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 Cc: Bcc: 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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