Fire at Bernie Sanders' Vermont office investigated as arson

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Fire at Bernie Sanders' Vermont office investigated as arson
nbcnews.com

A fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office is being investigated as arson, the Burlington Fire Department said Friday.

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Who the hell goes after Bernie? He’s one of the few politicians that is actually liked.

Because someone is afraid of the fact that

He’s one of the few politicians that is actually liked.

Wouldn't put it past Bibi and his supporters

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And just like that, the boundary testing from the American extremists started their next chapter. Let's see how this labrat does. If he gets away they'll burn others offices, if those succeed, they'll start with private residences. Inch by inch, they will become more aggressive. If someone gets caught, they pull back a bit.. But it doesn't stop until they have something larger to point their extremism in the direction of.

Self/community defense is the only solution, unfortunately we live in a state* so this is mostly illegal.

Not state like Iowa, state as in a group of people saying "I feel entitled to your life, resources, and freedom and can call you a criminal and kill or incarcerate you and any self/community defense is criminal too".

And any sort of well regulated militia you try to keep would get raided by a veritable Alphabet Soup of agents. So community defense is even less likely.

Yep, this is part of what I mean by state and why unity is key to any real social advancement (not faux advancement like iphones).

Made me check the email I got from his campaign to see if it was about that (dismissed the notification without reading it). It wasn’t. It was another request for money.