Chock it up as another instance in the growing list of crazies spurred to craziness by Right-Wing media crazies.
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As reported by Saturday's NY Post, "a Long Island mother of three -- armed to the teeth with an assault rifle and shotgun -- was arrested for scouting out and taking pictures of an Air National Guard base."
Her arsenal included an XM-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and 500 rounds of ammunition.
The woman, Nancy Genovese, had been seen at the base a few weeks earlier, taking photos and questioning the guards. This time she had returned to take photos of the perimeter of the base. It's not difficult to make the connection that she was paranoid about "FEMA Camps".
Genovese is a Glenn Beck fan, according to her MySpace page (archived here). "He is mad as hell and so are we. He is right and so are we", writes Genovese, who also posted a video of a Glenn Beck rant.
Genovese additionally posted an amateur video indicating her apparent affinity for right-wing militia movements.
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Update #1: As posted below by davidkc, a nugget in the NY Post article is that "Genovese [was] held for a psychiatric examination after she went berserk in the courtroom."
Update #2: Genovese's Twitter page makes it clear she's a Tea Bagger.
Update #3: For those questioning the "FEMA Camp" connection, use your browser's search function to search Genovese's MySpace page. You'll find multiple references where she acts out her paranoia.
Update #4: The Westhampton News adds a few details. Photo below is of Genovese and the weapons and ammo police say they found in her possession.
It looks like the right wing crazies of the Clinton era are back in full force, and the loners that have been suckling on very limited news sources are becoming dangerously paranoid. Also, these fucking people make buying carbine ammunition a bitch when all the crazies are sucking up in bulk, but that's another issue.
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What is it with the obsession with FEMA, anyway? Where did that come from?
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Payback for Katrina, maybe? Perhaps these idiots believe that Obama will direct FEMA against wholesome, upstanding White Americans because them uppity darkies want to stick it to the Man. Unless this FEMA nonsense happened in the Clinton era too; I wasn't politically aware enough back then to say.
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Uraniun235 wrote:What is it with the obsession with FEMA, anyway? Where did that come from?
FEMA represented to the conspiracist's mind the naughty back door for martial law that normal "sheep" wouldn't notice. You have a nice little natural disaster or something and FEMA can step in and suspend all sorts of things, bring in the national guard, take your guns, rape your pets, enslave your children and the like.
What fueled a lot of it was in the early 2000's there were pictures circulating of closed military facilities that were used as staging areas for drills and the like and certain folks made the leap to FEMA is ready to put your asses in camps NAZI style if you make to much of a fuss and don't give up your brown bess.
I know, because I used to be one of these jackasses in high school....I was bored a lot...
Uraniun235 wrote:What is it with the obsession with FEMA, anyway? Where did that come from?
FEMA represented to the conspiracist's mind the naughty back door for martial law that normal "sheep" wouldn't notice. You have a nice little natural disaster or something and FEMA can step in and suspend all sorts of things, bring in the national guard, take your guns, rape your pets, enslave your children and the like.
What fueled a lot of it was in the early 2000's there were pictures circulating of closed military facilities that were used as staging areas for drills and the like and certain folks made the leap to FEMA is ready to put your asses in camps NAZI style if you make to much of a fuss and don't give up your brown bess.
I know, because I used to be one of these jackasses in high school....I was bored a lot...
Then DHS came along and they all shit themselves.
The FEMA nonsense goes back to the days of Reagan and G.H.W. Bush, apparently because there's some language in an EO somewhere about instituting martial law and empowering FEMA in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
Somehow the whackjobs make the mental leap from 'martial law after a nuclear war' to 'FEMA's building KZ's for gun owners'.
Shit, I consider myself somewhat defensive about gun rights even today as an Obama supporter, but even during my Peak Wingnut™ years as a card carrying NRA member who hated Bill Clinton, I thought the FEMA concentration camp guys were insane.
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For some more information on the FEMA nuttery, check Alex Jones's site sometimes and read the forums. They're frankly batshit, but amusing.
As it currently stands, they now think that the coming FEMApocalypse will be targeted at anyone who dissents, not just gun owners (basically, conservatives and conspiracy theorists and Christians) and will result in death, that FEMA is building huge numbers of plastic coffin liners and mass graves, and upgrading the camps with mass scale incinerators. They also think it'll be very soon.
They honestly don't see the dissonance in that last part, since if you have the scale of incinerator they're talking about you don't need coffin liners.
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That likely stems from WWII when the Nazis were murdering so many people in at least one of their camps that the furnaces just couldn't keep up. So obviously they'll need both when the Fascists sweep across and force Communism down everyone's throat.
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Heh, the FEMA camps and their secret coup masterplan were background subplots in Deus Ex.
Why do the private US citizens with guns, bombs, and the will to kill always get enraged by embryo abortion and other even more insignificant social issues? Or worse still, imaginary stuff like black UN helicopters. McVeigh was the "best" example of these types of nuts.
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Huh. Raises the issue of just what responsibility Beck, or any other rabblerouser who sparks some asshole to act out, bears for this.
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Uraniun235 wrote:What is it with the obsession with FEMA, anyway? Where did that come from?
FEMA represented to the conspiracist's mind the naughty back door for martial law that normal "sheep" wouldn't notice. You have a nice little natural disaster or something and FEMA can step in and suspend all sorts of things, bring in the national guard, take your guns, rape your pets, enslave your children and the like.
That's only just the beginning of it; a lot of these fuckheads believe HAARP is a weather-control project that would give FEMA their causus belli, as it were. I'm sure the Alex Jones forums must mention this... the tendency to assume that unstated "sources" support the science behind a claim like "HAARP is a weather-control weapon" is all but required to be a truther/conspiracy nut.
At the moment the 'big thing' for FEMA deathcamps is of course the swine flu. Which they think was genetically engineered. By the NWO. To kill 4 billion people.
Did I mention that when swine flu turned out way less deadly, they naturally went to the old nutjob standby of vaccines? Yeah. They reckon the Swine Flu is just a ploy to roll out 'DEADLY VACCINES' and kill or mentally retard 4 billion people, and slap anyone who resists in deathcamps.
I like my 'conspiracy nut' version better, where Swine Flu is deliberately benign and being released by Russia to actually stop the NWO from releasing a far deadlier plague, as it itself is the vaccine!
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The Spartan wrote:That likely stems from WWII when the Nazis were murdering so many people in at least one of their camps that the furnaces just couldn't keep up. So obviously they'll need both when the Fascists sweep across and force Communism down everyone's throat.
lol, the bitch is, most of the red states would still gladely cook jews and black people.
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But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
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ON TOPIC: Have we heard anything recently regarding this?
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BECK: If anyone thinks that it would be a good idea to turn violent, think again. It would destroy the Republic. They have awakened a sleeping giant. But just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for. Because these people in Washington won’t pass up the use of an emergency. Look how the media ran with the abortion doctor killing. They tried to pin that despicable act on Fox in general and specifically Bill O’Reilly and me. …I don’t want to ever hear from our own Americans, anyone voicing some sort of Muslim-extremist type justification.
Paranoid nonsense, but okay, he's trying to calm them.
Since then, of course, he's gone back to comparing the government to Nazis(I'm so old, I remember when comparing a President to Hitler caused a national fervor. Link).
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about gun rights even today as an Obama supporter, but even during my Peak Wingnut™ years as a card carrying NRA member who hated Bill Clinton, I thought the FEMA concentration camp guys were insane.
