Fusion Paranoia IV:
From "American Militia Papers," by Gerald A. Carroll,
author of Project Seek, a book on the Gemstone File:
"Like many other mainstream journalists, Michael Kelly [in coining the
phrase 'fusion paranoia' in New Yorker] is catching up to the story
that this current militia fervor is nourished by much more than
just gun control or wild New World Order conspiracies. Genuine people
with genuine fears are being hurt in a variety of ways by what they feel
is an unfeeling, mechanical government apparatus that has run amok...
Kelly's piece represented a departure from the New York literati norm
of lampooning the militia movement and its ancillary "conspiracy
researchers." Anybody who has ever read the publications to which Kelly
refers--i.e. Paranoia, Flatland, Steamshovel Press, et al--much of
that material is rooted in fact, not "theory." It is a matter of giving
the "conspiracy researchers" like Robert Fletcher or anyone else at least
marginal credit for collecting and interpreting a maze of the government's
own documentation that clearly points to counterrevolutionary/reactionary
activity by the current administration." "American Militia Papers" are
available from gerald-carroll@uiowa.edu.
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