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We think they are shooting hardly called for it, Ericson Har- chemicals into the atmosphere to cool every- PULP | rell was happy to fetch his mask. thing down. Can you feel it? Everything is In the past year, since this North about to get cooler.” TMiami Beach cop “evolved” into something he A moment passed. Things felt about the calls an “oath keeper,” he’s always had his mask same, but suddenly I wasn’t so sure. We | NEWS | | NEWS at hand — just in case. “There’s a war coming,” settled onto a pair of plastic chairs outside Y he says, and every freedom-loving American his house. “So,” I asked, “who’s ‘they’?” DA man would be a damn fool not to have a mask. Harrell — who considers himself neither a So Harrell, 39, who could double for the Tea Party patriot nor an Occupy soldier but a Rock, approached his silver Dodge truck “Constitutionalist” — eyed my iPhone sitting Copping an parked outside his on the window sill. They could be listening. attitude. single-story Sunrise “Exactly,” he says. “Who’s ‘they’?” He home and reached contemplated the matter for five long GE | NIGHT+ “WHO’S A inside with a pair seconds. “No one knows the answer. wearing a hood or mask that hides “any por- his truck beside a bumper sticker that screams T ‘THEY’? NO S ONE KNOWS of thickly muscled That’s the million-dollar question.” tion” of his or her face. Originally intended “Infowars.com,” a conspiracy theorist web- forearms. He rum- Right now, there are perhaps more pressing to quell the Ku Klux Klan, the charges, not site. He also thinks the American government THE ANSWER. maged for a moment, questions involving Ericson Harrell. In late to mention their unusual circumstances, planned 9/11 to lubricate the highway to war, THAT’S THE apologizing profusely November, following months of spouting anti- sparked attention across the nation. The contends global warming is artifice, suspects MILLION- for the clutter, the government bloviations online, the longtime Raw Story vacuumed up 32,000 “likes” of its the media are “state-run,” and reckons the DOLLAR papers, the baby seat. North Miami Beach cop was arrested while coverage of Harrell. Hundreds of people shot Sandy Hook tragedy was staged to warm Amer- QUESTION.” Then, with a big goofy staging a solitary protest against Obama care at friend requests to Harrell on Facebook. Ques- icans to the idea that guns should be banned. grin, he withdrew a busy intersection in Plantation. The broad tions bubbled: Did the arrest infringe upon From the assassination of JFK to Barack his Guy Fawkes mask, popularized in the man hoisted an inverted American flag and his First Amendment rights? Should cops re- Obama’s birth certification, conspiracy theo- movie V for Vendetta, along with Dracula’s wore a cape and a mask showing the counte- frain from airing controversial personal views ries have long seduced Americans for the way cape and cowl. “Here they are!” he cackled. nance of Guy Fawkes — a revolutionary figure in public? And was Harrell, who’s vested they make sense of often-messy realities. And “I take these with me wherever I go.” in the 1600s who today encapsulates antigov- with grave power in our society, insane? in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revela- He glanced up at the sky. “Wuh-oh,” Har- ernment sentiments. Within 15 minutes, two