How best do we responsibly share traing with our Armed Services...?

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... so that we resolve these kinds of fears? [snip]
A planned Marine Corps training exercise in Richmond has some Virginians worried about secretive encroachments on civil liberties, accident hazards, and misguided use of the American military.

The urban maneuvers, these worried citizens say, may mask preparations for a Year 2000 computer meltdown so great that governments are afraid to discuss it, or plans to confiscate firearms, or the groundwork for a presidential power grab.
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Full text at: http://gatewayva.com/rtd/dailynews/virginiaarch/milit03.shtml

~C~

-- Critt Jarvis (middleground@critt.com), May 06, 1999

Answers

The "founding fathers" envisioned a country where all able bodied men -- the militia -- would have training to defend the country. Training not necessarily by being drafted or serving under a Washington DC commandant. Each person would have the "assault rifle" equivalent of the day. And the community would have and have control of the bigger stuff (cannons then, fighter jets today). They also HAD NO PROVISION FOR A STANDING ARMY.

Now, we have an "elite" standing army, the general population is "chopped liver" and "just in the way" of this elite "doing its job." Since the average peon is no longer important, why should he have arms; leave that to the professionals. Well, maybe when the average citizen doesn't have arms, and only "authorized" police and military have them, we have a fascist, militarist government like this one.

But, economically you're doing OK? How is your LIFE? Why so many unhappy, futile adults? Why do people go "off" shooting up high schools or running kids over with a car in a pre-school yard?

"There are none so enslaved who falsely regard themselves as free."

-- A (A@AisA.com), May 06, 1999.


"There are none so enslaved who falsely regard themselves as free."

Freedom always prevails. People can take so much and then they rebel.

Goofs in control think they have eveything closed up. They cannot figure out how to suppress the intangible SPIRIT of FREEDOM.

We will be free! "...and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof:"

-- freeman (freeman@cali.com), May 07, 1999.


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