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Oregon militia movement growing steadily, report says
guns.com ^ | Oct. 21, 2016 | Brian Seay

Posted on 10/23/2016 12:02:37 PM PDT by PROCON


Right-wing militia groups have grown steadily since the 2008 election of President Barack Obama and they continue to grow, according to a new report released this week.

The left-leaning Political Research Associates published “Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement” during a presidential election season that’s seen Republican nominee Donald Trump appeal to such right-wing groups while Democrat Hillary Clinton has been the subject of ire for those same groups.

The report says Oregon has one of the most developed militia movements in the country and it details the rise of the movement, including events and groups that have developed in the state in recent years.

The Patriot movement came about in Oregon and elsewhere in the wake of the 1990’s militia movement. At the core of their beliefs is the idea that the federal government threatens their freedoms.

“These groups are often armed and advocate defying federal laws they think are unconstitutional,” the report says, adding militias employ an inside/outside strategy as some members work to change things from within the government, while those on the outside undermine the system.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; freedom; government; militias; obama; oregon; tyranny
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To: PROCON

“If someone is so fearful that, that they’re going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!” - Henry Waxman


41 posted on 10/23/2016 2:17:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: PROCON

2 in 5 are FBI agents or informants.


42 posted on 10/23/2016 2:17:51 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse prior to the Battle of Little Big Horn)
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To: MurrietaMadman

Not necessarily. Use your imagination. Bacillus Anthracis do not communicate, do not coordinate, yet they are lethal as hell.


43 posted on 10/23/2016 2:18:59 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: PROCON
At the core of their beliefs is the idea that the federal government threatens their freedoms.

Well, it is.

I'll bet militia groups are quietly and secretly growing all over the country.

I'll bet most of the members, though, do not dress in camo but blend in the general population and don't let their pictures be plastered all over the news.

44 posted on 10/23/2016 2:19:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

+1.


45 posted on 10/23/2016 2:24:45 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse prior to the Battle of Little Big Horn)
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To: wastoute

I am a militia of one.


46 posted on 10/23/2016 2:27:29 PM PDT by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!")
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To: wastoute
I hope they remember at least half are Fed Gov agent infiltrators. If I were a member I would start offing the other members. You got better than a 50/50 chance of offing a traitor. I would pray the “mistakes” would forgive me.

In small rural close knit communities, I would think that they wouldn't be prone to trust outsiders.

I'd hazard a guess that many militias are comprised of people who have grown up together and know each other well, enough to trust their lives with.

I'm sure they are well enough aware of the fact that infiltrators will come along and are prepared to deal with them.

47 posted on 10/23/2016 2:30:21 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ADemocratNoMore
Perhaps a sensible alternative would be to only allow landowners to vote or Heinline’s vision of military veterans or those citizens who did two years of community service as having earned the right to vote, and I might add that somebody has also suggested that receiving any form of government assistance negates that right for as long as the citizen can vote favorably to increase his own largess.

Absolutely.

That works for me.

48 posted on 10/23/2016 2:31:44 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: wastoute
Bacillus Anthracis do not communicate, do not coordinate, yet they are lethal as hell.

They sound lethal, too.

The Bacillus Anthracis Brigade.

You gotta be a doctor to get some of that or work for the government?

49 posted on 10/23/2016 2:47:57 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: MurrietaMadman

Biggest fear——WACO-ization !


50 posted on 10/23/2016 3:00:06 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: wastoute
When the time comes, I am thinking cells of ONE.

....and don't talk in your sleep. We are of like mind..........

51 posted on 10/23/2016 3:05:15 PM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: PROCON
Oregon militia movement growing steadily, report says

FBI recruitment is up.

52 posted on 10/23/2016 3:08:52 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: qaz123

Leftists with nukes are dangerous...don’t think they wouldn’t use them selectively!


53 posted on 10/23/2016 3:10:00 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

That deagel listing says our population will drop to 61 million! Are they expecting some type of major war?


54 posted on 10/23/2016 3:18:33 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: dp0622

The Afghanis seem to do fairly well against us. Well ordered guerilla groups can turn a nation into knots! In a fractious civil war with our current state of morality, our domestic army would have trouble finding new replacement high quality recruits...and our military has to recognize that despite being conditioned to fire on its own citizens, many soldiers could never go home again and injured soldiers would discover the horrors of a Va hospital system under resourced due to the domestic insurrection. Tactical nukes could be used to try to cow domestic groups into towing the line! The left is supported by coalitions that are anti war and antiviolence thus would be unreliable in the fight against the “patriots”! I think the left knows that under real war shtf scenarios their attempts to control a 33 percent of the populace detirmined to go their own way will come to naught. Now...who gets hold of the nukes...?


55 posted on 10/23/2016 3:34:50 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: Gator113

Notice the Army does not say “Army of One” any longer.


56 posted on 10/23/2016 3:53:44 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: bkopto

See. BETTER than 50/50 odds.


57 posted on 10/23/2016 3:54:40 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: mdmathis6

They don’t say, except to allude to credible intelligence sources.
A feared scenario many have expressed:
1. EMP
10/13/16 - https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/13/executive-order-coordinating-efforts-prepare-nation-space-weather-events

2. Financial collapse of the dollar as the world reserve currency.
Towards A New Global Reserve System - Columbia Business School
www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstigli...
May 9, 2016

Supply chain failure
Societal collapse
Massive die off / suicides
Russia / China / NWO-UN picks up the spoils.

We’ll see.

RE: “That deagel listing says our population will drop to 61 million! Are they expecting some type of major war?”


58 posted on 10/23/2016 4:29:31 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: litehaus

That Waco-ization is a dangerous word my FRiend. LOL

WACO-ization
All across the nation
People droppin over
from the vaccination
Bacillus anthracis
just another deadly kiss
agents write instructions
bosses make reductions
Look out dick don’t let it stick
don’t use the right grease
expect to get wrong release
back yard thinkin
can make a ford a lincoln
friends join drop coin
hard time in cold joint
guards ask what’s the point
kids don’t get it
so they can’t forget it


59 posted on 10/23/2016 5:14:22 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: OldNewYork

Here’s why!
THE US MEDIA and OTHER CENTERS OF INFLUENCE AND THE MARXIST FRANKFURT SCHOOL!
Still perplexed about WHY this CRAP keeps happening in and to this country and just never seems to end? This will clear it all up!

This long forgotten – or completely UNKNOWN among the “snowflakes” and “yutes” — HISTORY of the close relationship between the leftist “educated” (indoctrinated is more like it) “pseudo elite” dumb asses being churned out of colleges and universities here and the Marxist socialism (which, if not strangled in its crib, has ALWAYS morphed into communism) that has failed everywhere it has been tried may aid your understanding of the media’s vicious hatred of Trump and his supporters (the now infamous “DEPLORABLES”).

The sad fact is that the media here is overwhelmingly populated by these deluded dumb asses! Any nefarious, otherwise disreputable act by them is acceptable — even encouraged — because, according to Marxist/socialist methodology, all that matters is “THE STRUGGLE” for their insane Utopian workers’ paradise where all will be equal but some — including most of THEM — will be more equal than others!

You may be growing weary of hearing this but I’ll keep reminding folks until we reach the critical mass needed to defeat them. During Hitler’s rise to power as head of the Nazi (National SOCIALIST) Party in the 30s, he was greatly aided by one Ernst Rohm, head of the SA. Once Hitler had gained total control of Germany, in 1934 he purged (as in KILLED!) the party of EVERY member he felt might challenge his position. His old friend, Herr Rohm was rewarded for his help with a bullet in his brain in a jail cell!

Should this — this — WOMAN and her criminal crew prevail in November, it is my fervent prayer that those who aided her rise suffer similar fates — especially those in the media who have committed countless acts of the sort now the norm in the mendacious media here.

Think her election is impossible? The most dangerous phrase in ANY language is “Why THAT could NEVER HAPPEN HERE!”

I believe the expression that best characterizes the relationship between the media and the Clintons is the old one from the 50s: “FELLOW TRAVELERS”! You “snowflakes”and “yutes” will need to look it up as I doubt your teachers brought it to your attention.

Years ago, Dr. Gary North predicted that the radical left would capture America with the insane and human nature denying goal of “transforming” it into an egalitarian unicorn and rainbow Utopia by “capturing the ROBES”. By that, he meant those institutions we granted various levels of authority over us and our affairs: The clergy, the judiciary... and the ACADEMICS.

The roots of the problems in academia flow back to something referred to as the Frankfurt School and their 1935 move to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the spread of Marxist thought (now there’s an oxymoron for ya’!) into every area of learning here.

A prime example of the rot now endemic in the academy is the COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF “JOURNALISM”. It is THE premier center for spreading Marxism here in America and it has been incredibly successful in its destruction of traditional and American values. Not only do its direct graduates permeate the media here, but many of them also double as teachers in lesser known institutions of media instruction. Herein lies the genesis of Limbaugh’s descriptive expression “Driveby Media”. Now you know why virtually every so-called “journalist” HATES folks like us.

The Wikipedia entry says that the “...FRANKFURT SCHOOL was founded in 1923 by Carl Grünberg, a Marxist legal and political professor at the University of Vienna,[10] as an adjunct of the University of Frankfurt; it was the first Marxist-oriented research center affiliated with a major German university.[3] However, the school can trace its earliest roots back to Felix Weil, who used money from his father’s grain business to finance the Institute. “

Isn’t it fascinating that here is an early instance of a Marxist ANTI-CAPITALIST organization financing itself with the hated PROFITS of a capitalist business? The hypocrisy is mind-boggling and a precursor to how the wealthy capitalists here fund the Clinton and other leftist machines!

More recent examples of that dichotomy would be the offspring of John D. Rockefeller who have largely spent their lives promoting socialism (using other people’s money, of course). And recently Bill Gates treated us to the wisdom that only SOCIALISM can solve the woes of this world. What these folks refuse to acknowledge that even THEY do not possess sufficient personal wealth to make a dent in those woes if the recipients of that largess are incapable of sustaining themselves once the largess stops flowing or is exhausted.

If one examines the life of Karl Marx, we find a bum who abandoned his wife and family to advance the socialist struggle and never worked or dirtied his hands at day in his life. That sort of thing was for the bourgeoisie, not such an exalted personage as himself. His guilt over that abandonment probably explains Karl’s fondness for state welfare paid for by the labor of others so that his abandoned family wouldn’t perish (not that a mensch like Karl gave a rat’s ass).
Dick Bachert 8/2016


60 posted on 10/25/2016 3:48:30 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. TREASON TRIALS COMING?)
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