Missouri Militia says members are helpful citizens, not right-wing scum bags

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http://articles.kspr.com/2012-03-08/hutaree_31138045

Missouri Militia says members are helpful citizens, not right-wing radicals

A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center says membership in patriot groups nationwide has exploded in the past three years. The SPLC characterizes the groups as racist and extreme.

March 08, 2012|Joanna Small and Jason Crow | Reporter and Photographer

There are 28 groups in Missouri. We want to clarify, these are not categorized as hate groups. But that is the stigma members of the Ozarks' branch of the Missouri Militia say they are constantly fighting.

Guns, guerilla-like warfare, and plots to overthrow the government. Ed Taylor knows that's what you think of when you hear the word "militia."

"They think what the national news media tells them, that militias are nut jobs, radical, and that's the furthest from the truth," Taylor says that.

From inside Anderson Gun Repair in Springfeidl Taylor, store-owner Rocket Anderson, and other members of the Missouri Militia's 4th battalion, 8th brigade are hesitant to talk to us for that exact reason.

[LonePirate]

1. If they don't want to overthrow the government, then what is their purpose?

These people are hate groups at best and seditionists at worst.

[abelenkpe]

2. Yeah

I'm gonna tend to believe the Southern Poverty Law Center thanks

[Lint Head]

3. They believe the One World Government, Bilderbergers associated with the Knights Templar Blood Cluts

are in control of all governments and will turn the planet into to a mega prison.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. How about possibly helpful right-wing scumbags...

depending on just what they're helpful at.

[EFerrari]

5. If we were as open minded as Iraq and Libya, these folks would have no problem.

[GopperStopper2680]

6. Deal with it

You join a militia, you get what you've got coming. If I join a biker gang I expect people to call me a thug and suspect that I might be dealing crystal meth.

[jwirr]

7. The question is not so much are they helpful. The real question is who do they think they are

helping? Really helpful people do not refuse help to anyone who is different than them.

[Warpy]

8. Well, it's not likely they'll be able to cop to what they really are.

After all, it's hard to live with yourself if you have a family, go to church every Sunday, and spend every Saturday marching around bristling with guns and preparing for a race war by admitting you're a violent bigot who's against every good thing the country stands for.

However, they can relax about that. It's just never going to happen, that government program to monitor extremist right wing groups and arrest the worst of them. They're too busy eavesdropping on the Quakers and Raging Grannies.

[lastlib]

9. OK--they're helpful right-wing scumbag citizens.

(Who says a liberal won't compromise?)