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Are the Armed Men in Oregon Religious Fanatics?

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    Brand Thornton, one of the militia that has taken over the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon.

    Scott Carrier is a Peabody award winning radio journalist who takes the time to really interview and listen to folks other journalist tend to not take seriously. Like those men in Oregon who are occupying federal land. Anne Strainchamps asked Scott what the men there were like.

    The core of the occupiers are Mormon. "They're getting directions from God," Carrier says.

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