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A really slimy hit-piece on Michigan Militia founder "Mark From Michigan" - Ann Arbor Observer
Presumably because Koernke wouldn't give the author's an interview they felt free to utterly trash him. Some grad student who cuts & pastes shit from the SPLC website is their main source of info on him. Now Koernke is kinda of a goof, but even this article, bad as it is, shows that he's mainly been the victim of law enforcement rather than a law breaker himself.
Let Fake States Fail: Anarchy as a Viable Solution to Artificial States - Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (Claudia Williamson)
The article refers to African nation-states but it could just as easily been referring to failed American city-states like Detroit, or their offshoots such as the public schools, road commissions and the rest of the numerous other lesser government entities here in Michigan that clearly meet the criteria of failed states. (Via STR)
Accused Russian sex-bomb sleeper agent is kinda cute, but... - LA Times
But not enough for me to go to jail forever for doing espionage so I could do her. I wonder who would be swept up into a honey trap with her as bait? No doubt some would.
Michigan's ''texting while driving" ban starts today - Oakland Press
Really just a new pretext for pulling people over and issue tickets it seems to me.

Sign of the Times...

Why do militia members, social justice activists, and about everybody else who is alienated from the government hate, fear and loathe the police, feds, courts and the rest of the repression apparatus?

Well, here's why: Remember Mark Koernke? A militia activist from the 1990's AKA "Mark from Michigan". His name came up at the Hutaree Militia bail hearings today and while reading a Detroit News article about the hearing it is mentioned (in re Koernke) that a retired FBI agent made the crack about how Koernke who was near a bank robbery in 2000 (but not involved in the robbery in any way), ended up going to prison for seven years as the result of it. To wit:

"Retired FBI Special Agent Greg Stejskal said he was responding to a Dexter bank robbery in 2000 when Koernke led police on a high-speed chase during which he tried to ram an officer with his vehicle.

Koernke was not involved in the bank robbery, Stejskal said. He was parked outside the bank waiting for his son to make a deposit but when police pulled up to respond to the robbery, he took off. 'He ended up doing more time than the bank robber,' Stejskal said."

Funny huh? Ex-agent Stejskal seems to thinks so.

Just like Randy Weaver, who was also exonerated of all the original charges against him as a result of the Ruby Ridge incident and collected a multi-million damage judgement against the FBI, but who still ended up serving 18 months in prison, got shot through the chest, and had his son and wife shot dead by the FBI. Due Process and other such "protections" as our legal system guarantees doesn't seem to matter that much under those circumstances though do they? That's why most of the folks that wind up in the feds' cross-hairs tend to plead out rather than face a basketball score style prison sentence if they don't. Because life is short and it's better than getting shot.