The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors right-wing extremist activity, finds “that an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) — a 244% jump” from 2008.
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For example, this is not happening.
Andrew Lee Patterson identifies himself as the state leader of the National Socialist Movement, Oregon Unit, and said he has been a “storm trooper, first class” with the movement for about six months. Other unit leaders from around the state selected
Seriously, how can this go wrong? The Ohio Militia, which has maintained a YouTube account since October, is up with a video asking “a million armed militia members” to march on Washington on July 4. (Watch after the jump.)
Here are some excerpts of a flier being sold by Mark Koernke at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.
As press releases go, this one, from Multinational Forces-Iraq, starts off routine –
Four armed men were engaged by an air weapons team from Multi-National Division-Baghdad, after they were spotted emplacing an improvised explosive device north of Taji, Iraq the night of April 2—leaving one dead and two wounded.
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