solving all the problems and arent letting FEMA do it to them! Thats why they probably feel (wrongly) justified.
*Edited for clarity. *