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Members of the Minuteman Project believe that government officials have failed to protect the country from the threat of invasion by foreign enemies. [4] They strongly support building a wall and placing additional border patrol agents or military personnel on the Mexico–United States border to curb free movement
New York Militia TM New York [12] New York Mutual Assistance Group New York [12] New Mexico Civil Guard: New Mexico [18] [19] [20] The Last Militia Ohio [12] Ohio Irregulars Ohio [12] Ohio Valley Minutemen Citizen's Volunteer Militia Ohio [12] West Ohio Minutemen Ohio [12] Appalachian Associators Pennsylvania [12] Iron City Citizen's Response ...
The Minutemen was an anti-communist, nativist militia organization formed in the United States in the early 1960s. The founder and head of the group was Robert DePugh, a biochemist from Norborne, Missouri. The Minutemen organized themselves into small cells and stockpiled weapons for an anticipated counter-revolution. It had an estimated 12,000 ...
The militia movement is a right-wing movement that arose following controversial standoffs in the 1990s. It inherited paramilitary traditions of earlier groups, especially the conspiratorial, anti-government Posse Comitatus. The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are ...
The militia and minutemen companies still were organized by town and trained typically as an entire unit in each town two to four times a year with the Minutemen receiving extra training. From the end of the French and Indian War , this was normal during peacetime but, in the 1770s, as friction with The Crown increased and the possibility of ...
Democratic county leaders in Illinois want an investigation of Republican state Rep. Chris Miller after he displayed a decal of an anti-government militia movement on his pickup truck parked at ...
[4] The SPLC notes that the antigovernment movement includes the militia movement (including paramilitary organizations, such as the Three Percenters (also styled III%ers) and Oath Keepers); the "sovereign citizen" movement, which rejects the government's authority; the so-called "constitutional sheriff" movement, which holds that local ...
[19] [22] According to the ADL, Three Percenters constitute a significant part of the broader anti-government militia movement, whose ideology they share. [23] Three Percenters believe that ordinary citizens must take a stand against perceived abuses by the U.S. federal government , which they characterize as overstepping its Constitutional ...