Word: militiaization
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...United States government, and not Japanese cultists, who murdered commuters in a Tokyo subway. And it was the Japanese government, of course, and not militia crazies, who blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building in retaliation...
...These militia members begin with America's innate suspicion of the government and take it to the level of the paranoid. Their nuttiness makes it difficult to take these guys seriously, fertilizer bombs and assault rifles notwithstanding...
Speaking before Congress, several of these militia members lined up to explain the threats that compel them to arm and prepare for the eventual confrontation with a government gone mad. Along with murdering innocent civilians (and Vince Foster), the federal government, reports one militia leader, operates diabolical machines to create tornadoes to "confuse" midwesterners. That sounds reasonable. It looks like these wackos have been to Oz and back...
...threat posed to human life, as has been said, is an important one, but the danger posed by following the 1976 precedent may be even greater While most people would not commit a capital crime in order to get their statements in print, the rise of anti-government militia groups and the prevalence of world terrorist organizations indicate that similar future threats are at least possible...
...wrought-iron Louisbourg Cross was captured 250 years ago as part of "King George's War," in which New England militia warriors fought on behalf of the English Crown against the French-Canadian residents of Louisbourg who defended the interests of France...