> James Ridgeway just told me that Larry Pratt of the Gun Owners
> of America, whom Alex Cockburn quoted on the virtues of arming
> teachers, discovered the beauties of "militias" after visiting
> Honduras and the Philippines. Of course, the informal bodies of
> armed men in those countries were death squads. Life is getting
> very strange.
Larry Pratt is also the guy that got Buchanan into some hot water during his last run for Prez. Buchanan spoke to some racist group that Pratt was associated and also spoke at. I think Pratt had a position with the campaign at the time. B. tried to claim he didn't know the org. was racist. Sort of like the recent Trent Lott / Concerned Citizens Council flap.
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> Doug
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