Greed motivated these skinheads the Omaha.com headline informs. Specifically, “What motivated the group was much simpler than the race-based ideology of some of its members, said Mickey Leadingham, the resident agent in charge of Omaha’s field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ‘It was greed.'” And there I was thinking greed was good. Well, it is, if you’re a federal agent targeting racist skinheads for a headline grabbing bust. It makes everything so much easier. After all, “Operation Red Swastika was the first time that law enforcement officers tried the approach in Nebraska, authorities and prosecutors said. Violent groups that use home invasions to steal — and then sell — drugs and weapons aren’t often seen in this region.” But we can’t let a little thing like that stop the long arm of the law, can we? I mean, if hardened criminals don’t usually do home invasions—considering that most Nebraskans are not entirely unfamiliar with the rudiments of a firearms-based home defense—perhaps Johnny Law could kinda, you know, suggest it? You know, in theory.
