David Rutherford Show: Starting A Militia? Navy SEAL Explains Why You Will Lose
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Look, I'm seeing it everywhere — people calling for raising militias, starting a new revolution, fighting back. And I get it. The frustration is real. But as a former Navy SEAL and CIA officer who's actually been in rooms where these operations get planned, I've got some bad news for your militia fantasy.
What you'll hear:
— David reads from the Declaration of Independence and highlights the line nobody ever quotes the one where the founders tell you NOT to do this lightly.
— The full American rebellion scorecard: 1 win, 7 losses, from Shays' Rebellion to Wounded Knee and why the pattern hasn't changed.
— The government's legal toolkit to destroy you: the Patriot Act, FISA 702, RICO, asset forfeiture, and why your Signal chat isn't as private as you think.
— Five things that actually work to push back legally and constitutionally including one David learned from the Amish.
— Why getting your own house in order is the most important thing you can do before trying to change the country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:03.8 | It seems like every day the world gets crazier and crazier. |
| 0:08.4 | People being labeled as domestic terrorists, get going through the roof, new wars overseas, |
| 0:13.7 | and everybody's getting angrier and angrier and potentially they're calling for a civil war. |
| 0:22.4 | Well, today, I'm going to talk about whether or not that's legal. |
| 0:26.5 | And if you tried to start your own militia, what would happen to you? |
| 0:30.6 | Today on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:32.2 | Woo ya. Welcome back to the show, everybody. |
| 0:44.2 | When I talk about a civil war or a new revolutionary war, everybody's ears get perked up, right? |
| 0:53.1 | Obviously, Navy SEAL, CIA guy starts talking about what, |
| 0:57.9 | when the impending doom of the societal collapse comes around all over us, you know, what happens, |
| 1:04.9 | how does it go down? You know, is it going to be that each state starts to develop their own militias, right? |
| 1:12.4 | Do they start to, you see it all over in the gun culture, in the, you know, guntuber world, |
| 1:19.5 | everybody and their brothers out there training. |
| 1:22.0 | Everybody's getting new kit. |
| 1:23.5 | Everybody's getting new nods. |
| 1:25.1 | Everybody's buying the latest in your thermo quad night vision |
| 1:31.0 | multi badassery new AR platform gun right um and they're preparing for the unknown of the future |
| 1:41.4 | and you know i think with as you look back and you pretty much you can |
| 1:47.7 | start at COVID and what we all believed was true is not true. And just this recently in the last |
| 1:55.4 | couple days, I've seen, you know, there's more and more coming out about how the intelligence agency has covered up, |
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