And, to prove my point, this was in today’s news: (bolding is mine)
Feds: Militia leader told members be ready to kill
DETROIT (AP) – The leader of a Christian militia 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,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing Friday.
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.
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Prosecutors claim Stone and the others plotted mass killings of police as a prelude to a larger war against the government. In Friday’s filing and others that trickled out over the past week, they described several ways in which Hutaree members considered killing law enforcement personnel.
According to one scenario, they would place a phony 911 call, kill responding police officers, then set off a bomb at the ensuing funeral to kill many more.
In another, Friday’s filing said, Hutaree members talked about “torching the homes of police officers and then shooting them and their families as they fled their burning homes.”
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20100417/D9F4HHTG0.html
How many more of these groups are going to be found before one of them succeeds? How many people have to die before proper attention is given this situation? Substitute Christian for Muslim and this would be all over the news, people would be all in a patriotic huff, and the Republicans would be making some statement about how it is all Obama’s fault. But they weren’t Muslims planning to kill police officers or anyone else who got in their way. These were Christians.
Jihad = holy war
Crusade = holy war
War is never holy. Never.