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JackCo Donating Member (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:14 PM
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Federal Agents Bust "The Free Militia"
Source: News 19 Huntsville AL

April 26, 2007

From NewsChannel 19:

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) arrested six people today after they served search warrants at the homes of members of a group called "The Free Militia."

ATF agents, along with FBI and several local officers found 130 grenades, an improvised rocket launcher with live rounds, a grenade launcher, a machine gun, a short barreled shotgun, two silencers, numerous other firearms, 2,500 rounds of ammunition, approximately 70 improvised explosive devices (IED's), commercial fireworks, and more than 120 marijuana plants and other explosives. Officers also found booby traps at one location.

Read more: http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=6429885



This is my area of the state. I have heard there was also a raid in NC but don't know for sure.
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:18 PM
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1. "marijuana plants and other explosives"
Bhang?
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:33 PM
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6. They were very concerned about Mexicans/Guatemalans,.. breaking the law
but it's OK that they do. Typical.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 07:20 PM
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10. sending that one to a retired English teacher I know in Alabama ...
Hee, hee!
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 09:25 AM
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14. LOL!
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 10:14 AM
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15. Must have been a lot of seeds for marijuana to be explosive. nt
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 01:12 PM
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19. Bongs Away!
Oh, we will be having fun with this one, won't we?
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 10:15 AM
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16. haven't you ever smoked "killer weed"?
it's a WMD now
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 01:05 PM
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18. Surely you have no problems with open
styles of punctuation. Close punctuation is so ... conservative. (I personally prefer mixed, but then I often like compromise.)

Are IEDs explosives? Fireworks? If yes, there's the basis for "other". You have to remember all the way back past 7 words....

Or is it a failed attempt at snarkiness? I can understand snark ... but it should be plausible snark.

Sadly, a number of other people tried the same snarkiness.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 03:31 PM
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20. eats shoots and leaves
eats, shoots, and leaves?
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:20 PM
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2. Awww... Gee....
Rush Limbaugh loses 6 more fans...
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:21 PM
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3. Another childish Libertarian rebellion fantasy put to an end.
Grow up guys- who needs this foolishness in their back yard anyway?
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:23 PM
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4. Booby Traps?????!!!!??? This is HUGH!!!1!


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MethuenProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 05:25 PM
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5. "Dave's not here, man!"
:smoke:
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 06:15 PM
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7. Prosecute and if convicted, give them maximum sentences served separately. n/t
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 06:21 PM
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8. I notice there's no use of the word terrorist here
Interesting...

I also found it interesting, like a previous poster, that marijuana is an explosive.
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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 07:11 PM
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9. Perhaps if the Free Militia where bankrolled by Wall Street
and contracted by the Bush Administration, Then they would not have these problems, I mean what is the difference between them and Blackwater? They are both private armies.
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TheGriz Donating Member (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 08:30 PM
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11. Blackwater fucks up someone elses country besides their own
And they get away with it.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 10:01 PM
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12. Don't forget, they fucked up this country too...
Specifically in New Orleans.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-26-07 10:12 PM
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13. and yet the feds top ten domestic "threats" involve
never include groupes like the milita movement, or any right leaning group.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-27-07 11:06 AM
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17. But... but...but...
But don't they need the grenades and rocket launchers to go hunting?

:sarcasm:
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