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That depends: do you honestly believe an armed militia would start digging trenches for long-hairs?


I'm not at all sure what you're trying to get at, but in any event don't see the relevance.

US military bases are owned by the federal government. The federal government is comprised of "the people."

If you are going to justify individual citizens entering upon federal property without permission simply because they are "the people," then how do you not allow such people-including hippies or anyone else-to enter upon any federal property, including military bases?

Even if you want to argue military bases are unique under "national security," not every piece of federal property has a national security component. Monuments, Parks, museums, federal office buildings and the courts: all of them would be wide open and a target for the type of people who join the Occutard movement.

Do you really want to defend, for example, a bunch of protesters trying to justify a sit in at some Congressional Republican's office on the theory that his or her office is federal property and therefore can't be closed to "the people?"