more broadly and like the ideology driving the bundy ranch standoff, they specifically do not believe in the existence or the authority of the federal government. basically, they don't believe there's any law enforcement authority higher than a county sheriff. anyone else, their authority can be not just lawfully but forcefully disobeyed. it's a radical offshoot. it was a movement closely aligned with upsurge in militias in the clinton era in the '90s. sometimes a white supremacist movement and sometimes it wasn't. this time the swastika imagery and the crimes committed yesterday may have been a symbol of white supremacist and neo-nazi views or an epithet levelled at the officers shot by the perpetrators. at this point it is necessary, but bizarre to note that in august this past august las vegas was the site of another bizarre targeting of police