Posted on 09/19/2001 6:24:37 AM PDT by vannrox
WE DO NOT POST NON-SECURE INFORMATION ON THIS SITE. IF YOU ARE IN POSSESSION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION DO NOT POST IT. LIVES ARE AT STAKE. IF WE ARE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN OUR ACTIONS, WE WILL NEED TO BE FIRM AND COOPERATIVE WITH OUR PRESIDENT. NOW IS THE TIME, IF NEVER BEFORE SINCE THE EARLY 1800'S, THAT THE UNORGANIZED MILITIA SHOULD BE CALLED TO ARMS. WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO PROTECT AND PARTICIPATE IN THE SAFETY OF OUR COUNTRY. I, MYSELF, DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS APPLICATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED. BUT, I DO KNOW THAT THE NATION AS A WHOLE IS UNUSED TO THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF THE UNARMED MILITIA. SINCE WE ARE AT WAR, I CANNOT HELP BUT SEE THAT THE ACTIONS AND ACTIVITES OF OUR ORIGIONAL UNORGANIZED MILITIA CAN AND SHOULD BE LEGALLY IMPLEMENTED. PERHAPS THERE IS SOME WAY THAT WE CAN DRILL AND LEARN TO PATROL AND PROTECT THE INDIVIDUALS OF OUR COMMUNITIES. PERHAPS WE COULD DRILL IN THE PARTS. OR, PERHAPS WE COULD OBTAIN CHEAP GUNS FROM THE FEDERAL ARMORIES... THERE IS NO PRECIDENT FOR THIS SINCE THE REVOLUTION.
WE ARE AT A STATE OF WAR, AND AS SUCH, THE UNORGANIZED MILITIA NEEDS TO BE CALLED INTO ACTION. THIS IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
I'm not part of any Milita, but I am American & I am armed & would protect my Country if called upon.If you are an able bodied citizen of the United States, you are a member of the Militia. It's not something you join. It's not optional. It's a duty of citizenship.
See my previous post, ""Who is ultimately responsible for national defense? (We the people)" for more information about how our culture has failed you, and all of America, and how this failure contributed to the attack on 9/11/2001.
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We, the Constitutional Milita are the only people that will be in a place to stop the next attack! You can be sure that something else will befall us. I hope that, should it happen near me, I can react and prevent other innocent people from the horror of what they went through in NY and the Pentagon on Tuesday, 11Sep01.
Be sure to comply, if you don't wish to attract a LOT of unwanted attention.
I have never been a "Member" of today's idea or concept of Militias. I have been continuously requested to join, and, been continuously requested to have a small group of my boys and myself Op-4 against these groups. I am here to say, and you may not like it, but facts are facts...in order for any of these groups to be one, takin seriously, or even acknowledged, they must get some serious leadership.
The groups that we "Played" with, you could drive a tank by them and they would not know it.
It is one thing to want to defend your country with arms, it is quite another to pretend you're a patriot and have men under your training and not know the first thing about readiness, sops, supply lines, all of the above.
We once were invited to try to enter a perimeter. Recon in, and try to blow up a fuel depot in the enemy's camp. They had fourty men, we had five. It took us 6 hours to crawl in and out, right past their sentries, into the middle of their camp and set an 81MM ariel flare on a timer...
We were back at our AO(a truck a mile away) cracking a beer when the horizon lit up. Point being, these groups are Pseudo Rambos...It would be my bet, and I am not a gambling man, that when the phones start to ring for a call to muster, more than half will change their minds.
Unless the militias get some competent leaders and with them, competent personnel, I would not depend on them to be there when you got your a$$ hanging in the breeze...
FWIW...
SR
- In the recent Journal article, we repeated the call for dialogue about a largely nonexistent militia, the lack of a home guard, as opposed to a Total Force Army of restricted size and subject to calls for service at any time in foreign places. Gary Hart does not address this home guard issue.
- It was Churchill who objected to their original name. On one of his visits round the country, he had spotted a party of middle-aged men in civilian clothes wearing armlets marked LDV “I don’t think much of the name ‘Local Defence Volunteers’ for your very large new force,” he wrote to Eden on June 26, 1940.
“The word ‘local’ is uninspiring. Mr Herbert Morrison suggested to me today the title ‘Civil Guard’ but I think ‘Home Guard’ would be better.”NOBODY argued much with Churchill in those days, so Home Guard they became on July 24. By that time, 1.3 million men had joined the force and recruiting had been suspended.
I agree with your last statement. Our government must change its tactics to fight this war. BUT, we must convince our government leaders to re-institute the civlian militia. Why? Very simple. Professional law enforcement, military, and rescue personnel are already busy enough as it is, without the added responsibility and duty of having to guard strategic targets. That is number one. Number two is the fact that a number of LICENSED, TRAINED MILIITIA, carrying concealed weapons everywhere they go, every day, will go a very long way in reducing two things: crime on the streets AND small terrorist strikes.
If anyone reading this wants to take exception to my remarks , fire away. But as you counter my argument, please explain why both Israel and Switzerland have been so successful in the use of this type of civilian force.
Americans MUST rise to this occassion. It is time to put away childish things (notions of PC, et al) and get on with protecting our children from these Bastards.
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