Posted on 12/09/2005 9:12:01 AM PST by ncountylee
Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is indulging the paranoid style in American politics. Again.
The select House Committee investigating the federal response to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday, December 6, listened to a plethora of racially-motivated kooky conspiracy theories not heard since the nadir of the “militia movement” in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995. Back then, the House Judiciary Committee’s “Waco hearings” chaired by Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde, R-Ill. provided a forum for “disgruntled” citizens. “Militiamen” were encouraged to air their paranoid delusions that included these memorable allegations: U.N. forces were poised to invade America; reports of nighttime Blackhawk helicopter flights; Gurkha troops training in the Montana wilds (see U.N take-over plan); the Waco raid as a rehearsal for a federal plan of nationwide gun confiscation; and as was reported in Time (May 1, 1995), John Trochmann, cofounder of the Militia of Montana, claimed the federal government was
“secretly building concentration camps and … planning nine zones to replace the lower 48 states –a partition plan that …[according to Trochmann] was spelled out in an illustration on the back of Kix cereal boxes last year [1994]… .”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
LOL
I like your isms much better...that woman was practicing for her theater. Couldn't believe my eyes and ears.
"Gurkha troops training in the Montana wilds (see U.N take-over plan)"
Actually the Gurkhas are training here in Iowa.
My alma matter, Iowa State, has recruited several of them for our football and basketball teams, at least when we play the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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