Word: michigan
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...executed by the policeman,TIME correspondent Ed Barnes reports. But local police say that Hill pulled a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun and pointed it at the policeman, who then fired four shots, hitting Hill three times. According to sworn affidavits obtained by TIME, Ken Adams, leader of theNorthern Michigan Militia, and three militia witnesses say the officer, Sgt. Matt May, pulled Hill to the side of the road twice. Police report that May stopped the car because it carried no state license plate; instead, it bore a homemade plate reading "militia." When first pulled over, Hill spoke to May, then...
...people listened. Joyce Moore, an enthusiastic Michigan Patriot, was impressed by his encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure, but troubling legislation. "People asked me where I got my information from, and I told them I got it from Mark and checked it out myself, and they should do the same," she says...
Says Rick Strawcutter, a well-known right-wing Michigan cleric in whose church the video was filmed: "No one dreamed, and I certainly didn't think, that the tape was even going to go anywhere. There's been a lot of people that have said the very same thing for years ... But it just so happened that he kind of put it together from a perspective of someone who might know something, and the rest is history...
...armed guards at his house. He has faced off with Sam Donaldson. True, the attention can be a nuisance. Some viewers are intrigued by his 1993 tape inviting "experts" in various types of weaponry to join the militia-at-large Raider Company based in Dexter. Last September in the Michigan town of Fowlerville, three men claiming to be Koernke's "bodyguards" and "unorganized militia" members were arrested while transporting a .357 magnum revolver, three semiautomatic pistols, three loaded assault rifles (an AK-47, an M-1 and an M-14), three gas masks and assorted other military gear...
...mailbox of a University of Chicago student was flooded after someone used FakeMail to subscribe him to more than a hundred E-mail discussion groups. Still other victims complain of being set up for sexual harassment and threats. FakeMail incidents got so out of hand at the University of Michigan that a system administrator threatened to block student access to the site...