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Mich. militia members cleared of charges that accused them of plotting war against government
The Washington Post ^ | March 27th 2012 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/28/2012 2:59:59 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg

DETROIT — A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government’s case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war.

U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said the members’ expressed hatred of law enforcement didn’t amount to a conspiracy to rebel against the government. The FBI had secretly planted an informant and an FBI agent inside the Hutaree militia starting in 2008 to collect hours of anti-government audio and video that became the cornerstone of the case.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 2012; banglist; donttreadonme; hutaree; hutareemilitia; liberty; militia
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To: Mad Dawg; TexasSecede79366
Something that should be carefully noted and hopefully remembered, concerns the use of agents provocateurs. Using English it would be provacators. Two men, one Murray and another Haug were "embedded" with the Hutaree. One got $31,000, I wonder how he spent it?

More to the point, is that some persons may foolishly listen to a plant and go along with some potentially criminal enterprise. If the provocator was not there, they may not have thought of what the agent suggested. Mention is of Soviet Russia. It was in Russia that the tactic of provocation was widely used pre communism. It was to Siberia the unfortunates that were entrapped were sent. The communists became no slouches in this regard when they got power. Nor are the British police innocent in this business.

It has been jokingly suggested that so called "white supremicist" groups, have more FBI plants than actual members. What I am trying to say is that people have to beware of the stranger. Two years waiting time in custody, a sentence in itself.

21 posted on 03/28/2012 10:05:45 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: TexasSecede79366
Sounds more like Soviet Russia than the US to me.


22 posted on 03/28/2012 11:38:49 AM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: cripplecreek

River Rasin basin ping.


23 posted on 03/28/2012 11:45:29 AM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: Mad Dawgg; Beckwith; Fred Nerks; LucyT

SO THE HUTEREE NINE ARE COMPLETELY DISCHARGED !!!!

Thats great News. Where is the press ??

Holder should be impeached over this.

The truth is that an FBI Obama cadre tried to get the Hutaree to engage in a fire fight. It didn’t happen, thanks to the regular Michigan Militia who warned the Hutaree.

Earlier FR threads:

1)

Timing on Hutaree Raid Troubling

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2483015/posts

2)

Court official disputes prosecutors on Hutaree release conditions

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509402/posts

3)

Hutaree Raid: An extremely well-executed federal operation aimed at ... Oath Keepers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2483749/posts

4)

Who Is David Brian Stone, Leader Of The Hutaree Militia?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2482960/posts


24 posted on 03/28/2012 12:02:27 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info....http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Mad Dawgg

That’s typical of the MSM. The accusation goes on the front page and the retraction gets buried in the back of the classified section.


25 posted on 03/28/2012 12:08:29 PM PDT by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: Travis McGee

CWII pingworthy?


26 posted on 03/28/2012 12:20:53 PM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: Peter Libra

___ Hardly any different than the Randy Weaver case a couple decades ago——the biggest mouth in the club meetings was the FBI snitch. Wonder how this snitch is sleeping?


27 posted on 03/28/2012 2:02:43 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Peter Libra
Two years waiting time in custody, a sentence in itself.
Exactly the point made by the Feds. Even if you win you lose. From the little I've read about this if the Feds would have RICO'd them,they'd have nailed 'em.
28 posted on 03/28/2012 4:03:02 PM PDT by TexasSecede79366
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To: TexasSecede79366; cherokee1; Mad Dawg
FWIW.

I got a surprise on listening to our neigbours radio station yesterday. Mentioning the withdrawal of a guilty plea of an American local resident in court. This for his October last appearance in an Upper Michigan court.

I was able to get more details from the on-line Escanaba Daily Press. He is a 65 year old man,who is a builder around the Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan area. It is said he conveyed 4000 1bs of potential explosive material down the highway to Dafter, Michigan. He stored it in a person`s shed. The person is said to have informed authorities. (boys oh boys).

I can hardly think of a more tranquil enviroment that is the old highway passing by Dafter. Long since bypassed by the mammoth I 75 Interstate. Some talk of a terrible sentence that could be ten years. (Do not see that though). I do pray for the gentleman`s sake he can talk a good account. His lawyer already laying the basis for his defence. Trial is next month.

29 posted on 04/02/2012 9:21:12 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra
Further to my post. I had been a little hasty in my FWIW.

An informant wearing a wire..... turned him in.

30 posted on 04/02/2012 9:32:56 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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