Thursday, May 6, 2010

Epic Jail Break Fail Break Fail

I keep saying that we need to take the threat that wingers, birthers, and tenthers represent seriously.  now, as far as the wingers, borthers, and tenthers themselves....that's different.
Right-wing extremists who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency tried to take on local law enforcement recently -- and they seem to have come out on the losing end.

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), a group of self-declared constitutional experts that 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 citizen's arrest.


And it all basically fell apart from there.  A member of the Oath Keepers named Darren Huff  then goes to rescue his buddy from Obama's fascist mind control camps the country lockup.  The state police did not take kindly to Huff bringing his AK-47 to the courthouse, and took his weapons.  Huff then is allowed through to the courthouse, and nothing happened.

Until Huff the next day goes on a radio show to recount his idiotic lecture to the staties, which the FBI hears, and then arrests Huff for incitement of violence.

EPIC FAIL.

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