With militia’s dramatic resurgence into American society, it’s no opinion that negative stereotypes have become affiliated with the group regardless of how they perceive themselves. Since Obama’s presidency, “the number of radical hate groups and militias have exploded in reaction to the changing makeup of America” (Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics) allowing the perception to rise that most members are anti-Semitic towards racial groups. In fact, the NAACP released a report in 2010 stating they had found major relationships between, “various white supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations, and militias” (Tea Party Nationalism). Since 1995, hundreds of plots to attack and kill political figureheads, those associated with the law, and minorities, became common throughout America.
March 10th, 2011, “Six members of the antigovernment Alaska Peacemakers Militia, are arrested and charged with plotting to kill state troopers and a …show more content…
Whether it’s their promise to restore the Constitution to the way the founding fathers intended, waving the Gadsden Flag at rally’s, or posting images of Uncle Sam yielding an Assault Rifle, militias try to gain support for their cause through associating themselves with America in the hopes that citizens will respect their cause. But why would a group that believes it’s their constitutional right to exist need to defend prove their existence to the American people? And the legitimacy of these militias by quoting the first article of the Constitution, which states, “A well-regulated Militia [is] necessary to the security of a free State, [and] the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(Constitution) or simply put, their job as a militia is to enact the constitution and ensure that the government does not abuse their
March 10th, 2011, “Six members of the antigovernment Alaska Peacemakers Militia, are arrested and charged with plotting to kill state troopers and a …show more content…
Whether it’s their promise to restore the Constitution to the way the founding fathers intended, waving the Gadsden Flag at rally’s, or posting images of Uncle Sam yielding an Assault Rifle, militias try to gain support for their cause through associating themselves with America in the hopes that citizens will respect their cause. But why would a group that believes it’s their constitutional right to exist need to defend prove their existence to the American people? And the legitimacy of these militias by quoting the first article of the Constitution, which states, “A well-regulated Militia [is] necessary to the security of a free State, [and] the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(Constitution) or simply put, their job as a militia is to enact the constitution and ensure that the government does not abuse their