The Patriot
A REPORTER AT LARGE about John Pitner, and the militia movement... Writer tells about meeting Pitner for the first time in 1996, about four months before…
"'Yup, that's me, give me liberty or give me death,' he'd say, after a thoughtful pause that seemed to suggest that, whatever you might have heard to the contrary, the phrase, along with the sentiment, was his." — the militia commander