According to an article on the Detroit Free Press website, at least one member of the Hutaree militia had her anger stoked by a web rumor about President Obama.
A member of the Hutaree militia charged with federal crimes was upset because she thought that President Barack Obama had signed into law this month a bill that would spend $20 billion to help the terrorist group Hamas settle in the U.S.
There was never any such legislation, but Tina Stone believed it was the truth, according to her Facebook account.
You know those emails you've seen where they claim that President Obama plans to sentence your grandparents to death or to build a national shrine to Karl Marx on the Mall? Well this rumor got started from one such email. According to Factcheck.org, an email has been making its way around the country claiming that the President signed into law a bill to resettle Hamas members in the U.S.
Of course, there is no such bill. In fact, the President wrote a memo instructing the State Department to fund refugee assistance in Gaza. The email itself originated from an article on the right-wing website, New Media Journal. But don't bother giving them any web traffic. Read all of the facts at Factcheck.org instead.
Here's the full text of the erroneous email:
Our president just signed an executive order <http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-2488.htm> appropriating $20.3 million of your tax dollars for `migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.’ It was signed on January 27th and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4th.
This is designed to allow hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to resettle in the United States,the same people who voted Hamas into power en masse. And I’ll guarantee you that a number of Hamas operatives will slip in as part of the group. The order not only provides free airplane tickets but provides for food and housing allowances, something no other immigrants get. ...
We will see more of this... because part of Obama’s strategy involves pandering to the Muslim world and importing the sort of immigrants who will fundamentally change the electorate. ...
This guy is either a Muslim, or he’s crazy and the 78% of American Jews who voted for him have some sort of personality disorder equating to a death wish.
In a March 19th posting on Facebook, Tina Stone vented her anger at this news:
"I'm peeved,,, when people in this country is getting kicked out of there homes everyday and our government passes a bill to spend more then 20 billion dollars to bring Hamas here and supplies them with food and homes that just wrong."
So now you know the straw that broke the militia member's back.