The involvement of Police and military personnel is not unexpected, but still rather horrifying.

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According to article, this militia is so powerful you can stay in leader’s house and go through his files while he is asleep, because the leader of such a powerful group would keep a filing cabinet at his house with all sorts of incriminating records.

Only someone smart enough to climb the ranks over many years could pull this off.

This is the single most important news event of the century. Certainly a book and movie will soon follow. Hopefully if there is still a representative government after the midterms, we can have public hearings before the Senate broadcast on all the networks as we root out these treasonous thugs.

This article could do with an serious edit; it seems to be an odd mix of actual information, imagined colour and emotion to the point where it is a little difficult to follow and hard to work out the credibility of any individual assertion. I get the strong impression here that Williams is a bit paranoid and spent a lot of time fearing for his skin in the company of people who thought we was a good mate and would probably just kick him out of the club if they figured out he was conspiring against them. I thought this passage summed the vibe up best:

> They spotted the dog at the same time. The bug was attached to a charging device. The animal was running around with it like it was a tennis ball. As Kinch went to retrieve it, Williams felt panic grip his chest. Could anyone talk their way out of this? He’d learned enough about Kinch to be terrified of his rage. Looking around, Williams eyed his host’s handgun on the kitchen counter.

> If he even starts to examine it, I’ll grab the gun, [Williams] thought. Then I’ll shoot him and flee into the woods.

> Kinch took the bug from the dog’s mouth. Then he handed it right to Williams and started to apologize.