Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 11:04:19 AM EST
The year was 1963. The month: March. Minutemen founder Robert DePugh, writing in his publication On Target, which had a masthead that featured a telescope gunsight's crosshairs superimposed over the magazine's name, branded twenty Congress members who had voted to de-fund the House Un-American Activities Committee: "Judases". DePugh's March On Target issue contained the following:
"TRAITORS BEWARESee the old man at the corner where you buy your paper? He may have a silencer equipped pistol under his coat. That extra fountain pen in the pocket of the insurance salesman that calls on you might be a cyanide-gas gun. What about your milkman? Arsenic works slow but sure. Your auto mechanic may stay up nights studying booby traps.
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