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Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

The Kansas Militia Plot Shows That We Have Good Reason to Be Worried About Election Violence

Author:     Joshua Keating
Source:     Slate
Publication Date:     Oct. 17 2016 2:56 PM
 Link: The Kansas Militia Plot Shows That We Have Good Reason to Be Worried About Election Violence
Stephan:   Donald Trump true to form never accepts responsibility for anything that isn't a success, so losing the election can't be his fault; thus the election must be rigged. This agitation is not without consequences. According to the last poll I saw 41% of Americans now think the election may be rigged, and it goes up to 73% when only Republicans are considered. In a democracy if the process of polling is not trusted then democracy is doomed. Even worse thinking the election is rigged is a precursor to civil violence. Here's what I mean.

As Donald Trump and his supporters ramp up their allegations that the U.S. presidential election will be rigged, an arrest in Kansas last week offers some disturbing evidence that fears about post-election violence and unrest may be warranted.

Curtis Wayne Allen, Patrick Eugene Stein, and Gavin Wayne Wright, members of a small militia group calling itself “the Crusaders,” were arrested on Friday and charged with plotting to bomb an apartment complex in Garden City, Kansas. That complex is home to a large number of Somali immigrants—most of them employees at a local meatpacking plant—with one apartment being used as a mosque. The men had been surveilling the building but weren’t too subtle about it: According to the criminal complaint:

STEIN at various times yelled at Somali women dressed in traditional garb, calling them “fucking raghead bitches.”

The men were allegedly planning to use bombs similar to those used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City attack, and the attack was planned for Nov. 9, the day after the election. According to the complaint, the men had hoped their terrorist action would “wake up” […]

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1 Comment

  1. Steven K Hovland on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 6:44 am

    During the years I’ve lived in San Francisco boxes of uncounted ballots have been found floating in the Bay. Some voting machines are programmed in MS Access. I’ve worked with that application for decades and it would be very easy to program them to give a fraction of a vote to some favored candidate. If people don’t trust the election system it’s because they think they have reasons not to, and it’s not just Trump saying elections are rigged. One obvious form of rigging is the exclusion of 3rd party candidates from the debates.