XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 5/18/22 4:48 AM, buh buh biden wrote:   
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   > ears before law enforcement seized the contents of Ian Rogers’ safe, he   
   > earned a reputation as a talented mechanic and successful Napa Valley   
   > business owner. Rogers catered to an elite clientele of Jaguar, Land Rover   
   > and Rolls-Royce owners inside a garage off Napa’s main drag, a street   
   > spotted with boutiques and high-end bed and breakfasts.   
   >   
   > The 47-year-old from Sonoma County, who appeared to have a passion for   
   > guns, according to Facebook posts where he dissed prominent Democrats, was   
   > also a loving husband and father who paid his bills on time, according to   
   > his family and friends.   
   >   
   > In the fall of 2020, in the weeks after Joe Biden was declared the next   
   > president of the United States, Rogers sent an ominous text to someone he   
   > trusted, according to court records.   
   >   
   > “Ok bro we need to hit the enemy in the mouth,” he messaged.   
   >   
   > “Yeah so we punch Soros,” Rogers’ former employee and gym buddy, Jarrod   
   > Copeland, texted back, referring to billionaire investor George Soros.   
   >   
   > Copeland, a Kentucky native, had been a mechanic at Rogers’ shop nearly a   
   > decade earlier.   
   >   
   > “I think right now we attack democrats. They’re offices etc. Molotov   
   > cocktails and gasoline,” Rogers continued.   
   >   
   > Copeland replied, “We need more people bro. Gonna be hard.”   
   >   
   > The day after Thanksgiving, the chatter kindled a plan. Text messages   
   > contained in court records show the two men agreed to burn down the   
   > headquarters of the California Democratic Party in Sacramento, a building   
   > diagonal to the California Highway Patrol office tasked with protecting   
   > state lawmakers and daily visitors to the Capitol. Also nearby: a youth   
   > center, a gym and a popular bookstore.   
   >   
   > Rogers: sent link to the address of the California Democratic Party   
   > office…   
   > Copeland: Right next to CHP   
   > Copeland: gotta be cautious   
   > Rogers: Only takes 3 minutes   
   > Rogers: Take a brick break a window pour gas in and light   
   >   
   > The two men texted that they hoped hitting that particular target would   
   > send a message and ignite a movement. They viewed themselves as action-   
   > film heroes, referencing “The Expendables,” a popular movie franchise.   
   >   
   > Rogers: Scare the whole country   
   > Rogers: Can you imagine cnn covering this haha !   
   > Rogers: I’ll leave a envelope with our demands and intentions   
   > Rogers: Basically saying we declare war on the Democratic Party and all   
   > traitors to the republic.   
   > Copeland: That’s some expendables stuff.   
   > Rogers: We need to send a message   
   > Copeland: Yep I agree   
   > Rogers: Start a movement   
   >   
   > On Jan. 8, 2021, the two acknowledged they might die carrying out their   
   > plan. Rogers asked Copeland if he was ready to leave his wife.   
   >   
   > Rogers: What I’m talking about we probably will die unfortunately   
   > Copeland: She was crying yesterday and said to me “please don’t leave me   
   I   
   > don’t know what to do without you” she was rubbing my back while I was   
   > watching...   
   > Copeland: She knows how i run and she knows I will put myself in harms way   
   > for what I believe in   
   >   
   > It never came to that.   
   >   
   > Rogers and Copeland were arrested in January and July of 2021,   
   > respectively, according to court records.   
   >   
   > The two are charged in federal court with conspiracy to destroy by fire or   
   > explosive a building used in interstate commerce, with Copeland facing an   
   > additional charge of destruction of records in official proceedings for   
   > allegedly destroying evidence of his communication with Rogers.   
   >   
   > The Napa County District Attorney’s Office also is prosecuting Rogers, for   
   > 28 felony counts over the numerous pipe bombs, and unregistered assault   
   > rifles authorities allegedly discovered inside his business, home and RV.   
   > He is also being charged with converting firearms into machine guns.   
   >   
   > If the case goes to trial, Rogers faces a statutory maximum of 45 years in   
   > prison. Copeland faces a statutory maximum of 25 years, if convicted on   
   > all charges.   
   >   
   > Their attorneys have been negotiating plea bargains over their alleged   
   > involvement for months.   
   >   
   > Copeland has entered a no-contest plea and is awaiting sentencing, his   
   > attorney, John Ambrosio, said.   
   >   
   > “He’s going to pay his debt and he’s taken responsibility,” Ambrosio   
   > added. “And we’re just waiting to see exactly what his punishment is   
   going   
   > to be.”   
   >   
   > Part of a surge in domestic extremism   
   > Rogers and Copeland’s case is part of a surge in violent extremist   
   > activity the FBI is investigating in Northern California and throughout   
   > the nation.   
   >   
   > Federal law defines domestic terrorism as “acts dangerous to human life”   
   > that violate state or federal criminal law, and appear to be an attempt to   
   > “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or   
   > “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or   
   > kidnapping.”   
   >   
   > Since the spring of 2020, the number of FBI investigations of suspected   
   > domestic extremists has more than doubled, according to the U.S.   
   > Department of Justice.   
   >   
   > And just over a year after hundreds of people stormed the United States   
   > Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of the   
   > presidential election, the DOJ announced it was creating a special unit to   
   > address “the threat posed by domestic extremism.”   
   >   
   > The Justice Department arrested and charged more than 725 people for their   
   > alleged involvement in the insurrection. KQED found that at least 40 were   
   > from California, including Evan Neumann, a Mill Valley resident charged   
   > with 14 counts, including assaulting Capitol police. Neumann fled to   
   > Europe, crossing through prewar Ukraine and successfully claiming asylum   
   > in Belarus, according to The Washington Post.   
   >   
   > In February, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base allegedly aligned with   
   > boogaloo adherents in Turlock, part of a loose-knit anti-government group   
   > trying to ignite a civil war, entered a guilty plea for gunning down a   
   > federal officer in Oakland during a 2020 protest over police violence.   
   > He's also accused of murdering a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy a week   
   > later.   
   >   
   > And just last month, an Orange County man was arrested for allegedly   
   > threatening to bomb the headquarters of Merriam-Webster, the dictionary   
   > publisher, because he was upset by the company’s definition of   
   “female.”   
   > According to The Washington Post, the man has allegedly been sending   
      
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