Headlines today are shouting about a new anti-government group, the "Guardians of the Free Republic," and their alleged "Restore America Plan." They apparently mailed vague threats to all 50 state governors this week. The AP reported that the Guardians of the Free Republic's ideas, like the harebrained "Restore America Plan" were not specifically violent, but could have negative effects on society.
The group seems libertarian in many of its beliefs. The FBI places groups like the Guardians of the Free Republic in the "sovereign citizens" category. Some folks choose to believe that the rules don't apply to them – that they shouldn't have to play taxes or that that gosh-darn FDA shouldn't regulate what goes in ketchup.
People like FOX News and CNN will play the Guardians of the Free Republic and Restore America Plan story all weekend long – it's good for ratings. But one magazine, Mother Jones, dug up the real story.
It turns out goftr.com and GuardiansOfTheFreeRepublics.com are registered to one Clive Boustred of Soquel, California—a British-educated former South African soldier with an apparent knack for "anti-terrorist warfare," computer consulting, and conspiracy theorizing. The sites—and the "group"—appear not to have existed before he registered them, about two months ago.
Well done, Adam Weinstein, copy editor for Mother Jones magazine. You called this guy on his crap. Let's hope that the "Restore America Plan" and the so-called Guardians of the Free Republic will get called out by the mainstream media as a fake, Astroturf'd hate campaign.
So sorry, everyone. The Restore America Plan is bunk. The Guardians of the Free Republics is just one foreigner with a screw loose.