Realgun -- know of any good Militia links? I never come across any.
It's not always someone else's job to start one. It is more than just another internet link and discussion group. You might not favor what already exists. You start with your own friends and neighbors, face to face. If you can't do that now, you won't do it when it counts most, although a bit late. You can't really belong to a militia from a keyboard. If you can't head for the woods on foot, equipped to survive, and meet up in numbers and with leadership within hours, you don't really have a viable plan.
Part of the whole concept is to first sell the idea of the need, kind of like selling the idea that it really is wise to carry a gun and know how to use it. Are the odds high of ever needing it for self defense? They are low enough for many to argue that it isn't necessary, a fanatical eccentricity. Thankfully the odds are not high, but consider the consequences otherwise.
Currently, I think there is enough concern about terrorism and resulting abuses of civil rights to warrant at least discussing worst case scenarios. I think too many have a false sense of security knowing they have a gun and a box of ammo, only vaguely familiar with who else might be similarly equipped and motivated to rely on it.
I see internet links and forums as only a way to promote local activity, not as a way of organizing and running a militia.
Back to your original question, after reading americanminutemen.org, I realized that militias as a national movement do not operate under a common charter. I believe agreement to some basic principles, common among State and local level organizations, would be in order to have any affiliation. Otherwise you have to do your own thing and may not prefer to associate in a grander scale or be mentioned in the same breath with some group that is out of control and misrepresenting the general concept. You would have to be sensitive to how militias can be and have been misrepresented or the extent to which they really were a bunch of scary lunatics. True patriotism is the key, and that would be preservation, not planned overthrow or terrorism by anarchists and criminals. Respectability will come from much more widespread activity and publicized purpose. Screw it up, and militias will be outlawed.
