Don't believe the lies being told about militia

Dear Tim Mecham,

Ever time someone tells me that no one is fooled by media propaganda anymore, I can just show them your letter as proof that some people will believe whatever they read and then regurgitate it all over again as fact.

You bought into the media’s attempt to “link” us with the Hutaree, a private, Christian only, paramilitary group who has been accused of plotting to murder police officers.

Even though it has been admitted by the FBI that their own undercover agent did most of the plotting, the press and uniformed citizens such as yourself are hard at work trying to dupe others into believing that anyone in a militia is dangerous and it’s only a matter of time until they “kill law enforcement officers”.

Our only “link” to the Hutaree is that we have a “link” on our website so that you can check out their website.

We did this with many other militias around the country so that people could see how other groups are organizing. They put a link on their website back to us so that we all are placed higher on search engine lists when people “google” the word militia.

Ask anyone who has a website, any website, and they’ll tell you that’s how it works. And that is how “linked” we are to the Hutaree, who are still innocent until proven guilty, or would you rather have a more totalitarian form of justice. Maybe you’d prefer “guilty ‘cause we say so”!

And I know the major media will heartily thank you for again repeating the lie that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were in the militia. They were not. That was a smear that was “leaked” by the Feds because they wanted to use the Oklahoma City bombing to demonize the ’90s militia/patriot movement.

People today aren’t believing the lies being told every day on TV and in print about the Tea Party/Patriot movement, and neither should you.

JEFF STANKIEWICZ

Naples