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In reply to the discussion: if anyone is interested - [View all]Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)3. Good for them.
(Meant to post here in the first place...)
In principle, I like militias, but in practice the members thereof creep me out. It's one thing to arm and train for the common defense and a sense of civic duty, but another when the movement seems to be dominated by paranoid conspiracy theorists. But rights is rights, and if they're acquitted they oughta get their property back.
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Unless rights are protected for everybody then nobody will have rights. N/T
GreenStormCloud
May 2012
#22
It is always a good thing when the government is required to observe people's rights.
GreenStormCloud
May 2012
#27
You *are* aware that there's no "niceness clause" in the Constitution? At least, I hope you are...
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#30
The constitutional issues are important, whether one sympathizes with these nutbars or not.
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#32
So you are happy that a bunch of vile rightwing thugs got their arsenal back?
Warren Stupidity
May 2012
#33
Yes, these guys are interested in shooting alright -- either shooting or intimidating people.
Hoyt
May 2012
#6
That -- and a dose of racism -- pretty much sums up a significant portion of gun culture.
Hoyt
May 2012
#8
My word, the self-appointed zampolits didn't care for that *at all*
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#29