Y'all kids quit your squabbling or I'm gonna pull this car over!
So I guess all the ideological parallels don't count? Birds of a feather.
The Hutarees idea of the enemy has a great deal of overlap with the enemy identified by the Tea Party movement: A mysterious New World Order that is being created by big government liberals. The Hutarees also share with the Tea Party the idea that current political discontent is a repetition of the historical pattern of the American revolution of 1776. One writes, Ive had this feeling that I havnt been able to shake, and it is all adding up now (THE GOV. IS NOT OUR DADDY) just like 200 years ago I think its time again.
(see Irregular Times. com, this thing won't let me link yet.)
"The enemy of my enemy...", etc.
Actually, I suspect that the Hutaree are a Dominionist sect, Calvinists whose explicitly stated goal is to overturn the constitution and replace it with a theocracy ruled by "Biblical law", which usually turn s out to be whatever the guy with the sword at your throat says it is.
On their website (now unavailable), there are several references to Dominionist theology, references to the "elect" (predispensationalism), the coming of Jesus (premillenialism), etc.
Dominionist influence is widespread, the whole "activist judges" meme, is straight out of Dominionist theology, as is the "this is a Christian nation" meme.
Anyway, I'm sure that tea baggers don't chase 'em off when it comes time to vote - is that so or is that not so?
If you're gonna share a bed with Dominionist insurgents - they are classified as a terrorist organization by the Justice department - they've been behind several of the murders of family practice physicians (also see "Joels Army") then you need to own up - you're happy to wield them like a bludgeon to threaten everybody with violence for disagreeing with you, but they get busted plotting to kill law enforcement officers, and you pretend you don't know 'em?
Please.
If you really intend to defend the constitution, then realize that Obama was lawfully elected, and quit acting like a bunch of spoiled children, 'cause otherwise it increasingly looks like lip service, and you got something else entirely in mind.
I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and it's one I take seriously. It's not a flag or a church that makes me free, it's the constitution, and that means rule of law, one law for everyone, so spare me the bull.