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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 16, 2009

As more far-left, socialist mandates pour out of Washington, more Americans are becoming alarmed and angry with the radical direction of our nation. Many are concerned about the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms.

The Michigan Militia is not sitting back.

From Michigan News: Michigan Militia featured on CNN as example of growing distrust of Obama, federal government:

Patriots or extremists?

That was the title of a CNN story that aired this morning, looking at how some 100 new volunteer militia groups have sprung up since President Obama was elected.

The story focused on the Michigan Militia, filming them while they trained at Camp Stasa in Bancroft, a city halfway between Lansing and Flint.

According to a show of hands at the training session, about half the members there were new.

“Any time we get a democratic president in office people become concerned, including myself, and we get a resurgence out here,” said a militia member identified only as Brian.

Another show of hands showed that every single militia member in attendance was worried about the constitution.

“I think he could be dangerous for the nation,” volunteer Michael Lackomar said of President Obama. “Just the simple fact that we are out here and we are doing this will give people pause, will make them think twice.”

CNN: Michigan Militia | November 2009

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From NewsBusters, CNN Again Touts Apparent Rise in Militia Activity:

On Monday’s American Morning, CNN’s Jim Acosta rehashed a three-month-old report from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center about the apparent rise in militia activity in the U.S., and extensively featured a militia from Michigan whose members purportedly “could not specify which of their constitutional rights are being peeled away.”

Acosta didn’t use any specific ideological labels to classify the militias during his report, which aired just before the bottom of the 7 am Eastern hour, but it was clear that the featured militia, the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, held right-of-center views, as its members expressed concern about gun rights, anti-Obama sentiment, and even flew the yellow Gadsden flag (with its “Don’t Tread on Me” slogan) featured at Tea Party protests.

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Midway through the report, Acosta cited how “[e]arlier this year, Mark Potok, with the Southern Poverty Law Center, put out a report warning of a surge in militia activity that came with the election of President Obama. Since that report was issued, Potok says his staff has counted 100 new militia groups across the country.” The correspondent played two clips from Potok, and in the second, the SPLC “expert” made sure to tie the militias to the wider sentiment against President Obama’s agenda: “There really is this kind of terrible fear, mixed with fury, about the idea that President Obama is somehow leading a kind of socialistic- you know, takeover of America.” Potok appeared with CNN’s Rick Sanchez in August 2009, the month his militia report was first released, and the two touted the apparent militia connection to the anti-ObamaCare town hall protests.

The CNN correspondent twice claimed near the end of the segment that “[b]esides the Second Amendment, those militia members could not specify which of their constitutional rights are being peeled away.” Anchor Kiran Chetry followed her colleague’s lead in not using any labels, but hinted that she suspected the Michigan militia group of bigotry: “When you take a look at least the group you profiled there, there’s no women and there’s no minorities.” Acosta corrected her that there were at least two women present, and continued that “the gun control issue specifically is really unrealistic in many ways, because the Obama administration knows…that it will be political suicide for them to go after gun control measures. In fact, the attorney general has indicated just recently that he’s not even going to go back to the assault weapons ban that was enacted during the Clinton administration.”

Actually, Attorney General Eric Holder did give a statement earlier in 2009 expressing the Obama administration’s desire to reinstate the Clinton-era assault weapons ban. According to a November 15, 2009 piece by Sam Youngman of The Hill, Holder “adopted a much different tone” recently in response to questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: “His response to a reporter in February, Holder claims, is not akin to ‘call[ing] for a new assault weapons ban, but rather restating the previously expressed campaign position on this issue.’” Even with this shift in “tone,” Acosta is misleading in his claim that the attorney general is “not even going to go back to the assault weapons ban,” and it appears that he and his CNN colleagues are definitely leaning towards the “extremist” label in their series’s title.

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