In the three years since the Oklahoma City bombing, a leaner, harder 'Patriot' movement has emerged, producing terrorist conspiracies and crimes on a level not seen in decades.
In the three years since the Oklahoma City bombing, a leaner, harder 'Patriot' movement has emerged, producing terrorist conspiracies and crimes on a level not seen in decades.
For years, the Montana Freemen issued 'common-law' edicts harassing local officials and others, but after a standoff with the FBI, a federal trial seems likely to topple their group.
In Sandpoint, Idaho, antigovernment politics have changed a small town's way of life.
Small, portable equipment is now being used by extremists to listen in on law enforcement communications.
The 'common-law courts' have been the most radical and active part of the antigovernment "Patriot" movement for the past three years, making threats and issuing dangerous false legal documents.
The Montana Freeman's philosophy, while rooted in antigovernment and 'common law' ideology, is also racist.
The Oklahoma City bombing has proven to be the opening shot in a new phase of right-wing terror in this country. In the three years since the attack, the radical right's antigovernment movement has spawned an escalating number of terrorist crimes and plots.
Hate group expert Daniel Levitas spent eight years in the Midwest researching and developing community responses to the Posse Comitatus, the Christian Identity movement and other hate groups.
A new film on the standoff and subsequent fire in Waco appears to tell the story of an overreaching, violent government intrusion, but only because it twists the facts.
Three people linked to a bomb-building neo-Nazi have been charged with conspiring to set off 14 bombs around Orlando, Fla., including several along the main access to Walt Disney World.
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