US Constitution Rangers - lots of news

[Dave Ridley]

ok guys sorry this has taken so long...

I wanted to post a summary here of the U.S. Constitution Rangers meeting on March 3.  It was really pretty exciting, because of the obvious match between this group and the Underground, Free Staters, etc.   They do so much we don't, we do so much they don't...and the things we do compliment what they do.  If we can establish good communications, I suspect there are many ways we could effectively support their mission.

The Rangers are essensially a group of angry but non-aggressive Constitutionalists who are trying to establish a sort of private "citizen police" force to sort of "police the police."  They are not antagonistic toward officers - in fact they are asked to lend assistanc to police in any way they can when it comes to legitimate crime fighting.  but their main planned M.O. seems to be, basically, showing up and intervening when the police are out of line - especially if those "police" are feds.   They carry handcuffs and guns, have uniforms and appear to be for real. 

They seem to orbit around the philosophy of John Locke.  They also orbit pretty closely, by libertarian standards, around one man:  Ed Brown.  He's the one who's into Locke, but I suppose that does not mean all his Rangers are. He has nice offices in Lebanon, national HQ for the Rangers but I don't know how national they are.  Nice offices.  Their meeting their on the 3rd was attended by about 20 of us, including four high school and college age kids, even a pretty gal or two     Half the people there seemed to be open carrying!

A couple of months ago these offices were raided by Feds, according to Ed there were 28 agents or officers including a sniper on a nearby hilltop.  So, whatever else you might or might not be able to say about these folks, they are already in this for real.  Ed is  tax refusenik and apparently not poor, so and I think that may have been what sparked the raid.

Anyhow, the feeling I got was that things are going to start happening although I don't really know what.  These guys are beside themselves with fury over the Feds and their violation of the Constitution; you all know how that feels.

Henry McKelroy invited me to the march 3 meeting and when I got there he said Dave I want you to come back next time with 10 people!   So I'm doing my best.

There are various things the Rangers already need which we can provide over the coming weeks.

Ed brown goes before the grand jury (not sure when).  Henry McKelroy is asking us to do the following:

Call Asst. U.S. Atty. William Morris, ask what's the status with grand jury number 2.  Let him know you'd like to give input, would like to present evidence in favor of Ed Brown.  Tell him you want to present it directly to the grand jury, not to him over the phone.  Keep date and time of call.  Leaving voice message is fine.   His number is 603 225 1552    If they refuse to cooperate, you win.... they are in that case, apparently in breach of some law or constitutional provision.  Again I'm paraphrasing Henry here, I don't know much about this myself.


Ed himself suggested folks read this:

libertyonline.hypermall.com/LOCKE/second/second-1.html

I think the rangers meet every  month there in Lebanon, don't know the details

I want to get some of them to our forum and some of us to their meetings!

They have interesting stuff planned it seems but I don't know exactly what...get in touch with them and get in the loop!

They may be meeting every week in different places around the state.  Keep an eye on our calendar for dates as we learn them...communication between us and them is not yet fully established but we'll get there.

Thier website is  http://uscrangers.org/