Good ol' boys need a reason to form a militia? As if...!
Drink beer. Smoke weed. Blow sh!t up!
Not a word on why these people formed a militia.
From the Birmingham News....
Collinsville man with militia ties taken into custody
Posted by sstewart April 26, 2007 3:25 PM
A man taken into custody earlier today by federal authorities in Collinsville in connection with a federal raid on a militia group had told neighbors of his dislike of the federal government.
“He said the government is going to fall apart and his group is going to be prepared to take over,” said Joanne Gunnin.
Gunnin said she allowed the man she knew as Jeff Osborne to live on her property in a camper that is painted in camouflage green and covered in camouflage netting. The property is on U.S. 11 in the southern section of Collinsville in DeKalb County.
Piles of military-like knapsacks, duffel bags and a crate of olive green canteens were scattered around the campsite. The man had no running water or electricity in the camper and used a makeshift lavatory outside.
Gunnin said Osborne was supposed to be there temporarily, and had been on the property about two years.
Osborne would not tell her the name of his group, but she knew three or four men had joined.
She said that Osborne gave out uniforms to those who joined the group. He also sold some of the uniforms that were kept in her garage in a large plastic box.
“He always said that Hispanics need to leave,” Gunnin said. Collinsville has a large Hispanic population.
“I had no idea they were investigating this guy,” she said.
also....
Militias are self-styled citizen groups that form to protect individual rights and prepare for a possible revolution against government tyranny. Their enemy is Uncle Sam, particularly the FBI and ATF, which they see as the reincarnation of Hitler’s Gestapo.
There was a strong militia movement in Alabama and nationwide in the 1990s, as the groups rallied after the 1993 bloody siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and the 1992 shoot-out in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, between former Green Beret Randy Weaver and federal agents.
Federal authorities said there has been little militia activity here in recent years.
Carol Robinson
not sure where Carol Robinson gets these facts; reads more like opinion.
Good ol' boys need a reason to form a militia? As if...!
Drink beer. Smoke weed. Blow sh!t up!
People don’t need a real reason. Just form a militia, get explosive, blow things up. Shoot as many people as you can and claim some obscure reason.
Obscure reasons:
Taxes
Racial purity
Bush
Did I say Taxes?
The Pope
Jews
Mixed races in public schools
Public schools
Etc, etc and etc.
Maybe they discovered an al qaeda cell in their neighborhood.
To protect their tiny little pot patch?