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HURRAH FOR THE "FREEMEN" AND MILITIAS of Montana that are contesting federal rights over public lands [Insurgencies, March 20]! The Constitution does not give the Federal Government the awesome power that it has assumed. It does guarantee rights to individuals, one of which is the right to property. The Montanans who are opposed to federal bureaucracy sound like true patriots to me. You display bias in portraying activists who believe in individual rights as ignorant, gun-toting people. They simply want the natural right to choose the course of their lives, to accept responsibility for themselves, and for the government...
RIDICULOUS! WHERE DO THESE WESTERN Yahoos get off calling themselves "freemen"? Don't they know we're all bound to pay taxes and obligated to get permits and licenses to do everything but breathe? As for their filing "homespun legal papers," how presumptuous for them to think they can enter the courts without the assistance of one of the Law Enforcement Growth Industry members--"licensed" attorneys. They must be paranoid about this one-world-government thing. They don't need to form militias. Don't they know the crime bill calls for bringing in Hong Kong police to protect...
...Government--in more ways than one. Two weeks ago, Roundup, Montana, saw more action than it has in quite a spell. The first arrests took place when two men showed up at the sheriff's office and tried to file some homespun legal papers on behalf of their fellow "freemen," a loose group that opposes taxes, gun restrictions and federal regulation. Both were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. Then three more men drove up to the office, and one opened his coat to display a holstered pistol. All three were jailed. Finally, two men waiting in a nearby car (guns...
...Freemen and militias are only extreme examples of an antifederalist insurgency spreading in Western states-one that takes up legal briefs as well as arms and is quite willing to flout the law. Emboldened by the Republican takeover of Congress, a growing number of ordinary citizens, as well as local and state government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice...
...freemen and runaway slaves of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment were not given anything in 1863: certainly not victory. The blacks of the 54th were actual men who died actual deaths in a redemptive violence that they sought. The lesson that Glory teaches -- and it is finding an audience -- is this: it was not the Great White Paternalist alone who freed the slaves and made them American citizens. It was also blacks who freed themselves. These were the blacks who enlisted, trained, suffered, endured condescension and insult, disciplined themselves, fought for the right to fight and the opportunity...