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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: U.S. Monitors Militias
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>From: The Intelligence Journal
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>The Illuminati Associated Press records the following article on the
>Internet today. The article attempts further to discredit the militia
>movement as well as heighten concerns for future atrocities like Oklahoma,
>supposedly carried out by the militias. Has anyone asked the question:
>Why has it taken almost three years to bring McVeigh to trial if the
>evidence implicating him in the bombing is so convincing? The answer is
>that the only evidence that is convincing is that which demonstrates
>CLEARLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY that this atrocity was perpetrated by members of
>the US federal government in order to finger the patriot militias and turn
>public sympathy away from them. In the last three years the most
>incredible damning evidence of this Reichstag-type event has surfaced and
>federal prosecutors are terrified that the truth will hit the public
>domain. For further information regarding this evidence, please obtain The
>Intelligence Journal's special feature entitled: Oklahoma... About that
>Bomb.
>Reichstag '95 is a video documentary made by ex-FBI chief, Ted Gunderson,
>and Radio Free World talk-show host Anthony Hilder, which also presents the
>evidence condemning the US government's murder of 168 innocent victims.
>This video may be obtained for £25 by contacting Deep River Books on
>(310) 451-1224. Speak to John.
>
>AP 30-Mar-1997 15:59 EST REF5401
>
>Copyright 1997. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
>
>The information contained in the AP news report may not be published,
>broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written
>authority of The Associated Press.
>
>By SHARON COHEN
>
>Associated Press Writer
> CHICAGO (AP) -- Two years ago, independent right-wing militias became
>the new face of danger in America.
> They appeared on television news programs, chastised members of the U.S.
>Senate, donned camouflage. Guns at the hip, they spun murky theories of a
>U.N. takeover, black helicopters, jack booted soldiers and government
>manipulation of the weather.
> In the weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, the militia movement moved
>out of the shadows into the TV glare. Evidence surfaced that the two
>suspects arrested in the terrorist attack traveled in the same circles and
>shared the same deep rage toward the government.
> Now, as Timothy McVeigh, the former soldier charged in the 1995 bombing,
>goes on trial Monday in Denver, the movement has tried to lower its profile
>-- even as federal authorities raise it by pressing court cases against
>these self-proclaimed patriots.
> Meanwhile, many fence-sitters, sympathetic to the militia message but
>appalled by an attack that killed 168 people and injured hundreds, have
>abandoned the cause.
> "It was a fish-or-cut-bait moment," Chip Berlet of Political Research
>Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a study center that monitors the
>far right. "A lot of people decided to cut bait."
> What mostly exists now, he said, are anti-government activists who
>network with each other beyond the spotlight. "The real mass of the
>movement has gone underground," Berlet said.
> But less visibility can mean more danger, said Morris Dees, director of
>the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups.
> "I think the movement has become more hard-core, operating in smaller
>units," he says. "Their fervor has not lessened at all. They've become more
>frustrated and more dedicated."
> Klanwatch, a part of the law center, this month identified 380 armed
>militias in 1996, a 6 percent increase over the two previous years.
> "Probably 90 percent of this movement is relatively harmless," says Joe
>Roy, Klanwatch director. "The 10 percent is where the McVeighs of the world
>will come from. You've got a lot of people who are angry as hell,
>frustrated, afraid and are simply looking for a forum to vent it. But
>they'd never blow anything up."
> The government, however, isn't taking chances. Last year, President
>Clinton signed an anti terrorism law to provide $1 billion to local law
>enforcement. And federal officials, using informants, secretly taped
>conversations and other surveillance, have aggressively taken on militias
>in the last few years, trying to thwart them as they purportedly plot
>crimes.
> "The government has gotten more focused and developed more resources to
>it," says Ronald Noble, a former Treasury undersecretary for enforcement.
> Among the results:
> --In Arizona, nine members of the Viper Militia were sentenced this
>month after pleading guilty to weapons and conspiracy charges. An
>undercover federal agent had infiltrated the group so well he was asked to
>be its security head. Trial for two other members began last week.
> --In West Virginia, seven men with ties to the Mountaineer Militia were
>accused last fall of plotting to blow up the FBI fingerprint records
>center. A paid government informant taped hundreds of hours of
>conversations.
> --In Georgia, three self-styled militia members were sentenced to prison
>in February for conspiring to stockpile pipe bombs in what prosecutors
>described as plans for a war with the federal government. Again, an
>informant was used.
> The surveillance has not escaped the attention of the militias. Although
>their anti-government message hasn't changed, many now prefer the anonymity
>of the Internet, bulletin boards, even encryption codes.
> The Michigan Militia captured national headlines in 1995 when it was
>reported that the second bomb suspect, Terry Nichols -- and perhaps even
>McVeigh -- attended some of its meetings.
> After the bombing, the group splintered. Founder Norm Olson, who made
>the publicity rounds and testified at a U.S. Senate hearing, was ousted
>from his post after he blamed the Japanese government for the Oklahoma City
>attack. His former allies said he was too reactionary.
> Olson now has his own group, the Northern Michigan Regional Militia --
>"guns, uniforms, all the rest" -- and is just as eager to speak out about
>what he sees as government efforts to demonize the movement.
> Ultimately, Olson said, the strategy may backfire.
> "The militia movement needs martyrs," Olson said. "Every time the
>federal government targets a leader or organization, it shows its hand. ...
>We see the pattern. And we grow smarter."
>
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