Word: militia
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Although the Michigan Militia, along with members of other groups, has moved quickly to repudiate any connection with McVeigh or the bombing, the significance of the date on which it took place--April 19--was not lost on those familiar with the patriot movement. Says Ron Cole, a former leader of the Branch Davidian sect who describes himself as a patriot: "It's a date that has a significance like no other day of the year." On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington--the opening salvos in America's Revolutionary War--began. On April 19, 1993, the siege...
...American was cinched when he learned the birth date that was cited on the fake driver's license used to rent the bomber's truck: April 19. Barnes recognized the date as one that is near talismanic to the survivalist fringe he had observed while reporting on the Michigan Militia, a group we wrote about in our Dec. 19 issue last year. In fact, the subjects of the FBI's investigation turned out to have links to that very group. Barnes, who spent time with the Irish Republican Army bomb crafters in 1986, notes that for all the death...
Perhaps the most belligerent militia is the Militia of Montana, with headquarters in the Cabinet Mountains near Noxon. "This is probably where the war is going to begin, right here in Montana," a member who refused to be identified told the bbc last year. "We've got a lot more bullets than they...
John Trochmann, the militia's cofounder, distributes literature that would terrify many people. It features photographs of Soviet jeeps said to be on American soil. Russian troops are going to arrive here as part of an international police force, contends Trochmann's newsletter, Taking Aim. Our own government, the literature asserts, is guilty of "treason," is secretly building concentration camps and is planning nine zones to replace the lower 48 states--a partition plan that the Militia of Montana asserts was spelled out in an illustration on the back of Kix cereal boxes last year. Martial law is inevitable...
...Weavers apparently believed that after the great tribulation a remnant of the righteous would survive to work for a new kingdom over the resistance of the sheep people, or "sheeple." The Militia of Montana offers a similar vision: those who will rescue the Constitution are an underground army of men who have semiautomatics cached in barrels in the woods and who know you can catch catfish with Ivory soap as bait, men whom society now views as "outcast," "strange" or "erratic primitives" (in highlighted descriptions from clippings in Trochmann's mailings...