#Paramilitary

1. Just a little terminology thread on the word "militia" to help journalists and others using the word, or for anybody who might be interested. The word "militia" has many

#CivilWarinPakistan After PAK's Radical Islamist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik's Saad Rizvi arrested by PAKISTANI Govt for maintaining "LAW & ORDER"Tehreek-e-Labbaik's grps attack PAK POLICE & Paramilitary & take

New message from Portland City Council (and other Oregon electeds): "...law enforcement do not want or need any help from paramilitaries or vigilante groups." Brings to mind the lawsuit filed

I wonder whether one of the attractions of carrying a gun is that it makes you feel you no longer need to listen to the other side of the argument.

In the first half of the #Lockdown21 , other than one major and some other incidents, we have seen a reasonable adherence to the social distancing norms. People, however, still

Lots of conversation about NHS staff &restructuring in the pandemic is couched in paramilitary terms: ‘being redeployed’‘on the front line’‘going into battle’Is this language a useful way of rallying&motivating staff,

Thread: I don't know where this is coming from, but there is a sudden pushback/confusion about the use of the word "militia." Here is some information on what this word

Steven Cash @thesteadystate3, #HESFINISHED

1/ What is happening Portland should be terrifying everybody. It is what happens (up to now) “in foreign parts” – not here. But let’s get our terminology straight, so we

Sex Worker rights/decrim is not a sexy, fun movement. If your support of sex workers is purely from an individual empowerment perspective or out of aesthetic endearment, you may be

One thing these two idiots in St. Louis remind us is that if we’re going to have a less paramilitary and hyper aggressive kind of policing and approach to public

Free_Somaliweyn

Sheikh Ali Ahmed Farah is missing for a 6th straight night after he was abducted from his home during a night raid by the notorious US trained Somali Paramilitary Force

Carlson's justification of the Kenosha shooting gestated in the womb of right wing gun politics for years. Militias insinuated themselves into the GOP and tacticool guys replaced the Tea Party's

Joshua A. Geltzer

THREADThere are steps that state & local officials can take, right now, relying on laws already on the books, to protect Americans from the threat posed by unlawful private militias.Here's

So many people seem deeply invested in the idea that any form of street fighting or "paramilitarism" puts the US on the "path to Weimar," which is neither an accurate

1. We attended the RNC on the South Lawn of the White House Thursday night. And when we departed the Democrat Party mob and rioters were violent, crazed, and organized.

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

Not strictly tied to the KKK, but I think it deserves mention that Democrats have supported gun control for a long, long time -- originally it was explictly race-based: an