If These Guys Were Muslims...

The FBI has arrested three right-wing nut jobs who think that the government is going to use Operation Jade Helm 15 to declare martial law. 

The response of the national media has been muted, as it has been the numerous other times right-wingers have hatched plots to murder law enforcement officials and American military service members.

These guys were getting ready for armed insurrection and ambushes:

There were Kevlar helmets and body armor, pipe bombs and handmade grenades, large amounts of gunpowder and dozens of rounds of ammunition for a military-grade sniper rifle.

Federal officials say three North Carolina men — Walter Eugene Litteral, 50; Christopher James Barker, 41; and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30 — spent months compiling their cache, much of it purchased through a military surplus store owner who became so concerned about the plot that the person became the FBI’s informant.

Their plan including murdering U.S. military forces:

The plan involved testing the explosives on land in Shelby, N.C. But the ambush against U.S. forces would take place on Litteral and Campbell’s a 99-acre camp in Clover, S.C.

“According to [Campbell], he and Litteral intend to booby-trap the camp and draw government’s forces into the camp and kill them,” the warrant states.

Remember the fear and outrage that the shootings in Chattanooga caused when a depressed Muslim kid killed American service members? These rednecks in North Carolina were plotting something much worse.

Recordings of their telephone conversations are illuminating:

The documents indicated that Litteral told another person in a phone conversation: “I got a f—— .45 beside my bed. I got a .45 and a 9-mil in my truck. I’ve got a 9-mil and a .380, or a .380 in her car. Safe full of weapons. You know what? Every time I open up this damn safe, I mean I’ve got, I’ve got at least 30 weapons that I can see and some tucked all the way in the back back.” 

How much you want to bet that Litteral thinks of himself as a "good guy with a gun?"

He sounds an awful lot like the vigilante gun-lovers who set themselves up outside recruiting centers across the country after Chattanooga.