The Oklahoma Legislature and the Tea Party Want YOU to Join
Their Volunteer Militia Army!   From Flickr.  Guess what?
Members of the Tea Party and the Oklahoma legislature would like
to join forces to start a militia army! Reports the Associated
Press: “Tea party movement leaders say they've discussed the
idea with several supportive lawmakers and hope to get
legislation next year to recognize a new volunteer force. They
say the unit would not resemble militia groups that have been
raided for allegedly plotting attacks on law enforcement
officers.” The army would protect against “federal infringements
on state sovereignty.” (For further reading on the noble concept
of “state sovereignty,” see our “Review of the Checkered History
of States’s Rights”—or, if you want to sleep at night, just
don’t!)  But how will this volunteer army defeat terrible
infringements on states’ rights (e.g., abuses of power such as
providing affordable health care for the middle class) with
their guns and/or misspelled posters or what