On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, John Young wrote:
"ADL Special Report: The Militia Movement in America."
A 1995 national survey by the ADL offers disturbing evidence that the militia movement has continued to grow. The ADL survey also found that many hard-core militiamen believe that the United States Government itself conducted the Oklahoma City bombing to create an excuse for further depriving citizens of their constitutional rights. A continuing flow of information [...] [Thanks to AF]
That info used to be available at http://www.pafb.af.mil/deomi/DEOMI.HTM (the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute), under the "Special Interest Groups" heading, but access was restricted to MilNet on Friday when I pointed out, somewhat sarcastically, that they were violating the ADL's copyrights. Geez, they *REALLY* don't want people accessing that server; not only is it firewalled now, but they removed www.pafb.af.mil from the public DNS (its IP address is 131.25.131.53). I guess the Air Force can't take a joke (gee, I wonder why). Anyway, if you're interested in a bunch of very interesting reports on right-wing terrorist groups in the US, most of them dated August 1993, I just might be able to put you in touch with someone who might have those files in his or her N*tscape cache directory. My friend Cecelia points out that the ADL made a few silly mistakes, though, like getting Neo-Nazi leader William Pierce's birthdate wrong (Pierce is the wacko who wrote The Turner Diaries, which inspired a tring of murders/bank robberies by The Order and, more recently, Timothy McVeigh). The general thrust of DEOMI seems to be that people in non-combat posts in the military have every right to be involved with these jokers in their off hours. There are several .mil addresses on the openly Neo-Nazi Stormfront list -- and they're not all plants. In general, they'll only investigate you if your paranoid fantasies about the Zionist Occupational Government prompt you to get up in a tower and start shooting people. Which has, of course, happened, so I have no problem whatsoever with the USAF (or anyone else) talking to the ADL, as long as rights are respected. -rich