The First Responder of the People
1. The Militia is a Constitutional body, comprised of all free persons, or citizens, of the Nation, the government, at any level, cannot destroy because the government is charged with the responsibility, in Article I section 8;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
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, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
2. In view of the foregoing, the Militia predates the government by more than a hundred years and is, in fact, a governmental body of the people. Just some of the Founders views on the Militia;
Tenche Coxe: "Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right 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.", Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Tenche Coxe: "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly 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." 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.
1. The Militia is a Constitutional body, comprised of all free persons, or citizens, of the Nation, the government, at any level, cannot destroy because the government is charged with the responsibility, in Article I section 8;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
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, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
2. In view of the foregoing, the Militia predates the government by more than a hundred years and is, in fact, a governmental body of the people. Just some of the Founders views on the Militia;
Tenche Coxe: "Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right 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.", Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Tenche Coxe: "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly 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." 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.
Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: "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." (spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789.)
Alexander Hamilton: "Little more can be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped." (Id) {responding to the claim that the militia itself could threaten liberty}" There is something so far-fetched, and so extravagant in the idea of danger of liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or raillery (mockery). (Id)
3. It is the only entity constitutionally charged with the enforcement of the laws of the Nation or State when the enforcement agencies of the government, created by statute, cannot, will not, or are forbidden to enforce the laws of the Nation or State.
4. The people are constitutionally required to be armed, by the government, with military grade weaponry, in order to perform their constitutionally mandated duty to muster, drill, train and serve upon being called.
5. Local Militias are the logical first responders when properly trained and equipped in the many skills required to mitigate disasters and manmade hazards.
• Those with chainsaws and other Pioneer Tools (shovels, axes, picks and other hand tools) would serve as Engineering detachments charged with clearing transportation routes as fast as possible to facilitate passage of emergency vehicles.
• First aid trained Militia would establish collecting points and triage services for the injured prior to transport to more sophisticated medical treatment facilities.
• Search and rescue trained Militia would, immediately, institute their procedures to protect the living and identify and collect the dead.
• Militia would patrol affected areas to prevent looting, rioting or other illegal or detrimental activity.
• Establish emergency shelters and feeding points and provide potable water and sanitation facilities.
The foregoing is only a small portion of duties that the Militia can and should perform as the Local self-help organization of the people. They coordinate their activities with Local governmental authorities and agencies but are self actuating when those entities collapse or prove ineffectual.
Government, at all levels, has proven, time and again, they are totally unprepared for any emergency, even when they have a weeks notice of an impending catastrophe. Hurricane Katrina and 911 were the perfect examples. Government eyes disasters as golden opportunities to increase their power over and control of the people.
The name of the game is CONTROLL, not mitigate misery.
Deo Vindice,
Dennis Joyce
Chairman
Federation of States
A proud member of the Confederate Alliance and staunch supporter of a restored CSA.
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." -- Goddard
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