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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ccp struggles<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'>Just what is a militia in your opinion?</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>All able-bodies males between the ages of 17 and 45, plus former military up to age 64. It isn’t really an opinion, but rather the actual legal definition. See US legal code section 246 of title 10 and US legal code section 313 of title 32. It really isn’t a bit complicated or subject to whimsical opinions on what arms necks of color need or should be allowed to have. It’s the law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…<span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'>The name suggests to me an organized group, like the Nat'l Guard</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The National Guard is part of the militia. From US legal code section 246 of title 10:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>(b)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>The classes of the militia are—</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><a name="b_1"></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>(1)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><a name="b_2"></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>(2)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246</a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I was never part of the organized militia, but was part of the organized militia for 28 years. You and John Clark were as well (I am assuming both are male.) Now I am an ally of the militia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'> All we have are survivalists and the like.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222'>bill w</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Billw, are you not a survivalist? What is a non-survivalist to be called? A die-ist? A deadist? I am neither a die-ist or deadist but rather I am a survivalist. I like survival. I like life. This would make me an alivist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Life is good. Therefore survival is good. That makes me a survivalist neck of color, aged out of the militia but still an ally and willing volunteer trainer of militia should my services be called upon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>