These ideas have been around for a very long time. I heard them even as a young child. I remember being taken to a meeting where the speaker railed against Federal Reserve Notes linking them with a world wide monetary conspiracy and a new world order. Ten years ago I heard a prominent minister proclaim that the United States had a thousand days left before it would fall. Now I hear that grown men and women are running around in the woods with automatic weapons playing war and preparing to defend their families and overthrow the government.
New conspiracies seem to be emerging every day.
The problem with all these conspiracies is evidence. There is no substantiate, verifiable evidence to support such contentions, and if there is I have not seen it. The tragic events of this past week teach us this. Some respond by saying that the Militia groups have no right to exist, and should simply leave America if they do not like it. But the issue of whether or not these groups should have the right to exist and to teach their view of the world is a constitutional one.