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Most of us here, from what I can tell, aren't rambo types.

If you're keen to the signs you can pick up on militia chatter that agencies miss.

I mean you get a group of guys talking in a store, or you see em in the parking lot and one has a walkie talkie on his belt. Okay, security? Except they don't work at that store. And two of the guys saluted the older dude?
And he carries himself like ex-military?
And they all get into their vehicles and drive in a 3 vehicle caravan in the direction of the gun range?

And one of them you know was just in the store buying brass?

Okay, maybe an instructor or a group exercise, or competition shooting.

But the older guy doesn't work at the gun range. And why the hell is he being saluted? Maybe former vets, or subordinates? Thats reasonable.

But the two pickups have ATVs in them. So its a hunting group?

But they're not in hunting camos. They're in tshirts and fatigues.

By itself that wouldn't matter, except for all the other details.

But maybe its just nat guard guys?

But you've seen national guard guys, and they don't move like that or carry themselves like this group does.
Not all of them are young, they're obvious different backgrounds age wise, build-wise, and more.


So who are they? Well, thats a militia. Not as disciplined as a military unit in how they scan the environment, a little overeager but otherwise sober, not as attentive to the environment. And you're familiar with every militia in the area, and they're not part of any group you're aware of. They're invisible except for they're gathering places.

And it helps when you see them all putting their cellphones into a mylar bag in a fucking walmart parking lot.

They're what I called a dark militia. They didn't meet online, and somehow have stayed off the radar.

tl;dr

You have to be a very sharp study of people.
What I've highlighted is just one example, but people that are part of those groups have tells, the way they carry themselves, the topics they engage in (not the ones you would think of), their interests, what they like to buy, where they shop (also not were you would suspect). And when you get to know some of them, because you've seen them around town, and you get talking to them, eventually you find out you were right, and that makes it easier to spot others.

My area has three militias.

A city out on the eastern half of my state has more than a few as well. Most of them are more mutual aid organizations, but the relevant thing is that they've somehow stayed off the radar, and most of them are third position (neither left nor right). In other words the militia movement, despite the feds best efforts to divide people, is experiencing an integration of the left and the right, and they're teaching each other what they know, how to exercise association without state suppression/bust-up tactics, how to manage and keep communications dark, etc.

These are people that understand how the federal government has been infiltrating and breaking up/framing/sowing doubt among activists, NGOs, political parties, and other organizations. They've grown wise to the methods and tactics and every time I look I stumble on another group that I almost missed because they've gotten more sophisticated since the last one I encountered. I make efforts to understand these dynamics, because having connections to journalists, to militias, to the right, and the left, gives me heads-up on developments, and a bigger picture view on the evolution of events.

Rambo is a foolish way to go. A lot of people are exercising their right to form militias, and it makes a whole lot more sense for community defense than anything else.