The Hutaree Militia and Why Today’s Wingnuts Are Right Wing

Newsweek ^ | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | Eve Conant

[cpdiii]

National Socialists: 20 million murdered

Which was the NAZI party. The Nazis were not a right wing group as the media claims when it smears the conservatives. The Nazis were a SOCIALIST PARTY!!!

[Spok]

To the MSM, ALL Christians are responsible for the conduct of anyone who claims to be a Christian. The rule, of course, does not apply to Muslims.

[chippewaman]

The Obama administration ... now that’s scary.

[runninglips]

Thank you CICERO, calling them violent when there has not even been a charged violent act, is at best irresponsible, at worst intentionally incendiary. They are trying their best to ruin the reputations of the members of this group, and give them zero chance for fair public opinion, let alone a fair trial.

[CharlesWayneCT]

members of the violent Christian militia group.

Were they charged with a single actual act of violence? Or was it all talk?

I don't mind the idea of pre-emptive action against people who SAY they are going to commit murder, but you can't call them violent unless they have actually committed some violent act.

[runninglips]

The world won't miss these retards,

I sure hope you don't sit on a jury someday. Your even handed thought process is obvious to any that cares to look even casually at your words.

[runninglips]

Exactly, there is no “alleged” verbage being used by any media. I can’t wait until they imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, and stand trial in front of military tribunals....it could happen, and I would say there is a 50/50 chance of it. At the very least, they will be tried as terrorists, while the Ft Hood Mooslum will be well represented in a criminal trial.

[Reaganesque]

Well, at least they’re admitting in this story that left-wing crazies exist. That’s an improvement but, I sincerely doubt that they will admit to this admission if asked about it.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Saviours’ Day 2010 was the black equivalent of a large KKK meeting. What never is equivalent is the attention the Media gives to each side.

[runninglips]

I don't mind the idea of pre-emptive action against people who SAY they are going to commit____________(fill in the blank)

how about beat their wife? get drunk and drive? not pay their taxes? drive without a seat belt? OK, so you only want to do it with murder. What a great system, we can arrest 9 people, threaten them with life in prison, when one of them makes up a plausible story(with the help of LE) the others go to jail, the govt looks great, and one guy walks away after a hand slap.

Are you sure that you really believe what you wrote?

[MrB]

Did you see the “wedding photos”?

These people would be right out of central casting for a comedy making fun of a redneck wedding.

They were picked on purpose for takedown, because they ARE so cliche and “unsympathetic” - ie, “the world won’t miss them”.

Of course, the author of this hit piece made sure to use the word “Christian” in association with them.

[kcvl]

Eve Conant

As a college student traveling in Russia, she became entranced by the changes taking place.

“I was hanging out as student, but I wasn’t chronicling anything,” she says. She went back to school, and two years later moved back to Moscow.

She realized that working in journalism would be the perfect way for her to express the intricacies of a country in transition, a country for which she had a personal love. “I always thought the life of a foreign correspondent was a really sexy job,” she says. “It really attracted me. Once I got to Moscow, I already spoke Russian, and I realized I could do it. I was at a place where I could be doing it in a worthwhile way. And so those two things clicked.”

Conant started out her career on the assignment desk for NBC News and worked for Voice of America Radio. She also previously worked for Newsweek as a stringer in Moscow and in Washington, D.C. She has contributed to The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and Vogue.

In her new role at Newsweek, she hopes to “perfect” what she says Newsweek does best: staying ahead of the curve.

[Talisker]

Actually, the truth that no one here on FR wants to admit is that all of these so-called "wing-nuts" are libertarians. As such, they are aligned with the "Progressives" on some issues, and to the right of Conservatives on others.

Save the slander, and learn a little respect for the differences in conservative political thought before you start calling people wingnuts.

The libertarians you seem to want to put down are mostly people who recognize that government encroachment against rights can come from either side of the aisle. You may have heard about something called McCain-Feingold? How about the many overreaches done in the name of the War on Drugs? Liberty is liberty - someone who is fooled by labels is worthless in the fight to protect it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to cover it except Newsweek, did it really happen?

[Navy Patriot]

The Nazis were not a right wing group as the media claims when it smears the conservatives. The Nazis were a SOCIALIST PARTY!!!

Correct, and that was my point and the reason I used "National Socialist" instead of the more well known "NAZI" description, to get the correct word "socialist" in.

As a point of fact, the NAZIs were actually national communists, as opposed to the Russians who were international communists. Hitler was a communist who refused to take orders from Moscow, so he set up his own communist party in Germany, the NAZI party, pretty much as far left as you can get.

[Navy Patriot]

My Eve Conant is certainly a sweet little commie, its so fitting she’s a “journalist”.

[Arrowhead1952]

Eve Conant

Poor lady. Can’t even spell her own last name correctly. She got the first and last two right, but missed the second letter.

[Petruchio]

For its coverage of the Hutaree Militia story, Firedoglake.com carries Rachel Maddow’s extensive reporting of the FBI infiltration and capture of the members of the violent Christian militia group.

This is the first I see that the FBI infiltrated this group. Other articles say the plot was to kill a LEO and then kill again at the LEO funeral. I really wonder who came up with this whacky plot, the group or were they "inspired" by the infiltrator to think this way???

Hmmmm . . .

[Major Matt Mason]

How about the Crips. Or the Bloods. Or MS13. But going after those terrorists wouldn't be politically correct, would it?

[CharlesWayneCT]

If someone makes a plausible threat to beat up their wives, I think we should arrest them. We do have laws about threats and intimidation, and I think it’s reasonable.