Back in March, the left crowed with great glee about the arrest of nine members of the “Hutaree”, a self-styled Christian “Militia” group in Michigan.

The left and media (pardon the redundancy) saw this as the long-awaited proof that the American Right, afroth with racism over Barack Obama, was about to launch an “avalanche of violence” to vent its hatred toward the plucky black President.  They wheeled up the big guns; the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose job it is to see right-wing threats under every rock, reported right-wing threats…under every rock.

They needed something, of course; after setting up a prophylactic narrative in the days after the March 20 passage of Obamacare, the Democrats, led by Steny Hoyer, launched a meme about right-wing violence that impugned and defamed nearly every “out” conservative in the country – but has not to date yielded any violence (short of a still-unexplained “cut gas line” that has tellingly diappeared from the media).

So the Hutaree were a lifeline; a tank of rhetorical oxygen for a meme that was on life support.  Obama and the Dems needed to have Nine Redneck Terrorists, and the Feds obligingly provided them Public Enemies One Through Nine.

But over the past few days, a judge has tossed the Feds’ entire justification for holding them without bail, and raised serious questions about the soundness, and indeed the motivations, of the Feds’ case.

Archy Cary at BigJo runs down the case’s history – read it ASAP if you please – and asks the important question (emphasis added by me):

Here’s the question the MSM needs to ask, but won’t: Was this flamboyant raid primarily driven by political rather than law enforcement motives?

Was the arrest of the Hutaree militia Attorney General Eric Holder’s effort to manufacture an imminent right-wing extremist threat for political purposes?

Just asking.

Fearless prediction:  the Feds will drag this through court as long as they can.  They will lean on the Hutaree as hard as they can with the full weight of federal law enforcement, reinforcing the great Federal prerogative, “you can not afford to fight us”, squeezing them into a plea deal that allows the Administration and Media (ptr) to claim with a straight-ish face that of course there’s a threat!  People got convicted!  Nah nah nah I can’t hear you!

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