Michael W. Mitchell -- the 20-year-old Christian fundie from Rockford, Illinois, assaulted with a boxcutter a gun-shop owner. Mitchell attempted a robbery of a gun, intending to "save" Terri Schiavo's life.
Chicago Tribune and Rockford Register Star shed light. Here is Mitchell's photo.
THOUSANDS of Rockford religious fanatics in Rockford are multiplying like mice in homeschooling cells and in the local Assembly of God Christian Life Schools.
Rockford produced Michael J. Breit -- discovered to have guns, ammo, explosives, a hit list of politicians and government officials, and a written plan to kill 1,500 people at a Democratic presidential meeting.
Such radicals are part of Congressman Don Manzullo's (R IL-16) voting base. Manzullo founded the "Northern Illinois Crisis Pregnancy Center", an anti-abortionist front.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Mitchell "attends three or four churches."
Kossacks, can we find which ones?
Mitchell lives near me. Friends work at the local women's healthcare clinic, past target of
arson. A priest crashed a truck into the clinic and hacked it with an
axe. Read an
example of how local radicals think.
Here are just a few of the fundie churches here in Rockford that are pumping out these religious radicals:
Rockford First Assembly of God
Heartland
First Evangelical Free Church
Rockford Diocese/Respect Life Office
Rockford is also home to the Rockford Institute, a Dixiecrat-leaning conservative right-wing think tank.
ROCKFORD -- Russell Mitchell knows his son, Michael, as a deeply religious young man with a "hero complex." But it had always surfaced as a protective attitude toward his younger siblings or a willingness to assist elderly neighbors, he said.
Russell Mitchell said his son is something of a loner, often reads the Bible and attends services at three or four churches.
Michael Mitchell grew up in Rockford, where he and his three younger siblings were home-schooled, his father said. He previously worked for Quality Metal Finishing Co. in nearby Byron.
Mitchell "lives on Glenwood Ave." If he lives on Glennwood Ave., then he's not the "Michael Mitchell" listed in Google, AltaVista PeopleFinder and the local phone book. I do not see a "Randall" or "Pat" Mitchell listed.
Can you help find which churches he attends?