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Breaking: Militia group (Hutaree) charged with "seditious conspiracy" by FBI
Fox News ^ | Mar 29, 2010 9:25 am | Foxnews (Live broadcast)

Posted on 03/29/2010 7:51:38 AM PDT by BP2


No link yet, only from live broadcast:

In a press release just handed to Fox by the FBI, the six Michigan residents, two from Ohio, one from Indiana are charged with “seditious conspiracy.”

Reportedly, Hutaree is accused of attempted use of weapons of mass destruction. Charges range from August 2008 to today.

The militia group Hutaree are said to have conspired to oppose by force the authority of the US Government.

The members viewed local, state and federal law enforcement as "the brotherhood," also known as their enemy, and have been preparing, the FBI says, to engage them in armed conflict.

According to one plan released by the FBI, the group was to kill a law enforcement officer, then during the funeral precession, hit again with IEDs to kill more LEOs.


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To: Siouxz

I am. Just because the Obama administration is making a big hoo-ha about their latest enemy doesn’t mean these aren’t really bad dudes.

In fact, it would be pretty standard for thugs like the Obama administration to find a very unpopular and unsavory group and overinflate their threat.

They want headlines like “Right Wing Violence?”

Much lower-hanging fruit with animal rights wackos, but you won’t see them as a target.


61 posted on 03/29/2010 8:08:02 AM PDT by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: mnehring
If they act like Muslim terrorists, there is nothing Christian nor patriotic about this group.

There's a whole lot of "if's" attached to this story, quoting anonymous sources, and CAIR and SPLC are at the center of it fanning the flames.

62 posted on 03/29/2010 8:08:24 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: xzins
-- Crime of Violence: this is the only thing that sounds like it could have meat on its bones ... --

Making a hoax bomb threat is a crime of violence. I kid you not, looked it up when that Ashton Lundeby kid was sent to prison.

63 posted on 03/29/2010 8:08:34 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Joe 6-pack

one man’s violent fanatasy is another man’s movie script

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23365246-president-bush-assassinated-in-new-tv-docudrama.do


64 posted on 03/29/2010 8:08:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
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To: brownsfan

Is there even a charge of Sedition still on the books? They come and go.

Treason is written in our constitution. That is siding with the enemy in a time of war.

I oppose sedition in our nation. I also know that there are countless organizations on the Left that seek seditious overthrow of our form of government and are never charged even when they riot in the cause of sedition.


65 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: ChinaThreat

Sounds to me like this entire case is based on an informant who told the Feds exactly what they wanted him to say.


66 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: 9YearLurker
-- My guess is the feds have infiltrated almost all such groups, going back before Obama was in office. --

If not infiltrated, under covert surveillance. You can bet that all communications by these yokels is monitored.

67 posted on 03/29/2010 8:09:55 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: BP2
According to one plan released by the FBI, the group was to kill a law enforcement officer, then during the funeral precession, hit again with IEDs to kill more LEOs.

Something doesn't smell right. If they were planning on doing this then fine, arrest them all. Their "doctrine" however doesn't support this behavior...

Why weren't these places raided?

68 posted on 03/29/2010 8:10:19 AM PDT by TSgt (When the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: AmishDude

These folks, as I’ve stated,

were “easily vilified”.

Next step, play up the “Christian” angle so that the next Christian group targeted is guilty by association.

Anyone watch “V”? They used the same tactic with the doctors.


69 posted on 03/29/2010 8:10:19 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Siouxz
I’m not buying this.

Me neither. They sound more like left wing anarchists if this "story" is correct. Why go after police officers?
Criminals and gangs aren't right wing, so why refer to them as a militia?
If anything, I smell a little left wing spin here. Lately, the left has been going berserk - shooting people and flying planes into buildings and such.

70 posted on 03/29/2010 8:10:24 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: BP2
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
71 posted on 03/29/2010 8:10:43 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: BP2
Fox speculated that the online videos may have help alert officials about the group.

No doubt. The time of freedom online is over. Should be a lesson to all of us. FR is no doubt being monitored as well.

72 posted on 03/29/2010 8:10:45 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Control the American people? Herding cats would be easier.)
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To: Siouxz
One of the Hutaree members called a Michigan militia leader for assistance Saturday after federal agents had already began their raid, Lackomar said, but the militia member -- who is of Islamic decent and had heard about the threats -- declined to offer help. That Michigan militia leader is now working with federal officials to provide information on the Hutaree member for the investigation, Lackomar said Sunday. from Detroit News
73 posted on 03/29/2010 8:10:47 AM PDT by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre?)
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To: BP2

sure they were. Now this is smelling alot worse.


74 posted on 03/29/2010 8:11:12 AM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Mad Dawgg
it's starting

Those were my exact thoughts when I saw this article.

75 posted on 03/29/2010 8:11:30 AM PDT by riri (Resistance-It's the New Black)
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To: BP2

Never let a good crisis go unused. I would guess there are a few work groups figuring how to blame this on Pali, Beck, Limbaugh and the health care critics.


76 posted on 03/29/2010 8:11:52 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: penelopesire

It’s simple. They were targeting Muslim police!


77 posted on 03/29/2010 8:12:03 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: verity

[Innocent until proven guilty.]

Perhaps some of Eric Holders friends will represent them pro-bono


78 posted on 03/29/2010 8:12:12 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence)
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To: Cboldt

Now, if you’re sitting around with your buds and you say, “Damn, I’d love to blow up that hateful mosque” and the Man is listening in, and you’ve got your rifle in your lap, does that constitute “crime of violence in possession of a firearm?”


79 posted on 03/29/2010 8:12:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Siouxz

Obama ok’ed the hit because no Muslims or blacks involved?

Otherwise, cracking down on terrorism = going after Christian Conservative whites in Obama’s world of pro-terror associates?


80 posted on 03/29/2010 8:12:43 AM PDT by OldArmy52 (Christmas 2009: Democrats give us Obama Cr*pCare, the t*rd that keeps on stinking.)
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