Posted on 01/02/2022 6:17:35 PM PST by Levy78
Is this Field Day?” I asked through my car window on a chilly, rainy April morning in central Michigan in 2008. A lone man dressed in head-to-toe camouflage, whose hand was casually resting on an AK-47 rifle strapped across his chest, nodded and stepped aside on the narrow road. I drove ahead to a parking area next to an old, red brick farmhouse and several acres of soybeans. About 50 people were gathering at a spot where the fields met a wooded bog. I was outside the village of Bancroft, at what was indeed the Michigan Militia’s annual Field Day event. The group described it as a family and public outreach opportunity, held on private land that was owned by a World War II veteran.
Wood smoke drifted through the air from a campfire; some members were already loudly joking about the unpleasantness of the weathered, tarp-covered outhouse at the site, good-naturedly bemoaning the decision to not rent portable toilets as they had done the year before. A few of the men were already tearing open MREs—meals ready to eat that are packaged, high-calorie food typically issued to soldiers but also available at military surplus stores and on eBay.
Almost all the men were wearing some degree of camouflage and were laughing as they showed off new firearms, tactical vests or other equipment and told stories about past training events. The comparatively few women and children in attendance were more subdued and usually dressed in casual clothes rather than camo. Still, most of them participated in target shooting and other activities of the day.
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Everyone should have a circle of people they can depend on. If they call those "militias" then so be it.
I agree.
I miss the days when ‘Scientific American’ left politics alone, and just reported on science.
Needs a barf alert as well.
Another liberal biased rag that capitalizes B for Black people. Riddled with inaccuracies and lies and false assumptions. How many millions of dollars did the white militias do when rioting in Portland and Minneapolis and other places?
Needs a barf alert as well.
yep, you’re right.
Antifa and BLM openly declare their intention to foment violent insurrection against America and get not a word of criticism. And get a pass from both prosecutors and the courts.
I subscribe to the Grey Man Philosophy myself.
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If the citizen miltia ever entered the picture in the near future they would have hoped it never happened.
Horse shat.
When I was younger, Scientific American actually had good scientific articles.
Now, it’s neither scientific, nor is it American.
Scientific American:
Neither Scientific, nor American.
Discuss.
Thats been almost a decade at least since it did not succumb to O’Sullivan’s Law. My guess is when the bunko climate change fraudsters took over there. Now it is neither scientific nor American.
I’m with you on that.
HA! You beat me by 40 seconds. GMTA
Because this is why people read Scientific America... tinfoil articles about tinfoil militias.
Yup. Saw a couple M-1 Abrams militia tanks patrolling I-80 right after Christmas. Idiots.
They’re all commie propaganda rags now.
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