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Feds charge 3 men accused of prepping for martial law
AP News ^ | 08/03/15

Posted on 08/03/2015 3:34:26 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Three North Carolina men fearing a government takeover and martial law stockpiled weapons, ammunition and tactical gear while attempting to rig home-made explosives, according to charges announced by the Justice Department on Monday.

The men from Gaston County, near Charlotte, were arrested by federal authorities on Saturday after more than a month's investigation.

Walter Eugene Litteral, 50, Christopher James Barker, 41, and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30, are accused of stockpiling guns and ammunition, as well as attempting to manufacture pipe bombs and live grenades from military surplus "dummy" grenades, according to the statement by Acting U.S. District Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose and FBI Special Agent in Charge John Strong.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; fbi; martiallaw; prepping
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To: MHGinTN

“I’m selling off my tools this weekend at a local gunshow...”

Hmmm, sounds like you are getting ready for the Rapture? :)


41 posted on 08/03/2015 6:28:15 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Yep. Some folks are gonna need good tools to survive what follows the departure.


42 posted on 08/03/2015 6:32:18 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: grumpygresh

No guns here, sir (tragic boating accident)


43 posted on 08/03/2015 6:35:06 PM PDT by research99
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To: SgtHooper

“Only if you fall in the category of mentally deficient. Which, btw is coming to people like us so that can seize what we have.”
yes this is the mental illness scam (loop hole). Believing in Jesus means your mentally ill. no guns for you.


44 posted on 08/03/2015 6:37:22 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: SgtHooper

“Only if you fall in the category of mentally deficient. Which, btw is coming to people like us so that can seize what we have.”
yes this is the mental illness scam (loop hole). Believing in Jesus means your mentally ill. no guns for you.


45 posted on 08/03/2015 6:39:40 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: tumblindice; dfwgator
What's the second rule?Cant recall that, but the 10th rule is, "Have a good time!"
46 posted on 08/03/2015 6:46:56 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: research99

My first thought was that these dumbasses had no OPSEC.

“OPSEC? OPSEC?”

“WE DOAN’ NEED NO STEENKEN OPSEC!”

Prep quietly, folks. Prep quietly!

And, don’t get hooked up with someone who has had his/her 2A restricted due to legal difficulties!


47 posted on 08/03/2015 7:10:33 PM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: research99

Is it against the law to own .338 Lapua ammo?


48 posted on 08/03/2015 7:49:41 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: research99

The Feds nabbed a guy for manufacturing explosives in his garage in Maryland several years ago. He actually WAS making fireworks, but they convicted him anyway.


49 posted on 08/03/2015 7:50:08 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: research99

what about those muslim training camps? Don’t they have stockpiles?


50 posted on 08/03/2015 8:01:47 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: grumpygresh

...background check.

Yep.


51 posted on 08/03/2015 8:04:06 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: research99

I would bet just about any amount of money that the majority of “work” done on explosives was performed by someone being paid by the government.


52 posted on 08/03/2015 8:12:06 PM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: LouAvul

It depends on the sort of struggle one expects to have.
Going by now-classic guerrilla strategy, the first target of the guerrilla aren’t policemen and soldiers, but the enemy civilians and officials. Then one controls the people.
Stages beyond that are a little difficult to plan and stockpile for. No point worrying about stage 2 until stage 1 is implemented.


53 posted on 08/03/2015 8:12:57 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Because the concept and knack on how to do so will magically appear in your brain?

And it is much better to do it later when there are no emergency rooms around to help in case of an "oops!"

No. Because you'll be taking the real thing from ferals, if you live.

54 posted on 08/03/2015 8:14:15 PM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: nomad

It is according as to who owns the firearms and ammo. Black Panther Party members and muslims are o.k. Others, not so much.


55 posted on 08/03/2015 8:44:03 PM PDT by sport
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To: Kartographer

It seems to me the way to discourage people prepping for martial law is to not take people prepping for martial law seriously (unless a crazy person who claims to be prepping for martial law commits a violent crime, in which case, they should be tried for the violent crime, not the prepping).

The way to suggest that the people prepping for martial law have legitimate concerns is to arrest and charge them.


56 posted on 08/03/2015 8:53:56 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Jeff Chandler
It does if you're making straw man purchases...

like Eric Holder?

57 posted on 08/03/2015 10:18:39 PM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: SamuraiScot
When it’s illegal to prepare for martial law—prepare for martial law.

Simple, to the point, and worth repeating.

58 posted on 08/04/2015 4:09:20 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Nostradamus had nothing on George Orwell.)
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To: tumblindice; dfwgator; Kartographer; Marcella; M Kehoe; sport

First Rule of Prep Club: you do not talk about Prep Club.

Second Rule of Prep Club: you DO NOT talk about Prep Club.

Third Rule of Prep Club: If someone says SHTF, do a shot.

Fourth Rule of Prep Club: No more than two people to a retreat; one of them must be a buxom blonde co-ed for repopulating the species.

Fifth Rule of Prep Club: No tie-dye shirts, no socks with sandals, no Birkenstocks, no hipsters.

Sixth Rule of Prep Club: Prepping will go on as long as it has to.

Seventh Rule of Prep Club: Only one BOL at a time.

Eighth Rule of Prep Club: If this is your first time to Prep Club, you HAVE to buy all other preppers a shot.


59 posted on 08/04/2015 4:19:43 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Jeff Chandler; Kartographer

“Prepping becomes more criminalized.”
“It does if you’re making straw man purchases for felons or manufacturing explosives.”

Yes, the headline is misleading. Both committed criminal acts, one already being a felon and the other helping the felon get a gun and both manufacturing home made bombs.

No where did it say how many prepping bags of rice and beans and coffee they had so I presume their “preps” were only guns/illegal gun/ammo/illegal mass destruction explosives.

I prep because Homeland Security and FEMA told me it was a good thing to be prepared for an emergency. Thank goodness the federal government tells me what to do and I do it. s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s


60 posted on 08/04/2015 4:34:47 AM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ ; Prepping can save your life today.)
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