this point, to my knowledge, there is not a bunch of militia groups banding together and taking over the white house. while it is five years later, and unbelievably we ve landed in that very scenario except it wasn t the white house that was breached. it was the united states capitol on january 6th, 2021, by a mob that included militia members who charged the recent presidential election was a fraud. today more than 60 members of private militia groups have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the insurrection. so the last time i saw silver back, donald trump had just become president, and so much has happened since then. in fact, militias and patriot movements have become part of headline news. silver back and his militia weren t involved in the d.c.
while it is five years later, and unbelievably we ve landed in that very scenario except it wasn t the white house that was breached. it was the united states capitol on january 6th, 2021, by a mob that included militia members who charged the recent presidential election was a fraud. today more than 60 members of private militia groups have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the insurrection. so the last time i saw silver back, donald trump had just become president, and so much has happened since then. in fact, militias and patriot movements have become part of headline news. silver back and his militia weren t involved in the d.c. riot but i imagine it s had an impact on them. hey, silver back.
colonists saw the government after the british were kicked out as their friend. as history progressed, though, the government became bigger, and it came to be seen more and more as an enemy. over the course of the next 200 years, the government would abolish slavery, and in modern times promote policies for racial equality that inflamed elements on the far right. then tech jobs and globalization decimated blue collar manufacturing jobs, and for white men without a college degree, average wages have been dropping for the past four decades. the majority of militia members in the united states are white men, who seem to have a lot of grievances. do you think those grievances are valid? while most people in the militia movement probably don t explicitly talk about it, behind it all is the idea that whites in this country are going to lose their majority. today they re about 62%, and in the next 25 years, they re going to be simply one more minority in a genuinely multicultural
while it s five years later, and unbelievably we ve landed in that very scenario, except that it wasn t the white house that was breached. it was the united states capitol on january 6th, 2021, by a mob that included militia members who charged the recent presidential election was a fraud. today more than 60 members of private militia groups have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the insurrection. so the last time i saw silverback, donald trump had just become president, and so much has happened since then. in fact, militias and patriot movements have become part of headline news. silverback and his militia weren t involved in the d.c. riot, but i imagine it s had an impact on them. hey, silverback. hey, lisa.
wa watchmen, 8 of the 14 defendants were charged under michigan s domestic terrorism law, while the remaining six were charged with federal crimes. this wasn t just a bunch of guys sitting around in a basement drinking beers and kind of wishing they could do something. they took action. they conducted surveillance. they thought through weapons. they thought through security plans. what are the parallels between overseas terrorism and domestic terrorism? certainly that road that people take, you know, from someone who s sitting in their house and kind of dabbling online, particularly young men are just fed a diet of disinformation and misinformation, and they absorb it, and they start believing it, and they start, you know, holding fast to these conspiracy theories. so a lawyer for one of the men involved in the kidnapping plot of governor whitmer has agreed to talk to us, and he suggested that i come over and meet him at his hunting club.