[Peace-discuss] Feds make up another one, with Maddow as cheerleader?

[C. G. Estabrook]

	The Hutaree and MSNBC Militias
	Scott Horton, March 30, 2010

Over the weekend in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, eight men of the “Hutaree 
Militia” were arrested (a ninth turned himself in Monday), and all have been 
charged with “seditious conspiracy,” “attempting to use weapons of mass 
destruction,” and firearms violations. Two of the nine are charged with 
“instructing” others how to make bombs. The indictment [.pdf] charges that these 
member of the so-called Hutaree Militia had plans to lure cops into various 
ambushes in furtherance of their plan for war against the Antichrist.

All the rest of the Michigan militias are telling the press that they had 
nothing to do with the accused, having long considered them trouble, and they 
reportedly even refused some of the Hutarees sanctuary once the arrests began.

A safe first guess on a case like this is that the Feds have just made up 
another one. The formula is always the same for them: Find a person or a small 
group of people who are gullible and bordering on criminal, then trick them into 
saying, or sometimes even doing, something stupid and/or evil. See for example 
the Miami 7, the Detroit 5, the Lodi 1, the NY 2, the NY 4…

In this case it seems that the self-proclaimed militia leader and his son 
somehow joined up with a very strange character named Khristopher Sickels and a 
few others and planned to make IEDs and use them against local police.

The funny part is, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported Monday, “The FBI had 
infiltrated the group for several months,” attributing this information to 
Detroit News 4, though the closest thing this writer can find to that on their 
Web site is the assertion that “federal authorities had been monitoring the 
Hutaree members for some time.”

I’m betting Maddow’s interpretation that they had actually been infiltrated is 
accurate and that the worst of whatever these people actually did was at the 
urging of said federal agent.

(By the way, does “weapons of mass destruction” have a definition at all these 
days? It started out as a cute way for the empire to conflate mustard gas with 
hydrogen bombs, but now rifles and homemade land mines – at least in the hands 
of non-U.S. government employees – are included as well.)

Maddow, as Lew Rockwell pointed out on Monday, was beside herself with glee at 
the prospect of these citizens being tried by the federal government for 
“seditious conspiracy,” which, as she put it, is an “obscure 19th-century law” 
which allows the national government to imprison people who haven’t actually 
done anything. Wow, that really is “interesting.”

And if you stay tuned for the next segment, you can watch Maddow push her expert 
guest to conflate everyone to the right of her into the imminent threat of the 
right-wing populist, Patriot, neo-Nazi, End Timeser, abortion-doctor killer, 
Republican, Tea Party Armed Insurrection of Danger! He refused, but this Maddow 
lady is only getting started. Just wait till she becomes director-for-life of 
the New National Homeland FEMA Camp, Northern Command. We’ll all be seditious 
terrorist-hate-crime-enemy-belligerents.

You’ll wish you’d joined a militia then.

But anyway…

Over at the Reason blog Brian Doherty caught more liberals cheering on the 
police state and recommended a great article, “The Paranoid Center,” by Jesse 
Walker. And at LRC, Anthony Gregory asks why Maddow left out the role of end 
times beliefs in mass support for the government’s aggressive foreign policy in 
the Middle East.

Full article with links at
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/03/30/the-hutaree-and-msnbc-militias/#idc-container

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