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Originally posted by jaguar
The milita movement has shrunk back in recent years though, post-oklahoma increased pressure had it's effect, in this kind of scenario you'd steady growth.
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We touched on this in class last night. The discussion was about racist hate groups. They were saying that McVeigh wasn't accepted by the militia folks, he was just a good old fashioned white sepratist. Either way I'd say that's what sent the militias underground. The fear of government didn't do it, it was the fear that they'd thrown in with the wrong kind of people.
As far as leftists with guns go, the original Black Panther Party along with a bunch of your sixties radicals were armed. The new Black Panthers are armed but look a lot more like Nazis... The left in the US is too in love with state power to take up arms, they'd rather harness the beast for their own purposes. Of course, it is cocktail hour in Grifftopia so I may have to retract chunks of this in the morning.