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Michigan militiaman agrees to testify against co-conspirators in violent plot against governor
January 27, 2021
A Michigan militiaman has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors to unravel the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and execute her for "treason."
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty Wednesday to the kidnapping conspiracy involving 14 suspects, who are accused of plotting to kidnap Whitmer, attack the Michigan statehouse and possibly kidnap Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam out of frustration over coronavirus restrictions implemented in Democratic-led states, reported The Daily Beast.
<p> The 25-year-old Garbin agreed to "fully cooperate" with federal and state law enforcement agencies, including possible court testimony against his co-conspirators, under the terms of his plea agreement.</p><p>Garbin, whose defense attorney previously insisted that his client had no real intention of kidnapping the governor, was among six men charged in October with conspiracy to commit kidnapping.</p><p>Eight other suspects linked to the Wolverine Watchmen militia group have been charged with terrorism for allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol to "instigate a civil war," prosecutors said.</p><p>The militiamen originally planned to kidnap Whitmer in late October but decided to wait until after the election because they expected widespread civil unrest would make it easier to carry off the violent attack, according to Garbin's guilty plea.</p>
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The more than 200,000 children killed by Nazi Germany at Auschwitz were honoured on Wednesday in online ceremonies marking the liberation of the camp which has come to symbolise the Holocaust.
Survivors sounded the alarm over the modern-day dangers posed by the resurgence of racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial at a 76th anniversary event.
<p>"Do not let us down," Auschwitz survivor, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 95, said in an appeal to young people for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.</p><p>"Do not allow the memory to be distorted and poisoned by the ugly resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.</p><p>"By denying these victims and poisoning ourselves with hatred we are murdering these victims a second time over," she said at the ceremonies, held online only for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>"Build bridges, talk to each other, celebrate your differences because in reality we have more in common than separates us," Lasker-Wallfisch added.</p><p>All told, Nazi Germany deported around 232,000 children to Auschwitz, including 216,000 Jews, 11,000 Roma, 3,000 Poles and the rest from Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere, according the to Auschwitz-Birkenau museum.</p><p>Only some 700 were still alive when the Soviet Red Army liberated the camp on January 27, 1945.</p><p>Part of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's plan of genocide against European Jews, dubbed the "Final Solution", Auschwitz-Birkenau operated in the occupied southern Polish town of Oswiecim between June 1940 and January 1945.</p><p>- Babies 'killed on the spot' -</p><p>Of the more than 1.3 million people imprisoned there, around 1.1 million -- mainly European Jews -- perished, either asphyxiated in the gas chambers or claimed by starvation, exhaustion and disease.</p><p>In all, the Nazis killed six million of pre-war Europe's estimated 10-11 million Jews.</p><p>Zdzislawa Wlodarczyk, who was among the several hundred children still alive when the Red Army arrived at Auschwitz, said that babies born there were also put to death.</p><p>"Children were born in the camp, but they were not allowed to live because they were killed on the spot," Wlodarczyk, now 88, said during the online ceremonies.</p><p>"They didn't have names and they didn't even have numbers. How many of these children died? Why? Were we enemies of the Third Reich?", she added.</p><p>From mid-1942, the Nazis systematically deported Jews from across Europe to six camps -- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka.</p><p>Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi death and concentration camp, and the site where the most people were killed.</p><p>Victims were primarily European Jews, but also Roma, gays, Soviet prisoners of war and Poles.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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The US Department of Homeland Security declared a nationwide terrorism alert Wednesday, citing the potential threat from domestic anti-government extremists opposed to Joe Biden as president.
"Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence," the department said.
<p>The National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin said a heightened threat of attack "will persist in the weeks following the successful presidential inauguration," which took place on January 20.</p><p>"DHS does not have any information to indicate a specific, credible plot," it said.</p><p>"However, violent riots have continued in recent days and we remain concerned that individuals frustrated with the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition... could continue to mobilize a broad range of ideologically-motivated actors to incite or commit violence."</p><p>The alert said there had been mounting threats since last year from domestic violent extremists motivated by Covid-19 restrictions, Biden's defeat of Donald Trump in the November election, police brutality and illegal immigration.</p><p>DHS said these motivations could remain in place for the coming months and that the January 6 attack by Trump supporters on Congress could embolden extremists "to target elected officials and government facilities."</p><p>More than 150 people, including members of armed extremist groups, have been arrested since the attack, which has been branded as an insurrection.</p><p>The department urged the public to report suspicious activity and threats of violence.</p>
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