Posted on Apr 15, 2021
“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War
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It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, was on the run in the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond, California.
With deputy sheriffs closing in, Carrillo texted his brother, Evan, asking him to tell his children he loved them and instructing him to give $50,000 to his fiancée. “I love you bro,” Carrillo signed off. Thinking the text message was a suicide note from a brother with a history of mental health troubles, Evan Carrillo quickly texted back: “Think about the ones you love.”
In fact, Steven Carrillo had a different objective, a goal he had written about on Facebook, discussed with other Boogaloo Bois and even scrawled out in his own blood as he hid from police that day. He wanted to incite a second Civil War in the United States by killing police officers he viewed as enforcers of a corrupt and tyrannical political order — officers he described as “domestic enemies” of the Constitution he professed to revere.
With deputy sheriffs closing in, Carrillo texted his brother, Evan, asking him to tell his children he loved them and instructing him to give $50,000 to his fiancée. “I love you bro,” Carrillo signed off. Thinking the text message was a suicide note from a brother with a history of mental health troubles, Evan Carrillo quickly texted back: “Think about the ones you love.”
In fact, Steven Carrillo had a different objective, a goal he had written about on Facebook, discussed with other Boogaloo Bois and even scrawled out in his own blood as he hid from police that day. He wanted to incite a second Civil War in the United States by killing police officers he viewed as enforcers of a corrupt and tyrannical political order — officers he described as “domestic enemies” of the Constitution he professed to revere.
“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War
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They may be dangerous but there not in 4 or 5 different cities burning stuff down and rioting for the last days. Our military stand down on extremism that we had to do a few weeks ago only mentioned right wing extremism. Right wing extremism does exist and sometimes they could do severe damage but everyone's forgetting all the damage has happened since George Foy died. Antifa even attacked a Democrat headquarters in Portland the day Joe Biden was inaugurated. Npr and many other stations did not report it but CBS News did. Nobody wants to admit they are in a Civil War because democrats don't want to agitate their leftist base
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand I served under Clinton, Bush, Obama, trump and now Biden. I have been travelling from Canada to the USA for drill and deployment since 2006. I guess you could call me a racist Like other lefties try so you try something different...
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand
Try again!!! Your saying right wing extremism doesn't exist shows us everything I think is true. So quit trying to weasel out of what you said. And FYI democrats do know we are in a civil war fighting against GOP inspired fascism. Maybe you should read up on how Donnie and the GOP have promoted it. I got my MSM over 20 years ago and I served from Nixon thru Clinton. So, don't let the door hit you on the way out!! BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand I put it in such a way So sloppy people like you would understand that I said right wing extremism does exist.
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand I'm actually leading a year early because they change the rule where reserves who served in Afghanistan who served for a year can get out a year early. I'm sorry, I was in 3rd grade when you were in the army. You sound like a wacko from students for a democratic society being upset about Nixon in wanting to join the weather underground.
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand
YAWN!!! Is that all you can do is paste?? Say, aren't you supposed to be working???? According to you, you retire in November.
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand I have a civilian job. I am not active Duty. I can walk and chew gum. I can serve the USA and do my deliveries. Don't sweat the small stuff. You sound like the Chicago 7 looking for a mission just Angela Davis Sharing marches of pointers with black lives matter.
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A big part of the problem is with our congressional leadership. Pandering and fueling an us vs them extremism. They get rich while we get divided and in some cases radicalized.
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SFC Randy Hellenbrand
Correct. However, anyone who isn't radicalized against fascist is wrong. Read about the Koch boys a bit. The one brother who is still alive has even apologized for creating the fascist Tea Party. How many of them in congress again and what is their goal? Anyway thumbs up.
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