Re: How To Recognize the Militiaboys

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (RedOctober90) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Steve where does it exactly say that the national guard is the "new"
> militia? Rememmber the FEDS control it..... the civilian militia is a
> force to volunteer in crisis and maintain a balance between the
> sovereign rights of the people and the "state"

Red, Article 1, Section 8 gives the Congress power over the militia to
organize it, discipline it and arm it, plus it charges the Congress
with providing for the common defense. Article 1, Section 1, gives the
Congress the power to pass bills. In 1903, that same Congress passed
the Dick Act, which converted the militia into the National Guard,
which it had the power to do.

So, to speak slowly:
1) Art. 1, Sec. 1 gives Congress the power to pass bills.
2) Art. 1, Sec. 8 gives Congress power over the militia.
3) Using it's Constitutional imprimatur under Art. 1, Sec. 1, Congress
created the National Guard by passing the Dick Act in 1903.

It's not written out for you in the Constitution. It evolved over
time. It was apparent that the militia system was not working very
well and something else was needed. So Congress, by constitutional
means, mind you, created the National Guard. That's where it comes
from.

There is no 'civilian militia.' Nor is there a 'citizen's militia' or
whatever you want to call it. They don't volunteer in a crisis and
they don't maintain a 'balance between the sovereign rights of the
people and the state,' as you claim. Your entire idea of a 'civilian
militia' comes from a dodge that's around 170 years old. In fact, they
don't do ANYTHING except spread the paranoic belief that the
government is coming to get them and that they don't have to obey a
law they don't like.

I help people all the time. I will bet a lot of people on this
newsgroup do the same; we just don't organize a private army when we
do it. What you are really talking about is new and improved freikorps
like the Kentucky State 'Militia,' and they are pretty damned useless.

S. Olson