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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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:22 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>If I understood it correctly, the militia is every man from 17 to 45.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Where in the world did you get that very silly idea?</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John K Clark</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>10 U.S. Code § 246.Militia: composition and classes<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #F3565D 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;background:white;margin-left:-.25in;margin-right:1.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;border:none;padding:0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246#tab_default_1"><span style='color:#0068AC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>U.S. Code</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:1.5pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246#tab_default_2"><span style='color:#0068AC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Notes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>prev | <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/247"><span style='color:#0068AC'>next</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:12.0pt;background:white'><a name=a></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>(a)</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='margin-left:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/32/313"><span style='color:#0068AC'>section 313 of title 32</span></a>, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:12.0pt;background:white'><a name=b></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>(b)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The classes of the militia are—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:24.0pt;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='margin-left:24.0pt;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='margin-left:24.0pt;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='margin-left:24.0pt;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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John offered us three examples of terrorist groups, claiming they were militia.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does everyone (else) see the problem here?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>