This Date in History
Nationalized Domestic Military by Woodrow Wilson
The National Defense Act, a nationalization of America’s unique and individual state militias, was enacted by Woodrow Wilson on this date in American history. On June 3, 1916, U.S. President Wilson enlarged the size and scope of the ambiguous National Guard, creating the nation’s permanent domestic reserve force.
The History Channel reports that:
The National Defense Act mandated that the term National Guard be used to refer to the combined network of states’ militias that became the primary reserve force for the U.S. Army. The term had first been adopted by New York’s militia in the years before the Civil War in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, a French hero of the American Revolution who commanded the Garde Nationale during the early days of the French Revolution in 1789. The National Defense Act also set qualifications for National Guard officers, allowing them to attend Army schools; all National Guard units would now be organized according to the standards of regular Army units. For the first time, National Guardsmen would receive payment from the federal government not only for their annual training—which was increased from 5 to 15 days—but also for their drills, which were also increased, from 24 per year to 48. Finally, the National Defense Act formally established the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to train and prepare high school and college students for Army service.”
Note that, rather than honoring Lafayette’s heroic alliance with America, adopting the name National Guard fundamentally distorts, retards and recasts the term and its context and origins. Lafayette’s command of the French military force followed and has no philosophical bearing on his interest in defending America’s revolution against the oppressive United Kingdom. Moreover, besides the gap in dates, differences between the French and American revolutions are serious and significant.
Wilson, a Democrat who (like Barack Obama) rose in power chiefly because he claimed to oppose war, instead (like Obama) exacerbated and sought to initiate war. Like Obama, Wilson believed that a person’s blood is integral to a person’s identity—i.e., racism—and, like Obama, he advanced statism, destroying capitalism and rights. Woodrow Wilson, like Barack Obama, is among the worst U.S. presidents.
On this date in history, Wilson nationalized and changed the moral-philosophical mission of U.S. state militias and enacted America’s single, standing domestic military. In the context of today’s emerging U.S. statism and looming dictatorship, the National Guard logo’s always ready—always there motto can be taken as an ominous and implicit threat to every American citizen. Read more about President Wilson’s nationalization of America’s state militias on the History Channel website here.
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Comparison of Wilson and Obama is spot-on. Both were collectivists, statists, and hypocrites.
Yes to all of the above, and I will also add that the founders of this country had an aversion to creating a standing army at all. They had seen all military's in the past used to violate the rights of the people instead of defending them. Their solution was the State's Militia, that came together voluntarily to defend the country when needed. These State Militias were not necessarily beholden to whoever held power at the time. The country had long since created a standing army when this program to place these National Guards/Militias under federal control was enacted, thus removing any viable defense against a military takeover of the country. Given the nature of the increasingly villainous people we keep electing to power, it is only a matter of time before one of them successfully takes control of the army in order to take control of the country, just like Julius Caesar did to Rome 2,000 years ago.