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Some say we are headed toward WWIII. Others say we are already there. Some fear nuclear Armageddon, while others believe it to be highly unlikely. Too many, assisted by a corrupt media see only what they are told to believe while the world burns. Most will never accept their responsibility in making poor choices when casting their ballot. Ignorance, and ambivalence cover the social and political spectrum. Lies, hatred, and foolishness have fueled our downfall.
However, the Founders of this Nation, as I have stated in the past, were men of great sagacity. They understood the willingness to corrupt and be corrupted. They had languished in desperation realizing “that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
For some, the yoke is never too restrictive. For some, ignorance is never too burdensome. For most, ambivalence is the easiest course.
So, what did the Founders leave their posterity that we might overcome the foibles that we are prone to exhibit?
Article I, § 8, Cl. 15 grants congress the authority "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions". Militia is distinct from the army as SCOTUS has ruled on separate occasions. Article I, § 8, Cl. 16 grants congress the authority "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States", and then it imposes a duty on the states "reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress". The Law, by which "the discipline prescribed by Congress" states "That each and every ... able-bodied ... male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years … shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, by the Captain or Commanding Officer of the company." It goes on "That every citizen, so enrolled ... provide himself with a ... good rifle ... and shall appear so armed ... when called out to exercise or into service". Each state has its own concurring statutes that have been updated over the years. SCOTUS has ruled that “The Militia which the States were expected to maintain and train is set in contrast with Troops which they were forbidden to keep without the consent of Congress ... The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. 'A body of citizens enrolled for military discipline.' And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time."
Congress has no authority to "unorganize" the militia. Therefore, Congress is restricted to "organize, arm, and discipline" the Militia. They are restricted under the legal doctrine "Expressio unius est exclusio alterius". Those men 18-45 are not members of the armed forces, but rather militia. The purpose of placing militia in the Constitution was derived from the fear of standing armies, and the unconstitutional creation of agencies that might usurp the power of the People to hold government in check.
The Constitution is a uniform document created by thirteen sovereign states. The states granted congress the limited delegated authority to do certain things, but all those authorities rest on the state’s ability to enforce or deny, and that is why Militia is a critical part of our Law. If you read the Constitution in its entirety, you will note that everything is explained except for Militia. Why? Because it was already a pre-existing Institution that operated with detail of enrollment and organization. Militia statutes existed long before our Declaration.
•[1624 and 1632] “That no man go or send abroad without a sufficient partie will armed” and “[t]hat men go not to worke in the ground without their arms (and a centinell upon them).”
•[1672] “[A]s against all tymes of danger it ought to be the care of all men to provide that their armes and habiliments for war, be alwayes kept fixed and fitt for service[.]”
Here is a current statute from PA that is easy to find but incomplete.
"Title 51 § 507. Draft from militia for emergency. "The Governor shall have the power to order out for actual service with the Pennsylvania Guard by draft as many persons from the militia as necessity demands during a war or other emergency. The Governor is hereby authorized to form, adopt and prescribe such rules and regulations...." Those people will, more than likely, not be trained and made to be fodder.
I could not find the regulations related to § 507, so I sent a 'Right To Know' request to the governor and is the Open Records agency asking for the regulations. I got a run around for a while and then a denial.
This is not a subject that you discuss lightly because revitalizing the militia as required by law would return all power to the people. I have learned over years that when you tell men that there is an obligation to serve in the militia, they turn a blind eye, and deaf ear. It's none more prevalent than in the so-called pro-2nd and patriot community who will use any excuse to avoid any commitment they perceived as something other than what history and law correctly defines.
However, in this time in history, when the doomsday clock for nuclear Armageddon has been moved up to 90 seconds, I find it particularly disturbing that there are just a few of us who want to stop the destruction of the world. The Founders of this nation were not lacking in their recognition that to prevent ...
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Reprinted from Pro Libertate
We would like to thank Mr. William Norman Grigg for his permission to post his article.
“They had their entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own,” intoned the murderer of 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki as he began the liturgy of official mourning for the victims of the Newtown massacre.
Every time children die in an outbreak of violence, “I react not as a president, but as anybody else would as a parent,” continued the head of a regime that will not explain to Nasser al-Awlaki why his son Anwar and grandson Abdulrahman – both of the U.S. citizens – were murdered by presidential decree.
“We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years,” insisted the official who has presided over dozens of lethal drone attacks in Pakistan and other countries with whom the U.S. is not formally at war.
Tears welled up in Obama’s eyes as he pronounced the familiar, facile phrases of selective sympathy. After ordering that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff for a week, Obama said that he and his wife would hug their children a little closer tonight as he empathizes with the parents whose children were murdered in Newtown.
It’s doubtful that he was moved to similar thoughts of vicarious bereavement as he contemplated the parents in Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan who have been left childless because of his actions.
Shortly after the police had arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary School to offer the service they always provide in such circumstances – that is, drawing chalk outlines and stringing up crime-scene tape – Mr. Obama was informed of the massacre. The minion who conveyed that news to the Child Killer-in-Chief was National Security Adviser John Brennan, who is the official Keeper of the “Kill List” – the roster of people, including U.S. citizens, who have been targeted for summary execution by a secretive executive branch committee.
Last April, in response to modest but growing public outrage over the Obama Regime’s use of killer drones, Brennan gave an opaque and self-congratulatory speech insisting that the program was legal because those who preside over it consider it to be.
Killing distant, unarmed people by way of robot-delivered missiles is “legal, ethical, and wise,” he declared. The targeted execution of individuals deemed to be terrorists –without the benefit of trial or any simulacrum of due process – is the result of careful “deliberation,” and conducted in a way that discriminates between combatants and bystanders.
This must mean that Barack Obama and the people who are sufficiently foolish and depraved to obey his orders intended to kill 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki while he was enjoying a backyard barbecue at the home of a family friend in Yemen.
The Regime has never explained why it murdered that child, let alone apologized to the family for doing so. The closest it has come to an explanation was offered last September by former White House spokesliar (and campaign functionary) Robert Gibbs, who actually claimed that the teenager’s death was his own fault because he had somehow made a poor choice of fathers: “I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they’re truly concerned about the well-being of their children.”
By default, this is the Obama Regime’s official rationale for murdering an innocent 16-year-old U.S. citizen. How does the logic – such as it is – of Gibbs’s answer differ from whatever rationale drove a maniac to open fire on a kindergarten class in Connecticut? Assuming that the shooter was deranged, he at least had the excuse of insanity.
Obama, Brennan, Gibbs and their allies, by way of contrast, all profess to be entirely sane. The same is true of Time magazine contributor – and prominent Obama supporter – Joe Klein. Late in the last campaign Klein used an MSNBC panel discussion to offer a stout defense of Obama’s drone strikes, even as he admitted that innocent bystanders – including 4-year-olds – are frequently killed by them. The only concern, Klein insisted, was the possibility that the power to conduct remote killings may find itself in the hands of someone less enlightened than Obama.
For the Obama Regime, child-killing is an instrument of policy. This was made clear in a recent story reported by the Military Times describing how U.S. troops in Afghanistan, fearful over the actions of a group of young men nearby called in an airstrike that killed all of the suspected guerillas – only to find out later that three of them were children, aged 8, 10, and 12. The families of the dead children said that they had been gathering dried animal leavings, which are used as fuel.
The International Security Assistance Force in Kabul issued a statement acknowledging that the airstrike “accidentally killed three innocent Afghan children.” That statement prompted Army Lt. Col. Marion Carrington to tell the Military Times that the children may not have been innocent.
According to Carrington, whose unit is training Afghan police, “In addition to looking for military-age males, [we are] looking for children with potential hostile intent.” Since hostility is the natural, and entirely commendable, reaction to foreign occupiers, Carrington is saying that any Afghan child with sufficient awareness to resent the occupation is a legitimate military target.
What Adam Lanza did once in a fit of murderous irrationality, the Regime over which Obama presides does practically every day – and the killing is carried out by people who act with clear-eyed, clinical indifference to the suffering they inflict.
Admittedly, that comparison is unfair, since Lanza didn’t have the means to carry out an Obama-style “double-tap” strike: It is the established practice of the CIA to follow up a drone-launched missile attack with a second volley intended to target first responders. In Pakistan, this procedure has resulted in a ratio of fifty innocent victims for every “suspected militant” taken out in a drone strike.
The killer who slaughtered the innocent at Sandy Hook is dead. The Child-Killing Apparatus over which Obama presides continues merrily along. Americans understandably shaken and saddened to the depth of ...
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By now everyone is aware of the Aurora, Colorado shooting where 71 people were murdered or wounded.
The incident that took place in a movie theater was the act of James Holmes, a student at the University of Colorado who was working towards a doctorate in neurosciences. Does his profile fit that of a mass murderer? Probably not, but I’d be willing to bet that in an unfettered investigation conducted by a legitimate Grand Jury, they would find that Holmes personality had been altered.
It was found that in previous mass shootings that the perpetrators were on some form of Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, or, by police report information, the shooter had previously begged for help, claiming that he was being abducted, and tortured. The reports, in at least one instance, included witness statements that claimed to have seen the subject grabbed by masked men and thrown into a van.
Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter, was on mind-altering drugs. In light of the recent developments in GlaxoSmithKline $3 Billion US fraud settlement wherein it was shown that the pharmaceutical giant had falsified its testing results, I can’t believe that anything is beyond the scope of what might have taken place prior to this most recent shooting.
In current times we discovered that the Russian’s still had sleeper agents in the U.S., and apparently throughout the world. Russian convicted of treason in sleeper agent case.
In 1975 the concept of sleepers was widely introduced to the public in the movie Telefon based on the novel by Walter Wager. Most would say this is nonsense, but during the Sixties, and Seventies there was confirmation that the agents did exist, and they were activated by certain phrases. More recently it has come to light that The Psychiatrists Who Programmed the Sleepers are Being Killed. The article is long with a number of links, but is worth reading for anyone who wants to understand what might be taking place in the minds of the people who commit these crimes.
Why do I mention any of this as related to such a tragic event as this Aurora shooting? Because in light of the investigations that take place, and the information that subsequently is released years later, we have to ask ourselves if there is something else going on.
One question, at the forefront for me, is why after all the obvious lying on so many levels do we consistently dismiss the idea that our government has a hand in the most foul, and nefarious acts taking place in the world? Did we not see that the attack on Iraq was completely without merit as to the claims of WMD’s? Do we even care that we’ve murdered hundreds of thousands of women and children in the name of our own personal safety?
Did we bother to question as to how the Patriot Act immediately popped into play? Congressman Ron Paul stated, “The PATRIOT Act Was Written Many, Many Years Before 9/11 [And The Attacks Simply Provided] An Opportunity for Some People To Do What They Wanted To Do”
To some this may seem a little too conspiratorial, but the fact of the matter is that there is enough evidence in our past to make even the most die-hard skeptic question why such incidents occur at the most opportune time for a government agenda, or inopportune time for those who aspire to freedom. It can’t be coincidence all the time, and it can’t be suited to the government’s agenda at that particular moment each time.
We know that the ATF’s Fast and Furious sting allowed thousands of guns to go to drug cartels, that the program was responsible for the death of law enforcement agents, and also responsible for the deaths of thousands of others, both in Mexico and the US. We also know that the DOJ, and the Attorney General has tried to cover it up, and has been caught lying to congress. What are another 71 people to attain your goal of disarmament?
On top of all of this is the UN Gun Ban Treaty that is supposedly designed to remove military style weapons from the civilian population. Make no mistake that this treaty is aimed at the American people, the constitutional mandate to muster the Militia, and our inherent right to keep and bear arms when enemies both foreign and domestic threaten us.
This theater shooting comes just days before the treaty ratification vote in the US Senate. It comes at a time when it seemed apparent that the administration did not have the votes to have this treaty confirmed.
It also comes in the wake of Leon Panetta telling congress Obama can start wars without them under the direction of the UN. Should we question whether an international cabal is running our government?
Still, the flag wavers place their heads in the sand and refuse to believe that our government would commit such atrocities. Ladies and gentlemen, what will it take for you to remove the veil, and demand hard investigations with the outcome being the indictment, and prosecution of those who create these nightmares?
I am telling you that this shooting stinks from Colorado all the way to New York where the mayor is probably ecstatic over the fact that he has another tool to ban weapons in the hand of the citizen.
These incidents cannot be so coincidental. We’ve seen just too many that are confirmed as government operations.
So I ask my fellow Americans not to shut their eyes to the dangers that we face from a rogue government, and to remember that the Second Amendment was specifically enumerated so that the people could “alter or to abolish” government when it interfered with the “security of a free state”.
I, for one, am not of “the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation…”
Are you?
‘Nick’
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Where are you going Papa?
Where are you going Pa?
I’m going off to war son.
I’m going off to war.
There’s nothing can be done son.
Our country has gone to war.
The cannon’s are calling.
The battlefield is red.
The flag is unfurling,
And soon I may be dead.
War is repugnant to the human character. It is due to greed, avarice, and a host of sins that have plagued us since Cain slew Abel.
Century after century armies have marched to the beat of bloodshed imposing some sort of tyranny on an often unsuspecting foe. Few times are we justified in bearing arms against our fellow man.
All war cannot be avoided from the prospective of those who wish to maintain their national sovereignty, and freedom. Typically civilian casualties are high, infrastructure destroyed, and some form of slavery ensues.
America was founded on a war for Independence. I am not going to justify the Revolution to you because it would simply be an exercise in futility to those who learned their history in modern government schools, and it needs no explanation for the rest who were willing to dig into the conflict that began years before the Declaration of Independence was signed on that hot July day.
Today, contrary to our stated goals as a country, America imposes its will around the world. It is not without descent that we do so, but rather an ongoing struggle by those who realize the essence of what lies under this tragic agenda.
Let me qualify my objections to our current platform of bringing democracy to the rest of the world. First, I would not hesitate to take up arms against anyone who would endanger the sanctity of our free state. I would further qualify that by stating that I have not done so at this point because we are either ill prepared for an internal war, or the balance of the citizenry would much rather languish under the failed, and unlawful acts of the current government.
Second, as we have never failed to point out here, this country is not a democracy, but rather a Constitutional Federal Republic. A country formed by a union of states, each sovereign in its own right, which contains a free and independent people never beholding to the majority rule in so much as we do not violate or abuse the rights of our fellow citizens. For America to be so hypocritical as to promote an obviously flawed, and failed form of government speaks volumes of who we have become, and what path we now walk.
There is no America for the many who serve us now in more than One-Hundred other nations across the globe. We are the policemen of the world, tearing fathers and mothers from their homes, and planting the seeds of strife, and despotism as we march ourselves deeper into an untenable position.
Ron Paul talked about blow-back from our meddling into the affairs of other nations. Those who would have us believe that we have the right to change the structure of other countries laughed at him. The media joined in the fray as the braying sheep they are, willing to sell out their fellow countrymen for the well paid positions of propagandists.
This article is not about our agenda, but the underlying tragedy it inflicts upon the few who are willing to serve their nation. I say few because at any given time it is only a very small percentage of the population that is willing to take up arms, even when it is apparent that a call to arms is necessary to maintain a free state.
Our military is voluntary. Many of the people who serve have been to Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Indeed some have been there four or five times, and that my fellow citizen is well beyond the term of abuse.
What impact does that have on the lives of a little boy, or girl who is without that one parent upon which they derive an essential part of their character? I suppose in a nation with a divorce rate of over fifty-percent we are want to even recognize the damage of the position. But, let me tell you that I would bet that those good people who are willing to serve their country are the ones who would create the most stable of environments for a sound family life.
I oppose the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and what ever else may come from these expeditions, but I laud the men and women of our armed forces as courageous despite any political difference. In the long run, as many of our Vietnam Vets realize today, we have entered into a war without justification that will ruin the lives of many.
The death toll to the American service is enough to make us ill at the notion of those who will not return to their loved ones, or those who have been, and will be burned with permanent disabilities. The death toll in the civilian population of Iraq alone should beat upon our hearts as an injustice so great that we should scream through every legislature for their explanation as to why they lay silent.
The civilian death toll in Iraq passed 1.5 million people more than a year ago, and the abomination of injuries caused by depleted uranium core munitions is a scar this country will not readily be able to reconcile in the long run. Blow-Back from this may be the position from which our government builds upon its already obvious assault on liberty. It may also be the battleground of our children who will construct their bunkers against attack, after attack from those who have seen the horrors of war brought about by our nation building paradigm.
Cindy Sheehan, while I could not initially agree with her, has come to see that this war is not a matter of democrats versus republicans, but rather it is the vilest aspect of a nation that has been captured by a one party system, indifferent to the rule of law, and captive to greed, and power. Today I can see we, ...
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We haven't posted any Ron Paul Articles or news lately, but this speech is actually classic RP all the way. Another one from "the man who should have been president".
“Could it all be a bad dream, or a nightmare? Is it my imagination, or have we lost our minds? It's surreal; it's just not believable. A grand absurdity; a great deception, a delusion of momentous proportions; based on preposterous notions; and on ideas whose time should never have come; simplicity grossly distorted and complicated; insanity passed off as logic; grandiose schemes built on falsehoods with the morality of Ponzi and Madoff; evil described as virtue; ignorance pawned off as wisdom; destruction and impoverishment in the name of humanitarianism; violence, the tool of change; preventive wars used as the road to peace; tolerance delivered by government guns; reactionary views in the guise of progress; an empire replacing the Republic; slavery sold as liberty; excellence and virtue traded for mediocracy; socialism to save capitalism; a government out of control, unrestrained by the Constitution, the rule of law, or morality; bickering over petty politics as we collapse into chaos; the philosophy that destroys us is not even defined.
We have broken from reality--a psychotic Nation. Ignorance with a pretense of knowledge replacing wisdom. Money does not grow on trees, nor does prosperity come from a government printing press or escalating deficits.
We're now in the midst of unlimited spending of the people's money, exorbitant taxation, deficits of trillions of dollars--spent on a failed welfare/warfare state; an epidemic of cronyism; unlimited supplies of paper money equated with wealth.
A central bank that deliberately destroys the value of the currency in secrecy, without restraint, without nary a whimper. Yet, cheered on by the pseudo-capitalists of Wall Street, the military industrial complex, and Detroit.
We police our world empire with troops on 700 bases and in 130 countries around the world. A dangerous war now spreads throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Thousands of innocent people being killed, as we become known as the torturers of the 21st century.
We assume that by keeping the already-known torture pictures from the public's eye, we will be remembered only as a generous and good people. If our enemies want to attack us only because we are free and rich, proof of torture would be irrelevant.
The sad part of all this is that we have forgotten what made America great, good, and prosperous. We need to quickly refresh our memories and once again reinvigorate our love, understanding, and confidence in liberty. The status quo cannot be maintained, considering the current conditions. Violence and lost liberty will result without some revolutionary thinking.
We must escape from the madness of crowds now gathering. The good news is the reversal is achievable through peaceful and intellectual means and, fortunately, the number of those who care are growing exponentially.
Of course, it could all be a bad dream, a nightmare, and that I'm seriously mistaken, overreacting, and that my worries are unfounded. I hope so. But just in case, we ought to prepare ourselves for revolutionary changes in the not-too-distant future.” RP
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