Oath Keepers Academy

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When Don Doig and Larry Dodge founded the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) in Montana way back in the 1980s, they envisioned their organization growing to national boundaries.  After many years of hard work and dedicated focus, and with impressive growth owed largely to volunteers and the expertise of sharp officers such as Iloilo Jones [...]

Public law 108-447 didn’t start out as a “civic education” bill – it was actually an appropriations bill. It included massive funding and subsidies for the FDA, agricultural programs, state and local “law enforcement assistance,” the department of energy, the export-import bank – including guaranteed loan programs, military funding for Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Guatemala, Haiti, and Uganda, the world bank, federal unemployment programs, the department of education, the department of housing and urban development, and much more.

Think about that for just a moment.

Federal politicians, who are taking billions upon billions of dollars from the American people to carry out programs not authorized by the Constitution, are unconstitutionally mandating that schools unconstitutionally funded by the unconstitutional department of education will teach your kids about constitutional limits on federal power.

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Congress? Constitution? Who Needs Them?
Regionalization is an element in the planned assimilation of America into a one-world government, which is being promoted by the United Nations and implemented in part by the UN’s plan for the 21rst Century, which they call Agenda 21.

(URL: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/01/18/proposed-rnc-agenda-21-resolution/ )
This is four-year-old news, but many Americans have not yet read [...]

The world reels with the turmoil of war, geological disaster, and economic collapse, while Americans continue to submerge themselves in illusions of safety and immunity. While rights are sold for security, the federal government, swollen with power, begins a systematic takeover of liberty in order to bring about a New World Order. (Gray State)

It explains how these principles are embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and how they should be applied in the operation of America’s true federal system of government–indeed, why it is every American’s duty to participate in the Militia, more imperative now than ever before. It exposes the dangerous fallacy in the contemporary “individual-rights” misinterpretation of the Second Amendment, and why the Heller decision reduced Americans’ “gun rights” to a level far below what their forebears enjoyed when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified.

I am a recent first-time visitor to Oath Keepers, and at first was reluctant to do anything but monitor the site from a distance, but after seeing the article about federal troops patrolling in-CONUS, with a picture of an ASV (a vehicle unique to the MP Corps) I felt compelled to offer my perspective, such as it is. As Soldiers, we are aware that deploying federal troops to the U.S. is constitutionally perilous. We know all too well what we look like in up-armored humvees with dark sunglasses and battle gear slung across our chests. We know the connections that people will make, and the conclusions they will come to. And many of us agree. Putting federal troops in a police role is tantamount to a declaration of war on the people. If such a war ever occurs, I believe many of us have already chosen the right side, enough to make a military takeover nearly impossible. – “Six”

“It is the duty of every citizen to achieve a basic level of readiness. Increasing your knowledge and skill in the basics of Security, Energy and Medicine will strengthen not only your ability to adapt to changing situations, but will strengthen your family and your community as well.” – John Mackey

While this brief video from Fox News barely scratches the surface, it is a powerful confession from a mainstream media outlet and should be viewed by all Americans. As one pundit put it, “Those conspiracy theorists? Turns out they’re right!”

If this issue concerns you, watch the trailer for a new documentary film presently in production entitled MOLON LABE — How the Second Amendment Guarantees America’s Freedom featuring RON PAUL, PATRICK J. BUCHANAN and G. EDWARD GRIFFIN.
Inspired by the works of Constitutional attorney, EDWIN VIEIRA, JR., MOLON LABE also features SHERIFF MACK; Oath Keepers Founder, STEWART RHODES; DAVID R. GILLIE and Senatorial Candidate, JACK ROONEY.

Most Americans are not aware today that the powers on Wall Street and in Washington D.C. actually financed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, deliberately giving rise to the first communist state. Until one understands why monopoly capitalists would want to establish a communist nation, one will have difficulty understanding why those same powers later would finance the rise of the Third Reich in Germany while at the same time seeking to subjugate the American tax payer to unlawful government suppression.

Too many people wrongly assume that the purpose of revitalizing “the Militia of the several States” (or, for that matter, of forming the kind of private citizens “militia” that already exist in several States) is to fight new battles of Lexington and Concord. To the contrary: The goal must be, if at all possible, to deter usurpation and tyranny, so as to make actually fighting any battle here in America unnecessary. Deterrence is always the best defense. And preparedness makes deterrence credible. Besides, the ultimate purpose of revitalizing “the Militia of the several States” is to reassert We the People’s control over both the General Government and the States, from the inside and under the law, by infusing with energy a very important constitutional component of those governments that has withered to a present-day impotence and insignificance. Yet nonetheless not to irrelevance–for “the Militia of the several States” remain not only part of the Constitution, but also, with the continuing crisis over “homeland security”, more relevant and needed than ever before. – Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.

The Constitution recognizes and permanently includes as part of its federal system only “the Militia of the several States”. It neither recognizes nor creates any “Militia of the United States” at all–because no such militia ever existed, and the Founding Fathers evidently desired that no such militia be formed. True, “the Militia of the several States” may be “call[ed] forth” by Congress “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”; “such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States” for those purposes may be “govern[ed]” as Congress directs; and “[t]he President shall be Commander in Chief * * * of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States”. Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 and 16; and Article II, Section 2, Clause 1. But even when temporarily “call[ed] forth”, “govern[ed]“, and subjected to the President’s command “in[ ] the actual Service of the United States”, “the Militia of the several States” nevertheless retain their identities and natures as permanent State institutions. The Constitution authorizes neither Congress nor the President to do anything that detracts from, let alone contradicts, these identities and natures.

For that reason, the Constitution authorizes neither Congress nor the President to employ the Militia so as to attack, subvert, or in any other way undermine any State’s existence, powers and authority, or her “Republican Form of Government”–or to refuse to employ the Militia to protect those attributes. None of “the Militia of the several States” can be used, actively or passively, against any of “the several States”. – Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.

By recognizing “the Militia of the several States,” the Constitution imposes a permanent duty on nearly all Americans to serve therein, according to the principles the pre-constitutional Militia actually put into practice. One part of that essentially governmental duty is to be armed, a responsibility emphasized and effectuated by the power (and duty) of Congress “[t]o provide for * * * arming * * * the Militia.” Article I, Section 8, Clause 16. Every individual subject to the constitutional duty to be armed in “the Militia of the several States” necessarily enjoys a constitutional right as against every public official not to be hindered, and (through Clause 16) a constitutional right to be assisted, in the performance of that duty. No statute, executive action, or judicial decision can possibly change that. Therefore, the “right of the people to keep and bear Arms” is ABSOLUTE, because it is the consequence or corollary of a constitutional duty that applies both to the people and to every public official. Indeed, to argue that any other part of any government at any level may disarm the one branch of the government that the Constitution itself specifically requires to be armed is self-contradictory nonsense. – Dr. Edwin Vieira

“I had been under the impression that Michigan was trying to promote tourism,” TeWinkle says. “Great way to make a first impression—no wonder the state’s economy is in the porcelain.”

On this point, regarding the rules to govern the creation and governing of a federal army, the Constitution says very little. In Article I, Section 8, Congress is authorized to “raise and support Armies” and to “make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.” That’s it. That paucity of information has been magnified by the Council on Foreign Relations and their members in positions of power to include the use of the Army in ways and means that would seem unimaginable even to the most martial of our Founding Fathers. – The New American

Oath Keepers, we are proud to announce that NC. state Representative Glen Bradley, a Founding Member of Oath Keepers, has introduced a resolution against the NDAA before the N.C. Legislature (based on the model legislation co-authored by Stewart Rhodes, Richard Frye, and Jeff Lewis). Stewart Rhodes will address the North Carolina Legislature, May 30, 2012.

An excellent primer for the Oath Keepers Academy – this film is important because its basic revelation exposes the falsity in the “left-right paradigm”.