Posted on 10/17/2003 10:29:17 AM PDT by FourPeas
Militia member 'filled with rage,' plotted ambush Friday, October 17, 2003 By Ed White
It was a rural arsenal fit for war. After the peaceful arrest of a Cadillac-area man, authorities who searched his 40-acre compound discovered a stunning collection of firepower, including an anti-aircraft gun capable of firing 550 rounds per minute up to four miles away. A van and a Jeep Cherokee, described by the suspect as his "war wagons," had machine guns inside, with one "locked, loaded and ready to go," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lloyd Meyer said. Agents found an underground bunker, thousands of rounds of ammunition, hundreds of pounds of gunpowder and manuals on guerrilla warfare, "booby traps" and explosives. There were chilling pictures of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the cross-hairs of a high- see MILITIA, A4 powered rifle scope drawn over them, Meyer said. Norman Somerville, 43, was arrested last week on federal gun and drug charges as he shopped at Home Depot in Cadillac. Authorities then spent the weekend combing his property in Wexford County's Antioch Township, about 20 miles northwest of Cadillac. Details of the search were disclosed in a court document filed Thursday in federal court in Grand Rapids, four days before a judge will decide whether Somerville should remain in jail while his case is pending. Somerville was "filled with rage and intended to ambush people, mowing them down in a hail of machine-gun bullets," Meyer said, quoting informants. He belongs to a "self-styled radical militia unit" whose members are upset over the death of Scott Woodring, the prosecutor said. Woodring was the Newaygo County man fatally shot by state police during the summer, days after a trooper died while trying to serve him with an arrest warrant. State police were told in September that Somerville wanted to cause a car accident, then "ambush and kill" any responding officers with a machine gun mounted in his Jeep, Meyer wrote in the court document. An unidentified source, described as one of Somerville's "trusted associates," feared he had become "mentally unbalanced and would kill an innocent person or be killed," Meyer said. Somerville may face additional charges linked to the search of his property, although Meyer declined to elaborate. Two years ago, Somerville moved to Wexford County from elsewhere in northern Michigan. He served in the Army from 1978 to 1984 and was trained as an intelligence analyst assigned to the elite Special Forces. During a brief court appearance last week in Grand Rapids, Somerville said: "The people will have their day. ... There's a quiet civil war going on in the country." In Antioch Township, five miles outside Mesick, neighbors said he is not the type to share a cup of sugar. "We told our kids to stay off his property. There was gunfire a lot," said Lynda Sherburne, a former township clerk who lives nearby. "Who knows where the stray bullets are going. "He got angry very easily. No contact with him was the best contact." Sherburne said her nephew's house shook as state and federal authorities detonated explosives found on Somerville's property. "I don't think anyone realized he was stockpiling back there," she said.
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And was it not Jesus Himself who told his apostles that if they had two cloaks, to sell one and buy a sword?You're going to have to cite Biblical chapter and verse so we can all observe how close to actuality your words are and in what context this was spoken ...
And I would not be so proud of having to ask government "permission" to exercise a RIGHT granted by GOD. All that does is give them a list of who is KNOWN to own weapons when the crackdown comes. You're actually OK with this?
The ONLY TIME government has any business whatsoever knowing who has what weapon is when that government has ISSUED that weapon to someone. Otherwise, for obvious reasons, it is NEVER good for ANY level of government to have such knowledge. In the cases of ACTUAL (as opposed to potential) misuse of a weapon, government in a FREE society has the authority to apprehend and prosecute the misuser, presuming he survives an encounter with an armed citizen. That is ALL the authority government has. READ the Constitution for the United States with your mind open to what the Founders actually MEANT and not what a socialistically-inclined modern FedGov WANT it to mean.
IIRC, you are mostly on the side of the gun-grabbers.
Marine, like I said before, my simple refusal to answer is not repeat not indicative of any stance on the Second I have ... witness from here:
To: Steve Van DoornMarine, I think you owe me an apology ...Wow we agree on something
One of those street-perps in Muskegon, Michigan robbed, then was preparing to rape one of my aged aunts IN HER OWN HOME -
- she laid him out with three shots from the .357 her late husband used to carry as a bailiff.
A firearm *is* the greatest equalizer ...
46 posted on 01/14/2002 5:18 PM PST by _Jim
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I just did a quick check this evening for the 'Libery' net too - they are on 3947.5 KHz LSB tonight (2.5 KHz below the usual 3950 KHz spot) due to other traffic present on 3950 ...
The 'border blasters' started operating in the '30s, though not at the power that they did later.
I remember listening to one from Del Rio, TX when I was a kid in NE Illinois in the '40s.
Incidently, singer Slim Whitman got his start on the 'border blasters'.
I get a little magazine about old-time radio called 'Nostalgia Digest'.
The spring 2003 issue had an article about the 'border blasters'.
My recollection is a personal recollection of such stations coming out of Del Rio as XERF ... growing up in the Chicago - Grand Rapids - Detriot triangle we didn't hear a lot of other stations from the southwest part of the world - but I remember the 'corn' coming out of Del Rio!
According to the article I referenced earlier XER, XERA and XERF all operated out of Del Rio.
I don't remember the call letters of the one I listened to, but it played country music at night when I tuned in.
This is when it played country music and this is what I remember.
Later it was again renamed as XERF and its power dropped to 250K watts.
I was waiting for someone to take this position. There's always at least one. You totally missed my point. This guy may or may not be a nut case, but the newspaper articles were hit pieces designed to demonize the guy. Observe the use of the words "compound" and "anti-aircraft gun." Observe the quotes from unnamed sources. Nothing about getting a statement from the guy himself. Oh no. You can rest assured that his side will NEVER get heard. Particularly if he isn't a "nut case", as you are apparently all too ready o believe from reading the agenda driven mainstream press.
This BS is blatently obvious propaganda fabricated either in whole or in part by jackboot licking marxist lackeys in the press. And once the make their agenda so obvious, what else have they distorted or completely. My guess is almost everything. SO who knows the truth? The government - maybe. But do you actually think that after Waco you can trust them. Not me brother.
That's only on the pro-pot threads! Everywhere else on Free Republic the First Amendment is still in effect.
For those of us who have taken the oath to enlist in the military, the Constitution IS a suicide pact.
Is it HCI week or something on FR? The militia is NOT the national guard, Sara Brady's wishes notwithstanding.
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