Tom.... Exactly what is wrong with a "Militia" ?? They are mentioned as necessary and are to be well armed in YOUR CONSTITUTION.....
Are not in favor of the constitution Tommytom tom ?? On Nov 24, 6:38 pm, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party > > "We Are at War": How Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home > in the Tea Party > In places like rural Montana, the Tea Party is working hand-in-glove > with Patriot movement radicals -- many of whom have close ties to > anti-government armed militias. > November 21, 2010 | > Photo Credit: A.M. Stan LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? > Join our mailing list: > Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. > Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition ? Research > support for this article was provided by The Investigative Fund at The > Nation Institute. > > Maybe it's the gun-making kits that are being raffled off as door > prizes. Or maybe it's the fact that nearly everyone inside this hall > at the Ravalli County Fairground is packing heat. But most of all, > it's the copy of Mein Kampf sitting there on the book table, with its > black-and-white swastika, sandwiched between a survivalist how-to book > on food storage and a copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. > > It is obvious: This is not your ordinary Tea Party gathering. > > Mind you, they don't explicitly call themselves Tea Partiers. Their > official name is Celebrating Conservatism. But their mission statement > is classic Tea Party -- "to restore our country, counties, and cities > back to the Republic and the Constitution of the United States" -- and > Celebrating Conservatism is listed as a member of the national Tea > Party Patriots organization. Everyone in Hamilton, Montana -- the > whole of Montana's Bitterroot Valley, for that matter -- knows them as > the Tea Party's main presence in town. Once a month or so, the group > holds a potluck dinner at the county fairgrounds that typically > attracts a couple hundred people, which in a place like the Bitterroot > is a sizeable presence. > > This night -- a September 14, 2010, potluck in the oversized metal > shed that is the fairground's main hall -- is special because there is > a high-profile guest: Larry Pratt, leader of Gun Owners of America. > > Pratt, like a lot of Celebrating Conservatism's speakers, has a long > history with the far right. He is considered a godfather of the > militia movement, a network of conspiracy-minded, armed paramilitary > groups that exploded in the 1990s. Pratt addressed a pivotal three-day > meeting of neo-Nazis and Christian Identity adherents in Estes Park, > Colorado, in October 1992, convened in the wake of a shoot-out by > federal agents in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, that had sent shock waves through > the extreme right. That gathering is widely credited with birthing the > movement's strategy of organizing citizen militias as a form of > "leaderless resistance" to a looming "New World Order." Joining Pratt > on the stage at Estes Park were Aryan Nations leaders Richard Butler > and Louis Beam. (A few years later, Pratt became co-chair of Patrick > Buchanan's 1996 GOP presidential campaign, but was dismissed once > these Neo-Nazi ties surfaced in the national press.) > > Pratt is hardly the only controversial figure to address the group. In > May 2010, at its convention on the University of Montana's Missoula > campus, Celebrating Conservatism hosted tax protester Red Beckman, > notorious for his open anti-Semitism and the author of a 1984 book > that argues the Holocaust was a judgment upon Jews for worshiping > Satan. At a Hamilton gathering in July 2009, a onetime Arizona sheriff > named Richard Mack addressed the crowd; he'd made a career in the > 1990s out of organizing militias and speaking on the national circuit > of the anti-government Patriot movement. Mack's longtime Patriot > movement confederate, Jack McLamb, spoke at the group's Hamilton > gathering the following month. McLamb, a former police officer, > recruits "soldier and lawmen" to the Patriot cause through a group > called Police & Military Against a New World Order. > > Those events served notice that Celebrating Conservatism had embraced > the Patriot movement cause. > > Celebrating Conservatism formed in December 2008 in reaction to the > presidential election and slowly gained members that spring by > associating itself with a variety of Tea Party events in Bitterroot. > But locals only took real notice in September 2009, when the group > held a gun rights rally in downtown Hamilton at which participants > brandished firearms. Organizers followed up with a Celebration of > Right to Bear Arms in March 2010, which featured a march of several > hundred people along Hamilton's main drag. Anyone driving through town > that day was greeted by a gauntlet of people packing weapons ranging > from muzzle-loading muskets to a high-powered sniper-style .308 > caliber rifle. > > Continued > here:http://www.alternet.org/story/148946/%22we_are_at_war%22%3A_how_milit... > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
