From: [Terry Liberty Parker] at [libertybbs.ima.infomail.com] (Terry Liberty-Parker)
Date: 18 Nov 94 12:38:19 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Militia, Libertarians & Drugs

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Forwarded (from: LIBERTY) by Terry Liberty-Parker using timEd.
Originally from Jim Bell (1:105/114.0) to Libernet.
Original dated: Nov 13 '94, 08:44

Columbian newspaper, page A6, Sunday, November 13, 1994.

(this article accompanied the other one about the conservative militia.)

Other Pro-militia group has different philosophical bent.

By John Branton, The Columbian

Matt Manker belongs to another local pro-militia group--with a
difference.

"We're not a conservative group," says Manker, 34, who lives in the
Burton area.  "If anything, we're libertarian."

Manker belongs to the Northwest Independent Militia Training
Association, which supports the Constitution and gun ownership but also
advocates the decriminalization of drugs.

"Most of the people in our group feel that drug laws do more harm to
society than good," Manker said.   "The war on drugs allows the
government to send people in minja suits with machine guns and grenades
to kick in your door, and somehow that's supposed to save society."

The group, with about 100 active members, frowns on white supremacy.
They meet at 7:00 pm on the second Wednesday of the month at a pizzeria
at 12300 N.E. Fourth Plain Road.  Visitors are welcome.

Manker said he is the leader of a related militia group called Daniel
Malcolm Volunteers, named after an early-American anti-authoritarian.
Members have participated in target practices, gun-safety and first-aid
classes and compass orienteering practice.

In general they believe that government whether Democrat or Republican
is exceeding its Constitutional authority, including when it levies
taxes.  "Privacy doesn't exist," Manker said.  "Censorship is
everywhere.  How we do everything is controlled by the government."

[end of article]


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