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- this links to the CopWatch website. (very useful)

First and foremost, I do not advocate for the use of weapons or violence, at all. We The People Network does not advocate for the use of weapons or violence. Period. Violence is wrong and will only bring more violence.

That being said, police brutality is on the rise as this country continues its slide into fascism. We have a duty as We the People and as Human Beings to confront unlawful behavior by those we have entrusted to enforce the law.

Communities around the country should assert their sovereignty by creating commissions at the county and municipal level that would provide oversight for the police departments. These Commissions could serve for purposes other than police oversight, such as having the authority to enforce Oath of Office provisions on government officials.

These Commissions should be comprised mostly of citizens, along with representatives from all other affected parties, business, city, county, police chief, etc.. Most importantly, these Commissions must have full access to appropriate documents, files, etc., to effectively monitor the department or agency in question. The Commissions must also have the authority to sanction, when other avenues for relief have been exhausted.

Now the reality that remains for We the People, since we do not have these Citizen Commissions in place yet and are likely to have to fight for them, is to assert ourselves in a nonviolent manner in any abuse situation that we are able. It is always the right thing to do, to intervene in any situation where there is somebody being violated in some fashion, and you have the ability to do something about it. No matter who is committing the violence, and regardless of what authority they claim, you have a moral obligation to defend yourself as well as others who need your immediate assistance against violence and oppression. Never respond with violence, even in the face of police brutality. Not only is the use of violence wrong first and foremost, you will most likely die or be severely injured. Only when life is imminently threatened, is violence ever justified. Never lethal, and only as is required to diffuse the immediate situation.

Life should never be taken, except as necessary to sustain life. We take the lives of plants and animals in order to feed humans, as it is in the wild with all of Creation. However, if we kill or if we use violence to effect change, we will become that which we seek to change. This is a Universal Law that is unchangeable, unlike the laws of men.

That being said, use of the following information is only in the context of understanding how sovereign rights and sovereign people differ from a monarchy or totalitarian regime. I have only included the material here to show the reader the difference between a government of the sovereign people versus a government of the state. It is the distinction between them that is important. We are a government of sovereign people and that has very important ramifications for our futures. I will counsel the reader to only consider this material for purposes of evaluating current governmental policy and to contrast that policy against the legitimate needs of the people of this country, and of the world.

Immediately following the information are listed some recommendations for what you can realistically do, and what you should do.

Important Note
The following is taken from the website of the . The reader should know that the Constitution Society website does contain some material that is racist, anti-immigrant and that promotes violence. WTPNet.org does not condone racism or violence and will not allow that sort of garbage on this website. We also do not support any anti-immigrant propaganda. WTPNet.org supports the equal treatment of, and the free migration of all peoples to coincide with the way of nature. Again, this material is only included to inform the reader on the nature of the people's sovereignty, something not to be feared, but embraced. However this particular bit of data from their site is legitimate, and as such, useful to us.

I will be adding the case law referred to below into the section of this site.

Your Right of Defense Against Unlawful Arrest

"Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary."
Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306.

This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: "Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed."
"An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. If the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter."
Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach,
7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio
349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.

"When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified."
Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.

"These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence."
Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.

"An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery."
(State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260).

"Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self- defense."
(State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).

"One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance."
(Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910).

"Story affirmed the right of self-defense by persons held illegally. In his own writings, he had admitted that "a situation could arise in which the checks-and-balances principle ceased to work and the various branches of government concurred in a gross usurpation." There would be no usual remedy by changing the law or passing an amendment to the Constitution, should the oppressed party be a minority. Story concluded, "If there be any remedy at all ... it is a remedy never provided for by human institutions." That was the "ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice.""
(From Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987, an account of the reading of the decision in the case by Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court.

As for the last passages above, I say again, I do not advocate for the use of weapons or violence, at all. We the People Network does not advocate for the use of weapons or violence. Period. I cannot and will not use violence, as that is the commitment I have made to the Creator of my understanding, and I will not support any other to do so in my name.

These passages do become useful, however, after sufficient organization and preparation, as well as the involvement of sufficient numbers of nonviolent actionists, in order to minimize the potential for violent oppression. Not for the use of violence, never, but only to help our law enforcement folks out there realize that they are supposed to serve the needs of the people, not the State. This line has been blurred and lost since the people of this country declared unanimously to the world in 1776 in the Declaration of Independence. We may not have Burma or Pakistan in this country yet, but it is widely recognized that the groundwork has already been laid during the Bush Administration for the declaration of martial law in this country. I am just as hopeful for the Presidency of Barack Obama as anyone. I voted for him, and I want him to succeed. But I also want him to open his heart and realize that we need more fundamental change than even he has been talking about.

Read the , a man who was actually there when it happened. More information on this man can be found at . I got this link from the organization . Thank you David Swanson and the team at ADS.

WTPNet.org does advocate the following guidelines when dealing with unlawful behavior:

*Carry a video camera with you at all times, and be ready to upload your documentation to either wtpnet.org or youtube.com, among others. Have another person(s) available to act as a runner for the documentation in order to safely flee the scene if necessary.

*Have a cassette tape-based answering machine at your home, or elsewhere safe, that you can discreetly call with your cell phone. Use a hidden microphone of some sort attached to the phone for this. Some phones now have the capability of discreetly recording built in.

*Pre-plan and have ready a phone tree of people to call to act as first responders that can respond to an incident as it is unfolding. Better yet, have the first responders dispatched via pager or text message alert that is RF- based, as in not cellular or web/digital. These people would need to be ready to place themselves physically between the offender and the violated.

*Attempt to diffuse the situation through nonviolent methodology. Again preparation is the key here. I cannot stress the importance of getting experienced nonviolent action trainers teaching people in your community. Most communities have a Peace and Justice center of some sort. Get involved. I should talk though, I need to get more involved with mine.

*Last resort when there is no one else around. Nonviolent intervention. Place yourself between the offender and the violated. This is not recommended, but is morally justified. Don't expect to not be punished, even hurt. But when the violence is unjustified on the part of the officer, and your conscience tells you to nonviolently intervene, it is right to do so.

By physically placing yourself between the offender and the victim, or by having sufficient numbers to occupy and diffuse the situation by mere presence of will. The desired result is for the officer to have a change of heart, and to come around on their own, and to reconsider the use of force. Most people if dealt with in a consciously nonviolent manner, will respond in kind. Nonviolent action, sometimes referred to as direct action, when fully utilized can shift the power dynamic in favor of the demands of the people. This should never be attempted alone and/or without prior training and preparation.

If you doubt the authority of the people to act as law enforcement, in California you need look no further than Article I, Section 7b of the California State Constitution which states, and I quote:

"A citizen or class of citizens may not be granted privileges or immunities not granted on the same terms to all citizens."

This coincides with the Equal Protection clause of the American

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