Talk:Aryan Republican Army

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Several OKC witnesses insisted Brescia is John Doe 2. One famiy even filed a lawsuit to that effect circa 1997. Kwantus 04:13, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Did the FBI think Kenneth Trentadue was part of this group? Kwantus 20:14, 2005 May 26 (UTC)

Is there a source for the "elite military experience" the article mentions? "Elite military experience" reads as if he served US Special Operations Forces in some capacity. I did some googling, and could not find any mentions of military service, let alone service within the SOF community. Is this a mistake, if so, it more than likely is a reference to the paramilitary training he received from members of the Aryan Republican Army.

Here's the exact line taken from the 3rd paragraph, 2nd line. "The sheriff said the Secret Service were seeking the man's help in another investigation involving Michael William Brescia, a member of the Midwest Bank Robbers who is said to have elite military experience."

"Brescia's primary interaction with the right wing militia movement appears to have been spawned by a teenage interest in racist skinhead music." Does anyone else find this a little far fetched? It just seems to me to be an unsourced attack stating that certain types of music caused this man to become a racist criminal. Perhaps change it to merely state he had a teenage interest in racist skinhead music, without calling it the cause of his joining the right wing milita movement. Vindexus 08:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

"Midwest Bank Robbers?"
It seems ridiculous for this article to be entitled "Midwest Bank Robbers." While the FBI may have chosen to reference this case by that rather banal title that could be applied to doubtless scores of other cases, at the time the crimes were being committed, they were widely reported to be the work of "the Aryan Republican Army," and the robbers perceived themselves to be operating in the capacity of members of the Aryan Republican Army. It seems the only purpose calling this article "Midwest Bank Robbers" could possibly serve, is in order to make it difficult for people interested in the Aryan Republican Army to be able to find the article. I can't imagine any person sitting down and typing "Midwest Bank Robbers," in the hope of finding the information this article contains, while I'm sure many people have been surprised to type in "Aryan Republican Army," only to discover there is no Wikipedia article about that organization. Actually, there is such an article, but it has been ridiculously given the wrong name, whether out of ignorance, or (as I suspect) PC sensibilities gone wild. I shall be changing this soon, I imagine (but not until I find some additional evidentiary citations with which to beef up this article overall). KevinOKeeffe (talk) 01:37, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Pronouns changing history
Peter’s name was changed to Donna long after being imprisoned. By referring to Peter as Donna throughout makes it seems like a woman was the leader of the Aryan Republican Army. As this was not the case the article is misleading and confusing. Whatever this person’s concept of their true authentic self was at time they committed the crimes they were convicted of, no one referred to them as Donna.

I think the article would be better to just refer to “Peter (now known as Donna)”, acknowledging their change of gender without changing history. 72.132.38.106 (talk) 04:08, 20 August 2022 (UTC)