Shaken by Marine Veteran's 'Surviving Martial Law' Speech at Guardians of Liberty Meeting

I attended the weekly Guardians of Liberty (formerly We the People) meeting at Delmonico’s in Jackson, Missouri, Tuesday night. If you follow my Substack and podcast, The Adrienne Ross Show, you know I advertise for Guardians of Liberty. I also attend as many meetings as I can. Every week, guests share their knowledge and experience on a wide range of topics. Tuesday’s presenter was United States Marine Corps veteran and author L. Douglas Hogan, and his topic was “Surviving Martial Law.” I’m still a bit shaken.

According to his “About the author” section on Amazon, “Hogan is a U.S.M.C. veteran with over thirty years in public service. Among these are four years in the Marine Corps, where he served as an anti-tank infantryman and a Marksmanship Instructor, ten years as a part-time police officer, and over twenty years working in state government doing security work and supervision. Doug also teaches seminars on leadership and anti-totalitarianism, as is reflected in his bestselling books, Oath Takers and Surviving Martial Law.”

Hogan’s presentation was replete with information: What is martial law? Who declares martial law? How do I survive martial law? More than the content he shared, though, the subject itself is what shook me. My thought as I sat there taking it all in was that I cannot believe we are living in a time when people have to be informed of horrors they could face under what could be the pretense of good. The inclination might be to disregard what he shared as unnecessary, to flippantly say, “Oh, that’ll never happen.” However, the veteran and former police officer said something I did not want to hear: “The question is not if we will have martial law; the question is when.” I would have never fathomed that in my lifetime, citizens would need to be schooled on what a military takeover would look like and instructed on how to survive it. It just never crossed my mind, but seeing what I see in the government now, I can’t deny that the impossible has become, frighteningly, possible.

Beyond possibility, one attendee pointed out that it seems we’re already there, pointing to government overreach we’ve already experienced, including, but not limited to, the response to the coronavirus/COVID outbreak. We each witnessed it. But what Hogan described as what’s coming down the pike far supersedes the power grabs I’ve ever seen. Again, more than the content, though, I’m rattled by even the need to discuss it and the emphasis on how we can help our chances of being able to live through it.

To invite Hogan to speak, learn more about him, and follow his work, find him on his website, Facebook, and Instagram. Join me in checking out his podcast, too, called The Rising Republic with L. Douglas Hogan, which is on various podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts.

He is the author of several nonfiction and fiction books. Oath Takers: Book One in the Patriot Series is one of his nonfiction works, which I won in the Guardians of Liberty drawing tonight. I’m looking forward to reading it.

No one wants to think about the dangers of biblical proportion that could be awaiting us—and we are seeing the Bible unfold in front of our very eyes. It shakes us. But I’d rather be shaken by information I need to be prepared than to be comfortable, clueless, and caught off guard.

I’ll update with the video of the presentation when it becomes available.