By Dan Lamothe and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Jon Ritzheimer sat down in front of a video camera last month and aired a series of grievances about the federal government, the media and the way he saw the United States changing before his eyes. With a red, white and blue flag representing a resistance group known as the Three Percenters draped behind him, the Marine Corps veteran expressed frustration that a colleague had been arrested by federal investigators.
“History belongs to those that write it,” said Ritzheimer, a slight glare shining off his shaved head as he furrowed his brow. “And I for one do not believe we should allow this government to write our history — labeling myself and other honorable veterans out there as terrorists.”
Ritzheimer, 32, is an Iraq war veteran, former truck driver and staff sergeant in the Marine Corps. He said the federal government had just “illegally kidnapped” a “fellow brother,” Schuyler P. Barbeau, another Marine veteran. Barbeau was arrested in Washington state for possession of an unregistered firearm.
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