Go Ahead And Bring Your Guns. We've Got 'Em Too - #372

#372 HUTAREE MILITIA
GOOFY BASTARDS WITH GUNS AND BIBLES IN MICHIGAN

Wow. It's the 90s all over again!

Remember 15 years ago when groups like the Hutaree Militia were sprouting all over the country like mushrooms on a lawn after a spring rain? They were enraged that Big Bill was even IN the White House because they were terrified that he was going to take their guns away.

They would refuse to have social security numbers or license plates on their cars and shoot cops who'd pull them over because they believed it was one more step on the route to taking their guns away.

Then they screamed that the storage codes on the backs of road signs were actually instructions to invading UN armies that were going to enslave us, chain Patriots into boxcars for transport to prison camps before taking their guns away.

Their last hurrah was the coming Y2K Event, which they claimed would lead ino the collapse of Western Civilization. Power would go out, grocery stores would not be able to get food, utilities would no longer be able to provide us with fresh water and/or power, airplanes would be falling out of the sky and Big Bill would take their guns away.

Well, it's been 10 years since Y2K. Guess what? We're still here. The power didn't go out, the water was still running, airplanes were still flying back and forth, you can still get groceries, along with everything else and people I know who had them before still have their guns.

But some people just can't accept it. They just KNOW that Jesus is coming to call all of us to judgement. Our latest 'crime' was electing a black man President of the United States. This, groups like the Hutaree Militia claim, is a sign of the antichrist.

Hutaree was FURIOUS at even the EXISTENCE of someone who would tell them what they could or could not do. In their minds, they equated this with 'tyranny' and 'the antichrist,' instead of equating it with ' following the law.'

Hutaree planned to kill a cop and then attack cops that came to the first cops funeral with IED's and explosively formed projectiles. Nine members of the Hutaree organization were charged with seditious conspiracy, plans to use a weapon of mass destruction, teaching the Use of Explosives Materials and posession of a firearm during a crime of violence.

The FBI nailed eight of the nine members charged in the indictment. Two days later, the ninth member surrendered at a house 30 miles away when he was surrounded by FBI agents and THEY all had guns too.

With thanks to TPM Muckraker and the Associated Press.

S. Olson