FBI arrests three men in North Carolina who were preparing to kill soldiers participating in the Jade Helm 15 exercises.

Anti-‘Jade Helm 15′ nuts arrested in North Carolina after hoarding weapons and making bombs http://t.co/4PWxPh0B1H pic.twitter.com/jwQIcsv9Sp

— R Joseph (@rjoseph7777) August 5, 2015

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Federal officials say three men arrested in North Carolina were stockpiling weapons for a murderous plot against US soldiers. According to the FBI, the trio believed a Special Forces exercise dubbed Jade Helm 15 was a pretext for imposing martial law. 

FBI documents unsealed Monday say the three residents of Gaston County bought guns and ammunition and attempted to build explosive devices, all with intent of killing US soldiers they believed were coming to establish martial law. The three were identified as Walter Litteral, 50, Christopher Barker, 41, and Christopher Campbell, 30. 

The FBI claims Litteral planned to make explosive devices out of tennis balls covered in nails and coffee cans filled with ball bearings. He also purchased ammunition for a 338 caliber rifle, hand-held radios, Kevlar helmets, body armor and face masks, which the authorities say were to be used in “armed resistance to the feared military occupation,” according to the AP. 

Most of the information in the indictment comes from an FBI informant, who opened a military surplus store in Belmont, not far from Campbell’s tattoo parlor, in January. The informant said Campbell approached him with “anti-government” views and introduced him to Litteral. 

According to court documents, the two men told the informant that they believed “that the federal government intended to use the armed forces to impose martial law in the United States, which they and others would resist with violent force.”

Wait, the FBI informant opened a "military surplus store" and then gathered evidence against these guys?

Now why does THAT sound so familiar?

Drop Zone employee, Sally Heath, and Bill Fulton.

Now I have no evidence that Fulton was involved in this investigation, and of course if I did I would deny it, but you have to admit that this is eerily similar to how Fulton assisted the FBI in the Schaeffer Cox domestic terrorism case.

In this case however it would seem that the FBI might have jumped the gun.

After all if these guys were buying weapons to protect themselves from a military imposed martial law that was never coming, then did they actually represent a danger?

But then again perhaps just the fact that they were willing to kill soldiers, and were arming themselves for that eventuality, might have been reason enough to get them locked up.

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