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
Yeah, sure...remember McVeigh?
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 >
McVeigh, scumbag extraodinaire, was kicked out of a militia group.
Sounds like the near-COMMUNISTs down at the FBI are back to after anyone who might be willing to resist the globalist conspiracy.
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).
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.
It's hard to do, but these left wing wacko's have outdone the Brady Bunch!
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.
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