According to the US code, the militia consists of all males between the ages of 17 and 45, or 65 if they have prior military service. The militia was established for the purpose of defending this country from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Also according to US code title 10 there are two classes of the militia. They are, the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia, and the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
 
                                                                       

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                                                                HISTORY

           An early prototype of the militia was developed by Philip II of Mace don, and the concept persisted in Europe until the rise of standing national armies in the 17th and 18th century. The Military Company of Massachusetts was one of the first American militias. They were followed by similar groups in other colonies during the 19th century. Various U. S. states had their own militias which served in all the nation's wars. After WW II these military units were replaced by the establishment of the National Guard. The passage of the 1903 federal Dick Act , this officially established the National Guard as the "organized militia," separating the National Guard from the state's reserves forces.In 1908 supplementary federal legislation was passed, requiring conformity between the guard and the regular army in matters of organization , armament, and discipline. The National Defense Act of 1916 greatly increased federal power over the guard by making it part of the regular army when it was called to federal service. However, when a National Guard unit was called into service the unit was dissolved and its members were dispersed throughout the regular army. In 1933 an amendment to the National Defense Act changed this by allowing the President to order whole units into service when a national emergency was declared. The national Guard then became a reserve segment of the regular army. When this happened the militias of each state were eater disbanded or went into a civilian unorganized membership militia. While it is doubtful that it will ever be called to duty, the United States civilian militia does legally exist. It does so under Title 10, Subtitle A, Chapter 13  Sec. 311 of the United States Code.

                                                  THE MILITIA MOVEMENT
 

            From the revolutionary war to the present militias have been upholding their beliefs and exercising their rights to bare arms all under the color of the constitution and the american flag. However the militias of the past differ from the militias of today. The militias of the past were formed to protect the United States from enemies foreign or domestic and to uphold the constitution. Today's militias are a bit different from those old ideas. There are now basically two types of militias. They each have their own beliefs and agendas to work on. One type of these are the official  military militia, this type is authorized by the state and they act as a supplement or back up to the National Guard,  if they are needed. According to the State Guard Assoc. of the United States, there are twenty five states that have these type of organizations.
           The other type that is more familiar to the public is the "citizen's militia" these are more of the 'grass roots' organizations. The SGAUS  estimates that there are over two hundred of these militias in the United States. These "citizen's militias" are more anti-government than the militias of the past. There are also on a smaller base the "racist" type militias. These groups start out as militias but due to their type of involvement and membership they go more toward the white supremacist, K K K, and the neo-nazi groups. These groups like the way the militias are set up, they will attend different militia meetings and talk to the membership and sell their ideas of  life, liberty and the american way, all the while the hate and racism is the underlying cause. But the true militias are not concerned with race or hate of individuals but rather with the government as a whole. They fight for the 2nd amendment rights and the rights of all americans. The "citizen" militias have recently been getting more extreme and radical toward the government and other political issues. Some of these actions that certain militias have taken were, 1992 the Ruby Ridge Incident and  the Waco incident. At Ruby Ridge, Randy Weaver had a standoff with F B I agents over a warrant against Weaver for a gun charge. In 1993 the incident at Waco happened, at  this time David Koresh was hold up at the Branch Davidian complex. F B I and A T F agents raided the complex and a fire broke out and Koresh and most of his followers were killed. The most publicized event for the militias was the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. This focused national attention on the militia movement in the United States, also what these incidents did was to give certain "martyr's" to the militias in the United States. The people involved in these actions were able to get the messages they wanted to get into the public forum.
 

 
                                             THE FUTURE OF THE MILITIAS
 

           In the years since the Oklahoma City bombing a leaner, harder "Patriot" movement has come about. It has emerged, producing terrorist conspiracies and crimes on a level not seen before. At the same time that terrorist activity has flourished, the number of aboveground groups has gone down. The "weekend warriors" who were once the back bone of the militias, have gone home, tired of waiting for a revolution that never came, and now turned off by all the violence that has been committed. The number of Patriot groups declined in 1997 to 523 from 1996 where it was 858. The movement is growing more and more violent, some plots have included plans to bomb at least three I R S buildings, two federal buildings, banks, a natural gas refinery and even some abortion clinics. "The groups may be smaller but they are more radical" says Thomas Moyer, chief justice of Ohio's state Supreme Court, " the rhetoric is much more inflamed, and more freighting."
        How are the militias getting new members?
  The internet plays a big part of getting the militia word out to the public forum. many of the different organizations use the vast expands of the World Wide Web to spread the message of the movement. one of the most important missions of an active militia group is to organize or help to organize other groups in their own state or out to other states. One of these papers are published on the internet by the Constitution Society located in San  Antonio T X. This paper tells of how to get an advance team out into the public and achieve a geographic spread. They also have a Militia Agenda that each group can use to check off what needs to be done to advance in any certain area. This is just one of many groups on the internet, if you would like to see more of a selection you can go to WWW. Militia-watchdog.org/m1.htm This web page  keeps tabs on the militia movement and puts any updates on the movement here.

       The militia movement now is like a brush fire on a hot summer day, and as anyone can tell you the harder the wind blows and the hotter the fire those fires have a way of getting out of control. We as a United people can band together as the "firefighters" and control those fires, but we need to use the tools of education and humanity to do so. Hopefully this page will give a few of you who read this the courage to stand up to the fires of hate and anti-government  and be the "firefighters" we need.

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                                                              RICK GONZALEZ

                                                              BEN MORET

                                                              ADAM  DRUMM

                                                              RANDY CAMBRON