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Both weird and chilling. It seems the couple who killed the police officers in Las Vegas yesterday and the “sovereign citizen” guy who tried to storm a courthouse in Cumming, Georgia on Friday had the same plan: to take over a courthouse and start executing public officials or (possibly in the Georgia case) holding them hostage.
The crooked bargain, in which Virginia State Sen. David Puckett (D) resigned in order to block Medicaid expansion allegedly in return for a state job and a judgeship for his daughter, seems to have fallen through. Medicaid’s toast. But everyone seems to be running for the hills. Puckett now says he doesn’t want the job. And the job doesn’t seem to want him either.
The level of apparent corruption here is as comic as it tragic for the Virginians who are now robbed of health care coverage.
Initial reports out of yesterday’s police ambush in Las Vegas suggested that the alleged perpetrators – now identified as Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda Miller – were neo-nazis and/or white supremacists. But Sheriff’s Department officials now believe that the couple placed a swastika on one gunned down police officer’s body because they believed police were part of Nazi-like oppression.
Pro-Bundy, extreme pro-gun, anti-government, filled with conspiracies about rising totalitarianism in America, symbol of extreme fringes of the Tea Party movement. The whole enchilada. Meet the couple that allegedly ambushed those police officers yesterday in Las Vegas.
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One minute you’re encouraging armed extremists to menace law enforcement officials with firearms, next you’re hearing that one of them ambushed and killed a couple cops on break eating a pizza. How could such a thing happen?
George Will laments that focus on rape has led to victimhood becoming a “coveted status.”
The latest on the two suspects in that policy ambush yesterday in Las Vegas. They allegedly bragged about being part of the Bundy Ranch stand off. This comes after police reportedly found white supremacist paraphernalia among their belongings and they draped the murdered officers in Gadsden flags, a Revolutionary War era flag recently adopted as a symbol of the Tea Party.
As the ambush began one of the assailants allegedly yelled “this is the start of a revolution.”
Virginia Dem reportedly agrees to block Medicaid expansion in Virginia in exchange for a job for himself and his daughter.