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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
I'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.
The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.
The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.
Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
We've had a difficult legacy of 40 years, and cleaning up is not going to be a one day job. But we are engaged in a systematic effort, we have not allowed formation of new militia groups, and we are reforming the local police systematically so that there won't be abuse.
Osama Bin Laden was found hiding in a house compound in Pakistan by American forces. Muammar Gaddafi was captured by rebel militia while hiding in a drain underneath a road in Libya. And Pakistani starlet Veena Malik was found by the Indian media hiding in a suburban hotel in Mumbai.
Many locals in east Africa are calling for fences to separate wildlife and people. They argue it will reduce conflict and also make it easier to protect the wildlife from poachers. From my experience in Tanzania, no fence and no militia will hold back the tide of poachers drawn by the huge sums of money at stake.
By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
