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Article: U.S. Militia Movement Seen as Growing Danger
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 30, 1995
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DALLAS Men train in the pre-dawn darkness of a field north of
here, dummy weapons in hand.
Others study military medicine west of Fort Worth or practice
shooting skills and survival exercises outside San Antonio.
A movement is growing in this state and the nation - a rising of
thousands of people inflamed by an ideology that calls for forming
armed volunteer militias to save the United States from fascism.
"The militia movement," says Texas organizer Jon Roland, "is a
good government movement with guns."
And that's the theme that increasingly is alarming state and
federal law enforcement officials who, after years of dismissing
them, are beginning to take militias seriously.
In ...