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Article: Militia member memo: paranoia in Missouri.(Citings)(Missouri Information Analysis Center's "modern militia movement" report)
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- July 1, 2009
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UNTIL RECENTLY, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a state agency created by the Department of Homeland Security, distributed a report to state troopers that aimed to aid them in understanding the "modern militia movement." It also gave them advice on how to detect whether someone they had pulled over might be a dangerous member of a radical militia group and, thus, inclined toward violence against the cops. The report is a colorful mixture of pop socio-psychology ("Academics contend that female and minority empowerment in the 1970s and 1960s caused a blow to white male's sense of empowerment"), scaremongering (militia members are "highly trained" and think "you ...