Militias: The Straight Story

Sep 23, 2023

[A partial transcript of Tactical Civics™ Dec 4, 2022 Sunday Night Fellowship Call]

Dr. Edwin Vieira, the foremost scholar on American Militia, has for decades tried to make the point that I’ll drive home tonight: He constantly reiterates the very limited prerogative that We The People delegate to congress over our Militias. Dr. Vieira contends that Militia always was and always must remain, a state function; that the states always retain prerogative over their own citizens, against federal servants. Put in simplest terms, here’s the principle:

The federal government, as the servant of the People, cannot create, abolish, or direct the People’s ancient institution, the Militias of the several States.

But since Lincoln, the criminal minds in congress have done it anyway.

Dr. Vieira was my first teacher about Militia for a decade, yet we go beyond Dr. Vieira’s proposition, as I’ll explain in a minute.

But first, do you remember the chilling spectacle of an armed coup on January 20, 2021; razor wire and 20,000 so-called ‘national guard’ troops resembling North Korean government troops, surrounding the hokey ‘inauguration’ of an international crime family boss as president after stealing the election? In terms of the sheer nerve of organized crime, that was the lowest point in American history since Lincoln’s original shock-and-awe.

Whatever the average national guardsman may think of his so-called ‘service’, he is duped. As Dr. Vieira has explained for 40 years, the national guard is a counterfeit nowhere authorized by us in the Constitution. It is usurping the lawful duties of constitutional and pre-constitutional Militia. As long as that counterfeit remains, it will be far more difficult to restore constitutional Militia.

But the lawlessness doesn’t end with an armed coup placing a senile pedophile in the White House, or with all the crimes we’ve let congress pull off over our lifetimes. We The People also have rogue state and county and local servants in high rebellion, trying to abolish our powers and keep us in our seats.

The People's Five Power Tools

By God’s grace, Tactical Civics™ brings together five ‘power tools’ of the Founding Fathers. You need to internalize these; they’re powerful together. Our first power tool is found in our Declaration of Independence, where we recounted the tyranny of George III and declared our right of self-remedy:

Whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise.

We The People collectively establish that powers delegated by us return to us when the servant body to which we delegate them neglects or refuses them.

Our second power tool is before the Constitution was even ratified; Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 28. The People of New York feared new federal military, so in the 28^th Federalist, listen to Hamilton’s warranty language:

Power being almost always the rival of power; the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments; and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The People, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other, as the instrument of redress. How wise will it be in them by cherishing the Union to preserve to themselves an advantage which can never be too highly prized!

Our third power tool is in the 39th Federalist, by the Father of the Constitution, James Madison:

The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.

That leads straight to our fourth power tool, a principle called subsidiarity in political science and sociology. It holds that issues should always be handled at the most local level that can resolve them. When state government isn’t doing its duty for Militia, We The People use county government as we used our colonial and township governments to form and regulate our early Militia units.

Then finally, our fifth power tool: We The People stipulate in the Tenth Amendment that any powers that we don’t enumerate to our servants are,

[R]eserved to the states respectively, or to the People.

And this meshes beautifully with what former Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer says in his book, The People Themselves,

To control the Supreme Court we must first lay claim to the Constitution ourselves. That means publicly repudiating justices who say that they, not we, possess ultimate authority to say what the Constitution means…It means refusing to be deflected by arguments that constitutional law is too complex or difficult for ordinary citizens…the Supreme Court is not the highest authority in the land on constitutional law. We are.

There has never been a question that We The People, collectively, are the final word on what the Constitution means, and on what powers we gave and reserved in that law when we created our federal servant. So that’s where dean Kramer and I differ with Dr. Vieira; in the opening words we do not say, ‘We The States...do ordain’.

So you see that the People’s inherent power over government is very misunderstood, even among our members in Tactical Civics™ who don’t realize we have such power. It’s misunderstood by all Americans who believe that we just have to keep suffering whatever nonsense our county, state, or federal servants turn into a pronouncement, ordinance, or law.

Our Grand Jury Power is Similarly Unknown

Just quickly about Grand Jury: some of you are reading your current state statutes on Grand Jury and discovering that it’s been hijacked by judges, to keep the People from doing exactly what Grand Jury is for: digging out corruption and indicting corrupt judges, prosecutors, and sheriffs. When the time comes, we’ll show you how to draft and introduce new legislation, to restore the People’s original, lawful authority for Grand Jury. But that’s a subject for another time. Back to militia.

So, Who 'Controls' our Militias?

The so-called ‘militia’ movement believes that any private group of armed men can get together, start training, and call themselves militia. Wrong.

But even in times like ours, when federal and state servants threaten the lives, liberty, and property of the People, We The People are not out of peaceful options. We just have to stick to the Constitution and ancient institutions that our forefathers used even before the Constitution.

I’ve been asked by several of our members,

“I’m trying to find the place in Article I, Section 8 where it gives the militia powers to the county. In the Constitution, I only see congress with militia power”.

The two Militia clauses that they’re referring to are Article I, Section 8, clauses 15 and 16. Remember what We The People are doing in Article I of the Constitution! We’re creating our servant congress, then defining it, and then granting it limited powers. So in clause 15, we grant congress the power,

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions

Then in clause 16,

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

So! When congress wants to borrow some of our Militias for the service of the United States, we allow them to set their own training regimen when serving a federal function for a limited time! Look at clause 12; we stipulate that when they do that, we call them ‘armies’ and we only allow them to use any such armies for a maximum of two years.

DCCP Criminals Do As They Please

If congress just renews that funding every two years, that totally defeats the purpose of limiting it! Our founders despised standing armies!

So did the American People. After Lincoln’s troops destroyed half of America and marched on our streets for 12 years of so-called reconstruction, the People forced congress to pass the Posse Comitatus Act in 1878, stipulating that federal armed forces cannot be used in these states for any kind of law enforcement.

So the Marxists and fascists did a work-around. It took them 25 years, but finally in 1903 they passed their aptly-named Dick Act in open violation of the Constitution. They gave constitutional militia a new label, unorganized militia, an oxymoron; in its place they created a counterfeit militia and called it ‘national guard’.

Incidentally, Lincoln’s war was also the cover for congress to print pieces of paper and call them US dollars, then have the co-conspirator supreme court rule three times that paper was now money. As if you can magically amend our Constitution by just violating it several times in a row.

But back to militias. Saints, our Militias are eight centuries more ancient than the US Constitution. For a century and a half before this Constitution, they were formed by and served under the aegis of many levels of American government: villages, townships, colonies, counties, and states. The People’s ancient law enforcement force is just the People themselves, at arms.

To reiterate a vital point about Militia: it is not, and can never be, a creature of congress or under congress’ control. And no, congress cannot lawfully just make a fascist substitute to get around the Constitution, because then you see what we saw when the 'national guard' stood defending the Biden junta’s overthrow of America on January 20, 2021 with 200,000 international flags stuck in the ground; a cynical thumb in the eye of America.

Please keep this presentation in mind whenever a politician starts to bloviate or a public employee or bureaucrat at any level starts to make lawless, arrogant demands: our Constitution is not an omnibus law that applies to every American; that we must obey!

Our system is not a Civil Law system; that is, positive law, telling citizens what they can, can’t, or must do. With our U.S. Constitution, our highest law, We The People ‘do ordain’ our servant government; we create, define, and limit three federal servant branches for only 17 enumerated powers.

Now, We The People need to start enforcing it.

And every so-called 'militia movement' member today be advised: you’re on the wrong side of history, just like every member of the national guard.