Word: militiaization
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...with a cobra stenciled on his jacket. Koernke is a big man; he looks like the butcher's boy grown up. His voice is high and reedy, but it has come to represent the truth. He is introduced, and acknowledges the ensuing ovation. And then the darling of the militia movement gives his little half-smirk and begins: "Ladies and gentlemen, we just came back from Palm Springs, where the disinformation flowed like water, trust...
Livonia and Palm Springs took place in May. Last Thursday, Mark Koernke was in Washington, watching silently as several other militia leaders testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and government information. The background role hardly accords with his stature. He is a "pre-eminent figure" in the militia movement's rise, "both a creature of it and someone who helped define it," according to Thomas Halpern, acting director of fact-finding for the Anti-Defamation League. Koernke first came to most Americans' attention when it was reported that he was wanted for questioning in connection with...
...while she is down. The county in which Needles is situated has sent those who require low-income housing her way. How can the local economy survive when more than 50% of its population is on welfare? Perfect soup to brew the likes of Timothy McVeigh and other militia types. So don't blame Needles for the ills she suffers. It is not her fault. BARBIE JOHNSTON FREEMAN Palm Desert, California...
Federallaw enforcement officials are the real terrorists, militia leaders bluntly told a Senate paneltoday. Testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, leaders of militia groups from across the countrydenied that they are terrorists or racists. "We're just ordinary, law abiding citizens," said one, while another said militia groups are simply a "neighborhood watch." Law enforcement officials, who also testified, strongly disagreed,describing militiamen as "disturbing and dangerous aggressors." Senators were also skeptical. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said most militia groups share two fundamental beliefs: fear of government and "a deep strain of racism and anti-Semitism." Dressed in camouflage...
...having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...