Article on State Guard, Militia, Conflation...

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The following article appeared on the KansasCity.Com website, mentioning the Texas State Guard:

Militias seek official sanction as ‘state defense forces’

Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit (and Univ of Tenn law professor), was interviewed for the article. After it came out, he said:

GETTING IT WRONG: Judy Thomas is a good reporter, and she’s interviewed me in the past without problems. But this article on militias and “state defense forces” is just a mess. In my experience, when that kind of thing happens it usually means that an editor rewrote the story, though that’s just a guess here.

He has lots more to say, including citing the legal basis for the National Guard, the state defense forces, and militias, here:

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/106116/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Worth your while to read it.


There has been a drumbeat in the press and the left (I know, lotsa overlap) to conflate Tea Parties, militias, neoNazis, KKK'ers, and violence in general. Despite the fact that everytime a violent incident happens at a Tea Party rally, it turns out to be caused by some anti-Tea Party clown.