Yeah, this sounds like a great idea. Get a bunch of teabaggers together and act like they're a real military unit with the authority to challenge the government, nothing bad could come of that.
Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.
Anybody else starting to notice that this country is looking less and less like America? This kind of shit, starting an armed group and committing violent acts because a democratic election didn't go your way, is what happens in other parts of the world. It's not supposed to happen in America.
Even the proponents say they don't know how an armed force would be organized nor how a state-based militia could block federal mandates.
Yes, that would appear to be a flaw in their plans...unless of course they actually intend to shoot federal agents.
"It's not a far-right crazy plan or anything like that," Berry said. "This would be done with the full cooperation of the state Legislature."
But it is a "far-right crazy plan", it's just that the Legislature of Oklahoma is full of far-right crazies.
State militias clearly are constitutionally authorized,
Yeah, and every state has one, it's called the National Guard.
said Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee and an expert on the Second Amendment.
And a far-right wing crazy. And an extremely anti-Obama conservative blogger. You forgot to mention that.
Democratic Gov. Brad Henry's communications director Paul Sund also discounted the militia discussion, saying the National Guard handles state emergencies and security.
Yes, but what you don't realize is that they don't want a group to "handle state emergencies and security." They want a group to shoot US soldiers and federal agents in cold blood when they try to enforce federal laws. They're afraid they wouldn't be able to get the Nat'l Guard to do that. It's much easier to raise a group of whackos with no honor and no brains than it is to convince professional soldiers with honor and loyalty to their country to go against their oaths.
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