LawDog said:
Child, it's the Internet. Between the IP address you register with every post, and the two different homepages you left in your
Profile -- one of which is the
actual homepage of your militia... any half-way decent script kiddie would have the names and locations of 90% of your militia within 48 hours.
From the "Contact Us" page of the Mississippi Militia homepage:
Commander Drew Rayner, Mississippi Militia:
[email protected]
I'm somewhat dissapointed at the general conversation in this thread, and wish to bring up a few points.
First, militias, in and of themselves, are not bad. Every able bodied male between 18 and 60 (IIRC) is officially a member of the Unorganized Militia of the United States of America.
Second, there are some organizations, for better or worse, who call themselves militias, and who advance agendas that are inappropriate (overthrow of the government prior to the other 3 boxes of freedom failing, racism, etc). These are the organizations that give militias a bad name, and the only ones that the mainstream media chooses to showcase.
Third, the bad apples to not represent all militia forces, and I see many people who appear to believe that they do (I also see many people who are reacting directly to what the MI Militia member says, here).
Fourth, as LawDog put it, (I'm still on page 6 of the thread, right now), there seems to be an air of "Super Secret Squirrel" going on, here. Whether paraniod or deserved, it will (and probably already has) made the conversation take a turn for the worse. If there's a good reason - and
verifiable proof that it's necessary, and that reason is explained (and proven), I hope people will accept it. Otherwise, it's a losing argument to bring it up (just like bringing up Hitler or Nazis when arguing with an anti).
I say the above as a member of the Massachusetts State Guard (
www.mastateguard.com), direct descendent of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, which existed (and served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, The Korean War, and The War in Viet Nam.