North Carolina General Statutes
§ 127A-7. Composition of unorganized militia.
The unorganized militia shall consist of all other able-bodied citizens of the State and of the United States and such other able-bodied persons who have or shall declare their intention to become citizens of the United States, who shall be at least 17 years of age, except those who have been convicted of a felony or discharged from any component of the military under other than honorable conditions. (1917, c. 200, s. 4; C.S., s. 6794; 1949, c. 1130, s. 1; 1963, c. 1016, s. 2; 1975, c. 604, s. 2; 1983, c. 314, s. 1.)
Now read the opinion of Judge Andrew Napolitano:
What if the Constitution No Longer Applied?
by Andrew P. Napolitano
November 30, 2011
What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to limit the government? What if Congress’s enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limited Congress, but were actually used as justification to extend Congress’s authority over every realm of human life? What if the president, meant to be an equal to Congress, has become a democratically elected, term-limited monarch? What if the president assumed everything he did was legal just because he’s the president? What if he could interrupt your regularly scheduled radio and TV programming for a special message from him? What if he could declare war on his own? What if he could read your emails and texts without a search warrant? What if he could kill you without warning?
What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the founders? What if the states were mere provinces of a totally nationalized and fully centralized government? What if the Constitution was amended stealthily, not by constitutional amendments duly passed by the states, but by the constant and persistent expansion of the federal government’s role in our lives? What if the federal government decided whether its own powers were proper and constitutional?
“What if sometimes to love your country, you had to alter or abolish the government?”What if you needed a license from the government to speak, to assemble, or to protest the government? What if the right to keep and bear arms only applied to the government? What if posse comitatus—the law that prohibits our military from our streets—were no longer in effect? What if the government considered the military an adequate dispenser of domestic law enforcement? What if cops looked and acted like troops and you couldn’t distinguish the military from the police? What if federal agents could write their own search warrants in defiance of the Constitution? What if the government could decide when you weren’t entitled to a jury trial?
What if the government could take your property whenever it wanted it? What if the government could continue prosecuting you until it got the verdict it wanted? What if the government could force you to testify against yourself simply by labeling you a domestic terrorist? What if the government could torture you until you said what the government wanted to hear? What if people running for president actually supported torture? What if the government tortured your children to get to you? What if the government could send you to your death and your innocence meant nothing so long as the government’s procedures were followed? What if America’s prison population, the largest in the world, was the result of a cruel and unusual way for a country to be free? What if half the prison population never harmed anyone but themselves?
What if the people had no rights except those the government chose to let them have? What if the states had no rights except to do as the federal government commanded? What if our elected officials didn’t really live among us, but all instead had their hearts and their homes in Washington, DC? What if the government could strip you of your rights because of where your mother was when you were born? What if the income tax was unconstitutional? What if the states were convinced to give up their representation in Congress? What if the government tried to ban you from using a substance older than the government itself? What if voting didn’t mean anything anymore because both political parties stand for Big Government?
What if the government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, the Constitution be damned? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore? What if you could love your country but hate what the government has done to it? What if sometimes to love your country, you had to alter or abolish the government? What if Jefferson was right? What if that government is best which governs least? What if I’m right? What if the government is wrong? What if it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish fighting for freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?
“THE NEW AMERICAN /CITIZEN REVOLUTION”
11-11-11 “MISSION PETITION”
IMMEDIATELY BRINGING BACK TO THE TRUE LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS WHAT THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SAY’S HAS ALWAYS BEEN THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO CONTROL, “THEIR FREEDOM”! LET FREEDOM TRULY RING THROUGH OUT THIS NATION WHERE ALL CITIZENS ONCE AGAIN PLEDGE THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONCE AGAIN! BY STATING OPENLY THAT “I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TOO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”! NO PERSONS WILL BE GRANTED SPECIAL PRIVILEGES OR CONSIDERATION UNLESS SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, OR THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND “THE BILL OF RIGHTS”! ONLY THESE DOCUMENTS, WHOSE LANGUAGE, ARTICLES, AMENDMENTS, STATUES, CLAUSES, OR DECLARATIONS, ALREADY PUBLISHED WILL BE USED AS VERIFICATION DOCUMENTS! WHEN TAKEN, “THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE”, PERTAINS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS ONLY, ALL MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO REPRESENT THE ONLY OFFICALLY RECOGNIZED VOTING BLOCK WITHIN THIS COUNTRY FROM THIS DAY FORWARD! CITIZEN RIGHTS ARE ALREADY DESCRIBED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, HOWEVER THIS CLARITY IS NECESSARY TO ELIMINATE ANY DOUBT AND CONFUSION THAT EXIST WITHIN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR NOW AND FOREVER SO HELP US GOD! AS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STATES IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH FOR ALL CITIZENS TO WITNESS, READS: “AND FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS DECLARATION, WITH A FIRM RELIANCE ON THE PROTECTION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE, WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR”
IF AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN YOU FIND YOU CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT THIS PLEDGE OR AFFIRMATION OF YOUR FAITH IN YOUR COUNTRY, THEN UNDERSTAND YOUR REFUSAL TO PLEDGE THE NECESSARY LOYALITY, HONOR AND COMMITMENT TO THIS COUNTRY HAS CONSEQUENCES! AMERICA FOR WHICH IT STANDS MEANS YOUR LOYALITY IS REQUIRED OR YOU WILL HAVE CHOSEN A DIFFERENT PATH FOR WHICH WE AMERICANS CANNOT ACCEPT AND MUST CONSIDER YOUR WORDS, ACTIONS, AND DEEDS CAREFULLY FOR OUR FUTURE AS A NATION IS AT STAKE! WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARE COMMITTED TO THIS REVOLUTION AND OUR NATIONAL INTEREST IS PARAMOUNT TO ANY OTHER INTEREST TO BE CONSIDERED! ADDITIONALLY IF YOU ARE PRESENTLY IN THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY, MEANING WITHOUT PROPER DOCUMENTATION OR PERMISSION FROM THE PROPER AMERICAN AUTHORITIES THAN YOU TOO MUST EITHER LEAVE OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR DECISION! FOR TO BE AN AMERICAN FIRST YOU MUST BE LAWFUL AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY MADE THAT COMMITMENT OF CITIZENSHIP HAVE SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES AND TREASURES OUR COUNTRY REQUIRES FOR FREEDOM! OUR CONSIDERATION AS CITIZENS WILL BE THE ONLY VOICE HEARD FROM THIS POINT ON AND ALL AMERICANS WILL BEGIN TO VOTE AND REPEAL ALL LAWS PERTAINING TO CITIZENSHIP THAT THROUGH OUT OUR HISTORY HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD, ALTERED, OR OVERTURNED, FOR CONVENIENCE BY INEFFECTIVE POLITICANS FOR THE VOTES OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER QUALIFIED UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS REQUIRED! THE REVOLUTION BEGINS NOW AND THE RESULTS OF OUR GAINS AND LOSSES WILL BE ENTERED INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS! FOR THE PRICE OF FREEDOM MUST BE A PRICE MOST AMERICANS ARE WILLING TO PAY, WE TRUE AMERICANS BELIEVE YOU GET WHAT YOU DON’T EXPECT WHEN YOU FAIL TO PROTECT WHAT YOU PROCLAIM TO LOVE AND HONOR! PROTECT IT OR LEAVE IT, SACRIFICE NOTHING FOR IT!
WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR! “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE” CONTACT US AT: p.l.e.d.g.e@embarqmail.com.
I understand the need to ‘shout from the rooftop’
However, you might consider how the readability of your message would be improved through the use of lower-case and paragraphs.
Just sayin’ …
Hans
When the people realize that freedom was lost without a fight, will we once again man the ramparts? How can we expect people to fight for the Constitution when they do not even read it? How do you explain the concept of public virtue necessary to have a free society to people who are too apathetic to care?
How do you explain that we are on the road to serfdom when people do not understand the concept? How did we become terrorists in the eyes of the government for being patriotic? How do we justify fighting for a country whose principles have been compromised by the government?
The message in this article is clear: the government has been overthrown and it is up to patriots to restore it. Where are our experienced patriots?
David, you ask “Where are our experienced patriots?”
My answer: They are all dead …
The last time we saw American Patriots stand to defend their Liberty upon our own soil was in our War of Independence and the War of Northern Aggression.
We’ve sent brave men and women to war on foreign soil many times since, but the circumstances there were entirely different.
To stand our ground, as individuals, on our own soil, and resist the tyranny of ones’ own government, is a very different experience from deployment to prosecute a foreign war.
We have no experience in these affairs. We have no ‘experienced Patriots’.
David asks, “Where are our experienced patriots?”,
and Hans responds, “they are all dead.”
I would contend that many are in jail, or have been destroyed, financially and socially, for daring to stand up against a tyranical government.
We must not let this phenomena continue -- when you hear a report of a citizen being arrested, and that citizen is a gun owner, have you noticed how the media always make a big deal about how many guns the person owned, how many rounds of ammunition they had stored; as if these facts are, in and of themselves, sufficient to convict?
The whole cause of Ruby Ridge, and of Waco as well, was that there were alleged violations of federal firearms law -- alleged, but never proven ‘beyond a shadow of a doubt’ as it must be. How many less televised events such as these have come to pass? How many of the citizens accused and subsequently destroyed by BATF were actually guilty of anything other than exercising their rights under the Constitution?
Every time we get a progressive congress, we get new violations of the Bill of Rights, and the 2nd Ammendment seems to be their favorite for abuse and usurpation, although lately they have been emboldened to go directly after the 4th, 5th, and 6th, as well.
These are the revealed machinations of usurpation by a bureaucracy wholly unregulated; neither by moral fortitude, nor public outrage. And if these machinations be revealed, I must dare to imagine those greater usurpations which they have yet managed to conceal. Call them then what they are -- acts of treason, by treasonous men. For this, we have a remedy prescribed. Let us, then, as a nation, take our medicine, and be healed thereby!
Yes, there is coming a pogrom against the political and bureaucratic classes in our beloved country, and it is of their own making. The greater question, however, is whether our country will survive the purge which rampant progressivism has, of a cause, made necessary; as prerequisite to the restoration of a sane and humble public visage, necessary to the operation of a dignified Republic?
In liberty,
LT
My reference to experienced patriots comes from Samuel Adams:
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Thank you, LT, I appreciate your correction.
When I wrote my comment I was reflecting on the scope / scale of response at historic inflection points. I did not intend to overlook or belittle the actions of small determined groups.
Perhaps I’m a bit conflicted on how to act in these ‘trying times’ as an individual … still looking for signs of external leadership, rather than fully embracing the need to follow my head and heart.
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And shortly after writing (above), I discovered and read:
http://tlinexile.blogspot.com/2011/12/reveal-your-inner-virtue.html
http://iiipercent.blogspot.com/2011/12/patton-wars-may-be-fought-with-weapons.html