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Detroit lawyer in Hutaree militia case sued for allegedly defaulting on student loan
Just a coincidence I'm sure. It has nothing to due with his great effectiveness as a lawyer or that he really needs to be preparing for the big trial rather than this shit. Go figure? Via Ann Arbor.com

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City of Maywood, CA functionally ceases to exist - LA Times
Lays off 100 percent of employees, contracts out all services.
Photographic proof of cougars in northern Michigan! - Detroit News
US court of appeals says Hutaree defendants will remain in jail - Michigan Messenger
No bail. 2-1 decision.

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Hutaree militia members indicted on new weapons charges - Detroit News
I guess the US Attorney's office figured out the sedition charges they've previously levied were bullshit and unlikely to stick and that the minor players in all this were not gonna plead-out and flip on their comrades. So new weapons charges have now been levied against the main players. The feds now need not worry about them getting out on bail too.
Why the US doesn't produce really great soccer players like the rest of the world - iSteve (Steve Sailer)
"The current American system largely reflects the values of white, middle class American parents. It's not designed to win World Cups, it's designed to get their kids some exercise and let them experience some level of success in a game that African-Americans aren't interested in."
Portrait of an environmental criminal - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
This asshole is sociopathic in his depraved indifference to the environmental damage he's done and continues to do.

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Backyard chicken coops gaining popularity in Michigan - Detroit News

Sixth U.S. Circuit Shocker: Hutaree Militia Defendants to stay in jail until US Atty's bail appeal heard - Ann Arbor.com

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TSA airport screener whose small penis size was noted by his co-workers when he was accidentally scanned, beats the shit out of annoying co-worker who teased him about it with a steel baton - Miami Herald

Federal court official seeks to correct prosecutors' claims in Hutaree case - Detroit News

"Chief Pretrial Services Officer Alan Murray said in a court filing.
'Contrary to Mr. Waterstreet's belief, the court-ordered "home detention" does not allow unmonitored release the entire day,' Murray said in the affidavit. 'The Global Positioning Satellites System allows a defendant to be monitored, at all times.' "

While I think as the story implies that the Hutaree defendants will be convicted or plead-out to some NFA offenses of a technical nature (i.e., having illegally short barreled rifles and shotguns) they'll walk on the most serious and dramatic charges (e.g., sedition, terrorism, WMD, possession of explosives, conspiracy to murder) despite USDA Waterstreet's attempts to inflame and prejudice the public who are all potential jurors.

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Some of the big time blogger types like the Instapundit and Jim Treacher over at the Daily Caller are also starting to notice that this Hutaree militia case is awfully convenient for the narrative that the Democratic party honchos and their spinmeisters want to convey right now. Even if these guys plead out to lesser charges, have them dropped or even are acquitted some time in the future the headlines that Obama and his allies needed and wanted have already been put out there. And as we have seen before when it comes to this administration nothing happens by accident, at least at the public relations level. Bells as we know, can't be unrung.

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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.

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Stowaway microbes may have contaminated Mars, hinder search for life - Popular Science

Hutaree defense team challenges their "no-bail" status with increasing effectiveness - Detroit News

So Prime Minister what do you really think? - The Sun (U.K.)

British PM Gordon Brown shows his utter contempt for a typical member of his party's base. Calls a simple working-class woman a bigot and cry-baby for her questions to him on a forgotten but still live microphone.

Buy guns because you want them not as an investment - Notes From The Bunker

My feelings exactly. Just buy what you need or want. Leave the "investment" stuff to the professionals.

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Ex-cop Michigan legislators propose a bill to ban speed traps - Detroit News

Hutaree militia defendants in court today to appeal their "no-bail" confinement - Ann Arbor.com

Abandoned dinosaur themed amusement park gives i09 website a creepy vibe - io9

I drive by this place about twice a day most days and it just doesn't bother me at all. Familiarity and all, I guess.

Ex-NYC pig on trial for assault says he might rejoin the force if he's acquitted - NY Post

Shooting the Ruger Mini-14 rifle really fast - Youtube

Doctor Death's mobile suicide van delisted from eBay - Detroit Free Press

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"He was a struggling Michigan resident. He could not keep a decent vehicle running," ... How do you get the money to buy four bombs?"

I was thinking the same kind of thoughts myself this morning while re-reading news accounts from Ann Arbor.com, Detroit News, WSJ, AP and some other sources about the Hutaree arrests. If you look at the picture of David Stone Sr. decked out in his tiger-stripe camouflage fatigues and spit-shined jump boots taking aim with his scoped AR it raises in me the same question Stone's brother raised in his Detroit News interview. How and where does he get the money for all this? Sure people use their income to buy what they want instead of what they truly need, but still... That AR rig he has in the picture goes for $2,500 (retail price, maybe slightly less used) and the spit-shined jump boots and the camo outfit are at least $200 more. And yet Stone lives in a dilapidated house trailer surrounded by junked appliances, old cars and stuff. And yet to re-quote his bro, "can't keep a decent vehicle running".

There's nothing wrong with these guys and Michigan people in general that a decent full employment economy wouldn't remedy rather quickly. Witch-hunts by the feds sparked by over heated private comments recorded by agent-provocateurs and other such stuff may be what Obama and his media allies need and want right now, but the real issue for people who care is to get people like Stone and company back to work at gainful employment.

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How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FBI - Independent Institute (Anthony Gregory)
"And so when a progressive like Rachel Maddow cheers that the Michigan militia members can be indicted and imprisoned without having done anything violent, when she reports that the FBI has infiltrated this group for months and stepped in to arrest them just in the nick of time, we should not be too surprised when she fails to make the obvious connection, and fails to be the least bit skeptical of the federal government’s police agents infiltrating a group for months only to discover that that group’s members are saying things about government that amount to “seditious conspiracy.” What kind of Orwellian world is it when the government can arrest people accused only of planning to commit violence against government agents and unleash a “civil war” that we all know is only a fantasy?"

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The Hutaree Militia wanted to "take over" three Michigan counties and force the Feds to start a war to remove them. No kidding, this what the US attorney said in court yesterday according to reports on AnnArbor.com. That is militarily take over three Michigan counties. With just nine core members. Nine. The more this story plays out the more ridiculous the state's case seems. I think the Obama justice department needed a scape-goat and these goofs fit the bill. This fubar militia group don't look capable of taking over their home base of Clayton, Michigan (pop. 303) let alone Hillsdale, Lenawee, and Washtenaw counties.

What really happened is that this fubar commando club went out in the woods shot off their rifles and then shot their mouths off later over beers. Too bad for them that they had a FBI snitch recording all this loud empty "seditious" talk. That's what really happened here IMO. And as for the cop murder & funeral ambush plans? Well, nearby Jackson had a cop funeral just a few weeks ago, remember? If the Hutaree truly wanted to go that route why didn't they bomb that funeral?

What it really comes down to in my opinion is that these goofs shot their mouths off to the wrong people, (an FBI snitch), had "enemies" (I.e.- ex-wives, rival militias, et. al.) who were ready willing and able to rat 'em out, and they happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time politically (Leviathan needed a scape-goat for propaganda purposes.) And so, too bad for the Hutaree. That perfect storm of circumstances may yet result in some lengthy prison time.

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Feds had undercover agent inside Hutaree 9 group say the Associated Press & Ann Arbor.com.

Based on what the news stories say the Feds don't seem to have much else except for an undercover snitch and a pissed off ex-wife. So we'll see what the Feds really have (other than the Obama administration's need to find a bogeyman to scare people) in the way of evidence against them if and when this whole mess goes to trial. And despite the mass media propaganda campaign not everyone thinks this case is a slam dunk.

And, just to poison the well further, it is reported that one of Hutaree 9 may have shot a feral cat. Anyone who'd kill a wild cat in cold-blood is definitely a danger to national security, you see.

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Ex-wife of militia leader drops dime on her former husband. Feds do the rest. - Ann Arbor.com

Based on what the media has written here so far, there doesn't seem to be much of a case beyond a pissed-offed ex-wife and some angry words. We'll see what else develops, eh? Angry working class white men are never really in fashion amongst the media elites any how are they? The big-shots in D.C. need a boogey-man to trot out before the media right now too. And if your favorite tool is a hammer, then every problem that comes your way seems like a nail needing to be pounded.