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deadlybombing atthe Oklahoma
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fear a federal conspiracy to de
stroy them.
Ofthe numerous militias in the
nation, which are formed prima
rily out of distrust of the govern
ment, only the Michigan Militia
RACE MATTERS
Suicideratesforyoungblack
males rise, study indicates
B Easy access to
handguns among
leading causes of
increased suicide in
state’s youth.
By AJ. Hostetler
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA
It’s one of the first things 16-
year-old Brandy Bozeman asks
students troubled by thoughts
of suicide: Do you have a gun?
“Weapons aresoreadily avail
able,” the junior at Campbell
High School in suburban At
lanta explained Thursday.
Getting rid of the gun, knife
or pills is the first thing she
does to try to prevent another
suicide.
Suicide rates of young chil
dren, particularly black male
teens, have skyrocketed since
the 1980 s, and easy access to
guns is partly to blame, Cen
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has been investigated for possible
links to the bombing.
However, all such organizations
have been lumped together as one
in the same, and even the least
threatening, most poorly organized
In the aftermath of the Oklahoma bombing,
the nation is waking up to peer into
the looking-glass and see the enemy
in its own reflection. The anti-immigration,
anti-government, xenophobic ’9os patriot has
his roots in 18th-century Americanism.
And while conservatives scramble
to distance themselves from the violent
methods of their white separatist cousins,
they share many of the same beliefs.
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THE CONSPIRACY
Perhaps the view shared by most all of the extreme
right-wing groups from the most defensive minded to the
most aggressive is the view that the federal government
is determined to press until all individual liberties grant
ed by the United States Constitution are usurped.
Feared most is the One World Government, in cahoots
See CONSPIRACY, page 6
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T'HE LITERATURE
The Turner Diaries, written in 1978 by William Pierce, an
Atlanta native, and founder of the neo-Hitlerian organiza
tion, the National Alliance, demonstrates clearly the mindset
of the more extreme right-wing militants. It's theme is some
what prophetic in the wake of the Oklahoma city bombing.
The novel opensin 1991. Itisthe diary of Earl Turner, a 35-
year-old white racist revolutionary. Turner records how a
band of white supremacists form an underground paramili
tary movement, known as The Organization, and institute a
murderous campaign to overthrow the American govern
ment and purify the land of “mongrel” races. Innumerable
Jews, blacks and white women are killed along the way.
The Organization sees the FBI as one of its greatest
See TURNER's DIARY, page 6
“We believe very
strongly that guns
around children are
ticking fime
bombs.”
, — Gwen Fitzgeraid,
The Center to Prevent
Handgun Violence.
ters for Disease Control and Pre
vention reported Thursday.
The suicide rate for 10- to 14-
year-olds rose 120 percent from
1980 to 1992, from .8 per 100,000
to 1.7. Therate for 15- to 19-year
olds rose 28.3 percent, from 8.5 to
10.9, according to the CDC.
Guns are the means of more
than 50 percent of those under
25.
“We believe very strongly that
guns around children are ticking
time bombs,” said Gwen
Fitzgerald of the Center to Pre
vent Handgun Violence.
Last year, three of Brandy’s
groups with dnly a handful of mem
bers are being scrutinized.
For example, as many as 100 peo
ple may be listed on a particula
See MILITIA, page 6
friends killed themselves, one
with a gun. Brandy had previ
ouslytried tokill herself, by hang
ingand thenby slitting her wrists.
She says now she was calling for
help.
“Everybody drops hints because
everybody wants help. No one
really wants to kill themselves,”
she said.
Brandy now uses her own ex
perience to help her advise her
peers. She participates in a Cobb
County school program which
uses students trained to recog
nize troubled peers and encour
age them to.accept help.
~ Unlike many adult suicides,
most children whokillthemselves
are too young to have a history of
depression. Suicidal children of
ten abuse drugs, act aggressive
ly, have family problems or suf
fer from stress.
Dr. Alex T. Crosby of the CDC
noted that while suicides have
increased among younger chil
dren, suicide attempts have not.
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treated unfairly by
white supervisors,
resignation letter
implies.
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
A Bush Field Airport em
ployee turned himself in
April 20 to the Augusta Po
lice Department on charges
of simple assault - simple
battery of another airport
employee while on the job.
According to a police re
port filed April 18 by the
victim, Miller Jenkins,
Charles Childers forcibly
threw a large piece of wood
at him, striking him in his
face and causing a bruise
over his right eye.
Bush Field Manager Steve
Atha said the incident,
which occurred in February
inthe airport’s maintenance
shop, received proper atten
tion from supervisors.
“We started an investiga
tion to look into the intent,”
Mr. Atha said. “Was it acci
dental, or was it intention
al; those are the kinds of
things we tried to find out.”
Despite Mr. Jenkins’
claims, the only disciplin
ELEVENTH DISTRICT
Guidance, justice
desired most in
high court ruling
M Civil rights leaders,
McKinney vow that
the clock will not be
turned back to pre-
Voting-Rights days.
By David Pace
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court show
down last Wednesday over
Georgia’s congressional dis
trict map left the state look
ing for guidance, blacks look
ing for justice and the white
voters who initiated thefight
looking for new district lines.
“We’re caught between two
competing demands, the de
mands of the Justice Depart
ment and the way the court
seems to want to go,” Attor
ney General Mike Bowers
said after the justices con
cluded an hour of spirited
arguments. “We need guid
ance.”
The high court could use
the Georgia case to change
how the Justice Department
uses the 1965 Voting Rights
Act to force the creation of
election districts that benefit
minorities.
“Itis a watershed case,” said
Lee Parks of Atlanta, attor
ney for the white voters who
ary action taken was a lec
ture on shop safety and a
warning letter to both par
ties. Mr. Jenkins was also
reprimanded for failing to
report to work the day af
ter his injury.
“This was a case of one
employee claiming he
tossed a piece of material
at another, and the other
saying he threw it at him,”
Mr. Atha said.
In an April 14 letter of
resignation obtained by
Augusta Focus, Mr.
Jenkins, who is black, ad
dressed several points of
displeasure on his job of 25
years, including preferen
tial treatment based on
race. He cited the injury
he sustained from his su
pervisor, whois white, and
how it was handled as his
“main concern.”
Mr. Jenkins’ letter stat
ed that airport manage
ment handled his situation
poorly, and he hoped “fu
tureemployees get treated
better than that.”
Mr. Childers, who was
released on a $1,050 bond
about three hours after
turning himself in, will be
assigned a court date this
week.
If found guilty of the
charges, Mr. Childers fac
esamaximum jail sentence
of 12 months and/or a
SI,OOO fine.
won a lower court ruling
last year against Georgia’s
majority-black 11th Dis
trict.
“It will be the first time
the court has gotten beyond
the blanket deference we
have given the Department
of Justice in matters involv
ing the Voting Rights Act,”
he said.
Justices David Souter and
Sandra Day O’Connor both
questioned Solicitor Gener
al Drew Days 111 sharply
aboutthe department’srole
inthe Georgia Legislature’s
approval of the redistrict
ing plan that prompted the
court challenge.
The plan, with three ma
jority-black districts, was
enacted only after federal
lawyers had rejected two
earlier plans that included
only two majority-black dis
tricts.
“The United States De
partment of Justice drove
this plan to the point ofirra
tionality,” Parks said.
He suggested that the
court require that before a
district plan couldbethrown
out, there must be a show
ing that race was used with
no compelling reason as the
predominant factorin aleg
islative redistricting deci-
See COURT, page 2
