okie don wrote:
Too bad we don't have ' well regulated M*****as' in place in all the States like the 2nd Amendment calls for to assist the police
if needed. That's exactly what posse's did when the Sheriffs needed help in olden days.
No, the National Guard is not a ' M*****a'.
A 'M*****a' is financed from the State coffers, not the Federal Government...
That, incidentally is one of the projects of ' AmericaAgain! ' that is building in our nation...
Hopefully it's not to late!
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The m*****a is the people, specifically:
Second M*****a Act of 1792
The second Act, passed May 8, 1792, provided for the organization of the state m*****as. It conscripted every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local m*****a company. (This was later expanded to all males, regardless of race, between the ages of 18 and 54 in 1862.)
M*****a members, referred to as "every citizen, so enrolled and notified", "...shall within six months thereafter, provide himself..." with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack. Men owning rifles were required to provide a powder horn, ΒΌ pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shooting pouch, and a knapsack.
The first act of this law under what curcumstances the M*****a could be called to service:
The first Act, passed May 2, 1792, provided for the authority of the president to call out the m*****as of the several states, "whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe". The law also authorized the President to call the m*****as into Federal service "whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act".
We the people are the M*****a, Posses are different, they fall under the category of Posse Comitatus:
"Posse comitatus is the common-law or statute law authority of a county sheriff, or other law officer, to conscript any able-bodied man to assist him in keeping the peace or to pursue and arrest a felon, similar to the concept of the "hue and cry." Originally found in English common law, it is generally obsolete; however, it survives in the United States, where it is the law enforcement equivalent of summoning the m*****a for military purposes."
What Wild Bill is advocating is the citizens arrest.
"A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official. In common law jurisdictions, the practice dates back to medieval England and the English common law, in which sheriffs encouraged ordinary citizens to help apprehend law breakers."
It sounds great but it will almost certainly involve you in endless expensive lawsuits with the malefactor represented pro-bono by subversive groups, while you are bankrupted by legal fees. Part of the reason the police do nothing is that a mob of thousands will shred the handful of police available. The ski masked r****rs at Berkeley were clearly thieves, they came equipped with crowbars to remove the fronts of the ATM machines to steal the money. They were blatant, obvious and televised to the world; would you, unarmed, jump into the middle of that to arrest them? Even if you had a handgun, could you shoot them without jeopardizing your own freedom or life? That jeopardy would come from the r****rs first and the police afterwards; you would be a vigilante taking the law into your own hands, just like Charles Bronson.
Wild Bill's recommendations stink, better you carry a baseball bat and wear a ski mask. After you crack some heads you could vanish into the crowd.