{"id":27296,"date":"2011-11-02T06:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T10:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27296"},"modified":"2011-11-02T06:32:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T10:32:24","slug":"geezer-terrorists-thwarted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27296","title":{"rendered":"Geezer terrorists thwarted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four men, in their 60s and 70s were arrested yesterday when federal agents busted them for plotting against government facilities and employees. AT least one of them is a Navy veteran, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/11\/01\/4-suspected-us-militia-members-charged-in-plot\/\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The four listed in the indictment are Frederick Thomas, 73; Dan Roberts, 67; Ray Adams, 65; and Samuel Crump, 68. The men live in the north Georgia towns of Cleveland and Toccoa.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been to war, and I&#8217;ve taken life before, and I can do it again,&#8221; [Frederick Thomas] told an undercover investigator, according to the records.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217; wife, Charlotte, called the charges &#8220;baloney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He spent 30 years in the U.S. Navy. He would not do anything against his country,&#8221; she said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I call them &#8220;geezers&#8221; fully understanding that I&#8217;m only a few years behind them in age, so you other geezers don&#8217;t get your panties in a wad. Of course, we know that Mark Potok and the SPLC will use this as an opportunity to tell us that they told us so &#8211; that veterans and the right wing are plotting terrorism against the government.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They have been talking about &#8220;covert&#8221; operations since at least March 2011, according to court records, discussing murder, theft and using toxic agents and assassinations to undermine the state and federal government.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Four crotchety old braggarts in the mountains of Georgia do not a movement make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men, in their 60s and 70s were arrested yesterday when federal agents busted them for &hellip; <a title=\"Geezer terrorists thwarted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27296\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geezer terrorists thwarted<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}