{"id":18270,"date":"2010-03-29T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18270"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:35:10","slug":"militia-raids-by-feds-in-three-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18270","title":{"rendered":"Militia Raids by Feds in three states"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that the FBI raided several enclaves of militia groups in three states this weekend, resulting in several arrests;<\/p>\n

Federal warrants were sealed, but FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said there had been activity in two southwest Michigan counties near the Ohio state line. She wouldn’t say whether they were tied to the raids in the other states.<\/p>\n

FBI spokesman Scott Wilson in Cleveland said agents arrested two people Saturday after raids in two towns in Ohio. A third arrest was made in northeast Illinois on Sunday, a day after a raid took place just over the border in northwest Indiana.<\/p>\n

A U.S. official told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity that some of the people arrested face gun charges. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Fox mentions only three arrests, the Detroit News<\/a> says there were seven in Michigan alone;<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a source close to the investigation in Washington, D.C. confirmed that FBI agents were conducting activities in Washtenaw and Lenawee counties over the weekend in connection to Hutaree, a Christian militia group. Detroit FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold told The Detroit News the federal warrants in the case are under court seal and declined further comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is difficult to tell what beef the Feds had with the militia groups from the reportage, but nonetheless, the Left (most noticeably, Little Green Footballs) is using the raids to prove that there are terrorists on the Right who are a bigger threat to our security than the others. Another Left Winger, at The Reaction<\/a>, says it’s about time;<\/p>\n

For all the focus of Islamic jihadism, which indeed deserves such focus, it’s about time Americans woke up and realized that one of the truly gravest threats to their country comes from within, from far-right militia groups, usually linked either to Nazism or to Christianity (or to both).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought Nazism IS Christianity. That’s what I get from trolling the depths of Leftist *ahem* thought.<\/p>\n

Of course, on Friday, when the militia groups actually helped police in Michigan, Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center’s chief bomb-thrower was quick to disparage the groups helping police<\/a> search for lost people;<\/p>\n

One militia watchdog group said the township supervisor crossed a line by enlisting help from the local militia.<\/p>\n

“When officials welcome people like this in their capacity as militias, they help mainstream these ideas and these ideas can become dangerous,” said Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess Potok wants to outlaw “ideas”.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> According to Fox News<\/a>, the arrestees had been planning to kill cops.<\/p>\n

Nine suspects tied to a militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement people, federal prosecutors said Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one I know does that – and it’s pretty likely that other militia groups aided police.<\/p>\n

ADDED: Some guy named MOTHAX at The Burn Pit<\/a> wrote some familiar-sounding stuff today in relation to the SPLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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