Time: Tue Nov 05 20:31:20 1996
To: DotHB@aol.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: law of militia qualifications
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If I am over 45 years of age,
does this mean I cannot be
a member of the Militia, 
as a matter of law?

/s/ Paul Mitchell



>U.S. TO GET "DOMESTIC TERRORISM CENTER"
>
>This revealing article [although I should perhaps describe it as a propaganda
>
>piece] appeared in the Saturday, July 13th, 1996 TORONTO STAR. It appears to 
>have originated with the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.
>
>But first, a word from our lawyer:
>
>UNITED STATES CODE
>TITLE 10 - ARMED FORCES
>Subtitle A - General Military Law
>PART I - ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
>CHAPTER 13 - THE MILITIA
>311. Militia: composition and classes 
>     (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males
>at least 
>17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45
>years 
>of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become,
>citizens 
>of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are
>members 
>of the National Guard.
>     (b) The classes of the militia are:
>          (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and
>the           
>Naval Militia; and
>          (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the
>militia
>who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
>
>TORONTO STAR, Saturday, July 13th, 1996
>                               TERRORISM
>          U.S. MILITIA MOVEMENT HITTING NEW HIGHS
>                  Public Anger, Arrests Haven't Deterred
>                    Anti-Government "Citizen Soldiers"
>                              By Michael Matza
>                            Special to THE STAR
>
>PHILADELPHIA - More than a year after the Oklahoma City bombing, the American
>
>militia movement is emboldended and growing stronger. 
>
>Its targets have ranged from trains to buildings to bank vaults.
> Anti-government 
>"citizen soldiers" are stockpiling weapons, planning sabotage, preaching
>armed resistance on the Internet, mustering for white-supremacist rallies,
>and generally
>raging against the the internationalist conspiracy they call "the New World
>Order." 
>
>[NOTE: the very one that Presidents Bush, Clinton and Gorbachev were recom-
>mending to us a few years ago]  
>
>That's the latest assessment offered by the Southern Poverty Law Center and
>the 
>Anti-Defamation league, two non-profit groups studying the militias closely.
>The 
>law centre's report, sent to Attorney-General Janet Reno and other
>law-enforce-
>ment officials on April 9th, identified 800 anti-government "patriot"
>organizations, including 441 militias - double the number it saw a year ago. 
>
>The Justice Department declined to comment on those numbers, but two federal 
>law-enforcement officials noted last week that the department had "worked 
>closely" with the law centre on criminal investigation.  
>
>"The threat of domestic terrorism has increased sharply in the past year,"
>law 
>centre director Morris Dees wrote in a cover letter. "Unless we take decisive
>
>threats now to respond to this threat, it is only a matter of time before the
>
>country endures another nightmare like the Oklahoma City tragedy." 
>
>The April, 1995, bombing, which destroyed a federal building and killed 168
>people, 
>tore the lid off a loose network of extremists with ties to the alleged
>bombers. 
>
>Adherents to the militia cause come from all regions and all walks of life, 
>stressed the report. They are populists and tax-protesters, neo-Nazis and
>radical environmentalists, elk ranchers and real estate brokers [NOTE: watch
>out when 
>"elk ranchers" and "real estate brokers" start joining a movement: those two 
>categories of radicals have been infamous throughout history for their
>involve-
>ment in "putsches" and coup-d'etats!]. 
>
>Most are white, Christian and male [NOTE: well, that just about convicts
>them, 
>right there!]. What they share, the report said, is a deep distrust of the
>federal government and a bitter disappointment in the multicultural society
>that the 
>United States has become [NOTE: most militias include black, white, Asian, 
>Christian, Jewish, agnostic, etc. members, and many include female members. 
>The only common denominator is a loyal adherence to the Constitution and the 
>Bill of Rights - and, yes, "a deep distrust of the federal government".
>Enough, in 
>today's globalist-trending society, to get them labeled "terrorists" and 
>"extremists"]. 
>
>That profile sounds tailor-made for the 12 members of the so-called Viper
>Militia arrested July 1 in Arizona and charged with plotting to blow up the
>police 
>department and other government buildings in Phoenix [NOTE:...in the event
>that 
>the U.S. government suspended the Constitution, conducted mass arrests, or 
>employed the numerous U.N. troops now training in the U.S., plus the
>permanently- based German Luftwaffe fighter squadron at New Mexico's Holloman
>Air Force 
>Base, against the militias because U.S. forces refused such orders or were 
>overseas in a Bosnian war. Likely to happen? We don't know. But they were 
>preparing, just in case. And, of course, this small group had its encouraging
>
>government informant]. 
>
>The defendants include an air-conditioner repairman, a furniture
> salesperson, 
>a strip-joint bouncer, and an accounts clerk. They range in age from 21 to
>50. All
>have pleaded innocent. 
>
>Contrary to expectations that public outrage over the Oklahoma City bombing 
>might pressure some militias to disband, their gains have outweighed their 
>losses, said the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, which last year
>detected 
>militia activity in 40 states - up from 13 in 1994. 
>
>Hardcore membership is anyone's guess. Informed estimates range from 
>15,000 to 40,000 people 
>
>[NOTE: the respected London DAILY TELEGRAPH recently estimated the size of 
>the U.S. patriot movement as 12 million]. 
>
>"We were especially distressed to discover the movement continued to grow 
>even after the devastation in Oklahoma City," said the League's national
>director, Abraham H. Foxman [NOTE: We like to think that that's in part
>because the Editor 
>of THE NEW WORLD ORDER INTELLIGENCE UPDATE tracked down a seismographic 
>record at the Oklahoma Geographical Survey immediately after the blast and 
>arranged for it to be widely faxed across the U.S. and posted to the
>Internet: 
>that seismographic record showed TWO "events", ten seconds apart, at the time
>
>of the Oklahoma City bombing, thus virtually destroying the federal
>government's assertion that it was caused by a "single truck bomb"
>manufactured by "the militia". Since John Doe II appears to have been a
>government informant, it appears clear 
>that the federal government had PRIOR KNOWLEDGE of the bombing and that the 
>MILITIA had nothing to do with it].  
>
>Besides the Viper episode, examples of extremist activity since the Oklahoma 
>City bombing include:  
>     an October Amtrak train derailment in Arizona, where saboteurs left
>     notes signed "Sons of the Gestapo" [NOTE: that sounds more like the ATF
>to  
>     us!] 
>
>     the November arrest of four members of the Oklahoma Constitutional
>     Militia on charges of making bombs designed to blow up federal offices 
>     in several cities [why does this remind us of the Macon, Georgia, 
>     case where militia members were arrested after a government
>     infiltrator urged them to make bombs and, when they refused, was
>     reduced to burying some bombs on their property without their knowledge 
>     and then directing the waiting ATF to them - a fact which the ATF 
>     admitted at their preliminary hearing?] 
>
>     A wave of Midwestern bank robberies which ended this year with the
>     arrest of four men.  Investigators believe the bank heists, which began
>in late     
>     1992, were meant to bankroll extremist causes. The robbers sometimes 
>     identified themselves as the Aryan Republican Army. One of those
>arrested, 
>     Richard Lee Guthrie Jr. of Ohio, pleaded guilty last week. [NOTE: he was
>in
>     trouble from the moment he began to study for that real estate licence!]
>
>Why the increase in extremist activity? Observers guess that militias are
>simply 
>using their newfound notoriety to build the movement [NOTE: either that, or
>more 
>and more people are developing a "deep distrust of the federal government"]. 
>
>At last month's self-styled Aryan Nations World Congress, Dees said, former 
>Klu Klux Klansman Loius Beam urged his listeners to join militias and
>stockpile 
>weapons. 
>
>Over the past year, the country's most notorious neo-Nazi groups have
>continued 
>to cultivate connections to anti-government "patriot" organizations, Dees
>wrote to 
>Reno. 
>
>It may be that publicity about militias has stimulated interest in them or
>that 
>disaffected white gun enthusiasts see a nation emphasizing diversity at their
>
>expense and turn to militias as a way to restore their America of old 
>
>[NOTE: Excuse me? I was under the impression that J.J. Johnson, the respected
>
>head of the Ohio Unorganized Militia, is black - as are multitudes of other
>militia members and officers, whose sole offence is honouring the
>Constitution in the 
>face of increasingly arbitrary government agencies which are frequently a law
>
>unto themselves]. 
>
>The rise in such activity also may stem from the economic  disenfrachisement 
>of layoffs, downsizing and dead-end jobs. As Pennsylvania human relations 
>specialist Ann Van Dyke put it last year, some people need to say: "That
>black 
>guy has my job. And that Jew runs the business." [NOTE: Well, that may be HER
>statement, but it's not the MILITIA'S, where blacks and Jews are welcome and 
>equal members. But perhaps it has more to do with the country's sense that an
>
>as-yet-unindicted President, shielded by the fawning corporate media, is busy
>dismantling and impoverishing the United States in preparation for its merger
>
>into the globalist New World Order. Even the dimmest-witted citizen can no
>longer 
>deny the evidence of their own eyes as the U.S. government PAYS U.S. corpora-
>tions to move abroad while it concentrates on ignoring the Constitution and 
>savaging the Bill of Rights. Not to mention the continued presence in office
>of a 
>baby-burning Attorney-General, who accepted her responsibility with her 
>statement that "The buck stops here" after Waco] 
>
>Experts say tracking the so-called patriots has become more difficult since
>the Oklahoma City bombing because militia strategists have urged followers to
>form 
>smaller units to be less detectable and harder to infiltrate. Infiltration by
>an 
>undercover officer was a key to the Viper arrests. 
>
>Replying to Dees, Reno said the FBI was moving toward creating a new counter-
>terrorism centre. 
>
>The London DAILY TELEGRAPH, on the other hand, posed the obvious but as yet
>unaddressed question: 
>
>     "In the end, police work can only achieve so much. The American ruling
>elite   
>      needs  to probe deeper and ask themselves how their country has become 
>     so far out of kilter that air-conditioning repairmen, doughnut bakers,
>and the
>      like now feel impelled to join a proto-guerrilla force." 
>
>Welcome to the New Amerika, where dissent and truth are  "terrorism".....
>
>MORE..................
>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 22:35:14 -0700
>From: Bob Shearer 
>To: caji@pobox.com
>Subject: Patriot Communications Coup in Arkansas 
>
>Approximately 3 weeks ago (all on the same day), the following Little
>Rock/Hot 
>Springs-area radio talk-show hosts were given notice and are now
>"off-the-air": 
>
>     Dianne Silverman - KZNG 1340 Hot Springs 
>     Jim Littleton DBA "John Chezlo" (also KZNG, I believe, from my notes) 
>     Jerry Peters - (103.7 FM, Little Rock, again from notes) 
>     Doug Krile - (103.7 FM, Little Rock, again from notes) 
>
>What did all of these people have in common? They were speaking openly about 
>the allegations against the Clinton Administration, and offering a sounding
>board 
>(and a generally sympathetic ear) to what has become known as the "Patriot" 
>movement. Dianne Silverman in particular has been doing an exemplary job in 
>getting out the news, for a few years now. However, all voices of dissent, in
>this 
>most-populous area of the state, anyway, have been silenced, no reason given.
>
>Dianne still has the nationally syndicated (Talk America Network) radio
>program 
>"The Best of Everything", for the time being, but I understand that she will
>soon 
>move to shortwave. (My guess? Clinton is going to be removed from office very
>
>soon, and too many people know where the "bodies are buried". "They" want to 
>shut up anybody who might be willing to look a little further than "Filegate"
>
>(Filegate = totally fabricated damage containment).) 
>
>Also, all Patriot literature has been unofficially "banned" from gun shows in
>the state 
>(I have this verifiable info directly from residents of the state). The
>reason is 
>allegedly pressure by the ATF on gun show promoters. The recent discovery of 
>the bodies of the Mueller Family in northern Arkansas has been allegedly
>linked 
>to this effort to supress the distribution of Patriot literature at gun
>shows.
>
>
>
      


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