What is a Militia? Is it these groups in the rural areas that the FBI blankets as "hate groups" and "want to overthrow the government?" Is the "the national guard" (conveniently under the control of the state and ultimately the National government)?
The modern idea of a militia is the National Guard at worst, at best it is considered any group of armed citizens who can talk a lot RTKBA BUT when all is said and done they have to do whatever the federal (using the term loosely) government tells them.
In the days of our Founding Fathers to the time of the War to Prevent Southern Independence (maybe even beyond that to some extent) a militia was a group of citizens that operated as individual units put together by local communities and offered their services in defense of their states and country during times of war, invasion and Indian uprisings. In addition to offering their services to the country, they reserved their sovereignty and would even take up arms against the government or state if the state was violating their rights and homes. (Lexington & Concord for example).
This is a far cry from what most people today consider a militia. To the modern mind, it's either the National Guard or a bunch of posers that rant about how much they hate the government or worse go out and blow up buildings and commit crimes against minorities.
Is it possible to have a true militia these days? (The Minutemen seem to be doing well)
What is a militia in you (the reader's) mind?
What is the true nature of these groups that call themselves militias? Good people, "racist" (subjective word I know) people, crazy people, paranoid people, a little of all of the above, depends on the group?
Thoughts comments?
The modern idea of a militia is the National Guard at worst, at best it is considered any group of armed citizens who can talk a lot RTKBA BUT when all is said and done they have to do whatever the federal (using the term loosely) government tells them.
In the days of our Founding Fathers to the time of the War to Prevent Southern Independence (maybe even beyond that to some extent) a militia was a group of citizens that operated as individual units put together by local communities and offered their services in defense of their states and country during times of war, invasion and Indian uprisings. In addition to offering their services to the country, they reserved their sovereignty and would even take up arms against the government or state if the state was violating their rights and homes. (Lexington & Concord for example).
This is a far cry from what most people today consider a militia. To the modern mind, it's either the National Guard or a bunch of posers that rant about how much they hate the government or worse go out and blow up buildings and commit crimes against minorities.
Is it possible to have a true militia these days? (The Minutemen seem to be doing well)
What is a militia in you (the reader's) mind?
What is the true nature of these groups that call themselves militias? Good people, "racist" (subjective word I know) people, crazy people, paranoid people, a little of all of the above, depends on the group?
Thoughts comments?