Yep, they're out there, all right. Out there in the woods. Right now. Marching. Funny-looking men who may not be too good at holding a job but are very good at holding a high-powered weapon.
They wear camouflage, probably over a lot of tattoos. They talk about how the Constitution has been overthrowed, how this-here ain't a white man's country anymore, how the police are the enemy because they work for the Antichrist.
Recently we've read about the Hutaree Militia in Michigan, which was busted. Nine guys. In pictures they look ordinary except for their merciless eyes. It's charged that they were going to kill a cop, then use a bomb to kill a lot of people at his funeral so as to precipitate a civil war in America.
They haven't been tried, and we have to assume them innocent. Still, we can gather that what they are alleged to be is not unrepresentative of what's out there.
This business of murdering a bunch of people to touch something off: does it sound familiar? That's what Charles Manson was planning. He was trying for a race war.
It's always the same. Jailhouse racism, cop-hating, firearms, secrecy. They're nothing unfamiliar, just good old-fashioned flag-waving, cross-burning Amerikans. Sometimes they throw in a little Jesus, sometimes a little Hitler, and it doesn't make much difference.
How come there are no progressive militias? I guess it's because liberals have a more limited tolerance for absurdity and for threatening or assaulting the American people.
Some parts of this country are into ominous stuff in a big way. But settle in a progressive area and you're not likely to be bothered by odd folk trampling through the brush with howitzers. Not yet, anyway.
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