Tolerance of white militias exemplifies racial double standard

[RamboLiberal]

Imagine that the inauguration of President George W. Bush had sparked an explosive rise in African American militia groups. Suppose thousands of heavily armed black men began gathering at training camps in wooded areas throughout the country, devising military tactics for "taking back their country" after what they believed was an electoral coup.

Do you think Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney would have reacted to a black militaristic buildup as coolly as President Obama has to the phenomenal growth of white militias?

Since Obama took office last year, the number of white militias has shot up from about 170 to more than 500, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups in the United States. Armed with enough firepower to take on a police department, some of these groups are honing their sniper skills using photographs of Obama for target practice.

They cling to the delusion that the nation's first black president is somehow a subversive working for Muslim extremists, and they aim to bring him down.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062204792.html?hpid=topnews

[Jim__]

1. And suppose African-Americans started showing up at Bush rallies armed.

Do you think that would have been accepted? Somehow, I don't.

[xultar]

2. Nothing scares a white person more than a group of minorities with guns.

[jody]

3. IMO the best way to fight white militias is for congress to do the job required by our Constitution

Article II, Section. 8 requires:

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress

For those unfamiliar with militias, federal law 10 USC 311 defines militias as follows:

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Under that law, many members of DU are in the unorganized militia and if they are not properly organized, armed, and disciplined as our Constitution requires, then congress has been grossly derelict in performing its duties as required by our Constitution.

IMO an "unorganized militia" that meets the requirements of our Constitution would be an effective, efficient counter to any so called threat of "white militias".