Here I make a request of the National Guard Bureau and all troops under it's command. Examine this website. If you are in fact the one and only true militia, it is well past time to stand up to America's government. This can be done without violence nor disruption of proper functioning. It is obvious the government has little, if any, intention of correcting itself on it's own. Government at all levels will have to be forced into correcting it's many issues. Evidence abounds to support this claim. I make the same request of the FBI. By their own website they claim duty to this cause.
Both groups cannot do this alone. They need other agencies and the people to help. They need to speak up and tell the people what they need. Perhaps a system to reward whistle-blowers instead of putting them in jail.
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This website is only the tip of the iceberg. America needs leaders that are GUARD-DOGS [a little play on words]not LAP-DOGS. Which are you? Perhaps your the standing army our founders feared? Destroy the real militia to maintain control? Or are you the liberty saving militia our founders REQUIRED in the constitution?
Saying your not allowed to speak out or act against government goes against the concept of the militia you claim to be. Therefore you must then be the standing army feared by our founders.
It should be obvious, even to you, the condition of America is a travesty. An insult to the American people. Especially the military of the past that fought for freedom as it was intended. Or did they fight so politicians and companies can steal and lie?
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[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.
Federal Farmer, Antifederalist Letter, No.18, January 25, 1778
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
A Pennsylvanian, The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788
"Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people." (Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697])
Web Writer's comment:
Above says 1636... Below says 1903...
As you read this ask why we need a National Guard Bureau in charge of all guard and all reserve units nationwide? They have a leader appointed by the president from the standing army. They all answer to him. He answers to the standing army. Why? I notice they have changed and removed a lot of this information from their website. They want you ignorant! They lie to you in the statement below. They do not always answer to the governor and do not recognize any private militia. They are not 375 years old. 2011 minus 1903 equals 108 years. Also, the National Guard Bureau is not even that old! Check it yourself. They claim roots to militia groups of 1636. It became the guard we know January 21, 1903. Under the militia act of 1903.
National Guard Fact Sheet
National Guard and Militias
The National Guard is the organized militia reserved to the states by the Constitution of
the United States under Article 1, Section 8. In peacetime, the National Guard is
commanded by the governor of each respective state or territory. When ordered to active
duty for mobilization or called into federal service for emergencies, units of the Guard
are under the control of the appropriate service secretary. The militia clause reserves the
appointment of officers and the authority of training the militia (according to
Congressionally prescribed standards) to the states. In 1903, Congress officially
designated the organized militia as the National Guard and established procedures for
training and equipping the Guard to active duty military standards. The FY04 National
Defense Authorization Act amended Title 32, United States Code, Section 325 to make it
possible for a National Guard officer to be in command of federal (Active Duty) and state
(National Guard Title 32 and State Active Duty) forces simultaneously.
State Defense Force: The State Defense Force is a form of militia and is authorized to
the states by federal statute (Title 32 U.S. Code 109). State Defense Forces are not
entities of the federal government. They are organized, equipped, trained, employed and
funded according to state laws and are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the governor.
Should the National Guard be mobilized for war, specialized operations such as
humanitarian or peacekeeping missions or called into federal service during national
emergencies, the State Defense Force will assume the National Guard's mission for the
state's security.
Unorganized Militia: Federal and state laws generally define the militia as "all ablebodied
males between ages 17 and 45." Federal statute (Title 10 U.S. Code 311) defines
the unorganized militia as all members of the militia who are not members of the
National Guard or Naval Militia.
[the people at large]
Self-Proclaimed Private Militias: Some private individuals, without government
sanction, have banded together and styled themselves "militias." These militias answer to
no government, they have no formal or informal relationship with the National Guard and
are not state-recognized organizations. They are private organizations, some paramilitary
in nature, that use the term militia in their names.
[the people at large with no age or health requirements / just love of country and freedom as the founders believed]
[ www.unitedstatesmilitia.com ]
Membership Requirements:National Guard: 1) Must be a citizen, illegal alien, or permanent
resident alien; must be at least 17 and not have reached their 35th birthday at time of
enlistment; must pass an Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a Standard Armed
Forces Physical Examination and be of good moral character ( like breaking many laws to get here?); must be available for initial
active duty training; and must agree to participate in an initial tour of active duty training
of at least 12 weeks. Individuals with prior service in any branch of the U.S. military may
receive credit for that service and join the National Guard at an age greater than 35.
(Current as of 15 Jun 05)
2) State Defense Force: Persons serving in the Armed Forces and persons who are
members of Reserve components of the Armed Forces cannot be members of a State
Defense Force.
For more information, contact the NGB Public Affairs Office.
http://www.nationalguard.mil/about/
About the National Guard
The National Guard, the oldest component of the Armed Forces of the United States and one of the nation's longest-enduring institutions, celebrated its 370th birthday on December 13, 2006. The National Guard traces its history back to the earliest English colonies in North America. Responsible for their own defense, the colonists drew on English military tradition and organized their able-bodied male citizens into militias.
The colonial militias protected their fellow citizens from Indian attack, foreign invaders, and later helped to win the Revolutionary War. Following independence, the authors of the Constitution empowered Congress to "provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia." However, recognizing the militia's state role, the Founding Fathers reserved the appointment of officers and training of the militia to the states. Today's National Guard still remains a dual state-Federal force.
Throughout the 19th century the size of the Regular Army was small, and the militia provided the bulk of the troops during the Mexican War, the early months of the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. In 1903, important national defense legislation increased the role of the National Guard (as the militia was now called) as a Reserve force for the U.S. Army. In World War I, which the U.S. entered in 1917, the National Guard made up 40% of the U.S. combat divisions in France; in World War II, National Guard units were among the first to deploy overseas and the first to fight.
Following World War II, National Guard aviation units, some of them dating back to World War I, became the Air National Guard, the nation's newest Reserve component. The Guard stood on the frontiers of freedom during the Cold War, sending soldiers and airmen to fight in Korea and to reinforce NATO during the Berlin crisis of 1961-1962. During the Vietnam war, almost 23,000 Army and Air Guardsmen were called up for a year of active duty; some 8,700 were deployed to Vietnam. Over 75,000 Army and Air Guardsmen were called upon to help bring a swift end to Desert Storm in 1991.
Since that time, the National Guard has seen the nature of its Federal mission change, with more frequent call ups in response to crises in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and the skies over Iraq. Most recently, following the attacks of September 11, 2001, more than 50,000 Guardmembers were called up by both their States and the Federal government to provide security at home and combat terrorism abroad. In the largest and swiftest response to a domestic disaster in history, the Guard deployed more than 50,000 troops in support of the Gulf States following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Today, tens of thousands of Guardmembers are serving in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the National Guard continues its historic dual mission, providing to the states units trained and equipped to protect life and property, while providing to the nation units trained, equipped and ready to defend the United States and its interests, all over the globe.
http://www.ngbpdc.ngb.army.mil/default.htm
If they wish to be the "Militia" then we can use them to do their duty to the people. Not to the government. Also, it sounds like they should change their name to the International Reserve Guard! They work for the people. Not the government!
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169)
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States....Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America" - (Gazette of the United States, October 14, 1789.)
"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." (Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment [ I Annals of Congress at 750 {August 17, 1789}])
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States" (Noah Webster in `An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution', 1787, a pamphlet aimed at swaying Pennsylvania toward ratification, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at 56(New York, 1888))
"...if raised, whether they could subdue a Nation of freemen, who know how to prize liberty, and who have arms in their hands?" (Delegate Sedgwick, during the Massachusetts Convention, rhetorically asking if an oppressive standing army could prevail, Johnathan Elliot, ed., Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol.2 at 97 (2d ed., 1888))
"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights..." (Alexander Hamilton speaking of standing armies in Federalist 29.)
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. . . Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in Federalist Paper No. 46.)
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." (Tench Coxe in `Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution' under the Pseudonym `A Pennsylvanian' in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1)
"Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people" (Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788)
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