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In recent decades, the remote region has proven fertile ground for extremist groups including the Militia of Montana, the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and many others.
A former Marine who has been diagnosed as mentally ill, Burgert is the latest in a growing number of anti-government activists who have engaged in shootouts with law officers around the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which studies extremist groups.
"Basically, law enforcement, especially the feds, are seen as agents of an evil conspiracy run by the government,'" said Mark Potok of the Montgomery, Ala
Deputies thought their manhunt was reaching a climax on Wednesday when they received a tip about a man living at a remote forest camp west of Lolo that was tied to Burgert. Undersheriff Mike Dominick said the man there was not Burgert and had no ties to him.
Burgert was diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder before his sentencing in the militia case. Burgert disputed that diagnosis after his conviction.
Originally posted by -W1LL
Surprisingly they seem so focused on the homegrown terrorist issue they forget to mention Ted Kazinsky the Unibomber who lived here in MT and sent his mailbombs from.
the MSM just tried to make news wtih the Gov. sale of his property recently.
Originally posted by camaro68ss
Get ready for more and more people to be labled as "anti-goverment" and calling people KKK. Its going to happen more and more now that the SHFT is getting closer
Originally posted by j35us
As he was a product of government experimentation I don't think they want to give people any reason to side with the militia. (mkultra program)
Originally posted by -W1LL
Originally posted by camaro68ss
Get ready for more and more people to be labled as "anti-goverment" and calling people KKK. Its going to happen more and more now that the SHFT is getting closer
Originally posted by j35us
As he was a product of government experimentation I don't think they want to give people any reason to side with the militia. (mkultra program)
No doubt I am fearing the same. only thing i think we can do is educate people on what an American Organized Militia really is. and where why and how the militias were created.
American militia
Originally posted by -W1LL
A former Marine who has been diagnosed as mentally ill, Burgert is the latest in a growing number of anti-government activists who have engaged in shootouts with law officers around the country
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Manhunt under way west of Lolo for ex-militia leader
Originally posted by Screwed
Originally posted by -W1LL
A former Marine who has been diagnosed as mentally ill, Burgert is the latest in a growing number of anti-government activists who have engaged in shootouts with law officers around the country
Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
Manhunt under way west of Lolo for ex-militia leader
Am I missing something?
What seems to be the problem?
Sounds like a Patriot to me who is actually fighting for our freedoms and not PRETENDING to fight for our freedoms like the ignorant misled soldiers overseas whos hearts might be in the right place but.....they're making things much much worse.
You are going to see more and more of this and NOW NOW NOW is the time to decide how you are going to view and interpret these types of behaviors.
The media wants you to view this guy as a crackpot who snapped.
I don't.
I have a mind of my own thank you very much.
I view him as what he is,
A Patriot.
Does that mean that I am going to go off and have a shoot out with the pigs?
Not necessarily.
Before you condemn me, what about you?
Are you willing to get on here and insist that you would NEVER get into a shootout with the pigs???
You better pray you never get confronted with that situation!
I know I do.edit on 16-6-2011 by Screwed because: (no reason given)
"Basically, law enforcement, especially the feds, are seen as agents of an evil conspiracy run by the government,'" said Mark Potok of the Montgomery, Ala
Who decides what "insane" means? This was the major question of Ken Kesey's countercultural classic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which illustrated how mental illness could be deployed by the establishment to crush the individual. But a recent book by University of Michigan psychiatry professor Jonathan Metzl suggests that Kesey's novel might not have been far from non-fiction. In "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease," Metzl documents the shifting interpretations of schizophrenia through the 20th century, tracing its evolution from a "white middle-class woman's disease" to an "African-American man's disease." Specifically, with the political upheaval of the civil rights movement, popular culture began to associate angry black men with schizophrenia, which in turn influenced the way doctors interpreted and diagnosed the illness.
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"In particularly the early 1920s, 1930s, 1940s when the idea of schizophrenia itself was first coming to the United States from Europe there was a general assumption that persons who suffered from schizophrenia were either shy or calm or they were geniuses," Metzl says. "It was often represented as an illness that afflicted white novelists or poets and as I say, these were very often in popular and psychiatric representation assumed to be white people." But during the massive societal upheavals in the middle of century, ideas of sanity and insanity took on new meaning. "All of a sudden in the 1960s, American culture, newspapers, magazines, movies start to represent angry African-American men as in part being inflicted with a new form of this particular illness," and this change in popular perception of the disease directly influenced the clinical definition of it, Metzl argues. "All of a sudden in 1968, the second version of the Diagnostic Manual comes out and there is new language that says 'aggression, hostility, projection.'" The image of a schizophrenic person was all of a sudden more violent and unstable than the schizophrenic of 20 years before.
The practical consequences of this popular-cum-clinical shift in perception was that in the 1960s far more African-American men were institutionalized in psychiatric wards with schizophrenia. "Some had committed crimes, some had participated in civil rights protests, some had been participants in urban riots at the time. They all passed through various forms of the penal system and ended up diagnosed with schizophrenia and locked in the psychiatric wards," says Metzl. But were these men really schizophrenic? Or were they victims of shifting clinical definitions of disease, one that was prone to metaphoric interpretation?