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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 28
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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 28
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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OPENING STATEMENT OF JOHN TROCHMANN

On Thursday, June 15, 1995, some members of the various, 
unorganized militias testified before the Senate Terrorism 
Subcommittee. One of those who testified was John Trochmann of 
the Militia of Montana. The following is my transcript of his 
opening statement. Note that what follows is not the official 
transcript of Trochmann's remarks.

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JOHN TROCHMANN:
Greetings from Montana.

It is sad that this opportunity to address the Senate has arisen 
out of the Oklahoma tragedy. We wholeheartedly denounce the 
deplorable act of violence. We have and will continue to assist 
in any manner to apprehend all persons that may have planned 
and/or carried out that dastardly deed, at whatever level they 
may hide.

At the present time, we view the militia movement as a giant 
"neighborhood watch". The movement is made up of a cross-section 
of Americans, from all walks of life, with a singular mandate 
which is public and overt: the return to the Constitution of the 
United States, and to your oath to defend that Constitution.

The Declaration of Independence gives excellent insight as to why 
people feel the need to group together and participate in 
militia/patriot organizations. This document speaks for itself 
once again, as it did over 200 years ago, when flagrant injustice 
continues, out of control, by oppressive public servants. We 
request that this document be entered into the permanent record, 
as a partial support document to our statements.

The following are just a few examples as to why Americans are 
becoming more and more involved in militia/patriot organizations:

  ** The high office of the Presidency has been turned into a 
  position of dictatorial oppression, through the abusive use of 
  executive orders and directives, thus leaving Congress stripped 
  of its authority. When the President over-rules Congress by 
  executive order, representative government fails.

  ** When government defines human beings as a biological 
  resource of the United Nations Ecosystem Management Program, 
  maintaining that state and local laws are barriers to the goals 
  of federal government; when the average citizen must work for 
  the half of each year, just to pay their taxes, while billions 
  of our tax dollars are forcibly sent to bail out the banking 
  elite, while fellow Americans are homeless, starving and 
  without jobs, Congress wonders why their constituents get 
  upset.

  ** When government allows our military to be ordered and 
  controlled by foreigners, under Presidential order, allowing 
  foreign armies to train on our soil, allowing our military to 
  label caring patriots as the enemy, then turns their tanks 
  loose on U.S. citizens, to murder and destroy, or directs its 
  sniper to shoot a mother in the face while holding her infant 
  in her arms -- *you* *bet* *your* *constituents* *get* *upset*.

  ** When government refuses to hold hearings on government- 
  sanctioned abuses, and whitewashes those hearings that *are* 
  held; when government tampers with or destroys evidence needed 
  to solve crime, and now considers the very idea of infringing 
  upon the people's right of freedom of speech, assembly, and the 
  right to redress -- after having destroyed the second and 
  fourth articles -- how can Senators and Representatives ever 
  question the loyalty of concerned Americans without first 
  cleaning their own house?


"The law perverted and the police powers of the state perverted 
along with it; the law not only turns from its proper purpose, 
but made to follow a totally contrary purpose; the law becomes a 
weapon of every kind of greed. Instead of checking crime, the law 
itself becomes guilty of the evils it's supposed to pursue."
                        -- Frenchman, Frederic Bastier(sp?), 1884

We, the people, have about had all we can stand of the twisted, 
slanted, biased media of America, who take their signals from a 
few private, covert, special interest groups bent on destroying 
what's left of the American way. We respectfully request that you 
rely upon your *own* investigations, steering clear of the media 
and their rumor-gossip mills of disinformation. Although almost 
everyone in the movement has assembled under the first amendment 
-- freedom of speech and freedom to peaceably assemble -- we have 
not forgotten what our Founding Fathers have stated about the 
second [amendment]:

Former President James Madison: "A well-regulated militia, 
composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the best 
and most natural defense of a free country."

Former Vice-President [Unclear] Gary(sp?): "I ask: What is the 
purpose of the militia? To offset the need of large, standing 
armies, the bane of liberty."

Why would he call the armed forces "the bane of liberty"? Who is 
the Pentagon waging activities against after campaigns to win 
over the populace -- and why? Why does military Civil Affairs 
manual 4110 seem to be so applicable in America today? 
(Paraphrasing) "Steps Necessary For The Overthrow Of A Nation".

May God be with America as He watches over the shoulders of you 
who write her laws. A nation can survive its fools and even the 
ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. America has 
nothing to fear from patriots maintaining vigilance. She should, 
however, fear those that would outlaw vigilance.

Thank you.

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