Word: militiaization
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Something very much in the spirit of the French club trip. The American public has read a lot about the country's poisonous inversion; about militia groups and hatred of immigrants. Montoursville would seem to have a different approach. It is hardly cosmopolitan, nor especially wealthy. Yet for decades it has found a way to send its teens all over the world. The trips leave every three years, so that everyone will have a chance to travel at some point during high school. There is a German club and a Spanish club, and an environmental-science club scheduled...
...temerity to write a profile in Texas Monthly of freshman Congressman Steve Stockman, a former house painter who personifies the desire of voters to throw out incumbents in favor of the inexperienced and the uninformed. Offering a great deal of evidence, she described him as a militia-loving, ethically challenged "class clown." In response, the Congressman's top aide, Cory Birenbaum, shot off a letter to Swartz at home, which Texas Monthly released after the Hill, a Washington newspaper, got a copy. The letter called Swartz "a sad and pathetic creature" who got her job "for reasons I would refuse...
...strange way, however, healthy and unhealthy forms of engagement may arise from similar causes. The increase in militia groups and the legislation proposed by Indiana Senator Dan Coats to promote volunteerism reflect, in their own ways, a frustration with government and a wariness of its reach. Which is why many scholars have expressed concern that Americans have been turning inward during the past 25 years. Putnam and others argue that such self-help groups as 12-step organizations and New Age religions have usurped and replaced outward-looking civic groups. In his book Trust, Francis Fukuyama says that the "rights...
...undercover operative's riskiest encounter with the militia was one of his first. When he asked to join, he was told his phone records had been checked (apparently by Belliveau, the AT&T worker) and the militia leaders had some concerns about the operative's phone traffic. The militia insisted on checking out his apartment. Fortunately, the feds had decorated it to fit the operative's cover story...
Soon the operative was accepted as a Viper member, taking a "militiaman's oath" in which he promised to kill anyone attempting to infiltrate the militia and seek retribution if any member was arrested. Even as he took the oath, he was wearing a body wire. Over the next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after...