The Guardians of the Free Republics

An America patriot group calling itself the Guardians of the Free Republics issued letters to all 50 governors of the various American states this week. The letters demanded that the governors, regardless of what party they are with, resign from their posts or they will be "removed."

The FBI is now investigating these letters, but no trace of threats of violence can be found in the group's letters or website. They aim to work behind the scenes for peaceful restoration of the American Constitution, which they claim has been violated for several decades now.

Sam Kennedy, a Guardian Elder of the group, said that the "original government" movement should approach the Guardians Restore America Plan with Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela in mind.

"We would simply like to urge patriots everywhere to champion their faith instead of force, and allow The Restore America Plan an uneventful 30 to 60 days for visible implementation which will ultimately end the bogus prosecutions and terrorist activities once and for all," said Sam Kennedy.

The Guardians believe that the US government is a corporate-controlled machine put in place by the New Deal in 1933. They aim to dismantle the FBI, stop the government from taxing people's income, and to overturn the Downes vs. Bidwell case which ruled that the US Constitution doesn't necessarily apply to American territories.

It has been claimed that the Guardians are a non-partisan group that mixes left and right. The Guardians are believed to be a peaceful organization spawned from the anti-IRS Posse Comitatus movement of the 1980s.

"Traditionally, critique of the IRS has come from the right, such as the Christian patriot movement, but [sovereign citizen] movements also invoke a lot of left-wing ideas like anti-capitalism that are consistent with the times and the downturn in the economy, where people may have property liens against them," says George Michael, an expert on political extremism at the University of Virginia's College at Wise.

For those of you who want to know exactly what the Guardians of the Free Republics are all about, here are there immediate goals (taken from their website).

• Ending foreclosure and bank collection actions immediately (our first and seventh directives)
• Ending tax prosecutions immediately (second and sixth directives)
• Ending invasions, prosecutions and detentions for fictitious crimes against the state that lack an injured party other than insurrection, treason and frauds against the United States (third and eighth directives)
• Ending molestation on the byways (fourth and ninth directives)
• Production of sovereign identification and passports that do not proclaim subject-class citizenship (fourth and ninth directives)
• Restoration of the trappings of proper de jure governance (fifth and tenth directives)
• Restoration of the common law of the Land (third and eighth directives)
  reigning in of the admiralty color-of-law venue to the high seas (third and eighth directives)
• Restoration of the proper de jure judicial institutions such as the district court of the United States and the one supreme Court as constructed and restrained in the Constitution for the United States of America, c. 1787 (Phase 2, thirteenth through fifteenth directives)
• Re-absorption of the de facto judicial aberrations such as USDC into the de jure institutions (Phase 2, thirteenth through fifteenth directives)
  a PERMANENT TERMINATION OF TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS beginning with voiding of the Downes v. Bidwell monstrosity (Phase 2, eighteenth directive)
• Arrest and shackling of the District Court of the District of Columbia (Phase 2, sixteenth directive)
• Recognition of sovereign status in the police databanks of the land (fourth and ninth directives) and a lawful and orderly removal of the corporate state as the ruler of every aspect of your life.
  
  And we will accomplish all of that – with your help – BEHIND THE SCENES, lawfully, peacefully, without violence and without risking civil war.

They also said this on their websites.

"Even the insidious law enforcement agencies that have become interwoven in the tiniest issues of our lives will see the benefits of a return to the land where they can once again devote their skills to enforcing law, forever spared the risks of acting as agents for tyranny and the tragedies of assaulting the women and children of the sovereign People, their own mothers, sisters, daughters and granddaughters."

The Guardians are a mysterious group, no doubt about it. It is right to be suspicious of them, and in the future it will be right to rebel, in one form or another, against them and their allies if their plan actually works. If their plan does accomplish it's goal (the restoration of the Constitution), then that will make it easier for the proletariat to seize state power because it will allow for a peaceful transition.

Marx said a peaceful transition of class power was possible in the USA, but the conditions of the country have changed since his time, making a peaceful revolution basically impossible. These Guardians could open the door for a peaceful revolution by, at least temporarily, returning the conditions back to Marx's time (by ending the police state and stopping corporate involvement in government). They will indirectly help us whether they want to or not. However, one should remain skeptical of these patriot groups, especially mysterious ones that lean towards libertarianism.

This article should in no way be mistaken for an analysis of any kind because the proper amount of details about the Guardians is lacking. All the Marxist movements can do is watch, see how this whole Guardians situation plays out, and then make our move.