As if we didn’t have enough problems with al Qaeda, now we get the “Hutaree”, which sound like something out of a weird Star Trek episode. Yeah, let’s kill police and make way for the Second Coming (or whatever).
According to MSNBC, even the “normal” militia types didn’t want anything to do with these nutjobs.
I’m sure Jesus would approve!
“Ok folks, we need to come up with a name for our wackjob militia. I’m thinking something that rhymes with ‘nuttery’ would work best…”
Hey, they can’t be all bad. They’re into Creedence.
I think it’s pronounced, hoo-TAR-ee, but I do like your take on it!
Isn’t that the title of a John Wayne movie?
Man, I wish aliens would show up tomorrow and announce to the world: “Look you morons, there is no God, knock it the fuck off.”
Aw, they took down there myspace page and the cached version doesn’t have the same color scheme, so no link. But it was like camo background with camo colored font, pictures of men crawling around in the grass wearing head to toe camo and lots of dark green and brown colored user icons. Readability was…not good.
I think I’m going to see if I can get the FBI to hire me to make an automated computer program that periodically downloads every myspace page, analyzes the percent of the page that is either dark green or brown, and automatically faxes a search warrent request to the local judge for all pages that come up over 95%.
Its “Hatari”, the Dukes movie about international competitive go.
[true believer]“Obviously, you’re Satan”[/true believer]
Then comes the shotgun blast that brings about the alien apocalypse. Nice going, fundie.
So, then, off to Gitmo? Some waterboarding, get that crucial intel? Can’t be tried in civilian courts, now can they? A pity 24 is shutting down.
They were planning terrorist attacks. If GITMO was good enough for other people, it’s good enough for them. But, it won’t go down that way. And if it did, the same people who have supported GITMO, waterboarding, and rendition would be horrified now because (dare I say it) it isn’t brown people with turbans. Just what is the penalty for sedition these days?
“Obviously, Jesus has not yet come to your planet and died for your sins.”
Just what we need. An interstellar holy war.
They showed a brief clip of one of the Conspirators youtube manifestos, and it was kinda weird how close it looked to one of Al-Queda’s video releases. Two guys holding semi-automatic rifles, with their faces covered and some camo-netting in the background. One guy in the foreground talking to the camera and the other guy slightly behind him just standing and looking menacing.
Hard to imagine Christian militiamen would consciously mimic the style of radical islamic groups, so I guess violent religous nuts the world over just kinda dig the same aesthetics.
Presumably these guys are US citizens, captured on US soil. And by the FBI, at that.
Would kinda blow my mind if they turned out to be Canadian or something.
Well, then, I would like to register my protest at the speed at which they were Mirandized.
We’ve had them for a while now. The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord
The gift for understatement award goes to…
“It started out as a Christian thing,” said Donna Stone, 44. “You go to church. You pray. You take care of your family. I think David started to take it a little too far.”
Yeah, I’d say at least a little.
I’d be curius what the answer to this question actually is.