Word: militiaization
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QUOTE OF NOTE: [On lack of federal interest in investigating militia groups] "If these militia and paramilitary groups were African American, law-enforcement agencies would be falling over each other...to investigate...
Olney, however, said the intent of the founding fathers was to create a militia and nothing more...
...this fragmented environment, where news is no longer a common experience, is it any wonder that blacks and whites saw the O.J. Simpson verdict in such a radically different light? Or that right-wing militia groups--nourished by their own books, periodicals and E-mail lists--can be convinced that the West is being invaded by U.N. troops in black helicopters? When traditional sources of news start to disappear, alternate views of the world can flourish...
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia: Seven people with connections to a West Virginia militia group were arrested Friday and accused of plotting to blow up a new FBI fingerprinting records complex. Most of the seven are members of the West Virginia-based Mountaineer Militia. The group had targeted an almost-completed $200 million dollar FBI facility in Clarksburg that is designed to speed up fingerprint checks and provide automated criminal record-keeping for background checks.The plot was led by Floyd Raymond Looker, the commander of the Mountaineer Militia who has accused federal agents of orchestrating the Oklahoma City bombing as an excuse...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...