Oh, *expletive deleted*it.
The Hutaree were plotting to murder a police officer, then ambush the officer's funeral with firearms and IEDs.
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Nine Christian Militia Members Charged With Seditious Conspiracy, Attempted Use Of WMD
Justin Elliott | March 29, 2010, 10:04AM
Nine members of the Christian militia group Hutaree have been indicted on multiple charges involving an alleged plot to attack police, including seditious conspiracy and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. Attorney in Michigan announced this morning.
"Six Michigan residents, along with two residents of Ohio and a resident of Indiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on charges of seditious conspiracy, attempted use of weapons of mass destruction, teaching the use of explosive materials, and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence," according to the government's press release, which you can read in full below.
The indictment describes an alleged plot that seems inspired by weapons more associated with urban warfare in Iraq than with rural Michigan.
The Hutaree members allegedly "planned to kill an unidentified member of local law enforcement and then attack the law enforcement officers who gather in Michigan for the funeral. According to the plan, the Hutaree would attack law enforcement vehicles during the funeral procession with Improvised Explosive Devices with Explosively Formed Projectiles, which, according to the indictment, constitute weapons of mass destruction."
Hutaree's Web site features videos of heavily armed members training in the woods, but seems more preoccupied with battling the Antichrist than the government.
In one late 2008 post on the group's forum page, a member writes that "ATF searching local FFL for info on Hutaree gun purchases. All members are advised to be locked and loaded, things may turn hot real quick here."
The authorities say that all but one of the nine defendants are in custody. The ninth, Joshua Stone, is described as a fugitive.
