Oklahoma is deep in the heart of Tornado Alley — this is where weather forecasting is a matter of life or death. It’s also a place infested with militias and right-wing “patriots” who have fully embraced a belief in mysterious government-controlled weather control machines. You can imagine the conflicts that emerge when the state builds weather prediction gear, and you have groups of people who are convinced the gubmint is intentionally targeting civilians with deadly tornadoes. Those groups are trying to destroy weather radars and cell phone towers.
A man who, years ago, became convinced a child sex-trafficking ring was operating at an abandoned cement plant in Tucson has moved to Oklahoma and found a new target: radar systems he believes the military and media use to control the weather.
Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, who leads the anti-government group Veterans On Patrol, claimed credit for the July 6 sabotage of the weather radar system of KWTV-TV, Channel 9, in Oklahoma City. Meyer did not vandalize the station’s radar system himself, but had posted pleas on his group’s Telegram channel asking for others to join his cause.
Security footage posted by the television station showed a man tossing a bag over a chain-link fence, climbing it and damaging a power supply. The video then showed the man spray painting over the lens of a security camera.
You can see this idiot vandalizing the power supply for a weather radar.
The ringleader for this gang of vandals, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, has his own justification for the destruction.
“Eliminating directed energy weapons that are embedded in our infrastructure is not going to harm a single American,” he said. “It will take away a loaded weapon pointed at the American people.”
And of course he is a raving Christian Nationalist looney.
Last year, Meyer was part of an effort in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene for posing as an aid worker to encourage locals to tear down cell towers and attack the military.
“When the military plays God with the weather, they’re mocking our Heavenly Father by calling one of his most favorite instruments a ‘weather weapon,'” Meyer added.
Veterans on Patrol has their own page on the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s not just weather forecasting that they hate!
Not only do we continue permitting the slaughter of our own Children in Abortion Sacrificial Centers…
Not only do we permit altering our Children’s DNA with Globalist Vaccinations that kill and sterilize…
Not only do we permit Government Agencies like CPS to abduct Children from their Parents…
Not only do we permit the Captivity, Rape, and Abuse of Migrant Children being trafficked by Catholic Charity Services…
We now permit Afghan Pedophiles to bring their Child Rape Victims for further Abuse on our own Soil…
Americans will reap horrible consequences for continuing to allow God’s Children to be defiled and abused.
I ask everyone to Pray for the Children… and I ask my Father to destroy this Nation for perpetuating evil equal to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Americans will not fight for these Children… May our Father in Heaven bring His Righteous Judgement upon this Satanic Nation claiming to be under Him
PREPARE YOUR FAMILIES.
Read that whole page. He has a long history of insane conspiracy theories and active destruction.
Here’s one odd thing: google Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer. There are lots of news stories about the guy being arrested, not showing up at court hearings, just generally running about sowing chaos. None of the arrests seem to have stuck! I found news of his arrest back in 2018, right up to 2025, yet journalists today are just calling him up and getting these insane comments. Meyer said his group was monitoring Oklahoma radars closely and claimed that there were no laws that could prevent them from destroying the radars.
This is an open, vocal right-wing terrorist who is allowed to continue his rampage with no significant impairment of his ability to blow shit up. All I can think is that he’s very clever about getting idiotic dupes to do his dirty work for him, like the goober in that video.
Just in case you spot this sanctimonious nutcase in your neighborhood, here’s a photo.
Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer
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Lock him up!
My comment bears repeating:
My recommendation for all these sleazy xtian terrorists is:
Grab your AR-15, your bible, put on your maga hat, wrap yourself in the flag and CRAWL OFF AND DIE.
And, that should include MTG Margarine Failure Greed
Note to self: Paint over security camera BEFORE committing vandalism. Also don’t wear flimsy shorts that expose sensitive body parts while climbing over a chain link fence. That “Aaargh” sounded painful.
In 1972 U.S. researchers discovered why so many more Southerners were being killed by tornadoes. Southerners were more likely to distrust government-issued tornado warnings, discount technology-based weather forecasts, and believe their security lies not in their own actions, but in the Lord.
From the article above.
At least the Oklahoma police managed to arrest the perpetrator.
They already had a warrant out on him for something else, “violating a protective order and damaging property”. Sounds like domestic violence here.
It’s never just one thing with these people.
During the Malheur Wildlife Refuge attack and occupation, most of those kooks had prior arrest records, mostly for domestic violence but one guy for murdering his father.
These are not nice or safe people to be around.
This guy is so obsessed with “the children” I hope there’s at least one honest FBI agent left who’ll look into this guys browser history.
From the article above.
I don’t go around attacking “government weather weapons” because I’m busy making a living, taking care of my responsibilities (mostly a cat these days), going to rock concerts, and volunteering. I don’t have enough free time to be a terrorist.
There are of course, other reasons, notably that the “government weather weapons” are imaginary and don’t actually exist.
Michael Meyer is apparently unemployed, homeless, and lives in a tent.
I suspect he wouldn’t mind getting arrested. It would be a step up in his standard of living.
These far right lunatic fringers all seem to be mentally fogged up and incapable of reasoning about anything, much less where the very real threats to their and our existence come from. Notably, these days from the GOP and Trump.
They would be a lot more dangerous if they were capable of making and carrying out their plans.
@raven:
Sadly, as Trump himself has demonstrated many times, being too stupid to carry out the plan correctly doesn’t mean you can’t cause a huge amount of other damage along the way.
The rant reads exactly like one of Alex Jones’ rants right down to the nonsense about CPS.
Not what I’d call a “well-regulated militia,” and not someone I’d trust to guarantee “the security of a free State.”
Tucson can be very “interesting” at times.
It wasn’t.even a government Doppler Radar, it belonged to a TV station.
It’s nothing new; I remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program#Conspiracy_theories
Ironically, the development of British Radar started in response to a request to investigate ‘death rays’ when it was calculated that too much energy was required.
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A bit misleading, submoron.
cf. https://bmmhs.org/bawdsey-radar/
I disagree John.
Watson Watt asked Wilkins to calculate the amount of energy required for destruction. Wilkins worked it out and said that it was too much. What could they do then? Detection seemed possible given the known phenomenon of aircraft reflecting radio waves. Then came the Daventry experiment. See BBC documentary ‘To see for a hundred miles’ second of THe Secret War series from the late 1970’s with Arnold Wilkins appearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCF-Ufapu8
See from 56 minutes onwards. .
What’s wrong with this guy? Does he hate the second amendment. /s
Is it just me, or does Meyer (no relation—not even the same spelling!) look like that shirt he’s wearing in the photograph came with the extra-long, wraparound sleeves? It’s probably just me.
I put up a blog post about this and related matters today.
It turns out this goes a lot deeper: hysterical bills banning weather control, psychotic militias attacking radars, demands to take down radio equipment used in emergency weather alerts, orders to de-orbit NASA satellites used in atmospheric carbon measurement, attempting to revoke already-granted licenses to cripple offshore wind farm construction, … It just goes on and ON and ON.
Also: a brief JournalClub-style walkthrough of a paper on statistical measurement of the degree of wild overconfidence shown by conspiracy theorists.
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/gop-war-on-weather/