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The anti-government militia allegedly plotted to kill law enforcement officers with improvised explosive devices and projectiles before being foiled by FBI raids that started Sunday in three states that netted nine members of an extremist group, federal authorities said today.
A federal judge dismissed the most serious charges Tuesday against seven members of a Michigan militia who were rounded up as homegrown extremists accused of plotting war against the U.S., saying their expressed hatred of law enforcement didn't amount to conspiracy against the government.
The decision is an embarrassment for the government, which secretly planted an informant and an FBI agent inside the Hutaree militia four years ago and claimed members were armed for war in rural southern Michigan.
Today, we have the Martin/Zimmerman case where the press sets the narrative while facts are still being uncovered.
Back then, the militia was just guilty - hated Obama - hated big government - a buncha rabid right wing Republicans and Christian terrorists. The press goes in and does a personal hit job on these people with minimal facts in an attempt to sway public opinion.
They are innocent... not guilty. How much press coverage will this get?
some of these buck toothed militias is more threats to themselves mishandling their guns than to anyone else, obviously Napolitano doesn't want to focus on protecting the homeland from Islamic terrorists
My favorite part of the article....sounds like a big Alex Jones fan.
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He suspected Germany and Singapore had aircraft stationed in Texas, and thousands of Canadian troops were poised to take over Michigan. He said the government put computer chips in a flu vaccine.
DETROIT — A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government’s case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said the members’ expressed hatred of law enforcement didn’t amount to a conspiracy to rebel against the government.
You're kidding me? THIS is all the Holder DOJ had?
They've been in jail for two years...they should sue holder.
Wow, I can't believe the tried to make a criminal cased based on statements and military exercises... that's it? Sooo... they didn't actually DO anything wrong? I can't believe that are government could do something like that... I would sue for malicious prosecution... 2 years in jail for doing nothing is definitely malicious for political purposes... but then, I am not a lawyer...
Is Eric Holder the most pathetic excuse of an AG that this country has ever had? If not, he has to be in the running. Using the office of the AG to promote racism and terrorize innocent people is way out of line.
I hope they file civil rights lawsuits over it. They might be be a bit nutty with the conspiracy theories, but they did nothing illegal.
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