Nearly three years after authorities foiled a bizarre plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the last defendants accused of taking part go on trial Monday.

Eric Molitor and brothers William Null and Michael Null were among 14 men, described by prosecutors as anti-government extremists, charged in the scheme weeks before the November 2020 election. They were angered by Whitmer’s COVID-19 policies, which shut down schools and restricted the economy, investigators said in court filings.

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          Funding is not a defensible position.

          “Hey we’re gonna go do some illegal shit, wanna join? We just need more people.”

          If they go out to do it, they committed a crime.

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            I’m not a lawyer, but it’s plenty sus that the FBI does shit like this.

            ‘Infiltrate’ a group of people and then invent some scheme, record people saying ‘yay that’s awesome!’ And then arresting everyone over a crime that the FBI themselves cooked up

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              Of the nine that have seen trial so far, seven have been found guilty by a jury of their peers.

              Actual lawyers and the justice system have not found what the FBI did to be entrapment, despite that attempted defense being used.

              That’s not to say the FBI doesn’t do any wrong - they have and probably will continue to do so - but these guys weren’t innocent victims caught up on overblown charges just playing pretend. They were plotting to do actual harm and the planning was serious enough that it was their own recruits who defected and informed. It wasn’t some FBI honeypot they all stumbled into.

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          Yes, every time people you agree with make you look bad, it’s always the feds.

          “Party of personal responsibility” has always been horseshit.

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      They’re so afraid of using that word

      If they were brown they would and people would nod along accepting it. These people are no different

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    When someone asks why the Trump indictments “took so long” point them to this.

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        Republicans: plot to kidnap and murder governor

        Your dumb ass: BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE

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        Outlawing conservatism is essentially outlawing liberalism because outlawing thought is absolutely tyranny.

        Conservatives are all wrong about pretty much everything pretty much all of the time, but a core aspect of liberalism is that they’re allowed to be wrong.

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        Lemmy users are even stupider than reddit users.

        It’s like they took the bottom 5% of the communists in reddit and moved them over here

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          Yeah, at least half the posts in memes aren’t even memes at all. Just cringe statements like a 13 year old newly communist edgelord would make.

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            Well look at that! Someone named “theyoyomaster” is calling people childish. 🤣

            With conservatives, every accusation is a confession!

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              I mean, I created my standard username when I was starting highschool and haven’t changed it. Considering at the time I was literally being paid to yo-yo, it stuck. If your never ending need to project is that strong and all you have to counter what I’m saying is literally attacking a username then go ahead. Maybe one day you’ll grow up enough to realize that shit like this never convinces 3rd parties of your views.