I’ve written recently about the heavy security presence at a recent County Planning meeting in Otsego County, Michigan – due to credible threats of violence from Anti-clean energy fanatics, possibly connected with the Michigan militia.
It’s not a one-off – it’s considered standard for local farmers and officials who are looking to site clean energy on their land and in their communities.
Above, a selection of interviews with farmers and local officials. The accounts are strikingly consistent.
stochastic terrorism, the repeated use of hate speech or other vilifying, dehumanizing rhetoric by a political leader or other public figure that inspires one or more of the figure’s supporters to commit hate crimes or other acts of violence against a targeted person, group, or community. In legal terms, stochastic terrorism generally does not constitute incitement or solicitation to violence, which is a serious crime in many countries, because the speech involved lacks sufficient specificity. Incitement entails explicitly directing or encouraging an act of violence against a specific target at a particular time or place, thus immediately putting the target at an identifiable risk. In contrast, stochastic terrorists do not supply their followers with any detailed plan of attack, which means that the particular time and place of the eventual violence are unpredictable.