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From: "Edward Britton" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010
Subject: Here We Go Again^2 : "Christian Militia" Accused of Plotting to Kill
Cops
I don't get this. Are 'militias ('Christian' or otherwise)' a PRN kind
of thing? Do they go away/dormant whenever repub-flavored statists are
in office and get 'juiced' for duty when dem-flavored ones are in
power? Do they keep them in some special government warehouse
someplace, a-la Area 51, along with all the other bogeymen/arch-villains
which any particular junta might need from year to year? If so, how
many of these bogeyman storage facilities exist across the country?
What can we expect the next 'conservative' sock puppets to pull out of
their collected asses? Another Osama, or can we go back to Square One
with Simon LeGree? Moreover, has any Nexus of Evil think tank
published an 'official' script for this dimestore crap? Can I get a
copy for bathroom reading, or must I *constantly* be forced to 'wait for
the movie.'
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Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100329/D9EOISE80.html
Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops
Mar 29, 5:48 PM (ET)
By COREY WILLIAMS and DEVLIN BARRETT
DETROIT (AP) - Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that
was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with
plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing
the funeral - all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S.
government.
Seven men and one woman believed to be part of the Michigan-based
Hutaree were arrested over the weekend in raids in Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio, and another was still being sought. Authorities blocked off a
rural area Monday evening about 30 miles from the site of Saturday's
raid near Adrian but wouldn't say who they were searching for or whether
the search was related to the weekend raids.
FBI agents moved quickly against the group because its members were
planning an attack sometime in April, prosecutors said. Authorities
seized guns in the raids but would not say whether they found any
explosives.
The arrests have dealt "a severe blow to a dangerous organization that
today stands accused of conspiring to levy war against the United
States," Attorney General Eric Holder said.
Authorities said the arrests underscored the dangers of homegrown
right-wing extremism of the sort seen in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
that killed 168 people.
In an indictment unsealed Monday, prosecutors said the group began
military-style training in the Michigan woods in 2008, learning how to
shoot guns and make and set off bombs.
David Brian Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich., and one of his sons were
identified as the ringleaders of the group. Stone, who was known as
"Captain Hutaree," organized the group in paramilitary fashion and
members were assigned secret names, prosecutors said. Ranks ranged from
"radoks" to "gunners," according to the group's Web site.
Stone's ex-wife, Donna Stone, told The Associated Press that Stone
pulled her son into the movement. Another of Stone's sons also was charged.
"It started out as a Christian thing," Donna Stone said. "You go to
church. You pray. You take care of your family. I think David started to
take it a little too far."
Prosecutors said Stone had identified certain law enforcement officers
near his home as potential targets. He and other members discussed
setting off bombs at a police funeral, using a fake 911 call to lure an
officer to his death, killing an officer after a traffic stop, or
attacking the family of an officer, according to the indictment.
After such attacks, the group allegedly planned to retreat to "rally
points" protected by trip-wired explosives for a violent standoff with
the law.
"It is believed by the Hutaree that this engagement would then serve as
a catalyst for a more widespread uprising against the government," the
indictment said.
The charges against the eight include seditious conspiracy - plotting to
levy war against the U.S. - possessing a firearm during a crime of
violence, teaching the use of explosives, and attempting to use a weapon
of mass destruction - homemade bombs. The defendants were jailed,
awaiting bail hearings Wednesday.
Hutaree says on its Web site its name means "Christian warrior" and
describes the word as part of a secret language that few are privileged
to know. The group quotes several Bible passages and declares: "We
believe that one day, as prophecy says, there will be an Anti-Christ.
... Jesus wanted us to be ready to defend ourselves using the sword and
stay alive using equipment."
The nature of the organization's alleged grudge against law enforcement
and the government was unclear. The Web site does not list any specific
grievances.
The site features a picture of 17 men in camouflage, all holding large
guns, and includes videos of armed men running through the woods. Each
wears a shoulder patch that bears a cross and two red spears.
David Cid, executive director of the Oklahoma City-based Memorial
Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, said there has been a
resurgence in the past year or two of "domestic militancy" similar to
what was seen before the Oklahoma City bombing.
"It's issues like eminent domain and immigration, and apparently
national health care in some quarters," said Cid, a former FBI
counterterrorism agent. "It's increasing these people's ire and their
discomfort with their own government."
The wife of one of the defendants described Hutaree as a small group of
patriotic, Christian buddies who were just doing survival training.
"It consisted of a dad and two of his sons and I think just a couple
other close friends of theirs," said Kelly Sickles, who husband,
Kristopher, was among those charged. "It was supposed to be a Christian
group. Christ-like, right, so why would you think that's something wrong
with that, right?"
Sickles said she came home Saturday night to find her house in Sandusky,
Ohio, in disarray. Agents seized the guns her husband collected as a
hobby and searched for bomb-making materials, she said, but added: "He
doesn't even know how to make a bomb. We had no bomb material here."
She said she couldn't believe her 27-year-old husband could be involved
in anything violent.
"It was just survival skills," she said. "That's what they were
learning. And it's just patriotism. It's in our Constitution."
One of the defendants expressed anti-tax views during his Monday court
hearing.
Thomas W. Piatek, a truck driver from Whiting, Ind., told a federal
judge he could not afford an attorney because he was "getting raped on
property taxes."
The mother of another defendant, 33-year-old Jacob Ward, told police in
Huron, Ohio, last summer that family members took away his two guns - an
AK-47 rifle and a semiautomatic pistol - because she thought he needed
mental health treatment.
Ward told police that he needed to protect himself from members of a
crime family that was keeping him from his girlfried, according to Huron
police records obtained by the AP. He also said he was going to meet
with the CIA.
Seven of the defendants in court in Michigan asked to be represented by
public defenders. The eighth had a public defender appointed in Indiana.
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