Word: militiaization
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...years earlier, had attracted thousands of adherents, but they had been pushed out of one frontier town after another and ejected from Missouri under threat of death. Yet within three years the new town of Nauvoo boasted 1,500 log homes and shops and 350 brick buildings. Its militia counted 4,000 men, roughly half the size of the U.S. Army at the time. Its visual and spiritual centerpiece was to be a magnificent white limestone temple, with a 165-ft. steeple visible for miles...
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to do the right thing and withdraw troops from southern Lebanon to within Israel's recognized borders, he warned that the Lebanese militia Hizballah would intensify its attacks and make it look as if it had won a war, but this possibility did not deter Barak from carrying out his plan. Nevertheless, almost all the news media interpreted the withdrawal as a defeat for Israel and did not give a balanced view. With Israel located in a region that is the focal point of the three major religions, I guess Barak is damned...
...verdict: Whatever it is, it holds little promise for anyone. Caddell's scaled-down case has already irked the militia types - in conspiracy theory, there are no mistakes - and a guilty verdict will only whet their appetites further. Exoneration would do little to repair the Justice Department's damaged reputation. Afterward, the town of Waco will still be infamous, and wishing the Branch Davidians had picked someplace in Montana to make their stand. And no matter how hard Caddell and the Davidians try to turn a tragedy into a crime, the dead will still be dead, and men like David...
...Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself sharing his Fijian counterpart's fate. Gunmen from a tribal militia have taken Bartholomew Ulufa'alu hostage and forced him to announce his retirement. And although the two territories are thousands of miles apart, the link between Speight's actions and those of the Malaita Eagle Force in the Solomon Islands is unmistakable - both are the result of ethnic tensions that...
...Founding Fathers gave the militia, not the individual, the right to bear arms. Moms marching against gun violence are to be applauded for standing up against the all-powerful gun lobby. JONATHAN TAN San Francisco...