To call for disbanding militia that answer to a non-governmental authority is different from saying that a country should have no militia. You don't see her calling for Switzerland's militia to disband. You don't see her calling for the U.S. unorganized militia to be disarmed.
In fact, she said "Rice said her father, a black minister, and his friends armed themselves to defend their community in Birmingham, Alabama against the White Knight Riders in 1962 and 1963. She said if the local government had had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other blacks would have been able to defend themselves." (http://www.teamgop.org/blog/archives/2005/05/condi_rice_and.html) Perhaps if Rice's father had joined a black power movement that to over and ruled by force of arms a significant portion of the country, she'd have a different view of things. In any case, I don't think any of the professors on this list ever argued that the second amendment protects the rights of a private militia that conducts foreign policy (e.g., RPG attacks on tent camps across the border in Mexico). ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Condi Rice is anti-militia (in Lebanon) In response to a question about Security Council Resolution 1559 which calls for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated at a press conference on July 22, 2005: "there can be only one authority in a country, and in a democracy there can be only one authority and one authority that is armed." See this link: US State Dept. press release. Allen Asch _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
