NOAA radar stations are reportedly being targeted by an armed conspiracy group that views them as weapons.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/28977252

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned the National Weather Service of possible attacks from an armed conspiracy group targeting Doppler radar stations, according to a report from CNN. The group, Veterans on Patrol, is going after government radars because it believes they’re being used as “weather weapons.”

CNN learned of the possible attacks through NOAA emails warning NWS staff that Veterans on Patrol was planning to conduct “penetration drills on NEXRAD sites to identify weaknesses,” with the ultimate goal of destroying NEXRAD. Despite its cooler-than-average name, the NWS uses NEXRAD or “Next Generation Weather Radar” for a fairly mundane purpose: detecting precipitation in the atmosphere. NEXRAD plays a vital role in locating thunderstorms and tornados, making it easier to evacuate vulnerable communities before disaster strikes.

Archive link: https://archive.is/GVsgP

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      251·
      22 hours ago

      This is what happens when you remove the fairness doctrine and allow the alt-right propaganda “news” machine go unchecked.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Wasn’t the fairness doctrine right wing propoganda already? iirc the point was to give 1 anti-vaxer the same voice as every single pro-vaxination researcher on earth combined.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          There is a saying that reality and facts have a liberal bias. When Nixon was in the process of being impeached, conservatives found that if they can control the narrative, the facts, then they can control the conversation. It’s no accident that they went to attack the fairness doctrine and it finally fell under Reagan.

          It may have had a right wing bias, but they are the ones that got rid of it because they wanted to protect their echo chamber

  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    1 day ago

    My brother is one of these idiots, I dunno how they got him. He’s not part of the militia group but dipshit thinks a local radio tower that just went up is part of the weather control system…

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    An armed militarized group planning potential attacks on a federal government entity… Why would the FBI not be picking every one of those idiots up?

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        It is actually kind of weird to think about. Conservatives typically typically like police and the milliary.

        • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          It depends. They’re funding ICE instead of the FBI because the former is more ideologically aligned with Trump.

          There’s definitely no net defunding of the Police State. What were seeing is a shift of resources to the right gustapo

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        16 hours ago

        The United States: Into Darkness.

        A people manipulated and driven to the edge of Discovery and Dishonesty. We will turn the lights out to fear that which we know… But in the darkness there is nothing to find but our people’s vengeful hatred of each other. Ignorance is the weapon, and the lights shall stay out.

        So what does man do? We starve. We suffer. We bleed, and then when all else is lost we scream. Not out of fear; for that is already gone. We scream because we are already in hell. And it’s the devil staring us in the face designing the torture.

        We aren’t a phoneix, we don’t rise from the dead. We are supposed to be humanity; and it’s lost past time we become it. If you think humanity was designed to be built in the image of God. Are you mistaken?

        I’m an idiot

        Neitzshche is dead.

        God is an Idea

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Loads of veterans are victims with PTSD who might attack a car if it backfires

      Without proper mental health treatment, loads of vets may dissociate into mania.

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      “Vet” covers everyone from Air Force Tower Controllers to Navy Seals to the guy in charge of records in a basement in Alaska and more.

      For 4 years active duty and 4 years reserve most people are involved in logistics or records, and few of those have to know anything about radar.

        • Sinthesis@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          You’re not far off as it is the second definition of the word. “Vietnam vet” “Gulf war vet” etc.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            In that context it just means deployed to ths conflict. Sometimes it means contributed to the effort while in the military. So someone who cooked on base in Vietnam would be a Vietnam vet, but someone who enlisted during the Korean war but was sent to Japan wouldn’t be a korea vet.