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Another Press Release

Christian Militia Suspects at Mich., Ind. Hearings

Not guilty pleas have been entered in Michigan on behalf of eight of nine members of a Christian militia that prosecutors claim plotted to kill police officers and kick-start a violent revolution.

Notice how they were arrested for plotting an attack. As BigT said, thought crime?

Also, now they are a "Christian militia". Be prepared to see Christianity pushed forward more and more in the coming months as the new boogieman.

I just read an article about this issue, and there were some interesting things in it.
First, it seems that there is an allegation that they were "planning some things" that weren't very nice, but we don't really know for sure what "planning" really means in this case, so it's nebulous.

However, the charges are listed as "attempting" to do these things.
Now, I don't think that talking or thinking about doing something is the same as "attempting" to do something.
Another interesting quote in the article from the prosecutor was that they suspected that there was going to be a "violent reconnaissance trip" in April, which the prosecutor said was why the raid occurred.
The terms "violent" and "reconnaissance" don't go together. A reconnaissance trip is not a violent activity. It's an observational activity.

It smacks of "thought crime" to me.

Here is an interesting write-up that talks about the nation-wide response to the situation among the militia groups.

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/hutaree-raid-militia-...

Having received briefings from local formations in the intervening hours, it is plain that the best units in the southeast Michigan Area of Operations and contiguous areas understood what was happening almost immediately, that it was targeted at the Hutaree (who they had all been shunning for very good reasons for some time) and used their proximity to try to understand the OPFOR's movements and playbook. Some people were monitoring federal, state and local communications, others, unarmed and dressed in civvy's circulated around, testing the federal perimeters, noting force levels, agencies, armament. Testing, prodding, notetaking, learning. By doing this they learned far more about what was going on than the media knew at any given point. Some of this information I passed on to news organizations to help them ask the Feds the right questions.

The interesting thing here is what BigT was talking about: mistakes. Has the federal government, by conducting this campaign in the way that they did, they have given all of the militia groups something supremely valuable: intelligence. They now have a better view of tactics, deployment, and strategies that the government might use in future operations.

I have asked for an intelligence estimate of what it took to mount this huge operation in three states against a piddling number of people. Preliminary guesses are in the many hundreds, if not low thousands, of federal, state and local cops. The raiders were backed up by armored vehicles and air cover. All to arrest 7, count 'em, 7 individuals for allegedly distributing destructive devices -- pipe bombs.

Now, I admit that it takes a hell of a lot more folks to arrest someone as opposed to merely killing him, but the fact of the matter is that the same risk-aversion we see in the U.S. military these days is even more true of federal law enforcement.

If what they wanted to do was overawe us with this massive show of force, the fact of the matter is that it just demonstrated how overly-concerned they are about putting their own asses on the line and taking the risk of not living until retirement.

Very interesting.

As I scanned the Google News headlines, I was greeted with this article from Fox News:

Michigan Militia Group Preparing for Antichrist, Web Site Says

The Michigan-based Christian militia group raided by the FBI over the weekend is preparing for battle with the Antichrist, according to a Web site purportedly run by the group.

. . .

Hutaree was named in a list of 512 so-called active "patriot" groups in the U.S. last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center in its spring intelligence report on extremist organizations. Of those groups, 127 were militias, including Hutaree. The remaining groups, according to SPLC, engage in "groundless conspiracy theorizing" or advocate anti-government doctrines.

Yep, you definitely called that one, BigT (not that there was any doubt). I wonder if we fall into one of those patriot groups. If not, we should! :-D

Anyway, the one thing that jumps out to me in this is the demonizing of committed Christian groups. Now personally, I do not agree with the Hutaree's stance on fighting with arms (no offense, BigT). I personally am leaning heavily toward pacifist with the possible exception of self defense, but I greatly respect their strong stance against tyranny. But ever since 9/11 when they started talking about "religious fundamentalism", I knew this day was coming. I do not know much about this group, and they may very well have some messed up views. But the "problems" listed in the article would probably apply to a lot of peace-loving Christians.

It is time to stay on our toes as the end game is most definitely afoot. May good triumph again and hold back the forces of darkness for a while longer.

I know some of the boys up there, and I know Mark Koernke too.
From the initial reading of the press releases I did, this was an ADL/SPLC initiated op.
Most of the militia attacks by Federal law enforcement have been initiated by them.
They DO control the FBI policy, and that is not speculation.
Notice that the local LE has no problems with the militia, and actually works with them. But, the FEDS are out for their blood. This is a very key indicator.
It's a very similar pattern that also occurred during the 1990s.

I think an investigation needs to be held, to find out why the FBI is relying on the ADL/SPLC for their policy actions.
Not that we don't KNOW why. Of course we know why. But it needs to be revealed so that people can see.