The Los Angeles Times (registration required) today reports on the decline of gun-totin', government-hatin', generator-buyin' militias in the US.
The article is based on today's guilty plea by Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, a far-right Christian white supremacist who also bombed two abortion clinics and a lesbian nightclub.
"The number of militia groups in the US has dwindled from a high of 858 in the mid-1990s to 152 last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Centre," the article begins. But not so fast: SPLC reckons the hate groups are still there and still militant, they simply attract less attention after September 11.
That's a fact worth remembering as survivors prepare to mark the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing next week. Timothy McVeigh's bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children. The SPLC fears that the US still faces a significant threat from home-grown terrorists.
