Word: militiaization
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...Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes of society, they had always had a hard time seeing these loose organizations as a danger. "People just weren't willing...
...expertise and power to pull off such a precision bombing? Who has the resources and power to cover it up, and who, in fact, is covering it up? We all know the answers to that and it has nothing to do with the militia. This is the Reichstag all over again...
...think the federal government has become so large and powerful that itposes a threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens, but only 27 percent believe that citizens have the right to arm themselves and organize to oppose the government, according to a TIME/CNN poll released today. Aboutcitizen militia groupsthemselves, 80 percent of Americans see them as "dangerous," 63 percent as "a threat to our way of life" and 55 percent say they are "crazy." At the same time, about a quarter of those polled appear to hold views that are at least somewhat in line with these groups...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that General Norman Olson, co-founder and commander of the Michigan Militia Corps., has been relieved of command by the organization after independently releasing a series of charges accusing "the government of Japan, in retaliation for the U.S.gas attack of the subwaythere," of blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that General Norman Olson, co-founder and commander of the Michigan Militia Corps., has been relieved of command by the organization after independently releasing a series of charges accusing "the government of Japan, in retaliation for the U.S. gas attack of the subway there," of blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Barnes says the organization's command staff plans to meet later today to consider whether to expel Olson. This morning, Barnes says, Olson, a Baptist minister and gun shop owner, came to the door of his Michigan home disheveled...