So the only crime is they made hand grenades and owned weapons. Anybody else find this case alarming? The government is disarming citizens just because they are armed...........
The article states they had no plans to do anything. HHMMMmmmm, yeah, the disarming of Americans continues........
They don't say what the drug is, it could be just pot.
I was a little alarmed. For a few reasons.
1. When I heard about the raid, I assumed it was a raid on illegal aliens.
2. They described Ruby Ridge as a shoot out between Randy Weaver and the FBI. What about his wife holding the baby, that was murdered?
3. The agent in charge was the same guy who mishandled Waco.
I hate to say it, but I wouldn’t trust him.
The "journalist" that wrote this article likely doesn't know a rifle from a hole in the ground.
If *I* was doing the writing...I'd be more worried about the guy who was picked up on drug charges, and all of the grenade/bomb making equipment. The guns, ammo, and the bumperstickers are legal!
It absolutely makes no sense to me that the disarming of Americans would be taking place especially when we are threatened by a bunch of lunatics who have promised to kill us all.
I too have a problem with these arrests. Here is who should have been arrested:
“In general, militias and patriot movements are anti-government and given to conspiracy theories and paranoia, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “
The SPLC is no better than Al Queda.
That's because FedGov fears armed peasants.
No, that's not all. From the article;
"Recovered from Cunningham's Collinsville home were stolen commercial fireworks, improvised hand grenades, fuse assemblies ...At Hughes' Crossville home, agents found 100 improvised hand grenades, 70 improvised hand grenades fired from the 37 mm rocket launch, a submachine gun and two silencers."
I see theft and 3-4 weapons violations right there, along with the fact that at least one of them was a fugitive and another a drug user.
Yes, it is alarming to what lengths the government will go to disarm the citizens of the United States. Don't make the mistake of elevating these dumb-a$$e$ into some sort of martyrs, though. They are criminals.
Just because the government has screwed up in the past, and will again, does not excuse these people's crimes. I am a firm believer that you can maintain an effective militia, w/o breaking federal/state/local laws in the process. The time for taking the law into our own hands isn't here; even if it is approaching faster than we'd like.
As a member of the Missouri 51st Militia, which is fairly inactive now, I do find this case alarming. Apparently several of them had done nothing wrong that they said. Maybe there's more to the story.
Carolyn