The Eagles have landed

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“This is Candace Sierra at Wolf News, in light of the recent death of Reverend James Poplett, and the appearance of a second calling card, there is worry in the streets of Los Angeles over the vigilante actions of the Phantom Thieves and the Inquisitors. Today we have a panel on the issue of this brand of vigilantism, whether if there is any justification for taking the law into the hands and what causes people to take such actions.”

All around the city, men and women dressed in knocked-off fatigues, or biker-style vests can be seen loitering around and watching people with alarming frequency. Whether in camo or vest and jeans, they all have patches depicting an eagle carrying a musket rifle in its talons and wearing a tricorn hat.

As the rumors started to fly about their presence - especially when they start to step into people’s personal space to ‘examine’ them, the answer soon came in a series of flyers posted on telephone polls all over, and some obnoxious man covered all the public corkboards in UCLA with them, and they all have the same message:

“The 76 EAGLES are recruiting! FREEDOM is OUR CREED, WE THE PEOPLE are SICK OF TYRANTS and CRIMINALS ruling our streets! MUST BE 18 or OVER and A PROUD PATRIOT to join!!

Weekends are spent training and excerising OUR FREEDOMS with like-minded fellows, and helping FELLOW AMERICANS! Do not relay on THIEVES to solve our problems, TAKE ACTION WITH YOUR OWN HANDS! You will find we PLAY HARD and FIGHT HARD!

Miles Glazier will ACCEPT all TRUE PATRIOTS, visit 76EAGLES.US for how to sign up to SAVE AMERICA!!!!!!!!”

Anyone checking out the website will be blasted with an autoplay clip of the US army reveille, and the site was festooned with enough images of Old Glory, antique guns, and eagles to make one suspect it might be parody, but there is no indications anywhere that it’s anything but sincere, as browsing would lead to photographs of weekend missions, the milita’s newsletter and a mission statement declaring it to be a Milita out to do what the police can’t. The largest button is simply labeled JOIN US, and leads to an application form.