Hutaree

Hutaree is a Christian terrorist group in the United States which heavily based itself in End Times dogma.[1] In March 2010 they were charged with plotting to murder a police officer and then bomb the resulting funeral in order to kill more police officers, who would almost certainly be attending their fallen colleague's remembrance.[2] Somehow killing police officers would cause all of America to rise up and install a Christian Theocracy. Instead of, you know, causing everyone to hate them because they killed cops and bombed a funeral.

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They contacted other militia groups in the area for support and to have a safe house. The other militias turned them in as bombing a police officer funeral was too extreme for even the craziest militia.

One member also believed in a chain email that said that Obama was spending 20 million dollars to move Hamas over to America. (See link below)

Among the items found in the group's possession were multiple copies of the Left Behind "convert or kill" computer game.[3][4][5]

Acquittal

The Hutarees were acquitted of most charges in February 2011.[6] The judge believed that the impotent right-wing fantasies of heroism were not to be taken seriously. Most of their weapons were even returned.[7]

gollark: If you try and reflash them, you'll just get orbitally lased while in orbit or something.
gollark: No.
gollark: Technically not all of the orbital lasers may have *originally* been mine, but they run osmarks.tk firmware now and it's not like someone can go up there and reflash them.
gollark: Well, have osmarks.tk orbital laser network, will orbitally lase.
gollark: Idea: switch the incentives to make politicians build more environmentally-friendly power plants by orbital-lasing all heavily polluting power plants!

See also

References
  1. "US 'Christian militants' charged after FBI raids." BBC News. 2010 March 30.
  2. Chris McGreal. "Christian militia members held for plot to kill policeman and bomb funeral." The Guardian. 2010 March 29.
  3. Bill Berkowitz. "Tim LaHaye's Apocalyptic Dreams Hits Pay-dirt With the Alleged Cop-Killing Plan of Michigan Militia." The Smirking Chimp. 2010 April 24.
  4. wmholt. "The Hutaree Militia and the 'Left Behind' Video Games." Daily Kos. 2010 March 31.
  5. Maud Newton. "Is the Hutaree Militia the Final Word in Lunacy—or Just the Beginning?" The Awl. 2010 March 31.
  6. United States v. Stone (E.D. Mich. Jan. 30, 2012)
  7. FBI returns guns to ex-Hutaree member, Tina Stone says jobs scarce despite acquittal. Archived from the original at wxyz.com, 9 February 2013.
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