Posted on 10/21/2002 5:54:44 PM PDT by tarawa
Pretty much describes most freepers.
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security." -- Thomas Jefferson
What if our own government decided to use smallpox germ warfare against us? I have thought lately and wondered why our government even has biological and chemical weapons.
I think Goldwater originally said EXTREMEISM instead of Radicalism. Nonetheless I agree with you.
About ten years ago when I taught at the middle school level instead of my current high school all those liberal teachers had been reading my anti-Clinton pro 2nd Amendment articles to the editor and somebody once asked me in the teachers lunch area if I was a member of a militia? The whole crowd held their breath and waited for my answer:
"Naaaaaw, but not because I disagree with what they say...but only because they really can't teach me anything I don't already know!" The look on their faces was priceless!
70+ armed federal agents show up to arrest four people inside the church... that's not a 'hint'?
IIRC, the MI and KY militias had more than IN, asking if they were needed. Maybe the author is combining the numbers of all 3?
I if any will return when TSHTF. There won't be much left in the world worth defending if they don't.
It took 6000 years of nation-state history for a society to found the first system where the governing body is small, well-defined, answerable to the people, checked-and-balanced agaist itself, and dedicated to the rights of the individual rather than the whims of the majority or some 'elite' fools. There was no guarantee that the experiment would ever get started. There was no guarantee that it would ever stay safe. There is no guarantee that we will ever see another in the next 6000 years... or 60,000. More than just 270 million Americans will be in peril if we forget why this nation is so critically important.
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