Mission Statement

Committees of Safety is a non-partisan, grass-roots advocacy organization active throughout
the 50 United States. Its purpose is to exercise the freedoms of speech, association, and petition
guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, in order to educate
Americans about, and mobilize them for political action around, the fundamental principles of liberty
and self-government set out in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of
Rights.

All too many rogue public officials in the General Government in Washington, D.C., have
usurped powers never delegated to them by the Constitution, thereby violating their oaths or
affirmations to support the Constitution, undermining the federal system, and depriving the States
and the people of powers and rights reserved to them by the Constitution.

Recognizing the danger this situation poses, a majority of the States have reasserted their
sovereignty through resolutions under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. Although this
a good first step, further action is necessary to enforce these declarations. In particular, the States
and the people must take firm control of the two most important powers of sovereignty: the Power
of the Purse—through establishment in each State of an economically sound and constitutionally
proper alternative currency based on silver and gold; and the Power of the Sword—through
revitalization of the Militia of the several States along strict constitutional lines.

Committees of Safety intends, by means of peaceful mass grass-roots political activism, to
restore the Power of the Purse and the Power of the Sword to the American people through their
State governments. Central to this plan is an Economic Security Bill through which each State can
adopt an alternative State currency of silver and gold, managed and protected through a revitalized
State Militia, in order to protect the State’s governmental finances, and eventually the State’s entire
private economy, against a collapse of the Federal Reserve System. The establishment of economic
security is the necessary first step in a comprehensive strategy that aims at returning the provision
of all “national security” to local control by the people themselves.

Committees of Safety Public Policy Statement and Disclaimer

Committees of Safety is an organization dedicated to the individual and collective exercise of Americans’ freedoms of speech, association, and petition under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for the ultimate purpose of revitalizing “the Militia of the several States” under the Second Amendment and other provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions and laws of the several States. Committees of Safety is not now, and does not intend to become, any kind of “private militia”, “para-military group”, “firearms-training association”, “gun-rights organization”, or other entity of like nature or purpose. And no individual should seek to become, or to remain, a volunteer for Committees of Safety who proposes that Committees of Safety ought to identify itself as some form of such a group, or that volunteers for Committees of Safety should engage in “militia”, “para-military”, or like activities as part of their association with Committees of Safety. Committees of Safety recognizes as constitutional “Militia” only such groups as have been formed and operate under lawfully mandated statutes within particular states.

Any individual can be, and is welcome as, a volunteer for Committees of Safety, whether or not he or she possesses a firearm or desires to possess one. The only requirement for affiliation with Committees of Safety is that the individual acknowledges the need, and agrees to work in some way, for community preparedness according to constitutional principles and under State statutory authority, as called for in Committees of Safety’s petitions and other publications.

The only official statements for Committees of Safety are to be found on this web site or in publications and other materials that Committees of Safety has produced or expressly approved. Volunteers are free to speak for themselves but not as a spokesperson for the Committees of Safety at the level press, radio, and TV (except with the permission from the Committees of Safety Advisory Board) We seek publicity for the Committees of Safety's principles not individual volunteers.

Committees of Safety may from time to time recommend various web sites, books, publications, DVDs, CDs, or other materials that are believed to contain useful information with respect to the goal of revitalizing “the Militia of the several States”. Any such recommendation, however, is not necessarily intended and should not be taken as an endorsement by Committees of Safety of everything expressed or contained in any such materials.