{"id":6210,"date":"2011-10-26T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/republican-on-trial\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T07:01:21","slug":"republican-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/republican-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican On Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

To swell the numbers of their supporters, the Republican Party have opened their arms to virtually every flavor of hate group and wing-nut.  They have provided an aura of social acceptance for such people that has emboldened them to the nation\u2019s hurt and produced a stream of right wing domestic terrorists.  One of them is on trial.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"26huff\"After a week-long trial, a federal jury in Georgia is deliberating the strange case of birther OathKeeper Darren Huff, who allegedly attempted to take over a Tennessee courthouse and conduct citizens arrests on local judges and officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy government has called me a potential domestic terrorist,\u201d Huff said on the stand on Friday as he fought back tears. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most humiliating thing I have ever been through,\u201d Huff said when he took the stand. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have never made a statement about taking over the courthouse, the city, the state, nothing,\u201d he said, the AP<\/a> reports. \u201cI never said anything about taking anything over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get employment when you\u2019re under federal indictment,\u201d Huff also said<\/a>. \u201cI refuse to be intimidated. All I can do is still have a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case dates back to April 2010 when Huff, carrying a Colt .45 and an AK-47, made his way<\/a> to a Tennessee courthouse to conduct citizens\u2019 arrests on officials. Huff was responding to a call for help from supporters of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, a leader of the birther and Patriot group American Grand Jury, who was arrested for trying to perform a citizen\u2019s arrest on a Grand Jury foreman. Fitzpatrick was angry that court officials didn\u2019t let him pursue a Grand Jury trial against \u201cillegal alien, infiltrator and impostor\u201d President Obama, and other \u201cdomestic enemies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huff was stopped by State Troopers on his way to the courthouse, and said he would not resort to violence unless provoked, but he was ready to die for his rights and what he believed in. The State Troopers let him through, but he was arrested soon after\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Frankly, I\u2019m not angry at Huff.  His behavior indicates that he\u2019s at least seven cans short of a six pack.  I hope that he gets the help he needs to habilitate himself.  I am, however disgusted with the political party that is so morally bankrupt, that they lionize deranged individuals like Huff, until they hurt or kill someone.  They they say, \u201cWho us?\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To swell the numbers of their supporters, the Republican Party have opened their arms to virtually every flavor of hate group and wing-nut.  They have provided an aura of social acceptance for such people that has emboldened them to the nation\u2019s hurt and produced a stream of right wing domestic terrorists.  One of them is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}