[BP2]

Militia Groups = Idiots EVERYTIME!

When these stooges assemble, wherever they form a group, they should realize the odds are their group has an informant or informants.

If your point is “loose lips sinks ships,” that part is as true today as in the days we first declared independent against Tyranny.

Many historians believe Patriot Nathan Hale ("I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.") was hung in September 1776 after his Loyalist cousin, Samuel Hale, revealed Nathan's true identity to the British in New York.

However, being a member of a Militia is a Constitutionally-protected right, part of the Second Amendment.

In the DC v. Heller (2008) opinion, Justice Scalia clarified many important concepts regarding the Militia and the Second Amendment, such as this on pages 24-25:

There are many reasons why the militia was thought to be “necessary to the security of a free state.” See 3 Story §1890. First, of course, it is useful in repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections. Second, it renders large standing armies unnecessary—an argument that Alexander Hamilton made in favor of federal control over the militia. The Federalist No. 29, pp. 226, 227 (B. Wright ed. 1961) (A. Hamilton). Third, when the able-bodied men of a nation are trained in arms and organized, they are better able to resist tyranny.

If the charges against Hutaree true, it's folly and morally-wrong to condone their planned action.

BUT, part of the reason the Framers gave us the Second Amendment (and the Militia) is to leverage against the Government, to ensure the rights of the First Amendment would never fade away.

The Government SHOULD fear The People, not the other way around. It's a primary means to secure The People's rights and that those rights aren't swept away like we've seen time and time again in nations where the citizens are NOT allowed to own arms and maintain a Militia.

Furthermore, if the Government oversteps its authority and tiptoes on TYRANNY — like many agree that it IS — the power of The People and their ability "to keep and bear arms" cannot — again, CANNOT — be viewed by the Government as an EMPTY THREAT.

These Rights to "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State ... to keep and bear arms" were given to The People to use by our Founding Fathers, as the Founding Fathers had to secure and EXERCISE those rights against TYRANNY themselves.

[Anti-Bubba182]

These people are NOT what the founders had in mind.

Their Militia is an excuse for the Government to crack down on gun owners and protesters. This is a small group of idiots playing right into the the hands of the people they say they are against.

[Eagleburger]

I don’t get it. Why is everyone falling all over themselves to make excuses for these jackasses? Are there any other aspiring cop-killers you’d all like to make excuses for?

We talk about liberals providing aid and comfort to terrorists, but I guess if the terrorists claim to be Christians, we’ll go to bat for them.

I don’t care if the organization was infiltrated and it was really the feds that suggested this course of action. Anyone who hears a suggestion to kill cops and doesn’t immediately say “get the hell out of here” deserves whatever happens to them. The fact that we don’t like this president doesn’t change any of that.