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One MSM brief
NY Times
Primary resources:
Court documents
Hutaree web page (while it lasts, anyway) - "About Us" page (PDF also attached) - "Doctrine of the Hutaree" page (PDF also attached)
Hutaree Facebook page
18 U.S.C. § 2331 : US Code - Section 2331: Definitions (of terrorism)
One MSM brief
WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Prosecutors say members of a Christian militia group hoped to touch off an uprising against the U.S. government by killing police officers.
Nine members of the Michigan-based Hutaree are in custody. They are accused of plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral.
Prosecutors say the Hutaree were planning an attack sometime in April. During weekend raids in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, authorities seized guns but would not say whether they found explosives.
On its Web site, Hutaree says its name means "Christian warrior." The group quotes several Bible passages and declares that members are preparing to do battle with the Antichrist.
NY Times
David B. Stone Sr. and his wife, Tina, made no secret about the fact that they were part of a militia, neighbors say. The couple frequently let visitors in military fatigues erect tents in front of their trailer home at the intersection of rural dirt roads, and the sound of gunfire was routine.
A Michigan State Police tank headed down a street in Hillsdale County on Monday during a militia-related standoff.
“In Michigan, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal to be in a militia,” said Tom McDormett, a neighbor.
He added: “They would practice shooting, but that’s not a big deal. People do that all the time out here.”
But last Saturday night, Mr. McDormett watched through binoculars as the police raided the Stones’ home, tearing off plywood from the base of their two connected single-wide trailers to search under the floors. By Monday, the Stones were in green prison garb in a federal courthouse in Detroit, two of nine defendants facing sedition and weapons charges in connection with what Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called an “insidious plan.”
In an indictment against the nine unsealed on Monday, the Justice Department said they were part of a group of apocalyptic Christian militants who were plotting to kill law enforcement officers in hopes of inciting an antigovernment uprising, the latest in a recent surge in right-wing militia activity ....
Primary resources:
Court documents
Hutaree web page (while it lasts, anyway) - "About Us" page (PDF also attached) - "Doctrine of the Hutaree" page (PDF also attached)
Hutaree Facebook page
18 U.S.C. § 2331 : US Code - Section 2331: Definitions (of terrorism)
.... the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended -
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.