Militia movement

The militia movement ( rarely also Militia Movement, Eng. Militia movement) is a social movement of paramilitary organizations ( militias ) in the United States.

History

As reasons for the formation of the movement are generally the deadly clashes between American citizens and American federal agencies (especially ATF and FBI) of Ruby Ridge (Idaho, August 1992) and Waco (Texas, February-April 1993). First major militias emerged in 1994, including the mother of all militias, the Militia of Montana. The American terrorist Timothy McVeigh, who belonged to the militia movement environment was responsible for the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. This date was the anniversary of the storming of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, . Most followers of the movement keep the stop of Oklahoma City for an operation of the Clinton administration under a false flag to get political capital for anti -terror laws.

Although the movement was almost disappeared around the turn of the millennium, she got during the economic crisis ( financial crisis from 2007) and the election of Barack Obama as U.S. President in 2008 again rise. A more recent example is the Hutaree Militia.

Ideology

Michael Hochgeschwender locates the militia movement, with a minority of Christian neo-fundamentalists have allies, "fringe extreme right wing of the lunatic " in the. They represent a subversive form of agrarutopischen ideology of Thomas Jefferson. Harald Müller is one of his " marginal " called the militia movement in addition to the evangelical right to the extreme pole of American conservatism. Gather them together hundreds of thousands of Americans in " paramilitary groups ", whose declared aim was to protect the freedom of Americans in front of a conspiracy between the Federal Government and the United Nations (see the New World Order conspiracy theory ).