Modern Militiaman
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A decorated Vietnam veteran, Lynn VanHuizen, 53, is not a man prone to petty fears; but he is terrified of what the millennium may bring - above all, unwelcome guests.."Sorry about that," he said putting the weapon back inside his trouser band. "You can't be too careful these days."
For the leader of the Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines, a 15,000-strong volunteer army, 2000 -- and in particular Y2K, the millennium bug that may cripple computers around the globe -- is more than just a glitch in the system. He and his militiamen believe it could lead to civil war in America.
Their fears are so great that militia leaders are co-operating with their traditional enemy, the FBI, to try to prevent renegade hate groups from launching a racist war and terrorist attacks during any chaos that the bug may unleash.
For months, the militiamen have been stockpiling weapons and burying them at strategic locations in readiness. They are leading local efforts to prepare the community for food shortages, for power blackouts and other imponderables.
VanHuizen has built a barn on his property to store bottled foods. He has power generators. He is installing tanks for petrol and diesel and he has dug a new well. His fields are planted with vegetables and fruit, and his pens are filled with livestock. He has enough supplies for at least three months and is prepared to feed anyone sympathetic to the cause.
"I've even got animals set aside for the National Guard, depending on which side of the fence they fall," said "the General", as he is known.
The theories of the militia may sound deeply paranoid, but they are gaining credence. A group that once relied on veterans and farmers to swell its ranks can now count teachers, Buddhists, an Amish family and a member of Mensa among its number.
According to the militia commanders, everything may start to falter on September 9 when the computers of the global positioning system, the international satellite-controlled compass system for aircraft and ships, will be confronted by the date 9/9/99, causing it to malfunction.
By the end of the year, they predict, the inflated American economy could be in tatters, electricity grids and communications systems will not be working, and supermarkets will be unable to stock their shelves. People will panic, and there will be riots. President Bill Clinton will declare martial law, giving him the right to seize all weapons owned by civilians. In the worst-case scenario, United Nations troops will be called in to enforce the peace.
For the Michigan militia and similar volunteer forces, the UN represents multinational corporate interests that threaten American sovereignty. This "new world order", they say, endangers citizens' rights under the constitution, specifically the right to bear arms.
"Y2K provides a chance for the new world order to take over -- that must not happen in America," said D J Breton, a former Green Beret. "We will not shoot the first round but we will exercise our constitutional rights to defend our families."
Breton acts as the militia's state training officer for its nine divisions. His brigades, he says, are ready for anything. He teaches guerrilla warfare, how to set an ambush, the benefits of camouflage and how to kill a man instantly in complete silence. The militiamen also take first aid and nutrition classes, and are well versed in survival tactics and psychological warfare.
Breton advises new members on their equipment, including uniforms and weapons. On exercises he tends to carry an AK-47 assault rifle with a 100-round drum, almost 500 spare rounds, a semi-automatic pistol and a hunting knife.
The original purpose of the militias was to defend the rights of citizens against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Most saw their main active service against an overweening crown during the war of independence. The slogan "no taxation without representation" is now used against Washington.
The militias won many recruits in the wake of two specific incidents involving federal agents. At Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, Randy Weaver, a white separatist and anti-federalist, engaged in a stand-off with FBI agents that ended in a gunfight. His wife and son were killed. A year later, in Waco, Texas, 80 people, including 18 children, died in a conflagration following the government siege at the compound owned by the Branch Davidians, a separatist sect.
Incensed by what they viewed as government aggression, volunteers joined the ranks of the militias and other "patriot" groups. But when a vast fertiliser bomb was subsequently detonated outside federal government offices in Oklahoma City, killing 168, and two militia supporters, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were convicted, the group saw a dramatic fall in membership.
"We were made out to be something we are not," said Tom Wayne, the militia's executive officer, whose wife left him as a result of Oklahoma. "It was a very bad time for us."
A far more frightening collection of individuals has since filled the vacuum, however: the racist and anti-semitic zealots of the so-called "Christian Identity", who include members of the Aryan Nations, neo-Nazi skinheads and a virulent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan.
At a recent meeting in Missouri, Robert McCurry, an Identity "minister", declared a state of emergency. "I want to tell you that war rages in America. The enemy is not coming, the enemy is here," he said. "God has ordained that his people be a warring people. Lord of Hosts means lord of a mass of people organised for war."
It was a member of Aryan Nations -- Buford Furrow, 37, an unemployed mechanic -- who wounded five people last week in a Los Angeles Jewish community centre and murdered a Filipino postal worker -- a "non-white target of opportunity" -- as he fled police.
Such racism angers the Michigan men. "I would never have thought that this country could become a centre for ethnic cleansing," said the silver-haired VanHuizen, as he sat in the gun shop he owns at Muskegan on the shores of Lake Michigan. "I think we will be forced to take these groups out - to kill them, if necessary."
He and his senior commanders have received regular death threats from Christian Identity members in Michigan since the militia last year purged its ranks, court-martialling those associated with white supremacy. As many as 300 left to join more radical groups.
"We're very careful about who joins," said Wayne. "Some of these people just want a war."
The FBI has begun to recognise that these new groups pose a far greater threat than the traditional anti-government militias that they have been monitoring so rigorously. And federal agents have been reaching out to groups such as the Michigan militia to enlist their help in averting acts of violence.
It is a large step for these militiamen to begin to trust federal agents who have spent so many years staking out their homes, tapping their telephones and harassing their families. But their conviction in an impending catastrophe brought on by the millennium and the fear that it will provide an opportunity for the rise of renegade hate groups have made them unusual bedfellows, united in the defence of traditional liberties.
"We have no qualms in working with the government against Christian Identity," said VanHuizen. "We've all got to survive to make sure these crazies don't. It's a question of good and evil."
Seen at Sunday Times of August 15, 1999.
Notes & Commentary: The fact of the matter is that the Van Huizen/Wayne faction has been in bed with the FBI at least since last year. In fact, Van Huizen and Wayne were suspected FBI agents provacateur for the past couple of years, since Commander Norm Olson was deposed back in 1996 and the refusal of the Michigan Militia to come to the aid of the Freemen in Montana. Finally, in the winter of 1998-1999 the membership of the Michigan Militia deposed Van Huizen/Wayne and placed into office Joe Pilchak as the Commanding Office. This matter was mentioned in Modern Militiaman #10 of Jan. 1999 in the article concerning the change of command at the Michigan Militia Corps. Khazar Louis of the FiBbIes complained about how his agent provacateurs Van Huizen and Wayne were being dispossessed by the Christian Identity 'pseudo-religion' followers during Khazar Louie's begathon for funds from the Senate on Feb. 4, 1999..Recently the FBI updated its usual line in something called Project Megiddo. The FBI tries to demonize the Identity Christian Religion as Enemy #1 of the Evil Empire, and on page 21 of this latest report admits that the Van Huizen/Wayne faction lost election to the Pilchak faction last winter.
Now it does not matter what lies that the FBI are telling as they are the same old lies attributable with the Anti-Christ Beast powers in any case. What is interesting is that the militia generals have been collaborating with the FBI and BATF, and that now these militia generals are scared that for their narking, informing and sundry collabor-treason that the Identity Christians and White Nationalists will deal in the standard way that every popular Resistance has done with traitors. Thus a guilty conscience for treason, and an apt sense of the consequences has the pore deposed militia general like Van Huizen running scared at shadows.The Christian Identity nor the White Nationalist Resistance Movement has not, insofar as I know of, dealt with any traitors in summary fashion -- yet. However, all this pissing & moaning from the militia generals has accomplished nothing except paranoia from the non-FiBbIe rank-and-file militia membership. After all, how do they not know that Van Huizen/Wayne isn't narking on them or giving their membership lists to the BATF/FBI like Missouri 51st militia generals have been doing for years? As a result, what is left of the militia rank-and-file is leaving in droves before they get on the FiBbIe-HRT shitlist as the next pop-up target for an imperial gook sniper.
However, the CI/WN Resistance, as it is underground except for its political 'legal' wing, is far beyond these FiBbIe militia-general clown's detection. Probably the only people these collabor-traitors ever expelled from their regimeist militias are those ornery people who cannot work with anybody.
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1. In the case of this cowardly cretin who knows that he deserves a suitable reward for being a nark, informant, and agent provacateur for the criminal regime, this collabor-traitor knows he deserves a suitable reward for his criminality from all the aggrieved, be they militia, Phineas Priests, or Thor's Hammerers. Thus there is indeed no rest for the wicked.
2. First of all, Van Huizen is no longer the leader of the Michigan Militia Corps. Joe Pilchak is the elected commander, and has been since last winter, as even the FBI admits.
Secondly, the Michigan Militia never had in August, 1999 fifteen thousand men under arms. In fact, it is doubtful that it has 15 hundred men today, else Van Huizen wouldn't have to be checking for Phineas Priests or vengeful militia personnel he narked on all by himself. Probably Wayne is in the Federal Witness Protection Program as a known snitch, leaving Van Huizen holding the bag.3. The truth of the matter is that the militia generals have been collaborating with the FBI/BATF/ADL/SPLC and local police since the militia movement was founded back in 1994. Some of them, like the Tri-States Militia/Coalition, have not only been harboring snitches and informants under color of 'moderation' but in fact have been overt snitches and agents provacateur like Red Mike Vanderboegh and John Parsons. Some of these militias are in fact nothing more than one-man propaganda fronts, like Khazarl Worden's so-called 'South Oregon Militia.'
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