Neighbors probably already had the habit of ignoring stupid.
It does make me wonder how the government chooses their dangerous extremists.
The feds spent millions of dollars and many months setting up the Hutaree for a raid with tactical assault vehicles, choppers and hundreds of federal and state agents. Then millions more tax dollars were spent keeping the Hutaree in jail and trying the case only to end in acquittals for all.
The judge determined that the hutaree weren’t the threat the feds claimed them to be and their “threat” to kill police was one drawn out of them as a possible outcome of an imaginary scenario that the feds created that would leave no other option but to kill cops. The feds also provided a false transcript of the conversation that didn’t match the recorded version.