The founders of the paramilitary movement the Washington State Militia, John Irvin Pitner, 45, and John Lloyd Kirk, 56, and his wife, Judy Carol Kirk, 54; Marlin Lane Mack, 24; Gary Marvin Kuehnoel, 48; Frederick Benjamin Fisher, 61, and Tracy Lee Brown, were indicted for the illegal possession of bombs and machine guns. Kirk and Smith were also members of the group known as Freemen. In a biography about Pitner, the author Jane Kramer depicts Pitner as a right-wing militiaman committed to the same ideology of paranoia that inspired Timothy McVeigh. In recounting Pitner's tangled career as a Patriot leader in the Washington State Militia, Kramer opens a shadowy world in which hapless blue-collar whites gather furtively to indulge in wild conspiracy theories; to ventilate their hatred of Jews, blacks, and immigrants; to exchange phony code words; and to fantasize about martyrdom in an impending war against the New World Order.VideoVideo: 2012 Propaganda videoVideo: 2010…
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