Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱
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    352 months ago

    Stop calling it militias, they should be called terrorist organizations. We arent living in the 18th century any more, we don’t have militias any more.

    • @Fedizen
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      122 months ago

      militias also had a duty to support people in emergencies, but people don’t like to talk about the bill of rights containing duties to one’s neighbors. Militias are almost a socialist concept.

      Realistically these people have more in common with Al Quaeda than some kind of 1780s ideal of social solidarity.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      I agree that the 75 are part of a terrorist organization, for sure.

      The National Guard is a militia though. We don’t often think about it like that but it is. Each state has it’s own and imo as a sidenote, the national guard completely satisfies the 2nd amendment regardless of what the gun nuts today want the 2nd amendment to be.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      32 months ago

      they should be called terrorist organizations

      Or, at the very least, “Moderate Rebels” depending on how much money the CIA gave them recently.

    • @Maggoty
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      22 months ago

      We do have state militias still actually, just only a couple and they’re seriously for stuff like hurricane clean up.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      The militias outlined in the constitution is basically the national guard. These are something else