Article on State Guard, Militia, Conflation...
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:28 pm
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.
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.