…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.
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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.
It's so funny to me that they hate the govt and don't believe anything they say, except that communists are definitely bad! The govt is right about that one thing! 😂
And cops are good! They don't trust the government at all, but somehow the enforcement arm of the government can do nothing wrong!
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.