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Illinois 'White Rabbit' white supremacy group shut down by federal authorities
The group calls itself the White Rabbit Militia. From their hideaway south of metro Chicago, White Rabbit militiamen were stockpiling an arsenal of automatic weapons, bombs, and bullets, preparing for a violent revolution against the federal government according to newly filed court documents. U.S. law enforcement describes the rural Illinois-based group as a "paramilitary terrorist organization" targeting anyone they didn't like or disagreed with.
Michael Hari is the accused leader of the White Rabbits according to federal agents. The 49-year-old is from downstate Clarence and is charged with leading a posse of heavily armed central Illinois militiamen to a Minnesota mosque.
All of this came down in 2017 and early 2018. The government says they eventually cracked the Minnesota mosque bombing when an anonymous tip led them to an abortion clinic in Champaign, the scene of an attempted firebombing, by the same militia group.
Federal prosecutors say they are concerned Hari may try to tell the jury this is a politically motivated case; and they are asking the court to prevent him from trying to justify his violent crimes with any argument that he is a patriot fighting to defend America.
The group calls itself the White Rabbit Militia. From their hideaway south of metro Chicago, White Rabbit militiamen were stockpiling an arsenal of automatic weapons, bombs, and bullets, preparing for a violent revolution against the federal government according to newly filed court documents. U.S. law enforcement describes the rural Illinois-based group as a "paramilitary terrorist organization" targeting anyone they didn't like or disagreed with.
Michael Hari is the accused leader of the White Rabbits according to federal agents. The 49-year-old is from downstate Clarence and is charged with leading a posse of heavily armed central Illinois militiamen to a Minnesota mosque.
All of this came down in 2017 and early 2018. The government says they eventually cracked the Minnesota mosque bombing when an anonymous tip led them to an abortion clinic in Champaign, the scene of an attempted firebombing, by the same militia group.
Federal prosecutors say they are concerned Hari may try to tell the jury this is a politically motivated case; and they are asking the court to prevent him from trying to justify his violent crimes with any argument that he is a patriot fighting to defend America.
