American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement - American Extremism.pdf

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• hat emerged was not a “movement

• early 1994

• formation of the Militia of Montana and the Michigan Militia

• by 1996 this had increased to “441 armed militias in all 50 states

• ” in the conventional sense

• no national leaders directing militia affairs

• nor even a national organization to which all militia members belonged

• diverse, decentralized, and, to a large extent, localized collection of groups and individuals with certain shared concerns

• three key theme

• opposition to gun control

• strong belief in the Second Amendment

• right of the people to bear arms against the state

• rofound distrust of the federal governmen

• overstepped its constitutional boundaries

• attacking the personal freedoms and liberties

• fear that the United States itself is under threat from an international conspiracy attempting to institute a “New World Order

• one world government” on the country under the auspices of the United Nations

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