I can only imagine how positively gleeful lurkers here from the Southern Poverty Law Center must be to hear of the troubles at OK; probably pee-ing down their legs like some over excited puppies (no insult meant to puppies!). While I have been banned from speaking there, who will join in a suggestion for OK to re-group with the power of a mission/purpose and constitution (like the one we have taken an Oath to defend) to renew OK like a Phoenix from the ashes to create a new, powerful, democratically member-driven organization, stronger than the original?
Uhm, two things in response, ArcLighter --
1. There are some who do not pause to realize what you are talking about, that this place is a public forum, and there are some others who don't think about what that exposes an organization to.
2. There are some who damn well know it and are here to damage it or destroy it because it *is* a public forum.
I have had personal email exchanges with Mr. Levin, who is General Counsel for the SPLC. I was named in a hit piece by the ADL right out of the gates in 2009. I know how those kinds of hate groups operate, which is one reason I feel I must keep a grip on what goes on here.
I have a sense of purpose in taking TMM up to the national level. It's going to be fun, and fruitful as we count coup on the chieftains of corruption with our Psy-Ops. But to do that, I'm going to be looking for those who demonstrate self control, awareness of the situation, maturity in judgment, alertness of mind, character of will, and the ability to channel the raw energies of the human ego into the contexts and terms of love's thought system. That itself is one of the most deadly blows we can render to the belly of the beast. I expect people to be here because they embrace TMM's role in the MindWar and want to help TMM fight it. I am not going to exercise time-wasting patience on hopeless mentaities, especially the sorts which manifest obsessive-compulsive pattern, un-checked egoism, emotional immaturity, etc. Our members will be *members*, or they will be gone. We will rise, my Friend. Thank you for being here.
Here is my thought in regard to your query about rebuilding Oath Keepers as a members-led org. I have talked with some State leaders who decided to do that for their States, but I have a cleaner way, a newer way. I cannot under any circumstances see myself capitalizing on Stewart's idea. It's his, and the name is his. I will support that fact, and honor it. And in truth, as I've noted on this thread already, I am my own Self, with my own ideas, and as I've watched the nation drift ever closer to the edge of the "Flat Earth" in the past sixteen years of TMM's existence, I'm inspired to realize that ours is, as G. Edward Griffin proclaims, "An idea whose time has come." This danged nation is primed and ready for our message of affirming the Militia System. As the political environment of America has morphed during those sixteen years, the perceptions of middle-America have also experienced many disappointments, so much so that they now realize that there is no political solution, that the political system itself is the trap, that the campaigns at national level are dog and pony shows choreographed by the globalizing socialist elites who own both major parties, the media, the money supply, the military-industrial complex, and now, through Fusion Centers, even our hometown cops and Sheriffs -- all the while wanting our guns and our every communication.
So I am organizing a major Psy-Op by taking TMM to the national level. When our site is ready, I will send an invitation to the SPLC (although I fully understand that they are already here), as a formality and a declaration to them that the MindWar is on, is fully charged, and is arraying the highest voice of We The People against the SPLC's influence on agencies and departments within our government and within the media. Their target is the mind of mankind. So is ours.
Members in TMM will demonstrate that quality in their awareness, their alertness, and their activities when operating on these forum boards. Or I'll reassign them to some other outfit.

Stewart is running Oath Keepers, however that works for him, and I am proud of the fact that I've helped him and that I have not attacked him over disagreements in style of operating. I cannot see myself working from his own organization's name in any way. TMM is separte, was here for many years before Oath Keepers came along, and has lately morphed into a format I can work with. I am the sort of guy who prefers to develop my own ideas. I'm just going forward with something I naively started in 1999 and am surprised to see is still here. I am delighted to see that it's time has come and I'm ready to put it together. Mentalitians are going to wage MindWar using their electronics inside their own homes and offices, and we're going to have a lot of fun doing our psy-ops. I say we focus our energies under The Mental Militia's umbrella, in its own right.

Thank you for being here.
Salute!
Elias