From: [j--o--k] at [space.mit.edu] (Jim Cook)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Army Joins Milita's
Date: 14 Dec 1994 16:03:54 GMT

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    British Press Warns USGOV & ADL to Stop Planning Waco's
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                    Partiot games turn deadly
               [The Sunday Telegraph 4 Dec. 1994]
                    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
 
The commanders of the Texas Constitutional Militia ( northern
region ) were gathered for a strategy session in a cold workshop
outside Dallas.
[...]
The Texas Constiutional Militia are not an underground guerrilla
force. But they want to keep a low profile during the crucial
organizing phase. Most of them dissapprove of the now celebrated
Michigan Militia which has gone public in a spectacular way by
releasing a videotape of itself training with assault rifles in
the woods.
  Like other militia's around the country, the TCM is growing at
phenominal speed. It began earlier this year, holding it's first
"muster" at the Alamo on April 19. Seven months later it already
has 32 counties under arms. New counties are joining at the rate
of 2 a week. There are no formal rosters of membership, but the
leaders claim that several thousand Texans are actively participa-
ting in one way or another.
  The Militia is not to be confused with the Texas National Guard
which is a Reserve Organization of the US Armed Forces. It is a
spontaneous army of citizens, invoking a constituional right to
bear arms and to join together in the defence of liberty.
[...]
The last straw was the Waco assault, the gassing and incineration
of 17 children and 64 adults at the Branch Davidian commmunity last
year. Nobody has been brought to account for that abuse of power.
  "We were sleep-walking through life. It was the massacre that woke
 us all up", said John Turner, a small businessman who commands the
 northern region of Texas.
 " When the history of this age is written, that'll be the shot
that rang out around the world and changed everything".
[...]
Training is done by a team of former Green Berets and Navy Seals. It
includes survival techniques and urban and rural guerrilla warfare.
Turner insisted that there was no plan to take offensive action.
"We're 90 per-cent real Christians . We don't want to start blowing
up bridges or sniping at Judges."
[...]
"We have penetrated the governments electronic intelligence system
and we've turned it against them." says John Roland, a former Civil
Rights and Enviromental Activist who helped set up the TCM. "There
are lots of Little Brothers watching the Big Brothers".
  The main purpose of the movement, its members claim, is deterence.
Every time the government oversteps its authority it will have to
consider the possibility of armed opposition. And if it tries another
Waco, it will have a minor war on its hands.
  The National Guard will not be of much help, at least in Texas. A
large number of police officers, sherriffs and reserve guardsmen are
secret members of the militia. The army cannot be counted on either.
Behind the Texas Constitutional Militia there are layers of para-
military groups that tap into the US Military Complex.
  For example, there are three battalions of the Texas Light Infantry.
They are disgruntled former members of the Texas State Guard, a
military police auxiliary under state control. "We do airborne
parachuting, night ambush operations, and we simulate explosives" said
Gert Ording, commander of the Third Battalion in Bryan.
   Secretly, ther is much else besides. The most serious force appears
to be Big Star One, a Division sized network in northern Texas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico that includes serving officers of the U.S.
military. If found out they could face a court martial.
  It is made up of three military Brigades, according to a member of
one outfit: The Delta, Culpepper and Orange brigades. "We're primarily
training in guerrilla warfare. We learned a lot from the Viet-Cong."
Among thier senior commanders are officers from the US artillery base
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and Shepard Air Force Base in Texas. The
clandestine division has been excercing in west Texas using mortars
and grenade launchers. " There will be no Waco in this area," said the
source.
  "If the shit hits the fan they'll find the regular army and the
militia are in cahoots".
  A captain in the official Texas State Guard admitted the state was
"extremely concerned" about the unauthorized militias, and said that
he could forsee a rapid and dangerous escalation.
[...]
The Anti-Defamation League, an influential Jewish organization in New
York has published a Report on the Militias around the US entitled
"Armed and Dangerous". It argues that most of them are fringe
malcontents from the Aryan Nation and other white supremicist or
neo-nazi organizations with an anti-semitic bias.
  " I'm Jewish and I take offence to that," says Mark Bowers, a
former artillery officer, who commands the Montgomery County militia
near Houston. "There's nobody of that ilk in our unit. We're trying
to recruit Blacks, Latinos, Jews, women, anybody who wants to join."

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