The Continental Militia Network - A project of the 3CC DoD

....Will the Continental Congress reconvene?

YES, if you the American Patriot is interested in serving as a representative for your community and State. Here are some comments recently published concerning a Fourth Congress:

...With things getting so close to the wire it is high time that patriots across the nation do everything they can to get ready; that especially includes the re-convening of the Continental Congress. Recently I had cause to discuss with a number of militia commanders the necessity of the Continental Congress and representative civilian authority over the militias and the commissioning of units and commanders. I suggested that after the last couple years' inactivity, we need a Fourth CC to form up and give guidance to the formation of new militias in many new states that up until a year ago had never seen their citizen militia developed. I am also highly disappointed to see some states like Georgia and Kentucky have let their militias go defunct! This is unacceptable. The call for a new Continental Congress must be dynamic, focused, and committed to the development of a unified militia command in EVERY state.

We have to be better than that. I believe that some of this was because there were always at least a couple members in the 3CC who did not understand the true and vital purpose of the 3CC. The reasons why we need a Fourth Continental Congress are as follows:

1) Peaceful restoration of the Republic is now a foregone conclusion. The 4CC would necessarily have to be a representative civilian body of 3, 5, or 7(max) delegates from every state (CONUS) to act on behalf of the true interests of freedom-loving Americans, following the template laid out by the Founders (and the course of action they followed). To put off the tyrants in control at this time, and because nature abhors a vacuum, a representative body must stand ready to fill the gap. Now has never been more crucial as patriotic Americans wake up to what has happened to our nation.

2) If the body of initial delegates in every state can grow/develop a larger body of fellow patriots acting in concert, then every state can have a state assembly (ideally) comparable in size to what their state Constitution requires. (district by district)..

3) The courts are as corrupt and evil as the other two branches. The 4CC would have to partner with the common-law jural societies of the States to locate nine or eleven astute, educated individuals who can administer according to the Constitution. This body would serve nationally as a not-so-moot-court of original jurisdiction.

4) The 4CC would necessarily need to consider and adopt a (short) series of resolves to put the NWO crowd on notice that Americans have had enough, we aren't going to take it anymore, and that we are prepared to set things right. The proposed "Declaration of Grievances" that was introduced in 2005 ought to be taken up as a focus for consideration by 4CC, either as a starting point, or as a final culminating resolution.

I corrected some minor errors earlier this year, and in wake of recent events on Wall Street I find that nothing about the proposed Declaration needs to be changed. The language is strong, but necessarily so.

5) Whomever is chosen to be the Presiding officer, he will need the active and enthusiastic support of other senior officers of the Congress to get the job done. The Secretary will be responsible for maintaining the roll call of delegates. The Whip would be responsible for recruiting patriots to represent their communities and states. The Treasurer would be responsible for collecting a levy to maintain a dependable server and/or website & domain for the 4CC website, and making payment to insure the official website does not repeatedly go down as happened in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. There would be other key positions that would need to be addressed, but these are by far the MOST important, along with a Sgt at arms to maintain decorum.

6) The Congress will need to meet as soon as possible in an area that can be effectively secured by militia forces.

7) Once the call goes out in earnest to establish the 4CC, and a website has been set up for the Congress, a public notice of which states have / have NOT promised delegates should be maintained, so that everyone may guage how close we are to having a quorum. 3CC erred in that no public statement of a quorum was established; therefore everyone assumed that 3CC had all the delegates it needed when in fact many slots went unfilled. It would be the job of the Whip to push the patriot community in every state that has not filled their slate of delegates. The push would be to get a quorum as fast as possible!

8) Once a quorum is achieved, business can begin but should consider first adopting a VERY SIMPLE, VERY BASIC set of rules to govern the actions of the body, to include Robert's Rules of Order. I would also suggest that other than the officer positions already mentioned, that there be no "executive committee" or "steering committee" to dominate the organization.

Just as the internet allowed patriots to bypass the mainstream media, and initiatives such as the Liberty Dollar gave us an alternative to the Federal Reserve, and other open-source technologies empowered the people by bypassing globalist-dominated franchises, we have a historic opportunity to do the same thing again, and take back our government. The 4CC can allow us to parallel the necessary public functions of our society and delegitimize the defacto structures that have imposed the current tyranny upon us. The only true obstacle to this vision is our own inertia, if we let it.

Thanks again for the use of the soapbox.

~William A. Flatt

Militia Duty: Defend, Co-operate, Prepare!

Constitutional Militias are commissioned by the Continental Congress, and most importantly, authorized by the Constitution of these united States and the Constitution of their individual States to operate in their particular state jurisdiction.

Militias in each state will be approved by the Congress and ONE unified command from each state will be recognized as the official Constitutional Militia of that State.

Maintaining Constitutional Militias is an important step in securing our nation from foreign and domestic threats when 95% of the active military troops of the U.S. are overseas, leaving our homeland wide open for attack.

The meaning of militia

The word "militia" is a Latin abstract noun, meaning "military service", not an "armed group" (with the connotation of plurality), and that is the way the Latin-literate Founders used it. The collective term, meaning "army" or "soldiery" was "volgus militum". Since for the Romans "military service" included law enforcement and disaster response, it might be more meaningfully translated today as "defense service", associated with a "defense duty", which attaches to individuals as much as to groups of them, organized or otherwise.

When we are alone, we are all militias of one. When together with others in a situation requiring a defensive response, we have the duty to act together in concert to meet the challenge. Those two component duties, of individuals to defend the community, and to act together in concert with others present, when combined with a third component duty to prepare to do one's duty and not just wait until the danger is clear and present, comprises the militia duty.

What distinguishes a militia from an army

The authority for militia is God-given; deterring any threat to the public safety is its mandate.

Those active in militia are usually not bound for a fixed term of service, or paid for it.

Those active in militia cannot expect arms, supplies, or officers to be provided to them - but are expected instead for provide for themselves.

No one has the authority to order militia to surrender, disarm, or disband.

"Militia is not a dirty word. It is a concept worthy of respect. It is a synonym for the People. The Militia is not a gang. It is the core essence of the ultimate repository of the sovereignty of the American citizenry. If necessary, the Militia will marshall and deal with governments' goons, errant persecutors, public servants, and perfumed princes and princesses. That, for better or worse, is the life of the law. That is reality."

— Peter J. Mancus, Attorney at Law (California), 15 July 2004

"Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd."

— Jon Roland, 1976

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."

— Tench Coxe, 1788.

"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...all men capable of bearing arms..."

— "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788

(either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).