Most state’s (if not all) Constitutions have militia clauses in them (all able bodied men) some have age criteria i.e. 17 to 67 etc, are amendments to the Constitutions. They are divided into Organized and Unorganized definitions in my state for example.
The Organized variety is the National Guard formally known as the State Militia along with their auxiliary branches, State’s Defense Forces and even a Naval Militia. These unpaid auxiliary units could even use the National Guard facilities (armories etc. ) for training purposes and could participate in training with them. I believe they even received some state funds (although minuscule)for equipment etc.
The Unorganized Militia on the other hand consisted of all able bodied men, supplied all their own gear and weapons and was completely independent of the state’s forces except in times of emergency or insurrection/invasion, could be activated by the state governor under his command.
The federal government did a masterful job in destroying the image of the Unorganized Militia in many states by portraying them as terrorists in the nineties by the same infiltration tactics as they are now doing to the OWS demonstrators.
However, the fact remains that these unorganized militia amendments and laws are still on the books (State Constitutions) in almost all states and forming volunteer militia units (Unorganized) is strictly legal and I might add patriotic in the Founding Father’s image of the world at hand.
The Unorganized variety of militia scares the living shit out of the tyrants in Washington and Wall Street much more so than the OWS demonstrators that are all over the US cities.
Take a moment to go through your state’s Constitution as they will be part of the amendments themselves and need the vote of the people to repeal them as amendments, and not just statutory law that can be repealed by legislative vote.
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