Word: militiaization
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Crunch time: I'm into the fifth day of the second week, which means that either tomorrow or Thursday, I've got to go cold turkey on ferry sinkings, militia uprisings and men biting dogs. But what about those jolly bits that the media throw in so you won't despair entirely? For instance, last week Reuters reported that a fellow in Toronto walked into a bank lobby carrying a live goose. Sounds like a joke ("Gimme a 20-year, fixed-rate mortgage, and one for my friend here"). But no; guy actually says, "Give me some money...
McLaren's militia-style outfit believes the Lone Star State was illegally absorbed into the Union in 1845 and is a sovereign nation. It has its own courts, army and even license plates. On April 27, McLaren's followers took up arms (and a couple of hostages) in retaliation for the arrest of two members, one for weapons possession and the other on contempt charges. The hostages--neighbors who had quarreled with the litigious McLaren--were freed after Texas Rangers allowed a jailed "republican" to join the commandos, who then decamped to McLaren's "embassy." That exchangee, Robert Scheidt, apparently...
...turned to Hylton for the inside story. "He's a Pied Piper figure whose rhetoric is so confounding that you're tempted to dismiss him," says Hylton. "But it's evident that McLaren has been able to tap into that nagging insecurity in America that has helped fuel the militia movement...
...nuptials news, TOM FINNEGAN sends word from Montana that on Oct. 14, he married the former Cynthia Burnside, whom he met during weekend maneuvers at his local militia group. Neither Tom nor Cynthia recognizes the authority of local or state government, so they were married by their cell commander at the San Diego Preparedness Expo. The two lovebirds spent their honeymoon at an undisclosed location, and they now make their home on federal land south of Billings, where they are excitedly preparing for the upcoming race war. Classmates can reach Tom by E-mail at tomfin@aryan.org...
...president Marion Hammer and executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre. Knox and his followers blame Hammer and LaPierre for the lobby's huge drop in membership and a massive $56 million debt. If successful in his bid for control, Knox and his followers, labeled by LaPierre as "a band of militia gun devotees," could drastically change the face of the group by opposing such things as the prohibition on the manufacture of armor-piercing bullets and mandatory child-safety locks on handguns...