It is hard to know, however, where the Michigan Militia begins and ends. There are two overlapping groups that have platoons organised in most counties of the state. One is commanded by the Rev. Norman Olson, a jocular Baptist minister who also owns a gun store. But there is another much more radical group in Michigan under Mark Koernke, a former captain in US military intelligence. He says that Gurkhas are already in Montana as part of an advance guard of the UN secret police.
British mischief is seen everywhere.
This culture of paranoia can easily become a breeding ground for all kinds of destructive pathologies. Gun enthusiasts, drawn to the paramilitary life, soon pick up radical ideas while out bivouacking in the hills. If they are unstable types, and there are always a few, it does not take that much to cross the line into outright terrorism. Even so, we need to know a great deal more about Timothy McVeigh, a former army mechanic, to understand how he came to make his moral choices. Most militia leaders protest bitterly at this description.