The author after just being given a high-powered rifle with zero training. All photos by David McDougall
"First of all, if your country is in a civil war you stay there to fight," Lee Miracle told me at the kitchen table of his town home somewhere near Detroit. He's a Michigan militiamen and I asked him to elaborate on why his group rejects the idea of Syrian refugees coming to his state.
"You don't leave old people and little kids and women behind, and these refugees—you can see all of the footage—these are generally fighting-age males," he said before explaining exactly how he feels. "What we should do is install them some testicles and send them back."
By all appearances, Lee is a taxpaying citizen, a very caring and providing father to his children—even if his multiple firearms and libertarian views clash with the mainstream. Miracle also happens to be a member of a militia who the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)—a nonprofit foundation judiciously tracking militias and a smorgasbord of white power and hate groups across America—keeps its eye on.
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