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In a message dated 7/25/2005 10:35:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To call for disbanding militia that answer to a non-governmental authority is different from saying that a country should have no militia. But, of course, that's not what Secretary Rice said, nor is it what the
Bush Administration voted for in Security Council
Resolution 1559 which calls for disarming "all
Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias." (emphasis added)
What really struck me about Rice's statement that democracy
requires "one authority that is armed" was her contradiction
of the federalist purpose of our militia clauses and the Second
Amendment to arm local authorities as a bulwark against central authority. And,
it's not as if federalism would have no application to Lebanon which,
prior to the mid 1970s, functioned best when the different parts of its
multiethnic society shared power peacefully.
Allen |
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