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To: FreeSouthernAmerican
Militia is not accounted for by Paramilitary???

No way! Paramilitary dresses up like regulars and runs drills and exercizes.

The militia is all the people!

"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, ... all men capable of bearing arms;..."
— "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788 (either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
— Tench Coxe, 1788.

USC Title 10, Chapter 13
Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are -

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Welcome to the militia!

48 posted on 07/17/2009 11:20:47 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: TC Rider
No way! Paramilitary dresses up like regulars and runs drills and exercizes.


49 posted on 07/17/2009 11:34:52 AM PDT by WVKayaker (Even stumbling blocks can be used for re-construction - Ernst R. Hauschka)
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To: TC Rider
No way! Paramilitary dresses up like regulars and runs drills and exercizes.

Actually it's forces not part of the regular and reserve military establish ment. establishment. Like the BATFE, FBI HRT, and various SWAT units.

They of course do dress up and run drills, but some of the militia does that too.

In addtion to your federal definition of militia, each state has it's own definition. In Texas it's ages 18-60 and, as in most states, includes women.

65 posted on 07/17/2009 3:05:06 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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