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Roland Address to Militia 2008/11/15
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On November 15, 2008, Jon Roland addressed a muster of the Texas Constitutional Militia on the FJ Ranch near Teague, Texas.
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good afternoon everyone I'm certainly glad to see all of you gathered here and
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yorkie Texas on November of the fifteenth 2008 for a muster of our Texas
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militia it's been a long time since we've had a gathering this large but the
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view of current events it seems clear that the time is tough revive the
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militia movement not only here in Texas but across the center it even as we drop
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the world has been if you know I've been
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active organizer of militia units since
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1995 I've been trying to encourage this sort
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of thing we've had our ups and downs but now we need to talk about we're going to
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carry this Putin of power so that we can deal with the threats that confront us
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all you know the big one the economic meltdown that is only beginning to get
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underway the stock market is only a leading indicator the financially credit
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crisis is another but we haven't really begun to see the economic impact of that
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yet we will begin to see that we're
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seeing increasing reports of layoffs plant closings bankruptcies from
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evictions foreclosures it's going to become much bigger much worse before it
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gets better and as it gets worse there will be an
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increasing need for all good citizens joined together to keep order to help
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enforce the law to preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States
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there this time of trouble and we do our
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part we can get through this a good order and look forward to better days
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ahead when we do all these hang together
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that some others named Anna Valen into chaos and disorder civil war crime
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violence we could do better than that for Americans we have faced worse things
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before and we can face this one together now we need to discuss some of the
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mechanisms of organizing militia units
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in this this state and in other states
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now on my website constitution or I set forth the general outline of how to do
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that now I'm an advocate of open militia
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organizing and recruiting that's a controversial position a lot of guys
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think that no we should organize a secret and remain out of under the radar
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become be a subversive or clandestine operation because if we don't we're
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going to get persecuted well my position is all that is that look guys our
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opposition those who we are they know where to find us we know what we're doing I'll be very much surprised
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although i probably don't think there's one here if we if we get to that many
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more of these there will undoubtedly be a federal agent in the in the mix
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somewhere we should not be afraid of that you never do or say anything that's
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wrong or illegal or that they have anything to get us on for unless they
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just flat-out fabricate evidence and of course sometimes do that but we can't
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let a beer of that deter us from doing our duty for the Constitution and one of
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the best ways to defend against this kind of fabrication of evidence is to
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record and tape everything you do put it up on the Internet so everybody can see
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it you're not hiding anything and if they try to cut and paste something that
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they've recorded we have a basis for comparing what they did to what we did
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actually have did and that will destroy their evidence before they can even get
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started now
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what I've done in the past is put out public notices I've also sent out male 2
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known Patriots recruited at gun shows and veterans organizations there are
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many many ways to that churches are good plays in general what you want to try to
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do it to get at least eight or ten guys in one County they serve as the nucleus
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or a unit if you can't reach that number then you're probably going to want to
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unite with neighboring counties you can't do anything else you hold a single
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muster like this one for the whole state and use that as training for organizing
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locally throughout the state so for those of you who have come a long ways
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to get here your job is going to be to go back to your home counties and form a
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unit there I know that can be tough but it can be done and one of the things we
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need to keep in mind is that although we are embarked on a serious purpose the
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defense of the Constitution enforcement of the law the defense of our communities from anything that might
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threaten them militia should also be fun
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most of the time we aren't going to have to confront bad guys most of the time
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we're just preparing to confront bad guys and while we're preparing to
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confront bad guys we should have some fun now there are some things we don't
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want to have to to have fun there could be no alcohol you know no illegal drugs
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nothing like that in any malicious of gathering alcohol and guns don't mix so
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that needs to be a strict rule and you know soft drinks are fine but you know
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nothing harder than that the other thing is that you need to form bonds of
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friendship you know everyone is was studied military operations know that
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when guys going to battle they're not really fighting for the constitution of their country they're fighting for their
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buddies you need to form bonds with your
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fellow militiamen so that you know you can trust them and they'll stand by you
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and you with them if case anything goes wrong we need to consider what some of
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those things are that could go wrong if the economy gets really bad
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will be a number of critical things and one of them is to be sending around to
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you a lot of material on what's been happening in Argentina the Argentine's
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tell stories of how people you know walking the streets seemingly normal and
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yet they haven't had anything to eat for several days so they come to students
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come to classes and they can't concentrate because they they're hungry you know so these these problems are not
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necessarily immediately apparent we could have failures of water electricity
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of a lot of other things that we're done must become accustomed to that means we
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need to have alternative for those things it's good at least
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we need to have alternative methods of communication we may not always have the internet we do not always have phone
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service for those of you who are interested in working on that I
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encouraged you to get into micro broadcast I am or FM like any other radio station
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it's range is not very great only a couple of miles but in an emergency it
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can be very important to have an alternative system of communications same way with ham radio ham ham radio
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the whole portable handheld units are particularly useful because o their
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range is not as great there's nothing like being able to tear your communication with cell phones
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no phone like this probably that we were here but if it even if it did we may not
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have that service in Texas we're fairly well off in some
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things like water most water sources are local to Carly Kirk most the groundwater
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a lot of people have their own wells it shouldn't be necessary for anybody to
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die of thirst and interestingly enough Texas is probably the only region of his
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side of the world that is self-sufficient for most of its
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resources especially food which means we they become the enemy of
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the rest of the world if once they
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figure that out but we do have most of what we need here in Texas response to
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keep the our own population at least fed
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and clothed and sheltered and with pending communication with one another
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and we need to be prepared to take advantage of that but it's not going to
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happen myself and if things get really
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bad we're going to be having to confront the need to do things like protect the
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farmers and the ranchers in the production of the foods that we need making sure that it gets the market that
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when it gets the market it's not just some riot Pete's it seizes all the food
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people have to be me made to stand in line take their turns make sure that
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everybody gets this error but that they don't try to take it all these are the
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kinds of things that we as Americans in fact was unfairly well if you compare
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our behavior times and prices fire
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a little four Americans have generally handle things well there's very very few is
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looting violence in this country in the last 50 or 60 years or so we did once
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have them in the 19th century and early
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but those things have been relatively rare in more recent times we need to
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keep it that way so once you put out of public notice of
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course you need to pick a place to meet we need also thank our host here for
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providing this land nor meeting place the biggest problem we have always had
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it takes it as elsewhere has been to find a place to meet the detectives are
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very little public land not there not a lot of public parks or
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of course or anything like that where you can just beat without having to ask for anybody's permission
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so it's X is you have to have permission of the land
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that means we need to have a bunch of them lined up preferably at least one in every County the urban county is that
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probably means you're probably anthem eat somewhere out of central city but
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not too far out the distances matter especially if the price of gas cartridge
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going up again so we're going to want to both in the cities we want to want to
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organize narrow so if you don't have a neighborhood association you live in the
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city we need to try to organize why because it's the cities are going to be
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a problem as well even you know which we
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tend to be here as a rural area comfort well now but the cities are
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where most people already live and the people have their have to survive too so
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forming a neighborhood association and upgrade upgrading it into a first part
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the neighborhood watch then a through militia unit and don't be afraid to call
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it that if that's what it is that's what it should be called now there are few
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things i want to emphasize when it comes to the word militia and it's used
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there's been a tendency it's actually goes all the way back to the founding to
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use militia to mean only a group of people and that's not quite correct the
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original meaning going back from before the pounding and for sometime thereafter
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was an activity latin word originally
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means military activities loco the Latins had another word for military
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group and as an activity it's similar to other
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words in English English is some peculiar idiomatic forms and one of them
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isn't used in the same word for both an activity and those engaged in it we
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speak today about being in the service meaning in the military well you think
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of that as a an abbreviated way of saying in the military service but in
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fact it is nascent being in the service that being both engaged in an activity
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and being a member of group the engagement activity and why is this
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important because one of the things that our opponents have been trying to do in
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order to suppress our rights is to try to make us forget that militia is first
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and foremost an activity so there's no question about joining a militia you can
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join a militia unit but melissa is an activity there are levels of an kinds of
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activity we are all engaged in some level of Melissa just by being alive
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just by obeying the law by setting a good example
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but we can have and need to have higher
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levels of militia we need to upgrade that into vigilance into preparation
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into uniting with our friends and neighbors the training equipping
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ourselves into dealing with the common threats that are ongoing even if we
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didn't have this impending economic crisis we are confronted in this state
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and elsewhere for the problem of organized crime but it's not being dealt
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with by existing authorities I've been investigating this for some time in
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Europe next to almost every natural area there's a transshipment of drugs that
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have being protected by local authorities Sarah police judges FBI DEA
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all dirty that happens to be
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loading facility San Antonio at youth people birdy but
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things got a little bit hot for let it go
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outside fool
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now Fort Worth Texas tana and his serve
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the branching point with office difference get up from Mexico and fans
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come out into the other metro area and we bind
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many of the pencils in his counties to be complicit it was pray now what
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happens when a public official becomes complicity marketing strategy well first
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of all one of the first indications of it is able to start becoming abusive of people's rights people want sometimes
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wonder well why your officials become contemptuous of the Constitution
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well it is almost always connected with some kind of criminal activities where
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part it's not just arrogant so they can
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crooks tend to be abusive kinds of behavior go together naturally
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another course kind of youth corruption we've seen a lot of is a
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child protective right and if you have probably heard about that
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the federal government pays up to 35 thousand dollars to take away kid from
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the parents as a result of that money being fed into the system a lot of local
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authorities perfect are taking kids away for the prayer parents just to get the
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money and they're using the threat of it to intimidate their political rivals so
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that becomes a tool of tyranny and not just a way of actually protecting kids
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that need protection trips the old standby we have a point kickbacks from
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contract government contracting
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most government contracting in this day and every stage is for us to some degree
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it may be a genteel for us in the sense that nobody is getting killed over it
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but you know if you threaten to expose it you could have a serious security
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problem and one of the things that I've been trying to encourage militia units
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to do throughout the history of my involvement in the past in to engage
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these local corrupt officials exposing them bringing them to justice getting
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them out of office getting better ones reelected so it's not just a matter of
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being compared to fight most of the work that militiamen have to do every day is
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ordinary sitting stock good government in all of its manifestations so in our
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wild opiate tendency for the two kinds of activities to get it in tackling one
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of the things we did really well 1995 is
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we held a public election to elect member Committee of Safety for about a dozen
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counties in South Central Texas the units thought that they needed civilian
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Chrissa business they weren't going to get it from their County Sheriff's so we
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decided to form a committee of safety covering multiple counties and to select
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the members by of the collection this is a public election like any other
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holy places for workers anybody was qualified to vote at any of election was
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called by the boat in our lives and they turn out was remarkably hot
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but that was more than you typically go
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and the people people know who they were voting for most of them have never been
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out of muster we've never seen them yet somehow they knew so the information is
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getting out it's just a lot of people don't coming forward well one of the
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first things that happened after we elected that Committee of Safety all of
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a sudden we were perceived as not just legitimate the existing authority but as
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a power to be contended them after that everybody who wanted to run for local
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office went to speak before the local committee of baby or before the local
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militia okay we became just like the Rotary Club or Mouse Club alliance club
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the one of we were the place where where
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people seeking elected office our support and focus that's an important
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position to be in but we screwed up in one important way I didn't grab the
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bylaws for the Committee of Safety someone else read but he left out one
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important kind of clause which is that it didn't provide for appointing
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successors if anybody dropped out or for
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reducing the quorum needed to do business as people dropped out so the
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Conklin forum remained the same number as it was at the outset and yes guys
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started dropping out but why did they drop out they dropped out to run for regular public office a lot of the rents
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are constable county commissioner for school board for all kinds of regular
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offices and they didn't feel that they could both be on the Committee of Safety
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and also run for ekene public office which is great we actually lit elected a
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county commissioner in Bastrop County from the Committee of Safety
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but the comitia safety needs to provide for continuity and for replacement of
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drop drop outs and for conducting the next election the next community of
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safety and I strongly recommend as soon as we can get up the strength here that
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we start reproducing what we did in 1995 because it goes a long way to making us
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look like a good guy for the public ultimately what we're trying to do is
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win the hearts and minds of the public they need to feel that we are there for
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them maybe more than their sheriff's our constables or tiny judges or anybody
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else's if it comes to that and if they have confidence in us
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because the way we conduct ourselves then we can begin to turn this whole
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situation around and take this country through the rough spot that we have
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ahead of us okay I'm available for any questions you might have I need to go
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back later this evening and I'm preparing a lot of other things but I
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wanted to have this opportunity to meet with you encourage you to give you any
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assistance he may require my website is already source of instructional material
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on this and if you have any questions about it you know I'm right here I'm always here for you
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Oh
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it could a lot of that is because of increased demand right now a lot of
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people buying it up faster than I do encourage people learn how to
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reload being able to do your own reloading saves a lot of money than it
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could be very important that things get real bad not all cartridges are readily
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lend themselves to be loaded but the ones that do you should think in terms
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of using those kind of drivers and one of the things that we need to be
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cognizant of there is that the primers
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are still things that we hope that was that purchase and we need to start
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thinking these rooms of making our own the extent that we can be
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self-sufficient things like that all the better
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oh wait how far has everybody
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right there Liberty get ready here
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bye Paddington nothing good
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you're from dallas area della Sera okay well we're pretty pretty why I'm for
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some Hospital i was hoping to get a group from San Antonio up here today
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there have been they asked me to speak for them hit to ron paul group they like really
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of other ron paul grips for constant thinking about reconstituting yourself that malicious so we do that was a
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movement that we don't want to let that went a long way and now I need to be
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transformed into something that can carry forward into the future and you
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can help them do that one of the things that I found be very useful for this
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kind of organizing and pretty hard to use youtube com or facebook
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similar touch with surely serves a way for people to find one
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another the notified of meeting and they can
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serve as a very useful tool in getting people together in keeping them
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I formed
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that can cover a larger large raises up but it makes clear what it's all about
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once you have the roots going for compatibility group but then you all can
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try to go lovable the whole day to cover
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place nearby where they could be
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and generally the most populous counties
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they tend to be strung out along interstate highway that we can get a
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stretching across the country then we can start filling in the less populous
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counties in between and ultimately we should
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then if things really get bad we need to be prepared to the fact that we may
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suddenly have hundreds of thousands of millions of people desperate looking for
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leadership not finding it in their officials and we're suddenly going to be
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organized huge numbers of people everyone of us
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who now looking for someone to teach him how function
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going to be having to be the organizer recruiter the leader of the larger group
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might not think of yourself in that role now but the fact is that thrust upon me
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might as well be prepared for psychological all time very very professional
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the ideal I feel tough someone who
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perfect integrity professional conduct
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of the leader
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start getting about the hot ready to make trouble
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biggest erases anybody like that their job to come
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before the concert is for the laws that are constitutional
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enforcement and we need to try to reach out every kind of person and that all of
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our friends and neighbors always with colors with one qualifications to have got to
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support the Constitution that is the they all have to share but you have two
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thousand different the other question
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like I want to thank you it particularly for organizing this thing
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I've known you from before your facebook nice decision yeah get to
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you sir young people
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with your
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really proud of you and they're proud of you you're the future
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okay that's a good
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