In a major blow to the FBI’s “plant an informant and arrest everybody else at the meeting” strategy, Federal Judge Victoria Roberts has acquitted the seven members of Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Hutaree militia of charges of “seditious conspiracy,” saying that the case was built almost entirely on circumstantial evidence.
Federal agents arrested the eight Hutaree members two years ago and have been holding them without bond on claims that they were planning to violently conquer the United States. One of the eight plead guilty to a lesser weapons charge. Some of the others are still facing minor weapons charges as well, but nothing like the “life in prison” terrorist charges the Obama Administration was seeking to impose.
David Stone, Jr, the youngest member of the group at 21-years-old, cheered his release, saying that he’s “going to definitely enjoy the rest of my life as a free man.” Michael Meeks, a 42-year-old former Marine, said he’s looking forward to finally getting some decent non-prison food and warned “watch what you say. Even the most innocent of statements can be bent. If they want to get you, they get you.”
The administration has yet to comment on the ruling, but the ruling that an FBI plant’s case isn’t bulletproof could impact other similar cases, since most of them are entirely FBI manufactured.
Im glad the FBI was for once put in its place by a judge. Militias overall tend to attract crazies, but given the bottom of their logo, at least these guys have good taste in music.
Finally there's a judge with consience who followed the rule of the constitution. Bad day for the FBI and the US Attorney.
How the hell do you "violently conquer the United States"?
Do you attack the White House? Congress?? One of the military bases??? Do you invoke the help of Satan in a church basement????
"They wanted to start the war, and the war to them meant ‘patriots rising up against the government,” insisted the prosecutor, Assistant US attorney Christopher Graveline."
If that's possible, then you have more problems than a militia complete with bizarro hieraldics.
Thank God! The Obama administration should be the ones in jail, along with congress.
The government is driving the people to revolution. The FBI tortures and murders citizens. Google "Operation PATCON Trentadue". The FBI plants evidence, tortures, murders and is allowed to commit perjury and then is given credibility by the ignorant masses. People should read Noam Chomsky's and Howard Zinn's report to the UN High Commission on Human Rights regarding crimes of the FBI. It would take someone about 10 seconds to Google and discover Eric Holder lobbied Congress to prevent the investigation of Kenneth Trentadue's murder on national security grounds because the FBI had agents in Eloheim City that knew about the OKC bombing and lost control of the operation like they did with Operation Fast and Furious. That is why the FBI destroyed every single video of the bomb being delivered to include those from the cameras in the Murrah Federal Building. That is also why when the FBI killed Trentadue by mistakening him for Richard Lee Guthrie, that Guthrie ended up dead once the mistake was acknowledged. The FBI tried to cremate Trentadue's body, but his brother, Law Professor Jesse Trentadue, stopped the FBI from destroying the evidence on the dead body. All the other evidence, records and logs were destroyed so the FBI did not have to say who tortured and murdered Kenneth Trentadue.