Amigo: JFK Minutemen

As a traditional 1776 & JFK Minuteman, I denounce the actions of anyone who bears this title of “Minuteman” and is committed to protecting our nation’s internal and marginal borders as part of their Patriotic volunteer duty, to makes racist, ethnic, or class verbal attacks upon others or injures them in non-defensive tactics. Anyone who violates this Credo, is not a true Minuteman or woman, but rather a usurper of the truth, and therefore do reject anyone who does not comply with the 1776 traditional term and admonishment of the late President, John F. Kennedy.

Ted Hayes, Homeless & Civil Rights Activist, Original Los Angeles Occupier

According to the original American tradition, a “Minuteman” is a volunteer, civilian, citizen soldier of the 1776 Revolution who defended the sovereignty and intents of the United States, with the capability to muster their weaponry against approaching British troops within literally “one minute”.

In fact, knowing that someday foreigners would attempt to invade militarily and non-militarily that they unjustly forage away the nation’s wealthy bounty, the late President, John F. Kennedy, warned and admonished all that every citizen of the

United States of America

must be minutemen

NOTE: Roosevelt Day Commemoration Message by the Late

President, John F. KennedyJanuary 29, 1961

Today American is the richest nation in the history of the world. Our power and influence extend around the globe. Yet the challenges and dangers which confront us are even more awesome and difficult than those that face Roosevelt. And we too will need to summon all the energies of our people and the capacities of our leaders if America is to remain a great and free nations -- if we are to master the opportunities of the New Frontier.

The dimensions of out problems overwhelm the imagination. At home millions are unemployed and the growth of our economy has come to a virtual halt. Abroad, we are faced with powerful and unrelenting pressure which threaten freedom in every corner of the globe, and with military power so formidable that it menaces the physical survival of our own nation. (* sound familiar?!?)

To meet these problems will require the efforts not only of our leaders or of the Democratic Party--but the combined efforts of all of our people. No one has a right to feel that, having entrusted the tasks of government to new leaders in Washington, he can continue to pursue his private comforts unconcerned with American's challenges and dangers. For, if freedom is to survive and prosper, it will require the sacrifice, the effort and the thoughtful attention of every citizen.

In my own native state of Massachusetts, the battle for American freedom was begun by the thousands of farmers and tradesmen who made up the Minute Men -- citizens who were ready to defend their liberty at a moment's notice.

Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort. (* italics and embolden, mine)

It is this effort and concern which makes up the New Frontier. And it is this effort and concern which will determine the success or failure not only with Administration, but of our nation itself.

NOTE: Roosevelt Day Commemoration Message by the Late US President, John F. KennedyJanuary 29, 1961