BLM Shooting Suspect Is Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist With Pending Gun Charge

The man accused of shooting two law enforcement members in California, including a Bureau of Land Management ranger, has had at least one previous run-in with law enforcement and has described himself as the target of a massive government conspiracy.

Brent Douglas Cole, 60, was named by the Nevada County Sheriff's Office on Monday as the suspect in Saturday's shooting that also left him wounded.

Anna Ferguson, assistant district attorney for Nevada County, confirmed to TPM that Cole was also facing misdemeanor charges in Nevada County Superior Court for allegedly carrying a loaded firearm. He was charged on Jan. 26.

On Tuesday, the Union newspaper in Grass Valley, Calif., published an article that quoted from court documents in the case. The documents showed Cole believed he was the target of a massive conspiracy:

Officers acted without warrant or any probable cause to seize my person using a swat team style assault, and then started looking for something to charge me with. I was attacked and molested, unconstitutionally arrested, unlawfully incarcerated, repeatedly intimidated and coerced to plead guilty to having committed a crime, held in secret for five days, and my property and liberty taken from me since January 26, 2014. I am being persecuted for being a gun owner, and for exercising my inherent Right by unwitting or unknowing accomplices of a seditious conspiracy against rights instituted by foreign powers inimical to the United States of America.

BLM Shooting Suspect Is Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist With Pending Gun Charge

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For a more amusing look at Cole's antics, check out Here Is Possibly (Totally) The ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Who Shot A BLM Officer And Cop, For Freedom

And this guy is a real piece of work — a chemtrails enthusiast, birther, and, according to one of his alleged legal filings, a man who’s “being persecuted for being a gun owner” by “unwitting or unknowing accomplices of a seditious conspiracy against rights instituted by foreign powers enimical [sic] to the United States of America.” We can hardly wait for the Stupidest Man on the Internet to proclaim him a “Leftist.”

In addition to “liking” the Oath Keepers, a couple of chemtrails groups, and a group that wants to expose the HAARP conspiracy, Cole has posts about gun rights (including a fake George Washington quote,) and the usual mix of anti-fluoride weirdness and of course plenty of anti-Semitic paranoia, too,,,