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those pesky definitions..."Militia".

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, January 6 2008, 21:11:37 (CET)
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Main Entry: mi·li·tia
Pronunciation: \mə-ˈli-shə\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, military service, from milit-, miles
Date: 1625

1 a: a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b: a body of citizens organized for military service

2: the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service.

...the first defintion is the most correct...always. Key words are "organized armed forces" and "a part of the organized armed forces"...any assyrian militia would NOT be a part of any organized armed forces of Iraq or Kurdistan but a gang on its own. No assyrian picnic is organized...any militia of theirs would shoot anybody. Part b. mentions "military service"...including the word "military" inplies THE military.

..the second defintion also uses "military"...as in military service. Both definitons use the word "citizens"....the assyrians in the West who call for this sort of thing are not citizens of Iraq or Kurdistan...they are, in America, citizens of America...and America frowns on private militias...mostly because none of them are "declared by law".

...The Minutemen were created because there was NO American military of any kind at the time. The National Guard is NOT a militia organization...it's as highly organized and mandated by laws and rules and procedures as the national forces...only at the state level. It would be news to our government that the National Guard is a militia.

...what assyrians are advocating is nothing more than a gang of thugs, a vastly scaled-down version of Blackwater...a private army of mercenaries who are in it for the money and the delight of killing people. They could call themselves "Dishwater".

...now, for saying all this, for putting a dictionary and my head to their proper use, I will be called an "enemy" of Assyria...one who "makes fun" of assyrians etc. Who's really making fun of them?

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SOS needs help. pancho - Sunday, January 6 2008, 20:58:36 (CET)
- those pesky definitions..."Militia". pancho - 01/06 21:11
  - Re: those pesky definitions..."Militia". AssyrianMuslim - 01/07 00:24
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