The more ‘Boogaloo’ activists at Michigan rally spoke, the more ominous-sounding they became
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Just over a week after 13 militiamen were arrested in Michigan by state and federal authorities for plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a collection of heavily armed “Boogaloo” civil-war activists gathered on the steps of the state Capitol in LansinThe more ‘Boogaloo’ activists at Michigan rally spoke, the more ominous-sounding they became
Just over a week after 13 militiamen were arrested in Michigan by state and federal authorities for plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a collection of heavily armed “Boogaloo” civil-war activists gathered on the steps of the state Capitol in Lansing in what was simultaneously a kind of public-relations effort and a gesture of antigovernment defiance. On the one hand, the Saturday rally seemed an attempt to persuade the public and the media that the “Boogaloo” movement participants are just ordinary citizens eager for dialogue, so that “hopefully we can get some positive light shone on what we’re trying to do here,” as one of the organizers told the crowd. But other speakers undermined that message by warning angrily that they are prepared to respond violently to “tyranny” by the government or police: “The wood chipper’s revved up!” threatened one. Read more