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U.S. militias not ready to lay down arms under Trump
The Toronto Star ^ | June 12, 2017 | Lisa Marie Pane, The Associated Press

Posted on 06/12/2017 1:28:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

JACKSON, GA.—In the woods south of Atlanta, John and Yvette DeMaria are with about a dozen camouflage-wearing, heavily armed Americans huffing and puffing as they scramble to navigate the sprawling piece of property where they train, one weekend a month, to ward off enemies — foreign or domestic.

The DeMarias are with the Georgia Security Force militia, whose members are relieved that Donald Trump won the presidency but believe it would be a mistake to lay down their arms just because he is in the White House. So they continue to take to the woods to be ready for whatever may come, whether it’s an economic crisis that spawns unrest or Islamic extremists carrying out attacks on American soil.....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; georgia; militia; trump
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1 posted on 06/12/2017 1:28:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. Why would they? Militias are a hedge against a corrupt government. ANY corrupt government.
2. Trump never asked them to.


2 posted on 06/12/2017 1:30:35 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Digging deep into their “bag of enemies” to scare the “normies”.

90’s the militia was the big, bad enemy that had to be watched.
00’s they had Bush, Bush, Bush.
early 10’s they had the Tea Party
Now they are deciding to bring the “scary white guys, with guns” back out because the “Trump, Russia, Alt-Right, Racists” isn’t working.


3 posted on 06/12/2017 1:35:15 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Huh? Does the author somehow think that militias are political party affiliated? The public education system has failed us.


4 posted on 06/12/2017 1:36:09 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mmmm, they're about as trusting of the feds as I am. Constitutional Rights, use them or lose them
5 posted on 06/12/2017 1:36:46 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any “journalist” who cites Southern Poverty Law Center as a credible and respected source of information deserves to have the daylights beaten out of them.


6 posted on 06/12/2017 1:37:20 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
” . . . about a dozen camouflage-wearing, heavily armed Americans . . .”

After reading the article, and only seeing mention of “AR-15s and handguns”, I conclude the people were lightly armed.

Lightly armed but well armed.

7 posted on 06/12/2017 1:39:02 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: SJSAMPLE

And Trump will not be around but 4 years, 8 at most, then who knows who will be in. The way the stinking DumbOcrats of the RINO party are going, the House changes next year, and then the Senate. Then the president could be next because they have all failed to carry through with every lie they told us.


8 posted on 06/12/2017 1:39:07 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Believe or not, we R in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! RU saved?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Militias are a good thing. I trust them much more than the Islamic terrorist training camps that’s in this country.


9 posted on 06/12/2017 1:41:57 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The entire premise is wrong.

Militias are far more likely to come to the aid of a beleaguered Trump in the course of a coup attempt.

The Militias are mostly Trump supporters.


10 posted on 06/12/2017 1:43:02 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; windcliff; stylecouncilor

WTH?

“To arms! To arms!”

Always, “To arms!”


11 posted on 06/12/2017 1:44:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America’s militia marched side by side with General George Washington.

MAGA!


12 posted on 06/12/2017 1:45:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (When you have covfefe you don't need anything else.)
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To: marktwain

The article agrees with you. The article’s assumption was that since the majority of militia members are thought to be Trump supporters, they were expected to fade away after the election of “one of their own”, and yet they’re not. They’re not fading away not because they don’t trust Trump, but because they apparently believe (with justification, IMHO) that there is still plenty of threat to Liberty out there.


13 posted on 06/12/2017 1:46:13 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doesn’t matter who is in the White House.

The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms.

And it is a deterrent against rouge politicians.


14 posted on 06/12/2017 1:46:42 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: onedoug

La Marseillaise - English lyrics

Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts

To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows

What do they want this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings?
For whom these vile chains
These long-prepared irons?
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What methods must be taken?
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!

What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would cut down our warrior sons
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brow would yield under the yoke
The vile despots would have themselves be
The masters of destiny

Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward
Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors
Bear or hold back your blows
Spare these sad victims
That they regret taking up arms against us
But not these bloody despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who pitilessly
Ripped out their mothers’ wombs

We too shall enlist
When our elders’ time has come
To add to the list of deeds
Inscribed upon their tombs
We are much less jealous of surviving them
Than of sharing their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
Of avenging or joining them

Drive on sacred patriotism
Support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished liberty
Join the struggle with your defenders
Under our flags, let victory
Hurry to your manly tone
So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!


15 posted on 06/12/2017 1:46:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Militia districts of Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1786:

It was a requirement that you joined and drilled in the militia units back then.

16 posted on 06/12/2017 1:52:00 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mireille Mathieu singing La Marseillaise (with lyrics)

https://youtu.be/SIxOl1EraXA


17 posted on 06/12/2017 2:00:11 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: Regulator

Men 17 to 55 right?


18 posted on 06/12/2017 2:02:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Fai Mao

Roberto Alagna - La Marseillaise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXstOweChc


19 posted on 06/12/2017 2:03:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Tilted Irish Kilt

That would be no foresight.

The present situation can last at best 8 years.

It’s foolish to think that someday we’re not going to need the training again.

Better to stay in readiness than to have to retrain and gain lost knowledge again.

Then the enemy will find us unprepared and easy pickings.


20 posted on 06/12/2017 2:04:42 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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