"Resisting Tyranny", Domestic Terrorism or Treason?

As Ed Kilgore puts it in a piece this morning:

As Brother Benen notes this morning, the National Rifle Association’s new president, James Porter of Birmingham, Alabama, likes to talk about the importance of the Second Amendment as a way to ensure the American people will be able to “resist tyranny”—i.e., shoot and kill law enforcement officers, members of the U.S. armed services, and presumably anyone else (you know, like their neighbors) who might disagree with their definition of their essential “liberties”—at some undefined point in the future.

Am I perhaps being unfair to these people in suggesting that they are behaving like America-haters and are flirting with treason? I don’t think so

Extremist right-wing talk show radio hosts

Extremist right-wing NRA gun enthusiasts

Inciting American people to “resist tyranny”—

Inciting unstable, easily manipulated American people to “resist tyranny”—

Inciting unstable, easily manipulated American people to “resist tyranny”—

          By killing law enforcement

          By killing members of the military

          By killing their neighbors

In my Minnesota backyard

From Raw Story

“‘Bucky’ Rogers, MN man allegedly working on terror plot, formed group w/ anti-govt tendencies called ‘Black Snake Militia’ per Montevideo PD,” ABC News producer Matthew Jaffe reported.

“‘Bucky’ Rogers - - -‘Black Snake Militia’

   In his own words

Rogers had multiple Facebook sites that expressed his anti-government views, one of which was under another name, sources said.

Photos in his Facebook account show him with various firearms, along with several people with guns and wearing clown makeup. There were also more postings such as: “ever one better get your guns ready cuz there comeing FEMA” and “The war is here tsa agents are doing random cheeks and shooting people for no reson.”

Several postings on Rogers’ Facebook page from June 15, 2011, express his apparent irritation: “The NWO [New World Order] has taken all your freedoms the right to bear arms freedom of speach freedom of the press …” read one profanity-punctuated message.

And he has an illustrious background

Rogers, now 24, was convicted of a felony charge of burglary in the third degree for his involvement in the April 2011 theft of guns and tools from a Dawson garage and a laptop computer from a truck parked outside.

Rogers was also convicted in Hennepin County of a petty misdemeanor in 2009 on a charge of reckless handling or use of a dangerous weapon

And he was definitely planning something

After Rogers was arrested, authorities searched his father’s trailer home on the north edge of Montevideo and found more than a dozen bombs inside a shed. Some of the explosives were described by authorities as being sophisticated pipe bombs and others that are the type packed with nails and other kinds of shrapnel.

Other bombs found in the shed were considered unstable, and a federal SWAT team that included bomb-demolition specialists removed the explosives and later detonated them, sources said

And what was “Mr. Rogers” planning?

Federal authorities learned Rogers allegedly talked about wanting to bomb the Montevideo Police Department.

Extremist right-wing talk show radio hosts

Extremist right-wing NRA gun enthusiasts

Inciting American people to “resist tyranny”—

Inciting unstable, easily manipulated American people to “resist tyranny”—

Inciting unstable, easily manipulated American people to “resist tyranny”—

          By killing law enforcement

          By killing members of the military

          By killing their neighbors