Militias: The law of the land: Group seeks county rule

Created 6-30-95 by Dave Stroble, stroble@nr.infi.net
Posted 7-1-95 by Dave Stroble
The law of the land: Group seeks county rule
By SUSAN LADD and STAN SWOFFORD
News & Record Staff Writers
The law of the land: Group seeks county rule
   Amy Honaker, 18, of Waynesville is a member of a citizens' 
militia and Patriot group. She believes the New World Order 
will begin soon. Amy Honaker believes she saw the "mark of the 
beast" -- and the beginning of the New World Order -- and it 
nearly made her sick.
   Honaker, 18, is a cashier at Wal-Mart in Waynesville. She's 
also a member of a local citizens' militia and Patriot group 
that fears the federal government is helping establish a 
one-world government that would strip Americans of their 
liberties.
   That's why she gasped and turned pale a few months ago when 
a woman in Honaker's Wal-Mart line plopped her purchases down 
and held out her right hand. Instead of a credit card, the 
woman wanted Honaker to scan her hand. The woman said that a 
microchip implanted in the back of her right hand would provide 
Honaker with the necessary credit information.
   Honaker, who says she was brought up in a "very Christian" 
environment, was so shaken she had to take a break.
   "I was disgusted. I thought I was going to throw up," 
Honaker said. "This is another indication to me that a New 
World Order is coming unless we all wake up."
   Honaker's thoughts were on the Bible, specifically Chapter 
13 of the Book of Revelation, which says the satanic beast 
"causeth all ... to receive a mark in their right hand or in 
their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he 
that had the mark, or the name of the beast ... ."
   Honaker says she also sees signs of a New World Order in the 
black helicopters that fly over her house at all hours of the 
day and night.
   Those signs partly explain why she joined the Haywood 
Special Operations Group of the N.C. Civil Militia, the local 
citizens' militia for Haywood County. The Haywood militia has 
no ties with the official state militia headquartered in 
Raleigh.
   Those signs also explain why Honaker's boyfriend -- 
21-year-old Jeremy Davis -- joined and why he and other members 
of the militia's command group are trying to organize units 
throughout the state.
   Davis and Honaker don't fit the image of the average 
Patriot/militia movement member. First, both are much younger 
than their Patriot peers. And while Honaker is among a group of 
women who make up almost a third of the Haywood militia, most 
Patriot groups nationwide are exclusively men.
   But Davis and Honaker share many of the same views as their 
older Patriot colleagues: that Americans' basic liberties are 
in danger and that the oppressor may well be the federal 
government.
   Still, neither is ready to give up on the government just 
yet.
   With his wide, earnest eyes, thin, wiry build and shaved 
head, Davis -- who works at an Exxon convenience store near 
Waynesville -- looks even younger than his 21 years. He recently 
explained what the mission of the militia should be.
   The militia's motto, Davis said, is "To Protect and 
Serve."
   "We don't have a compound and we don't run a boot camp. We 
have a range facility, and we do offer firearms training," 
Davis said. No one is allowed on the shooting range until he or 
she passes a state firearms safety course and the militia's own 
course, he said.
   Davis said the militia has a "command group" of about 20 
people. They have trained about 200, he said.
   The militia is actually more medical-oriented than military, 
Davis said. Their equipment, which Davis said was donated by 
businesses and "wealthy individuals," includes large tents 
with portable cots, suitable for establishing emergency field 
hospitals.
   Davis said that within hours of the April 19 bombing of the 
Alfred P. Murrah federal building, he called authorities in 
Oklahoma City to offer medical assistance: "They said thanks, 
but no thanks."
   Davis said he doesn't understand why people find it hard to 
believe that the government might have been involved in the 
Oklahoma City bombing: "They've tested gas on people, LSD. 
It's all but been proven they had a hand in assassinating 
Kennedy.
   "I don't trust anyone," he said.
   No one, perhaps, but William Earl O'Brien, champion of the 
county rule movement and the Constitutional Common Law Court.
   O'Brien, of Waynesville, is a 61-year-old retired paper-mill 
safety officer from Bogalusa, La. He believes there is only one 
way to save the country from a New World Order and global 
government: Get back to the basics.
   The basics, O'Brien contends, is a country in which local 
government -- meaning the county -- reigns supreme. Under 
O'Brien's plan -- which he believes is already authorized by the 
United States and North Carolina constitutions -- a Christian 
common law county court would be the highest court in the land.
   Under his plan there would be only common law -- an unwritten 
set of laws that get their binding force from ages-old usage 
and acceptance. State and federal law are an amalgam of both 
common and statutory law.
   For his plan to succeed, O'Brien would somehow have to 
abolish the present state and federal court systems. Either 
that, or he would have to persuade those courts to relinquish 
jurisdiction in Haywood County.
   A common law grand jury would hear all cases. There would be 
no judges and no lawyers -- and no appeals.
   O'Brien has his followers, including members of the local 
militia.
   "The criminal attitude will be vastly different when this 
is not a revolving door," O'Brien said. "We won't have the 
same level of crime. If someone steals from you, he'll have to 
pay you double of whatever he stole. If he steals from you 
again, he'll have to pay you three times.
   "For violent offenders, the jury will tell the constable to 
find a tall tree and a short rope," O'Brien said with a gries of violent bullies be spared? So that they
can continue to destroy the lives of the defenseless? Gun control
would make it easier for wife-beating and child abuse to continue
unchecked. I would rather see such brutes dead than see women and
children with no alternative to submission.
          Gun ownership is vital right. Handguns are an essential form
of self-defense for the lower class of society that doesn't have
the personal armies and suburban fortresses of the upper class.
Private gun ownership serves as a powerful check on police and
other pigs who terrorize minorities, on the expansionist desires
of foreign governments as well as the encroachments of our own
state, and on the ability of men to systematically abuse and
exploit women and children. Gun ownership gives people the real
option of resisting an authority that becomes too oppressive to
bear. As such, it is a valuable tool for ensuring personal
freedom.
          In short, gun control is \class\ legislation. It is an
attempt by the elite rulers of society to disarm the weaker class
and make them submissive to their will. In the near future,
leading liberals \and\ conservatives will likely set aside their
minor political differences for the benefit of their combined
class interest, and enact legislation restricting the ownership of
weapons of self-defense. They will succeed in this, too, unless
opponents of gun control expand their base of support to include
the traditionally liberal constituency of the underclass: the
poor, minorities, and women. These groups have the most to lose
from gun control, and the most to gain from the right to
unrestricted gun ownership.

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Port Townsend, WA 98368
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Reprinted as a public service by
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\Rosemary Fury is an editor of \The Spark\ (P. O. Box 528, Port
Townsend, WA 98368), a newsletter of contemporary anarchist
thought. It's about time gun rights activists looked toward
anarchist and libertarian ideasQthey alone seem to have a complete
picture of what's going on with the conservative (Bush,
Dukemejian) and liberal (Metzenbaum, Kennedy) alliance to disarm
all non-statists\.

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