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.
Adopted as the Second Amendment to the Constitution
December 15, 1791
"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, during Virginia's ratification convention, 1788.
"The power of the Sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of Congress. My friends, and countrymen, it is not so for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it 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. 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, Penn Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms...To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..."
Richard Henry Lee, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights. Additional Letters From the Federal Farmer 53, 1788.
"No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state... Such are a well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen"
Richard Henry Lee
"...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 Papers 29
"There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instill prejudices at any price; or as the serious offspring of political fanaticism. Where in the name of common sense are our fears to end if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbors, our fellow-citizens? What shadow of danger can there be from men who are daily mingling with the rest of their countrymen and who participate with them in the same feelings, sentiments, habits, and interests?"
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers 29
"The right of the people to keep and bear ... arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country ..."
James Madison, I Annuals of Congress 434 (June 8, 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, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution(1787)
Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers 28.
From these statements it is abundantly clear that the militia is the peoples safeguard against tyranny, and that the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or sport shooting. Because we have established previously that such protection has been the law for over 1000 years and is indeed self defense it is an unalienable right preceding government. This is evidenced in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution :
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;National government must provide funding and a training plan and officers to govern when the militia is actually called out by government. This is consistent with the founders desires. Government does not own the militia and can not force them to fight in wars the people do not wish to. Such as Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Kosovo, suppressing freedom fighters in other states etc. In other words the militia are not the Palace Guards as is the National Guard. The militia can never be coerced into fighting unconstitutional and or undeclared wars of policy enforcement. That is why the National Guard had to be stolen from the people to become a group under the Presidents direct control. Although the President does not have any authority under the Constitution to form his own private army, for obvious reasons.
The founders envisaged the states as outposts of freedom because they lived in states and at that time there was a highly cohesive moral society. They never anticipated the condition we have today of state governments jumping on the tyranny bandwagon, coaxed onwards by bribes from federal government and gleefully joining in the usurpations of the federal government. Does this fact thereby cancel out the militia because the governments wish it to be so? No. It is the height of folly to believe that a government created by the people and lent certain powers and authorities can somehow become greater then its creators and deny them rights that are far antecedent to the government thus created. In other words, at a time when state and federal governments are at their height of tyranny in this country the militia is needed more now then ever before to correct the acts of the Traitors from within.
Does the fact that governments will no longer fund, organize and train the militia as commanded in the Constitution rob us of our unalienable rights? Of course not. Such refusals and and public condemnation of the militia by government media has simply revealed the true nature of our current governments to we the people. Can the mere treachery of a few rob us of our rights? Of course not. The forming, the training and equipping of militias never has and never will require consent or approval of government.
Does a lone gunman shooting down a corrupt official constitute an act of the militia? Despite the fact that the dead politician actually was a would be despot and his demise bettered the country, militias are groups of men with a common purpose. We see from our own history that the militias (Sons of Liberty) harassed the British intensely before the first shots were fired at Lexington. How many then constitute a militia? Enough to get the job done. Whether its a planned offensive or completely unorganized resistance to troops in the streets and at your door. In either case the bad guys are always outnumbered. Because the militia man always operates in the mode of self defense of life, family and property there can be and is no charge of a crime which can be brought against him. Although the tyrants always claim the militia man broke their laws, who cares? Thomas Jefferson noted the distinction between the law and what is right when he said "...too often the law is but the will of the king, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Or consider the militia from this perspective. As we have already seen on the Rule of Law page man was given the right by God to defend his life, liberty and property to the last drop of his assailant's blood. If man possesses this right individually, how much more so collectively? And as we have seen on the Constitutional Republic page, governments are instituted by men to ensure their rights to life, liberty and property are preserved. In other words, governments are instituted by men to protect men and their society. This is what is meant in the Declaration of Independence "But when 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." Men who institute a government are responsible to the public for the outcomes of their actions. Hence, the militia must, by law, remove any tyrannical government not yielding to law or reason.
Because a militia man in his righteous capacity is acting in self defense even when on the offensive, there are no rules of engagement, no conventions which must be followed. Remember, a man is allowed by unalienable law to defend himself to the last drop of his assailants blood. There is no form a militia is required to take in this country now that state and federal governments have banded together in their plans of oppression. These governments have not only ceased mandated support for the militias but have attacked and denounced them in their media outlets. These governments have attempted to make the equipping of the militias difficult by continuing 'gun control' (newspeak for people control) legislation attacks. There can be 50 or 1000 militias all lawful and all needed. It is not even necessary to have communications between groups, for if every group eliminates the portion of the common enemy in their locality, the the job will get done. This was proven on April 19th, 1775 (Does your 'politically correct' calendar show this to be Patriots Day?) when the British marched against Lexington and Concord to confiscate the colonists guns. (not to impose new taxes as you were taught) On their way back to Boston the British were continuously sniped at by the English colonists, who became Americans on that day. With no plan and no commander the Patriots nearly defeated the British, and had not help from Boston arrived, would have completed the job. In more modern times the militia of Vietnam, the Viet Cong, proved again how effective a poorly trained and ill equipped citizen soldier could be.
As to weapons the militia man is supposed to be expert with and possessing the very best military equipment. Today this includes shotguns with 14 1/2" barrels because military and 'law enforcement' now use them. As are automatic weapons of every type. And the federal and state governments have no authority, from the Constitution of 1787, to require 'registration' of any weapon. In fact government has no authority to control by any means or regulate the use of firearms in the hands of a private Citizen unless that Citizen is in the Militia and the Militia is in the actual service of the United States. Having read and studied all of the previous pages at this site you now can plainly see that any registration, classifying as to type, limiting of ownership or capabilities has only the end goal of oppression in mind. Only cowards and or those who do not love their families enough to protect them are for gun control in the populace. Tyrants are always for gun/people control.
The militia is the highest form of civic duty that a freeman can perform. (remember public officials are not in the militia) The active acts of the militia combating tyranny are the peoples of the Constitutional Republic 'voting' to change and or abolish the current government. To renege on the law of mandatory participation is to renege, in part, on your duties as a freeman. The preservation of liberty does not come through government controlling men, but through men controlling government. To live in this country and call yourself an American and 'dodge the draft', so to speak, is to fall in league with the Traitors and assist them by not helping the Real Americans, the true Patriots, thereby giving aid to the Enemy and his cause, and thereby becoming guilty of Treason yourself.
In the debates of 1776 leading up to the Declaration of Independence Samuel Adams had this to say about such people :
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Even the liberals feel thusly :
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much
worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more
important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --John
Stuart Mill
In July of 1776 Benjamin Franklin summed up the matter when he volunteered this phrase for the motto of America :
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
Even God urges, no commands us, to such high levels of duty :
"Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes." Nehemiah 4:14
Amen.
Next on the 'Central Bank' page find out just what has been stolen from us.