AUT: CAROLYN CHUTE

["Curtis Price" <cansv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the original article on Chute's militia, which I saved.

Curtis


<h1>"Second Maine Militia" Formed - Opposes the Undermining of
Democracy by Corporations</h1>

According to the Boston Sunday Globe, Feb 11, 1996 [page 46], a
woman<br>
named Carolyn Chute in Parsonsfield, Maine has formed a militia
intended<br>
to oppose corporate domination of America
This seems to be a distinctly different sort of "militia" from the
moreeconomicaly conservative ones ("patriot" movement, NRA, "Bo" Duke
Michigain Militia, etc.), or the more enigmatic,
conspiracy-fearingmilitias (Linda Thompson, Waco revenge, etc.)
Carolyn is a 48 year old writer... her books include "Merry Men",
"Letourneau's Used Auto Parts", and "The Beans of Egypt, Maine"
Her husband, Michael, works as a caretaker for a local cemetary.

The first meeting of the "Second Maine Militia" was on Jan. 27...
cancelled by rain, but 30 people showed up anyway.

Carolyn appears to be a firey, intelligent woman with a strong belief
in
the democracy which the founding fathers (supposedly) intended...
a system where corporations were not considered "individuals"
and did not have the rights of the country's citizens.  Her focus is
on the neglected poor and working class of her native land.
Though the article in the Globe emphasized an "armed" orientation,
in reality the members of the meeting did not bring guns with them,
and the organizations' tactics, far from draconian, include
marching to the capital, pickets, and possibly getting arrested
in political protest and civil disobediance.  But Chute is no
liberal-
in response to her less-radical critics, she said she has focused on
guns
not to advocate an armed struggle, but to attract members from the
country-
side.

 "To the people of my culture, the rural working-class people, who
still
have one foot in the old... culture, a gun, like a plow, like a
canning
jar, is only a tool," she wrote.




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