The usual group of liberal paranoids have discovered there are militiamen hiding under their beds and in their closets. Other than it being good to see them lose sleep over someone besides Rush Limbaugh for a change this is nothing more than their usual hysteria. But what of these crimes and "racism" charges they are desperately trying to associate with some groups they call militia?
The first thing to realize is that these people are publicity hounds. They want to be on TV and quoted in the press. That keeps the contributions coming in. Therefore they are jumping on the currently media attention on the militia. They are calling dozens of other types of organizations they do not like militias when they did not do that before the OKC bombing.
It is only a matter of time before one of the wild-eyed paranoids claims the KKK was founded as a citizen militia. Some Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist groups have been identified as militias when they are no such thing and in fact were never identified as such before the bombing.
And the greatest charge that is being levelled against them is that they are racist. Although it may be personally distasteful I find nothing inherently dangerous about racists. Liberals, on the other hand, can not overcome the compulsion to associate everyone short of their ideal of a non-racist with an oven manufacturer.
Rest assured, liberals, there is a long way between referring to lazy niggers and lynching even if your compulsion does not permit you to see it. There is also a great difference between a group by any name committing ordinary crimes and a threat to the government even if the militias were all into common crimes.
For nearly two decades there have been gangs of common criminals operating in the West under some kind of gang name. Aryan Nation is one of them. Others work "patriot" into their name. Others may use simpler names such as Crips or Bloods. However, in all cases, they are no different from a drug cartel or even from the Jesse James gang.
The reason they are no different if called a militia is that the crimes are the same and done in the same manner. These few groups the media calls militias have committed no crimes that distinguish them from any other criminal gang. As with the Bloods they have chosen titles that put fear in the hearts of their liberal enemies, which is why they favor the word patriot.
But rational people are not afraid of a name. They are afraid of actions. I don't care if they call themselves the Revolutionary Army of the New Republic as long as they are only knocking over banks they are no different from the Dalton Gang. And for such crimes we have a well established police system supported by the FBI.
The kind of crime a patriot group could commit that would get my attention is their taking over a town or city and declaring independence or something like that. If these folks are really as dangerous as the terror stricken liberals would have us believe then I would expect some kind of crime unique to their "title."
As a digression let me clear up one thing. A liberal lie is that militias and people like Liddy have claimed they intend to kill federal agents. The fact is they have said they will defend themselves.
Every individual has the right to defend himself. Individuals can join together to defend themselves. If the "defense" is found excessive that is for the courts to decide.
But to point to possible crimes they claim militia groups are conducting military exercises in the woods or in the countryside on weekends. When the army trains people to fight they train them in the widest variety of terrains, environments and temperatures as possible so that they are good as fighting there.
Myself, if they are violent and wish to take over all the woods and fields in the country and live like Robin Hood, I can't get too excited. It only means I will have to cancel my decennial walk in the woods. If I see them conducting exercises in the city, then I will worry.
But based on nothing the terror stricken are calling for the government to take action against them. What action? Make them illegal if they are not already.
If it were that simple then Los Angeles would simply pass a law against the Crips and the Bloods and the problem would be solved. Of course they do not do so. First, it would not work. Second, it is unconstitutional. It is violation of the protected right of free assembly and association.
Not only are the citizen militias being given a bum rap by association with other groups, those other groups are not acting in any manner that would make militias uniquely dangerous. Militias can not be outlawed as organizations. At most military style manoeuvres can be but the best defense witnesses would be military personnel commenting upon the style of those manoeuvres. They are doing and claiming nothing that is a direct threat to anyone much less the government that is unique to them. Yet liberals still check under their beds every night.