WaPo - Eugene Robinson - "The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence"

[TomCADem]

The irony is that even Eugene Robinson, who I greatly respect, is reluctant to call them for what they are, terrorists. A single muslim engaging in or planning an act of violence is sufficient to set the right wing talk shows a flutter about how vulnerable we are terrorism. However, if they are Christian, then it is taboo to refer to such plans as a terrorist operation. Heck, even the IRS 9/11 copycat was not called a terrorist.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901891.html

The arrests of members of a Michigan-based "Christian" militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism -- and potential violence -- in the Age of Obama.

I put the word Christian in quotes because anyone who plots to assassinate law enforcement officers, as a federal indictment alleges members of the Hutaree militia did, is no follower of Christ. According to federal prosecutors, the Hutaree -- the word's not in my dictionary, but its Web site claims it means "Christian warrior" -- are convinced that their enemies include "state and local law enforcement, who are deemed 'foot soldiers' of the federal government, federal law enforcement agencies and employees, participants in the 'New World Order,' and anyone who does not share in the Hutaree's beliefs."

According to the indictment, the group had been plotting for two years to assassinate federal, state or local police officers. "Possible such acts which were discussed," the indictment says, "included killing a member of law enforcement 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 communities, 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 homemade bombs.

Nine members of the Hutaree were named in the indictment. Eight were arrested during weekend FBI raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana; one suspect remains at large. The group's Web site shows members in camouflage outfits traipsing through woods in "training" exercises. They could be out for an afternoon of paintball, except for the loony rhetoric about "sword and flame" and the page, labeled "Gear," that links to several gun dealers. Along with numerous weapons offenses, the Hutaree are charged with sedition.

[Bitwit1234]

1. I get so sick of these nuts calling themselves Christian

when all they want to do is violence. Since when did Christian's commit acts of terror, threaten to kill innocent people and want to overturn a legally elected government.

They are terrorist no matter how scared the media is of them.

[OHdem10]

2. Historically , movements on the right have been "Christian". The

Klan go to church and quote scriptures with the best of them.

Movements on the Right are characterized most of often by
a nationalistic and religious fervor.