The FBI's m/o is similar to the one used by the Feds to seize failing banks, except that the FBI uses military roadblocks and helicopter air support when it swoops in on the weekend. I'm going to call this Militia Failure Friday number one, because there will be more.
Jennifer Chambers, writing for The Detroit News in the story "Seven Arrested in FBI Raids Linked to Christian Militia Group," which appeared here, reports that:
seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said. ...
Sources have said the FBI was in the second day of raids around the southeastern Michigan city of Adrian that are connected to a militia group, known as the Hutaree, an Adrian-based group whose members describe themselves as Christian soldiers preparing for the arrival and battle with the anti-Christ.
WXYZ-TV reports that helicopters were spotted in the sky for much of Saturday night, and agents set up checkpoints throughout the area. Witnesses told the station that it was like a small army had descended on the area. The Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are also involved in the raids. ...
The Associated Press is reporting that FBI spokesman Scott Wilson in Cleveland said agents arrested two people Saturday in northwest Ohio. A third arrest was made in Illinois on Sunday, a day after raids in northwest Indiana.
There is much more at the link.
