[Dale Gribble]

Yep. The "Department of Homeland Defense" is beginging to take shape.

[TheUglyAmerican]

Yep. The "Department of Homeland Defense" is beginging to take shape.
well, the past couple of years of staking out them pesky Christian Patriots did a lot of good

btw, shouldn't your name be "Shakleford... Rusty Shackleford"?

[Verax]

Bump!

[Mason]

Every state has its own "patriot" group of disaffected right-wing Christian radicals opposed to central government and federal regulations. Most are organised along paramilitary lines.

. . .

All have links with the National Rifle Association, the influential lobby group which represents weapons' manufacturers, hunters and gun clubs and campaigns for the right of all Americans "to own and bear arms".

. . .

There is some doubt as to whether this right is enshrined legally in the American constitution but the NRA has powerful supporters in both senate and congress and no-one has yet managed successfully to challenge the all-pervasive nationwide gun culture.

. . .

Most of the militias' philosophy is based on white-supremacist principles, looking down on blacks as "mud people" and Jews as instigators of the global plot against them and manipulators of the world economy for their own benefit.

"Most"? "All have links"? "Every state"? "Most are organized along paramilitary lines"?

Could we find even a single attribution for any of this crap, much less the silly little constitutional interpretation?

Someone call me when you find a piece of journalism. This doesn't rise to the level of trash.