Scientific Dictatorship

The home where several members of the Hutaree group were arrested is pictured near Clayton, Mich. on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The group is accused of planning to kill a police officer and then use the funeral as and opportunity to kill more police officers.

CLAYTON, Mich. -- Ask anyone in the tiny town of Clayton, Mich., where to find the Stone family's house, and they'll probably know.

They may not have known the Stones on Saturday, but by Sunday the family's name had been splashed across televisions and newspapers around the world. Several family members were arrested in a dramatic raid on the ramshackle trailer home Saturday night after federal officials uncovered their alleged plot to kill a police officer and then murder more officers at the funeral.

"I knew they were involved in something, just the way they acted," said Leo Pelham, owner of perhaps the only business in town. "They came in the store with their dad, and if he snapped his fingers then the two boys were right at the door, standing at attention waiting for his next snap, I guess you'd say."

Clayton's a town of about 400 people...

Labels: Hutaree, Michigan, militia

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