Word: freemen
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...that time, police said Roeder was part of the antigovernment Freemen group, which engaged in a three-month standoff with the FBI from a remote Montana farmhouse...
...fanatic about a lot of things. I went to one of his court appearances and thought, 'This guy is dangerous.' There were a lot of red flags that came up about him." - Suzanne James, former director of victims' services for Shawnee County, where Roeder was involved with the Freemen, Kansas City Star, June...
...suspect was identified as Scott P. Roeder, 51, by the Johnson County Sheriff's office. Police were investigating his links to the antigovernment group the Freemen in the 1990s; he was also reportedly a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated a justifiable-homicide position on abortion. "He was on the radar screen" of the FBI, an officer said. In 1996, Topeka police found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, gunpowder and other items that could be used to make small bombs. He was sentenced to highly supervised probation for two years. He was expected...
...relatives were freemen from North Carolina who were “taking a big chance” by serving in the war. “They could have been caught and had their papers [proving that they were freemen] taken away and [been] sold into slavery,” she said...
...visiting New York City. "Take care of yourself. Be careful," the fellow said. Montana, he contended, was a bastion of dangerous right-wing zealotry. Not only did the state's residents carry guns, persecute environmentalists and gather behind barbed wire in encampments like the one where the notorious Freemen engaged in an armed standoff with federal agents, but Montana's highways had no speed limits. "The place is still in the Stone Age. It's Neanderthal. Personally, I couldn't live there," the fellow said...