Texas sovereign citizen claims his attempt to ambush the police and firefighters was really just a "get out the vote" campaign. Oookay.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A 60-year-old Texas man accused of setting up an ambush against police and firefighters said he set up the attack as both a protest against police shootings and a way to encourage people to vote. 

“This is a get out the vote campaign,” Douglas Leguin told KXAS-TV on Thursday. “You have to do something big to get attention in this country.” 

Leguin spoke to the station from Dallas County Jail, where the self-identified “sovereign citizen” is being held on $350,000 bail. He is charged with seven counts of aggravated assault against a public servant for allegedly setting fire to a dumpster near a North Dallas home, then allegedly shooting at firefighters with an AK-47 during a brief standoff. 

“I know what I did was crazy, but I’m going to pay for that,” Leguin told KXAS. “I just got to do something to wake up America, man. I got to do something to get people out there voting. We got the perfect tool to change the government. We can completely overhaul the government. But everybody has to vote.”

You typically we just send out flyers.

You know like the ones that Joe Miller sent out.

But you know perhaps this Leguin guy has a point.

After all thanks to his actions, and the actions of others just like him, I personally am planning to make damn sure that I cast MY vote for any candidate who is NOT associated with this kind of lunatic fringe, or supports their right to carry guns, or thinks that they are anything but domestic terrorists waiting to lay siege to the White House.