Ever since that unfortunate turn of events with the Hutaree Christian militia up in Michigan, the folks the feds had to round up for plotting to kill a police officer and then ambush his funeral procession with Iraq-style IEDs, the good militia brand has taken a bit of a beating.
So this Saturday the folks who I guess we’re supposed to think of as coming from the ‘mainstream’ militia movement, the so-called ‘Michigan militia’, are hosting a family-oriented “Open Carry Family Picnic & Tea Party” to show the true face of the lifestyle and help “take the stigma out of the word ‘militia.'”
