Posted on 03/28/2010 5:39:13 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
ADRIAN, Mich. The FBI said Sunday that agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least one of the raids was a Christian militia group.
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said there had been activity in two southeast Michigan counties near the Ohio state line. She wouldn't say whether they were tied to the raids in the other states.
Michael Lackomar, a spokesman for the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, said one of his team leaders got a frantic phone call Saturday evening from members of Hutaree, a Christian militia group, who said their property in southwest Michigan was being raided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"They said they were under attack by the ATF and wanted a place to hide," Lackomar said. "My team leader said, 'no thanks.' "
In Michigan, police swarmed a rural, wooded property around 7 p.m. Saturday outside Adrian, about 70 miles southwest of Detroit, said Evelyn Reitz, who lives about a half-mile away. She said several police cars, with lights flashing, were still there Sunday evening and 15 to 20 officers were stationed in the area.
"They're your average, nice neighbors," Holtz said. There were rumors about ties to a militia, but Holtz she knew nothing of that from her interaction with them.
One of the raids in Ohio occurred at Bayshore Estates, a trailer park in Sandusky, a small city on Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland, park manager Terry Mills said. Authorities blocked off the street for about an hour Saturday night, he said.
"Needless to say, this has everyone talking," said Mills, 62. "We have a lot of retirees here who don't want all this commotion."
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MS-13 drug gangs are all over the country actually comitting violent crimes.
I agree. Something is weird.
The radical leftists in Washington are in big political trouble right now. They need a boogie man. A BIG boogie man. A real SCARY boogie man - an imagined boogie man.
An imagined boogie man can be as big and as scary as they want it to be.
Like I posted in another thread, these raids are "shots over the bow" of The USS "Tea Party America".
Obama knows civil disobedience is close and the message sent is: "Disobey and you are next..."
Their need for a boogie man in this instance is a misfire.
I can find some off-beat things about this group, but I sure don’t see anything scary.
And while the hundreds of feds were occupied doing this raid this weekend, I wonder what came into our country (or maybe left same)? I am reading that CAIR has made statements that cause me to scratch my head... how do they know some of the facts of the case before these 3 or 4 or whatever number are arraigned?
CAIR abetting another radical group in setting this raid up to keep feds busy while some radical throat-slitting, bomb-throwing, goat-screwers skip across our borders with, what?
I don't trust nobody, no how, no way, no more.
I would add "...and DON'T be stupid enough to have a FREAKING WEBSITE!". These are the days of flying under the radar.
LOL/There would be no one left doing the 'news' per MSM. . .and our Universities would be in trouble.
Some damned queer posted highly objectionable stuff on their public forum.
Wow. Other militia groups ran like cowards.
When I saw the “Evil Jew” Thread on the forum I thought for usre Obama would approve!
Stories like these that detail the use of overwhelming LEO presence against citizens will change the public opinion of law enforcement from positive to negative.
I think it was sarcasm.
There are suspect mosques and Islamic ‘camps’ in several locations throughout the country that to my knowledge haven’t been so much as touched either.
“I wonder what the actual charges are.”
Being white Being Christian. Being armed.
you forgot “and being organized”.
Early in the day, yesterday, I read a link on Drudge that gave the ‘reason’ everyone is asking about;
“the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations. “
Surprisingly, on several different threads, no one was familiar with it.
>Stories like these that detail the use of overwhelming LEO presence against citizens will change the public opinion of law enforcement from positive to negative.
I think that’s already happening; and not undeservedly, here’s my encounter with Law Enforcement:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2469178/posts?page=41#41
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