politics

It’s worth noting (as I have been for years), private militias are illegal in all fifty states.

This article almost points that out in the linked article regarding some legislation that’s floating around https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e5xm/democrats-propose-bill-to-neuter-militias

Gun rights organizations and anti-government groups have typically argued that paramilitary activity is constitutionally protected by the Second Amendment’s language about “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.”

But constitutional experts hold that it is not protected. After the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, a team with Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) sought to examine the legality of the kind of brazen paramilitary activity on display that weekend. They found that all 50 states had some kind of laws on the books, but were rarely enforced.

The team also found that the historical context of “militia” did not mean a private paramilitary group that was answerable only to themselves, but an armed group that predated the National Guard, was first established in the colonies in the 1600s and was meant to be deployed at the behest of the governor. Additionally, McCord told The Trace in an interview two years ago, Supreme Court decisions in 1886 and 2008 found that the Second Amendment did not prohibit states from banning private paramilitary groups.

“Our legislation makes the obvious but essential clarification that these domestic extremists’ paramilitary operations are in no way protected by our Constitution,” Rep Raskin said in a statement regarding Thursday’s bill.

The bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3589/text

Cool, can't wait to get shot by one of these assholes next year.

…militia extremists have been quietly reorganizing, ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook—with apparently little concern that Meta will enforce its ban against them

Mmm.

“We have (and still do) traveled across our country standing up for our constitution, and have met most of you face to face. There's no time like the present to come together and organize our states, to build them stronger with true patriots (not people pretending to be Patriots and using groups for dating sites),” Demere wrote in a post last year.

(emphasis mine)

This part made me LOL. I just imagined the post "white male, 55, virgin, looking for white female, 25, virgin, no kids, will cook, clean, bear my children, support my will to overthrow the American government."

The following excerpts are unrelated to each other but, as a “movement”, I can’t help but see them as a bunch of drooling imbeciles who lack basic comprehension of facts and reality. Though I’m sure there’s a handful of intelligent people who’ve somehow succumbed to brainwashing.

I mean, this first one would indicate they’re ramping up to protect us from Trump. Their reality is not about patriotism but delusion and cultism.

When the government tries to steal the election again and they think we’ll just sit and take it

Huffman and Demere are also key players in the pro-Confederate movement known as “Heritage, not Hate.”

many of their posts convey a general sense of urgency about the need to prepare for “war” or to “stand up” against many supposed enemies, including drag queens, immigrants, pro-Palestine college students, communists—and the US government.