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Article: Extreme prejudice. (militia movement)
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- Reason
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- July 1, 1995
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How the media misrepresent the militia movement
"Who could possibly have done such an evil, cruel act?"
It's a question that we all asked ourselves as we watched the TV images of a demolished building filled suddenly with the dead, the dying, and the terrorized.
For a day, reporters and terrorism experts told us the bombers were almost certainly Muslim terrorists from the Middle East. Then the FBI captured a suspect who turned out to be one of our own - not just an American, but one who had served in our military and fought in one of our wars. Shocked that an American could do such a thing, reporters went looking for a bigger story.
The FBI ...