ReportageFor weeks, the United States played at frightening itself. If Donald Trump was defeated, hordes of white supremacists would want to do battle. But in this state which had crowned the Republican four years ago, it is the start of a mixed America that the world has witnessed.
What are the weeks, days and hours before the election result now worth? This mocking salute from Andrew behind the counter at Outer Limits, a bar on the border of Detroit, “You’re right on time for the civil war!” “, since the civil war did not take place? It was the afternoon of October 11. Three days earlier, thirteen guys accused of plotting a plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, by the time of the presidential election, had been apprehended by the FBI. Six of them were behind bars. Six young faces, with milky skin, almost pure DNA of the first settlers, in close-up on the site of the Detroit Free Press, under the mention “Terrorists”.
For months, these “little white people” from rural areas had been infiltrated, filmed and listened to by the feds who watch over old America, infused with the cult of arms, of God, as well as the post-traumatic syndromes of veterans. It hides entrenched camps in a false postcard air. It was on a farm in Michigan that the perpetrators of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing trained 168 people in 1995.
Ira Todd, a police officer who has just retired, remembers the raids there in the upstate. “It was the 1990s, we raided, we worked with the FBI, we formed teams of ten, twelve, the FBI came in first, kicked in the door, and we followed, we went into barracks. very clean, in guys who made weapons, bombs. They were white people. Grenades and bullets were found on the table. It was already a subject. ”
The seditious of today had in their turn desires of “civil war”, to blow everything up before the election, without really knowing if once the governor in their hands, they were going to leave her alone on a boat in the middle. the vastness of Lake Michigan or take her to Wisconsin to try her and, who knows, sentence her to death in the name of the American Constitution.
They criticized Gretchen Whitmer, elected two years ago, for having used exceptional powers against a local Republican parliament to establish, in mid-March, in a state of Michigan then hard hit by Covid-19, the some of the strictest restrictions in the country. The Constitution was not written to restrict freedoms, but to enforce them, argued its potential aggressors. Two of them had already scouted around his vacation home. It was enough to throw a net. Looking at them in the press, staring blankly at the police lens, they looked both grotesque and dangerous.
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