>Charles: Specifically on the Michigan Militia, the former commander of it
>( I forgot his name right now; it's not Mark of Michigan) was on talk
>radio in Detroit regularly up until about a year ago. He said that there
>are racist elements within the Michigan Militia's ranks. But , of course,
>since it is an libertarian group , it is difficult to "govern" or have
>strict membership requirements. He is not racist himself, but , he , who
>ought to know, said that there is a problem with racists as members.
I don't doubt there are racists in the militia movement (and are they still around? they've disappeared from the news). No one knows how many, and I don't think you can call The Militias a racist movement. A young union organizer told me recently that his best worker allies when he was trying to organize a plant in rural Michigan were an out Vietnamese-American lesbian and a white male member of the Michigan Militia. So you never know, really.
Doug