(Update question: exactly what does “of Islamic decent” [sic] mean?)

At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group [referred to as Hutaree below], a person familiar with the matter said.

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Mike Lackomar, of Michiganmilitia.com, said both The Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia and the Michiganmilitia.com were not a part of the raid.

Lackomar said he heard from other militia members that the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations.

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One of the Hutaree members called a Michigan militia leader for assistance Saturday after federal agents had already began their raid, Lackomar said, but the militia member — who is of Islamic decent and had heard about the threats — declined to offer help.

(Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian militia group, The Detroit News, 03/28/10)

In other news:

Louisiana Entergy said it would have no comment on it’s recent proclamation made in a closed door meeting that Entergy wanted to operate in an open and transparent manner. According to one Entergy lawyer the comments were made as part of an off the record policy meeting. “We need to make sure folks feel free to say what they mean and mean what they say,” began a prepared statement from Louisiana Entergy’s headquarters, “And to have an open and transparent discussion requires we allow people the leeway to say what they mean away from the glare of openness and transparency.”

Elsewhere Louisiana Entergy is accusing the Vermont Senate of undermining the ability of witnesses to say what they mean and mean what they say. In a prepared statement that was fondled lovingly by Vermont Governor Douglas, Entergy asked “How can we be sure of what we’re hearing every time the Vermont legislature forces the likes of the Gundersens to testify in public? How can we be sure the Gundersens aren’t being forced to mollycoddle some 1960s hippy era left wing anti-American agenda when they’d rather tell you the truth .. Entergy Yankee should be re-licensed for 200 years and Dick Cheney was a wonderful president?”

Vermont Lt. Gov. Dubie, who had said yesterday that secretive meetings were a bad thing, left a private meeting with Douglas and made this statement: “We need to have more closed door meetings. I don’t understand why, but there it is.”