Exactly!
I read that there wasn’t a single incident and believe it because had there been the enemedia would have jumped all over it.
“”In April 2007, six militia members were arrested for various weapons and explosives violations. Open source reporting alleged that those arrested had discussed and conducted surveillance for a machinegun attack on Hispanics.””
The militia story from April 2007 represents a ridiculous failure by the “open source” analysts at DHS, who are presenting a discredited story. Maybe Google can help.
Machine-gunning down hapless Mexicans? Pretty serious stuff. Odd that wasn’t mentioned to the defense attorney or in the initial press reports. The Southern Poverty Law Center, not a group that is naturally sympathetic to this sort of behavior, picks up the story:
At a May 1 bail hearing, ATF agent Adam Nesmith seemed to testify that the government had evidence of the five militia members plotting a machine-gun attack on Mexican immigrants in the nearby town of Remlap. Nesmith described a reconnaissance mission the militia allegedly conducted in Remlap and told the judge, “There was a plan to attack a group of Mexicans in the Remlap area with their machine guns.” The judge denied bail, and the alleged backwoods militia machine-gun plot made news across the country. One typical headline the day after the bail hearing read, “Alabamians planned to machine gun Mexicans.”
But there is no mention of any specific plan to kill Mexicans in the search warrant affidavits or any other court document related to the Alabama Free Militia defendants, and the ATF says Nesmith’s testimony was misconstrued. [ATF regional director] Cavanaugh told the Intelligence Report that Nesmith did not mean to suggest that the defendants plotted to machine-gun Mexicans. What Nesmith meant to convey, Cavanaugh said, is that the militia members were planning to steal machine guns from Mexicans in Remlap — not to shoot the Mexicans with machine guns. “The purpose of the [reconnaissance] trip described by the agent in the testimony was to go to those Latinos and take their machine guns, which the militia believed them to possess,” Cavanaugh said.
“members were planning to steal machine guns from Mexicans” This is just shabby work from DHS. More AT LINK about the other cases listed by the DHS sleuths.
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