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  1. Re:In other news ... by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 1 · on Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It

    Don't worry they're ready.

  2. Bush administration soft on right-wing nuts by Animats · · Score: 1 · on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites
    Ironically, the most readily available sources of accurate online information on bomb-making are the websites of the radical American militia.

    Ah, yes, the right wingnuts. Remember the Oklahoma City bombing. Pure American right wing. The anthrax attack? Unclear, but it was somebody who had access to the US's weaponized anthrax.

    Fun militia sites:

    These over-armed groups are left alone by the Bush Administration. But when some Arab guys played paintball in Virgina, one of them was sent to jail for decades.

    There's been a boom in militia activity in recent years. This may reflect the changing role of the National Guard. It used to be a one-weekend a month thing with a two week summer camp. If you join the National Guard today, they send you off to the real wars. So the guys who just want to play soldier on weekends don't join the Guard any more.

  3. Bush administration soft on right-wing nuts by Animats · · Score: 1 · on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites
    Ironically, the most readily available sources of accurate online information on bomb-making are the websites of the radical American militia.

    Ah, yes, the right wingnuts. Remember the Oklahoma City bombing. Pure American right wing. The anthrax attack? Unclear, but it was somebody who had access to the US's weaponized anthrax.

    Fun militia sites:

    These over-armed groups are left alone by the Bush Administration. But when some Arab guys played paintball in Virgina, one of them was sent to jail for decades.

    There's been a boom in militia activity in recent years. This may reflect the changing role of the National Guard. It used to be a one-weekend a month thing with a two week summer camp. If you join the National Guard today, they send you off to the real wars. So the guys who just want to play soldier on weekends don't join the Guard any more.

  4. Re:Speedy Limit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Super Superhighway

    You realize that almost nobody lives in Montana, right?

    Well, there's Ted Kaczynski, The Montana Militia, and a whole bunch of armageddon freaks hiding in the woods. That's a few people.

  5. Re:Interesting article... by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 1 · on A Day with an ISP Spam Investigator
    Better believe they believe it. This bit of American politics absolutely fascinates me, so I've managed to learn a bit about it. Some links:
    • Militia of Montana (MOM) -- one of the better known Militia/Patriot groups
    • Genesis Communications -- Internet radio station that carries a lot of very paranoid people. Sometimes they've got a point, sometimes they're off the deep end (IMHO)
    • Alex Jones -- Gotta check him out. Listen to his show, and watch for the Darth Vader theme. Highly amusing; he sponsored a showing of They Live! a while back as an introduction to how They rule the world
    • David Icke -- British. Shape-shifting lizards rule the world and are performing rape and blood sacrifice behind closed doors. Absolutely incredible.
    • Texe Marrs -- Texas fundamentalist preacher (who, it just so happens, I interviewed a few years back) who believes that Satan pretty much owns the IRS, the UN, and every other government around

    That's enough to get you started...if you're not gibbering on the floor when you finish reading, you'll be fine. :-)

  6. Re:Again, the Left is inciting violence by smooth+wombat · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Blackhat/Defcon Report
    how is it that the half of America which owns guns is never the one calling for violence?

    You've never heard of militias, have you? Listen to some of the right-wing crud that they spew and you'll see how wrong your comment is.

    Southern Michigan Regional Militia
    Militia of Montana

    Those are just two to get you started but feel free to do your own research.

  7. responsabilities of moderators, and my input by niloroth · · Score: 1 · on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control?

    Well, as soon as I saw this topic I had to wonder what the hell it was doing on slashdot. But as I read over some of the comments I started to realize that this is also an issue of freedom, much as opposition to the DMCA is, or opposition to Carnivore is.

    But this also really made me think about the responsibility I had as a member of this community with 5 moderator points. I could of course have used them to moderate any opinion I have disagreed with straight down to troll level, or I could use them to bolster anyone who was of the same mind as I am. I opted for a third path, and tried to find the most insightful and interesting posts I could. I managed to mark one up as +1 insightful, and then added a +1 funny to a comment about the 3rd amendment. Then I started looking at some of the comments that had been marked as trolls, and it would seem that some people really are moderating opinions they don't happen to agree with.

    So I made the decision to post this instead, which of course will void my moderations, but I can live with that.

    But does this really show a flaw in the system? Should we maybe just remove the -1 moderations? Or at least change things so that a post cannot be modded below 0? If we really are worried about people trolling, why is it that we can't simply just all change our thresholds to 1, and then we won't see anything that shows up posted by Anonymous Cowards, unless it is actually an insightful or interesting or funny comment. Moderators of course can still be encouraged to view at a 0 threshold. I am sure that others can come up with a better solution than this, but there has to be a way to remove the ability of one person to almost completely remove a comment they don't happen to agree with from the discussion.

    That all being said, one of the views I have not really seen expressed, and this will primarily only apply to those livening in the US, is that as Thomas Jefferson once said "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect against tyranny in government."

    If I was at home I could simply open a file I have and include a great many other quotes to the same effects, from many of the ones who were involved in creating out constitution. Unfortunately I am at a job, and so it is unavailable. But one link that I remembered off the top of my head is Militia of Montana .

    With the recent passage of both the PATRIOT act, and the homeland security bill, we are continuing to surrender more and more of our rights to the government. Will we ever have to take up arms against the state? I hope not, I would prefer that most of America wake up and start to realize that freedom is not an abstract concept that can be bartered for safety. But just in case that never happens, and just in case the state does become a threat to my and every other Americans freedom, I would hope that we have not lost our right to bear arms. Since when it comes right down to it, asking an oppressor to stop nicely very rarely works.

    Justin Fitzsimons