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The Merced Sheriff's Department said a local militia group has activated itself to help in the effort against the out-of-control Oak Fire. The sheriff's office said in a statement released Sunday, that they are not un-supportive of community groups helping neighbors, but they wanted to stress they have not requested assistance from any militia group.

A man used his DIY expertise to make his own gun using a fence post and a children's building set. Trevor Cracknell, 48, went to a neighbour's house in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and fired the gun which had a steel barrel encased inside a wooden casing. The mechanism was held together with nuts, bolts and metal strips from a Meccano-style toy set.

President Obama, friend of former Weather Underground murderers, William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, finds it fashionable to condemn the killings of one violent anti-government type, but finds soirees with Ayers and Dorhn perfectly acceptable. Ayers anti-government group, the Weathermen, killed Walter Schroeder, Peter Paige, Edward O'Grady, and Waverly Brown. Scott Roeder, the name now being linked to the murder of baby killer, Dr. George Tiller, is a violent, exconvict who had served time on an explosives charge, and who had had a parole violation on that same charge. http://www.cjonline.com/stories/071097/parole.html Other information on Roeder includes his association with the Freeman, an...

Two men, including one from Ravalli, posed as Montana marshals last week and attempted to help Montana Freemen leader Leroy M. Schweitzer escape from federal prison in South Carolina, where he is serving a sentence for convictions in a massive bogus-check scheme. The men, Ervin Elbert Hurlbert, 82, of Ravalli, and Donald Little, 55, of Tacoma, Wash., were arrested Friday at the Federal Correctional Institution in Edgefield, S.C., by the Edgefield County Sheriff's Department. Hurlbert and Little appeared in federal court in Greenville, S.C., on Monday on a criminal complaint charging them with assisting in the attempted escape of Schweitzer....

Living, breathing decisions.Someone asked me a few days ago, after the Ninth Circuit's latest decision about the Second Amendment: Shouldn't courts read the Second Amendment as part of an evolving Constitution? Say the Ninth Circuit was wrong, last year's Emerson decision from the Fifth Circuit was right, and the Framers thought of the Amendment as securing an individual right. Shouldn't judges update it due to the passage of time, based on evolving standards of justice and practicality? 1. Well, here's one way to justify this position: The Second Amendment as written was meant to apply only to the federal government,...

A Tucson couple, who operate under their own courts and laws, is in trouble for taking things too far. Whitney Starr and her husband, David Vigil, are part of a local group calling themselves "Freemen." They've been arrested for filing several false leins against officials in Oro Valley. It's not clear whether they're related to a group in Montana. This latest incident started when a relative got a ticket last year for driving without a license and registration. The group fought back by going after the officials' property. John Evans, of the Arizona Attorney General's Office, says, "That ended up...