http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6772
by Becky Akers
Reading “The Modern Militia Movement,” the document from the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6823 that conflates constitutionalists with Neo-Nazis, I was reminded of a scene in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. When poor Henry David’s civil disobedience finally lands him behind bars, Ralph Waldo Emerson ruefully asks, “Henry!… What are you doing in jail?” To which Thoreau famously responds, “Waldo! What are you doing out of jail?”
Likewise, if your beliefs aren’t libeled in MIAC’s risible report … well, Waldo, why not? Those of the Founding Fathers certainly are.
We pay the salaries of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6759’s bozos so they can spy on us – all to protect the homeland, of course. And these Nervous Nellies repay us by alleging that Americans who condemn gargantuan government like to hide in the tall grass, the better to ambush a cop. No wonder MIAC rescinded the report as Missouri’s politicians scrambled to distance themselves: its research, reasoning and wretched writing are so farcical they’d shame Inspector Clouseau, let alone the űber-sleuths MIAC’s bureaucrats fancy themselves.MIAC is only one of the 58 “fusion centers” scattered across the country. Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, these domestic espionage rings let “states and larger cities… share information and intelligence within their jurisdictions as well as with the federal government.” Chillingly, while MIAC’s mischief preoccupies us, the other 57 quietly continue spying on their fellow citizens.
Many of the principles MIAC’s report denounced are the ideals to which the Founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Which makes Thomas Jefferson, the “Indians” at Boston’s Tea Party, Francis Marion, Nathan Hale, the farmers and shopkeepers who starved at Valley Forge, Sam Adams and George Washington as suspect in MIAC’s eyes as Americans today who’d rather die on their feet than live on their knees.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers107.html