The Tim McVeighs Next Door
The Kentucky State Police claim to be monitoring them, and see no rise in criminal activity connected with militias, but that is dangerously disingenuous. The first sign of criminal activity is likely to be dead bodies.
From the Courier-Journal:
Bob Resnick didn't believe all the right-wing militia conspiracy theories — the FEMA internment camps or the government coffins stockpiled for the day the feds declare martial law and round up dissenters. But they made him wonder.
Then America's economy tumbled and the nation elected Barack Obama, and the resulting chatter about socialist incursion, rampant gun control and a government takeover of health care made him fear where the nation was heading.
So the 43-year-old disabled Louisvillian searched the Internet for local militia groups that seemed to echo his misgivings.
“The way everything's going nowadays, if the economy tanks and they do declare martial law, and they do like California with all the riots and stuff, I'd like to know I've got a group I can be with so I'm not on my own,” he said.
After nearly a decade of decline, militia groups are seeing a resurgence in Kentucky and across the nation, fueled partly — according to militia leaders and watchdog groups — by the bad economy and Obama's election.
Resnick found his niche just a few weeks after beginning his search.
On a rainy October afternoon, he drove into a gun range in a secluded Bullitt County hollow to join 15 fatigue-clad members of the Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters, a Louisville-based militia that was holding a training session on assault weapons.
Read the whole terrifying thing.
Read the Southern Poverty Law Center's report report “The Second Wave: Return of the Militias” here.
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2 comments:
The title of your post brings chills to my spine! Sadly and terrifyingly true, they are everywhere just one snap away from mass murder. Many are unnoticed and are regarded as 'your average citizen,' but with seething hatred churning on the inside.
With bozos like Glen Beck granting them 'license' to act out their fantasies, and ith a black man in the White House, our nation is set for some terrifying homegrown terrorism in the next few years.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
This phenomenon shouldn't surprise anyone. America has been moving toward this kind of violence since at least the late 50's, and if one reads history carefully, one can find evidence that America was founded on this kind of violence.
I agree with mud rake's last paragraph. I wouldn't be too surprised if someone propounded that American pioneers were the violent, insane misfits that Europe didn't want. And still doesn't.
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