Three South Carolinians who were in the SC National Guard (the once-independent State militia which was unconstitutionally seized by the US Federal Government under the Militia Act of 1903) were killed and five more were wounded in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. The Charlotte Observer has the story:
The dead are 1st Lt. Ryan Davis Rawl, 30, of Lexington; Spc. John David Meador II, 36, of Columbia; and Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Bradford Thomas, 30, of Easley, the Guard said. The names of the wounded were not released.
The eight soldiers were part of the 133rd Military Police Company, nicknamed the Palmetto Regulators. The unit is based in Timmonsville.
Wednesday was the bloodiest day in Afghanistan for the S.C. National Guard, which has deployed more than 12,000 troops there since the war began in 2001.
“These men died serving their country and I want to express my deepest sympathy and condolences to their families, who are the unsung heroes of our war effort,” said Maj. Gen. Robert E. Livingston Jr., the state’s adjutant general. “These deaths are grim reminders that our military, to include the South Carolina National Guard, is still active in combat in defense of our country. We are privileged to have such heroes in our midst.”
The military police company was in Afghanistan to train members of the Afghan Uniformed Police in Khost Province, the Guard said. The unit deployed in November and was scheduled to return home in August.
Southern governors must assert the constitutional sovereignty of our respective states and cease functioning as mere counties of the federal government, as mere serfs in a feudal system.
cinaed57 posted on June 23, 2012:
“Southern governors must assert the constitutional sovereignty of our respective states and cease functioning as mere counties of the federal government, as mere serfs in a feudal system”. A truer statement has never been said on this topic. But, I do not completely blame the reconstructed, carpet bagger (like carpet bagger Governor McDonnell here in VA) governors for the total breakdown of our state militia. I blame the generation after generation of parents who sat back and allowed the central government school system to reconstruct our southern children. The question keeps being asked “When will the southern people wake up and see the situation for what it really is?” If it took 150 yrs to get us to this point, it will take us at least 3 generations to build what would be necessary to begin to stem the tide southern genocide. It will take an additional 3 generations to begin to the see the efforts of reversing the genocide being committed against us. If each generation is 20 yrs, well, you do the math. We do not have that kind of time anymore. The next question is “what do we do to stop the genocide”? We need develop plans and stragies and implement them now. If we do not begin to develop plans and strategies by the end of this yr, we will see the rest of the story 2013. I honestly think it will be really ugly for us here in the south.
Jus sayin
Deo Vindice