Thread: Christian militia members charged with plots to kill police

Mar 29, 2010

Christian militia members charged with plots to kill police officers

09:55 AM

FBI raids in three Midwestern states, including at the reported site of a Christian militia group, has netted at least four arrests.

Read the federal indictment below or click here.

The Detroit Free Press says defendants will appear in court today in Detroit in connection with arrests in Michigan. Raids were also conducted in Indiana and Ohio.


The Michigan defendants were seized in a raid on the Christian warrior group Hutaree, the newspaper says.

Hutaree's Web site contains messages from people talking about the raids, but none confirmed that the group had been hit.

The Web site also says the Christian warrior group is "preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive."

See training video from a Michigan-based Christian militia group above or click here.

The Detroit News quotes sources from the Michigan militia community as saying one of the raids occurred during a wake for a Hutaree member who had died of natural causes.

The FBI is providing little information until sealed indictments are made public.


The Free Press reports that a member of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, which was not the target of the raids, said one of its leaders got a frantic phone call Saturday evening from members of Hutaree who said their property was being raided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.


Update at 10:11 a.m. ET: CNN reports that the federal indictment, unsealed in Detroit this morning , accuses nine people of conspiracy to commit violence against local, state and federal law enforcement officers.

The document, CNN reports, calls Hutaree an "anti-government, extremist group" and says it has been planning its attacks since 2008.

CNN says the documents charge that the group advocated luring officers into an ambush through fake 911 calls, and also discussed killing officers or their families at home.

CNN says seven people were arrested in the raids.

Update at 10:30 a.m. ET: The indictment says Hutaree's "enemies include state and local law enforcement, who are deemed 'foot soldiers' of the federal government, federal law enforcment agencies and employees, participants in the 'New World Order,' and anyone who does not share in the Hutaree's beliefs."

The indictment charges that Hutaree leader David Brian Stone, also known as "Captain Hutaree" had announced plans for a covert reconnaissance exercise scheduled for April "during which exercise anyone who happened upon the exercise who did not acquiesce toHutaree demands could be killed."

Update at 10:37 a.m. ET: An excerpt from the indictment;

Possible such acts which were discussed included killing a member of law enforcment after a traffic stop, killing a member of law enforcement and his or her family at home, ambushing a member of law enforcement in rural communites, luring a member of law enforcement with a false 911 emergency call and then killing him or her, and killing a member of law enforcement and then attacking the funeral procession motorcade with weapons of mass destruction."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... rt-today/1

RELATED

FBI arrest Christian Militia members in 3 states

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-193056.html

Possible such acts which were discussed included killing a member of law enforcment after a traffic stop, killing a member of law enforcement and his or her family at home, ambushing a member of law enforcement in rural communites, luring a member of law enforcement with a false 911 emergency call and then killing him or her, and killing a member of law enforcement and then attacking the funeral procession motorcade with weapons of mass destruction."

Sounds just like the illegal alien, meth, and cocaine importing paramilitary cartels we are fighting against!

W

There are wackos everywhere, even some home grown goofballs too.

watch, these goof balls at the SPLC will be all over this in a new york minute

Sounds just like the illegal alien, meth, and cocaine importing paramilitary cartels we are fighting against!

I can agree. Why is it that the U.S. government will actively (and they should) go after groups who are of the "anglo" persuasion, yet we have Latino and Black gangs who are surely a threat to police and the citizenry, and they do not go after them until they have hurt someone?

I think of the Ruby Ridge incident and have to wonder why?

They need to go after them all with the same ferver.

If they go after any others than the whites, it's racism AE. Just like only whites can be racists.

It's garbage, and I am not the only in my own family and region who has questioned this.

Branch Davidians, the whole handling was questionable, the reason to look into them not (the worry over the childresn safety). Ruby Ridge was VERY questionable, and to have hsot that poor woman, for no reason and right out from under her child.....sickening.

Department of Justice Press Release

For Immediate Release
March 29, 2010 United States Attorney's Office
Eastern District of Michigan
Contact: (313) 226-9100

Nine Members of a Militia Group Charged with Seditious Conspiracy and Related Offenses

Six Michigan residents, along with two residents of Ohio and a resident of Indiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges of seditious conspiracy, attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, teaching the use of explosive materials, and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade and FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena announced today.

The five-count indictment, which was unsealed today, charges that between August 2008 and the present, the defendants, David Brian Stone, 45, his wife, Tina Stone, 44, his son, Joshua Matthew Stone, 21, of Clayton, Michigan, and his other son, David Brian Stone, Jr., 19, of Adrian, Michigan, Joshua Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Michigan, Michael Meeks, 40 of Manchester, Michigan, Thomas Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Indiana, Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio, and Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, acting as a Lenawee County Michigan militia group called the Hutaree, conspired to oppose by force the authority of the U.S. government. According to the indictment, Hutaree members view local, state, and federal law enforcement as the “brotherhood,â€

Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth

Sounds just like the illegal alien, meth, and cocaine importing paramilitary cartels we are fighting against!

I can agree. Why is it that the U.S. government will actively (and they should) go after groups who are of the "anglo" persuasion, yet we have Latino and Black gangs who are surely a threat to police and the citizenry, and they do not go after them until they have hurt someone?

I think of the Ruby Ridge incident and have to wonder why?

They need to go after them all with the same ferver.

Why do you have prisons full of gang members? Hmm... I don't know... maybe because the government is actively arresting them perhaps?? Like you, Muslims would be asking "Why is it that a Christian terrorist group isn't covered non-stop on the media, but when you have a Muslim terrorist group arrested, you hear about it non-stop". Enough with the PC crap about how Whites are being unfairly targeted. Everyone is being targeted in today's world, so deal with it.