Monday - July 18, 2005
Universal Truth
Some lessons are well worth repeating, no matter where you live and some words written two centuries ago still apply today. Maybe now more than ever .. as citizens in Iraq are finding out. While the Iraqis are writing their new constitution, it looks like they need to borrow a few from our Constitution. I hereby loan them to the Iraqis, free of charge. Use them wisely, my friends ....
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The Iraqi people are learning the same lesson our forefathers in America learned in the 18th century ....
A senior member of Iraq’s parliament on Sunday called for popular militias to be created as an extra line of defense against the militants, and criticized the government for failing to stop the bombs. “The plans of the interior and defense ministries to impose security in Iraq have failed,” Khudair al-Khuzai told parliament during a heated session following the latest blast. “We need to bring back popular militias,” he said, without expanding.
While there was some backing for his proposal, there are concerns militias formed along sectarian lines could lead the country ever closer to civil war, with Shi’ite and Sunni Arabs already involved in tit-for-tat killings. Despite that fear, local militias have already been formed in several Baghdad areas, and at least two Shi’ite political movements have their own powerful private armies.
In the Sadiya district in the south of the capital, residents have introduced a neighborhood watch program which involves men armed with pistols and AK-47s walking the streets from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. on alert for attackers. They carry a piece of paper signed by the Iraqi army granting them permission to carry out the patrols. In several other districts residents have blocked off streets with the trunks of chopped-down palm trees, or with large concrete flower pots, to try to stop suicide car bombers.
“It’s better to have our own militias because we can recognize every stranger who comes into our neighborhood and the police can’t,” said Sattar Hashim in New Baghdad, a district where a bomb blast last week killed nearly two dozen children.
Posted by The Skipper
on 07/18/2005 at 12:01 PM
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