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(C)4/1995 Henry McDaniel and Henry McDaniel 3RD Communications, except where individual writers have reserved rights. Electronic reproduction for non- profit allowed so long as the work remains unaltered with all credits and notices intact. All other rights reserved. URL : http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mcdaniel/ EMAIL: jpja@homer.u.washington.edu In this version of the Journal you may jump ahead to articles by searching for the article index AR# -- where # is the article number. The JOURNAL for PATRIOTIC JUSTICE in AMERICA April 1995. vol. 1, No. 1. _________________________________________________________________ FEATURES (AR1) Towards a New Free Press. - C.E. van Avery (AR2) Establishing Your Bivouac Area: the first 24 hours. - SSG Hedley (AR3) From London: Coming American Revolution? - A. Furlong _________________________________________________________________ DEPARTMENTS (AR4) Letters (AR5) The Cradle (AR6) The Lantern (AR7) Minuteman Advisor _________________________________________________________________ Corrections: We originally ran with the wrong credits. T.L. Davis did not write "Towards a New Free Press." That article is the work of C.E. van Avery who was properly credited within. 4/15/95 This non-HTML version of the Journal for readers without WEB browsers was expanded to cover everything in our standard edition, rather than the digested version used before. --Editor, 4/17/95 AR1 Author's note: In a time of need, I was asked by the editor for an article to add to the features section. `Just add a paragraph on the beginning explaining why you decided to join us, and send it in,' he told me. As I sat in front of my computer struggling to fit all the reasons in one short paragraph, the introduction began to eclipse the original piece, until the product of that deceivingly simple request became a treatise unto themselves. These are the results. TOWARDS A NEW FREE PRESS _________________________________________________________________ `` Our represenatives have come to believe themselves to be independant of the people they represent." _________________________________________________________________ By C.E. Van Avery `...Wherever a general knowledge and sensibility have prevailed among the people, arbitrary government and every kind of oppression have lessened and disappeared in proportion.' Those words, written by John Adams in 1765, seem to have a special meaning to our Nation today. The press of our times has for a generation or more ignored this ancient principle, and led this great Nation to the precipice of its own demise. They have disregarded a fundamental right of the People, won by the struggles and blood of Patriots. I cannot improve upon the arguments of Mr. Adams, when he stated that, `liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.... [The people] have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.' For generations the press has neglected its fundamental obligation in this respect, sacrificing it on an alter to the `Great Society.' Their in terest in making this a Nation created in their own ideological image has for years kept the inner workings and machinations of government from the very Citizens that empower it. And now, as a light of truth is finally cast upon the dark corners and recesses of the bureaucracy, we are appalled at what we discover. We discover that we have created, through our own neglect and disinterest, a government in which graft and favoritism is replete. Our Representatives have come to believe themselves to be independent of the People they represent. Indeed, many are incensed that they must throw their support, though faintly, into an issue with which they do not agree, while lamenting to their colleagues that their actions are the result of the People's misguided desires. We discover that the individuals we sent to govern have, first and foremost, sought to secure their positions in government, improve their personal balance sheets, and construct a nobility of patronage for their henchmen and followers. They have built themselves nests which offer unregulated banking services, indiscriminate and unchallenged abuse of franking and postal privileges, posts and privileges for their loyal and generous supporters, and seemingly unlimited benefits; all paid for with monies taxed at confiscatory rates from the earners and producers for which this Nation was founded. We discover that our Representatives have for decades been building and nurturing a bureaucracy of endless laws, rules and regulations, designed to create a perfect and just society without class, cultural, racial, sexual, or ethnic divisions, and from which they have generously exempted themselves. They have sought to tell us how we must live, what we can and cannot do with our property, to what extent we can protect ourselves and our families, and, most arrogantly of all, how we must aid and support our fellow man. We may owe much of this primarily to our own blind neglect and indifference, but I believe some blame must be shared by the press and pundits who for so long have been accomplices in these Crimes. For years the Press has realized that with the proper cultivation and support of certain Powers, they could feather an ideological and financial nest of their own. By praising and supporting soulmates, and deconstructing and marginalizing foes, they aided in the manufacture of a Great Society which is a corrupt financial and ideological juggernaut that has finally slipped its reigns and lurched into the light of day. You and I now sit squarely in the center of a New Free Press, built upon the once marginal and insignificant fringes of speech and public discourse. On the airwaves and deep within cyberspace a New Revolution is being built. We are steadfastly dedicated to a course of action and deliberation that will ultimately lead, with careful and proper nurturing, to a Devolution of Government and a return to the Popular Sovereignty upon which this, the Greatest of Republics, was founded. The opposition to our efforts has already begun. Our Revolution is being described in the mainstream press as `scary' and `horrific,' which by any gauge should indicate an effectiveness and resonance of opinion which we may not yet even comprehend. We have entered into an age of propaganda, where facts and data are expounded or overlooked to justify preconceived conclusions. We are routinely bombarded, behind a facade of objectivity, bypolls and data skillfully manipulated to make us believe the things the press wants us to believe, and support the positions and politicians the press wants us to support. Our freedom and future lies in the knowledge of these methods and our dedication to the promulgation and proliferation of the Truth, as supported by the reasonable and objective analysis of all the facts available. For all these reasons and more I am here to stand and speak my mind on behalf of those who will not or cannot speak theirs. For all these reasons and more I am willing to state my views and opinions, after careful and complete deliberation, to help rekindle the Spirit of our Fathers and Benefactors. And, for one last time I will defer to the eloquent Mr. Adams as he exhorts us all to `...dare to read, think, speak, and write. Let every order and degree among the people rouse their attention and animate their resolution. Let them all become attentive to the grounds and principles of government, ecclesiastical and civil. Let us study the law of nature; search into the spirit of the ... Constitution; read the histories of the ancient ages; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome; set before us the conduct of our own ... ancestors, who have defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short, against the gates of earth and hell. ` ...Let the public disputations become researches into the grounds and nature and ends of government, and the means of preserving the good and demolishing the evil. Let the dialogues, and all the exercises, become the instruments of impressing on the tender mind, and of spreading and distributing far and wide, the ideas of right and the sensations of freedom.' _________________________________________________________________ Text: Copyright (C) 1995 by Christopher E. van Avery, all rights reserved. HTML codes (C)4/1995 HM3C AR2 ESTABLISHING YOUR BIVOUAC: THE FIRST 24 HOURS. _________________________________________________________________ by SSG Hedley, PA Militia 9th/F For now I'd like to focus on mobilizing your militia unit during the first 24 hours. With the commencement of hostilities against armed invaders or in any other legitimate conflict with which the militia could be called into action, it is imperative that a secure base of operations be established. Without a secure base or series of bases you will have no place to store your bulk supplies, tend to your wounded or plan future operations. You'll need a place where your men can be relatively relaxed and get needed rest if at all possible. _________________________________________________________________ `` Camoflage will be a way of life, particularly with regards to aircraft." _________________________________________________________________ Keep in mind that if the situation is real, then it will be likely that the major highways and lines of communication will be closed. You will have had to have established a set of rendezvous locations to link up with members of your unit that can be reached without the aid of major transportation routes. It's entirely possible that you may even have to load up your rucksack, grab your rifle and walk it on foot. Keep that in mind when planning your mobilization trees. Next you and whatever elements of your unit that survived and made it to the rendezvous point will need to get to a secure rear area to establish a tactical bivouac site. This area should have ample woodland cover, have a natural and reliable fresh water supply, and offer avenues of escape. Camouflage will be a way of life, particularly with regards to aircraft. Do NOT use any type of vinyl or plastic tarps for your bivouac site. They can and will reflect sunlight and will show up in bright nifty colors when viewed under infrared by helicopters. Use OD or camo canvas or mil-spec nylon in combination with mil-spec camo netting (again, do NOT use the vinyl coated "duck blind" camo netting... it might fool a mallard but it won't fool a Kiowa scout chopper). Supplement this with natural camouflage material such as pine branches. Experiment in the field during your unit's scheduled FTXs and get it right. Keep in mind different techniques for different seasons in your area. _________________________________________________________________ `` This is a combat zone, not a rifle match, so it's okay to cheat." _________________________________________________________________ Keep in mind when you set up your bivouac site that you need broad free fire zones and avenues of escape. When choosing your free fire zones be sure to give your firing position plenty of cover and support. It's okay to use fenceposts, sandbags or rucksacks to support your rifle's stock. This is a combat zone, not a rifle match, so it's okay to cheat. If you have them available, sandbag your defensive positions after you dig in. If you do not have sandbags, use rocks, piles of earth, or wood to help armor your position. Anything that can stop a .223 from getting to you. If you're forced to use rocks or metal plate to protect your emplacements, make sure everyone in your unit is similarly protected to defend against ricochets. Finally, make sure you have the ability to concentrate advancing enemy forces into your free fire zone with a combination of natural or artificial barriers including boulders, logs, razor wire or explosive ordinance. Observation posts should be placed far enough from your unit's headquarters so that they can visually cover areas that cannot be seen from the main HQ. If possible, outposts should supplement each other by being able to keep at least one other outpost in sight at all times. If you have PT-1 G.I. field telephones or similar equipment on hand, use it. Communication gear will allow you to deploy more observation posts and will allow more flexibility in the deployment of your unit's security element. The amount of patrols that you can run from your bivouac site will depend on the number of soldiers available to you. Launching recon patrols and preparing for dawn or dusk enemy attacks will be covered in the next installment, along with securing your tactical bivouac at night. _________________________________________________________________ (C)4/1995 HM3C. AR3 A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION? _________________________________________________________________ By Anthony Furlong Free Life, London When I look at the United States, I am filled both with alarm and with hope. On the one hand, I see the rapid advance of despotism. On the other, I see a gathering of perhaps all the forces needed to halt that advance and turn it back. I do not know if there will be an insurrection, or a revolution, or a civil war. But whatever may be about to happen in that country will, I am in no doubt, set the course of mankind for centuries to come. One: The Threat The advance of despotism in America is something too plain to require a long description. The voiding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights began in the 1860s, if not before; and the progress of the Federal Government from delegate of the States to its current supremacy has been the history of the United States. But three modern developments are worth noting. Civil Asset Forfeiture First, there is the "War on Drugs". The attempted prohibition of acts that do not cause quantifiable harm to third parties is itself a violation of rights, and should always be protested. But the failure of all the usual legal means of enforcing the prohibition has led the Federal Government to other, still more serious, violations. Perhaps the most obvious of these is civil asset forfeiture. The Purpose of the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act 1984 was to strengthen existing laws against "racketeering" - that is, organised crime on a large scale, usually connected with the supply of drugs. The Act allows the authorities to freeze the allegedly tainted assets of an accused person prior to conviction. Such assets can be recovered, but only if the accused person sues for them and can prove that no illegality was involved in their acquisition and in the earning of the money with which they were acquired, and that they were not used for any illegal purpose. Since this is a civil interlocutory process, there is no Constitutional bar to reversing the burden of proof. Moreover, since all assets may be frozen, it can be difficult for an accused person to obtain the legal assistance needed to recover them. Even when some assets are left unfrozen, an American litigant must pay his own costs regardless of how his case ends. The effect of this is that only a very wealthy accused person who wants to recover very substantial assets can be expected to sue the Federal Government. For everyone else, asset forfeiture is just what it is called - forfeiture. Never mind that a jury may acquit, nor even that the case may be dropped before trial, assets frozen are nearly always assets confiscated. It is, however, the use of asset forfeiture that has transformed it into a weapon of arbitrary power. It has been extended by court decisions and further statutes to cover virtually every crime; and Federal and State agencies empowered to freeze assets now include the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, the United States Marshals Service, the Coast Guard, the Internal Revenue Service, The Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bureau of Land Management, together with local police forces and the Highway Patrol. The value of assets frozen per year was $27 million in 1986, $644 million in 1991, and is now well past $1 billion.1 To see how asset forfeiture works, consider these cases: + In 1992, in Iowa, "a woman accused of shoplifting a $25 sweater had her $18,000 car - specially equipped for her handicapped daughter - seized as the 'getaway vehicle". + In December 1988, Detroit drug police raided a grocery store, but failed to find any drugs. After dogs reacted to three $1.00 bills in the cash register, the police seized $4,384 from cash registers and the store safe. According to The Pittsburgh, Press, over 90 per cent of all cash circulating in the United States shows some drug residue. + In 1994, a Californian farmer accidentally ran his tractor over a protected rat. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service seized the tractor, worth $50,000 and bought on credit. + In United States v 403+ Skyline Drive (a case in which property was the defendant!), a Los Angeles Court upheld the retrospective seizure of a home for misrepresentations made to a Government-insured loan company.2 + There are proposals to extend asset forfeiture still wider, so that seizures may be made on mere suspicion, and so that the individual officers making the seizures can receive bonuses based on the value of what they seize. Armed with these powers, the authorities will only need bother themselves with due process when they want to put someone in prison. Gun Control Second, there is the gradual abolition of the right to keep arms. Contrary to received opinion, and any reading of the Second Amendment, there is no absolute legal right to own guns in the United States. From a New York Act of 1911 to the Federal Crime Act 1994, there is a long history of restrictions of access to weapons. Even so, hostility has become far more active in recent years; and there is evidence that the Federal authorities are at least planning a very severe further restriction. Consider: + In a recent questionnaire given to American soldiers, it was asked: The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. A thirty (30) day amnesty period is permitted for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a number of citizens' groups refuse to turn over their firearms. Consider the following statement: I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government.3 + In May 1994, between 15 and 20 agents of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Internal Revenue Service entered Pennsylvania the home of Harry and Theresa Lamplugh to carry out a search. Though the Lamplughs fully cooperated with the authorities, opening safes and cabinets as asked, they were repeatedly threatened with a machine gun, and three of their pet cats were killed - one deliberately crushed. Their furniture was smashed, and papers and food were mixed and scattered everywhere. Mr Lamplugh, who is dying from cancer, was refused access to his prescribed medication throughout the six and a half hour search. The reason for this search? Mr Lamplugh is a gun show promoter. These are entirely legal gatherings, but are famous as meeting places for people who do not like Federal agencies. Among items seized was a complete list of all gun sales assisted by Mr Lamplugh since 1988: this gave the names and addresses of 70,000 thousand people. Some of these people have since had their homes searched. Mr and Mrs Lamplugh have several times received anonymous telephone calls late at night, threatening them with death if they did not stop complaining.4 Murder Third, and following from the above, the Federal Government has started to murder those who make too public a show of collecting guns. At Waco, it gassed or burned to death 67 adults and 17 children. This is one of the most notorious atrocities of recent years committed in a civilised county. It is, however, worth recalling the most damning facts: + That the authorities claimed that they only wanted to question David Koresh about (anonymous) allegations of child abuse and weapons stockpiling - he went jogging alone in town almost every morning; + That they chose to execute a search warrant on the compound by sending in more than 200 agents armed with machine guns, grenades, helicopters and military tanks; + The reporters were threatened with "tragic consequences" if they came unaccompanied within two miles of the compound; + That one of the Davidians was shot by the FBI for trying to get into the compound, and that his body was left hanging on the fence for three days while it was eaten by wild dogs; + That all that remained of the compound after the fire was levelled by the FBI before the arson investigators were allowed in. Aside from the above, there are repeated rumours that hardly seem credible - of Russian tanks and artillery seen driving along country roads, of foreign troops drilling on American soil, of plans to abolish cash transactions, of martial law, of concentration camps ready and waiting to hold up to a million "dissidents". The Internet is full of speculation about what the Federal Government intends to do next. Doubtless, Americans are famous for paranoid speculation about everything from the Kennedy assassination to the Moon landings. But there is plenty if indubitable evidence of anti-Constitutional action.5 Two: The Response During the past few years, there has been an enormous growth of citizen militias in the United States. Largely rural, middle class groups, these have the best weapons that can be bought or stolen. They are trained by veterans who learned everything worth knowing from the Vietcong about guerilla warfare. They correspond with each other using the securest new encryption. They have sympathisers in the regular armed forces; and, in spite of the possibly desired use of the armed forces against citizens, there is good reason to doubt the loyalty of many units. Spokesmen for the militias claim that they are purely defensive organisations. According to John Turner, a member of the Texas Constitutional Militia, We're 90 per cent real Christians. We don't want to start blowing up bridges or sniping at judges.6 But their purpose is to deter. They will protect people like the Lamplughs, and journalists who may be threatened for exposing Federal abuses. The general mood is that the authorities must not be allowed to get away with another Waco. The long shredding of the American Constitution must be stopped. Naturally, the establishment media has portrayed the militia movement as a front for racists and bigots. The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organisation, has even produced a long smear, claiming that the militias have been infiltrated, where not set up, by anti-semites. This report is remarkable for its collection of so many wilful lies and half-truths into so small a space. But it is apparent that the Anti-Defamation League is not quite the fearless enemy of anti-semitism that it used to be: it seems now largely to fabricate what it cannot provoke. After all, a budget of $30 million would be rather a lot to spend against a few elderly cranks who believe inter alia that the blood of gentile children is exported to Israel.7 Denouncing the report, Mark Bowers, a former artillery officer who commands the Montgomery County Militia near Houston, says: I'm Jewish and I take offence to that. There's nobody of that ilk in our unit. We're trying to recruit blacks, Latinos, Jews, women, anybody who wants to join.8 Probably, the militias do contain the usual fools, who always miss the point with their talk of white supremacy and homosexual plots. But increasingly, the members are talking a different language. Via the Internet, I have just received parts of a magazine called The Resister. Though produced on a stencil duplicator, photocopies and electronic uploads give it an immense circulation among the militias. Fearing for their lives, its authors hide behind pseudonyms. There are proposals to make distributing it a criminal offence. I will not quote any of the classified material that it prints. But I will quote from the Editorial: The Resister is a response to the altruistic cannibalism which is consuming the principle of inalienable individual rights upon which this nation was founded and which have been served up in sacrifice to the mob god of democracy, the minority god of tribalism, the nature god of environmentalism, the slave god of collectivism, and the statist god of socialism. Do you want to know who we are? We are the individuals who conceive the ideas the cretinous mob calls "the team effort." We are the individuals whose excellence is subverted by the racist policy of "equal opportunity." We are the independent, innovative, and creative who have been enslaved to serve the "greater good." Without us you would still be prying roots out of the ground with a pointed stick.... Every whim based, undefined, un-judicable law it passes; every unconstitutional gang of armed badge wielding thugs it deploys; every unconstitutional agency it creates; every incomprehensible special interest regulation it mandates; every dime extorted through taxation and redistributed to the incompetent and undeserving; every American life lost in some altruistic war, humanitarian assistance, or peacekeeping operation, demonstrates the illegitimacy of the federal government. The federal government is not "of the people," it is the instrument of pull-peddlers. It is not "by the people," it is the toady of special interests. It is not "for the people," it is the exercise of force for the sake of force. Pass laws against us; we will not obey. Regulate our activities; we will not comply. Legislate our behavior; we will not consent. We are free men. We will not be subjugated. We have the guns to prove it.9 As a call to arms, these words are worthy of Jefferson. They are the manifesto of a second American Revolution. I can imagine how they are read and reread in the citizen militias; and how before long, they may be hurled in the faces of a corrupt ruling class that has turned America into a land of civil asset forfeiture, gun control, and Waco-style massacres. Three: Our Own Response Here, I feel it prudent to address a few words to my own ruling class - words which, having been prompted and approved by the Editor of this journal and by my friend and Proprietor Mr Tame, can be regarded as an official statement of the British libertarian movement. Neither Free Life nor the Libertarian Alliance advocates armed insurrection in the United Kingdom. To be justified, it is not by itself enough for violence to be in a good cause: it must be plain that violence is the only means by which that cause can be advanced, and that the alternative to violence is an intolerable despotism. It is also necessary that the violence should be a reasonably effective means of advancing the cause. None of these conditions applies in the United Kingdom. In the first place, an insurrection here has at the moment no likely chance of success. Unlike the Americans, we have already been disarmed; and, except among the Ulstermen, what tradition we have of armed resistance to the authorities has long since atrophied. Even if a few of us were to import weapons and train secretly in their use, we should have no support from any large section of the general public. It would be easy for the authorities to mobilise opinion against us, and to keep us as isolated and ineffective as the IRA has usually been in the mainland United Kingdom. In the second place, I must admit that, on the whole, the British Government is rather gentle compared with the American. It does not murder its opponents on anything like the same scale. It has not to the same extent sidestepped the restraints of due process by taking criminal matters into the civil courts. Nor is it so able to ignore calls for reform. The bureaucracy is smaller. Ministers are not so isolated from everyday life. The special interest groups are less completely in charge of policy. Everyone is less corrupt. Despite the formal veil of secrecy, our system is often more transparent, and more open to the influence of informed public opinion. Yet, though we reject the use of political violence in this country, we entirely support the citizen militias in their opposition to the Federal Government. At the same time, we undertake to give that opposition all help that may be lawfully within our means. The struggle of any libertarian, anywhere in the world, is the struggle of all libertarians; and we are aware that the collapse of liberty in the United States will immeasurably weaken it in other countries. This being said, what if there is second American revolution, and a libertarian government takes office in a new American Federation - how are we as British libertarians to respond? The answer, I suggest, is simple. When the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, the more extreme socialists everywhere in the world became accustomed to looking at least for guidance to Moscow. A British communist in 1935 saw himself firstly not as a British citizen, but as the agent of a foreign power, and his first duty as working for the supremacy in this country of that foreign power's ideology. And that is how we shall be. My Editor calls himself an English patriot, who puts his own country and its free traditions first. I wait to see what he will call himself if ever those traditions have been obliterated here, but are supreme elsewhere. For myself, I shall feel no internal conflict; and I invite my readers to join me in wishing every success to our comrades across the Atlantic. Notes 1 Source: Jarret Wollstein, The Looting of America, leaflet published by the International Society for Individual Liberty, California, 1992. 2 Sources: ibid.; Jarret Wollstein, "Massive increase in Gun and Property Seizures", Freedom Network News, California, Sept/Oct 1994. 3 Source: Wollstein, op. cit. (1994). 4 Source: "BATF Thugs Strike Again", The Gun Owner, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 1994. 5 A video record of the Waco seige is available. It uses "footage from satellite feeds, eye-witness accounts, and the testimony of forensic experts. American VHS copies can be obtained for $40 (post included only within the United States) from the International Society for Individual Liberty, 1800 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94102, tel: (415) 864 0952, fax: (415) 864 7506. 6 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "Patriot games turn deadly: Illegal US "militias" threaten rule of Washington", The Sunday Telegraph, London, 4th December 1994. Though interesting, this article contains a number of mistakes. In the first place, citizen militias are not illegal in the United States. In the Second, Mr Evans-Pritchard claims that the Texas Constitutional Militia mustered at the Alamo on the 19th April 1994. This was actually the first anniversary of the Waco massacre. According to friends of mine who were there, the muster took place on the 12th November 1994. 7 Armed and Dangerous: Militias Take Aim at the Federal Government, published in 1994 by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Washington DC. The report is probably copyright, but copies can be obtained via the Internet from Dr Linda D. Thompson at 71163.1350@compuserve.com. 8 Evans-Pritchard, op. cit.. 9 Hard copies of The Resister may be available from Box 1403 Addison, Texas 75001. Readers are advised to send return postage and to wait a long time. They are also advised to consider that it may be a front for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or any number of the other Federal Agencies that it purports to attack. [Free Life] Editor's Note: I wish to confirm that Free Life does not advocate or support the breach of any British law. _________________________________________________________________ Article reporoduced in JPJA by permission. This article first appeared in issue number 22 of "Free Life", which is the quarterly journal of the London-based Libertarian Alliance. A subscription costs US$20 - cash or personal checks - and is available from the following address: Free Life c/o The Libertarian Alliance 25 Chapter Chambers Pimlico London SW1P 4NN tel: **44 171 821 5502 fax: **44 171 823 4534 e-mail cea01sig@gold.ac.uk JPJA Editor's Note: JPJA's reprint of the above footnotes, including the contact infomation does not represent an endorsement of Linda Thompson, or the sending of monies to the "Resister" P.O. box number. If you order a copy of Free Life, be sure to mention that you read their article in JPJA. _________________________________________________________________ Text (C) by Free Life. HTML code (C)4/1995 HM3C AR4 LETTERS ------------------------------------------- Write Us! We'd love to hear some feedback, suggestions, and comments. In the future this section will contain letters from our readers. If you ask a question (and you indicate it's for publication) we'll answer it here. Please send your e-mail to jpja@u.washington.edu From the Editor, [A] fter several months of delays, JPJA is finally able to open its pages to the public via the Internet (on the World Wide Web and Usenet.) After conceptualizing an informative publication in early January, request for volunteers to write, and otherwise fill the Journal pages were made. Responses were slow and far between. But suddenly everything picked up in March and we were moving towards actually putting things together. Being more than a little occupied with activities besides editing, laying out (as far as that can apply to the markup codes used on WWW) such as trying to earn a living, I kept putting off writing something for our first monthly. So, I'll let this letter be my lone piece. We are activist. or else we wouldn't be writing to you in shared concern for the state of affairs in America, or to inform you about how you might prepare in all areas. I was never able to let others do the thinking for me, nor sit on the sidelines when someone else is in need of help. Not for long, at any rate. But you'll here more than enough about my ideas and my invitation for you to be the Judge in you rown affairs, soon enough. This Journal, has a mission. And it is about this which I will devote the balance of my letter to. JPJA's mission is "to provide a source of low-noise verified and reliable information about entities subverting the spirit or letter of the United States Constitution. As such, staff will be expected to keep wild speculation, unsupported by verified evidence or established facts DISTINCTLY separate from those parts of their reports which concern fact. We do not wish to spread or create rumors. Our purpose is to inform the public in a responsible manner." There are a few words which ought to be defined here, not only because they appear in our name, but lest any doubt should form as to our meaning. Spirit of the U.S. Constitution The spirit of the Constitution is expressed in the Declaration of Independence; that there are certain unalienable rights among which are Life, Liberty and the freedom to pursue happiness The Journal for JPJA will actively pursue and encourage Patriotic Justice in America. Patriotic To be a patriot is to be a nationalist partisan; an ardent supporter of the American nation. The revolutionary founders of the United States were patriots even as they fought their legal King. They were noble patriots for a future State and traitors to the corrupt government all around them. A patriot may be patriotic only about his own small state, or an ideal country which does not now even exist! Justice Some laws are imoral. Which is to say that law does not necessarily lead to JUSTICE (ie: all laws are not just.) And it is the duty of all individuals to judge laws (especially new or infrequently applied ones) and see for themselves if they are just; if it is moral to follow the law in their own eyes. It is a given that the individual, regardless of sex or race has the same inherent rights (such as to adequate self-defense, property and life) as any other individual. The framers of the Constitution were not perfect. They suffered from various. vices and imperfections as do we all. The Constitution they produced had flaws. But the spirit of what they launched... the essential recognition that "all men are created equal" is true and set the slow gears in motion towards a day when there would be more freedom and less prejudice in America. In America What exactly is America? Is it the United States? Or is it larger than that? I see America as being all of North America, we in the US share many similarities with our Canadian brethren who are a few years ahead of us in the evil formation of a police state (witness the confiscation of firearms without compensation going on there right now.) And the Mexicans to the south, having long been under the claws of corrupt single-party rule are like those to the north welcome to join us in our pursuit for Patriotic Justice. In conclusion, when, we speak of Patriotic Justice in America we are talking about a zealous and active move towards having order and justice in a nation which follows the spirit of the U.S. Constitution. An American nation. Clearly, America has never been perfect or nearly as ideal as some would like to believe. It is that future more perfect State which we look forward to. A State where individuals are free to pursue what they consider happiness within the framework of a democratically elected republican form of government. Well we do look forward to hearing from you and all the rest of our readers. It would be nice to have some feedback and information as to how we can better serve the community of concerned citizens. Comming articles, in future editions: * U.N. Park plans, government documents revealed * Many investigations into rumors being disseminated via Internet and BBSs. Also Be sure to checkout out database files, reachable from our home page. Finally, let me note that there is still room for more volunteer staff, writers, photographers, artist and copy editors. If you are so inclined and can be of assistance, don't hesitate to let me know. May Justice be with you, Henry McDaniel _________________________________________________________________ Letters: jpja@u.washington.edu _________________________________________________________________ (C)4/1995 HM3C AR5 THE FALL OF A COMMONWEALTH _________________________________________________________________ by C.E. van Avery It is a strange thing indeed to live in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts today. The days of John, Samuel, and John Quincy Adams have long since been forgotten, and while those men may yet be immortalized in bronze on commons and in squares, their ideas would be vilified and derided if spoken today. The people, through indifference and misguided activism, have allowed their government to go so far astray that the representatives seem now to believe their power to govern has become independent of the electorate. The day to day business of government has become that of a giant bureaucracy, of, by, and for the bureaucrats, and the examples of this sad truth are all too abundant. In a state where a rebellion was once begun in response to unfair taxation, the people now bear one of the heaviest tax burdens on the nation. The power of government to tax has been so abused that in 1994 the voters thought it necessary to put a referendum question on the ballot to force the legislature to use tax money collected on gasoline sales for its statutory purpose. This was prompted after towns attempted to raise property and vehicle excise taxes to pay for road repairs the state was neglecting. Another ballot question, one which sought to return lost rights to landlords by eliminating rent control, was halted by a lawsuit filed by none other than the Mayor of Boston. The explanation offered for his action was that the people of Massachusetts aren't going to tell Boston what to do. Cambridge, once the seat of rebellion during the siege of Boston, has become a bizarre caricature of its colonial roots. Freedom of speech have been distorted into freedom from incorrect speech. Religious displays during the holidays are routinely firebombed, and religious items are banned from open view in public buildings. And, last fall, the town spent taxpayer money to finance an exhibition, in the town hall, with the theme: the dildo as art. The 1994 elections results are just as disappointing. Term limits imposed by ballot referendum were halted by legal action. No incumbents were defeated in the last elections, and few seem in danger today. Indeed, the legislators were so heartened by their continuing immunity that they voted, within six weeks of the election, to grant themselves a 50 percent pay raise to $46,000 per year. Their argument was that the business of government in Massachusetts was a full time job, downplaying the fact that the legislature was in session for a mere 28 days in 1994 and 34 days in 1993. The saddest reality is that there is no end in sight. The Republican party in Massachusetts is still in disarray and far outnumbered: one in five residents is a Republican, and only 44 of the state's 200 legislators are Republican. The Governor is increasingly being seen as yet another puppet of the Legislature. And, without financing from the national Republican party in the next elections, nothing is likely to change either. After all, what does it say about a state that gives a 62 percent approval rating to one of the most unpopular Presidents in history? _________________________________________________________________ (C)4/1995 HM3C AR6 UNDER SIEGE! _________________________________________________________________ by T.L. Davis Amendment 10 of the United States Constitution, the last amendment of the original Bill of Rights, states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." So, what does the Constitution say that the federal government may regulate? Aside from the general construction of the democratic form of government, very little. Article I, Section 8 describes specifically the greatest share of responsibilities of the federal government. As one might guess, the duties of the federal government are primarily that of a general nature. They are those in charge of the union, settling difficulties between the several states, raising armies, navies and the declaration of war. They coin money, chase counterfeiters, and provide for the general welfare and defense of the union. In other words, they define the standards by which the union conducts business as a whole. And yet, the federal government seems ubiquitous today. Federal forms, regulations, bureaucracies and etc. To do what? To nationalize the states into one unrecognizable mass of states. A state should not feel like an overgrown blanket covering us all in one grand reach because the people are not of a single type or form. Individuality breeds innovation, creativity, diversity; the exact threads of what have woven this nation into a powerful and vibrant quilt. Only a state individual in itself can breed individuality and give a comfortable home to those who feel as others of that state feel. It is this mono-culture that the federal government strives for that leads to tension, anger and violence as a good portion of the people must always feel more constrained and without a sense of self expression. We seek for identity in state and city, a place to belong and agree with our fellows. Amendment 10 allowed the states their identity and while it was the last amendment to be included, it was by no means last in the minds of those who pushed for its inclusion into the Bill of Rights. Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island and the actual Amendments offered to the Constitution in 1787 included the concept of States' Rights before any other proposed amendment. Perhaps it is time, now that the government has begun to extort, coerce, and control the state legislatures, that the 10th Amendment became fully recognized. The people can not be free once their state governments have come under siege! _________________________________________________________________ (C)1995 by T.L. Davis. HTML format (C)4/1995 HM3C AR7 Minuteman Advisor -- By SSG Hedley, PA Militia 9th/F _________________________________________________________________ Within the militia movement, there unfortunately seems to be more concern with political activism and "intelligence reporting" then on actual logistical planning, training and preparation. This problem is underscored by the fact that when the vast majority of these movement- wide intelligence reports are issued, they are written poorly, contain little if any verified information, and are ripe with rumor and innuendo. Not only does bad intelligence reporting result in a great deal of wasted time and wild speculation, ultimatley in time of war it could certainly cause an accidental death or wounding or result in a failed mission. Frankly, the militia movement as a whole has some serious problems. We don't communicate with one another very well, there are major supply, transportation and maintenance problems, and leadership is nonexistent or haphazard at best. The bottom line is that people who are involved in political organizations and civil liberties causes seldom have the ability to be competent military officers, let alone competent guerrilla military officers. It's just not very often that you'll find someone in history who was both a gifted political leader and an excellent military officer. The skill sets are almost mutually exclusive, and yet much of the militias' unit leadership is comprised of would-be political crusaders or civil and constitutional liberties activists. I'm of the opinion that much of it is a personal ego trip for some of these leaders, who need to have their hands in every cookie jar all the time. For others I'm sure that it's simply a matter of necessity, because if they don't do it (they think) nobody else will. In either case, the problem exists and it needs to be addressed, sooner or later. Making timely decisions, the ability to properly appoint and utilize a staff and competent field experience is what will make or break a unit commander. Being a Constitutional guru or knowing every facet of the xyz conspiracy won't buy you very much in a combat zone. The time is coming when we'll need to start specializing our activities and recognizing that you can't do two things at the same time; that the militia is the militia and that your pet political concern is just that. Don't misunderstand my intentions. I'm a veteran in an active, well equipped and well trained militia company that's been in existence for several years. I also recognize the value of political activism and making the media pay attention to you. My personal belief is that these "political wing" organizations and leaders buy us time. Those of us in the "militia wing" need to use this time to legally stockpile, train and prepare for ANY eventuality. And I do stress the word "legal". We're still at the point where we can generally do what we need to do and be on the up and up about it. Yes, the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1994 stinks and it puts a bit of a damper on a lot of requisitions that need to be made, but frankly it shouldn't make that much difference to the militia. Yes, it needs to be repealed. Yes, it's unconstitutional and we need to do our utmost to contribute our time, energy and money to groups that will fight it. But let me be honest with you. If you didn't already have a military rifle with a combat-sufficient number of magazines and ammunition before the Crime Bill was passed, what the hell was the matter with you? If you were so stupid that you decided that it was time to get a military-type rifle only after the Crime Bill was passed, then I can all but assure you that you are woefully deficient in many other equipment areas as well and you might as well think about staying home when the time comes if you don't get up to specs real soon. Being an armed citizen is practically a civic duty, and being a soldier in the militia isn't something you can just roll out of bed one morning and automatically know how to do. If it were, then LaFayette never would have been needed by the Continental Army. I'll be addressing all of these points and many others in future articles in more depth and offering workable solutions along with the constructive criticism. _________________________________________________________________ (C)4/1995 HM3C Other sites are invited to mirror these files, with attribution to RFM.