Preparing for armageddon

The devastating explosion in Oklahoma City on 19 April 1995 has drawn attention to the existence of citizen militias and the Patriot movement of which they are part. Opposed to gun control and taxation and strongly influenced by claims of concealed foreign troops, concentration camps and plans to impose a New World order, Patriots are the inheritors of a radical rightist conspiratorialism dating back to the 1960s. Believing American liberties to be as threatened by Oliver North as by President Clinton, the movement is a diffuse subculture which encompasses both racist adherents of what is termed Christian Identity and more traditional Christian fundamentalists (and even includes some members of ethnic minorities). The Oklahoma bombing, it believes, was the work of forces seeking to demonize the movement but while it argues that the creation of militias is purely defensive, there is a constant danger of confrontation with the state in the rhetoric of a second American Revolution

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• Non-traditional explosives

  Jimmie C Oxley•Terrorism and Political Violence•1993

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