The Washington Post is reporting that Federal emergency-response staffers in hard-hit Rutherford County, North Carolina were directed on Saturday to stop working and move to a different area due to concerns about “armed militia” members on the prowl...

Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia… out hunting FEMA.’

  • @DasusEnglish
    1•2 days ago

    You might be right about the image, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say they’re completely unrelated.

    I’mma go ahead and assume the people hunting FEMA and the people in this image have lot of shared political views.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
      1•2 days ago

      I’m not just guessing, they said so in the article:

      Note: The group pictured above was in Wyoming, not North Carolina. The picture is 10+ years old. They opposed Federal plans to reintroduce wolves. I cannot find any pictures of the group in North Carolina that is the subject of this diary. I suspect that they would be camera-shy. I have edited the photo to mask out the dead body of a wolf, apparently shot by this group. Some commenters said that the unedited photo was too graphic.)

      • @DasusEnglish
        1•2 days ago

        Sure, I’ll give you that.

        I’m still sticking with the assumption of mostly shared political beliefs, though.