Word: militia
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Federallaw enforcement officials are the real terrorists, militia leaders bluntly told a Senate paneltoday. Testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, leaders of militia groups from across the countrydenied that they are terrorists or racists. "We're just ordinary, law abiding citizens," said one, while another said militia groups are simply a "neighborhood watch." Law enforcement officials, who also testified, strongly disagreed,describing militiamen as "disturbing and dangerous aggressors." Senators were also skeptical. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said most militia groups share two fundamental beliefs: fear of government and "a deep strain of racism and anti-Semitism." Dressed in camouflage...
...having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
Fringe groups have found the Internet useful, but they've found fax machines useful, too. As someone said a few days after Oklahoma City bombing, when the 'Net was being blamed for its role in militia organizing. The telephone has been invaluable to militias as well, and no one's running lead stories decrying the revolutionary potential of phones...
...their enclosed locations, this one devolves into a skittish travelogue that ends up in Canada. Still, Willis' aggrieved burliness is always persuasive, and red-meat lovers will have an agreeably volatile two hours of fantasy-if, that is, they can keep one word out of their minds: militia. A scary scenario on that subject is doubtless being drafted for next summer's macho blockbuster...
...joiner," Weaver confides. "I don't belong to the militia or any other group. I have my own take on things. Hell, I'm really not even a Christian. But I get calls all the time from the militia and other groups to come talk. I can't now. But if I do, I think I would only last a few speeches. They would find out I don't really agree with them either...