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The Republic of Florida Militia (ROF) is a white supremacist group based in Florida [1] that promotes white supremacist ideology; the group's goal is to form a white ethno-state [2] in the south of Florida and it engages in paramilitary training to further this goal.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [ 1 ] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States.
Alpha 66 was founded by Cuban exiles in the early 1960s to act as an anti-Castro, paramilitary group. [2] Although it has undergone changes in personnel and leadership, it still exists today and is based out of Florida. [4] Alpha 66 was most active during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but remains active in the Miami area. [3]
The Lords of Chaos was a self-styled teen militia formed on April 13, 1996, in Fort Myers, Florida, United States. [2] It was led by Kevin Donald Foster (born Kevin Donald Bates ; June 16, 1977). The group gained notoriety for a crime spree that ended on April 30, 1996, with the murder of one of the boys' teachers, Mark Schwebes, the Riverdale ...
The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are designed to oppose a tyrannical government. The movement's ideology has led some adherents to commit criminal acts, including stockpiling illegal weapons and explosives and plotting to destroy buildings or assassinate public ...
The Florida State Guard looks nothing like what its recruits thought they signed up for. It’s morphing into what looks more like a militia than the disaster response organization recruits ...
The Legislature already revived the Florida State Guard and then expanded it at his request. Now lawmakers are working to give him even more power to deploy the unit while making it harder to hold ...
The Florida Militia pursued Seminole who were outside the reservation boundaries. In the period prior to the Third Seminole War, the militia captured one man and a few women, and 140 hogs. One Seminole woman elder committed suicide while being held by the militia, after the rest of her family had escaped.