At 05:25 PM 11/5/1999 -0500, Gun Owners of America <goa@gunowners.org> wrote:
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>Just a few miles away from Capitol Hill, the FBI issued an
>interesting report on Monday entitled Project Megiddo.
> . . . the FBI has listed gun owners as part of the domestic terrorism
equation.
>In fact, the report accuses GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt of
>helping to "fuel the already existing paranoia of militia and
>patriot groups."
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>go to http://www.gunowners.org/fs9904.htm at the GOA website. The
>entire report is available at
>http://www.fbi.gov/library/megiddo/publicmegiddo.pdf from the FBI;
>you will need Adobe Acrobat to read it.
>
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I recommend that everyone download this 32-page FBI report. It is a ". . .
strategic assessment of the potential for domestic terrorism . . . in
anticipation of or response to the arrival of the newmillennium."
Extremists, apocalyptic religious groups, New World Order conspiracy
theorists, biblically-driven cults and advocates of a racial holy war
represent the threat. ". . . Religious beliefs, the Y2K computer problem
and gun control laws all have the potential to become catalysts for such
terrorism . . . " The FBI shares with the reader a discussion of the
individuals and groups that may constitute this threat, interpretations of
the Bible, the New World Order, civilian disarmament as proposed by he UN
and gun control laws.
The wisdom, accuracy and objectivity of the Bureau's beliefs about this latter topic are indicated in the following paragraph extracted from Page 13 of the FBI analysis
QUOTE "In the aftermath of the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, President Clinton, Congress, and Attorney General Reno acted swiftly to propose new laws aimed at restricting the sales of guns to juveniles and to close loopholes in existing laws. In May 1999, the Senate passed a bill to ban the importation of high capacity ammunition magazines and require background checks for guns sold at gun shows. In light of the enormous importance and prominent role that extremist groups place on the Second Amendment, it is probable that recent government actions aimed at controlling guns are perceived to be compelling signs of the UN-led NWO takeover." END QUOTE.
The FBI mentions, as one of the factors identifying a cult: " . . . the cult is not an established denomination . . . "
Clearly, the Bureau knows no more about the First Amendment than it does the Second. The Congress is prohibited from establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, but the FBI's text suggests that it accepts few such limitations.
I am not a member of any extremist or apocalyptic group but it gives me a chill to read the text of this document from our senior federal law enforcement agency. The FBI describes itself thus: "By extension, the FBI is viewed as acting on Satan's behalf."
Worrisome! Is the FBI more paranoid than the gun owners it terms "extremist"? Should we, the People, worry about FBI pre-emptive strikes against the individuals and groups listed -- a takeover attempt by the standing army and the select militia so feared by the Founding Fathers and by the 75,000 armed Federal Agents (not even dreamed of by the "F.F.")?
Download the FBI's analysis. Read it yourself. Form your own opinion. Share your views with your Congressional representatives and with us. Was this analysis well-done, useful and approriate or does it merely fan the flames of dissension and fear?
Clyde.