{"id":114134,"date":"2024-10-14T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114134"},"modified":"2024-10-14T19:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:10:49","slug":"hurricane-relief-officials-threatened-by-armed-militias-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114134","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Relief Officials Threatened by Armed Militias in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Government officials were forced to flee a <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/north-carolina\">North Carolina<\/a> county amid reported threats of armed civilians out \u201chunting\u201d for hurricane relief workers.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, the <a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2024\/10\/13\/federal-officials-nc-temporarily-relocated-amid-report-armed-militia-email-shows\/\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> reports a U.S. Forest Service official sent an email to several different federal agencies warning \u201c<a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/national-guard\">National Guard<\/a> troops had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying [they] were out hunting <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/fema\">FEMA<\/a>,\u201d the government body responsible for overseeing emergency response management.<\/p>\n<p>The message, which has been confirmed as authentic, added that incident management teams \u201chave been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel\u201d in Rutherford County.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s understood that officials had been given the all-clear to return to the area by Sunday afternoon, similar threats were reported in Ashe County on Sunday, such that the local Sheriff\u2019s office warned FEMA had again been forced to \u201cpause their process\u201d while an assessment of the risk was carried out, <a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/14\/fema-threats-hurricane-recovery-misinformation\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents offer the starkest evidence yet of the havoc caused by the rampant spread of <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/misinformation\">misinformation<\/a> as to the origin of Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the nature efforts to contain the damage caused.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/conspiracy-theory\">conspiracy theories<\/a> surrounding the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/storm\">storms<\/a> and the government\u2019s response have been spearheaded by <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/republican-party\">Republican<\/a> Congresswoman <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/marjorie-taylor-greene\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, who in a series of posts on X, formerly <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a>, last week blamed nefarious (albeit unidentified) electoral forces for \u201c<a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/marjorie-taylor-greenes-hurricane-helene-conspiracy-they-can-control-the-weather\">controlling the weather<\/a>\u201d by means of <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-now-adding-lasers-to-her-hurricane-helene-conspiracy\">extra-terrestrial laser technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other tinfoil-hatted pundits have suggested the weather was somehow engineered as part of a conspiracy to provide political cover to megacorporations engaged in lithium mining, as well as spreading fake reports of citizens being deliberately abandoned in the rubble.<\/p>\n<p><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has also fanned the flames, pushing unfounded allegations that the Democratic Party is deliberately withholding disaster relief from Republican voters, and that emergency funds have been diverted to undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n<p>With FEMA already having been forced to set up a \u201crumor response\u201d page on its website, the recent reports of militias roaming the hills in North Carolina is sadly not the only evidence of ways in which these disinformation narratives are adversely affecting the emergency relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s terrible because a lot of these folks who need assistance are refusing it because they believe the stuff people are saying about FEMA and the government,\u201d Riva Duncan, a former Forest Service official based in Asheville, North Carolina, told the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s sad because they are probably the ones who need the help the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async 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