Word: militia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes of society, they had always had a hard time seeing these loose organizations as a danger. "People just weren't willing...
...their antigovernment convictions that led at least McVeigh, and quite possibly Terry Nichols, to search for comrades among the young and growing Michigan Militia, a right-wing antigovernment brigade founded in April 1994 that now claims to have brigades in 66 of the state's 83 counties. Terry told Izydorek he was a member of that group, as well as another national confederation who call themselves "patriots." John Simpson, a militia member and skilled-trades worker at General Motors, denies the Nichols' involvement with the Michigan Militia, which claims some 12,000 members. "[Terry] came to one of our meetings...
Whether the Michigan Militia's activities are quite this innocent is arguable. While dressing in camouflage gear and holding training retreats and rallies may be their main pursuits, it is clear that the members, along with those in similar groups throughout the country, nurture a profound paranoia about the Federal Government even as they express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that General Norman Olson, co-founder and commander of the Michigan Militia Corps., has been relieved of command by the organization after independently releasing a series of charges accusing "the government of Japan, in retaliation for the U.S.gas attack of the subwaythere," of blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that General Norman Olson, co-founder and commander of the Michigan Militia Corps., has been relieved of command by the organization after independently releasing a series of charges accusing "the government of Japan, in retaliation for the U.S. gas attack of the subway there," of blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Barnes says the organization's command staff plans to meet later today to consider whether to expel Olson. This morning, Barnes says, Olson, a Baptist minister and gun shop owner, came to the door of his Michigan home disheveled...