FBI Raids Home of Dangerous Doomsday Prepper: Agents Find Legally Owned Firearms, Barrels of FoodMac Slavo Police went so far as to suggest that Winters had essentially gone off the reservation and that he didnt care whether he lived or died, and that he was plotting a confrontation with the federal government. But the claims and allegations may have been blown way out of proportion. After police obtained a warrant to search Winters home based on information obtained from a confidential informant they were probably surprised that not only did Winters have no explosive booby troops set up all over his property as had been claimed, he was also far short of having possession of the fifty high-powered rifles that police said he had been stockpiling. Federal agents this week searched the Florida home of a doomsday prepper they alleged had stockpiled over 50 high-powered assault rifles and several explosive devices buried around his property as booby traps. However the warrant showed up little more than barrels of food. [] But in federal court on Wednesday, Winters defense attorney, Ellis Faught, said the confidential informants estimates were wide of the mark. The informant had bought four so-called destructive devices from Winters, but they were not buried as booby traps. Five guns were found locked in a safe, according to10 News. [] None of this was there, Fraught told the court, the station reported. And its my understanding that no guns were dug up. It was alleged by the government that there were 50 to 60 guns and Im only aware of five of them that were found and they were found in his house in a safe. Source: Daily Mail While Martin Winters political ideology and interests may differ from those of most Americans, the government had tried him in a public court before any evidence had been presented or found. Some of his neighbors were terrified of this crazy individual after they had been told of his alleged crimes, and the mainstream media was happy to oblige the narrative that this right-wing survivalist extremist was a danger to himself and society. The FBI issued the following photo to its media surrogates during the manhunt in an effort to depict Winters as a survivalist who had gone off the deep end: I think they took the whole context of him being prepared and twisted it, says his daughter Tracy. Senator Rand Paul warned Americans about this growing trend of demonizing innocent Americans in a speech he delivered to Congress three years ago in opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act noting that those who dont subscribe to the status quo could be branded as extremists and terrorists. Pauls prediction couldnt have been more accurate, especially considering the manhunt and circumstances surrounding the ordeal with Martin Winters: There are laws on the books now that characterize who might be a terrorist. Someone missing fingers on their hands is a suspect according to the Department of Justice. Someone who has guns, someone who has ammunition that is weatherproofed, someone who has more than seven days of food in their house can be considered a potential terrorist. If you are suspected by these activities do you want the government to have the ability to send you to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention? I suspect, were not talking about someone who has been tried or found guilty. Were talking about someone suspected of activities. We have, unfortunately, reached a point in America where talking about ideas that dont go along with mainstream thought has become suspicious activity, and those engaging in it are now identified as extremists or persons of interest. With the surveillance state rapidly expanding its capabilities to monitor conversations and interactions with those around us, it has become more important now than ever before to keep our personal activities as private as possible. Today Martin Winters is a domestic terrorist. Tomorrow it might be you. You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this first appeared. 