North Carolina hurricane recovery team relocated amid threat of ‘armed militia

originally posted by: grey580
This is pretty sad. FEMA is there to help people with disaster relief. But they are getting threatened by some idiot that are believing all the nonsense going around.

www.wbtv.com...

The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man and charged him with going armed to the terror of the public after security threats prompted a pause in some FEMA operations around western North Carolina.

William Jacob Parsons, 44, from Bostic was arrested after dispatchers were told a white male holding an assault rifle and making comments about harming FEMA employees.

At this point this just feels like a misinformation campaign by some foreign government to make an already bad situation worse. Or by certain elements in our own government to make the current administration look bad. Probably both.

The news comes after FEMA workers across Hurricane Helene’s disaster zone in western North Carolina have been targeted with misinformation and rumors about the federal government’s recovery operations in the area.

Also seems like a lone perp.

In a press release, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said reports of militia units were unfounded and that Parsons is accused of acting alone.

Here's the thing, Ive been plugged into reports since early on

Ive heard more reports of suicides by persons who have lost everything,

This is the first time Ive heard gangs mentioned, which sounds bogus AH. #1 A gang of marauders would have to worry more about other Carolinians than FEMA.

In one western county, they had to put up guards because somebody stole a few cans of gasoline, but these weren't FEMA these were citizens working on a closed road IIRC. Ive heard reports of grumbling because FEMA workers would try and reach out and some would tell them to leave them alone. LOL in no uncertain terms.

It's like one mayor of a small town said we started organizing and by the time FEMA arrived 6 days later we were already in motion and gathering and distributing supplies and told them to find other communities to help. They probably got their feelings hurt.

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The North Carolina National Guard told CBS News in a statement on Monday that it had "no reports of our soldiers or airmen encountering any armed militia, any threats and any type of combatants. We are continuing to serve all those counties in need of our assistance."

If The DHS and FEMA think they're scared now, just wait till THIS ....... ! ! 🆘❗️

originally posted by: Athetos
No way! Not two whole trucks! It’s a literal battalion!


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😂🤣

So funny 👍 my take was Fonald Trump isn’t even in power and he has more influence over the disaster recovery than Biden/Harris combined 😂

a reply to: Irishhaf

Someone on this site used to say that they'd only shoot, Redcoats, Revenuers, and Republicans.

lol

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Irishhaf

Someone on this site used to say that they'd only shoot, Redcoats, Revenuers, and Republicans.

lol

originally posted by: grey580
This is pretty sad. FEMA is there to help people with disaster relief. But they are getting threatened by some idiot that are believing all the nonsense going around.

www.wbtv.com...

The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man and charged him with going armed to the terror of the public after security threats prompted a pause in some FEMA operations around western North Carolina.

William Jacob Parsons, 44, from Bostic was arrested after dispatchers were told a white male holding an assault rifle and making comments about harming FEMA employees.

At this point this just feels like a misinformation campaign by some foreign government to make an already bad situation worse. Or by certain elements in our own government to make the current administration look bad. Probably both.

The news comes after FEMA workers across Hurricane Helene’s disaster zone in western North Carolina have been targeted with misinformation and rumors about the federal government’s recovery operations in the area.

Also seems like a lone perp.

In a press release, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said reports of militia units were unfounded and that Parsons is accused of acting alone.

Sounds like there were a few loose cannons that were intimidating and threatening some FEMA personal. Yes, arrest those few people instead of blowing it up into a big deal. This is a propaganda campaign....these people are unhinged and there appears to be only a few of them so they need to get them off the streets before it attracts more unhinged people to the area instead of advertising it to make sure more of these unhinged people go there to cause chaos because they see fellow unhinged people in trouble.

Our government is so messed up right now.

Anonymous source, no photo, no video.

DIdn't happen.

If the folks in that area wanted to get rid of some fema, no one would know it until they found the remains after the bears were finished with them.

This story is a misunderstanding or just totally made up.

Them there city fema folk don't know what they are doing. Haven't a clue.

Darn white people is their fault that NC had a devastating Hurricane, did I say is also Trumps fault?

Can not have it both ways, Fema has been a failure so they need to blame it on somebody.

originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
If the folks in that area wanted to get rid of some fema, no one would know it until they found the remains after the bears were finished with them.

This story is a misunderstanding or just totally made up.

Them there city fema folk don't know what they are doing. Haven't a clue.

You are right about that. The hill people do what they need to do and I wouldn't want them looking at me as if I was a walking dead coming to eat them.

originally posted by: Ohanka
Anonymous source, no photo, no video.

DIdn't happen.

www.army.mil...
army.mil/article/151795/robin_sage_exercise_set

Military service members from units across Fort Bragg will also support the exercise. These military members act as realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters, also known as Pineland's resistance movement. These troops play a critical role in the training exercise.

To add realism of the exercise, civilian volunteers throughout the state act as role-players. Participation by these volunteers is crucial to the success of this training, and past trainees attest to the realism they add to the exercise.

The story fell apart pretty fast.
The media distributed the story without even basic fact checking. No doubt because they could spin it as Trump supporters.

Once the truth about the 'armed gangs of militia' came out, the media had large amounts of egg on their face.
Now they are backpedaling and retracting.

It was literally ONE GUY who went on an angry rant. He was arrested and released on bond.
No armed gangs, no attacks. Just one guy shooting off his mouth in the wrong place and wrong time.

Remember the old adage about a lie travels around the world before the truth can put on its shoes.

When FEMA started handing out electric chainsaws in an area where no one had power, I would be tempted to tar and feather a few FEMA people.
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This sounds like big city tree hugging folk at FEMA not understanding what people really need.
Just send the cheapest chainsaw you can find.

originally posted by: anned1
When FEMA started handing out electric chainsaws in an area where no one had power, I would be tempted to tar and feather a few FEMA people.
freerepublic.com...

This sounds like big city tree hugging folk at FEMA not understanding what people really need.
Just send the cheapest chainsaw you can find.

If they already have a generator running then why not. A battery electric chiainsaw is more powerful for the size than others.

I saw the safety test on YouTube. The kevlar chaps stop a 2 cycle chainsaw. A battery one of the same size bar went right through them. Safety is more of a problem with battery electric chainsaws if you don't know how strong they really are.

I have some small ones and they cut great.

Yup, total BS.

1 guy allegedly made a comment about possibly harming someone from FEMA.

Maybe don’t thrash supply depots with helicopters.

Maybe that.

So...was there a bag limit?

So, talk about COMPLETE AND UTTER BS STORY!!!!!!

Wow, So he was charged with this:
Parsons was charged with going armed to the terror of the public and released later that day on a $10,000 secured bond.

Found here

Read the story. Because if true, there is a whole lot of wrong here. No first amendment. No second amendment.
And spun to make them both (amendments) seem bad.

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It's the government. They went with the most expensive possible option from the farthest possible distributor. $5000 hammers anyone?