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Acquitted Militia Members Get 60 Guns Returned (MI)
guns.com ^ | 23 May, 2012 | dabneybailey

Posted on 05/24/2012 6:53:54 PM PDT by marktwain

Three members of a Michigan Hutaree militia group are getting back 60 guns between them, including rifles, handguns, shotguns, and AK47s.

Thomas Piatek, Tina Stone, and Michael Meeks were arrested as part of an FBI raid because of their involvement in plotting an anti-government revolt. The courts determined that the state was unable to prove its case, so these three and several others were acquitted and set free. Now that they're out of custody they're ready to get their weapons back.

Piatek's attorney, Arthur Weiss, explains that Piatek still has a Second Amendment right to own those firearms and the government no longer has any claim to them. US District Judge Victoria Roberts agreed and filed an order that would return the pile of firearms to their owners.

Weiss also argues that there's nothing remotely criminal about owning several dozen guns and close to 100,000 rounds of ammunition. In fact, one of the FBI agents who testified in the case confessed to owning more than 30 weapons.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: arthurweiss; banglist; constitution; hutaree; mi; michaelmeeks; michigan; thomaspiatek; tinastone; victoriaroberts
So it turned out to be a trumped up case, for political advantage, afterall.

I wonder how those people get their two years back. They should write a book about the political corruption that put them there.

1 posted on 05/24/2012 6:53:56 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

It was and is a trumped up case. The FBI is rapidly becoming a more and more corrupt organization whose members will sell their souls to impress the political appointees in the Justice Department. I have absolutely no respect remaining for them.


2 posted on 05/24/2012 7:00:31 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: marktwain

Meanwhile they drop a case against the Black Panthers that was a lock.


3 posted on 05/24/2012 7:03:55 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
Most amazing is that it was a black female Clinton appointee that acquitted them and beat the heck out of the FBI in the process.

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4 posted on 05/24/2012 7:05:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: marktwain

Suck it, GFW government stormtroopers.


5 posted on 05/24/2012 7:05:24 PM PDT by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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To: marktwain
But the left will still point to the arrests as 'proof' of right-wing militias.

/johnny

6 posted on 05/24/2012 7:06:35 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: marktwain

were these guys that obama admin trumped as example of violent tea partiers?


7 posted on 05/24/2012 7:24:31 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: marktwain

An important part of the Fast & Furious debacle was the willingness of the FBI to compromise the Instant Background Check system:

For the plan to succeed in the goal of assuring that criminals got guns, they had to make sure warning flags were digitally overcome. In that way, they could make sure the high-powered guns went to super bad folks (murdering narco King Pins), instead of good folks.

You paid for that.

The shootout in the desert, where the poor Border Patrol got killed —how did the bad guys know to intercept them at exactly that place, to pull a rip-off?

Because the FBI TOLD them they’d be there, right then.

Almost forgot —the FBI also made sure the 3rd gun (maybe the murder weapon) disappeared. Cuz it belonged to their guy.

This is totally aside from years earlier burning down a church they knew was full of people. And, uh...shooting in the head a lady they knew was carrying a baby.

That stuff, yeah.

Lessay we went back in time 30 years and I walked up to you and foretold that stuff to you —wouldn’t you call an ambulance for me? You’d consider it fanciful, you’d think me nuts.


8 posted on 05/24/2012 7:28:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

FORGOT:

They also tried to trick Richard Jewell into making a confession video:

He was just a star-struck, lowly security guard who regarded the FBI guys as demi-Gods.

They had him in there for questioning and said, “OK Dick you’re clear, we’re all good here..” And then they kicked back, and buddied up to him, “talking shop”.

And then, after they’d built up a rapport they mentioned —almost like it was an afterthought— “Say, Dick, we’re doing a training, here, we gotta make a video for training purposes of some schmuck confessing to a bombing...Can you help us out, here....?”

And the fat dummy came within a whisker of DOING IT before he realized he was being set up; he’d called his ex-college roomate (who’d become a lawyer and whom he hadn’t seen in over a dozen years) who told him to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE.

They were going to KNOWINGLY pin it on an INNOCENT GUY.

THINK ABOUT THAT.


9 posted on 05/24/2012 7:34:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Stephen Hatfield also.


10 posted on 05/24/2012 7:43:10 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: marktwain

At the risk of being flamed, I’m a New Yorker and I’ve followed those jihadi cases coming out of Queens. These things seemed, then and now, to be LEOs,local and fed, entrapping some jerks. These militia guys were set up and i’m sure some of these so called jihadis were entrapped as well.


11 posted on 05/24/2012 7:44:34 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: marktwain
"So it turned out to be a trumped up case, for political advantage, afterall. I wonder how those people get their two years back."

Not to spoil the moment, but they're a hell of a lot better off than anyone at Ruby Ridge or Waco.

12 posted on 05/24/2012 7:53:35 PM PDT by norton
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Everything that these people are doing is related to gun control. Whether it is Fast & Furious or several beer filled loud mouths in a bar, all of the schemes are for one purpose and that is to grab the guns. Fortunately, many of the goons are so incompetent that even Slick Willy judges turn them loose.


13 posted on 05/24/2012 8:21:25 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: marktwain
Thomas Piatek, Tina Stone, and Michael Meeks were arrested as part of an FBI raid because of their involvement in plotting an anti-government revolt.

The very government that arrested them is unable to prove that they committed a crime even to the level required to satisfy another branch of that same government, yet their guilt is here described as if it were commonly acknowledged. D'oh!

14 posted on 05/24/2012 9:01:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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That is amazing — until one considers how many “mosques” must have stockpiles of weapons and explosives in the basement by now.


15 posted on 05/24/2012 9:23:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: marktwain

If these were Black Panthers or Islamists, it would be “alleged involvement”.


16 posted on 05/24/2012 10:22:00 PM PDT by Politicalmom (THIS IS NOT A GOP CHEERLEADING SITE!!!)
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To: gaijin
And then, after they’d built up a rapport they mentioned —almost like it was an afterthought— “Say, Dick, we’re doing a training, here, we gotta make a video for training purposes of some schmuck confessing to a bombing...Can you help us out, here....?”

And the fat dummy came within a whisker of DOING IT before he realized he was being set up; he’d called his ex-college roomate (who’d become a lawyer and whom he hadn’t seen in over a dozen years) who told him to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE.

They were going to KNOWINGLY pin it on an INNOCENT GUY.

Wow. Just wow.

17 posted on 05/24/2012 10:51:53 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: marktwain

I wouldn’t pop any corks yet. Chances are those weapons have either been destroyed, disappeared or even if still in existence, rendered inoperable.

Under this administration, any gun outside of government hands is considered reprehensible. Look for some major foot dragging.


18 posted on 05/24/2012 11:57:02 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: SunkenCiv

At least the world knows I live in a heavily armed town. LOL


19 posted on 05/25/2012 3:30:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: marktwain
They are owed recompense for the harassment.
20 posted on 05/26/2012 2:51:31 AM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
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