Courthouse takeover defendant fights back tears

[jaxx]

Courthouse takeover defendant fights back tears
BILL POOVEY, Associated Press
Updated 03:32 p.m., Friday, October 21, 2011

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Georgia militia member testified Friday at his trial in a bizarre attempted courthouse takeover case, fighting back tears and saying "my government has called me a potential domestic terrorist."

Prosecutors contend Darren Wesley Huff of Dallas, Ga., drove to East Tennessee with a handgun and an AK-47 on April 20, 2010, after threatening to use force and to sacrifice his life if necessary to take over the city of Madisonville and the Monroe County Courthouse.

Huff is charged with carrying a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to use it in a civil disorder. He is also charged with using a firearm in relation to another felony, which on conviction carries a mandatory two-year minimum prison sentence.

<..> Green (the domestic terrorist's mouthpiece) told jurors they should not convict Huff "because his views are different doesn't mean you should send him to jail".

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Co...z1bVvjNNA6

Crocodile tears.

[Brainwreck]

I don't understand. In his 'different view' does he believe he has a right to use an AK-47 and a handgun to take over a city and a courthouse? And that is his defense! Well I have a 'different view' from his. My view is that anyone who plans to use an Ak-47 and a handgun to take over a city and a courthouse should be tossed in jail and held there for a long time, which seems more merciful than giving him a brain transplant.

[jaxx]

Using a gun to solve a civic issue is a big problem. His view is warped.