Posted on 10/03/2001 1:51:46 AM PDT by 2Trievers
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As if there wasn't enough craziness in the world with terrorism raising its ugly head, the extremist militia movement and hate groups in America are using this time of national crisis to once again press their lunatic agendas.
It's almost enough to make one wish that President Bush would include these homegrown underground cells - which proved to be a fertile environment for the likes of Timothy McVeigh - on his target list along with al Qaeda and the Taliban.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...
/sarcasm
What bilge. Suggesting that the government in Washington might have orchestrated the attacks that took more than 6,000 lives on Sept. 11 or "allowed" them to happen or will use the tragedy as a pretext to impose martial law is not only a breathtaking leap away from the truth. It's in massively bad taste.
This is horse sh!t. Incredulity at the ineptitude of the "alphabet soup" security agencies does not translate into a suggestion that the government "orchestrated" or "allowed" the attacks to happen.
[Copperud:] To the best of my knowledge, there has been no change in the meaning of words or in usage that would affect the meaning of the amendment. If it were written today, it might be put: "Since a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged."
I've opined several times that we should decide which of the DoD, CIA, FBI, INS, etc. we are going to disband for incompetance as we create a whole new bureaucracy. So have others. I suppose that makes me a pre-vertebrate that just crawled out from under a rock.
Note the complete lack of proper nouns. No people or groups are specifically named in this screed. I concur with others - this thing looks totally made-up.
In closing, I note that I consider that a "militia group" took the only effective defensive action on 9/11 - the passengers on flight 93 that crashed in PA meet my definition of a militia. We will need more militia action in the days ahead to combat internal threats. Uncle Sugar can't do it all, as was forcefully demostrated three weeks ago.
Not a peep. Unless you count Rivero, and he was kicked.
YALE UNIVERSITY has been embarrassed by research re-vealing deep ties between itself and several prominent defenders of slavery in America. (EXCERPT)
".....The university, which is in New Haven, Connecticut, issued statements arguing that it was hardly alone among America's oldest institutions with skeletons dating back to the country's slave-owning past. Last year, for instance, Connecticut's mainnewspaper and the oldest in the US, The Hartford Courant, was forced to apologise for taking revenue over many decades from small-ads placed in it by slave-owners.
Helaine Klasky, Yale's spokeswoman, said: "Today, we regret and renounce these evils and seek, through scholarship and communication, to better understand them, but we cannot undo them."
The article calls on Yale to convene a conference of all universities with histories going back to the slave-owning period to consider what part they played in supporting the slave culture in America. "
David Usborne in New York, Yale University embarrassed by old links with the defenders of. , Independent, 08-14-2001, pp 10.
conjectured one alleged pro-independence freedom fighter...
There, now the news wires can use this story...
I suppose the next thing the Hartford Clueless will suggest is the Wayne LaPierre's comment about Clinton "willing to tolerate a level of violence ..." ties the NRA to the militia groups. The tactic of these liberals is to put out something as truth, when it is totally false. Then they build upon it to a point where the public forgets the original statement was false. This, and how to rig a poll to influence public opinion, is the junk science part of the Political Science cirriculum being taught at Liberal Arts institutions.
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