WEBVTT - Arrested Democracy, Part 2 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.920 Call Zone Media. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.680 When we left off last week, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick I 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.440 had been taken into custody outside the Monroe County Courthouse 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:20.960 in Madisonville, Tennessee, on April first, twenty ten. Fitzpatrick barged 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.759 into a closed grand jury proceeding and attempted to place 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.480 Monroe County grand Jury Foreman Gary Petway under citizen's arrest. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.280 Fitzpatrick had written up his own arrest warrant, charging Petway 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.000 with obstruction of justice for his refusal to issue an 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:41.280 indictment against Barack Obama for treason. Walter Fitzpatrick did not 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.280 have the authority to draw up his own arrest warrants 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:46.600 any more than a county court in hour south of 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.400 Knoxville had the authority to indict the president on a 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:54.080 federal crime. But none of that really mattered to the 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.600 small crowd of supporters outside, who were sure that they 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:03.040 were closer than ever to arresting the president. Darren Huff, 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.120 an oathkeeper from Georgia, was among those supporters. He was 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.800 standing by with his video camera, hoping to capture Fitzpatrick's 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.280 victory against the corrupt county grand jury. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.760 You have been notified you've been told mister Petway has 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.800 just been placed under citizens arrest. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.240 My name is Walter Fitzpatrick. 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:25.200 I have just placed mister Petway under citizens arrest. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.440 But when the doors opened again, it was not Gary 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.400 Petway who was being escorted out by the Sheriff's deputies. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.000 It was Walter Fitzpatrick. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.200 They were leaving those or why because you just interrupted 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:41.959 a court proceeding. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.440 The rest of us would get arrested for that. However, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:46.680 all of you, thank you're special. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.560 So now we're leaving the courthouse and then what then 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.800 you're free to go Otherwise you're going to get arrested 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.080 to afree to come back in No. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:02:00.000 Sir, and he could have just left. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.200 As the deputy points out, he's kind of being treated 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.720 with kid gloves here. He's already broken the law, but 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.440 nobody really wants to deal with this old crank and 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.400 his fan club. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.360 But instead of leaving, Fitzpatrick pivoted. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:23.080 Now he's placing the sheriff himself under arrest. In the 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.120 audio recording, you can hear the deputy sigh dramatically as 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:32.639 Fitzpatrick begins reading the officers their rights and they realize 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.160 that the only way Fitzpatrick is leaving the building is 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:37.000 in handcuffs. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.280 Fitzpatrick was charged. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.000 With interfering with a grand jury, resisting arrest, and inciting 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.320 a riot. He was held in the county jail over 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.400 the weekend, during which time he reportedly refused to eat 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.760 or drink, and was offered a fifteen hundred dollars bond 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.720 on the condition that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation. On 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.639 April seven, the day after Fitzpatrick was released, Darren Huff 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.440 made the drive from his home in Georgia back up 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.360 to Madisonville. In a text message Huff sent a friend 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.919 on his way home that night, he said he'd spent 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.640 the day meeting with Fitzpatrick going over the plan. They 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.200 were coordinating with multiple groups to show up for what 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.720 Huff called Phase two. When Walter Fitzpatrick appeared for his 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.480 court date on April twentieth, he wasn't going to be alone. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:52.880 I'm Molly Conger and this is weird, little guys. This 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.800 episode is about Darren Huff. I mean, the last episode 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.800 was supposed to be about Darren Huff. Was the story 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.640 I sat down to write in the first place, But 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.200 my vague recollection of the story of some oathkeeper with 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.280 a hair brain scheme to citizens arrest and entire county 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.320 court turned up something a little more complicated that keeps happening. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.080 It turns out history is always a little messy. No 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.560 one is really the sole protagonist in their own story. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.400 Life doesn't really work that way. But if you listened 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.560 to last week's episode, now you have some contexts for 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:35.479 the baffling confidence Walter Fitzpatrick and Darren Huff seemed to 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.400 have in their plan. They'd both been completely swept up 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:44.320 in this nationwide right wing mania of Birtherism, the conspiracy 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.240 theory that Barack Obama was ineligible to serve as the 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.880 president of the United States because he had been born 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:56.000 in Kenya. Walter Fitzpatrick as bizarre and disconnected from reality 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.240 as his ideas sound. Was far from the only American 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.400 who was barging in to a court clerk's office every 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.920 week to demand something be done about the president's acts 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:05.560 of treason. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:07.800 It was everywhere. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:13.440 Everyone from Chuck Norris to Donald Trump was asking is 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.400 Barack Obama a natural born citizen of. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.800 The United States. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.960 Politicians like Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich flirted 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.680 with the idea, walking right up to the line and 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:33.640 then claiming they'd misspoken or been misunderstood. Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.200 Bachmann said she would proudly produce her own birth certificate. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.560 Alabama Senator Richard Shelby denied that he'd told a newspaper 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:47.560 that he'd like to see Barack Obama's birth certificate. Missouri 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.520 Congressman Roy Blunt said he'd been taken out of context 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.680 after telling a reporter that there was no legitimate reason 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.919 for the president not to produce his birth certificate. This 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.120 wasn't something that existed only at the nic fringe of 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:07.719 political discourse. Mainstream politicians and celebrities were just asking questions, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.560 never mind the kinds of things their supporters might do 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.760 to try to get answers. So, after an entire year 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.600 of unsuccessfully petitioning his local county grand jury to bring 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:26.480 charges against Barack Obama, Walter Fitzpatrick was frustrated, and when 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.320 he barged into that courtroom on April first, twenty ten, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:34.080 both Keeper Darren Huff and Sovereign Citizen Carl Swenson were 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.720 among those waiting just outside, and after the tables were 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.760 turned that day with this citizen's arrest turning into just 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:47.880 a citizen getting arrested. Darren Huff and Carl Swenson vowed 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.480 to return not just to support their friend at his 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.640 next court date, but to carry out a bigger, better 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:56.599 version of the plan. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.440 You who have been on the fence must get off 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.640 of that fence. Please go to the courthouse in mass 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:12.200 and demand justice. He is honoring his oath. To all 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.480 of you out there who have taken that oath, I 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.080 ask you right now to honor yours. Get down there, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.760 get him out of jail, and make sure that justice 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.200 has served. My name is CARLS. Winston. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:27.760 The call was put out. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.040 If you believe in the cause, if you believe in 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.840 the constitution, you must stand with Walter Fitzpatrick against the 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:40.360 Monroe County courts. He was scheduled to appear on April twentieth, 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:44.840 and true patriots had an obligation to be there. Between 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.400 Fitzpatrick's release on the sixth and his court date on 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:52.920 the twentieth, they had just two weeks to prepare, according 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.040 to the court records. Darren Huff appeared in several videos 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.840 about the events in Madisonville that were posted on Carl 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:04.400 Swinson's website Rise Upfroamerica dot com. Archived pages of that 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.880 site do still exist, and I can read the text 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.960 on those pages, but the videos were all embedded with 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.320 flash Player. So Darren's calls to action maybe lost to 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.520 the sands of time. But we have some pretty solid 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.320 sources that can give us an idea of what was 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.920 on Darren's mind during those two weeks, because Darren Huff 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.720 has never once in his life shut his goddamn mouth. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.679 On April fifteenth, Darren Huff stopped at the Chase Bank 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.439 in Hiram, Georgia. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:39.360 He ran a. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.760 Small business doing outdoor lighting, so he stopped by often 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.679 to deposit checks. According to Erica, the bank teller who 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.920 testified at his trial, most of the employees at the 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.160 branch knew him well enough to make friendly conversation, but 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.199 if she was working, he would wait in her line 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.560 even if another teller was free. But that evening he 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.520 wasn't making his usual jokes. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.280 He was deadly serious. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.560 Erica testified that Huff just launched right into telling her 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.160 about Walter Fitzpatrick and his upcoming trial in Madisonville, Tennessee, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.040 a situation she had no context, for she'd never heard 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.640 of Walter Fitzpatrick, and she'd never been to Madisonville, Tennessee. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.480 She was the only teller at the counter. The bank 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.600 was about to close for the night, and suddenly this 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.880 normally friendly customer is leaning over the counter telling her 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.280 that he was going to be spending this weekend mounting 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.240 an anti aircraft gun to the back of his pickup 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.520 truck because he and his militia were going to take 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.200 over a small town in Tennessee. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.160 On Tuesday. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.559 A conversation got so intense that another employee went to 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.679 go get the manager, Shane. In his testimony at trial, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.480 Shane too said that Huff was a regular customer at 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.360 the bank, and over the years he'd gotten to know 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:02.720 him a bit. Sometime in two thousand and nine, Huff 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.280 got really political, and when he made small talk with 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.040 the bank tellers, it was usually about his anti government 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:15.319 beliefs and various conspiracy theories. So when another employee came 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.600 to get him that night because Huff was making Erica uncomfortable, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.080 he probably wasn't surprised. He tried guiding the conversation back 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.960 to safer territory, asking Huff if he'd be taking his 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.360 video camera with him again on this trip, but the 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.960 response was an alarming one. Huff told him it would 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.679 be kind of hard to hold the camera because he 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.760 planned to be quote on the front line with two 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.920 Ak forty sevens. He told the bank employees that they'd 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.360 probably see him on the news next week, and as 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.640 he was leaving, he told Erica, it was nice knowing you. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:59.040 If I never see you again. Not to get ahead 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.040 of myself, but do you want to jump ahead here 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.800 and say Darren Huff would later accuse those two bank 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:09.920 employees of lying under oath. Obviously, there's no proving what 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.160 was or wasn't said at the bank that evening, But 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.640 within hours of that interaction, Erica was on the phone 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.720 with Madisonville, Tennessee, Police Chief Greg Breeden, and he recorded 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:25.320 that phone call, so we have a fairly contemporaneous recollection 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.199 of what was said. She related to Chief Breeden that 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.080 Huff told her that he was intending to travel to Madisonville, Tennessee, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.960 on April twentieth for Walter Fitzpatrick's court hearing, that he 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.560 would be armed with AK forty seven's and an anti 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.400 aircraft gun, that he would be with other militia members, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.400 and that the group intended to carry out citizens arrests 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.479 of various local officials and seize control of the courthouse. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.080 And Darren Huff was found to be in possession of 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.920 printed copies of those citizens arrest warrants, and he would 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.920 later admit under oath that at that time he was 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.079 in possession of an anti aircraft gun and a pedestal 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.240 mount that could be installed in the bed of his truck. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.600 She would have had no way. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.600 Of knowing any of that at the time if he 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.680 hadn't told her himself, and she's on tape reporting it 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.160 to the police long before she could have read anything 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.720 in the news or been coached by an FBI agent 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:30.720 to say these things. Both Shane and Erica were understandably 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:36.120 deeply unsettled by that interaction. Immediately after leaving work that evening, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.120 Erica called a friend who worked in local government, who 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.880 helped her find the phone number for the Madisonville, Tennessee 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.560 Police Department. Jane's wife urged him to call their own 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.920 sheriff in Paulding County, Georgia, and by the end of 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.880 the night, both bank employees had shared their concerns with 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.160 the police and by Monday they'd met with FBI agents. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.760 And it was on Monday, April nineteenth, the day before 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.920 the planned occupation of Madisonville, Tennessee, that an FBI agent 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:11.000 knocked on Darren Huff's front door. Supervisory Special Agent Charles Reid, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.720 accompanied by a couple of deputies from the Paulding County 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.719 Sheriff's Office, just wanted to have a word with him, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.160 and Darren Huff voluntarily stepped out onto his front porch 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.640 and he chatted with the agent for about as long 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.360 as it took him to finish a cigarette. It was 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:31.880 a brief conversation. Agent Reid recalls that Huff was pretty 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.720 open about his plan to drive to Tennessee in the morning. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.800 He said he'd have his CULT forty five on his 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.160 hip and his AK forty seven was in the truck. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.720 He freely volunteered to the agent that he was a 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.360 member of both the Oath Keepers and the Georgia Militia. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.720 He said that the plan was to execute citizens, arrest warrants, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.840 and quote take back Madisonville, but that the group would 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:02.000 not resort to violence unless they were provoked. When Darren 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.880 Huff took the stand at his own trial. He recalled, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.040 telling Agent Read that evening that he'd love it if 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:13.760 the FBI would be there in Madisonville. Again, remember last 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.040 week that letter that Walter Fitzpatrick sent the police chief 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:22.400 of Madisonville before all of this got started. He wasn't 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.520 making threats. He was inviting the police to be part 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:32.080 of his plan. And that's the same mindset Darren has here. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.560 He even gave the FBI agent his business card. I 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.600 had to double check here because Darren's business cards do 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.200 come up again later, but it sounds like the business 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.440 card he gave Agent Read the night before the big 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.680 day was just a normal business card, a real one 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:55.200 for his outdoor lighting business. It wasn't until after he 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.960 was arrested that he got new business cards printed that 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:03.760 said Darren Huff, right wing extremist and potential domestic terrorist. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.520 But when he finished his cigarette, the conversation was over. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.960 Agent Reid had no reason to arrest him. Huff had 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.720 expressed to him a plan to commit a federal crime, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.960 the one he would eventually be arrested for, but he 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.280 hadn't actually done it yet. There was no federal crime 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.600 here until Darren Huff put his guns in the truck 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.120 and drove across the state line from Georgia into Tennessee 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.000 with the intent to engage in a little civil disorder. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:45.400 So Agent Reid left, but another agent stayed nearby all night, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.640 watching and waiting for the truck to pull out of 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:55.200 the driveway. Darren Huff was under FBI surveillance when he 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.280 hit the road just before dawn on April twentieth, twenty ten, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.720 fifteen am, he was observed crossing the state line, and 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.640 just after seven am, Tennessee State Trooper Michael Wilson followed 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.480 Huff's truck as he took Exit sixty off I seventy 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:15.080 five towards Madisonville. Whether or not Huff rolled through the 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.320 stop sign at the bottom of the exit ramp is 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.840 a matter of some debate, but Trooper Wilson flashed his 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:26.200 blue lights and pulled him over. This traffic stop ends 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.400 up being central to Huff's case on appeal, but it 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.760 isn't where he got arrested. He actually didn't even get 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.720 a ticket, but Trooper Wilson and Darren Huff spent over 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.120 an hour together there on the shoulder of Tennessee Highway 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.760 sixty eight. When Huff was asked to step out of 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.040 the vehicle. He had his CULT forty five on his hip. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.560 The officer unholstered the weapon, removed the magazine, checked the chamber, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.520 and put the weapon in his patrol car for safekeeping. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.800 Darren Huff produced a valid Georgia driver's license, but he 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.880 didn't have his truck's registration on him. He assured the 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.399 officer that the gun was legal and handed him a 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.520 piece of paper that he said was a gun carry permit. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.480 In his testimony, the troopers said the document looked quote, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:19.359 very unprofessional, and he was concerned it might not be real. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.840 He spent an hour going back and forth with Dispatch 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.400 about this strange document and was never able to verify 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.280 whether Huff actually had a valid carry permit for that gun. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.240 And during that hour, while they were trying to sort 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:41.480 it out, Darren Huff talked. He talked a lot, He 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:46.199 ran his mouth the entire time, and the entire conversation 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.880 was recorded on the officer's dash cam, which was connected 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:54.040 to a microphone on his uniform. And in their conversation, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.439 Darren explained his whole plan. They had arrest warrants for 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.879 the Grand jury reforman the district attorney, the sheriff, the judge, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:08.240 Nancy Pelosi, et cetera. He recommended some YouTube videos the 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.720 officers should watch to learn more about Barack Obama's crimes, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.399 and he told them they needed to be reading Walter 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.480 Fitzpatrick's blog. In the portions of this audio that I 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.320 could find, the officers seem to be playing along. They're 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.439 mostly just letting him talk without interruption, but occasionally they 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.720 asked some questions about how exactly the plan is going 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.679 to work, and Darren's happy to explain because he's actually 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:36.680 going to need their help. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:40.320 And then at that point they would be placed in 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.280 the custody and you know, turn this man over you. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.880 I don't have handcuffs, right, you know, somebody we would 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.200 need somebody like you guys there. And I can't tell 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.280 you how much I appreciate you guys listening. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.320 Again, this is exactly like Fitzpatrick's letter to the police chief. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.159 He's telling the cops what they plan to do and 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.040 trying to get them to be a part of it. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.320 The audio is a little fuzzy because they're standing on 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.960 the side of the highway in the rain, but he 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.960 wants the officers to agree to receive these prisoners once 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:18.200 they've been citizens arrested. But that wasn't all. He was 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.879 worried about a lot more than just the corrupt government 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:25.040 in Monroe County, Tennessee. He shared his concerns about the 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.920 Affordable Care Act, which had just been signed into law. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:28.680 A few weeks earlier. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.080 Of course, he was upset that this was communism, obviously, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.720 but more importantly, he was very worried because this law 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.439 requires that all Americans be implanted with the mark of 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:46.800 the Beast. As foretold in Revelations. 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:47.200 Liek. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.719 Ten eighteen, Jesus said, and I beheld Satan as lightning 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:55.720 fall from heaven. The Greek translation from lightning is barock. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.560 Now jess didn't speak Greek. He spoke Hebrew, so you 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.240 can look it up into Hebrew. Still barack lat and 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:08.720 heaven translates from Hebrew. Who or oh bomber? So Jesus said, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:12.720 out of his own lips, I saw Satan as work bomb. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.679 He went on to explain that he was opposed to 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.080 the war in the Middle East, though he notes that 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:26.840 he does think quote Muslims suck end quote, but also 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.800 nine to eleven was an inside job. He tells the officers, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.160 that they who are all white men, are God's true 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:39.359 chosen people, that Caucasians are the real Israelites, and biblical 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:44.919 prophecy foretold the re establishment of Israel in seventeen seventy six. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.320 Remember last week when we touched briefly on Christian identity, 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.359 That's what this is. Darren Huff is a self proclaimed 0:20:55.560 --> 0:21:00.080 pastor in the Christian identity movement. He's standing there on 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:04.200 the side of the highway, surrounded by cops, preaching Christian 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.000 identity and trying to recruit them to. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:08.600 The oath Keepers. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.440 It remains very unclear to me why the trooper gave 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:18.879 Huff his gun back, but he did. At eight thirteen am. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.680 He handed Darren Huff a written warning, returned his COLT 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.359 forty five, and told him he was free to go. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.080 The men shook hands and Huff thanked the officer and 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:32.440 he took a few steps back toward his truck before 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:39.000 he stopped turned around and said, let me pre warn you, 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.720 if enough of us show up today, we are going 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.600 to proceed forward in this citizen's arrest. That's why I 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:51.040 have my forty five. Ain't no government official going peacefully? 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:54.760 And then he slid his Colt forty five back into 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.400 his holster, climbed into his pickup truck that said oath 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.640 keepers all down one side, and drove the last few 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:21.400 miles into Madisonville, Tennessee. At five o'clock that morning, more 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.080 than fifty police officers from multiple jurisdictions in and around 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:30.200 Monroe County, Tennessee, gathered for a briefing. There were FBI 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.919 agents from the Joint Terrace and Task Force and at 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.280 least one representative from the Department of Homeland Security. They'd 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.320 been monitoring the online chatter about Walter Fitzpatrick's hearing at 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:44.719 the courthouse at nine am, and they were worried. The 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.280 intelligence they had was that as many as six hundred 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:53.119 people might be on their way to Madisonville, Tennessee. They 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:57.080 had undercovers stationed in nearby businesses and snipers on rooftops. 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:02.000 One of those undercover officers was Mike Hall, the director 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:06.080 of a regional violent crime task force in Tennessee. In 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:09.600 plain clothes, he got a table at Donna's in Cafe, 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.520 a block from City Hall, where Fitzpatrick's supporters would be 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:16.439 meeting for breakfast. And maybe the police should have known 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:21.720 that They probably weren't expecting six hundred armed militiamen if 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.199 they knew that they had booked tables at Donna's cafe. 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.400 But that's neither here nor there, And by the time 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:34.119 breakfast was over, barely twenty supporters were packed into the 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:38.080 dining room, finishing their biscuits and coffee as Darren Huff 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.200 gave a rousing speech about taking his AK forty seven 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:46.920 down to the courthouse. Carl Swinson's dead website isn't exactly 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:50.680 easy to navigate, so maybe the whole speech was there 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.159 at some point, but I was only able to dig 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:56.960 up an audio file of the first six minutes or so, 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.240 and it's pretty inspiring stuff. 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:06.240 So as a Christians, as lieutenant commander said, I'm chaplain 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:07.960 for the Georgia Militia, so I look at things a 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.679 little bit differently, and I look at them basically, And 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:13.280 I told these guys, and I tell everybody, I'm not 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:15.960 a very smart guy. In fact, the only thing that 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:18.639 I know about the Constitution are the first few amendments. 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:20.400 Those leave me the hell alone ones. 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:23.040 That's what I know, and I know them well enough 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:24.399 to say you're wrong. 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:25.640 You can't do this. 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:32.359 Over the sound of clinking forks on plates the Christian 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:37.520 Identity militia. Chaplin explains that they are preparing for spiritual war, 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:41.040 that we were already in the end times, as we're 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:45.600 told in Revelations see the founding of the United States 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:50.800 was biblical prophecy. God knew that in seventeen seventy six 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:53.919 the thirteen tribes of Israel would be called back together 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:55.399 as the thirteen Colonies. 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.840 Yes, at thirteen, I know. 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:01.760 It's twelve, twelve tribes of Israel. 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:03.080 You know it's twelve. 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:08.200 But Darren is counting Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manassa separately, 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:11.600 and that's why he thinks it's thirteen. And I know 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:16.520 that because he mentions Joseph's sons specifically, because otherwise I 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.280 might have assumed he was talking about something different. We 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:23.639 don't need to get into the specifics here. But adherents 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:27.480 of Christian identity believe that they are the real Israelites, 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:32.120 so they have to explain the existence of actual Jews 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:36.520 some other way, and that usually boils down to a 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:40.120 theory that Ashkenazi Jews are actually descended from a Turkic 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:46.439 race called the Kasars. Christian identity guys really love this 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:50.400 book from the seventies called The Thirteenth Tribe, which makes 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:55.240 the case for this theory. Honestly, please don't make me 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:58.640 explain the Kazar hypothesis every time I see a guy 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:00.639 posting about Kasar's I'm just. 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:02.160