militia

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• 4/11/2021
  

  Prosecuting Sedition in a Divided Nation is a Challenge as Old as America

  by William H. Pruden III

  America's cultural value on free expression makes conviction of far-right radicals on sedition charges unlikely. The Ft. Smith, Arkansas trial in 1988 was a PR victory for the far right when 14 defendants accused of plotting against the government were acquitted. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/2/2020
  

  Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells

  by Kathleen Belew

  "What binds these disparate groups is that they espouse the violent defense of white supremacy."

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• 9/20/2020
  

  The Second Amendment has Never Covered Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

  by Noah Shusterman

  If his lawyer wants to argue that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in the spirit of those eighteenth-century militias which went outside the law and defied their state government, and especially those who did so in the interest of promoting white supremacy – his case would be historically solid. It would not, however, be an exoneration.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  5/5/2020
  

  U.S. Extremist Blames 'Compliant' Jews for Holocaust in Idaho Protest

  Ammon Bundy tells crowd during anti-lockdown demonstration that Jewish people thought 'putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way' in WWII.

• SOURCE: Truth-out
  1-15-13
  

  Thom Hartmann: The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

  "The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference - see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states."