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Article: FIVE YEARS AFTER PEAK OF MILITIA MOVEMENT, EXTREMIST GROUPS FADING.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 7, 2001
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Six years ago, John Trochmann, co-founder of the Militia of Montana, gave the United States its first close look at a new radical movement under cultivation by heavily armed followers wielding wild conspiracy theories.
The 1995 arrest of self-proclaimed "militia movement" member Timothy McVeigh for killing 168 people by bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City had peeled back the camouflage curtain shading the underground anti-government culture seemingly sprouting in every corner of the country.
Unlike most in the movement, Trochmann welcomed media attention, discoursing at length about the dangers of the "New World Order" and convoluted government ...