Constitution
Militia – now more than ever
The irregular militia, the actual reset button on the Constitution, is more necessary than ever to the restoration of a free state.
The Constitution of the United States mentions the concept militia at least four times, if one counts every separate clause that mentions it. The recent accession to the Presidency of a quisling, after a compromised election, makes the militia more necessary than ever. Sadly, most American patriots don’t understand the militia as a concept. Herewith a definition of the militia and an overview of an ideal militia structure for our times.
What is the militia?
The militia is the full body of citizens who can provide their own arms. This includes individual arms, like pistols and rifles, and crew-served arms, like modern armor and artillery.
The National Guard is not the militia. Repeat: The National Guard is not the militia. It answers to a State governor. And we all know how that’s working out in the militarization of Washington, D.C.
Militias come in two varieties: the regular and the irregular. The regular militia is the “militia” that bears mention in the Constitution, specifically Article I Section 8 Clauses 15 and 16, and Article II Section 1. Which refer to:
- Calling out the militia to the service of the United States as a whole,
- Organizing, training and disciplining the militia, and
- The line of command authority extending all they way up to POTUS in the event of a national service call.
The irregular militia would not be subject to any such authority. The irregular militia is ours. It belongs to us and us alone. It is the real reset button on the Constitution. This is the “well-regulated militia” of which the Second Amendment speaks as “necessary to the security of a free state.”
Current status of the irregular militia
As recently as August 2020, according to Dr. Steven Turley, no fewer than five hundred ad hoc militia groups existed. This doubles the number ten years ago.
But these groups appear to lack any sort of network. Instead, individual leaders run their own missions. They have no overall mission, no plan, and no overall command structure.
Your editor sees this now in Virginia. More than a year ago, the Virginia Citizens Defense League assembled hundreds of gun owners to stand near the Capitol in Richmond. They sent in a core of unarmed participants to stand inside a ring of armed police. Then they formed a “ring around the ring” outside the police ring. No violence took place, nor did VCDL intend any.
But no such group exists to oppose any order to go door-to-door to confiscate weapons. When rioters gave the Mayor of Richmond the excuse he needed to take down the Monuments of Monument Avenue, none opposed him.
Suppose Antifa or BLM were to start storming “nice neighborhoods” and “nice apartments” in Henrico, Chesterfield, or Hanover County. Who would oppose them?
Before anyone can decide when to call out the irregular militia to defend Constitutional rights we must have one. That applies whether one is defending against regular or irregular state actors.
What are state actors?
State actors, as the name implies, act to further the mission, overt or covert, of the state. Regular state actors are the “sworn agents” of the State – law-enforcement officers, military, etc. Irregular state actors are those who have not taken any such oath, and are not on a government pay roll, but act in furtherance of the goals of the state. The state must rely on irregular state actors to further goals that the Constitution does not permit. Thus:
Social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, the Spotify family, Google/YouTube, et al.) have become irregular censors.
Web hosts have made themselves irregular content police. For instance: Amazon Web Services, discontinuing Web hosting for Parler.com. For this and other reasons, your editor published this Declaration of Cybernetic Independence more than two years ago.
Thieves are irregular wealth-redistribution agents.
Murderers, rapists, and vandals are now irregular summary executioners and other punishers. And occasionally, false-flag pseudo-operators.
The different commands of the militia
A proper understanding of the irregular militia must include different commands that serve different missions. Obviously everyone thinks of the combat command first. These are the “paramilitary” forces that everyone expects to show up in combat fatigues and to carry weapons.
But that’s only one command. Furthermore, this command does not exist. Only regional commands exist, and they cannot coordinate without that national command structure. To build that will take time. And at least one other militia command will have to buy that time. The combat command will also need support from at least two other commands, once the fighting starts.
The Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Any armed service has a Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Judge advocates are the legal eagles of the military—and the Judge Advocate General is the Grand Legal Eagle.
Everyone thinks of the usual mission of the JAG Corps. This mission is to enforce the laws and regulations under which soldiers, sailors, airmen, pilots, etc., live. So when anyone, even in the military, thinks of a judge advocate, they think, “Ah-ha. Prosecutor courts-martial.”
But in the defense of constitutional rights, the JAG Corps of the militia has another mission, Which is: to contest before courts of law, any and all infringements on civil liberties when and as they take place, for as long as such a remedy remains available. When the courts drop all pretense, the JAG Corps will abandon that mission.
The courts did drop the pretense of objectivity in refusing even to examine evidence of the fraudulent operations of the totally illegal and extraconstitutionl electoral-vote compact that existed between and among the States of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada, to name the most obvious six. But thus far, the courts have not—yet—shown an intent to drop the pretense of protecting the Ten Freedoms of the Bill of Rights. Until they do, a militia JAG Corps can buy the precious time the combat command will need to organize.
Current state of the militia JAG Corps
Like the combat command, the JAG Corps does not exist as such. Instead we see legal-advocacy societies that pledge to provide legal representation to ordinary citizens when the government violates their constitutional rights. They include:
The American Civil Liberties Union would not function as a trustworthy part of the militia JAG Corps. Why they decried the recent actions by state actors Google, Apple, and Amazon Web Services, CNAV will not speculate. Their mission, since their founding by Roger Baldwin early in the twentieth century, is to destroy the Judeo-Christian value system that forms the basis for the Constitution. Even today they call explicitly for policies that amount to grand theft and forcing people to deny basic biological reality. Perhaps they objected to the Google-Apple-AWS action against Parler.com only because they found it “messy.”
More likely they objected because that spectacle illustrates the imperative of forming the JAG Corps of the militia, and linking with like-minded legal-aid societies to fight the rear-guard “lawfare” actions that the current situation now forces upon patriots and defenders of liberty. If “loose lips sink ships,” the ACLU might fear that Google-Apple-AWS’ “loose lips” sank their ship.
The Signal Corps
In the U.S. Army, the Signal Corps facilitates communication. Again, the recent acts by state actors Facebook, Twitter, Google, et al. show this key weakness of the militia. Without a proper Signal Corps, the militia cannot function.
By far the most serious obstacle to forming a coherent Signal Corps is the requirement for communications licensure. This applies equally to first-class mail and to instantaneous communications, including telephony, television, radio, and Internet. But now a second, equally serious obstacle has manifested itself. That obstacle is the irregular censorship by telecommunications “providers” upon which too many of us rely even for employer-to-staff communications. This demonstrably includes Facebook and might also include the others who have adopted state-actor policies.
The Parler incident proves that absolutely no part of the militia Signal Corps can rely on support or allowances from the government or any state actor. So the immediate mission of the Signal Corps is to identify providers they can trust.
Resources for the Signal Corps
Thankfully, a number of resources for the militia Signal Corps now exist. The owners and operators of these resources have taken a variety of means, some complete but others incomplete, to insulate themselves from actions by hostile government(s) and state actors. CNAV will list them here.
Disclaimer
CNAV has no product-promotion agreement with any of the below providers. While CNAV takes pride in using some of these services, CNAV makes no representation that these are the only choices available, or even that any one of them necessarily offers something for everyone. And CNAV definitely does not warrant any of these resources for “merchantability or fitness.”
The two largest militia Signal Corps resources
Epik.com. They provide domain registration and shared, semi-dedicated, Virtual Private Server, and dedicated Web site hosting, among other services. CNAV takes pride in now affiliating with them as their hosts, as have other resources CNAV will name below. They assess fees easily competitive with those of other service providers. Furthermore, they offer a fee and payment structure that virtually cries out, “You can trust us.” One can pay one-time fees to register a domain forever with them, or even to buy a hosting plan. Furthermore, they accept payment in Bitcoin, the first and most famous of the “cryptocurrencies” now available.
Gab.com. They are a social-media network offering the best features of Facebook and Twitter, in one platform. Now they offer video hosting and streaming, to compete with YouTube. They fought to establish their independence long before the Parler Incident. Today they exist on a large cluster of fully dedicated servers under the aegis of Epik.com. Whose CEO, Rob Monster, actually told his competitors in the Web hosting industry to go pound sand when they decried his decision to host Gab.com when none of the rest of them would.
A statement on Parler.com
Parler.com exists today as a static site providing updates. They have affiliated, according to the best intelligence available to CNAV, with Epik.com.
Other social media
In addition to Gab.com, several other social-media sites have made plain their support for freedom of speech. They include without limitation:
Warning: the site MeWe.com recently made some “terms of service” statements that raise alarms. They spoke of “not [being] an anything-goes site” and the formation of a “safety committee” to police content. CNAV does not recommend that the militia Signal Corps utilize them.
Militia friendly video hosting alternatives
Gab.com, as CNAV already stated, now has a video hosting service called “Gab TV.” It is available to “pro” subscribers after they pay a one-time fee of $500.00 US. In addition to this, a number of alternative video platforms have sprung up in the last three years. They include:
Alternative instant-messaging and telephony
A new class of application, chiefly for “smartphones,” that handle telephony and instant messages (“texting”), is now available. These new apps not only handle instant messages separately and apart from the typical cellular services provider. They encrypt your messages. The two most prominent such apps are:
Telegram Messenger. They offer apps for the two most common smartphones (Apple iOS and Google Android) and also for desktops and laptops. Unlike typical boilerplate IM apps (like Verizon Messenger Plus), they offer channels, in addition to “conversation management.”
Signal. Do not confuse this with Signal Advance, Inc., as many investors did when Elon Musk, of Tesla fame, endorsed this app. Signal comes from the Signal Foundation, a not-for-profit group dedicated to enabling instant and private communications. The Signal Foundation makes their app available for iOS, Android, or desktops (Windows, MacOS, or Debian and similar Linux distributions).
Electronic mail
The militia Signal Corps cannot afford to send or receive first-class mail. In the current regime, that might be subject to intercept. Likewise, migration from the most common “free email provider,” Google Mail, now becomes imperative. CNAV has discovered two such services thus far, both of which require you to pay a fee. That fee makes you the customer, not the product, of the service.
ProtonMail. Based in Switzerland. Available for iOS, Android, and on the Web. To use it with a desktop or laptop email client, you must first install ProtonMail Bridge. This premium background program handles the end-to-end encryption that the smartphone apps handle by themselves.
FastMail. Based in Australia. FastMail offers the same cross-platform storage Google Mail offers, at comparable capacity. But FastMail does not sell or otherwise make your information available to anyone. FastMail also offers custom email domain maintenance.
Virtual Private Networking – the likely backbone of the militia Signal Corps
Last—and possibly most important—is the concept of virtual private networking. Virtual Private Networks let you change Internetworking Protocol addresses on the fly, and offer various privacy safeguards. Not all are as convenient as a desktop user would require—but nearly all have all the convenience that a smartphone user would require.
The oldest service that offers anything like a VPN is The Onion Router, or TOR. The Tor Project primarily offers private browsing and searching. (The search engine of choice for the militia is DuckDuckGo, which has the largest reach among search engines that will not track you. Given Google’s decision to censor search results, DuckDuckGo now becomes the most reliable and comprehensive search engine overall.)
More powerful VPN services come at a price. The three favorites CNAV can recommend are:
Surfshark – the fastest, and likely available at the most reasonable fee.
ExpressVPN – typically carrying recommendations for “enterprises.”
ProtonVPN – from the same source as ProtonMail (see above).
CNAV does not represent this list as all-inclusive.
Sadly, certain criminal and other malicious actors have used and abused Tor and other VPN services. With the result that many Web administrators, who might otherwise be friendly to the militia, have blocked such services. Only in that manner could they protect against Distributed Denial of Service and similar attacks.
Toward a fully functioning militia
These are the resources for buying time the militia will need for proper recruitment, training, organization, equipment, and deployment. They also will serve to support the militia and its combat command when that command is ready to function.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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