Gus > Nor did the "militia cause" suffer from it:
That's quite untrue.
I see you have very selective vision -- you quote only what suits your argument. This piece is, in fact, from a URL you gave me but which you carefully avoided to mention. Instead, you quote from an obsolete article written in 1996.
rickross.com
>>Militias' Era All but Over, Analysts Say
Boston Globe/April 19, 2005
Ten years after Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb that killed 168 people at the Oklahoma City federal building, the antigovernment militias that attracted intense police scrutiny after the bombing have all but disappeared, according to analysts who track the groups.
"There really are no groups out there now doing paramilitary training," said Mark Potok, who monitors the militias for the Southern Poverty Law Center. From a high of 858 militias and other antigovernment groups in 1996, the number withered to 152 in 2004, Potok said.
The deaths of innocent civilians -- including 19 children -- in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building a decade ago today began the steep decline in the membership of grass-roots militias that had multiplied after deadly sieges by federal agents in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and Waco, Texas, in 1993.
Analysts also said the decline was accelerated by the successful prosecution of militia members across the country on weapons and financial fraud charges in a federal crackdown, and the fact that none of the anticipated catastrophes from computer failures actually occurred on Jan. 1, 2000.<<
So, in fact, OKC did mark the end of the militias. McVeigh, as it turned out, did the militias no good whatsoever. He certainly didn't do much good for himself. In the circumstances, one has every right to believe that the event was state-sponsored and that he was a patsy. |
