And it's part of a trend, Mick, of former terrorist groups and cultists emerging from the shadows and gaining power and respectability.

Baader Meinof members are stacking the firearms regulatory commission in Bavaria, the Red Brigades have members on Rome's tourist bureau, and at this very moment, the Symbionese Liberation Army is in a run-off with The Weather Underground for a seat on the Berkeley (California) School Board! Even long thought dead cults are reemerging. The athletic shoe afficionado Hale Bopp cultists are duking it out with the last remaining Shaker devotee (she's 103) for a spot on the Canterbury (New Hampshire) Historical Society. 

Peter T.