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...participate actively in "organizations that espouse supremacist causes." However, such allegiances do exist among the rank and file. In 1986, for instance, three Marines from North Carolina's Camp Lejeune were ousted for membership in a white supremacist group. One Marine testified that he had supplied the White Patriot Party, a white supremacist group, with explosives and weapons. In 1991 an Army Green Beret sergeant pleaded guilty to stockpiling weapons and explosives and funneling them to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Pentagon officials admit they are troubled by the existence of two underground newsletters circulated in military...
...this innocent is arguable. While dressing in camouflage gear and holding training retreats and rallies may be their main pursuits, it is clear that the members, along with those in similar groups throughout the country, nurture a profound paranoia about the Federal Government even as they express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths of white supremacist Randy Weaver's wife...
Although the Michigan Militia, along with members of other groups, has moved quickly to repudiate any connection with McVeigh or the bombing, the significance of the date on which it took place--April 19--was not lost on those familiar with the patriot movement. Says Ron Cole, a former leader of the Branch Davidian sect who describes himself as a patriot: "It's a date that has a significance like no other day of the year." On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington--the opening salvos in America's Revolutionary War--began. On April 19, 1993, the siege...
...mile marathon is run every Patriot's Day on a course which begins in Hopkinton, Mass. continues through Framingham, Natick and Wellesley and ends in downtown Boston on Boylston St. next to the Public Library...
Buchanan, who plans to shape his political message into a book in the coming months, calls himself an "economic patriot" who will fight to preserve American workers' standard of living. He promises to protect American borders against illegal immigration. Buchanan is so hard right that he is staking out a position on that nether region of the political map where right and left meet. Sometimes he sounds like a Rust Belt, union Democrat. "The [real] income of American workers has gone down 20% in 20 years. Now that is an outrage, especially when there are many Americans who made...