Scientific Dictatorship

AP File PhotosThis combo of eight file photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday March 29, 2010 shows from top left, David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich,; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich,; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio,; Tina Mae Stone and bottom row from left, Michael David Meeks, 40, of Manchester, Mich,; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; and Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind.

The court file shows nothing official from U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts. But in a filing Monday, defense attorney Richard Helfrick quotes her as saying in an email that "jurors will enjoy anonymity."

Trial is set for Feb. 7 for eight people accused of belonging to a southern Michigan militia called Hutaree. The government claims they were scheming to kill a police officer, then attack the funeral. The defense says they're guilty of nothing but meaningless bluster.

"The decision to empanel an anonymous jury is a drastic measure, which should be undertaken only in limited and carefully delineated circumstances," Helfrick said. "An anonymous jury raises the specter that the defendant is a dangerous person from whom the jurors must be protected, thereby implicating the defendant's constitutional right to a presumption of innocence."...[Full Article]

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Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio (U.S. Marshals Service)

As expected, a fourth member of the Hutaree militia group was released from custody today until trial on seditious conspiracy charges.

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Bond condition: Name other Hutaree members

Tina Stone cannot use a computer or the Internet as part of her bond conditions. All three freed suspects are also prohibited from using police scanners.

Tina Stone is released to the custody of her parents, Timothy and Henrietta Kelley.

David Stone Jr. is released to his mother, Donna Popejoy.

Jacob Ward is released to his mother, Nadine Bober.

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By Chuck Baldwin
May 14, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

With much media fanfare, 9 members of a Michigan militia were arrested last March and charged with "seditious conspiracy"--specifically, plotting to murder law enforcement officers. Ostensibly, this was supposed to precipitate some kind of wholesale revolt against the government. Question: Have any of you heard anyone from the propaganda press corps (national news media) tell you what has been happening with this case? No? Did you not wonder why? Well, I'll tell you why: the case has fallen apart.

The first indication of the Feds' case going bad was a local report in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, dated April 28, 2010. "An FBI agent who led the investigation of nine Michigan militia members charged with trying to launch war against the federal government couldn't recall many details of the two-year probe yesterday during questioning by defense lawyers.

"Even the judge who must decide whether to release the nine until trial was puzzled.

"'I share the frustrations of the defense team . . . that she doesn't know anything,' U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said after agent Leslie Larsen confessed she hadn't reviewed her notes recently and couldn't remember specific details of the case."

See the report here...

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The charges range from conspiring to overthrow the government to attempted use of weapons of mass destruction.

A similar hearing earlier this month for David Bryan Stone Sr., 45, the alleged head of the so-called Hutaree militia, and his co-defendants prompted government prosecutors to play a secretly recorded audiotape in which Stone expresses anger over the "new world order" and the "brotherhood" of law enforcement officers.

"In this nation, we think we are free, but you need a certificate to be born, a license to drive, a permit to build, a number to get a job and even a paper after you die," says Stone on the tape. He is accused of conspiring to overthrow the government and plotting to kill police officers...

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The warehouse’s parking lot off Varsity Drive was empty, with the exception of a white moving truck.

Hutaree members had arrived in two cars about 6:10 p.m. after meeting at the Lineweaver's home in Manchester an hour earlier.

Five of them wouldn't be going home that night.

A large sticker of Hutaree’s distinctive green patch was plastered on the warehouse door, which Lineweaver thought was tacky because the Christian militia unit didn’t own the property.

The Hutaree patch.

When Lineweaver, her husband Ken, their 18-year-old son, and five other Hutaree members walked inside, she was struck by the apparent lack of effort put into organizing the service. A few sandwiches, some bags of chips and bottles of pop had been plopped on a table.

While members were there to mourn “Dan,” also known by his Hutaree name, “Keebelik,” his family was nowhere to be found. On a cinderblock wall, "weird nicknames" were written in black marker, she said.

On their way inside, Hutaree leader David Stone had told them they would each have to select a name from the wall, she said. Lineweaver had no idea what purpose the names served or who wrote them.

“What it told me is that he had been in that warehouse before,” she said.

Keebelik’s "battle dress uniform" was draped over a chair sitting on a table, with a white candle lit beside it, Ken Lineweaver said. Roughly 20 folding chairs were arranged around a brand new television hooked up to a DVD player. At one point, Wendy Lineweaver saw a loft with boxes on it, but steps leading up to it were missing. The first step was more than five feet above the floor.

“All the stairs were freshly sawed off except the top two,” she said.

Hutaree member "Scott," who organized the service and told Stone that Keebelik had died, was there when everyone arrived. Lineweaver said he was "extremely nervous."

She wondered how he got there because she didn't see his nice truck with New Jersey license plates parked outside.

“His voice was shaking when I spoke to him,” she said.

“I asked this Scott guy, ‘How come you didn’t call us and tell us to bring some food?” she said.

According to Lineweaver, he replied, "Oh, I told Dave he doesn’t need to worry about it."

Despite the eerie feeling, everyone stayed at the service to honor Dan, the Lineweavers said.

Joshua Clough, Michael Meeks, David Stone's wife Tina Stone and his son David Stone Jr. were the other Hutaree members there, Wendy Lineweaver said. That made nine people total. One hasn't been seen or heard from since, Lineweaver said.

“Every instinct was telling me to get out, but I liked Dan…or thought I did,” she said...

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Kristopher Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from jail in Sanilac County, Mich., about 75 miles north of Detroit, that he has "never hurt anyone or taken steps to do so."

"As far as any specific plan to overthrow the government, I never heard such things," Sickles said. "There was off-color talk, but there was no set plan to overthrow this or take over that."

Federal prosecutors said in court documents Friday that David Stone, the militia's leader, planned an elaborate, two-part training session for this month and told members it was OK to kill "anyone who might stumble upon the operation."

Sickles said he didn't know details, but what he knew of the "operation" made him wary and he didn't plan to attend.

"Basically, the idea of the opp was to remain stealthy, to not be discovered," Sickles said. "And that if they did run across someone — and that basically if they weren't willing to work with them, as they put it — they would basically put them down."

Sickles said he would have contacted authorities if he found out April training had become violent.

He said he joined the Michigan-based Hutaree to learn how to protect his family, not target the government. He said he had trained with another militia in Michigan before meeting a Hutaree member, and made four or five trips there to train with the Hutaree over a period of a year or so.

"I just went to train with this group periodically, every other month," Sickles said. "They're all a tight-knit family and I was out of the loop. I kind of got dragged into something that I really wasn't aware of."

The FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Detroit declined to comment Saturday on his remarks about the case.

At Sickles' small, yellow-and-white mobile home, investigators said they found 13 guns, more than 8,000 rounds of ammunition, a Hutaree uniform and a "ghillie suit" used by snipers to hide in the woods.

Sickles said he bought all of the items legally, but said he didn't believe he had as much ammunition on hand. He said he believes his remarks at Hutaree training sessions were taken out of context when reported by an informant.

"I'm not this sadistic person that they're presenting me to be," Sickles said. "I wouldn't just blindly follow someone or hurt another person."

A prosecutor has said in court that Sickles bragged that he killed his cat to see if he could shoot something he had feelings for. On Saturday, he explained that it was an old, sick cat that he didn't have money to euthanize, so he shot it.

"I loved that cat and I cried," Sickles said.

Prosecutors also said in a court document that Sickles said he wanted to set off a homemade bomb outside the Huron, Ohio, police department. Sickles said Saturday he remarked that it would be funny to "freak out" police with fireworks, not a bomb.

"I was quoted making several stupid and immoral statements at a training last year about law enforcement," Sickles said. "I apologize for that."...

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Details about the Hutaree's planned training session — to be held during the second and fourth Saturdays in April — were revealed in a 17-page document prosecutors filed in response to a defense motion to free Hutaree leader David Stone while he awaits trial.

It, along with several other government filings over the past week, help paint a fuller picture of the southern Michigan-based group's make-up and activities.

Stone and eight other suspected Hutaree members were arrested after a series of raids across the Midwest late last month and charged with seditious conspiracy, or plotting to levy war against the U.S. The self-proclaimed "Christian warriors" trained in paramilitary techniques in preparation for a battle against the Antichrist.

Friday's filing included a transcript of remarks Stone allegedly made during a January briefing on the planned operation...

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We already knew that the FBI had an undercover agent in the group, one who even recorded its alleged leader preaching against the New World Order.

Nine members of the militia are charged in an alleged plot to kill police. One of the specific counts is attempted use of weapons of mass destruction for an alleged plan to use IEDs during a police funeral.

According to NPR, the FBI discovered last fall that the group, which was already on the bureau's radar, was setting off bombs in the woods. NPR reports:

[FBI Special Agent Andrew] Arena said the undercover officer who was accepted into the group was offered membership because he said he had a special skill: He knew how to make bombs. Arena said the officer offered to take over that part of the group's operation. That meant the FBI would now have some modicum of control over what it saw as the Hutarees' most dangerous asset: explosives...

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Federal prosecutors say members of the Hutaree militia visited William Priest, an Adrian, Mich., gun dealer, and offered to break his son out of Wayne County Jail, The Detroit News reported Sunday...

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	Two members of the Hutaree served in the U.S. military.

Michael David Meeks is a former Marine. Kristopher Tyler Sickles, who appeared on the Alex Jones Show last year (calling himself Pale Horse), enlisted in the U.S. Army in August 2007 and was discharged in October of that year after being absent without leave, according to Isikoff.

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center told Newsweek military veterans may be helping to train extremists in firearms and military tactics, an accusation that underscores government claims. Potok and the SPLC have engaged in a tireless propaganda campaign along with the corporate media to discredit the American patriot movement and connect it to white supremacists.

“Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists,” the now infamous Department of Homeland Security report on “rightwing extremism” leaked last year claimed. The report said the government is “concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities.”...

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Federal investigators have discovered that two members of the extremist Michigan-based Hutaree militia group charged with plotting to assassinate law-enforcement officers are former U.S. military servicemen, including a Marine Corps corporal who was a Persian Gulf War veteran and decorated expert rifleman.

Among those charged in the Hutaree case and accused of "seditious" conspiracy to wage war is Michael David Meeks. An FBI official told NEWSWEEK that Meeks is a former Marine. Marine Corps records reviewed by NEWSWEEK show Meeks served in the Marines between 1988 and 1992 and was a rifle expert based at Camp Pendleton. The records show he received, among other decorations, a Kuwait Liberation Medal that was awarded to veterans of the Persian Gulf War.

His lawyer did not return a request for comment.

Another Hutaree member charged in the case was Kristopher Tyler Sickles, who enlisted in the U.S. Army in August 2007 and was discharged in October of that year after being absent without leave, according to Army records. His lawyer also did not return a call seeking comment. Sickles was identified as the creator of a violent video mimicking jihadist beheadings that was on YouTube but has been removed.

The particular concern raised by military members among extremist groups is that former service members, including disgruntled veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, may be helping to train extremists in firearms and military tactics, according to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. In the Hutaree case, the federal indictment charges that, as part of their plans to spark an "uprising" against the U.S. government, group members engaged "in military-style training" that included "firearms and explosives training, weapons proficiency drills, patrolling and reconnaissance exercises, close quarter battle drills" as well as "preparing defensive fighting positions" and "ambush kill zones."...

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"In this nation, we think we are free, but you need a certificate to be born, a license to drive, a permit to build, a number to get a job and even a paper after you die," says David Bryan Stone Sr., 45, the alleged head of the Hutaree militia, accused of conspiring to overthrow the government and plotting to kill police officers.

"These are permission slips from the terrorists organization called the new world order," Stone says in the tape, which was recorded clandestinely by an FBI agent who infiltrated the militia and obtained exclusively by CNN....

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By Chuck Baldwin
April 6, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Once in a while, someone writes a column that leaves me enviously exclaiming, "Darn! I wish I had written that!" Candidly, I do not often find myself saying that, but I sure did when I read William Norman Grigg's excellent column entitled "Casus Belli" (Latin for "Case for War") on Monday, March 29, 2010. Read his column here (even if you don't read the rest of mine).

I want to try and expound on Grigg's outstanding analysis of the Hutaree militia raid. In doing so, I am going to also expand upon Grigg's reference to James Madison's trenchant treatise in Federalist 46.

Referring to the federal indictment against the Hutaree militia, that alleged members were making preparations for potential armed conflict against law enforcement officers as a "seditious conspiracy," Grigg astutely noted, "If they were acquiring weapons and developing appropriate skills in anticipation of defending themselves against government aggression, their actions--while possibly conspiratorial in nature--don't amount to a crime. This is particularly true in light of our cultural history, in which sedition--agitation to change the existing political order--is our proudest civic tradition."

Grigg then rightly observes, "Government is nothing more than the rationalization and exercise of violence. Everything done by government contains at least the implicit threat of lethal coercion. Thus the indictment's description of Hutaree as 'an anti-government extremist organization which advocates violence against local, state and Federal law enforcement' is a product of rhetorical onanism [from Genesis 38:9--a great analogy, Will]."

As a general rule, government is the most violent force on the planet. If one wants to get a true perspective on the historical record regarding who or what routinely produces the most violence and death, one should pick up a copy of R. J. Rummel's book, "Death By Government." Since the end of World War II, Communist China and Red Russia lead the pack when it comes to death and brutality; however, the US government has inflicted its share of carnage as well. For example, in Iraq and Afghanistan alone, the government in Washington, D.C., has killed over 800,000 civilians (and this figure is a conservative estimate noting the most credible resources possible).

See here and also here.

Plus, does anyone remember the violence that our federal government enacted upon the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas? Does anyone remember the mother shot in the head while innocently holding her little baby in her own home by a federal sniper near Ruby Ridge, Idaho (after her small son was shot in the back by federal agents)? In fact, the list of civilians who have been killed by federal law enforcement agents over the years is a very long one. Granted, many of these killings were done in lawful self-defense; but others amounted to nothing less than old-fashioned murder (and never was the federal agent who committed the murder ever brought to justice).

If one wants to indict an "organization which advocates violence," then surely the central government in Washington, D.C., should be indicted!...

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Piatek Has A History Of Aiming For Cops

Militia man drove headfirst into a cop car

Thomas Piatek, the Indiana man accused of taking part in a violent militia’s plot to kill police officers, has a history of aiming for cops.

On May 14, 1990 Piatek, a truck driver, was arrested for taking his semi trailer across the raised median in the 18100 block of Halsted Street in Homewood and driving head-on into a state trooper, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The trooper swerved to avoid the wrong-way truck, then pulled a u-turn and went in for the arrest.

Piatek pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to one year of supervision.

Now Piatek and eight Hutaree co-defendants are charged in Detroit federal court with conspiring seditiously and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.

Federal officials seized nearly four dozen high-powered guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the Hammond, Ind., home of the man.

Magistrate Judge Paul Cherry denied bond for 46-year-old Piatek during a three-hour hearing on last week and ordered him to remain in the custody of U.S. Marshals

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Police say Piatek claimed to be angry because the patrol car had its high beams on.

The patrol car wasn't hit.

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Thomas Piatek, 46, of Hammond, was southbound when he "abruptly veered" over a raised median in the 18100 block of Halsted Street in Homewood, flashed on his high beams and drove directly into the path of a northbound marked police car on May 14, 1990, a police report shows.

"I thought you were one of those (expletives) with the bright lights on all the time," Piatek allegedly told the Homewood officer, who swerved to avoid the semi, then made a U-turn and arrested him. The squad car's high beams were on at the time...

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