Oath Keepers defendant fights back tears as he whines about the government

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Courthouse-takeover-defendant-on-witness-stand-2227531.php

BILL POOVEY, Associated Press
Updated 03:32 p.m., Friday, October 21, 2011

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Georgia militia member testified Friday at his trial in a bizarre attempted courthouse takeover case, fighting back tears and saying "my government has called me a potential domestic terrorist."

Prosecutors contend Darren Wesley Huff of Dallas, Ga., drove to East Tennessee with a handgun and an AK-47 on April 20, 2010, after threatening to use force and to sacrifice his life if necessary to take over the city of Madisonville and the Monroe County Courthouse. snip

"This is the most humiliating thing I have ever been through," Huff said as Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Theodore cross-examined him on the fourth day of the trial.

Huff said that as a member of the Oath Keepers organization he went to Tennessee in support of local activist Walter Fitzpatrick, who weeks earlier was arrested after trying to make a citizens' arrest of a grand jury foreman and other officials. Huff on that occasion carried a video camera to record Fitzpatrick's unsuccessful arrest attempt.

[hobbit709]

1. Typical whining from a bully when caught.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Well, if the shoe fits...if it walks like a duck...etc...

From this domestic terrorist's mouthpiece in court:

Green told jurors they should not convict Huff "because his views are different doesn't mean you should send him to jail.'

'Views' are one thing; taking a semiautomatic rifle to the courthouse to make 'citizen's arrests' of government officials constitutes domestic terrorism that no amount of RW spin can rehabilitate.

[mwb970]

3. Poor, poor baby.

Call the waaaaaaaaaaaambulance!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. "A potential domestic terrorist."

He should take that up with *, Cheney, Alberto Gonzalez, and John Ashcroft. They're the ones who made a fantasy into law with their two PATRIOT Acts.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Thing is...

this guy actually meets the definition of 'terrorist,' and I'm glad he'll be on hiatus from society for awhile. I'm no fan of the so-called 'Patriot Act' either, but I also want an apparatus in place to keep track of RW fuckery, which I believe is a greater threat to our society than Al Qaeda or any of the other nebulous boogeymen used to keep low-level anxiety running at all times.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Oathkeepers wish the PATRIOT Act only applies to non-white, non-republicans.

[Doctor_J]

6. Some DUers have said that the Oath Keepers should be part of OWS

along with the teabaggers.

:wtf:

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. The story is misleading. Reading the entire story reveals this:

Apparently the guy is an EX-Oath Keeper, was kicked out of that organization.
Here:
"U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan on Friday granted a defense motion to block prosecutors from making any comment about the Oath Keepers and militia groups kicking Huff out days after the trip to Tennessee."
Last paragraph.

The article is implying that this EX Oath Keeper is acting with support of that organization.

The Oath Keepers stated goals are essentially to resist orders to behave unlawfully/unconstitutionally towards American citizens.
The same attitude that everyone is praising Retired Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas for voicing.

I have no idea if the Oath Keeper group is doing anything beyond their stated purpose of resisting being used against American citizens.

I DO object to slanted news stories.

If you read the whole story, it is clear that this guy is a loudmouth who waved a red flag in the face of the FBI who then stuck to him like glue, and it is now a case of "he said/they said" about his making "terrorist threats". He denies it.

[hobbit709]

10. funny how they didn't kick him out until AFTER he was caught.

In other words, at the time of the offense, he was, as they say, a card carrying member.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. The point remains..he was kicked out, the defense wants that info to be withheld.

[jberryhill]

12. Darren Huff

Was going to the courthouse in support of a birther who had been rebuffed in his efforts to seek indictment of Barack Obama for not being a natural born citizen. The guy he was going to assist, Walter Fitzpatrick, had already attempted a "citizen's arrest" of the county grand jury foreman.

A good deal of the "Oath Keppers" believe part of keeping their "oath to the constitution" includes resistance against a president they consider to be unconstitutional. That's not some harmless "I pledge not to use force against Americans" thing - it is the polar opposite.

[opihimoimoi]

9. Yet another RWer who has flies in his head....WTF? who is infecting these people?

[Rex]

13. Wow...I've never seen someone in such need of a hobby!

I mean a GOOD hobby. Whenever I think I have way too much free time on my hands...I read about people like DWH and remember that I don't even place.

[stevedeshazer]

14. That guy needs to get laid or something.

Maybe a trip to Disney World.

Or bass fishing. Isn't that what those guys are supposed to do?