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beardown

(363 posts)
13. Sounds like you have a problem with the first amendment too
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 11:30 AM
Oct 2015

So ban or burn the Anarchist's Cookbook? It's out there.

While the militia part was added to enhance (boy did that go wrong) the reasoning of the individual right to bear arms, let's go ahead with your militia theme as the key part of the 2nd.

Heavier military type weapons are available and owned by private citizens, but it takes a butt-load of paperwork and money to do so. The 'well regulated' part of your own militia canard.

What could a militia do that the military can't do? Be in every little town and major crossroads. Be a thousand eyes and ears. Throw a monkey wrench into every unprotected gear or supply demo. Provide detailed local intel when the US military shows up to stop the bad guys. For some strange reason, the Allies in WW II went to great lengths to keep the various occupied militias (resistance) in existence during the course of the war.

Ever read any Alexander Solzhenitsyn?

What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”



Defense against what? Human101948 Oct 2015 #1
I don't think the army of the crown wore jackboots in those days but if you're referring to Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #3
Certainly they killed British officers and troops as members of a militia or army... Human101948 Oct 2015 #12
All of them. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #14
A unique reinterpretation of history... Human101948 Oct 2015 #17
Who formed the Continental Congress? Who appointed the officers? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #18
They were not self-appointed... Human101948 Oct 2015 #21
The colonies had no legal authority to appoint them. The colonies belonged to the Crown. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #22
It was not a group of unorganized individuals... Human101948 Oct 2015 #23
No, they were not unorganized. They were self-organized. Even anarchists do that. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #31
Know your history... sarisataka Oct 2015 #26
It is not applicable today upaloopa Oct 2015 #2
The idea of a free state has no place in the modern world? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #4
The idea of citizen-militias with rifles defending a 21st century First-World country. DetlefK Oct 2015 #6
You mean like Vietnam, Afghanistan or Cuba? DonP Oct 2015 #7
"...the right of the people to keep and bear explosives shall not be infringed." DetlefK Oct 2015 #9
Common misconception sarisataka Oct 2015 #10
Sounds like you have a problem with the first amendment too beardown Oct 2015 #13
And the purpose of the militia is to secure "a free state" -- not "the state." Hence the OP. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #15
The Swiss aren't prepping to wage war against their own country. DetlefK Oct 2015 #25
Well, it certainly wouldn't be worth it for their own government to wage war on them. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #29
In 1968 we used to see the red light on the horizon upaloopa Oct 2015 #32
I'm guessing the enemy was resoundingly defeated. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #33
And all that hardware is why we won against the little men with rifles, oh wait. DonP Oct 2015 #34
Do you think you could pacify 80+ million people with over 300 million weapons? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #8
It doesn't take violence for a tyrant to prevent a revolution. DetlefK Oct 2015 #11
Your every argument seems to depend on very lurid fantasies. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #16
How many Germans opposed Hitler? DetlefK Oct 2015 #19
So because the Germans abrogated their basic human decency that gives you the moral authority Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #20
All I'm saying is that weapons don't guarantee freedom from tyranny. DetlefK Oct 2015 #24
"How likely is a tyranny to break out?" Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #30
Gordian Knot complexity valuation beardown Oct 2015 #35
Many non-Germans did. Straw Man Oct 2015 #36
Tyrants discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2015 #28
On insurrection, etc.: Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #39
"Well, tell me how many militia-men and how many rifles it would take to take down the FBI..." beevul Oct 2015 #40
Oh, you're dreaming of a big, clear-cut revolution of good-vs-evil. DetlefK Oct 2015 #41
I'm dreaming? Its YOUR hypothetical. beevul Oct 2015 #42
My bad. I had lost track of this thread. DetlefK Oct 2015 #43
No problem. I appreciate you owning up to it. beevul Oct 2015 #45
But this would lead to new problems for the rebels: DetlefK Oct 2015 #46
Feel free to start a repeal movement, keep us posted on the progress DonP Oct 2015 #5
Were not sarisataka Oct 2015 #27
The Militia were STATE entities, long before the 2nd was authored, jmg257 Oct 2015 #37
I've read several of the opinions offered in your thread discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2015 #38
a Free State...a republican gov't. And how it is to remain so, via the Militias. jmg257 Oct 2015 #44
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