Word: militia
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This possibility verges on the extraordinary because only 27 out 10,000 proposed constitutional amendments have ever been ratified. One might think that with the seriousness with which we treat the topic there are tens of thousands of extremist militia or political groups who go out each night and have flag-burning events. Not exactly. The number of actual incidents involving a physical desecration of the flag is paltry, and of so little interest to the public that the media does not publicize such occurrences...
...minds since we were in elementary school: The signal from Boston's Old North Church--"one if by land, two if by sea"; the midnight rides of Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott to warn the countryside that "the British are coming"; and, of course, the rebel militia at Concord North Bridge who fired at British troops after the "Shot Heard Round The World...
...capital, the rebels rearmed and, village by village, began terrorizing the countryside. For the better part of a year, ECOMOG has struggled to stamp out the fiercely violent brushfires. Nigerian Alpha jets have streaked through the skies of Sierra Leone bombing rebel hideouts. Tens of thousands of village-based militia--traditional hunters called kamajors--have stalked the jungles battling R.U.F. forces. But the Nigerians have discovered that the rebel fire seems to be nearly inextinguishable. Hopes for negotiations have been blocked by rebel demands for the release of Corporal Foday Sankoh, an R.U.F. leader who had been captured and sentenced...
...phone interview. He did remove references of "the mosque as a site of [terrorist activity], because that [was] the kind of potentially inflammatory thing that I didn't want to do. But, some of their suggestions were preposterous, such as changing the antagonist to be a group of domestic militia. 'Thank you very much, but not only have we already shot the movie, but you can make that movie, that's not the movie I'm making...
...reaction was immediate. The next day, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, spiritual leader of Iran, called Arafat a "traitor" and a Zionist "lackey." Hassan Nasrallah, spiritual leader of Hizballah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, followed suit, suggesting that Palestinians assassinate Arafat, just as Egyptian radicals had killed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In a leaflet faxed to reporters, the military wing of Hamas, breaking with its practice of eschewing internecine violence, accused Arafat of treason and warned that its activists, if pushed, might "direct their war and guns, out of necessity," against the Palestinian Authority...