It was Eloheim City, not 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.
Names?
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.
They aren't all Christians. Nice tag, DMF.
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".
Wow, genius, you got one right.
In places like Idaho, Texas, Montana and West Virginia, they wear army surplus camouflage uniforms and train with assault rifles
They don't have 'assault rifles'. They are illegal without a class III, genius.
and explosives against the day when they might have to defend themselves against direct interference from the federal authorities.
Any proof?
They range in outlook from Pat Robertson, a failed 1988 presidential candidate, with his vision of a "Christian America"
Pat Robertson is part of that group? I never knew that....(/Sacrasm)
to the sinister Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations and Minnesota Patriots' Council, who favour armed insurrection.
Tagging all by the actions of a few Nazi's.
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".
That is the BS. Most of them HATE the NRA. That is the biggest pile of BS I've ever heard. I'm sending a letter there.
There is some doubt as to whether this right is enshrined legally in the American constitution
No there isn't. Read the 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.
Yeah, because there are 5 million of us that are defending ourselves from jerks like you.
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.
I don't like militias, but they aren't Nazi's. I know a few of these people. They don't give a rip about race or Jews, but the UN.
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.
Wow, genius, you actually got one right.
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.
Proof?
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.
Do you have proof of who did it?
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.
Proof?
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.
OK, you got two jerks and you blame the NRA, who these people hate. F-you Bruce, you stupid piece of crap.
Larry Wayne Harris of the Aryan Nations managed to buy samples of bubonic plague over the internet. Fortunately, the plague bacteria were inert.
Aryan Nations is not one of us.
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.
They failed.
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.
And whose behind it? Source? Proof?
"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."
Innocent until proven guilty, jackass.
And once again, I don't like 'militia groups', but where's the f'ing proof?