Time: Wed Apr 02 10:24:16 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25869; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 20:08:08 -0700 (MST) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA19282; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 20:07:57 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 10:19:48 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: U.S. Monitors Militias Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <snip> > >From: The Intelligence Journal > >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The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, 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." > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. 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