Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Hutaree Militia Problems
The Federal case against the so called Hutaree Militia seems to be getting off to a bad start.
Federal authorities touted the arrests of nine members of a Michigan militia as a pre-emptive strike against homegrown terrorists, declaring at an initial court hearing that the suspects with “dark hearts and evil intent” wanted to go to war against the government.
Five weeks later, prosecutors are scrambling to regroup after a judge questioned the strength of their evidence by ordering the so-called rebels released until trial and saying they had a right to “engage in hate-filled, venomous speech.”
I’m thinking that if the Feds put as much effort in to vetting out potential Islamic Jihadists as they do “right wing, home-grown threats”, we’d be a bit better off.
