What ever happened to the Militias?

After 9/11, A lot of them disbanded.

TN, KY and GA are mostly gone or falling apart from infighting. Seacowboys is right and I think the problem was that they actually started to attract that TV sterotypical Nut Case. The liabilities were too great so they let it go and prolly moved on in smaller numbers.

IMHO

 

Cells is what they would be called in clandestine ops. Whether or not they are still communicating is unknown. Or so I think.

 

I have been following this thread and watching the responses. I logged out and went to a "Word" document to write this, because I want to take my time and edit myself.

I wasn’t going to respond at all but the comment by Seacowboys got me to thinking, and remembering, and I knew that I needed to chime in.

SC is right. People have been scared of admitting or talking about that subject on the boards lately. And that is a sad comment on where we are in this country today.

And the paranoia factor is much more prevalent now days. My first impression, and I ask that you not get offended, I don’t mean anything personally, but when I see a thread like this, started by a poster who has been here several months and who only has 28 posts, my first thought is that it is a fed spy, fishing for information. If you are a legit member here then please accept my apology. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are many spies on these types of boards just looking to gather information on us "subversives".

But the fact that they are here shouldn’t deter a free man from exercising his right to freedom of speech. I was remembering the words of a leading Patriot speaker, Jack McLamb. He said in a speech in Phoenix in the early 90’s, in reference to the "lists" that the feds were compiling on Patriots, he said " I am tired of people hiding and cowering, as for me I demand to be put on those lists, I demand to put at the top of every list of people who despise this damnable system that is subverting this great nation of ours!"

No one who was there or who have seen the video, and heard Jack’s passion and heard his voice crack with emotion at the end of this quote could help but be stirred. I have stood in meeting halls that were standing room only and felt the walls reverberate when Mark Koernke would lead the crowd in shouting our great Patriot battle cry " GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC!!! DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!! WE SHALL PREVAIL!!!"

The passion then was something to see. I liken it to a Christian conversion, when your eyes are opened and you have "seen the light", you are on fire and want to go out and save the world, you want to tell everybody the good news, spread the Gospel. The early days of the Patriot movement were like that. But it doesn’t take long to realize that most people don’t want to be saved. They don’t care about the good news. They have their little world and they don’t want it disturbed. Most people just don’t care and don’t want to hear it.

And then you have the ones who give it lip service. As long, as it’s easy and doesn’t cost them anything. How does the quote go? " A Patriot is a rare thing at the beginning of a cause, but when his cause succeeds then it is easy to be a Patriot and he has much company" or something to that effect.

The Patriot movement was just the opposite, it was easy to be a "Patriot" in the beginning, but when things started to get tough, they became a rare thing. Waco, OKC, the "War" on Patriots waged by the Clintonistas. Cut off the head and the body dies. One by one Patriot leaders across the country began to be targeted and "eliminated".

Not killed but silenced nonetheless. False charges, unfair and unjust charges, ambiguous "Federal Gun Crimes" charges. Do you remember them? Do you even know their names? They tried to warn you, warn us, and today they sit in federal prisons for being outspoken, for not being politically correct, for refusing to bow, to kneel to the beast.

Mark Koernke, Bob Stewart, Charlie Puckett, John Stadtmiller, names you may have heard, but probably not. Many, many more whose names that you wouldn’t know. Men, leaders, Patriots, who like the ones who gave us this country, pledged their lives, there prosperity and their freedom to defend this idea that we should live as free men.

And many were called upon to make good on those pledges. Many of us lost friends, family, livelihoods, and many lost their freedom. And when the heat was turned up, we saw those who had cried the loudest, those who swore to "fight to the end", and those who claimed "from my cold dead hands", most of those who were the loudest, were the quietest when it came down to it. They were the first to slink away in the night, they went home and burned their uniforms, threw away there literature, erased their videos, and sold their weapons.

The "Gun Show Commandos", the soldier wannabes, the great movement of people who were to be the last line of defense, the ones who were going to stand up to the New World Order, the great citizen army who were going to battle tyranny, defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, they faded away like a morning fog before a single shot was fired. Instead of going out with a bang, our great Patriot movement died with a pitiful whimper.

Are there still Patriots out there? Yes. Are the blow hard, keyboard, gun show commando, GI Joe wannabes still out there? You bet, and they seem to be increasing.

I know that many of the leaders of the 90’s will never again put themselves out front again. Risk their freedom, their fortune, for a people who will run at the first sign of trouble. We find ourselves, like jaded evangelists, only preaching to the choir now.

It is hard to lead when no one follows. It is a lonely thing to find yourself out front and leading the charge and look back to find your "loyal troops" have all faded into the night. I know, I’ve been there.

I see a lot of Johnny-come-lately’s who are all fired up and like to talk the talk as anonymous posters on various boards. I sit back and shake my head and know that they would never walk the walk. I have even heard them say that those of us "in the day" screwed it up. We were to vocal and to out front and gave the movement a bad name.

I suppose that they think that we should have kept silent. Bow to the beast and only talk about it in private, or anonymously. I see the "patriots" today, I see the camo’d commandos, swaggering around the gun shows and talking their cheap talk, and I know that they don’t even know, or care about the true "Patriots", who sit in jail today for demanding to be put on the list. I know that they never have, nor ever would send a letter of encouragement to these brave men, or send a donation to their families that have been deprived of their husbands, fathers, and breadwinners, for them, for us. I see them and I weep for the future.

What ever happened to the Militias you ask?
We met the enemy, and he was us.

Will the new world order, globalists, etc., take over our nation?
They already have.

Will the people rise up and fight?
No. They had their chance and failed. Or more to the point refused.

Will our nation descend into a fascist police state?
Just look around you.

Is the battle lost?
It was never fought.

Our battle cry has now become a whispered confession.
" God rest the Republic, Hail to the new world order, it was all to no avail"

 

Great Post MM.

 

For those who are not afraid of the "Lists";

From Marks website;
Please drop Mark a note, he has requested news articles since they can be copied and sent, his address is as follows ...
Mark Gregory,, Koernke #295350
Mid Michigan Correctional Facility
8201 North Croswell
Saint Louis, Michigan 48880

To send a donation to his family
Nancy Koernke
P.O. Box 194
Dexter, Michigan 48130


Mark has been denied parole each time he has come up. They say that he refuses to admit to his "crime". He was set up, plain and simple. He still refuses to bow. He will have served his entire sentence next year.
MM