Ex-militia blogger behind Fast And Furious scandal predicts armed insurrection over SC's ACA ruling

[highplainsdem]

From Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201206280021

Ex-Militia Blogger Who Spawned Fast And Furious Scandal Predicts Armed Insurrection Over Health Care Decision

June 28, 2012 4:52 pm ET by Matt Gertz

Mike Vanderboegh, the ex-militia blogger who calls himself one of the "midwives" of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, recently predicted that if the Supreme Court declared the health care reform bill to be constitutional, it would lead to violent insurrection against "government tyranny."

The blogger posted the statements, which come from a recent unpublished interview, the same day the House of Representatives voted to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over his unwillingness to release documents related to Fast and Furious.

In the excerpts Vanderboegh posted on his blog "which deal with the decision today," he says of a then-potential decision upholding the health care law, "You may call tyranny a mandate or you may call it a tax, but it still is tyranny and invites the same response." He further predicts the response of his ilk: "If we refuse to obey, we will be fined. If we refuse to pay the fine, we will in time be jailed. If we refuse to report meekly to jail, we will be sent for by armed men. And if we refuse their violent invitation at the doorsteps of our own homes we will be killed -- unless we kill them first. ... I am on record as advocating the right of defensive violence against a tyrannical regime."

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Vanderboegh was one of the first to break the story that ATF whistleblowers said that they had been ordered to knowingly allow gun trafficking suspects to take weapons across the border into Mexico. The operation was intended to allow law enforcement to identify other members of the trafficking network that for years has directed assault weapons into the hands of Mexican cartels, with the goal of bringing those cartels down. He has said that he and a fellow blogger were the "midwives of the scandal" who introduced the whistleblowers to congressional investigators. He has theorized that the operation was part of a secret plot against the Second Amendment directed from the highest levels of government.

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This lunatic has appeared as a commentator on Fox News in the past.

[abelenkpe]

1. "I am on record as advocating the right of defensive violence against a tyrannical regime.."

Health care is tyranny?

This guy is an idiot. And FOX gives him air time?

But I thought the right never incites violence?

[librechik]

2. yeah, but who will pay for their healthcare? They're all on Medicare or Medicaid.

idjits!

[Teamster Jeff]

3. Fantasy Land

But I kinda liked the "we will be sent for by armed men" part.

[99Forever]

4. Another tough talking rightie badass...

.. till he's face to face with how fast and furiously his ass would be planted if he actually tried to back his false bravado with action. Maybe he can get "the nuge" to back him up.

[sufrommich]

5. "This lunatic has appeared as a commentator on Fox News in the past."

Then he should be referred to as a Fox News contributor from now on.

[frylock]

6. this guy isn't too far from eating his own feces

[jmowreader]

7. Mike, read the PATRIOT Act and get back to me

Apparently giving the government the right to throw you in Gitmo for life without trial or the opportunity to face your accusers if they just call you a terrorist IS NOT tyranny, but being told you have to buy a health insurance policy you were probably already buying IS tyranny.

They need to legalize bastinado for people like this.

[Dawson Leery]

8. These are the SAME hardliners/skinheads who told us to sit down and shut up

when the USSC handed the 2000 election to their good ole boy, shrub.
Forbid a Romney "win" in November, these same survivalist/skinheads will be he greatest cheerleaders.

[Canuckistanian]

9. This was the "break their windows" guy

He called for "patriots" to break the windows of Democratic representatives' offices after the passing of ACA.

Some took him up on the suggestion.

Vanderboegh posted the call for action Friday on his blog, “Sipsey Street Irregulars.” Referring to the health care reform bill as “Nancy Pelosi’s Intolerable Act,” he told followers to send a message to Democrats.

“We can break their windows,” he said. “Break them NOW. And if we do a proper job, if we break the windows of hundreds, thousands, of Democrat party headquarters across this country, we might just wake up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary.”

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/03/23/coordinated-anti-democratic-vandalism-in-at-least-3-states/