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I was going to log in under a new Free Republic screen name, but when I went to the FreeRepublic Home Page and then to the Latest Posts page, I that saw that I had a message posted to me. I guess I am still logged in until I either Logout, or I delete the FreeRepublic cookie. So fortunatly I saw your post to me before I logged out of this account for good (or you would probably forever think that I was ignoring you)...

First off, I don't go by that name anymore. However, my previous name is in a number of places on the net and in the public records - articles and opinions - as I was a person who did things, or at least tried to do things, rather than sitting around complaining and doing nothing. So there will be these "memorials" out there to aspects of my past life.

Just as I would suspect most of the people on FreeRepublic are not content with the mainsteam just eat drink and be merry and let's see what's on tv couch potato approach to life.

To answer your question: Yes, that is one of my old personal pages. (I also did the Practical & Tactical page for that group also, which I see is still up!).

I started that personal page about four years ago when people were concerned about Y2K. Of course the world didn't end on Jan 1 2000, and much of the survivalist mindset, skills and preparation seemed to be unnecessary.

At the end of 2000 we got (by the closest of margins) a decent and Godly man as President, and America seemed back on the right path again. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001, and suddenly it seemed prudent to plan for unexpected disasters again. I added some stuff in 2001 and 2002, including some reminders that there are people worse off than you, the Bible defends the right to self defense, and that one should not be too anxious to go off to war (Mark Twain's War Prayer - although I was thinking of those who are anxious "for the civil war to begin", rather than President Bush's decisions to go into Afghanistan and Iraq).

For the longest time afterwards I only updated my personal page to reflect the change in the page URL (the group I was with had to keep changing it's name to differentiate themselves from other related groups, some of which were doing things such as issuing proclamations that they and their members were no longer part of the United States, declaring war on the Federal Government, and other such silly nonsense).

That is one reason why the "SouthEast Michigan Volunteer Militia" is "The militia formerly known as the wayne county michigan militia". Sort of like "The artist formerly known as Prince", I guess (except without his musical ability and sense of style).

I sure would like to change the name on that page and update that picture.

However, the owner of that site changed the password so that I cannot upload (or delete) anything to the site, and for some reason he doesn't seem much interested in answering my e-mails, and I don't travel in those circles any more.

People change and people move on, I guess.