Enforce the Constitution: The Militias with Dr. Edwin Vieira

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1. All of us rednecks in the middle of the country are so much more intelligent and logical than we are made out to be by the folks in the media paid by the folks making so much money laundering money for the folks dealing drugs into our communities.

   Once you get comfortable mapping out the covert flows, things make so much sense!

   🙂

2. Are there any measure in the Constitution to prevent the militias from becoming wild gangs?

   1. The right to bear arms. Same one that stops the gangs dealing drugs in America from going wild.

      1. Your answer makes me realise how much I’ve been brainwashed to the point of how not knowing how to reason properly. Thanks for taking me from A to B.

3. Catherine,

   Another great interview. As I was listening, I was reminded of an episode in October 2001.

   I was a student at the DIA’s Joint Military Intelligence College beginning my introductions to the intelligence community in their Post-Grad Intelligence Program. (It’s called National Intelligence University now.) The smoke was still billowing from the Pentagon across the river from Bolling AFB where the classes took place in DIA HQ. One of my classes that semester was An Introduction to Terrorism taught by a PhD analyst from NSA. I wrote a paper early on for an assignment where I recommended that the proper response to 9/11 was to re-imagine the National Guard along the lines of the Militia as described in the interview. At the time I had been an infantry officer for over a decade (including time in the Texas Army Guard) and had been in the Balkans for much of the ’90s. I also had an undergrad specialization in Early American Political Thought and it made perfect sense to me from both an operational, a strategic, and a political perspective.

   Imagine my surprise when I got the paper back with an “A” and a note to come see the prof. I went to see him and he made it clear that, although it was a clever and original (?!?) idea, a) it was never going to fly and b) my time would be, uhm, better spent thinking of other things. I was bemused, chalking it up to typical DC bureaucratic obtuseness. Ah, the naivete of youth . . .

   Again, keep up the great work.

   Regards,
   Eric Henderson

   1. Too funny. WSJ today said we have spent $2.6 trillion on the War on Terrorism. Your professor was telling you to create ideas that pump the budget.

4. I cannot but agree with Dr. Viera’s skepticism as to the role of military tribunals.

   1. Yup!

5. So interesting!

   I wonder if the concept of militia was distorted when the Black Panther Party began in the 60’s. A bunch of angry black people with guns must of scared the bejeezus out of White America at the time.

   1. The big spin party was the attack on the Western farmers and ranchers who created militia groups. Read Dyer’s Harvest of Rage. Very eye opening.

6. Again, wonderful “stuff”!……….I would like to comment on the “opiate” situation”. I live in California, where many doctors are “bailing” because of the problems here with HMOs, and the inability to write prescriptions needed by senior citizens. My primary doctor quit the profession because he could not take care of his older patients with their pain medication. In this system, he could only write one month of the drugs to older people, which necessitated them driving in from a long distance to get another prescription. Sometimes they were too sick to drive in, and the pharmacies would not fill the drugs without another prescription script. He was allowed to prescribe only 30 pills, and God help you, if you lost one; or could not reach him in time for the nightly dose. They will, however, allow you 90 days of anti-depression drugs, and anything that they feel will not kill you!Since young people are not likely to have diseases that require opioids, I can only tell you that it will get worse for seniors who expect to continue to obtain these drugs. The plot thickens for me, and as you have started to comment on this; I really feel that to the health care system; the old people are very expendable. Many of these people have taken the drugs for years for chronic arthritis, and other very painful conditions. I find it abhorrent that they are spending massive amounts of money to exchange needles for street addicts. No wonder people are going to Mexico, and other sources, for what they are denied here. I think it is a means of controlling the people they think will not produce enough for them in the way of money! Also, please Catherine, I am looking for your “musings on the Health Care System” that I read some months ago. I cannot find it. In it, you gave your reasons for opting out of the system, and you quoted your father. I would like to read it again, if it is available still……….Please stay well on the trip, and return safely!

7. Dear Catherine

   Another brilliant interview! Thank you.

   The fact that this is not common knowledge clearly demonstrates how much our schools are letting us all down.

   At time 1:24:39 Dr Vieira says that marshal law is something not allowed by the constitution of the United States. Does this mean that the constitution expressly forbids martial law?

   This has made me think about some videos I have recently watched about maritime and admiralty law. These videos talk about the fact the the United State has been a corporation since 1871 and that our birth certificates are receipts for our legal person and serve as collateral for the Federal Reserve Bank, which are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. They explain that as a result of this admiralty law we are all slaves. They talk about natural persons and legal personhood, about that being a citizen means being owned by the corporation, and about the significance of official documents having our names printed in all capital letters. It’s all rather confusing. Are you familiar with any of this? Since there is much questionable information out there on the internet, it is hard to know what is true and what is fake. Do you happen to know if this is this serious stuff or if is a bunch of nonsense?

   1. Andrew:

      I have found it a rabbit hole not worth going down. IMO the people who run things don’t respect the law, but it is likely that we are viewed as property.

      Catherine

8. Dear Catherine, I am hearing more and more first-hand reports from friends and family on the “war on pain opiates for legitimate pain patients in the US” people are facing insane requirements (even those totally wheelchair bound) and even a relative that is long-time Veterans Administration Administrator is getting concerned.

   While I realize that there is a problem with opiate addiction in some parts of the US, this refusal to provide pain relief for people, many of whom have been on regulated prescriptions for years with no issues, seems cruel and the threat’s to physicians who prescribe them is getting scary.

   Here in Ireland, the UK and even Canada low-level opiate painkillers have been sold without even prescriptions for decades and the entire population isn’t addicts or anything. My husband is in Medical School and over here they teach that regulated use of opiates is actually pretty safe if properly monitored by physicians and provided by a legal pharmacy.

   This is making me wonder if there is some other agenda going on here rather than just fighting drug abuse?

   Have you looked into this issue yet and if so what are your thoughts on what may be “other” reasons for this cruel crackdown on REAL chronic pain patients, including military veterans, the elderly and the disabled?

   Thank you for your time

   Melodi – a duel US/Irish citizen living in Ireland

   1. This is fascinating. Thank you for posting. Will talk about this in Ask Catherine in M&M today.

      1. Thank you for bringing this up on the podcast, I will try to get you more information if you don’t already have gobs of it coming in; basically this is being covered only slightly in the MSM (but it is there a bit) but if you have a pain patent among close friends and family or work in the field you know all about the new “rules” including many doctors no longer prescribing pain medications at all, and very sick people being forced to travel up to three hours to a pain clinic (some areas don’t have them at all); one friend is “required” to show up on an hour;s notice to have their pills counted any day they are “called” even though they lived several hours away from the clinic. Another close friend of the family was refused pain pills for what proved to be kidney stones because they were afraid she might be “drug seeking.”

         We have several long personal threads on this in forums I’m on and on Facebook (I have fibromyalgia) and there are at least two people I’m in contact with who is now bedridden that were living full and active lives before.

         New “instructions” to doctors that have made the MSM have talked about “telling patients to get ‘used to’ certain levels of ‘acceptable’ pain.”

         My husband agrees with you this may be partly about the “threat” to income from marijuana and while he doesn’t listen to your show, he said himself “what are they trying to do, create a nation of heroin addicts?” (from actual pain patients needing relief, not people looking for a high).

         Feel free to contact me/us when your back from your trip; the husband can probably send you some actual medical sources to look at, I have more of the MSM and personal stuff.

         Thanks again,
         Melodi

         1. Using illegal drugs will create the equivalent of control files on folks who use them – and more money for prosecutions etc.

   2. This has been my experience also. When my husband had to have a tooth extracted the dentist refused any pain meds saying the dentists were being discouraged from giving pain prescriptions. As it happens we live in Co. and have home made herbal tinctures available which are more effective and not habit forming. Thank goodness.

      1. Really appreciate the info. Something certainly appears to be up.

9. Wishing you and the Outbackers an awesome experience! I hope that we can hear all about it, Catherine!

   1. Yes. Will post one of Richard Dolan’s talk – hope to post this week. Unbelievably wonderful group.

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