IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD"
Long ago in American history freedom was cherished by all men of government, today is it condemn by men in government. I believe a militia is necessary to keep, maintain, and preserve freedom that all men have a right to. In battle more than 200 years ago it was the militia forces made up of men with a goal, that goal was to fight for the freedom of future generations, today, we need to stand for our freedom. In the Declaration of Independence we read that it is necessary to abolish the standing government when freedoms are in danger. We truly do not have the same freedoms we were granted 200 years ago. The Militia is a true patriotic cause out for the security of freedom for all people. The militia is formed up by the people, and is the guard of freedom for future generations as it was for America more than 200 years ago.
A militia of the people is necessary for the security of a free state. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."-Second Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America
Thomas Jefferson stated once about the Second Amendment: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect against tyranny in government."
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason
Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state."-Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution of The State of Michigan
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country..." -James Madison
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms..." -Richard Henry Lee
"The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen." - Gov. R. Lucas, former Major General of the Ohio Militia, 1832
It is the job of the Patriot to protect the country they love from it's government." -- John Adams.
Our forefathers knew that countries with a militia excelled, and nations without a militia usually failed. They knew that without certain safeguards inserted in our constitution, this nation would also fail. One safeguard is the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is an absolute right, reserved respectively to the people.
The Federal government has made claims over and over that the militia is the National Guard, portraying, and in many cases literally calling the militia groups of Citizens "Terrorists, White Supremacists, Extremists, Radicals, and many other slanderous, defaming names.
Most Americans today believe that the National Guard is the Militia reserved to the states in the State Constitutions and the Constitution of the United States of America. Nothing could be further from the TRUTH considering the Constitution was written in the 1700's and this idea of the National Guard being the militia. The National Guard did not exist from the beginnings of the Republic until 1903 when it was instituted and created by Congress as the Act of January 21, 1903, known by the name of its sponsor as "The Dick Act".
On January 3, 1916, president Wilson usurped (Usurped": to make claim to something you have lawful right to) the powers of the People as a "Militia" under U.S. Code, Title 32. Under Title 32, the National Guard is Federally funded through the U.S. Treasury, and the commanding officer of the National Guard is the president. Not as a president, but as the senior officer, in accordance with Title 32 USC 104(c)(d)(e)(f). Such a position makes the National Guard the president's own private army! U.S. Code, Title 32, completely alters the definition of the militia, its services, who controls it and what it is. Title 32 violates every article and section of the Constitution, including the Second Amendment!
To understand what the militia is, perhaps it would be best to hear it from our founding forefathers of this great country. First, our founding forefathers were very well educated in history, including government and military history of each nation and why they either excelled as a nation or failed as a society.
If the militia is to protect the Citizens against tyranny in government, and if the National Guard was the Militia, the president, being the commander/senior officer of the National Guard, surely wouldn't order the overthrow of tyranny in the government in which he is a part of, no matter how much the people proclaimed tyranny. The National Guard is not the Militia. NOTHING, in the Constitution states that the Militia is the National Guard. The Militia has always been the "Sovereign Citizens." Anything else would be in contrast with the Constitution. It wouldn't make any sense to create safeguards against tyranny in government, and then put that same government in control of such safeguards.
Article II. Section 2. of the Constitution states in pertinent part:
"Section 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into actual Service of the United States; he may require the opinion in writing, of the principle Officer in each of the executive department,. . ."
Keep in mind what the Militia is for, as Thomas Jefferson said:
". . . as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
And, Article II Section 2 of the Constitution, which states in pertinent part:
". . . when called into actual service of the United States, . . . "
That means that the Militia is not a military group originally under the rule of the United States government. The Militia is a civilian defense organization, which is an absolute right reserved respectively to the people, and such rights are protected by Article X of the Bill of Rights which states:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Federalist Papers were written by the people who wrote the Constitution, and were created to interpret the Constitution. Who could interpret the constitution better than the one's who wrote it? No one could have answered the question "WHAT IS THE MILITIA" more beautifully, than Hamilton when he wrote in the Federalist Papers under No. 28:
"The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call."
Hamilton further stated in the Federalist Papers under No. 69:
"The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they are independent and not under the command of the president or the government. The states would control the militia, only when called out into the service of the state, and then the governor would be commander in chief where enumerated in the respective state constitution."
The Federalist Papers have been used in the past as binding in authority, in interpreting the Constitution in U.S. Courts.
We, the Sovereign Citizens of the United States of America are the true Militia under the Constitution, and when the Citizens see (as stated in the Declaration of Independence)
"a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
The only power the government has over The People is their ignorance. When tyrants act in the name of government, violating ethics, they break the trust of the Citizens. The natural result should be to pull back power.
"That the National Guard is not the 'Militia' referred to in the Second Amendment is even clearer today. Congress had organized the National Guard under its power to 'raise and support armies' and not its power to 'Provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia.' The modern National Guard was specifically intended to avoid status as the constitutional militia, a distinction recognized by 10 U.S.C. 311(a).
Title 32 U.S.C. in July 1918 completely altered the definition of the militia and its service, who controls it and what it is. The difference between the National Guard and Regular Army was swept away, and became a personnel pay folder classification only, thus nationalizing the entire National Guard into the Regular Standing Armies of the United States.
All the arms, munitions, armament and equipment of the National Guard is owned and controlled by the federal government, not by "the people" as clearly stipulated in the Second Amendment.
The Unorganized Militia consists of all able bodied persons of the nation and of the states between the ages of 18 and 44, and is exclusive of all members of the organized militia, i.e., the Armed Forces of the Federal Government of the United States and of the National Guards of the various states of the Union.
Learn about our Constitution before its to late. Unchecked power in government is the foundation of tyranny. It is our duty as Citizens to use our power of to control the government in order to stem the tide of oppression and tyranny. President Abraham Lincoln once said:
"The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!"
"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."- Thomas Jefferson
In the past, literally millions of people have given their lives to preserve the rights given to us through the Constitution. We should never take for granted that those rights will always be at our disposal. Right now, there are to many good men doing nothing! One of Thomas Jefferson's warnings about government taking away our rights went as follows:
". . . the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body, working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little to-marrow, and advancing its motionless steps like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be controlled into one."
Thomas Jefferson couldn't have been more right! We are slowly loosing our sovereignty and being consolidated under one rule, and that one rule will eventually do away with the Constitution and rule with an iron fist.
There's no better time than now! Support your local Militia organization. One day soon, your freedom will depend on it. So remember the authority, duty, and obligation of the citizens, acting as the militia, is clearly expressed in our Declaration of Independence: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it...," further, "...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,..." Together, these provisions codify the natural rights of all citizens to defense of self, family, and country.
A standing army has always been used by despots to enforce their rule and to keep their people under subjection. Its existence was therefore considered a great threat to peace and stability in a republic and a danger to the rights of the nation. Since every aspect of government was designed to prevent the rise of tyranny, strict limits and control over the military were considered absolutely necessary. It was essential that the military be subordinate to civilian control.
"The supremacy of the civil over the military authority I deem [one of] the essential principles of our Government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801.
"[A commander who conducts a] great military contest with wisdom and fortitude [will] invariably [regard] the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes." --Thomas Jefferson: Address to George Washington, 1783.
"Instead of subjecting the military to the civil power, [a tyrant will make] the civil subordinate to the military. But can [he] thus put down all law under his feet? Can he erect a power superior to that which erected himself? He [can do] it indeed by force, but let him remember that force cannot give right." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774.(*) Papers, 1:134
"No military commander should be so placed as to have no civil superior." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 1801.
"It is probable... that not knowing how to use the military as a civil weapon, [the civil authority] will do too much or too little with it." --Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 1789.
"To carry on our war with success, we want able officers, and a sufficient number of soldiers. The former, time and trial can alone give us; to procure the latter, we need only the tender of sufficient inducements and the assiduous pressure of them on the proper subjects." --Thomas Jefferson to John Clarke, 1814.
"Bonaparte will conquer the world, if they do not learn his secret of composing armies of young men only, whose enthusiasm and health enable them to surmount all obstacles." --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806.
"There should be a school of instruction for our navy as well as artillery; and I do not see why the same establishment might not suffice for both. Both require the same basis of general mathematics, adding projectiles and fortifications for the artillery exclusively, and astronomy and theory of navigation exclusively for the naval students." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821.
"Neither a nation nor those entrusted with its affairs could be justifiable, however sanguine their expectations, in trusting solely to an engine not yet sufficiently tried under all the circumstances which may occur, and against which we know not as yet what means of parrying may be devised." --Thomas Jefferson to Robert Fulton, 1807. ME 11:328
"There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army." --Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 1789.
"I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.
"Nor is it conceived needful or safe that a standing army should be kept up in time of peace for [defense against invasion]." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Annual Message, 1801.
"Standing armies [are] inconsistent with [a people's] freedom and subversive of their quiet." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North's Proposition, 1775.
"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force." --Thomas Jefferson to Chandler Price, 1807.
"A distinction between the civil and military [is one] which it would be for the good of the whole to obliterate as soon as possible." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786.
"It is nonsense to talk of regulars. They are not to be had among a people so easy and happy at home as ours. We might as well rely on calling down an army of angels from heaven." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1814.
"There shall be no standing army but in time of actual war." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.
"The Greeks and Romans had no standing armies, yet they defended themselves. The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814.
"Bonaparte... transferred the destinies of the republic from the civil to the military arm. Some will use this as a lesson against the practicability of republican government. I read it as a lesson against the danger of standing armies." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Adams, 1800.
"In this country, [a draught from the militia] ever was the most unpopular and impracticable thing that could be attempted. Our people, even under the monarchical government, had learnt to consider it as the last of all oppressions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1777.
"The breaking men to military discipline is breaking their spirits to principles of passive obedience." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1788.
"If no check can be found to keep the number of standing troops within safe bounds while they are tolerated as far as necessary, abandon them altogether, discipline well the militia and guard the magazines with them. More than magazine guards will be useless if few and dangerous if many. No European nation can ever send against us such a regular army as we need fear, and it is hard if our militia are not equal to those of Canada or Florida." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. "Our duty is... to act upon things as they are and to make a reasonable provision for whatever they may be. Were armies to be raised whenever a speck of war is visible in our horizon, we never should have been without them. Our resources would have been exhausted on dangers which have never happened instead of being reserved for what is really to take place." --Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806. "[Montesquieu wrote in his Spirit of the Laws, XIII,c.17:] 'As soon as one prince augments his forces, the rest, of course, do the same; so that nothing is gained thereby but the public ruin.'" --Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book. "The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me:... All troops of the United States shall stand ipso facto disbanded at the expiration of the term for which their pay and subsistence shall have been last voted by Congress, and all officers and soldiers not natives of the United States shall be incapable of serving in their armies by land except during a foreign war." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789.
"Every rational citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water. A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1786.
"I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens and sink us under them." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799.
"A navy is a very expensive engine. It is admitted that in ten or twelve years a vessel goes to entire decay; of, if kept in repair, costs as much as would build a new one; and that a nation who could count on twelve or fifteen years of peace, would gain by burning its navy and building a new one in time. Its extent, therefore, must be governed by circumstances." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1822.
"Collisions... between the vessels of war of different nations... beget wars and constitute the weightiest objection to navies." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1822.
"For a people who are free and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. It is, therefore, incumbent on us at every meeting [of Congress] to revise the condition of the militia and to ask ourselves if it is prepared to repel a powerful enemy at every point of our territories exposed to invasion... Congress alone have power to produce a uniform state of preparation in this great organ of defense. The interests which they so deeply feel in their own and their country's security will present this as among the most important objects of their deliberation." --Thomas Jefferson: 8th Annual Message, 1808.
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important, but especially so at a moment when rights the most essential to our welfare have been violated." --Thomas Jefferson to -----, 1803.
"It is more a subject of joy that we have so few of the desperate characters which compose modern regular armies. But it proves more forcibly the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier; this was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free State. Where there is no oppression there can be no pauper hirelings." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1813.
"A well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our Government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801.
"A militia so organized that its effective portions can be called to any point in the Union, or volunteers instead of them to serve a sufficient time, are means which may always be ready yet never preying on our resources until actually called into use. They will maintain the public interests while a more permanent force shall be in course of preparation. But much will depend on the promptitude with which these means can be brought into activity. If war be forced upon us in spite of our long and vain appeals to the justice of nations, rapid and vigorous movements in its outset will go far toward securing us in its course and issue, and toward throwing its burdens on those who render necessary the resort from reason to force." --Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
"Militia do well for hasty enterprises but cannot be relied on for lengthy service and out of their own country." --Thomas Jefferson to North Carolina Assembly, 1781.
"[The] governor [is] constitutionally the commander of the militia of the State, that is to say, of every man in it able to bear arms." --Thomas Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1811.
"Uncertain as we must ever be of the particular point in our circumference where an enemy may choose to invade us, the only force which can be ready at every point and competent to oppose them, is the body of neighboring citizens as formed into a militia. On these, collected from the parts most convenient, in numbers proportioned to the invading foe, it is best to rely, not only to meet the first attack, but if it threatens to be permanent, to maintain the defense until regulars may be engaged to relieve them." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Annual Message, 1801.
"We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. We can never be safe till this is done." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1813.
"[Congress should] consider whether it would not be expedient, for a state of peace as well as of war, so to organize or class the militia as would enable us, on a sudden emergency, to call for the services of the younger portions, unencumbered with the old and those having families... Able-bodied men, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six years, which the last census shows we may now count within our limits, will furnish a competent number for offense or defense in any point where they may be wanted, and will give time for raising regular forces after the necessity of them shall become certain; and the reducing to the early period of life all its active service cannot but be desirable to our younger citizens, of the present as well as future times, inasmuch as it engages to them in more advanced age a quiet and undisturbed repose in the bosom of their families." --Thomas Jefferson: 5th Annual Message, 1805.
"[One measure] which I pressed on Congress repeatedly at their meetings... was to class the militia according to the years of their birth, and make all those from twenty to twenty-five liable to be trained and called into service at a moment's warning. This would have given us a force of three hundred thousand young men, prepared by proper training for service in any part of the United States; while those who had passed through that period would remain at home, liable to be used in their own or adjacent States. [This] would have completed what I deemed necessary for the entire security of our country." --Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810.
"I pressed on Congress repeatedly at their meetings... measures [which would have] left... the whole territory of the United States organized by such a classification of its male force, as would give it the benefit of all its young population for active service, and that of a middle and advanced age for stationary defense." --Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810.
"Two measures will enable us to... defend ourselves. 1. To organize the militia into classes, assigning to each class the duties for which it is fitted (which, had it been done when proposed years ago, would have prevented all our misfortunes), abolishing by a declaratory law the doubts which abstract scruples in some, and cowardice and treachery in others, have conjured up about passing imaginary lines, and limiting, at the same time, their services to the contiguous provinces of the enemy. The 2nd is the [financial] ways and means." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1814.
"I think the truth must now be obvious that our people are too happy at home to enter into regular service, and that we cannot be defended but by making every citizen a soldier, as the Greeks and Romans who had no standing armies; and that in doing this all must be marshaled, classed by their ages, and every service ascribed to its competent class." --Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1814.
"Against great land armies we cannot attempt defense but by equal armies. For these we must depend on a classified militia, which will give us the service of the class from twenty to twenty-six, in the nature of conscripts,... to be specially trained. This measure, attempted at a former session, was pressed at the last, and might, I think, have been carried by a small majority. But considering that great innovations should not be forced on a slender majority, and seeing that the general opinion is sensibly rallying to it, it was thought better to let it lie over to the next session, when, I trust, it will be passed." --Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, 1808.
"Convinced that a militia of all ages promiscuously are entirely useless for distant service, and that we never shall be safe until we have a selected corps for a year's distant service at least, the classification of our militia is now the most essential thing the United States have to do. Whether on Bonaparte's plan of making a class for every year between certain periods, or that recommended in my message, I do not know, but I rather incline to his." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1807.
"In the beginning of our government we were willing to introduce the least coercion possible on the will of the citizen. Hence a system of military duty was established too indulgent to his indolence. This [War of 1812] is the first opportunity we have had of trying it, and it has completely failed--an issue foreseen by many, and for which remedies have been proposed. That of classing the militia according to age and allotting each age to the particular kind of service to which it was competent was proposed to Congress in 1805 and subsequently; and on the last trial was lost, I believe, by a single vote. Had it prevailed, what has now happened would not have happened. Instead of burning our Capitol, we should have possessed theirs in Montreal and Quebec. We must now adopt it, and all will be safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814.
"It is very much the good to force the unworthy into their due share of contributions to the public support, otherwise the burden on them will become oppressive, indeed." --Thomas Jefferson to Garret Vanmeter, 1781.