THE HISTORY OF MILITIA GROUPS
This report is going to cover the history of militia groups.
There is a pretty long history of militia groups here in Ohio, and
through out the U.S. and the world. Most of these militia groups are fairly
harmless and don’t pose a real threat to anyone. Most of these militias
simply play paint ball games for training and practice shooting real guns at
the shooting range. They say that they are getting ready for war, some of
these militia groups think that they are going to over throw the
government, which I don’t think will ever happen.
In Sept. 1989 a group of 19 concerned members of the Ohio Military
within that organization. They felt that they were not being used properly
to help the people of Ohio and they wanted to be more than parking valets.
Desiring to fill a void within the community and desiring to help Ohioans,
this group of people created the Southeastern Ohio Defense Force as a
non-profit, non-political State Militia in Sept. 1989. Shortly after its
inception, members of SODF were called to action when a flash flood
occurred on Pipe and Weegee creeks in eastern Ohio near the town of
Shady Side. The SODF was the first civilian group on the scene of the
flood. SODF scuba divers and search dogs were very important in the
search and rescue of many victims.
Last year the SODF participated in a county wide disaster drill at
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Now this type of militia could actually work for the better of the public. But
here are some examples of the types of militias that pose a threat to
society.
In Ohio several militia groups have arisen in scattered communities
in the state of Ohio. One such militia has been meeting and conducting
paramilitary training exercises in Pike County in rural South Central Ohio.
Among the Pike County militias are the neo-Nazi SS Action Group and the
Ku Klux Klan (kkk).
Other militia groups have arisen in Franklin County
and Warren Country. A militia type group called “Patriots” meets in
Cincinnati and conducts paramilitary exercises in rural Clearmont County.
In Missouri militias are active but don’t appear to be as well
organized as in other states. They operate in at leas five Southern Missouri
Counties: Crawford, Green, Barton, Dade and Cedar, and number
collectively approximately 130 members. The militias hold irregular
meetings to view training videos, discuss paramilitary techniques and
exchange literature reflecting right-wing views.
Most every state can say that it has at least a couple militias that are
forming. Militia groups have been around for quite sometime and it is only
now that they get so many headlines because the public sees what is
happening in other countries around the world and they are afraid that
those things will happen in the United States. As history has shown us the
chance for an actual militia uprising in America is slim to none. Even if a
militia were to try to take over a part or all of the United States the U.S.
armed forces would smash their little get together before they even knew
what happen to them. These militia groups haven’t been able to get there
hands on the same top quality weapons that the U.S. Government has.
There fore as the government keeps a firm hold on what types of weapons
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that these militia groups have, then the pose a very minimal risk to the rest
of the public.
Montana is know for their abundance of militia groups who also tend
to be the most threatening. They are not threatening because of their
power, but they seem to be the groups that are talking about a new
government, and taking over the U.S. the members of these groups often
state that they have high power weapons of mass destruction but we as the
public can be almost sure that they have basically noting because they
would have shown off their power by know by at least bombing a building
and taking credit for it, this tells me that there are no weapons of mass
destruction.
In the past the states have not paid much attention to the threats of
the militia groups but as times get worse and after the Oklahoma City
Bombing the States and the Federal Government will start to pay more
attention to what is going on out on the back roads of their country.
Given the revolutionary posturing of so many of the militias, and the
role in them of hatemongers of long standing, the better part of wisdom
dictates that close attention be paid to them. There is a role here for the
press and for citizen organizations that monitor extremism. The Anti-
Defamation League is pledged to do it’s part. The chief responsibility for
keeping on top of the militia threat, however, plainly rests with the law
enforcement branch of the government.
