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Right-Wing Militia Leader Threatens to Arrest Montana Judge (Video)

A militia group in Bozeman, Montana, is threatening a local judge with arrest after he jailed Ernie Tertelgte, a self-proclaimed “natural living man.” Tertelgte is well-known for confronting local judges in matters of civil law.

Last week, Justice of the Peace Rick West put Tertelgte behind bars for contempt which set off members of a local unorganized militia to consider the possibility of a citizen’s arrest of Judge West.

William Wolf, friend to Tertelgte, said “The animosity between Judge West and Ernie seems to be extreme.”

Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin said the threat is a serious concern, noting that a threat of arrest is similar to a kidnapping threat.

“When there are threats like this, not only does it affect that person, it affects their family,” Gootkin said. “Like we explained to Wolf, that’s unacceptable. For someone in the family to live in fear, that’s not the way things work.”

“When you start talking about arresting people and kidnapping people, that’s unacceptable and nothing good comes from that,” the Sheriff added.

Local television reporters with KXLH report that the Sheriff has no problem with Wolf’s unorganized militia or their distrust of the government, but the group’s rhetoric is a message he’s heard before.

“I lived through the Freemen, you know, we went through this once before and it’s like whirling disease,” Gootkin said. The Freemen were a group of self-declared Christian Patriots who took up residence outside Jordan, Montana, and engaged in a prolonged armed standoff in 1996 with FBI agents.

Also, check out this story of a crazy, conservative congressional candidate who passed out bullets at a campaign event, while calling Hillary Clinton the “anti-Christ.”

Watch local news coverage of the story below:

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Simone Sanner
Simone Sanner, the descendant of a long line of politicians, hails from the corn fields of the US, surrounded by neo-conservatives and klansmen. Among her many hobbies and interests are marketing, statistics, gardening, medicine and of course cats. They really rule the world, you know.
  • https://www.facebook.com/dan.root.31 Dan Root

    go ahead dude i’d like to see you right next to your buddy until you both learn RESPECT!

  • Ted Holland

    When vigilante justice is being contemplated, its time for the National Guard to come in and take those ppl out.

  • Kevan Scott

    You got it Madmani! Yeah, these conservative crazies sure are following the words of Jesus aren’t they? Not a word of rebuke either from supposed Christian leadersIt distresses me much to see that the church I grew up in is nothing like the hate filled churches of today. The words of Jesus mean little to these people. What apparently does matter so much to them is that a black man is in “their” White House. For supposed patriots they sure ignore the constitution as much as the words of Jesus. You know, all are created equal. Not to these people! You are only equal if they say so and liberals like us aren’t in their minds. That’s too bad, cause I’m not planning to shut up anytime soon!

  • Simone Sanner

    Well, the left does it, but when they do, they end up on some farm shared by three families and decide to grow weed and organically grown tomatoes, and sell home made soap at flea markets. There’s no nonsense about a stockpile of weapons or protecting yourself from the gubmint.

  • Madbunny

    Every once in a while, after I tire of the ‘both sides do it’ argument I try to find cases of liberals acting like this. Never seems to surface.

    Conclusion: This isn’t a both sides issue, it’s that the conservatives have legitimately gone nuts.

    • http://gravatar.com/latenightlarry latenightlarry

      @Madbunny… It’s not that the conservatives have “legitimately gone nuts”… They have simply gone totally brainlessly, mind blowingly NUTS!!!

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