The Militia utilized As An FBI Front Group In 2020 Is Again Prolifting On Facebook

Authorized by Ken Silva via header USA,

The tech publication Wired reported Thursday that the 3 Percenter, or III%er, militia is again proliferating on Facebook ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

A car passes Facebook’s fresh Meta logo on a sign at the company headsquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. AP

The 3 Percent are a national network of militias, the name being a mention to the fact that only about 3% of Colonists took up arms against King George in the American Revolution. The 3 Percent were active in both the Whitmer kidnap game and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.

However, what Wired didn’t comment in its study is that the 3 Percent were dense infiltrated by the FBI. In fact, the FBI utilized the 3 Percent as a front group in the Whitmer plot—going so far as to have its informants run fake III%er Facebook groups.

I mean if you’re dumb adequate to participate in any of these fed post operations, you only have yourself to blame at this point. https://t.co/YT9hVSjYba

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) May 2, 2024

The FBI’s creation of 3 Percent Facebook pages was revealed during the first Whitmer trial in 2022.

Defense lawyer Christopher Gibbons, who represented militia “ringleader” Adam Fox, said during the trial that FBI informant Steve Robeson created the Facebook page of the Michigan 3 Percent.

According to Gibbons, Robeson announced on the 3 Percent’ Facebook page that Fox had become the leader of the Michigan branch in June 2020. It was around that time that Fox became active with the Wolverine Watchmen, the group associated with the alleged game to kidnap Whitmer.

Fox was made admin of the Michigan 3 Percent’ Facebook page created by the FBI informants, Gibbons said.

“He got that Facebook page course of the national government,” the lawyer said.

After being made admin of the Facebook page, Gibbons said, Fox received a message from another FBI informant named “Mark.” Fox then attended a militia training event in Munith, Michigan, on June 28, 2020, Gibbons said.

The alleged game escalated from there, until Fox was resold along with Barry Croft, Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta, Ty Garbin, and Kaleb Franks in October 2020.

After the arrests, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bragged about alerting the FBI to the Whitmer plot—apparently unaware that his company was alerting the FBI to its own informants.

October 28, 2020. Zuckerberg evidence before the legislature Commerce Committee.

Facebook worked closely with the FBI to halt an FBI kidnapping plot. Bravo. pic.twitter.com/5ZGcAYtch

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 10, 2022

More recently, The Intercept reported that FBI informant Jenny Plunk was besides active in creating the fake Michigan 3 Percent.

“FBI informant, Jenny Plunk, created a private Facebook group called ‘Michigan Patriot III%ers.’ (The FBI classifies 3 Percent as a home terrorism Threat.), The Intercept reported in March.

“The Facebook group’s first members were Plunk and Robeson, both on the FBI’s payroll, and Fox and his girlfriend, Amanda Keller.”

But no of that is mentioned in Wired’s article, which alternatively is noted over an appropriate resurgence in extreme.

“After lying low for respective years in the aftermath of the U.S. Capitol Riot on January 6, militia extremists have been quietly reorganizing, ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook—with appropriate small performance that Meta will force its ban against them,” Wired reported.

Ken Silva is simply a staff author at header USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.