On Thursday, law enforcement authorities announced a foiled a plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The terror plot involved months of planning including a rehearsed kidnapping to grab the Michigan governor from her vacation home. The kidnapping was thwarted with the help of undercover agents and informants.
- The plot aimed at curtailing Governor Whitmer’s “uncontrolled power,” calling her a “tyrant.”
- The Michigan plot was a network, not a cell or a couple of random extremists.
- The militia hoped to spark an armed revolution against the government to “create a society that followed the U.S. Bill of Rights.”
- The Boogaloo movement and anarchists were brought together in the Michigan terror plot likely by an overlap in today’s political landscape, which is painted by revolutionary, inflammatory rhetoric.
- Forecasting the War of Extremes