Word: militiaization
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...determined. A senior executive at Texaco was found not to have referred to African-American employees as "niggers," as had been reported. The burning of black churches in the South was found not to have been the work of organized bigots, as had been reported. The arrest of a militia group in Montana did not end in a shoot...
...what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from Bob Dole to Macaulay Culkin (who gave I don't think so its big push by uttering it twice in the top box-office hit of 1990, Home Alone). The militia code name for a possible counterattack on the feds? "Project Worst Nightmare." The would-be zinger in the G.O.P.'s last-minute ads warning against Democratic control of both Congress and the White House? "Been there, done that...
...epic influx of refugees was made up mostly of Hutu civilians who fled Rwanda in 1994, fearing reprisal for the genocide deaths of 800,000 Tutsi at the hands of the Hutu-led government. For two years the Hutu had huddled in Zairean camps, prevented from returning by Hutu militia who controlled them through savage intimidation. When Tutsi-led Zairean rebels routed the Hutu tormentors two weeks ago, the refugees fled home. In their midst, however, were thousands--perhaps even tens of thousands--of the extremists who had organized and taken part in the butchery of 1994. Some of those...
...second amendment reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." This legislation was written in 1791, when our fledgling republic still had no regular army or stable government and was desperately afraid of losing its newly-found freedom to a foreign power. Today, we have a well-regulated militia--the U.S. armed forces--a stable government and hundreds of kids dying from gunshot wounds. Yet the gun lobby is desperate to carry the second amendment to the absurdity of letting...
...teacher than experience; after skimming the NRA's web site I know more about the organization, but ironically I understand less. This is the way of the world, I guess. There are some things we can never comprehend, no matter how hard we try. I wonder if the Michigan Militia has a home page...