Suspected: Birther shoots two law enforcement officers [W:79, 167:196:216]

Cole was also a supporter of Operation Mutual Aid, a loose association of militia groups involved in the Cliven Bundy Ranch standoff. Some of the Facebook groups Cole belongs to include:

Chemtrails Action
Vladimir Putin Fan Club
HAARP
Chemtrails Global Skywatch
MoamerATRIX – NEO GODafi – Reloaded Revolutions

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Guy Who Allegedly Shot a BLM Agent and California Patrolman Is Exactly the Type You’d Imagine

Chez Pazienza on June 17, 2014

I’m not sure how this didn’t immediately hit the media bloodstream but apparently over the weekend there was a shooting in California, near the Nevada state line, that left a California Highway Patrolman and an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management injured. According to the Sacramento Bee the shooting happened at a campground, with the BLM agent calling for backup from the California Highway Patrol. Both law enforcement officers were reportedly shot but neither of their wounds is life-threatening. The shooter was also injured and is currently hospitalized.

Now, about that shooter. The Bee identifies him as 60-year-old Brent Douglas Cole. A quick check of social media activity for that name turns up what appear to be the Facebook and Twitter accounts belonging to the guy police say is their gunman. As Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs says, the Brent Douglas Cole revealed in these timelines is pretty much your average “Sovereign Citizen” kind of crazy: a guy who rants about the Zionists and the gun-grabbers, who supports groups like the Oath Keepers and “Chemtrails Sky Watch,” and who talks about how Americans need to “get off the fluoride.” Cole is currently awaiting a hearing on a state of California weapons charge against him, which he’s defending as an infringement of his constitutional rights. He maintains a separate online presence at “United Truth Seekers,” where he posts about the Illuminati and how 9/11 was an inside job.

Oh yeah, he’s also a birther.

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Moot said:

He's probably a Bircher, too.

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Moot said:

He's probably a Bircher, too.

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TurtleDude said:

yeah a Bircher would belong to a fan club of the head of the KGB

:roll:

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beefheart said:

Chemtrails....just like the two in Vegas.

Seriously crazy people attracted to the far right crowd like skeeters to a bug zapper.

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beefheart said:

Uh, I saw a whole lot of extreme conservatives at Free Republic gushing over Putin....you know...he hates the gayz too!

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TurtleDude said:

you must hang with some strange right wingers. the KGB is to libertarians as the klan was to the NAACP

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TurtleDude said:

yeah a Bircher would belong to a fan club of the head of the KGB

:roll:

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"......is pretty much your average “Sovereign Citizen” kind of crazy: a guy who rants about the Zionists and the gun-grabbers, who supports groups like the Oath Keepers and “Chemtrails Sky Watch,” and who talks about how Americans need to “get off the fluoride.”

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Moot said:

Huh? :roll:


Birchers preach against putting fluoride in the water......

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beefheart said:

In any shooting incident, the first question that comes to mind is: Is the suspect a birther? Evidence is mounting that he is a birther.

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year2late said:

Any change Orly Taitz was around?:roll:

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Thrilla said:

whomever has this question pop into their little heads the first thing after any shooting incident needs to be ignored... their brain is not functioning properly.

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CalGun said:

Probably an occupy Wall Street type like the two who killed the Las Vegas cops

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The man accused of shooting two law enforcement members in California, including a Bureau of Land Management ranger, has had at least one previous run-in with law enforcement and has described himself as the target of a massive government conspiracy.

Brent Douglas Cole, 60, was named by the Nevada County Sheriff's Office on Monday as the suspect in Saturday's shooting that also left him wounded.

Anna Ferguson, assistant district attorney for Nevada County, confirmed to TPM that Cole was also facing misdemeanor charges in Nevada County Superior Court for allegedly carrying a loaded firearm. He was charged on Jan. 26.

On Tuesday, the Union newspaper in Grass Valley, Calif., published an article that quoted from court documents in the case. The documents showed Cole believed he was the target of a massive conspiracy:

Officers acted without warrant or any probable cause to seize my person using a swat team style assault, and then started looking for something to charge me with. I was attacked and molested, unconstitutionally arrested, unlawfully incarcerated, repeatedly intimidated and coerced to plead guilty to having committed a crime, held in secret for five days, and my property and liberty taken from me since January 26, 2014. I am being persecuted for being a gun owner, and for exercising my inherent Right by unwitting or unknowing accomplices of a seditious conspiracy against rights instituted by foreign powers inimical to the United States of America.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, in research shared with TPM on Tuesday afternoon, linked Cole to an online profile in which he described himself as "a sovereign American Citizen attempting to thwart the obvious conspiracy and subterfuges of powers inimical to the United States."

"Sovereigns believe that they -- not judges, juries, law enforcement or elected officials -- get to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore, and they don't think they should have to pay taxes," the SPLC has written in its summary of sovereign citizen beliefs.

Someone using the name Brent Douglas Cole uploaded Google documents that were purportedly filed in his defense for the January arrest. Those documents have not been independently verified by TPM, but they carry the same case number as the firearms case.

In the documents, Cole described himself as "a statutory Attorney General of the United States" and claimed the California law under which he had been charged violated the Second Amendment. He also spelled his name in a manner typical of members of the sovereign citizens movement, using lowercase letters and unusual punctuation: "brent-douglas: cole."

A Facebook profile attributed to a Brent Cole, and which also linked to the alleged documents in the firearms case, included this quote from June 5:

"The conviction of police that they are endowed with the authority and authorization to to whatever they wish to do to anyone, without any justification, and incur no liability or culpability for criminal acts committed must end."

Cole also posted a number of news articles on Facebook sympathetic to the Bundy Ranch militia, including a April 16 post about "an Infowars expose connecting the land grab to Harry Reid and a Chinese-backed solar farm."

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beefheart said:

Oily Tights?

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beefheart said:

If that is what you need to believe....

But the truth is...they were tea party, Bundy ranch nutcases.

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CalGun said:

Nope. Just because you believe that doesn't make it true.

FACT: they attended occupy events.

FACT: Bundy supporters asked the to leave and they did

But don't let the FACTs interrupt your hatred.

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beefheart said:

If that is what you need to believe....

But the truth is...they were tea party, Bundy ranch nutcases.

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TurtleDude said:

Do some research. First and foremost the Birchers were known for having an extreme hatred of communism-especially USSR communism.

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"The Birch Society also was a leading opponent of fluoridation, which started in the 1940s and picked up steam through the ’50s and ’60s.

The John Birch Society was an active participant in Wichita’s 1964 referendum that repealed fluoridation after the City Commission had voted to implement it. The opposition was led by a dentist who was a member of the Birch Society, who argued that fluoridation was mass medication for a non-communicable disease, a violation of individual rights.

During that debate, some opponents labeled the pro-fluoridation forces as “tools of the Communists” and one anti-fluoride publication asked: “Shall we give the Communists the machinery and the materials to destroy us by simply opening a valve in our water supply?”

The Jaycees, who supported fluoride, held a news conference complaining that supporters’ patriotism was being questioned. Fluoridation was defeated, 31,415 to 18,749.Except for the comments about communism, today’s debates for and against fluoride echo almost word-for-word the speeches delivered by the protagonists half a century ago....."

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