New Hampshire Minuteman Militia anyone?

[Russell Kanning]

Could someone start posting all the best ideas from this tread to a NH Underground wiki page? Maybe after you settle on a name?

[Dave Ridley]

All it would take to help the state prepare for any of these disasters would be for someone, as an example, to call around to the various police and fire departments and let them know about NOAA Weather Radio.

Mike I'm kinda unclear on what that would entail...you mean just call PD's and ask them if they know about NOAA? I'm sure they mostly do.

Maybe we need to decide are we going to work together mostly on pre-disaster prep or on showing up as assistance after a disaster?    If the latter, are we going to try and just "be there" as unskilled volunteers or are we going to try and work up a mutual skill set for specific disasters?   Or a mutual skill set for general disasters?   All these options have pros and cons...

how about this... what if this pre-militia group were to simply figure out what kinds of emergencies benefit from unskilled volunteers.  Then we just show up at such disasters and report in to the first responders' command post?  We could make a list of the appropriate disaster types and just have a set of "standing orders" that all of us are to act on our own initiative and just show up, if practical, wherever such a disaster occurs.

We could have a phone tree or something so people get informed it's "show up time."

Downside would be what if this exacerbates traffic jams in the area....

Anyway we really need to have some input here from the folks in charge of first responders.  Maybe we should reach out to a few police or fire chiefs and have them send representatives to this thread....

[jcpliberty]

Anyway we really need to have some input here from the folks in charge of first responders.  Maybe we should reach out to a few police or fire chiefs and have them send representatives to this thread....

I agree. Rather, instead of giving them no face to look at, let's organize a meeting, invite a few fire and police chiefs a few state reps and have this as an open discussion with them. I would be very wary of a group online who I nevermet before if *I* were the chief of police somewhere.

JP

[rothamerica]

Have we given any more thought to a militia, or is that tabled because of other Liberty projects?

[jcpliberty]

Have we given any more thought to a militia, or is that tabled because of other Liberty projects?

Let's take it up after the zoning issue with Barbara Burbank.

JP

[rothamerica]

Cool.

[Kat Kanning]

Here's a possible upcoming emergency that your team might want to help with:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050120/ap_on_re_us/terror_suspects

[danhynes]

Can I have automatic weapons if I join your maltia?

[Dave Ridley]

Well fire auxiliaries usually don't need those but hey it's a Free State right?

[danhynes]

Can the Militia also serve as volunteer policemen/ volunteer military and use guns and such to make arrests of real criminals?

[Russell Kanning]

Can I have automatic weapons if I join your maltia?

I think you can ... those "maltia"s are really unruly

[Grunt]

Militia members should only carry longarms in time of civil unrest, pistols optional but not adviised.

We need to be an extensiion to the will of the people, not a will unto ourselves.

I would strive to be seen as a helping hand, not an occupying army, that arena is the whimsical lusting of "law enforcement".

[purewater4u.com]

It amazes me that so many people don't know what the Constitutional Militia actually is.

It's not something that you need to "join" or "start-up". YOU ARE the Militia!

Read exactly how the US Constitution defines the "Militia of the several States" here: http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin16.htm

[Michael Fisher]

It amazes me that so many people don't know what the Constitutional Militia actually is.

It's not something that you need to "join" or "start-up". YOU ARE the Militia!

Read exactly how the US Constitution defines the "Militia of the several States" here: http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin16.htm

The courts have redefined it. You have no right to form a militia in New Hampshire unless the government allows it, as far as I'm aware. 

[Pat McCotter]

United States Code
TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
Subtitle A--General Military Law
PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
CHAPTER 13--THE MILITIA

Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes

    (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
    (b) The classes of the militia are--
        (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
        (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Sec. 312. Militia duty: exemptions

    (a) The following persons are exempt from militia duty:
        (1) The Vice President.
        (2) The judicial and executive officers of the United States, the several States and Territories, and Puerto Rico.
        (3) Members of the armed forces, except members who are not on active duty.
        (4) Customhouse clerks.
        (5) Persons employed by the United States in the transmission of mail.
        (6) Workmen employed in armories, arsenals, and naval shipyards of the United States.
        (7) Pilots on navigable waters.
        (8) Mariners in the sea service of a citizen of, or a merchant in, the United States.

    (b) A person who claims exemption because of religious belief is exempt from militia duty in a combatant capacity, if the conscientious holding of that belief is established under such regulations as the President may prescribe. However, such a person is not exempt from militia duty that the President determines to be noncombatant.