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Mar
30
2010

  • In the early 1960s, after John F. Kennedy took office, a group called the Minutemen began developing a “patriotic resistance” movement patterned after colonial militias, doing wilderness military drills, hoarding weapons and ammunition to prepare for a Soviet invasion in advance of what they said was a plan to “confiscate all private firearms by the end of 1965.”
  • It is important to note that militia members identify the federal government as their enemy and their anger is directed at President George W. Bush as well as President Obama—any attempt to simply cast their calls to arms in the context of conventional domestic partisan disputes are misguided.
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