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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (13655)	2/28/2002 10:33:13 AM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

The militias in our country have an interesting story. They are comprised of all colors, so it's not a race thing. They have varied beliefs from the 'overthrow the government it's fascist" to the "we're needed in case the U.S. gets invaded" range. And everything inbetween. The press likes to portray them all as kill crazy gun nuts because the press is anti-gun in it's bias, IMO. I don't know much about this group, but our government has been guilty of trumping up charges on a lot of these people. The Branch Dividians were falsly accused of child molestation, & the guy in Ruby Ridge was set up, basically. (Forget the entrapment part of it) He had a court appearance and they changed the date and never notified him, he missed his appearance (DUH, he didn't know about it) and so that's where that started as far as them going up there. The lessons are that if the government wants to take a hard line with religion or individual citizens they will. There are other cases, The Mormons and their practice on poligomy, (sp) JohnAfrica and his rafstafarians (sp) in Phila, Elain Gonzalez (sp) in Miami, and I think there was some religious group years ago in Miami that were pot smokers from Jamaica and they put them in jail because they didn't recognize their religion. I am very vague on that one, it happened so long ago I am very uncertain about any of the details. Maybe I shouldn't bring it up, but I did. That militia having 30,000 rounds in itself isn't suspicious, that's what a militia would have, they're a militia. It's like saying a library has 10,000 books. FWIW if there are many more terrorists attacks in the US there may be a sharp increase in militia activity as far as growth, because people may lose faith in the government to protect them. That might cause a problem for the government, they are legal, they are a right for us, and if people want to join them, they can.