State Report Linking Groups to Militia's is SHUT DOWN
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Story Created:
Mar 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Mar 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM CDT
The head of the Missouri Highway Patrol has shut down a controversial report linking right-wing groups with the modern militia movement.
The report by the Missouri Information Analysis Center portrays
militia members as commonly associated with fundamental Christian,
anti-abortion and anti-immigration movements. It also says members
are usually supporters of various third-party presidential candidates.
Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder on Wednesday called on the director of the
Public Safety Department to be placed on administrative leave
pending an investigation of the report.
Kinder argues conservative groups are being unfairly singled
out. He noted the report does not include extreme environmental
groups or domestic terror groups associated with fundamentalist
Muslims.
The Department of Public Safety has apologized to third-party
candidates and has promised to reissue the report without their
names.
Wednesday, Highway Patrol Superintendent James Keathley
said he has halted distribution of the report to law enforcement
agencies. Keathley said he is creating a new system in which he and
Public Safety Department Director John Britt will review future
reports before they are released.
from the Associated Press
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