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The returns from my test of the real
“emergency broadcasting system” are in.
My
thanks go out to everyone who bothered to participate in the
survey—particularly those who took the extra time and effort to append
a personal note to their responses. The
results are as follows:
- Total
responses: 277
- Fully
favorable responses: 273 (98.5%)
- Fully
unfavorable responses: 1 (0.4%)
- Partially favorable, partially unfavorable
responses: 1 (0.4%)
- Responses that did not indicate any choices: 2
(0.7%)
What
conclusions can one draw from this?
First,
277 is a vanishingly small number, compared to the tens of millions of
Americans who ought to be paying attention to these matters. So it points up
the hard work we have yet to do. Because never in American history has so much,
for so many, depended upon so few. This IS a REAL emergency!
Second,
our work is rather plainly laid out for us. One of my correspondents put his
finger on why the survey had employed the adjective “useful” in
reference to my commentaries. The definition of “useful” is
“capable of being put to use.” And the definition of
“use” is “the act or practice of employing
something.”
Another
of my correspondents identified the “use” to which I hope my
commentaries will be put:
I
grew up as a child listening to the tests of the Emergency Broadcast system
on radio and television * * *. As a child I thought that the government
really had a plan to assist us during a real emergency. As a member of the US
military for over 30 years I no longer have that illusion. Instead of
preparing for an emergency the government is the emergency.
The
emergency is here now. The very real crisis in this country is the failure of
the general public to be involved in the government and allowing the
government to virtually do as they please in slowly taking away our freedom.
I fear for the future and what my grandchildren will have to live with as a
socialist government.
Now,
had I penned this passage, I should not have written “the
government,” but instead “the class of individuals who year after
year obtain public office and operate as the Establishment’s
stooges”—because I should never give those individuals the
satisfaction of believing for one instant that I consider their actions in
any way to be legitimate “governmental” actions. In any event, my
correspondent’s analysis of the problem is dead on: “The very
real crisis in this country is the failure of the general public to be
involved in the government * * * .”
“The
general public” has to become involved—or at least a sufficient
number of common Americans does. But how can we reach out to, educate, and
energize a sufficient number of them?
First,
we have to generate a sufficient number of us, who already know the score.
Which means that we have to increase our present numbers by orders of
magnitude. Each one of us has to influence at least ten others. Each of those
ten has to influence at least another ten, and so on—1 to 10, 10 to
100, 100 to 1,000...
Second,
we ourselves have to become involved in government—because if we, who
understand the problem, do not become involved and do not provide the good
example, then they, who do not understand, never will become involved. And
the problem will never be solved—because we need them.
Third,
we must become involved, not just in government in any which way, but in
government in those few very specific ways that will bring millions of our
fellow citizens into permanent, effective involvement in constitutional
republican self-government—the key terms being “permanent”
and “effective.”
So
what are we to do? Because we are few, we must not divide our forces, but
must concentrate them at the decisive points. In my earlier commentaries, I
have singled out three critical tasks we must perform:
·We
must save this country’s existence as an independent, self-governing
nation—by thwarting the North American Union (and turning back the
invasion of illegal aliens which is aimed at promoting it). But, although
necessary, that alone is not sufficient.
·We
must also save the Constitution—by thwarting the national para-military
police state being erected in the guise of “homeland security.”
But, although also necessary, that alone is not sufficient, either.
·We
must also save common Americans’ economy freedom and prosperity, while
striking the main economic weapon from the Establishment’s
hands—by curtailing the Federal Reserve System’s special
privileges and returning America to constitutionally required and
economically sound money of silver and gold.
No
one has yet given me any reason to doubt my conclusion that the most
plausible means for achieving all of these ends is by first revitalizing
“the Militia of the several States”—because only through
the Militia will We the People regain true and effective legal authority, so
that they will no longer have to depend upon, let alone to follow the illegal
commands of, rogue public officials, politicians, political parties, selfish
special-interest groups, the big media, and the intelligentsiia. But,
this being true, revitalizing the Militia must become all patriots’
primary goal. Americans must first gain control of the instruments of
constitutional authority and power before they can begin to exercise that
authority and power.
One
of my correspondents wanted to know why I have not told my readers how to go
about completing this task. But I have! Not fully in my commentaries on
NewsWithViews.com, to be sure. But I operate on the presumption that my
readers know that printing has been invented, and exists in places other than
the Internet. My book CONSTITUTIONAL “HOMELAND SECURITY,” VOLUME
1, THE NATION IN ARMS lays out a plan—the only one of which I
know—for mobilizing large numbers of Americans to revitalize “the
Militia of the several States”, State by State, throughout the country
(As has become mandatory in marketing, it is available through Amazon; and no
matter what Amazon says, sufficient books are available!) Further volumes in
the series are being written (although too slowly for my satisfaction,
because of the dearth of resources available to support the work). I also
intend to draft one or more model State statutes for the purpose—but
only after the necessary foundations have been poured by (i) completion of
the CONSTITUTIONAL “HOMELAND SECURITY” series and (ii) enrollment
of large numbers of grass-roots activists to ensure the statute’s
enactment and implementation.
My
plan depends upon identifying, mobilizing, organizing, educating, and
deploying common Americans as political activists to convince State
legislators now in office in one or more “target” States to enact
the necessary legislation. I emphasize “now in office,” because
we simply do not have the time to reconstitute even a single State’s
legislature from the bottom up with new, presumably better, officeholders. We
must work with what we have. Granted, in every State the present crop of
State legislators is far from perfect. But it takes a crooked stick to beat a
mad dog. They will have to suffice. After all, this IS a REAL emergency.
To
compensate for State legislators’ imperfections, though, we shall have
to provide them, word for word, with the statutes they should enact to
revitalize the Militia. Statutes that are completely consistent with the
Constitution—containing no shortcuts, no “ifs,” no
“buts,” no “howevers.” “On the one hand...but
on the other hand” is not a formula for national salvation.
Specifically—
·Each
statute must provide for revitalization of “the MILITIA of the State of
X”—not some establishment with a different name (Do we imagine
ourselves incapable of convincing our fellow citizens of what the
Constitution means and requires? Or are we ashamed of or embarrassed by our
own Constitution? Do we fear the big media’s demonization of the term
“militia”? Must we operate only on their sufferance and according
to their rules of engagement?)
·Each
statute must establish a universal duty of service for all able-bodied
Americans from 16 to 60 years of age. (At the early stages of implementation,
exemptions may be allowed to ease the transition from the present state of
affairs to a fully organized population.)
·Each
statute must require all members of the Militia, other than conscientious
objectors, to provide themselves with appropriate firearms, ammunition, and
accoutrements, and to complete a basic firearms safety and familiarization
course. (“Gun control” as it exists today must end, once and for
all, if a National police state is to be averted.)
·Each
statute must clearly differentiate the State’s Militia from, and treat
it as separate from and independent of, the Army and Navy of the United
States, the National Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, and other
like establishments.
·Each
statute must entrust to the Militia the oversight, and most of the primary
functions, of “homeland security” within the State. After all,
“[a] well regulated Militia” is “necessary to the security
of a free State.”
And
so on, through all the fundamental principles of the constitutional Militia
as they developed during pre-constitutional times in the Colonies and independent
States, and were then incorporated into the Constitution.
Once
the necessary legislation has been enacted, the previous grass-roots
mobilization will provide the first ranks of volunteers to make the
revitalized Militia effective.
Because
“the Militia of the several States” are the ONLY establishments
that the Constitution explicitly authorizes and empowers “to execute
the Laws of the Union”, common Americans can thwart the imposition on
this country of a National para-militarized police state. For, being properly
organized, armed, disciplined, trained, and endowed with legal authority, the
Militia will obviate any supposed “need” for a police state to
provide “security”—and will be able to deter, resist, and
defeat any rogue para-militarized police forces that attempt to aid and abet
aspiring usurpers and tyrants.
Once
common people throughout America have been organized in the Militia, in order
to secure their own financial “homeland security” they can create
a parallel currency-system of silver and gold, through which the real
economy—the economy of the real producers, businessmen and workers
alike—can return to sound money, circumventing the Federal Reserve
System.
And
with both the Power of the Sword and the Power of the Purse in common
Americans’ hands through their Militia, both the North American Union
and the even more megalomaniacal New World Order will be finished—at
least with respect to America’s participation in them, without which
those schemes will prove to be nothing but the pipe dreams of political
opium-smokers.
In
its proper perspective, this is not so much a difficult job as it is an
exciting adventure and personal challenge. How many times in world history
have common people had the opportunity—and the ability—to save
their country, thwart a supra-national conspiracy, secure their economic
well-being, and generally take control of their lives from a pack of powerful
political predators?
Do
you have anything better to do? And will not such an adventure and challenge
excite millions of other Americans, especially among the young, who will have
the most to suffer, for the longest period of time, if the globalists’
plots succeed?
So,
it is the “M” word that we need to make the common political
currency of millions of Americans. Revitalize the Militia, use them to thwart
a police state and to regain control over Money, and we can save our
Motherland. Don’t,
and we won’t. Is that simple enough?
Edwin
Vieira
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