Misslizard wrote:
Mona Pereth wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
This type of cult has been tried here before and failed miserably.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entr ... lord-4031/This one will also fail.
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if indeed it turns out to be the same "type of cult."
The above-linked article describes a group called "The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord," a "militia-style" group which practiced "guerrilla warfare training" and ended up getting in trouble for criminal activity such as killing cops and preparing to poison the water supplies of several large cities. (Luckily they were busted before they managed to actually accomplish the latter.)
On the other hand, "Return to the Land" is
not described, in any articles about it that I've seen so far, as being militia-like or as having any interest in guerrilla warfare. It remains to be seen how violent, or otherwise criminal, this new group turns out to be.
Those type communities are popping up in other small rural areas and they aren’t hiding their agenda.
I wouldn’t trust them further than I could throw them.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newsc ... their-cityI certainly wouldn't "trust them" either.
But I was addressing a more specific question: whether this group will "fail" in the same way that "The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord," did, by being busted for violent criminal activity and/or plans for same. That's not something we can know at this point.
I certainly agree that these groups are bad news,
even if they don't have plans to poison the water supplies of large cosmopolitan cities.
Alas, we can't take for granted that these groups will "fail." Hopefully there are enough people in those regions who are willing and able to resist takeover attempts by these groups.
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