Mark Maynard | Hutaree

“See, the Democrats are violent too!”

By Mark | March 30, 2010

With the news that a mentally ill man in Pennsylvania had threatened the life of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, conservatives everywhere have begun jumping up and down, waiving their hands around wildly (imagine Arnold Horshack trying to get Mr. Kotter’s attention), and claiming that this definitively proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Democrats […]

Posted in History, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism | Also tagged anti-globalization, anti-government, Arnold Horshack reference, Bill Ayers, Christian soldiers, constitutionalists, death threats, domestic terrorism, Eric Cantor, Eugene Robinson, militias, Norman Leboon, Oklahoma City, Patricia Hearst, political violence, potential for violence, rhetoric of violent revolution, Symbionese Liberation Army, tea party, teabaggers, teabaggery, the nonexistent leftist threat, Timothy McVeigh, violence, violence on the extreme right, white supremacist | 40 Comments

Christian soldiers among us

By Mark | March 29, 2010

I’ve got other things I need to be working on tonight, like the script for Friday’s Dreamland Tonight, but I’m obsessed with this local domestic terrorism story that I mentioned yesterday. If you aren’t familiar with the case, it revolves around a Christian militia group known as Hutaree. Early reports speculated that yesterday’s FBI raids […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism | Also tagged antichrist, Christian soldiers, Christians under attack, Civil War, domestic terrorism, Dreamland Tonight, end times, Holy War, Huron Bob, Juan Cole, Mahdi Army, Mark Koernke, MetaFilter, militias, Muqtada al-Sadr, Radock, Southern Poverty Law Center, Zulif | 31 Comments

Breaking: FBI anti-terrorism raids in SE Michigan

By Mark | March 28, 2010

There don’t seem to be many details at this point, but WXYZ is reporting that a number of coordinated raids took place last night in the area. Here’s a clip: The FBI was conducting raids Saturday night at multiple locations in southeast Michigan. Action News has learned Homeland Security and the Joint Anti-terrorism Task Force […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Media, Michigan, Other, Religious Extremism | Also tagged Action News, Adrian, Christians under attack, domestic terrorism, FBI, Homeland Security, Joint Anti-terrorism Task Force, Lenawee County, Michigan Militia, pipe bombs, terrorism, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, WXYZ | 61 Comments

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