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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The SPLC has released new statistics concerning the rapid increase in militia groups since the election of President Obama.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/the-year-in-hate-and-extremism">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/the-year-in-hate-and-extremism</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Daily News has initiated an important conversation about our local toy soldiers who creep around the woods feeding their deluded fantasies that somehow they are defending the constitution. No doubt local <a href="http://www.5775lightfoot.com/main.php">Lightfoot</a> militia members sneer at the SPLC (as do the <a href="http://www.dougwils.com/Search.html?ordering=&searchphrase=all&searchword=southern+poverty+law"> bearded buffoons</a> who defend antebellum slavery). Of course, this is, in many ways, a cross over crowd. Why not ask the Republican candidate for state senate <a href="http://www.greshambouma.com/pages/intro.php">Gresham Bouma</a>, and local sheriff candidate <a href="http://www.rickforsheriff.com/index.html">Rick Henderson</a>, if they support the militia movement in general, the three Lightfoot Idaho militia battalions, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/912patriotJW">Jeff Williams</a>, Freeman (not really a free man as long as he is chained to a clouded understanding of history and constitutional law) in particular. Be prepared for diversionary tactics (particularly from Mr. Bouma) if he is even willing to answer your questions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>