Oh my!

The sheriff interviewed for this story, who *knows* the Michigan would-be terrorists & assassins, is Sheriff Dar Leaf, who just happens to be in the anti-government organization CSPOA, and believes his authority supersedes state & federal gov. https://cspoa.org/cspoa-2019-liberty-conference-report/ https://twitter.com/rossjonesWXYZ/status/1314581815815004160
Since becoming president, Trump has appeared in public *numerous times* with CSPOA sheriffs. That means there are *only 2 degrees of separation* between the Trump Administration and a terrorist plot to kidnap a sitting governor, kill multiple police, and trigger a race war.
4) In the video of the interview, at about 1:00, you can see William Null, one of men accused of the terrorist plot, standing alongside CSPOA sheriff Dar Leaf at a May 2020 rally against Gretchen Whitmer's "stay at home" order in response to #COVID19. In the interview...
5)..sheriff Leaf actually suggests that although kidnapping governor Whitmer might have been a felony, conducting a citizen's arrest of her *might have been justifiable*. This is consistent with the radical anti-government ideology of the CSPOA, who co-founder Richard Mack...
6)..once billed his group as "the army to set our nation free" (see: https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/the-army-to-set-our-nation-free/).

Sheriff Dar Leaf seems so sympathetic to the alleged terrorism & kidnap plotters, I have to wonder how well he knows the two Null brothers. He says he's never had lunch with them...
7)..according to the FOX 17 news segment on Leaf & the Nulls. I've written quite a bit on Twitter about the CSPOA and how they might fit into a scheme for American fascism. Here's one of my most popular threads: https://twitter.com/brucewilson/status/1217798704780005376
8) Now, anyone who's followed me for any length of time might be familiar with my 2016 story on Donald Trump's early 2016 meeting with race-war novelist, far-right strategist, & military theorist William S. Lind, who helped create the idea of putting militias under control of...
10) Anyway, I can't speak to the particulars of sheriff leaf & the Null brothers beyond that. But it will be interesting to see what emerges.

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11) Also: I have to wonder did the Null brothers think they were in sheriff Dar Leaf's "posse"? Leaf's CSPOA already has a history of creating renegade sheriff/militia hybrids. I mention a few of those in my story on Trump & Lind. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, co-founder of the CSPOA...
12)..had a "posse" of, literally, thousands of men - some of whom were convicted criminals (see Trump/Lind story).

That's the problem with the CSPOA logic - it can give rise to what are essentially private armies, under sheriffs who believe they are the ultimate authorities...
13)..in their respective counties. Also, a number of CSPOA sheriffs have been accused of especially egregious human rights offenses against inmates under their care.
14) One last thing - the FBI raided Dar Leaf's sheriffs office in 2014 and seized computers, but offered no public explanation why. I haven't yet found out how that resolved, if it indeed did.
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