IndianaBoy79
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Anyone else catch this? Interesting stuff.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/idaho-militia-trains-supports-bear-arms/story?id=10242140
By RYAN OWENS and ELY BROWN
March 30, 2010
They are not police officers. They are not active-duty soldiers. But what a group of weekend warriors is doing with guns in the woods not far from the Canadian border is perfectly legal.
"Nightline" visited a recent Saturday training session of the 21st Battalion of North Idaho's Lightfoot Militia -- a heavily armed force that, we're told, numbers more than 100. Just about a dozen showed up on the Saturday we did.
Along with an awful lot of shooting, they learn survival skills and take first-aid lessons from one of their members, who's also a firefighter.
Their leader is "Major" Jeff Stankiewicz, an unemployed welder with zero military experience.
"The government should be afraid of its people so that it doesn't do stuff it's not supposed to do," Stankiewicz told "Nightline." "It would make them think twice."
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Read the rest at the above link...to long to post the entire article.
Edited to add this link to the video on same story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKiCNbotRk
Anyone else catch this? Interesting stuff.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/idaho-militia-trains-supports-bear-arms/story?id=10242140
By RYAN OWENS and ELY BROWN
March 30, 2010
They are not police officers. They are not active-duty soldiers. But what a group of weekend warriors is doing with guns in the woods not far from the Canadian border is perfectly legal.
"Nightline" visited a recent Saturday training session of the 21st Battalion of North Idaho's Lightfoot Militia -- a heavily armed force that, we're told, numbers more than 100. Just about a dozen showed up on the Saturday we did.
Along with an awful lot of shooting, they learn survival skills and take first-aid lessons from one of their members, who's also a firefighter.
Their leader is "Major" Jeff Stankiewicz, an unemployed welder with zero military experience.
"The government should be afraid of its people so that it doesn't do stuff it's not supposed to do," Stankiewicz told "Nightline." "It would make them think twice."
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Read the rest at the above link...to long to post the entire article.
Edited to add this link to the video on same story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKiCNbotRk