Word: militiaization
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Washington -- The U.S. is in a race with Russia to develop high-speed underwater projectiles. Russian researchers are said to have accelerated such projectiles at 4,270 ft. per sec.; now militia sources confirm that the U.S. NAVY has a program to fire underwater projectiles at 4,760 ft. per sec. -- near the speed of sound. If they actually work, these 007-like weapons would greatly affect the strategy for any future below-the-sea conflict...
...front lines of the Serbs and the Muslim-led Bosnian forces are not changing, and now U.N. peacekeepers are moving between, freezing them in place. In fact, the trenches manned by the two sides may one day become boundaries for the partition of the city that the Serb militia is determined to achieve...
...weapon is a felony, and you can stop someone just as easily with a shotgun. What can you do with a handgun that you can't do with a rifle? You can still hunt with a rifle, join a shooting club, stop a burglar, or even join a revolutionary militia. Perhaps you can't open a drawer and blow a hole in your spouse's chest in a wild fit of rage, but might regret having done that afterwards...
Though the N.R.A. says its resistance to gun control is just an assertion of something that the Constitution already forbids, judges have never read the Second Amendment to prohibit most gun control. "The Second Amendment is about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case...
Washington -- Although they wonUt say so publicly, some Clinton Administration officials are convinced -- along with Jesse Helms -- that exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide did in fact order the 1991 murder of Roger Lafontant, a thuggish Duvalier militia leader. One senior policymaker says the murder allegation was mentioned in the State Department human-rights report on Haiti "because we believe it to be true." However, even these officials support the reinstatement of Aristide as Haiti's President, believing the continued rule of the Haitian military is a far more terrible prospect...