"Does our Government Fear the State Defense Forces?" What will a future "Civilian Defense Force" look like if it happens?
Editorial by "Bomber"
Yes, indeed he and to a larger degree the new democratic senate must be watched the threat to liberty has never been greater. This is why I voted Libertarian. I see better gun rights with the republicans but beyond that I see little difference between the two parties when the rubber hits the road as we are seeing. The republicans set things up nicely for them with all this patriot act Nazism, not to mention gutting Posse Comitatus. You watch, a certain amount of that stuff will be kept. A shell game of labels red state blue state, which shell is the freedom under??
This is a move to disarm the populace, because once this thing is off the ground it will be used to leverage and eliminate these rights. Why do you need guns to protect you when we have the new "Civilian Defense Gestapo" to protect you? Just remember a good communist is your "comrade" that's like a friend right? "Friend" is a good word, so is "Civilian" that's like my brother! He's a civilian too, and he punches me in the nut from time to time. Ask yourself this question, Will Obama’s Civilian force be lead by REAL civilians as he says? Meaning regular people who have a regular full-time job and serve part time. People who have the real world perspective and pay taxes, own property, and businesses? A force of citizen soldiers?? I hope I'm wrong (because I am plenty), but we shall see, but I’d bet my lunch money such a force will be led by full-time officers dependent on the FEDERAL government for their entire pension. I’d almost bet a buck you’ll see entire Army units re-tasked for this, (think 3rd ID).
If I'm wrong, the plan will involve aligning outfits like State Defense Forces within the "Civilian Defense force". If not, guess what folks?? Get ready for lipstick on a pig because we're all likely to have to pucker up! This is why, the Citizen soldier is considered so dangerous to the United States military and current government. You’ll note that the “citizen soldier” phraseology is no longer appearing in the recruiting stuff. Someone who can act speak and execute their orders faithfully to their conscience as well as their leaders as well as speak their mind and protect their homes.
If they really piss off a leader, they have their civilian career to fall back on. This is really worrisome to the powers that be so a system has been created in the US military to destroy the citizen soldier from within. (think of the private in Iraq who is hoping to have a military career being told by his Staff Sergeant to rough up the prisoner. Does he say "no" face an article 15 and the end of his career? Even if he is a real stand up guy, decides the prisoner does not deserve "roughing up" and then he has to face out-maneuvering the SSG, while preserving his career, all while trying to survive in combat.)
National Guard Units: Full-timers military are by definition controlled by the threat to that all important military pension and benefits. Another thing you will find if you research the Vermont Army National guard for example (can't speak for Air guard), is that almost all the key leadership positions i.e. Battalion Commanders, Company Commanders, Executive Officers, First Sergeants, and many Platoon sergeant slots are occupied by Full-timers too. The “M-day” or “one weekend at month, two-weeks a year soldier” is relegated to the lower ranks. You’ll hear that phrase in the guard; he or she is “just an M-day soldier.” Why? It is after all a "meritocracy" for those who have time to drink the cool aide; those people who have the time to devote to their military careers will earn the promotions & leadership positions. Unlike “Joe the Plumber” who works 60 hours a week in his civilian job and can barely make drill monthly, to say nothing of attending leadership schools. We have developed a military class system within the Guard, and the full-timers look out for each other, they very quickly loose the “m-day” perspective. If they need to take off for a 6 week Army leadership course, it is no big deal it only enhances their career.
Can our plumber drop his business for a 6 week leadership school? Not if he wants to continue to be a plumber, especially if he owns his own business. There are of course exceptions but they are fewer and fewer and this is the way they want it. They want people whose life the can fuck instantly with a word if they disobey or appear disloyal by questioning policy. Whereas our plumber can at least go back to pluming. I watched this process happen gradually in my own NG unit between 1996 and 2004. They system is self-selecting for mindless military robots who will follow any order. And if the press gets wind of an atrocity there are always a few enlisted who can be sacrificed. True volunteers like us, are a breed apart and this is why they fear us and will do whatever they can to take the weapons away because not only are we patriots, but we own guns and are organized to use them to defend our homes, and civil society, and are free thinkers. The idea that we would answer to our own consciences and the governor of our own state is fearful to them (Government).
-Bomber
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
The Rifle
(Ladies, please pardon the sexist language but, the spirit of the quote; in my mind anyway includes you too.)
"The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized."
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
"The Art of the Rifle"-Col. Jeff Cooper
"The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized."
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
"The Art of the Rifle"-Col. Jeff Cooper
Monday, April 7, 2008
Martial Law Survival Guide
I found J. Croft’s Martial Law Survival Guide to be enlightening and very thought compelling. I believe (assume him) to be dead on with regard to many of his observations about society today. We have many points of agreement. If I were a religious person, I believe I’d share his view of prayer too.
http://sianews.com/index.php
MARTIAL LAW SURVIVAL GUIDE
by J. CroftMarch 9, 2006
This article will start off assuming that the Reader (you) is already subject to MARTIAL LAW; that is, the "suspension" of the Constitution. Curfews, rationing of basic goods, enforced relocations, confiscation of firearms and supplies, and summary arrest/execution by soldiers, paramilitary police and other jack booted chumps in black wielding assault rifles. Basic survival tips will be followed by more detailed ideals on how to counter this coup against the American People.
The remainder will apply IF you're reading this before MARTIAL LAW is imposed by the current corrupt government. IF you are reading this while you still nominally under Constitutional Law, it's urgent you read from the beginning to end so as to appreciate the opportunities you currently have to not only protect yourself and yours, but to attempt to stop a coup.
SECTION ONE: SURVIVING MARTIAL LAW
Rule #1
Never take the government's word at face value-except when they tell you that they'll kill you.
Government-it's components of career politicians, bureaucratic vermin, and SS ninja wannabes live, have lied. For a lot longer than you'd think. It's the very job; being part of an empire wrapped in the cloak of American political traditions of Freedom, that corrupts. All that power, attracting the most venal along with the most patriotic to defend America. All that license under ever mutable law written by money whores to lie, steal, embezzle, blackmail, extort, poison, torture, enslave, murder.
Is it any wonder then that such human scum would get together and work "the system" to set themselves up as kings, dispensing with the pretty coverings of Constitutional limitations that trip their crimes like a prom dress? Taking as much as they can, while keeping YOU ASLEEP AS YOU LET YOURSELF BE SEDUCED AND PUT ASLEEP BY THEIR FELLOW TRAVELLERS IN THE MEDIA AND CORPORATE BOARDS?
Yes: a lot of the blame can be laid on your shoulders, American. You dropped the ball with going along with not finding the truth about JFK's assassination. Dropped the ball with MLK, RFK, Malcolm X. Dropped the ball with Vietnam, the air trafficker's strike that Reagan crushed, Iran-Contra. Dropped the ball with the 92 election-picking that drug runner and murderer Bill Clinton because he was charming… like a pimp. And boy did he pimp you out at the expense of Randy Weaver and his family, the 81 casualties at Waco, the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. You were too busy following Micheal Jordan and watching Friends.
Then you assholes really dropped it when George W. Bush STOLE the Presidency, with the media not even allowing a Ross Perot to run. If you would've elected him in 1992 in fact America could've been saved. BUT, you'd rather take government careerists at their word and plan your next outing to the mall than save your nation. Save your jobs, your freedoms, YOUR government.
Now it's gone. The criminals that've systematically taken over YOUR government they've removed the last vestiges of Constitutional law. Now it's law by the barrels of their assault rifles in your face-do ANYTHING other than obey in utter fear and you're dead. Or worse. You listened to their lies for over a century, you and your ancestors-where has it gotten you? Don't take their word on any "news" they have. Nor take their advice, their "assistance" their laws at face value because they manipulate everything they do to screw you.
What you can take their word on is, if you DON'T go along with them screwing you, they'll kill you for it.
Rule #2
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
Do NOT tell anyone anything that could get you in trouble. Assume anything can get you in trouble, because it probably will. Especially with any government official, but anyone looking to gaining a favor with the state can and will snitch on you. The rat who would sell you out for his thirty pieces could be:
*A small businessman looking for an in with the state so he can make money a little easier.
*A former friend who's looking to get some revenge.
*Someone desperate for even some food. Times are tough and will get tougher.
Again, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
Review the remaining rules of surviving MARTIAL LAW with Rule #2 ALWAYS in mind. Because some rat on two legs you say the wrong thing to WILL snitch to the "authorities" in exchange for favors or even brownie points… and then you get to find out how ironclad Rule #1 is.
KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT!!
Rule #3
ANY AUTHORITY FIGURE IS THE ENEMY! Unless you are waging a war of liberation-gathering intelligence or spreading disinformation or infiltrating-have no relation with nor voluntary contact with any soldier, police officer, bureaucrat, or anyone in authority in private life cooperating with MARTIAL LAW. Review Rule #1: they're all liars, con artists, hustlers, thieves, murderers. Same goes to any fellow travellers in big business; they and government have been in the same bed for a century.
Stay away from them as much as possible. Tell them lies. Don't do any business with them. Unless they're sticking a gun in your face don't even acknowledge that they exist.
Shun them, their family and any sycophants that fawn over them for a few favors...
Rule #4
YOUR PERSONAL SURVIVAL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OBEYING ANY DICTATE! If you're prohibited from having an item that helps you survive, get the item, review Rule #2 AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
If you're prohibited from having extra food, medicine, guns (no brainer) then you will CACHE your prohibited items in a place where it won't easily be found. Foods, after properly sealed for storage, and medicines can be placed in hollow spaces in walls, floorboards, stairs, behind false walls in closets, or even in a hidden underground pantry dug underneath your foundation or basement.
Firearms are metallic; they can be detected by metal detectors unless you store them deep underground or in a place they won't think of looking right away… like sealed in wider metallic tubes, or away from your property. And if you by chance acquire or keep firearms knowing HOW TO USE THEM(sight alignment, trigger squeeze) and RELOADING AMMUNITION will be mandatory.
(IF YOU'VE NEVER USED A GUN BEFORE)
To use a gun, first find the PROPER AMMUNITION FOR IT. After loading, pointed end forward, the ammo into the magazine, cylinder, or chamber load the weapon. On semiautomatic pistols if the slide-that moving part on top-is locked back there's a small lever on the left side of the gun. Push on it and it will close. Otherwise you'll have to pull the slide back yourself.
Pistols are concealable, rifles and shotguns are for starting a fight. Shotguns you load from a port on the underside, behind the fore stock or it breaks open. Rifles come in several flavors; single shot, pump, bolt action, automatic, and feed from the chamber, a internal magazine or has a detaching magazine. The rifle you want first and foremost is a automatic rifle in a military common caliber. That coupled with proper marksmanship transforms you from a victim to a freedom fighter.
Here's the most important part: see what you're aiming at… put your FRONT SIGHT where you want the bullet to go… then WHILE YOUR FRONT SIGHT'S ON TARGET align your REAR SIGHT with your FRONT SIGHT. …When your FRONT SIGHT and REAR SIGHT aligned like this more or less:O target( ( I ))IIIIII I GUN WITH FRONT AND REAR SIGHTS ALIGNED
…when you're aligned and aimed AT THE SAME TIME DO A SMOOTH, QUICK PRESS ON YOUR TRIGGER. The gun will go BOOM! and will push back in RECOIL. Don't be afraid; think of it like setting off a firework, only you're also sending a lead bullet at someone. If you did all the steps right you'll hit.
Dry firing a empty gun at a target is one way to practice. Even better is getting a air gun, paint some targets on a sheet of paper and going at it until you can aim and land every round in the black as fast as possible.)
Rule #5
While keeping the above rules in mind ALWAYS HELP OUT THOSE WHO ARE RESISTING! They, unlike you, have decided that there's nothing to lose and therefore deserve anyone's help who's willing to risk their lives. You think MARTIAL LAW is going away on it's own? Those bastards in black will have a sudden change of heart and do something worthwhile for a change and not oppress you? I like to dream too…
The VERY LEAST: have extra food, water for resistance fighters, basic medical supplies, ammo caches(hint, these should be concealed).
A secret room either built from some closet space or under the home can house a couple of fighting Patriots. Those who fight will need to keep hidden, yet able to communicate with fellow fighters. You can be a intermediary.
You have skills, like welding, machine tools, chemistry? You can take that secret room and make weapons, ammo, other things the resistance needs.
You have inside information? Share it. You have videography experience, tools? Make how-to videos on resisting the theft of your freedoms. You have medical training? Set up a underground hospital.
Not all Patriots can or should pick up a rifle and blow a traitor's head off. Riflemen need ammo, food, a place to rest, medical assistance, repairs for their weapons, intel on their next target. Most of all they and you need each other because a man alone doesn't stand a chance. Only by uniting in common cause with all one has to offer can the traitors be defeated, and Freedom restored to the land.
…If you're not at least giving aid to those helping to liberate you put this article down, go back to being a victim of government oppression; maybe you can get by being a pathetic lackey they'll thieve from and occasionally beat or take sex from.
Rule #6
With the utmost care develop a SURVIVAL NETWORK. This is a group of people with skills and/or resources who can help each other in areas they would be lacking on their own. It could be anything from extra food, medicine, repair parts, fuel, transportation-whatever.
In any given neighborhood you can have machinists(weapon makers), medical personel, drivers(good knowledge of local roads), gardeners(agriculture knowledgebase).
Petty bureaucrats secretly opposing martial law are prime candidates to spy, steal, or commit sabotage.
Computer technicians can hack government systems and create surveillance systems and guidence packages for missiles.
Construction workers can build secret rooms to hide anything from a arms cache to a secret factory. People in the media can smuggle cameras and work with computer techs to: bug enemy meetings, produce freedom media that documents sucessful means of resisting and present government atrocities for the reasons why.
Salesmen can "borrow" merchandise from their stores for use-anything and everything is useful.
Especially useful will be disgruntled cops and military who can provide everything from intel on raids to weapons to training.
Keep the numbers of your group "small": smaller cells are more difficult to penetrate by enemy agents and professional snitches. Keeping that in mind, a means of communication independent from wiretapped phones and audible eavesdropping devices must be developed amongst you.
Runners can be a athlete or a kid on a bike. They can carry small packages, or notes with a handy breakable vial of flammable liquid if discovered. With a sealed packet of potassium chlorate taped to it the gasoline(preferable) will automatically ignite; otherwise you'll have to actually light that incriminating evidence.
A mail drop can be a home, a hollowed out tree trunk, a hole in the ground, a open fence pole-anything. Just be sure it's discreetly out of sight of surveillance.
If God's really liking you, one of your group will be a SMART SURVIVALIST. This will be a exceedingly rare breed, because most in this group were smart enough to begin preparing for the collapse to begin with. They WEREN'T smart enough to avoid detection of their awareness and distrust of government. They signed form 4477 registration forms for their firearms, used credit cards and checks for their weapon and ammunition purchases, registered for weapons permits, or registered themselves with gun clubs and shooting organizations. These people more than likely got swept up in pre-dawn raids or got blasted resisting.
No the SMART SURVIVALIST prepared-and kept his mouth shut about those preps. He or she never signed federal permit forms for purchases or carry license. He or she presented a "average American" profile or totally disappeared. Get or find one in your group and you'll have a literal treasury of knowhow and resources to survive… maybe even start taking back a little?
Rule #7
AVOID GOVERNMENT MONITORING AND CONTROL! Know where the cameras are and how to avoid them. Know who patrols where, and what routine they follow so as to avoid contact. Know your snitches and always feed them b.s. if you can't avoid them.
Find ways around checkpoints. Side streets, forest paths, neighbor's yard, railroad tracks, tunnels; whatever go arounds to getting from point a to point b without a pack of government troops searching you, checking your ID. I can't and won't go into detail; how you find your ways is up to you.
Rule #8
AVOID A GOVERNMENT ROUNDUP. It could be from a disaster, a attack, or even because they've decided to end the pretense and show you what they really think of you and your "rights". You'll just wind up in a detention camp where your freedom of movement and resources will be strictly controlled. That means having a place to go away from your area, a means to get there, and supplies.
Very difficult to do in a martial law situation, with shortages and rationing at gunpoint. Remember the victims of Hurricane Katrina; how they were set up to be stranded in New Orleans by the government? How they were constantly baited with false hope of rescue for a week after the catastrophe? How they eventually were herded by FEMA into concentration camps?
You disregard Rule #1, you'll find out.
Get a safe house of your own-a friend or a abandoned home, a empty storefront or even a patch of woods. When the troops start going street to street, house to house have escape routes by lesser used streets, trails, whatever. You may have to go on foot, so have a light backpack with a few days worth of nonperishable food, portable water purifier, a first aid kit, a light sleeping bag-and your weapon. A mountain bike may be a more optimal and versatile escape mode than your road-dependent car. Better to be on the run, desperate-and have your freedom-than be imprisoned in a FEMA slave camp.
Rule #9
Find a way you can successfully resist. Probably not with guns or bombs unless you have the training, but there's plenty of ways you can monkeywrench the basic functioning of the state during MARTIAL LAW.
If you work for the state you have plenty of opportunities to mess things up, but even private firms are subcontracted by the government. You know who's just earning a paycheck, who's backing this war against the people, and who's getting off on "just following orders". If you can take action, great; concentrate most of your planning on getting away with the job. Otherwise, get contacts with Patriots and be the most reliable source of intelligence you can be.
Every bit of drag on the government beast helps-perhaps in botching that paperwork, breaking that surveillance camera in disguise, or misdirecting that bureaucrat or soldier cop that act might be the beginning of a butterfly effect of bringing down the state of MARTIAL LAW and restoring Freedom to our nation. Always keep that in mind. You must find your own way, but find it you must if you want what was stolen from you back.
SECTION 2: HOW DO YOU TAKE A NATION BACK THAT'S UNDER MARTIAL LAW?
To be honest it's probably the most difficult challenge anyone can face. Because you're starting a conflict from scratch inside the belly of the beast. You can't fight for territory when you've only got a few guns against divisions of enemy troops equipped with automatic weapons, armor, air support, the pitiful acquiescence of a "people" who long ago gave up Liberty for the trap of existence of a childlike, cushy debt slavery.
So the smart coup leaders that prosecute a martial law takeover will do it against a population that's already been pacified in one way or another. Now with the gilding stripped off their chains they're as frightened hostages willing to go along with ANYTHING massah state wants so long as they have some semblance of their former "lives". Aside from sickened, disgruntled vets, the American People; untrained in the military arts or even basic survival have been pacified-or the coup would never have taken place.
It is simply fear of loss after being so coddled, so divorced as a culture from personal responsibility -although enough exposure to fear and the human psyche has a way of becoming psychologically inured to it… which can lead to anger, and then revenge.
No: better way to pacify is to bring it on in a overwhelming torrent onto a population unprepared for it, unprepared for hardships. Take away their culture, their moral cores, their connections to God. Ply them with trinkets and baubles and other junk-get them to find solace in material things, in distractions like spectator sports, television. "Our" junk culture.
Keep them hypnotized by a junk culture while their means of sustenance-their jobs-are shipped overseas piecemeal, so they don't wake up.
Keep them hypnotized by a junk culture while their rights are legislated into impotence, irrelevance to the state's enforcers.
Keep them hypnotized by a junk culture, as even the know how of being able to survive outside the system; basics like growing food, repairing stuff, marksmanship is slowly stifled.
And all the time tell them they're free and prosperous. Eventually you'll have a people much like modern America's dumbed down materialistic debt slave. Such a people as ours, fed lies about our evil corrupt system as you find on TV are ready for a fall now as I write this. All that's needed is a plausable pretext, a cover story for the sheeple to accept the loss of their freedom in exchange for a impression of security in a land where the plenty of food and goods has been taken away.
Now some will see through the b.s.; but Humans can be stubbornly stupid when it comes to misdirected hope. These slaves, in every sense of the word, will actually defend the system that has enslaved them. Such is the enemy's genius at their social engineering. All those slavishly obeying the state in a martial law enviroment for some forlorn hope that their lives will somehow go back to the false paradise of the late 20th century will in effect be the enemy themselves.
You won't be alone. The enemy's genius is formidable, but not perfect. Quite frankly they're overconfident-and even if they weren't they're not God. They can't see all and will make fatal mistakes. The question will be, will you be man enough to exploit those mistakes to bring their downfall and save the Human Race?
How to beat the state when it has all the cards; can't take on an army with a pistol… but you can take on one of it's soldiers when you sneak up on him when they're not looking for it. If you're skilled with a rifle you can kill at distance and sneak off… if you have a supressor on your weapon you can do a whole lot of killing and not be detected. If you know chemistry, you can come up with all sorts of nasty stuff that can do damage to the enemy's expensive stuff.
If you have friends or fellow travellers you can do a lot more damage, even recruit if you have a video camera, editing system, and dvd duplicators(get someone skilled in video production) to advertise your victories and how others can duplicate your efforts, plus why they should fight in the first place.
If you're successful your area of operations will be overflowing with Patriots looking to bag as many jack booted thugs, bureaucrats and other traitors as they can get at. The excess Patriots can then spread out to other areas of our country, replicating as best they can what you've done.
With whole regions of the country infiltrated and secured secret industry can develop. Light weapons can be constructed at first, but eventually heavy weapons will be designed and made, and distributed. Ammunition, food, fuel, medicine-all can be manufactured on or made with basic machine tools and chemistry.
The time will come… if the enemy still clings to their forlorn hope of defeating the American People with the brainless thugs and sheeple that lick their boots… the time will come that OPEN WARFARE can begin and territory openly liberated.
After that… it'll probably devolve into a stalemate. The enemy isolated in their city/prison states unable to retake the surrounding countryside, but the Patriots not having enough strength to retake the cities. Or perhaps enough time because either the enemy develops some funky new superweapon, or their continued control of military assets overseas causes a outside power to intervene… on whose side… who knows?
BUT LET'S NOT LET THIS SCENARIO PLAY OUT!
Because a MARTIAL LAW will lead to CIVIL WAR… and national destruction… what I just described to you.
Let's NOT have a civil war, and spend the next century rebuilding. Much better to organize right now, as I write in October, 2005! We still have a political process we can use if we learn how to use it effectively. We can together find a small town and take it over-like the Libertarian's Free State Projects, only focused onto one town. Take that over, free it, and spread out from there. We as Americans need a standing example of what a Free State is; since we don't have the numbers to take over a state, we have to take over a town… so we can get the numbers to take over a state.
Even some in the traitorous elite don't want to see MARTIAL LAW because they recognize the exquisite control and enslavement the current American political system has over Americans, and want to keep their power. They can be used, then abused.
Individually, if you have guns, bury spares of your fighting arms, or sell them privately to new Patriot recruits. This will get easier as deteriorating conditions bring the reality of our situation home, and the government's conduct in New Orleans make personal preparation a priority.
Buy lots of ammo, food, medicine, reloading supplies. Get these at gun shows for CASH ONLY. Go to gun shows while they're still legal!
Find books on basic manufacturing processes-that's vital!
If you have EVER joined a gun group, bought guns and ammo with credit cards, checks, and/or signed registration forms and permits HIDE AND/OR SELL YOUR EXCESS GUNS TO MOTIVATED PATRIOTS! You WILL be searched first on "The Day", and if so much as a empty shell casing's found you can count on being starved, beaten and raped to death in a internment camp. Or maybe they'll take you anyway for being on record.
Start driving around: look for abandoned homes, businesses, and roads or trails that'll get you to them. Caves, forest haunts, old barns, the nastiest trailer in that tired old trailer park.
When you recruit, don't let them put their names on any forms that could implicate them in the eyes of the government. Keep their profile low-Patriots will need infiltrators, safe houses, spies… can't do that if you're still running around openly displaying a "I'm the NRA" sticker or a Gadsen Flag. Sorry.
Take your Recruits and:
*Toughen them up. Camping, survival courses, hand to hand combat courses. Even getting them to let their TV gather dust to do… anything will be of benefit. Demonstrations, projects, meetings, find places to hole up like anything without people around…
*Shooting, and lots of it! Paintball to teach tactics. A range of some sort for battle rifle practice. Airguns and required turning in of targets for their own practice-the airsoft guns are coming along as viable training tools and as soon as they perfect a paintball that'll cycle through them you should splurge a couple hundred bucks and get some guns and paintballs.
*Group buy ammo, parts, food, knowledge, a legal fiction to acquire property not under your own name, nor any connection to you. Have your stashes in several small units throughout the area you figure you're going to operate. The more the better, and, no one person should have knowledge of where all the caches are at. A cache should have ammo for the standard weapon/caliber your group should standardize on. I recommend a military pattern rifle in 7.62NATO, along with spare parts because they'll break down with all the shooting and abuse you're gonna heap on them. Enough ammo to refill all your carry mags for a mission. Also, nonperishable food. Should have lots of calories, carbs, protein. Medical supplies.
…No you're not going to get a lot of recruits. The enemy's cultural weapons are pretty damn powerful, and their mind control of Americans is exquisite-but not foolproof! On occasion a event will occur that will defy their spin control and b.s.-like the live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and their criminal abandonment of the Black Community to die in that open sewer so they'll abandon the city to foreclosers wanting a "Las Vegas on the Gulf". Point out the criminal abandonment of the government of their People. A lot of eyes were opened by that hurricane, and not all of them are going to shut again by the system's lies. Take your opportunities as they come.
I have a plan of peaceful political action that can be used, so here's a excerpt of my essay, "Message to Mr. and Mrs. America" at my blog freedomguide.blogspot.com:
Taking back the government-peacefully!
This is the preferable manner of us as groups reclaiming our Freedom. To be effective, one must have a understanding of America's political system as it relates to our cause. We have a president, a vice-president and their agents, a congress, a federal judicial system, and the duplication of this political layout among the states. Beyond that you have the many thousands of county and local governments. So what will work?
Take over the presidency?
It's long been proven that unless you have the blessings of the two official parties of this nation, you cannot seriously run for president. The closest independent candidate was Ross Perot back in 1992, and even being a billionaire didn't shield him from getting shredded by the media.
So, assuming the voting machines are honest(not)and the media's fair(not) you need the machine of a major party backing you(won't happen).
And the president can only do so much; America's system of government is extremely compartmentalized, so that unless you have a common ideology and party mechanism guiding and controlling the various components, it's impossible for one man to dictate policy. So a independent party president, one lone person against the rest of the hydra headed federal monstrosity is not only impossible, it's retarded even planning such a thing.
Congress?
Congress is made up of 540 members-100 senators and the rest in the house of representatives. All are elected in staggared election cycles so it would take approximately a decade of successful nationwide campaigning to create a majority party. Yes, congress writes the laws and taking it back is essential in our struggle, but even factoring out the two official parties and their political machines the structure of this body demands a massive political machine of our own.
Massive organizations that have a heirarchial structure have been penetrated, subverted and corrupted by our enemies since the beginning of time. It's a process that to them is a natural as breathing. Then there's all the fundraising that will be needed and we're not rich-the only ones with money in America are the same pack of vampires who've been sucking us dry. So a singular, national organization will not be sucessful.
Independent and rogue candidates however do have some success. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Tom Tancredo of Colorado, Ron Paul of Texas, and at one time James Trafficant of Ohio sadly represent the successes. Most candidates are attorneys who've long ago prostituted themselves. They whore themselves to the political machine that will take them where they want to go. All they want is power and in exchange have legislated the monstrosity American government has become. The democrats and republicans, their bosses for all practical purposes appoint these elitists their congressional seats and they're prepared to spend whatever cash it takes to take or retain that seat. Vote fraud of course is part of their arsenal.
There are no rich left in these times who would willingly sacrifice their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor-they're either sold out or scared. So any candidates for congress will have to be raised and funded by us. That means we have to do it in a grass roots manner. We have to build not one political machine, but a army of political machines that are independent of one another, yet cooperative.
Many small parties, one common agenda
This form of political resistance lends itself naturally to our groups. It will go like this:
The group helps other groups form. They in turn during the next local election cycle turn out and get the candidates they choose elected in town and county governments. Much of the oppressive laws plaguing us are drafted and enforced locally. Taking over local governments will not only give the freedom groups relief from local law enforcement harassment, it will give us the tools to revoke and repeal such things as:
Property taxes that allow the government to sieze that home you're working a lifetime to pay for if you miss one "rent" installment. Those in power whine that property taxes are for the schools and the children-isn't that what their gambling rackets known as the lotto are for? And they're willing to make you and yours homeless for the children… such evil makes me just want to shoot them. But let's try not to go there yet.
All those damned zoning restrictions, regulations, speed trap traffic laws designed to churn up "tax" revenue, laws criminalizing all sorts of things and actions that bother nobody. Think of any local ordinance that seems to have been drafted by a neurotic control freak… the list would be endless really!
Un-Constitutional, pro criminal gun control legislation. A big part of their program's disarming us so that we're helpless and have to rely on them exclusively for protection, establishing dependence. Not that the cops are legally obligated to your personal protection of course.
Anything that pledges cooperation with state and federal authorities, at least until we take our nation back!
Another book recommendation: HOW TO WIN A LOCAL ELECTION. Should be in your local bookstore.
When we take back a local government and bring that jurisdiction back into line with the classic tenants of American government, it will be a beacon of light, an example of successful peaceful resistance. It will immediately inspire and launch similar efforts in neighboring communities. Each composed of small, decentralized groups working together on the big problem, so that one day they can afford to bicker on the small stuff-that the Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Christian Patriots and Conservatives currently do. So together, with control of enough cities and townships, the combined efforts of those groups can take over counties. With control of enough counties, an entire state can be taken over by our groups.
Why take that next step? The list of things we can do when we take back our local governments is vast, but then there would be the call to centralize governmental control with state and federal authorities. So when this begins we must be as aggressive as possible-being examples to others, advising, and most importantly WE MUST NOT FIGHT AMONGST OURSELVES OVER STUFF WE CAN DEBATE AFTER WE RETAKE OUR LAND! Backbiting will be exploited by our enemies, it will be our biggest downfall.
And if we can take the nation back…
There are many things we must do immediately, as soon as we can take back control of America's destiny.
(1)Secure our borders from any further infiltration. Whatever that takes, whatever manpower's available, we must find a way to seal up thousands of miles of hinterland border, and many thousands of miles more of coastline. This will take bringing our troops and ships home, and in effect end America's era of being used as a tool of global empire. It will be good, as being number one just makes you the one everyone else wants to take out.
At the same time, a heightened state of alert must be maintained if another power were to take advantage of our transistional phase and attempt some economic or military adventure against our interests. America will be painfully contracting from it's global economic empire as we attempt to revive a self-sufficient free republic and the last thing we'll need is for Muslims seeking revenge against the Empire, or China rolling the dice on a military adventure against us.
(2)Impose a flexible series of tariffs so that no matter where on Earth a imported good is made, it's cost after going through customs is just a few percent more than one made in America-with all the taxes still imposed. This must be implemented by law for I'd calculate twenty years; because this is the minimum time required to rebuild America's manufacturing economy. The rest of the world's just going to have to learn to live economically without the American consumer, and the American consumer is going to have to learn basic economics. It will be a horrifically shocking adjustment, and lead to a economic collapse-of the megacorporations. It's the bitterest medicine, but America and Americans have become almost terminally sick with the current system imposed upon us and those that don't immediately take steps to save themselves will need some hard lessons quick to bring them back to reality.
AND WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO?
Most important thing you can do? Pray. I'm serious. Don't do it in some gay mega-church and tithe to some blowdried huckster-do it like Jesus taught. Find a quiet place, quiet your mind, and open your heart. God WILL talk to you, or at least convey some feeling. You can't listen because you're out of practice listening so, practice. Eventually God will talk to you, and it's in your best interest to listen because God does love you!
He isn't looking to burn you for eternity for your petty imperfections. He's looking to liberate His People-all of us. Can't liberate a people if they're dead from some "bible prophecy" going on as scripted: wouldn't the events of Revelation carried out as written be a victory for the devil… wanting to possess and destroy? Humanity's all but destroyed in the end of that book. Why not fight to derail that outcome?
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MARTIAL LAW SURVIVAL GUIDE
by J. CroftMarch 9, 2006
This article will start off assuming that the Reader (you) is already subject to MARTIAL LAW; that is, the "suspension" of the Constitution. Curfews, rationing of basic goods, enforced relocations, confiscation of firearms and supplies, and summary arrest/execution by soldiers, paramilitary police and other jack booted chumps in black wielding assault rifles. Basic survival tips will be followed by more detailed ideals on how to counter this coup against the American People.
The remainder will apply IF you're reading this before MARTIAL LAW is imposed by the current corrupt government. IF you are reading this while you still nominally under Constitutional Law, it's urgent you read from the beginning to end so as to appreciate the opportunities you currently have to not only protect yourself and yours, but to attempt to stop a coup.
SECTION ONE: SURVIVING MARTIAL LAW
Rule #1
Never take the government's word at face value-except when they tell you that they'll kill you.
Government-it's components of career politicians, bureaucratic vermin, and SS ninja wannabes live, have lied. For a lot longer than you'd think. It's the very job; being part of an empire wrapped in the cloak of American political traditions of Freedom, that corrupts. All that power, attracting the most venal along with the most patriotic to defend America. All that license under ever mutable law written by money whores to lie, steal, embezzle, blackmail, extort, poison, torture, enslave, murder.
Is it any wonder then that such human scum would get together and work "the system" to set themselves up as kings, dispensing with the pretty coverings of Constitutional limitations that trip their crimes like a prom dress? Taking as much as they can, while keeping YOU ASLEEP AS YOU LET YOURSELF BE SEDUCED AND PUT ASLEEP BY THEIR FELLOW TRAVELLERS IN THE MEDIA AND CORPORATE BOARDS?
Yes: a lot of the blame can be laid on your shoulders, American. You dropped the ball with going along with not finding the truth about JFK's assassination. Dropped the ball with MLK, RFK, Malcolm X. Dropped the ball with Vietnam, the air trafficker's strike that Reagan crushed, Iran-Contra. Dropped the ball with the 92 election-picking that drug runner and murderer Bill Clinton because he was charming… like a pimp. And boy did he pimp you out at the expense of Randy Weaver and his family, the 81 casualties at Waco, the peoples of the former Yugoslavia. You were too busy following Micheal Jordan and watching Friends.
Then you assholes really dropped it when George W. Bush STOLE the Presidency, with the media not even allowing a Ross Perot to run. If you would've elected him in 1992 in fact America could've been saved. BUT, you'd rather take government careerists at their word and plan your next outing to the mall than save your nation. Save your jobs, your freedoms, YOUR government.
Now it's gone. The criminals that've systematically taken over YOUR government they've removed the last vestiges of Constitutional law. Now it's law by the barrels of their assault rifles in your face-do ANYTHING other than obey in utter fear and you're dead. Or worse. You listened to their lies for over a century, you and your ancestors-where has it gotten you? Don't take their word on any "news" they have. Nor take their advice, their "assistance" their laws at face value because they manipulate everything they do to screw you.
What you can take their word on is, if you DON'T go along with them screwing you, they'll kill you for it.
Rule #2
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
Do NOT tell anyone anything that could get you in trouble. Assume anything can get you in trouble, because it probably will. Especially with any government official, but anyone looking to gaining a favor with the state can and will snitch on you. The rat who would sell you out for his thirty pieces could be:
*A small businessman looking for an in with the state so he can make money a little easier.
*A former friend who's looking to get some revenge.
*Someone desperate for even some food. Times are tough and will get tougher.
Again, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
Review the remaining rules of surviving MARTIAL LAW with Rule #2 ALWAYS in mind. Because some rat on two legs you say the wrong thing to WILL snitch to the "authorities" in exchange for favors or even brownie points… and then you get to find out how ironclad Rule #1 is.
KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT!!
Rule #3
ANY AUTHORITY FIGURE IS THE ENEMY! Unless you are waging a war of liberation-gathering intelligence or spreading disinformation or infiltrating-have no relation with nor voluntary contact with any soldier, police officer, bureaucrat, or anyone in authority in private life cooperating with MARTIAL LAW. Review Rule #1: they're all liars, con artists, hustlers, thieves, murderers. Same goes to any fellow travellers in big business; they and government have been in the same bed for a century.
Stay away from them as much as possible. Tell them lies. Don't do any business with them. Unless they're sticking a gun in your face don't even acknowledge that they exist.
Shun them, their family and any sycophants that fawn over them for a few favors...
Rule #4
YOUR PERSONAL SURVIVAL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OBEYING ANY DICTATE! If you're prohibited from having an item that helps you survive, get the item, review Rule #2 AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
If you're prohibited from having extra food, medicine, guns (no brainer) then you will CACHE your prohibited items in a place where it won't easily be found. Foods, after properly sealed for storage, and medicines can be placed in hollow spaces in walls, floorboards, stairs, behind false walls in closets, or even in a hidden underground pantry dug underneath your foundation or basement.
Firearms are metallic; they can be detected by metal detectors unless you store them deep underground or in a place they won't think of looking right away… like sealed in wider metallic tubes, or away from your property. And if you by chance acquire or keep firearms knowing HOW TO USE THEM(sight alignment, trigger squeeze) and RELOADING AMMUNITION will be mandatory.
(IF YOU'VE NEVER USED A GUN BEFORE)
To use a gun, first find the PROPER AMMUNITION FOR IT. After loading, pointed end forward, the ammo into the magazine, cylinder, or chamber load the weapon. On semiautomatic pistols if the slide-that moving part on top-is locked back there's a small lever on the left side of the gun. Push on it and it will close. Otherwise you'll have to pull the slide back yourself.
Pistols are concealable, rifles and shotguns are for starting a fight. Shotguns you load from a port on the underside, behind the fore stock or it breaks open. Rifles come in several flavors; single shot, pump, bolt action, automatic, and feed from the chamber, a internal magazine or has a detaching magazine. The rifle you want first and foremost is a automatic rifle in a military common caliber. That coupled with proper marksmanship transforms you from a victim to a freedom fighter.
Here's the most important part: see what you're aiming at… put your FRONT SIGHT where you want the bullet to go… then WHILE YOUR FRONT SIGHT'S ON TARGET align your REAR SIGHT with your FRONT SIGHT. …When your FRONT SIGHT and REAR SIGHT aligned like this more or less:O target( ( I ))IIIIII I GUN WITH FRONT AND REAR SIGHTS ALIGNED
…when you're aligned and aimed AT THE SAME TIME DO A SMOOTH, QUICK PRESS ON YOUR TRIGGER. The gun will go BOOM! and will push back in RECOIL. Don't be afraid; think of it like setting off a firework, only you're also sending a lead bullet at someone. If you did all the steps right you'll hit.
Dry firing a empty gun at a target is one way to practice. Even better is getting a air gun, paint some targets on a sheet of paper and going at it until you can aim and land every round in the black as fast as possible.)
Rule #5
While keeping the above rules in mind ALWAYS HELP OUT THOSE WHO ARE RESISTING! They, unlike you, have decided that there's nothing to lose and therefore deserve anyone's help who's willing to risk their lives. You think MARTIAL LAW is going away on it's own? Those bastards in black will have a sudden change of heart and do something worthwhile for a change and not oppress you? I like to dream too…
The VERY LEAST: have extra food, water for resistance fighters, basic medical supplies, ammo caches(hint, these should be concealed).
A secret room either built from some closet space or under the home can house a couple of fighting Patriots. Those who fight will need to keep hidden, yet able to communicate with fellow fighters. You can be a intermediary.
You have skills, like welding, machine tools, chemistry? You can take that secret room and make weapons, ammo, other things the resistance needs.
You have inside information? Share it. You have videography experience, tools? Make how-to videos on resisting the theft of your freedoms. You have medical training? Set up a underground hospital.
Not all Patriots can or should pick up a rifle and blow a traitor's head off. Riflemen need ammo, food, a place to rest, medical assistance, repairs for their weapons, intel on their next target. Most of all they and you need each other because a man alone doesn't stand a chance. Only by uniting in common cause with all one has to offer can the traitors be defeated, and Freedom restored to the land.
…If you're not at least giving aid to those helping to liberate you put this article down, go back to being a victim of government oppression; maybe you can get by being a pathetic lackey they'll thieve from and occasionally beat or take sex from.
Rule #6
With the utmost care develop a SURVIVAL NETWORK. This is a group of people with skills and/or resources who can help each other in areas they would be lacking on their own. It could be anything from extra food, medicine, repair parts, fuel, transportation-whatever.
In any given neighborhood you can have machinists(weapon makers), medical personel, drivers(good knowledge of local roads), gardeners(agriculture knowledgebase).
Petty bureaucrats secretly opposing martial law are prime candidates to spy, steal, or commit sabotage.
Computer technicians can hack government systems and create surveillance systems and guidence packages for missiles.
Construction workers can build secret rooms to hide anything from a arms cache to a secret factory. People in the media can smuggle cameras and work with computer techs to: bug enemy meetings, produce freedom media that documents sucessful means of resisting and present government atrocities for the reasons why.
Salesmen can "borrow" merchandise from their stores for use-anything and everything is useful.
Especially useful will be disgruntled cops and military who can provide everything from intel on raids to weapons to training.
Keep the numbers of your group "small": smaller cells are more difficult to penetrate by enemy agents and professional snitches. Keeping that in mind, a means of communication independent from wiretapped phones and audible eavesdropping devices must be developed amongst you.
Runners can be a athlete or a kid on a bike. They can carry small packages, or notes with a handy breakable vial of flammable liquid if discovered. With a sealed packet of potassium chlorate taped to it the gasoline(preferable) will automatically ignite; otherwise you'll have to actually light that incriminating evidence.
A mail drop can be a home, a hollowed out tree trunk, a hole in the ground, a open fence pole-anything. Just be sure it's discreetly out of sight of surveillance.
If God's really liking you, one of your group will be a SMART SURVIVALIST. This will be a exceedingly rare breed, because most in this group were smart enough to begin preparing for the collapse to begin with. They WEREN'T smart enough to avoid detection of their awareness and distrust of government. They signed form 4477 registration forms for their firearms, used credit cards and checks for their weapon and ammunition purchases, registered for weapons permits, or registered themselves with gun clubs and shooting organizations. These people more than likely got swept up in pre-dawn raids or got blasted resisting.
No the SMART SURVIVALIST prepared-and kept his mouth shut about those preps. He or she never signed federal permit forms for purchases or carry license. He or she presented a "average American" profile or totally disappeared. Get or find one in your group and you'll have a literal treasury of knowhow and resources to survive… maybe even start taking back a little?
Rule #7
AVOID GOVERNMENT MONITORING AND CONTROL! Know where the cameras are and how to avoid them. Know who patrols where, and what routine they follow so as to avoid contact. Know your snitches and always feed them b.s. if you can't avoid them.
Find ways around checkpoints. Side streets, forest paths, neighbor's yard, railroad tracks, tunnels; whatever go arounds to getting from point a to point b without a pack of government troops searching you, checking your ID. I can't and won't go into detail; how you find your ways is up to you.
Rule #8
AVOID A GOVERNMENT ROUNDUP. It could be from a disaster, a attack, or even because they've decided to end the pretense and show you what they really think of you and your "rights". You'll just wind up in a detention camp where your freedom of movement and resources will be strictly controlled. That means having a place to go away from your area, a means to get there, and supplies.
Very difficult to do in a martial law situation, with shortages and rationing at gunpoint. Remember the victims of Hurricane Katrina; how they were set up to be stranded in New Orleans by the government? How they were constantly baited with false hope of rescue for a week after the catastrophe? How they eventually were herded by FEMA into concentration camps?
You disregard Rule #1, you'll find out.
Get a safe house of your own-a friend or a abandoned home, a empty storefront or even a patch of woods. When the troops start going street to street, house to house have escape routes by lesser used streets, trails, whatever. You may have to go on foot, so have a light backpack with a few days worth of nonperishable food, portable water purifier, a first aid kit, a light sleeping bag-and your weapon. A mountain bike may be a more optimal and versatile escape mode than your road-dependent car. Better to be on the run, desperate-and have your freedom-than be imprisoned in a FEMA slave camp.
Rule #9
Find a way you can successfully resist. Probably not with guns or bombs unless you have the training, but there's plenty of ways you can monkeywrench the basic functioning of the state during MARTIAL LAW.
If you work for the state you have plenty of opportunities to mess things up, but even private firms are subcontracted by the government. You know who's just earning a paycheck, who's backing this war against the people, and who's getting off on "just following orders". If you can take action, great; concentrate most of your planning on getting away with the job. Otherwise, get contacts with Patriots and be the most reliable source of intelligence you can be.
Every bit of drag on the government beast helps-perhaps in botching that paperwork, breaking that surveillance camera in disguise, or misdirecting that bureaucrat or soldier cop that act might be the beginning of a butterfly effect of bringing down the state of MARTIAL LAW and restoring Freedom to our nation. Always keep that in mind. You must find your own way, but find it you must if you want what was stolen from you back.
SECTION 2: HOW DO YOU TAKE A NATION BACK THAT'S UNDER MARTIAL LAW?
To be honest it's probably the most difficult challenge anyone can face. Because you're starting a conflict from scratch inside the belly of the beast. You can't fight for territory when you've only got a few guns against divisions of enemy troops equipped with automatic weapons, armor, air support, the pitiful acquiescence of a "people" who long ago gave up Liberty for the trap of existence of a childlike, cushy debt slavery.
So the smart coup leaders that prosecute a martial law takeover will do it against a population that's already been pacified in one way or another. Now with the gilding stripped off their chains they're as frightened hostages willing to go along with ANYTHING massah state wants so long as they have some semblance of their former "lives". Aside from sickened, disgruntled vets, the American People; untrained in the military arts or even basic survival have been pacified-or the coup would never have taken place.
It is simply fear of loss after being so coddled, so divorced as a culture from personal responsibility -although enough exposure to fear and the human psyche has a way of becoming psychologically inured to it… which can lead to anger, and then revenge.
No: better way to pacify is to bring it on in a overwhelming torrent onto a population unprepared for it, unprepared for hardships. Take away their culture, their moral cores, their connections to God. Ply them with trinkets and baubles and other junk-get them to find solace in material things, in distractions like spectator sports, television. "Our" junk culture.
Keep them hypnotized by a junk culture while their means of sustenance-their jobs-are shipped overseas piecemeal, so they don't wake up.
Keep them hypnotized by a junk culture while their rights are legislated into impotence, irrelevance to the state's enforcers.
Keep them hypnotized by a junk culture, as even the know how of being able to survive outside the system; basics like growing food, repairing stuff, marksmanship is slowly stifled.
And all the time tell them they're free and prosperous. Eventually you'll have a people much like modern America's dumbed down materialistic debt slave. Such a people as ours, fed lies about our evil corrupt system as you find on TV are ready for a fall now as I write this. All that's needed is a plausable pretext, a cover story for the sheeple to accept the loss of their freedom in exchange for a impression of security in a land where the plenty of food and goods has been taken away.
Now some will see through the b.s.; but Humans can be stubbornly stupid when it comes to misdirected hope. These slaves, in every sense of the word, will actually defend the system that has enslaved them. Such is the enemy's genius at their social engineering. All those slavishly obeying the state in a martial law enviroment for some forlorn hope that their lives will somehow go back to the false paradise of the late 20th century will in effect be the enemy themselves.
You won't be alone. The enemy's genius is formidable, but not perfect. Quite frankly they're overconfident-and even if they weren't they're not God. They can't see all and will make fatal mistakes. The question will be, will you be man enough to exploit those mistakes to bring their downfall and save the Human Race?
How to beat the state when it has all the cards; can't take on an army with a pistol… but you can take on one of it's soldiers when you sneak up on him when they're not looking for it. If you're skilled with a rifle you can kill at distance and sneak off… if you have a supressor on your weapon you can do a whole lot of killing and not be detected. If you know chemistry, you can come up with all sorts of nasty stuff that can do damage to the enemy's expensive stuff.
If you have friends or fellow travellers you can do a lot more damage, even recruit if you have a video camera, editing system, and dvd duplicators(get someone skilled in video production) to advertise your victories and how others can duplicate your efforts, plus why they should fight in the first place.
If you're successful your area of operations will be overflowing with Patriots looking to bag as many jack booted thugs, bureaucrats and other traitors as they can get at. The excess Patriots can then spread out to other areas of our country, replicating as best they can what you've done.
With whole regions of the country infiltrated and secured secret industry can develop. Light weapons can be constructed at first, but eventually heavy weapons will be designed and made, and distributed. Ammunition, food, fuel, medicine-all can be manufactured on or made with basic machine tools and chemistry.
The time will come… if the enemy still clings to their forlorn hope of defeating the American People with the brainless thugs and sheeple that lick their boots… the time will come that OPEN WARFARE can begin and territory openly liberated.
After that… it'll probably devolve into a stalemate. The enemy isolated in their city/prison states unable to retake the surrounding countryside, but the Patriots not having enough strength to retake the cities. Or perhaps enough time because either the enemy develops some funky new superweapon, or their continued control of military assets overseas causes a outside power to intervene… on whose side… who knows?
BUT LET'S NOT LET THIS SCENARIO PLAY OUT!
Because a MARTIAL LAW will lead to CIVIL WAR… and national destruction… what I just described to you.
Let's NOT have a civil war, and spend the next century rebuilding. Much better to organize right now, as I write in October, 2005! We still have a political process we can use if we learn how to use it effectively. We can together find a small town and take it over-like the Libertarian's Free State Projects, only focused onto one town. Take that over, free it, and spread out from there. We as Americans need a standing example of what a Free State is; since we don't have the numbers to take over a state, we have to take over a town… so we can get the numbers to take over a state.
Even some in the traitorous elite don't want to see MARTIAL LAW because they recognize the exquisite control and enslavement the current American political system has over Americans, and want to keep their power. They can be used, then abused.
Individually, if you have guns, bury spares of your fighting arms, or sell them privately to new Patriot recruits. This will get easier as deteriorating conditions bring the reality of our situation home, and the government's conduct in New Orleans make personal preparation a priority.
Buy lots of ammo, food, medicine, reloading supplies. Get these at gun shows for CASH ONLY. Go to gun shows while they're still legal!
Find books on basic manufacturing processes-that's vital!
If you have EVER joined a gun group, bought guns and ammo with credit cards, checks, and/or signed registration forms and permits HIDE AND/OR SELL YOUR EXCESS GUNS TO MOTIVATED PATRIOTS! You WILL be searched first on "The Day", and if so much as a empty shell casing's found you can count on being starved, beaten and raped to death in a internment camp. Or maybe they'll take you anyway for being on record.
Start driving around: look for abandoned homes, businesses, and roads or trails that'll get you to them. Caves, forest haunts, old barns, the nastiest trailer in that tired old trailer park.
When you recruit, don't let them put their names on any forms that could implicate them in the eyes of the government. Keep their profile low-Patriots will need infiltrators, safe houses, spies… can't do that if you're still running around openly displaying a "I'm the NRA" sticker or a Gadsen Flag. Sorry.
Take your Recruits and:
*Toughen them up. Camping, survival courses, hand to hand combat courses. Even getting them to let their TV gather dust to do… anything will be of benefit. Demonstrations, projects, meetings, find places to hole up like anything without people around…
*Shooting, and lots of it! Paintball to teach tactics. A range of some sort for battle rifle practice. Airguns and required turning in of targets for their own practice-the airsoft guns are coming along as viable training tools and as soon as they perfect a paintball that'll cycle through them you should splurge a couple hundred bucks and get some guns and paintballs.
*Group buy ammo, parts, food, knowledge, a legal fiction to acquire property not under your own name, nor any connection to you. Have your stashes in several small units throughout the area you figure you're going to operate. The more the better, and, no one person should have knowledge of where all the caches are at. A cache should have ammo for the standard weapon/caliber your group should standardize on. I recommend a military pattern rifle in 7.62NATO, along with spare parts because they'll break down with all the shooting and abuse you're gonna heap on them. Enough ammo to refill all your carry mags for a mission. Also, nonperishable food. Should have lots of calories, carbs, protein. Medical supplies.
…No you're not going to get a lot of recruits. The enemy's cultural weapons are pretty damn powerful, and their mind control of Americans is exquisite-but not foolproof! On occasion a event will occur that will defy their spin control and b.s.-like the live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and their criminal abandonment of the Black Community to die in that open sewer so they'll abandon the city to foreclosers wanting a "Las Vegas on the Gulf". Point out the criminal abandonment of the government of their People. A lot of eyes were opened by that hurricane, and not all of them are going to shut again by the system's lies. Take your opportunities as they come.
I have a plan of peaceful political action that can be used, so here's a excerpt of my essay, "Message to Mr. and Mrs. America" at my blog freedomguide.blogspot.com:
Taking back the government-peacefully!
This is the preferable manner of us as groups reclaiming our Freedom. To be effective, one must have a understanding of America's political system as it relates to our cause. We have a president, a vice-president and their agents, a congress, a federal judicial system, and the duplication of this political layout among the states. Beyond that you have the many thousands of county and local governments. So what will work?
Take over the presidency?
It's long been proven that unless you have the blessings of the two official parties of this nation, you cannot seriously run for president. The closest independent candidate was Ross Perot back in 1992, and even being a billionaire didn't shield him from getting shredded by the media.
So, assuming the voting machines are honest(not)and the media's fair(not) you need the machine of a major party backing you(won't happen).
And the president can only do so much; America's system of government is extremely compartmentalized, so that unless you have a common ideology and party mechanism guiding and controlling the various components, it's impossible for one man to dictate policy. So a independent party president, one lone person against the rest of the hydra headed federal monstrosity is not only impossible, it's retarded even planning such a thing.
Congress?
Congress is made up of 540 members-100 senators and the rest in the house of representatives. All are elected in staggared election cycles so it would take approximately a decade of successful nationwide campaigning to create a majority party. Yes, congress writes the laws and taking it back is essential in our struggle, but even factoring out the two official parties and their political machines the structure of this body demands a massive political machine of our own.
Massive organizations that have a heirarchial structure have been penetrated, subverted and corrupted by our enemies since the beginning of time. It's a process that to them is a natural as breathing. Then there's all the fundraising that will be needed and we're not rich-the only ones with money in America are the same pack of vampires who've been sucking us dry. So a singular, national organization will not be sucessful.
Independent and rogue candidates however do have some success. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Tom Tancredo of Colorado, Ron Paul of Texas, and at one time James Trafficant of Ohio sadly represent the successes. Most candidates are attorneys who've long ago prostituted themselves. They whore themselves to the political machine that will take them where they want to go. All they want is power and in exchange have legislated the monstrosity American government has become. The democrats and republicans, their bosses for all practical purposes appoint these elitists their congressional seats and they're prepared to spend whatever cash it takes to take or retain that seat. Vote fraud of course is part of their arsenal.
There are no rich left in these times who would willingly sacrifice their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor-they're either sold out or scared. So any candidates for congress will have to be raised and funded by us. That means we have to do it in a grass roots manner. We have to build not one political machine, but a army of political machines that are independent of one another, yet cooperative.
Many small parties, one common agenda
This form of political resistance lends itself naturally to our groups. It will go like this:
The group helps other groups form. They in turn during the next local election cycle turn out and get the candidates they choose elected in town and county governments. Much of the oppressive laws plaguing us are drafted and enforced locally. Taking over local governments will not only give the freedom groups relief from local law enforcement harassment, it will give us the tools to revoke and repeal such things as:
Property taxes that allow the government to sieze that home you're working a lifetime to pay for if you miss one "rent" installment. Those in power whine that property taxes are for the schools and the children-isn't that what their gambling rackets known as the lotto are for? And they're willing to make you and yours homeless for the children… such evil makes me just want to shoot them. But let's try not to go there yet.
All those damned zoning restrictions, regulations, speed trap traffic laws designed to churn up "tax" revenue, laws criminalizing all sorts of things and actions that bother nobody. Think of any local ordinance that seems to have been drafted by a neurotic control freak… the list would be endless really!
Un-Constitutional, pro criminal gun control legislation. A big part of their program's disarming us so that we're helpless and have to rely on them exclusively for protection, establishing dependence. Not that the cops are legally obligated to your personal protection of course.
Anything that pledges cooperation with state and federal authorities, at least until we take our nation back!
Another book recommendation: HOW TO WIN A LOCAL ELECTION. Should be in your local bookstore.
When we take back a local government and bring that jurisdiction back into line with the classic tenants of American government, it will be a beacon of light, an example of successful peaceful resistance. It will immediately inspire and launch similar efforts in neighboring communities. Each composed of small, decentralized groups working together on the big problem, so that one day they can afford to bicker on the small stuff-that the Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Christian Patriots and Conservatives currently do. So together, with control of enough cities and townships, the combined efforts of those groups can take over counties. With control of enough counties, an entire state can be taken over by our groups.
Why take that next step? The list of things we can do when we take back our local governments is vast, but then there would be the call to centralize governmental control with state and federal authorities. So when this begins we must be as aggressive as possible-being examples to others, advising, and most importantly WE MUST NOT FIGHT AMONGST OURSELVES OVER STUFF WE CAN DEBATE AFTER WE RETAKE OUR LAND! Backbiting will be exploited by our enemies, it will be our biggest downfall.
And if we can take the nation back…
There are many things we must do immediately, as soon as we can take back control of America's destiny.
(1)Secure our borders from any further infiltration. Whatever that takes, whatever manpower's available, we must find a way to seal up thousands of miles of hinterland border, and many thousands of miles more of coastline. This will take bringing our troops and ships home, and in effect end America's era of being used as a tool of global empire. It will be good, as being number one just makes you the one everyone else wants to take out.
At the same time, a heightened state of alert must be maintained if another power were to take advantage of our transistional phase and attempt some economic or military adventure against our interests. America will be painfully contracting from it's global economic empire as we attempt to revive a self-sufficient free republic and the last thing we'll need is for Muslims seeking revenge against the Empire, or China rolling the dice on a military adventure against us.
(2)Impose a flexible series of tariffs so that no matter where on Earth a imported good is made, it's cost after going through customs is just a few percent more than one made in America-with all the taxes still imposed. This must be implemented by law for I'd calculate twenty years; because this is the minimum time required to rebuild America's manufacturing economy. The rest of the world's just going to have to learn to live economically without the American consumer, and the American consumer is going to have to learn basic economics. It will be a horrifically shocking adjustment, and lead to a economic collapse-of the megacorporations. It's the bitterest medicine, but America and Americans have become almost terminally sick with the current system imposed upon us and those that don't immediately take steps to save themselves will need some hard lessons quick to bring them back to reality.
AND WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO?
Most important thing you can do? Pray. I'm serious. Don't do it in some gay mega-church and tithe to some blowdried huckster-do it like Jesus taught. Find a quiet place, quiet your mind, and open your heart. God WILL talk to you, or at least convey some feeling. You can't listen because you're out of practice listening so, practice. Eventually God will talk to you, and it's in your best interest to listen because God does love you!
He isn't looking to burn you for eternity for your petty imperfections. He's looking to liberate His People-all of us. Can't liberate a people if they're dead from some "bible prophecy" going on as scripted: wouldn't the events of Revelation carried out as written be a victory for the devil… wanting to possess and destroy? Humanity's all but destroyed in the end of that book. Why not fight to derail that outcome?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The American Resistance Movement
The American Resistance Movement
www.uaff.us
While I'm not sure about their beef with the Department of Education, the rest seems pretty much square on.
Friday, February 22, 2008
what I do and don't miss about the military
What I do and don’t miss about the military:
Do miss:
-working with weapons; that is fun there is no doubt about it, blowing sh#$ up is just plain fun.
-Being with some very good friends, hard to duplicate in civilian world.
-Being with large numbers of people who want to serve their country & their fellows and the attitude that brings with it.
-military people know the importance of being on time, unlike many others. In the military 13:00 really means 13:00, in much of the civilian world 1pm often means that they’ll drift in sometime before 1:20pm.
-A system designed to give the inexperienced leadership experience. As a person who grew up in the shadow of the baby boomers. Throughout my early civilian work; baby-boomers always dominated the management and leadership positions. Not to imply that they did not deserve to, but the sheer numbers of them with the appropriate skill/talent was enough to make it difficult for “my generation” to get ahead. Any kind of leadership experience would have been very hard to get without my military experiences.
Don’t miss:
-Being stuck with sociopaths, High number in the military.
-Living conditions – often crowded
-night shifts
-Deployment.
-Stop loss
-“Kick the dog phoneme” mis-directed anger of troops, when they get annoyed they take it out on their fellow troops usually subordinates.
-There are many in the military, would could not succeed anywhere else because they have shitty personalities or are generally unpleasant people. The number of senior NCOs with the social skills level of high school kids.
-Often people can succeed who do not have the confidence of their subordinates, they require only the confidence of their superiors, which is often misplaced. Imagine if your boss could say to you, “Do this or you go to jail and your whole career & life will be destroyed.” That would probably inspire loyalty through fear more than anything else.
Do miss:
-working with weapons; that is fun there is no doubt about it, blowing sh#$ up is just plain fun.
-Being with some very good friends, hard to duplicate in civilian world.
-Being with large numbers of people who want to serve their country & their fellows and the attitude that brings with it.
-military people know the importance of being on time, unlike many others. In the military 13:00 really means 13:00, in much of the civilian world 1pm often means that they’ll drift in sometime before 1:20pm.
-A system designed to give the inexperienced leadership experience. As a person who grew up in the shadow of the baby boomers. Throughout my early civilian work; baby-boomers always dominated the management and leadership positions. Not to imply that they did not deserve to, but the sheer numbers of them with the appropriate skill/talent was enough to make it difficult for “my generation” to get ahead. Any kind of leadership experience would have been very hard to get without my military experiences.
Don’t miss:
-Being stuck with sociopaths, High number in the military.
-Living conditions – often crowded
-night shifts
-Deployment.
-Stop loss
-“Kick the dog phoneme” mis-directed anger of troops, when they get annoyed they take it out on their fellow troops usually subordinates.
-There are many in the military, would could not succeed anywhere else because they have shitty personalities or are generally unpleasant people. The number of senior NCOs with the social skills level of high school kids.
-Often people can succeed who do not have the confidence of their subordinates, they require only the confidence of their superiors, which is often misplaced. Imagine if your boss could say to you, “Do this or you go to jail and your whole career & life will be destroyed.” That would probably inspire loyalty through fear more than anything else.
Sociopaths - the military
I finished a really good book, "The Sociopath Next door by Martha Stout, PH.D". It was really helpful. It also help me understand a number of the people whom I've had to deal with in the military. I have paraphrased her 13 rules for dealing with Sociopaths. It thought that much of the book. Yes I say "paraphrased", but mostly it is a directly quote, will expanding some, shortening some, and keeping with the spirit. Dr. Stout has taken some head about her mention of the military but I think she is RIGHT on the mark, perhaps even low in the estimates of these people in military service.
Having said this, I will maintain to my dying day that 80 or 90% of the folks I met in the military are wonderful people in many ways; honest, caring, hardworking, the list goes on. It is just that awful, and often powerful, 10 or so percent that can make life hell. Sociopaths do very well in the military, especially in combat arms and often reach powerful positions.
13 Rules for dealing with Sociopaths in everyday life. Paraphrased from Martha Stout, PH.D
1. Accept that some people LITTERALLY have no conscience. They do not often look like Charles Manson they look like US most often.
2. In a contest between your instincts and what is implied by the role a person has taken on – doctor, leader, humanist, animal lover, president and soldier. GO WITH YOUR INSTINCTS. Moral sounding labels do NOT bestow conscience.
3. When considering a relationship of ANY kind go with rule of threes regarding claims & promises. ONE lie, one broken promise, neglected responsibility may be a misunderstanding. Two may involve a serious mistake. THREE and you’re dealing with a liar and a deceiver. Deceit is the lynchpin of conscienceless behavior. Cut your losses and get OUT. Don’t give anything to a THREE timer.
4. QUESTION AUTHORITY – trust your instincts and anxieties especially. Especially question those who claim that dominating others is the grand solution. Do this even (especially) when everyone around you has stopped questioning authority. Milgram= 6 out of 10 people will blindly obey an official-looking/acting authority to the bitter end.
5. Suspect excessive Flattery, on an individual basis AND as applied to a group (or whole nation); Applies to exaggerated patriotism. This almost always involves intent to manipulate. History – Call to WAR has always included flattering claims about ones forces & country/people.
6. Concept of respect; Too often we mistake fear for respect, to do so ensures your own victimization. Overpower your animal tendency to bow to predators. Respect should be an automatic reaction to those who are strong, kind, and morally courageous. ALL TOO OFTEN IT IS NOT.
7. Do not join in the game. Intrigue is a sociopath’s tool. Resist the temptation to compete or banter with a seductive sociopath, to outsmart him/her. This game will distract you from what is important -- to protect yourself.
8. The best way to protect yourself from a sociopath is to avoid them = refuse contact & dealings. Sociopaths live outside the social contract; to include them in relationships is dangerous. Sociopaths have no feelings to hurt. There is no need to explain yourself to a sociopath.
9. Question your tendency to pity too easily. Respect is reserved for the morally kind and courageous. Pity is a valuable response but should be reserved for the innocent. If you find yourself pitying someone who consistently hurts you/others and actively campaigns for your sympathy you are dealing with a sociopath.
10. Do not try to redeem the unredeemable. 4th and 5th chances are for people who possess conscience. You are dealing with a person who has no conscience, cut your losses and get out. An Important but disappointing life lesson: no matter how good our intentions, we cannot control the characters or actions of others. Your mission is your own life.
11. Never agree to help a sociopath conceal his or her true character. “Please don’t tell” is the trademark phrase of thieves. “You owe me” is another standard line of sociopaths.
12. Defend your psyche – do not let someone (or a group) convince you that humanity is a failure. Most people DO posses conscience. Most people are able to love.
13. Living well is the best revenge – or consider Marcus Aurelius who said “To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
Having said this, I will maintain to my dying day that 80 or 90% of the folks I met in the military are wonderful people in many ways; honest, caring, hardworking, the list goes on. It is just that awful, and often powerful, 10 or so percent that can make life hell. Sociopaths do very well in the military, especially in combat arms and often reach powerful positions.
13 Rules for dealing with Sociopaths in everyday life. Paraphrased from Martha Stout, PH.D
1. Accept that some people LITTERALLY have no conscience. They do not often look like Charles Manson they look like US most often.
2. In a contest between your instincts and what is implied by the role a person has taken on – doctor, leader, humanist, animal lover, president and soldier. GO WITH YOUR INSTINCTS. Moral sounding labels do NOT bestow conscience.
3. When considering a relationship of ANY kind go with rule of threes regarding claims & promises. ONE lie, one broken promise, neglected responsibility may be a misunderstanding. Two may involve a serious mistake. THREE and you’re dealing with a liar and a deceiver. Deceit is the lynchpin of conscienceless behavior. Cut your losses and get OUT. Don’t give anything to a THREE timer.
4. QUESTION AUTHORITY – trust your instincts and anxieties especially. Especially question those who claim that dominating others is the grand solution. Do this even (especially) when everyone around you has stopped questioning authority. Milgram= 6 out of 10 people will blindly obey an official-looking/acting authority to the bitter end.
5. Suspect excessive Flattery, on an individual basis AND as applied to a group (or whole nation); Applies to exaggerated patriotism. This almost always involves intent to manipulate. History – Call to WAR has always included flattering claims about ones forces & country/people.
6. Concept of respect; Too often we mistake fear for respect, to do so ensures your own victimization. Overpower your animal tendency to bow to predators. Respect should be an automatic reaction to those who are strong, kind, and morally courageous. ALL TOO OFTEN IT IS NOT.
7. Do not join in the game. Intrigue is a sociopath’s tool. Resist the temptation to compete or banter with a seductive sociopath, to outsmart him/her. This game will distract you from what is important -- to protect yourself.
8. The best way to protect yourself from a sociopath is to avoid them = refuse contact & dealings. Sociopaths live outside the social contract; to include them in relationships is dangerous. Sociopaths have no feelings to hurt. There is no need to explain yourself to a sociopath.
9. Question your tendency to pity too easily. Respect is reserved for the morally kind and courageous. Pity is a valuable response but should be reserved for the innocent. If you find yourself pitying someone who consistently hurts you/others and actively campaigns for your sympathy you are dealing with a sociopath.
10. Do not try to redeem the unredeemable. 4th and 5th chances are for people who possess conscience. You are dealing with a person who has no conscience, cut your losses and get out. An Important but disappointing life lesson: no matter how good our intentions, we cannot control the characters or actions of others. Your mission is your own life.
11. Never agree to help a sociopath conceal his or her true character. “Please don’t tell” is the trademark phrase of thieves. “You owe me” is another standard line of sociopaths.
12. Defend your psyche – do not let someone (or a group) convince you that humanity is a failure. Most people DO posses conscience. Most people are able to love.
13. Living well is the best revenge – or consider Marcus Aurelius who said “To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Bad Spirit of 172 Armor - anxiety in Iraq
This is a slightly modified note I sent to an online friend about my troubles with anxiety in Iraq:
In Mississippi, I glimpsed something shadowy moving among the trees for an instance then I could not see it anymore, but I felt it the whole time and it was especially strong in that location, but I never shook it.
Another person also posed an idea to me that, I may be more empathetic than I realize and was channeling the anxiety & issues of many of the other soldiers around me. I have always been a sort of “up by the bootstraps kind of guy and tough it out” but this was one thing I could not beat. Additionally I was very segregated and isolated during the whole time because I was so sick, I did not want to be around others and others were picking that up off me and I’m sure it was creating a segregating effect and horribly isolating effect. Yes, there were others who tried to help me, but it did not work, getting home is what fixed it.
The Chaplin of 172 Armor was the worst sort of sociopath and we hated each other so the person who one of the people who was supposed to help me did his best to ignore my problem, as a “man of the cloth” who is the exact opposite of what he claims to be, I’m looking forward to him being back with the demons he belongs with. Based on his age, I am hoping nature will do the job for me anyway in a few years. This is a struggle as this person lives in the same small town that I do. Ultimately I look to Marcus Aurelius for guidance on this matter: “To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
As to the good energy of many fellow soldiers, they are the best and hardest working people you could hope to meet. The way some of these guys just throw their whole beings into a job is amazing. Perhaps this is a defense mechanism in combat? The dedication, the work, and strength of character of some of them is something I am still in awe of.
With some others, an unfortunate fact is that the military (especially combat arms) tends to attract a higher than standard percentage of sociopathic people. The average is the US population is about 4%; the number in military combat arms is I think closer to (this is my own personal educated guess) 8 or 10%. Please don’t get an image of Hannibal Lecter being wheeled around on his dolly. This is a Hollywood image is a “Super-sociopath”, the kind that go to prison. All around us are the garden variety sociopath, who lack empathy and are just sick and mean. Look it up if you want to know more.
The sociopath can do very well in the military, and it is very hard to be stuck with them. Imagine if you hated your boss and your job and you knew your boss hated you and was plotting against you, there is no way you can resign, if you leave you go to jail (technically you can be shot). Imagine that this person has the right to walk into your bedroom at 3am and put you to work, or put you out onto the streets for some “Haji” * who feels he is perfectly justified to kill you for invading his country. This is a bit of one perspective on what is it like.
As to specific “paranormal” experiences regarding my fallen fellow soldiers, I cannot say that I did have specific experiences with that there. While I disagree with the reasons for which these good men died. I take solace in the fact that they died protecting their fellow soldiers. Because at the basic level that is exactly what they were all doing when they died.
-Bomber
*in spite of some assertions, the term “Haji” is not derogatory it refers to a Muslim person who has don the “Hajj” or pilgrimage to Mecca. Just as John Wayne often referred to people as “Pilgrim”.
In Mississippi, I glimpsed something shadowy moving among the trees for an instance then I could not see it anymore, but I felt it the whole time and it was especially strong in that location, but I never shook it.
Another person also posed an idea to me that, I may be more empathetic than I realize and was channeling the anxiety & issues of many of the other soldiers around me. I have always been a sort of “up by the bootstraps kind of guy and tough it out” but this was one thing I could not beat. Additionally I was very segregated and isolated during the whole time because I was so sick, I did not want to be around others and others were picking that up off me and I’m sure it was creating a segregating effect and horribly isolating effect. Yes, there were others who tried to help me, but it did not work, getting home is what fixed it.
The Chaplin of 172 Armor was the worst sort of sociopath and we hated each other so the person who one of the people who was supposed to help me did his best to ignore my problem, as a “man of the cloth” who is the exact opposite of what he claims to be, I’m looking forward to him being back with the demons he belongs with. Based on his age, I am hoping nature will do the job for me anyway in a few years. This is a struggle as this person lives in the same small town that I do. Ultimately I look to Marcus Aurelius for guidance on this matter: “To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
As to the good energy of many fellow soldiers, they are the best and hardest working people you could hope to meet. The way some of these guys just throw their whole beings into a job is amazing. Perhaps this is a defense mechanism in combat? The dedication, the work, and strength of character of some of them is something I am still in awe of.
With some others, an unfortunate fact is that the military (especially combat arms) tends to attract a higher than standard percentage of sociopathic people. The average is the US population is about 4%; the number in military combat arms is I think closer to (this is my own personal educated guess) 8 or 10%. Please don’t get an image of Hannibal Lecter being wheeled around on his dolly. This is a Hollywood image is a “Super-sociopath”, the kind that go to prison. All around us are the garden variety sociopath, who lack empathy and are just sick and mean. Look it up if you want to know more.
The sociopath can do very well in the military, and it is very hard to be stuck with them. Imagine if you hated your boss and your job and you knew your boss hated you and was plotting against you, there is no way you can resign, if you leave you go to jail (technically you can be shot). Imagine that this person has the right to walk into your bedroom at 3am and put you to work, or put you out onto the streets for some “Haji” * who feels he is perfectly justified to kill you for invading his country. This is a bit of one perspective on what is it like.
As to specific “paranormal” experiences regarding my fallen fellow soldiers, I cannot say that I did have specific experiences with that there. While I disagree with the reasons for which these good men died. I take solace in the fact that they died protecting their fellow soldiers. Because at the basic level that is exactly what they were all doing when they died.
-Bomber
*in spite of some assertions, the term “Haji” is not derogatory it refers to a Muslim person who has don the “Hajj” or pilgrimage to Mecca. Just as John Wayne often referred to people as “Pilgrim”.
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