Seeking out all the militias in the US would have been a political and security nightmare.
There are some real nutjob militias; BUT, it would have been perceived as the government waging war against its own citizens, and would have confirmed the paranoid rantings of the right wing groups.
Remember the ATF raid in Waco? If Clinton had done what you proposed, that fiasco in Texas would have repeated itself in the hundreds or thousands.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2009 08:02PM by eesh.
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