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Date: 18 Apr 1995 21:54:58 +0100
From: Anthony Garcia
The following is an excerpt from the 3rd misc.activism.militia Request For Discussion, which was posted by Mike Chapman (mike@chimera.med.virginia.edu) on 13 Feb 1995 to rec.guns.
I have updated the moderator address from the original version's "activism-militia-submissions@dale.dircon.co.uk", which is incorrect, to "activism-militia@dale.dircon.co.uk", which I believe to be correct.
Please note: According to this RFD, there is no active moderation of this newsgroup; only automated moderation, to reject crossposting.
-Anthony Garcia agarcia@neosoft.com
== I support the Phil Zimmerman Legal Defense Fund. == == zldf@clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ==
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The misc.activism.militia newsgroup will be open to discussion on all aspects of organized and disorganized civilian firearms ownership for the purposes of ensuring domestic tranquility and the protection of the civil rights of all people. This includes information on training, organization, gunsmithing, purchasing and selling weapons and ammunition and any other issues relevant to militias. Also included are any community-oriented volunteer policing activities.
Misc.activism.militia will be a moderated newsgroup for the purpose of preventing any cross-posting whatsoever. The automated moderator, activism-militia@dale.dircon.co.uk, will reject any cross-posted material (notifying the sender of the rejection) but will not otherwise restrict the content of posts. Also, messages cross-posted to news.announce.newgroups will be allowed. Modifications to this moderation scheme would require a change in charter and therefore an official RFD and CFV.
This newsgroup is not for discussion of the politics of gun ownership and use in general; any such posts should be directed to talk.politics.guns. All discussions on recreational uses of firearms, and firearms in general, belong in rec.guns.
Also, messages carrying out transactions or other material that may be in violation of any law should never be sent on USENET, as this brings risk of prosecution and harassment to all the organizations responsible for its distribution. This includes, but is not limited to, illegal firearms or ammunition transactions, threats of death or bodily harm, murder contracts, plots to overthrow legitimate governments, and restricted distribution information or data which you do not have permission to distribute. If it is your intent to do any of the above, misc.activism.militia is an inappropriate forum.
Since the moderation scheme does not restrict message content, it is the responsibility of every participant to ensure the suitability of his contribution.
RATIONALE
The current gun-related newsgroups do not suitably address the needs of militiamen. Talk.politics.guns is flooded with political and otherwise irrelevant debate. While rec.guns provides a friendly environment for firearms owners, the moderation prevents anonymous posting and heavily restricts content, length and direction of conversations. Further, rec.guns is not designed for the culture of citizen soldiers, but rather for all gun owners, such as hunters, policemen, and mercenaries. This may discourage some from openly sharing their opinions and information and does not contribute to the strengthening of the militia culture.
On January 14, 1994, 115 of the 1299 active articles on talk.politics.guns at murdoch.acc.virginia.edu contained the word militia. On misc.survivalism, 13 of the 281 articles also contained the word. On rec.guns, however, only 8 of 1271 contained militia. This is not a direct representation of how many of these posts would be under charter for misc.activism.militia, but an indication that discussion on the subject is occurring, and could be somewhat redirected to a more specific location.
The newsgroup misc.activism.militia would provide an environment for the coordination of the militia movement throughout the world, with political information, propaganda and important news. This movement is exploding, and will continue to grow as some governments become more and more restrictive. This is clearly a case of social activism, ideally suited for the misc.activism hierarchy, along with misc.activism.progressive.
The moderation of this newsgroup is designed to prevent massive cross-posted flamewars that might occur. No further moderation is included in this proposal because of the possibility of censorship. It is necessary to ensure that even dissenting opinions are expressed and that no single person or small group of people controls the content of misc.activism.militia.
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