Word: militiaization
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...identified as Lt. Keys of the Republic of Texas Militia, from the home of their two hostages, yesterday. The militia is fighting for the independence of Texas from the United States of America...
...computer disks. It has been reported that although the disks don't add up to a book and are unlikely to be published, they describe a scene almost exactly like that of the author's death--right down to the pistol and the holed wall--in which white racist militia members hang a detective-story writer outside his office window. The difference is that on the disks the hero climbs back up the rope and evens up matters with the pistol. In real life, however, dead is dead (and puzzles sometimes lack answers, though a medical examiner ruled that...
...Among them: that he was planning to drop the 500-lb. bombs he was carrying (which the Air Force believes were not armed) on the Denver courthouse where the Timothy McVeigh trial is under way; or that the rugged Warthog would be a perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother to the Jehovah's Witness faith, which espouses antiwar beliefs. But Button's father Richard, a veteran pilot who flew in three wars...
...probability, this sort of relatively benign factionalism will be around for quite some time; no matter how peaceful and unified the country seems, there will always be amusing secession movements in Vermont and Texas and the militia party will always hold a respectable minority of the congressional seats in Montana...
...with one another; the American impulse to create civic associations that so impressed Tocqueville as the central feature of democracy now made its home in cyberspace, which imposed a new class system on the old. Over the disintegrated boundaries of time and space, chess players found fellow chess players, militia groups new members, religions converts, husbands wives, teenagers...