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Backwoods militias suspected of being behind biowar threat
The Hearald UK ^ | )ctober 16, 2001 | Ian Bruce

Posted on 10/15/2001 5:44:48 PM PDT by Merovingian

Backwoods militias suspected of being behind biowar threat IAN BRUCE

THE FBI's domestic terrorism unit is investigating the possible role of illegal militia groups in the spate of anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York.

Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber who killed 168 people when he blew up a federal building in 1995, was a supporter of one such group, the National Alliance.

Others have threatened to use biological weapons, including anthrax, botulism, and ricin, in their struggle against what they see as a global conspiracy between the US administration and the United Nations to disarm and enslave them. Every state has its own "patriot" group of disaffected right-wing Christian radicals opposed to central government and federal regulations. Most are organised along paramilitary lines.

The FBI estimates their numbers at up to 40,000, with the larger militias in backwoods country areas. They claim they are mobilising to fight the "New World Order".

In places like Idaho, Texas, Montana and West Virginia, they wear army surplus camouflage uniforms and train with assault rifles and explosives against the day when they might have to defend themselves against direct interference from the federal authorities.

They range in outlook from Pat Robertson, a failed 1988 presidential candidate, with his vision of a "Christian America" to the sinister Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations and Minnesota Patriots' Council, who favour armed insurrection.

All have links with the National Rifle Association, the influential lobby group which represents weapons' manufacturers, hunters and gun clubs and campaigns for the right of all Americans "to own and bear arms".

There is some doubt as to whether this right is enshrined legally in the American constitution but the NRA has powerful supporters in both senate and congress and no-one has yet managed successfully to challenge the all-pervasive nationwide gun culture.

Most of the militias' philosophy is based on white-supremacist principles, looking down on blacks as "mud people" and Jews as instigators of the global plot against them and manipulators of the world economy for their own benefit.

Despite their redneck reputation, they have developed a sophisticated communications network using computer e-mail, shortwave radio, and fax. The North American Patriots, a group with members from California to Kansas, publish a newsletter entitled Firearms and Freedom.

After the disastrous FBI storming of the Branch Davidian headquarters in Waco, Texas, and the Ruby Ridge stand-off fiasco, where an FBI sniper killed an unarmed woman in a mountain cabin, the militias have turned to the threat of biological weapons to up the ante.

In January 1999, police and security forces responded to 30 anthrax hoaxes in southern California alone. Since then, there have been thousands of false alarms across the country.

Many aimed at government buildings, including deliveries of envelopes containing suspicious white powder, were militia inspired. Others targeting schools, hospitals or newspapers were sent by disgruntled former employees or jilted lovers.

However, the FBI has never discounted the possibility someone might lay hands on lethal biological agents. In 1992, two members of the Minnesota Patriots' Council were arrested carrying vials of ricin, an extremely dangerous toxin. They intended to use the substance to kill police officers over a local feud.

Larry Wayne Harris of the Aryan Nations managed to buy samples of bubonic plague over the internet. Fortunately, the plague bacteria were inert.

Three members of the Republic of Texas bought what they thought was anthrax in 1998. It turned out to be anthrax serum, the liquid used to inoculate people against the infection.

An FBI source said yesterday that up to 80% of the weapons of mass destruction inquiries carried out in the last few years involved the threat of anthrax.

Before the death of a British-born newspaperman in Florida last week, only 28 people in the US had died from effects of the bacterium in the last 100 years.

Before biowar became a potentially popular hobby, anthrax was known as "wool-shearer's disease" because it had been contracted only by farmworkers in close contact with sheep, a prime carrier of the infection.

An FBI source said: "We can never rule out al Qaeda's possible role in the current deliberate spread of anthrax. It is causing more panic than anything else and has not, thankfully, been disseminated in a very efficient way if the object was to inflict casualties.

"But our own militias may also have a hand in some or all of the incidents. Copycats and hoaxers could also be having a field day. The problem is, we just can't afford to drop our guard."

-Oct 16th


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndammendment; fbiincompetence; guncontrol; militias; propaganda
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To: christine11
Just looked at your picture! WoW! Beauty, brains and a gun! Wow!
161 posted on 10/15/2001 7:28:33 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Terry Mross
which ones? :)
162 posted on 10/15/2001 7:29:01 PM PDT by christine
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To: sinkspur
I'm no fan of militias or "The Republic of Texas" type groups, but, frankly, most of these guys would rather target Arabs than their own countrymen.

Yeah, sure...remember McVeigh?

163 posted on 10/15/2001 7:29:55 PM PDT by nycgal
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To: Terry Mross
thank you! and i see you are also a texan! :)
164 posted on 10/15/2001 7:33:48 PM PDT by christine
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To: Merovingian
They range in outlook from Pat Robertson, a failed 1988 presidential candidate, with his vision of a "Christian America" to the sinister Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations and Minnesota Patriots' Council, who favour armed insurrection.

PAT ROBERSTON is considered "backwoods militia"??? Oh please. Quick, someone better call CBN and tell him to quit with the pro-gun, anti-govt rhetoric on his network. < /sarcasm >

165 posted on 10/15/2001 7:33:51 PM PDT by agrace
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To: nycgal
Yeah, sure...remember McVeigh?

McVeigh, scumbag extraodinaire, was kicked out of a militia group.

166 posted on 10/15/2001 7:37:01 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: christine11
I'm looking for a Email address for the HEarld. I owe them one.
167 posted on 10/15/2001 7:40:04 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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To: OWK
What a crock. If it was right-wingnuts, Bill and Hillary would have their entire offices filled to the ceiling with white powder by now.
168 posted on 10/15/2001 7:40:20 PM PDT by steve-b
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To: Merovingian
""But our own militias may also have a hand in some or all of the incidents. Copycats and hoaxers could also be having a field day. The problem is, we just can't afford to drop our guard.""

Sounds like the near-COMMUNISTs down at the FBI are back to after anyone who might be willing to resist the globalist conspiracy.

169 posted on 10/15/2001 7:46:25 PM PDT by God_isa_Jew
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To: OWK
It is my hope that Dubya will require the gov boys to have credible evidence for this before they start the witch hunt. There are freaks all over the board but this demonization of the right by linking them with the dangerous fringe element, rings of Reno Justice tactics.
170 posted on 10/15/2001 7:46:25 PM PDT by blackbag
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To: Petronski; Grampa Dave
You have it exactly right. Clintonista Commies at Oxford are putting out this putrid garbage for one reason and one reason only: To plant the thought in the minds of Americans that more "Tim McVeigh" types are out there doing the anthrax terrorism.

McVeigh now (by this author) = NRA = Pat Robertson = Right Wing "extremists" = Aryan nation racists = militia = anti-government = anti-tax = anti-UN = anti-communists = anti-Clintonistas = terrorists.

This is so clearly manufactured spin - it makes one know that the old commie tricksters may very well be the ones sending some of the anthrax now - taking control of a situation they may not have been involved with at the start - but of which they want to CONTROL NOW!!!

We must remember - that is the key word: CONTROL!

Clintonista Communists MUST BE IN CONTROL OF EVENTS!

They are attempting to take control of these events now - through this bogus shillspeak which, they hope, will generate new hatreds by sheeple against said demonized groups, new measures and efforts against anti-American law abiding tax paying peace loving (in normal times) Americans, and if they can pull it off - divert law enforcement officers and the Bush administration from the TRUE CULPRITS - THEIR PRO-TERRORIST ACTIONS ALA BILL / HILLARY CLINTONS' FREEING OF FALN TERRORISTS FOR VOTES AND FRIENDSHIPS WITH TERRORISTS ACTIVITIES!

Much of what has happened to President Bush's administration from day one has been designed to prevent him and his people from uncovering the worst of the Clinton crimes.

The current war with us is, it appears, now being "hijacked" (if not directed from its initial actions) by those friends of the Clintons who want to destroy the hopes and dreams of freedom loving Americans and freedom loving people the world over - in order to put their anti-freedom, anti-American, pro-destruction, pro-death crowd back in a position of power!

Right now - the pro-USA sentiment in this country is so strong, they KNOW THEY ARE SUNK!

What to do? Generate some anti-sentiment towards the most pro-USA people in this country - law abiding, tax paying, many of them Christian, church going, God fearing, traditional values Americans who happen to believe the Consitution and Declration of Independence MEAN what they say!

THIS IS SO CLEARCUT AND SO TYPICAL CLINTONISTA SOP THAT ONLY THE WILLING OR THE BLIND SHOULD BUY ONE SYLLABLE OF IT AS FACT!

If I could bet money - I would bet millions that just the opposite of what this Socialist British rag is spouting is true: that we have the rogue DOD/NSA/FBI/CIA/ATF/TERRORIST CONNECTED operatives who owe their allegiance to the Clintonista GlobalCommunists - not to the American Constitution or to American security - GOING ABOUT DOING THESE DEEDS IN ORDER TO PIN THE BLAME ON "THE VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACISTS!"

Calming down now...but just barely. Reichtag fire it is, Petronski. (People should really go back and read the tactics used both by Hitler and his thugs AND by the Leninist/Stalinists/Maoists throughout the world in their ascension to power).

171 posted on 10/15/2001 7:47:02 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Ghengis
Links with the NRA? Do they all have drivers' licenses too? Jeez!
172 posted on 10/15/2001 7:47:45 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: MississippiMan
The media is being hit cause they can't keep their mouths shut. This assures theses freaks get publicity.
173 posted on 10/15/2001 7:49:31 PM PDT by blackbag
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To: Dan from Michigan
editor@sundayherald.com
174 posted on 10/15/2001 7:51:15 PM PDT by Merovingian
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To: Merovingian
Every state has its own "patriot" group of disaffected right-wing Christian radicals opposed to central government and federal regulations.

It's interesting how the agnostic and atheistic liberal media attach Christian to these types of groups, since Timothy McVeigh was, according to the Associated Press, a self-described agnostic.

Though I have suspected the neo-Nazi tinfoilers in this, the fact is that they have neither the technical experience nor the immense funding necessary to cultivate and powderize anthrax spores.

175 posted on 10/15/2001 7:52:18 PM PDT by Heisenburger
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To: Merovingian
I found it. letters@theherald.co.uk
176 posted on 10/15/2001 7:54:01 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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To: Merovingian
Perfect Osama strategy. Make it look internal to have us fight each other. We are doing the same thing over there. We can't take the bait. We need to step it up before the set up fix comes full circle.
177 posted on 10/15/2001 7:55:19 PM PDT by Liberals are Evil Socialists!
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To: chainsaw
Subliminal message in that right turn sign ;^)

It's hard to do, but these left wing wacko's have outdone the Brady Bunch!

178 posted on 10/15/2001 7:56:49 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
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To: steve-b
If these liberal, anti-Americans decide to go this route and take down the right wing, conservative "Christian", gun-owners, then there will be this consolation: The United States of America will cease to exist without us. Whatever is left of this country will not be America, and will soon go the way of ancient Greece. There will be no one left to defend these truths that are self=evident. That of. course is the goal, I suppose. We represent the strength that is America and there will be no leftist, socialist who will stand up for this country. Where will the left get their warriors from? Not from their cowardly, hate America ranks that's for sure.
179 posted on 10/15/2001 8:02:52 PM PDT by Kangaroo Court
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To: sinkspur
True there's little evidence from this story to connect militias to the current anthrax scare, but there is evidence to link Terry Nichols to middle east terror networks, such as his trip to the P.I. at the same time as Ramzi Yousef. The oft cited description of John Doe #3 as appearing middle eastern.

I don't see many of these militia groups as patriotic in any but a racial and territorial sense. More than a few of their leaders have the destruction of the current form of American gov't in mind. A goal not far removed from Bin Laden's.To have two groups so focused in their emnity towards the same institution, the U.S. gov't, and both so sure of their goals that they have confidence to use the other group to help achieve them is not far fetched. It's not proven by any stretch, butit's worth looking into.

180 posted on 10/15/2001 8:06:02 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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