As the Oklahoma bombing investigation proceeds, it is possible that the FBI may find evidence that a militia member or a citizen-militia association was involved in some way. If such evidence is discovered, the people I've met in the militia movement will be the first to cheer as the culprits are led away to jail. But until such evidence is presented in court, the national media have done a great injustice to a group of American citizens who spend their spare time practicing to fight a defensive war rather than playing paintball and who wear camouflage and combat boots rather than jogging shorts and running shoes while they get their outdoor exercise.
If those in the militia movement thought they had good reason to fear government before, they are now even more convinced that powerful forces are planning to take away their freedoms. New conspiracy theories are already spreading via the Internet, the fax machines, and the shortwave radio stations. These theories describe the Oklahoma tragedy as one more piece of the conspiracy, perhaps deliberately planned and executed by federal agents to destroy the patriot movement and regain the power lost in the last election.
"It's going to help the whole movement nationwide, to one degree or another," Samuel Sherwood answered when I asked what the impact of the anti-militia publicity would be. "For those who were wondering whether there was a conspiracy, this is going to certainly confirm that there is a conspiracy of some sort or another." He then added, "Bill Clinton is using this in the same way Hitler used the Reichstag fire. Only we're different people. The Germans weren't armed. We are."
"The bomb in Oklahoma blew up America," says the Michigan-unit training officer. "Every person in this country who turned on the TV and saw the broken bodies of tiny children being carried out of the building is a casualty. They will carry the wound the rest of their lives, just like I will....Bill Clinton is standing in the blood of those children when he attempts to use this tragedy for his own political advantage."
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