From Baader to worse

The headline this morning in a local newspaper read:

Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops

It was an Associated Press piece, by Corey Williams and Devlin Barrett. From Detroit, their first paragraph colorfully reported:

Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral—all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S. government.

    "Reminds me of the Baader Meinhof group," my wife said. That German terrorist organization, which became known as the Red Army Faction, operated blood (and sex) lustfully during the 1970's. Their exploits were graphically depicted in the 2008 feature film, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (but didn't win). We watched it Sunday night. That's Andreas Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin [the actors playing them] featured in the graphic.
    I'd forgotten that all of the principals had committed suicide in prison, had even told my wife before we started to watch that I thought one of them was still incarcerated. Not so, Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself first, after her estrangement from the others. The others ended their lives too (variously on the same day, in separate cells, if the impression of the film is to be believed), after it became clear that the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, chairman of the German Employers' Organization, and the hijacking of a Lufthansa aircraft, carried out by their cohorts at large, weren't going to win their release.
    Our "Christian" brethren will probably just wait for the rapture.