Oath Keepers Academy

This afternoon, Friday, May 17, 2013, Tim Norton emailed me the following links with the good news that Fifty-five (55) Colorado Sheriffs had their lawsuit against the State of Colorado filed in court today.

“I am here to honor that Oath.”

In America in particular, WE THE PEOPLE are antecedent to and the source of each and every government, and always remain superior to all of them. As the Declaration of Independence explains, under “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”, and “to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. So “Governments” are not somehow self-generated and autonomous, but rather are the creations of “the governed”, which may exercise only such “just powers” as “the governed” deign to concede to them. Moreover, “Governments” can assert no claim to permanency, either in whole or in part. Rather, they are utterly dependent upon “the consent of the governed” for their continued existences and authority. For, “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of the[ ] ends [for which it was instituted], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”. Self-evidently, if “the People”—by “Right”—may “alter or * * * abolish” “any Form of Government” when they find its actions fundamentally “destructive”, and may “institute new Government” as they see fit, and the rogue officialdom within the original “Form of Government” is entitled to no say whatsoever in this process, then the authority of “the People” cannot possibly derive from the “Form of Government” then extant, let alone from the as-yet-nonexistent “Form of Government” to be erected in its place, but instead must inhere in “the People” themselves, as a consequence of “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”. That is, under the aegis of those “Laws” “the People” alone are the sovereigns, the “Form of Government” their creation, and public officials within that “Form of Government” subjects who necessarily owe allegiance to “the People”.

1934. The Carnegie Corporation funded the American Historical Association’s Report of the Commission on the Social Studies. Like most of today’s social studies curricula, the report called for a shift from free enterprise to collectivism:

“…the age of individualism and laissez faire in economy and government is closing and… a new age of collectivism is emerging… It may involve the limiting or supplanting of private property by public property or it may entail the preservation of private property, extended and distributed among the masses… Almost certainly it will involve a larger measure of compulsory as well as voluntary cooperation of citizens in the context of the complex national economy, a corresponding enlargement of the functions of government, and an increasing state intervention in fundamental branches of economy previously left to individual discretion and initiative….”

Why does a judge swear to discharge his duties agreeably to the Constitution of the United States if that Constitution forms no rule for his government? if it is closed upon him and cannot be inspected by him?
If such be the real state of things, this is worse than solemn mockery. To prescribe or to take this oath becomes equally a crime.
It is also not entirely unworthy of observation that, in declaring what shall be the supreme law of the land, the Constitution itself is first mentioned, and not the laws of the United States generally, but those only which shall be made in pursuance of the Constitution, have that rank.
Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
– Marbury v Madison

The primary concept I am hoping our readers here will come to understand and will remember after watching this video is the libertarian concept called “the non-aggression principle”. Sometimes it is also referred to as the ZAP, meaning: Zero Aggression Principle. In that one idea the libertarian community shares the vision of the Voluntaryists, who believe that all agreements between individual humans should be based on mutual consent.

We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us. So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic, or oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self. All literature writes the character of the wise man. Books, monuments, pictures, conversation, are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves as by personal allusions. A true aspirant, therefore, never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse. He hears the commendation, not of himself, but more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character, yea, further, in every fact and circumstance, – in the running river and the rustling corn. Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows from mute nature, from the mountains and the lights of the firmament. — Emerson

Among other topics covered in its 1,944 pages of text, The Sword and Sovereignty explains:

• how the Militia would serve as the ultimate embodiments and instruments of WE THE PEOPLE’S authority under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution;

• how the Militia would enable to States to enforce federalism through constitutional interposition against rogue agents of the General Government;

• how the Militia would expose and punish usurpations of power and mal-administration by rogue and incompetent public officials at every level of the federal system;

• how the Militia would provide the indispensable “checks and balances” against a rogue “standing army” and “military-industrial complex”;

• how the Militia would eliminate all “gun control” that did not specifically promote “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms”;

• how the Militia would put a stop to the present-day rampages of police brutality once and for all, in the most swift, sure, and severe manner possible;

• how the Militia would guarantee the conduct of honest elections; and, last but not least,

• how the Militia would establish in the most expeditious fashion an economically sound and constitutional alternative currency and structure of new free-market prices in anticipation of the inevitable collapse of the Federal Reserve System’s fascistic banking cartel.

Under this perverse logic – that election results can make an unconstitutional law into “the law of the land” – the Assault Weapons Ban, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the NDAA, the Bankster bailouts, etc were all made A-OK constitutionally just because the President who signed them was reelected (Bush and Obama). – - Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers

“The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible… Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel… It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world… Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest… keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – - George Washington, 1796

Should America secede from the United Nations? Should the States secede from the Federal union? Should the Present secede from the projected chains of the Past? Dare I secede from the madding crowd?

The FBI, which has broad authority over cybercrimes from identity fraud to online stalking, can gather technical information about private citizens’ email accounts with only a subpoena. The subpoena in theory must not be overly burdensome on the recipient, but otherwise has few limits. Subpoenas can be drafted by a senior FBI agent or equivalent and do not require a judge’s approval.

The Keynesian era of financing government with debt appears to be close to its demise. If and when that happens, how can we in the Montana Legislature protect our constituents? – The only answer I can come up with is to honor my oath to the U.S. Constitution and request that your debt to me be paid in gold and silver coins that will still have value when the U.S. dollar is reduced to junk status. I therefore request my legislative pay to be in gold and silver coins that are unadulterated with base metals.

President Obama’s national security adviser, Samantha Power, helped to found Responsibility to Protect, which was also devised by several controversial characters, including Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, a staunch denier of the Holocaust who long served as the deputy of late Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.

Powers, last April, was named the head of the new White House Atrocities Prevention Board.

Responsibility to Protect, or Responsibility to Act, as cited by Obama, is a set of principles, now backed by the United Nations, based on the idea that sovereignty is not a privilege but a responsibility that can be revoked if a country is accused of “war crimes,” “genocide,” “crimes against humanity” or “ethnic cleansing.”

The term “war crimes” has at times been indiscriminately used by various U.N.-backed international bodies, including the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which applied it to Israeli anti-terror operations in the Gaza Strip. There has been fear the ICC could be used to prosecute U.S. troops.

Anti-Federalist Trend
The anti-federalist trend (which is usually identified in the literature as the “militia” or “patriot” movement) appeared in full force only in the early to mid-1990s with the emergence of groups such as the Militia of Montana and the Michigan Militia. Anti-federalist and anti-government sentiments existed in U.S. society before the 1990s via diverse movements and ideological associations promoting anti-taxation, gun rights, and a “survivalist” lifestyle. Yet most scholars concur that the “farm crises” of the 1980s combined with the implications of rapid cultural, technological and normative changes in American society, as well as attempts to revise gun control and environmental legislation, facilitated the emergence of a fairly ideologically cohesive movement, as well as its rapid growth. – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

“The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. How extensively China opens up and how the world interprets and reacts to the social innovations and life styles she has developed is certain to have a profound effect on the future of many nations.” – Quoted from David Rockefeller’s 1973 New York Times article.

Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura have joined Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, G. Edward Griffin, Edwin Vieira, Stewart Rhodes and Sheriff Mack on the cast of Molon Labe!. the explosive movie which will be “seen around the world!” Read details…