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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just finished watching the last Frontline 'American Insurrection' and was stunned.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/american-insurrection/I only hope that these nuts are not in large numbers.
It traces the crazy militia movement to the Waco Massacre and the Michigan Militia. I have never understood this incident. I was out of the country at that time and got very limited news. Sure Koresh was a religious pervert and armed to the teeth. But did all of his followers and children deserve the results? Were they trying to overthrow the government?
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I just finished watching the last Frontline 'American Insurrection' and was stunned. (Original Post)
El Supremo
Apr 2021
OP
I was spellbound as I watched. No comparison to all the small clips I have seen
riversedge
Apr 2021
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riversedge
(69,724 posts)1. I was spellbound as I watched. No comparison to all the small clips I have seen
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)2. So powerful. Very frightening. The lunatic fringe in
this country is a threat to all of us.
spanone
(135,635 posts)3. 75 million voted for the insurrectionist-in-chief...large numbers
blm
(112,920 posts)4. Ruby Ridge was before Waco.