Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by mkempe on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:15PM (#16757389)

We already have the National Guard [1] --aka militias-- which provide ample check from the State level against a would-be dictatorship at the Federal level. For further self-education, one may want to read The Federalist Papers, in particular no 46 written by Madison (see [2] for a discussion of the issue).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_S...

[2] http://tracinskiletter.com/2018/03/21/the-advantage-of-being...

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:26PM (#16758054)

The constitutional concept of the militia is universal (well, universal for adult free males, at least, but arguably the limitations their relate to limitations applicable to the concept of full citizenship at the time, not special ones for the militia); the National Guard is a subset of or overlaps with the militia (and is, as it is structured, in some ways, in conflict with the conceptualized role of the militia in securing liberty) but is not equivalent to the militia.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by mkempe on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:41PM (#16758229)

I agree, militia is a wider concept and there can be many such free-formed associations. I merely wanted to mention that the National Guard are also known as militias, and they have always had very powerful weapons at their disposal.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by rplst8 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:21PM (#16758004)

The national guard is NOT the militia.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by mkempe on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:40PM (#16758210)

I agree that it is not the only militia.

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