http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/31/does-the-hutaree-militia-raise-a-red-flag-of-growing-farright-violence.php
The Hutaree believe that the feds are conspiring to create one-world government and so a war is at hand, that is, between Christians and the Antichrist. Exactly who is the Antichrist? This is unclear from "Hutaree theology,` but I would think it must be Barack Obama, since he`s the president of the federal government.
... One might write off the Hutaree as a one off, an oddity with no future ramifications. I can`t really do that. Many incidents of the past come to mind: Ruby Ridge, The Branch Davidians in Waco and Timothy McVeigh`s bombing of federal building in Oklahoma City. These anti-government hate groups don`t mind using violence to achieve their ends. And in the case of David Karesh they don`t mind using "end of time` rhetoric, supposedly culled from the Book of Revelations, that employs Christ in their paranoid obsessions. That is a Christ as a violent warrior, not as a peaceful messenger of "turn the other cheek.`
... So the threat of "domestic terrorism` is greater with these fringe militia groups on the far-right, and especially when they hinge their belief-systems to twisted takes on Christianity, and purloin isolated passages from the bible (The Book of Revelations) for ill-purpose. When the federal building was bombed in Oklahoma City (1995) I thought (at first) it was "International Terrorists`. I was shocked to find out that Timothy McVeigh was just a disgruntled Gulf-War veteran!
And let us not forget Joseph Stack crashing his plane into an IRS building here in Austin. This was obviously an act of Domestic Terrorism. " Stack hated the government and was willing to kill innocent people to make his point. Stack shares some commonality with these Hutaree, only his weapon was a small airplane instead of IEDs. I fear these extremist groups will only multiply.
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