The Militia Watchdog website has a great amount of material of potential
interest to journalists exploring the extreme right. Journalists should
examine the entire site. However, a number of items could conceivably be
of particular interest; they are listed below.
Militia
Watchdog Mailing List.
This is a private mailing list for people who have a
professional interest in understanding the extreme right. Subscribers
include law enforcement officers, academics, public officials, civil rights
organizations, and many journalists, especially those for whom the far right is
a "beat." It is a great way to ask questions, get info, make
contacts, and learn the latest news.
Calendar of Conspiracy. The Calendar of
Conspiracy is a quarterly chronology of extremist-related criminal activity,
arranged by date and state. It is very valuable in terms of providing
another way to measure levels of activity, trends, and the ability of law
enforcement to combat criminal extremists.
- Calendar
Volume 1, Numbers 1 & 2 combined (January -- June 1997)
- Calendar
Volume 1, No. 3 (July -- September 1997)
- Calendar
Volume 1, No. 4 (October -- December 1997)
- Calendar
Volume 2, No. 1 (January -- March 1998)
- Calendar
Volume 2, No. 2 (April -- June 1998)
- Calendar
Volume 2, No. 3 (July -- September 1998)
- Calendar
Volume 2, No. 4 (October -- December 1998)
- Calendar
Volume 3, No. 1 (January -- March 1999)
- Calendar
Volume 3, No. 2 (April -- June 1999)
- Calendar
Volume 3, No. 3 (July -- September 1999)
- Calendar
Volume 3, No. 4 (October -- December 1999)
- Calendar
Volume 4, No. 1 (January -- March 2000)
- Calendar
Volume 4, No. 2 (April -- June 2000)
- Retro
Calendar No. 1 (January -- December 1994)
- Retro
Calendar No. 2. (January 1 -- April 18 1995)
Special Reports. The Watchdog website includes a variety of
Special Reports; several might be of particular interest to journalists either
as overviews, case studies, or analyses.
- Special Report #1: The
Mountaineer Militia's Long, Slippery Slope.
- Special Report #4: Common Law
and Uncommon Courts: An Overview of the Common Law Court Movement.
- Special
Report #6: Paper Terrorism's Forgotten Victims: The Use of Bogus Liens
against Private Individuals and Businesses.
- Special
Report #7: Trusts and the Untrustworthy: "Pure Trusts" and
"Patriots for Profit".
- Special
Report #8: The Shadows of Waco: The Tactics and Dynamics of
Militia Confrontations.
- Special
Report #9: Strange Territory: Ideology and Competency in the
Courtroom.
The
Militia Watchdog Links Page.
This is an extensive collection of extremist-related Web links, topically
arranged and annotated.
Miscellaneous Reports, Bulletins, and Articles. Some of these
may be of particular interest to journalists.
- Revolution
and Reality: A Transcript and Analysis of Mark Koernke's "Time is Running
Out."
- Flashpoint America:
Surviving a Traffic Stop Confrontation with an Anti-Government Extremist.
- The
Militia Watchdog 1998 Right Wing Extremist of the Year
- The
Council of Conservative Citizens: Chronology of a Scandal
- Old
Wine, New Bottles: Paper Terrorism, Paper Scams, and Paper
'Redemption'
"Patriot" Profiles. This series of reports from
1995-1997 involved case studies of various anti-government extremists, most of
whom involved themselves in legal troubles. Some of them by now are quite
dated, but nevertheless provide insight into the personalities and ideologies
inherent in anti-government movements.
- Joe Holland, Calvin Greenup,
and the Anti-Tax Militia.
- Patriot
Purgatory: Bo Gritz and Almost Heaven.
- Every Man A King: The Rise and
Fall of the Montana Freemen.
- A Fledgling Militia: The Blue
Ridge Hunt Club Versus the BATF.
- The
Private War of Bradley Glover
Afraid of Bugs: Assessing our
Attitudes Towards Chemical and Biological Terrorism. The
only "editorial" on the website, it is also a lengthy analysis of chem/bio
scares.
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