Word: militiaization
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...Gibson) in mid-rant, and our first impression is of a typical New York City cabbie of the old, or native-born, variety, full of mis- and disinformation delivered in a rush that permits no quibbling interruption. Assassination plots both current and historical, a unique slant on the militia movement, even (heaven help us!) inside dope on the Vatican's plans for world domination--the man's a full-service paranoid...
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia: FBI affidavits show the Mountaineer Militia planned to assassinate Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller. The militia, charged last October with conspiring to bomb the FBI's national fingerprint headquarters in West Virginia, said the hits would be carried out as part of a "holy war" against the federal government and therefore could not be considered as murder. The FBI documents also state that a militiaman associated with the West Virginia group suggested that members target the Rockefeller and Greenspan families as well. "You must chop off their heads," Larry Matz...
...just throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks. Ironically, this is a conservative twist on a very liberal, cliched argument -- it's not his fault, it's the way he was raised, it?s society?s fault. People in line with McVeigh, the right wing militia, would usually have no sympathy for this kind of argument." Worse, Cohen notes, having struck some sympathetic chords with jurors during Thursday?s emotional testimony by McVeigh?s parents: "There could be a backlash among the jury, whose reaction could be, 'Don't blame us for what he did'." That...
...which point the novel and hero again change character. Virgil falls among militia fanatics, whose bellicose posturing he watches without comprehension. As a Kentuckian, he understands a gun culture, but not the Westerners' devout hatred of the Federal Government. By now he is a wholly passive observer, as Offutt's narration heads off at right angles to itself, and the militia crazies prepare to end the tale in righteous fury. The author can't do for the Montana Aryans what he did for the Rocksalt garbage crew, which is to see them sympathetically, from the inside out. No one else...
...clash, today deployed roughly 500 soldiers, equipped with armed vehicles, to Brazzaville in an effort to defend stranded French civilians and about 550 foreign residents who have taken refuge in the French embassy. While Lissouba?s troops defended their positions south of the capital city, the 5,000-member militia expanded into the city center, taking over the country's TV and radio broadcasting headquarters. People evacuated from Brazzaville report a city run amuck with looters and vigilante gunmen. "Women were standing by watching and laughing," recalled American missionary Joseph Harvey. "It was like a party...