by: Gary Rea (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Saturday night, a joint “anti-terrorism” task force composed of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement descended upon a Christian Militia group known as Hutaree near the town of Adrian, Michigan.

Seven people have been arrested and are scheduled to be brought before the U.S. District Court in Detroit on Monday.

According to sources not known, the FBI has been in charge of raids conducted in Adrian over the last two days. According to Mike Lakomar of Michiganmilitia.com, the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia and the Michiganmilitia.com were not a part of the raid.

Lackomar said he heard from other militia members that the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations. “Last night and into today the FBI conducted a raid against homes belonging to the Hutaree. They are a religious cult. They are not part of our militia community,” he said. Lackomar said he was told there were five arrests Saturday and another five early Sunday. The FBI declined to comment.

This follows just a year after a DHS “fusion center” in Missouri (the Missouri Information Analysis Center) released a report on the “Modern Militia  Movement” in which they stated a direct connection between militia groups and ordinary citizens who support third-party candidates, such as Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin.

Then, lest we forget, the militia movement was targeted by the Clinton administration in the nineties, with the raids on Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge and the FBI/ATF raid on the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, which left 76 people, including 24 British nationals, more than 20 children and two pregnant women burned alive or shot to death under suspicious circumstances.

For many in the “patriot movement,” especially those who are new to it and who know nothing about Bill Cooper and the real patriot movement, the militias are something seen as being on the periphery of the movement. The fact is, they were the patriot movement during the eighties and nineties until the false-flag attack by the Clinton administration upon the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was falsely pinned on the militias which Timothy McVeigh and Randy Nichols were supposedly linked to.