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...MIDST OF MEDIA OVERKILL ON the Bomb, your articles stand out as models of evenhandedness. Congratulations on covering both sides of an awful event. JOHN SAFRANSKI Livonia, Michigan AOL: JohnS50718...
...Five Mile Road branch of Livonia, Michigan's, public library, they are waiting. The hall has been filled for at least half an hour -- a sea of farmers mixed with auto workers mixed with men dressed in camouflage. But they wait gladly, since they know why Mark Koernke is late. Newspapers all over the country covered his appearance yesterday in Palm Springs, California. Tonight's audience, which was here for him back when he was just a radio voice identifying himself as "Mark from Michigan," is proud...
...Livonia and Palm Springs took place in May. Last Thursday, Mark Koernke was in Washington, watching silently as several other militia leaders testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and government information. The background role hardly accords with his stature. He is a "pre-eminent figure" in the militia movement's rise, "both a creature of it and someone who helped define it," according to Thomas Halpern, acting director of fact-finding for the Anti-Defamation League. Koernke first came to most Americans' attention when it was reported that he was wanted for questioning in connection with...
Days after the birth, Koernke joined the 70th Division (training), U.S. Army Reserve based in Livonia, Michigan. Later, as he climbed the ladder of the Patriot right, he traded heavily on his purported military-intelligence experience, calling himself an "intelligence analyst and counterintelligence coordinator" with a top-secret clearance, and afterward the commander of two "special-warfare" brigades used to "train U.S. military in foreign warfare and tactics." However, judging from a summary of his service record provided by the Army and anecdotes from soldiers familiar with him, his claims seem inflated. He did attend the Army's intelligence school...
...whatever Koernke's actions and associations back home, it is his role as a traveling salesman that seems to take most of his energy. Since April he has bobbed up in Livonia, Palm Springs and Orlando, Florida. At each venue he works the Oklahoma City bombing more snugly into his world view as "yet another foot stomp on the part of the new-world-order crowd to manipulate the population," softening it up for draconian new antiterrorism measures. At each venue, it seems, there are more reporters. At each Koernke touches a few more people...