the informant fear and faith in the heartland

ABC News has announced that George Stephanopoulos ( Good Morning America, This Week with George Stephanopoulos) is launching a new production unit at ABC News called George Stephanopoulos Productions (GSP).A terrible indictment of the growing xenophobia in the US and a reminder of the need for ordinary people to be heroes. The hatred of the three men conspiring to kill hundreds of innocent people is terrifying. How do I rate The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland? Which begs the question: why isn’t this receiving the marketing and promotion it deserves? I searched for this documentary on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb and found nothing. Would you be capable of doing what is right and protect the lives of innocent strangers even though it puts your own life at risk? Thought provoking stuff indeed. What The Informant leaves you with is the somewhat disquieting proposition of what you would do in Day’s position. He doesn’t describe himself as a hero, just a patriot. Despite his irrefutable heroism, Day’s humbleness is evident in his diffidence when he meets the very people whose lives he saved. Knowing the FBI needed someone on the inside, Day agreed to infiltrate the group as an FBI informant.įor almost 15 months he pretended to go along with the group’s plans, reporting back to the FBI and wearing a wire enabling the FBI to tape the group’s conversations. After unwittingly becoming aware of the militia, he informed the FBI of his concerns about the group and their activities. Thankfully, the attack was thwarted, and that was down to one man.ĭan Day is an ordinary man who did something extraordinary. Their recorded discussions about killing innocent people they refer to as “cockroaches” and revelling in the idea of shooting Somali babies are beyond repugnant, and all the more chilling as the three men planning the attack are but a tiny tip of the white supremacist iceberg. Not only did it fuel Stein’s already fervent hatred, his run for the presidency also determined the day the attack was to take place – the day after the 2016 election so as not to sway voters away from electing Trump into the White House. An attack that had the potential to kill hundreds of men, women and children.ĭonald Trump’s candidacy and anti-Muslim rhetoric played a large part in the planned attack. Driven by Islamophobia and the arrival of Patrick Stein, the trio planned an attack on the local Somali population by bombing their makeshift mosque and the apartment complex they lived on. Except for two men who broke away from the local 3%er militia and formed their own group they named The Crusaders. Garden City Kansas is a richly diverse community where for the most part people of all races get along peaceably.

New on Hulu, The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland is the true story of how one man risked his and his family’s lives to stop a terror attack. The war on terror remains headline news, but the threat of attack doesn’t always come from outside.

The informant fear and faith in the heartland