What you read was not the official stance of the organization it was a story of what happened to one individual who is not a member when they encountered a radical Muslim that’s all, there was nothing at all in that quote about him or anyone in our group hating or discriminating anyone!
...e SPLCs list last year.
......DHNORRIS- I know that there has to be Federal agents that are snooping on us and that’s fine they are doing their jobs, but we have nothing to hide .......
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ZombiePanda thanks for taking the time to read my post I hope these answers help!
1.Because we are in fact a "militia". We prepare for disaster response/preparedness but we also prepare for open conflict with a armed hostile force.
3. Stockpiled Resources, Adopt a highway program, free training to the public, we put a team on alert anytime there is inclement weather.
for some of us we have a hard time forgetting the 90s and incidents like Randy Weaver who was entrapped by some biker trying to work off drug trouble by playing informant.
To be more clear, I dont suggest the problem is federal agents. federal agents are mostly like postal workers themselves, well meaning persons doing their jobs. Not very sexy like tv and rarely out there provoking and instigating. No but they do work from time to time with informers. Those nasty creatures. Do they inform about crime innocently, or make it up and then inform about it, to gain their meager incentives? One always wonders.
I think a lot of trouble is these mischevious informers that think they have blanket immunity to do nasty things so long as they can cooperate in a few busts. They are the ones that I believe are very much often out there in society causing problems, most of all with politically oriented prosecutions such as may crop up with "militias." Why there is one incident I recall, cant say the name, "Dogpatch militia" and it was supposed to be a big threat and there were all these charges and guess what happened? Charges eventually all dismissed by conscientious federal judge who saw through the bogus trumped up evidence. Somebody else may have the name, or a link, even though the exoneration was hardly reported at all, not a tenth as loudly as the charges were.
What might happen? a few well meaning people hang up shingle as militia, and then the various clowns out there getting paid or interviewing for jobs as informers, looking to score some points or cash with their handlers see easy pickings, and then enter your fold and then stir up trouble or provoke or entrap people, and then via the ambiguous magic of "attempt" and "conspiracy" charges, a lot of people suffer.
you sound like you mean well, but this concept seems as inoperable as ever.
the newer concept that requires less organizational effort to administer and maintain, than the socalled militia concept, would be: more local, natural, organic groups of people would take greater interest in self-organization to respond to emergency situations. that is like old fashioned neighborhood watch or parish charity groups or what have you. low profile, local, organic, perhaps more informal or not; but overall, more well worn paths that can simply be walked by people who have greater firearms training and willingness to be respond properly to SHTF. now this may be more boring neighbhorhood and charity type work and less fun than a "militia" but if you just want to shoot join a gun club and go to idpa matches and stuff.
join a food coop and see how they operate. lots to be learned from things like that. I recommend James Howard Kunstler's book "world made by hand" as a more feasible alternative vision to the John Wesley Rawles sort of thing.
I dont say this to be obstructive, rather if you take some time to unpack what I have said then you may actually get some ideas that help your organization be more effective in spite of the criticism.
SPLC? Even the American Family Association made their list and the most militant thing they do is use forks and knives at dinner.
LOL, I did kinda make it seem like a brochure didn't I! Well I didn't mean to sorry, I just got tired of nobody talking openly about what their group does and all of the bad publicity that militias get so I am putting myself out in the open for Q&A.
The bad publicity goes without saying. As the subject has been addressed previously, the militia is everyone (nationalization of the state militias 100 +/- years ago notwithstanding). The leftists in the media and elsewhere doesn't like that, so they demonize anyone who is so organized as to have the foggiest idea what they may do or fashion plans to work together in the event of a societal failure to function. As with any definable group, 'militias' will take in perfectly responsible neighbors as well as groups of people who, well, wouldn't make good neighbors. It is commendable that you would address something of this nature in a direct manner in the knowledge that a lot of assumptions will be made at the reading of the word 'militia'. It is also commendable that you did not introduce yourself with a recruitment drive (which has been done before).