The Militia Man Next Door: Neighbor of Hutaree plotter describes a troubled gun nut

[BurtWorm]

Big surprise.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-02/the-militiaman-next-door-1/

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In published reports, Donna said Stone went from mainstream Christian to extremist, which caused the marriage to end. Donna's mother, Judy Snead, said in an interview that Stone "hasn't been wrapped tight for a long time, and that she's grateful her daughter is no longer married to him.

"I wasn't around him that much, but it did seem like something was going on with him. He always had guns, for one thing,” she said.

"I truly feel like he needed some kind of help as a child, and didn't get it," added Snead, 68, of Lenawee County. "I thank the Lord Donna got out."

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Stone, who according to records has three sons and a daughter, married his current wife, Tina, last year, a ceremony documented on Facebook with photos of the wedding party, dressed in camo and toting assault rifles.

Beyond his rollicking home life, no one knows what effect a 1998 incident, in which two young children died, had on him. Court records show that in April of that year, a 17-month-old and a two-year-old drowned in an uncovered hole containing an uncompleted septic system on property owned or managed by Stone and a relative. Stone, the relative, and the children's caregiver were sued for negligence and wrongful death. The suit was dismissed in 2000.

"I heard about that," said Snead. "But I don't know what's gone on in that man's mind."

[Cirque du So-What]

1. A tragedy, to be sure

but millions of people live through tragedies without fantasizing about murdering law enforcement officers and sparking civil war. If this horseshit makes its way into court as a defense ploy, I'm gonna be pissed!

[marybourg]

2. Interesting. Just this morning there was a story on my local NPR

station about an incident like that with an uncompleted cess-pool and a drowned child. Both the parents, who were the home-owners, were arrested!

[BurtWorm]

3. He was probably thinking, I got a right to endanger the life of my own child on my own damn property