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Nowadays they fantasize about leading guerrilla warfare against fellow Americans.
the exemptions for law enforcement, licensed security professionals, hunting groups, and self defense orgs are a nice touch. /s >


exemptions for ...

... the actual partisan paramilitary groups. >

Oregon has a particularly large number of such groups for whatever reason. The bill which received a hearing:

HB 2572 would expand the definition of illegal paramilitary activity in Oregon and would allow the attorney general to petition a judge to halt the actions of a group if the AG "has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons has engaged in or is about to engage in paramilitary activity." The bill would also allow a private citizen to sue a member or all members of a paramilitary group that has infringed upon his or her constitutional right by means of intimidation. >

Yeah it's kind of surprising Oregon doesn't get mentioned more in the national conversation about historic/contemporary racism. It was literally founded as a white ethnostate! >

Seems like this is geared towards the secessionists in eastern OR >

Also groups like the Proud Boys. The sponsor mentions the need to go after Neo-Nazi groups. >

The secessionist fill those positions too >

Let's just say there's quite a bit of overlap in that venn diagram. >

is a perfect circle really a venn diagram? >

Decent band >

The way this bill is written I can see it being used by the police to target protesters and left wing groups in general >

Tons of people shoot as a hobby and shoot together with others who may or may not protest later.
This is not going to protect lawful groups from being harassed, investigated, and potentially arrested by police who know damn well they can abuse laws like this even if it doesn’t ultimately result in a conviction >

In the 80s, these groups sprung up after watching Red Dawn because they fantasized about leading guerrilla warfare against a Russian invasion. Nowadays, they're doing it because Tucker Carlson told them democrats want to force them to get vaccinated against Covid.