Western Rifle Shooters Association

Go To The New Place, Please

2011-05-18T20:08:00.000+01:00

We're open for business at WRSA's new home:

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com

I have to move the linklist and blogroll manually, so that will take a week or so of part-time effort.

But update your links now, and see you across the street.

Thanks for your patience!

Stay Frosty

2011-05-18T04:14:00.004+01:00

In process of switching over to Wordpress.

If we go dark, it is operator error.

I say again: dark = I screwed up.

See you on the other side.

Now, is it cut the blue wire or the red wire?

Here goes....

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THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE

UPDATE 0045 EDT 18 MAY 2011: MUCH WORK REMAINS, BUT AS OF 19 MAY, ALL NEW POSTS WILL BE AT NEW ADDRESS:

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UPDATE YOUR LINKLISTS AND DROP BY THE NEW PLACE

AGAIN, THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE

Two From The Gates

2011-05-18T03:56:00.000+01:00

From Gates of Vienna, two pieces worth your time:

Losing Our Community (video above)

The Intrusion of Sharia Into The American Justice System

A Note From Indiana State Senator Jim Tomes

2011-05-18T03:43:00.000+01:00

From Indiana State Senator Jim Tomes, who is also the leader of Indiana's Second Amendment Patriots RKBA group:

I'm getting a huge amount of calls and e-mails about the Indiana Supreme Court ruling that pretty much vaporized the 4th Amendment. I have a call into the Governor's office for a meeting or phone call to get some answers.

I have also spoke with some fellow state senators on this to see what we can do between now and when session begins.

If any of you wish to place a call into the Governor's office to issue your concerns the number is 317-232-4567. Remember to keep your calls respectable, but firm.

Jim and Margie
2nd Amendment Patriots
STAY UNITED
www.2ndamendmentpatriots.org

Quote Of The Week

2011-05-18T02:06:00.002+01:00

You know that 'if we have to go house-to-house, we will' stuff? Do you think they know that crap works both ways?

--- An American in a gun store this evening

Two From TL

2011-05-18T01:47:00.000+01:00

Read and consider the points raised in each:

No Honor Among Thieves

Fighting Back

Stand.

Resist.

Inter-Not

2011-05-18T01:21:00.000+01:00

Here come de Feds:

AP: US Outlines Global Plan For Cyberspace

White House Blog: Launching the U.S. International Strategy for Cyberspace

USG: International Strategy For Cyberspace - Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networked World

Connect the dots.

Draw the lines created.

Reach the right conclusions.

Take corrective actions.

ZH: Debt Ceiling Blues

2011-05-18T01:06:00.000+01:00

Read this post and related comments by ZeroHedge and the ZH commentariat for much snark.

Are you ready?

Public Service Announcement

2011-05-18T01:00:00.002+01:00

(click to enlarge)

Barnhardt: Banned In Boston - Transcribed

2011-05-18T00:14:00.001+01:00

Kudos to Vanderleun for posting this:

Hello, my name is Ann Barnhardt and I am the person who says the things that everyone else is too terrified to say.

This is the speech that I was going to deliver in Boston today, May 15, 2011, had a facility been available to me. Unfortunately, no facilities were willing to host my speech, sponsored by Rabbi Jon Hausmann, because I was deemed to be “hateful”, “bigoted” and “potentially violent”.

Well, we’ll see about that.

In this speech we are going to cover a lot of intellectual and theological ground. I tend to set my goals extremely high, and this speech is no exception.

I hope to fully explain the relationship between Christians and Jews in today’s world, and show that we, and really all people of civilization and good will, are allied in a war of survival against satanic evil, manifested today by islam and Marxism.

I am also going to show how our fundamental human rights as codified in the Constitution of the United States flow directly out of the Judeo-Christian milieu and the bible.

I will then contrast this to the Marxist-islamist paradigm, and show that Marxism and islam are actually cut from exactly the same philosophical cloth.

Finally, I will discuss my personal three-point tactical plan that I will carry out should the proverbial “poop” hit the proverbial fan. My three-point plan serves not only as a system of engagement, but it simultaneously rebuts any and all accusations of “intolerance”, “bigotry” and “hatefulness”.

AND I aim to do all of this in less than 30 minutes. Like I said, I’m a very high goal-setter.

The first concept we need to tackle is that of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. There is a tremendous amount of confusion, ambiguity and bigotry flowing in both directions. There are plenty of anti-Semitic Christians who think that the Jews are the accursed killers of Christ. There are also plenty of Jews who think that Christianity despises them as a point of intrinsic doctrine. Both are completely wrong, and it is high time that someone stepped up and explained the relationship clearly and without mincing any words.

The fact of the matter is this: you show me an anti-semitic Christian, and I’ll show you a Christian who is completely and totally clueless about his faith. Sadly, in this day and age, most Christians are exactly that – CLUELESS. And that goes for everyone, Catholic, Protestant, non-denominational, all of them. If we look at the Church from an intellectual standpoint, it has already been reduced down to just a mere remnant. There are so many heresies active today that it would take a lifetime to define them all individually, so I have named them corporately. What the Church suffers from today is the Heresy of Stupidity.

Now everyone listen up, Jew, Christian, atheist – everyone.

The foundational premise of the Jewish people and of Israel is that Israel is the representative proxy for humanity. This is why the Jews are called “the chosen people”, because they are. God chose Israel to stand in representation of all people everywhere. This is an honor, but it is a taxing and dubious honor due to the Fall of Adam and Eve and the inherent tendency that all people have for sin, which is called concupiscence.

God chose Israel to stand at the fore of humanity and be the people with whom the historical narrative of Salvation History is played out. This began with a married couple, Adam and Eve, and then expanded to a family unit through Noah, then the expansion moved to the tribal level through Abraham, the national level through Moses, then to the level of a kingdom through David, and finally in the fullness of time the expansion moved beyond Israel to cover all people everywhere through Jesus Christ. BUT, the only way to fully understand God’s relationship with us as individuals is to understand God’s interaction with Israel through history.

We see in the Old Testament a continuous pattern of Israel falling away from God in sin, and God taking Israel back, many times after a required chastisement to make Israel fully appreciate the gravity of its sin. God says to Israel over and over again that He will NEVER, EVER forsake His covenant. God uses the imagery of marriage to make Israel understand that the relationship between God and Israel is not a mere legalistic contract – it is a covenant sealed in flesh. The covenant cannot be broken. It can be abused by one of the partners, but it can never be broken.

God does not walk out. God does not “get divorced”. He always has been and always will be ready and willing to take us back, forgive our indiscretions and betrayals, if we will only turn back to Him. He did it after the unfortunate incident with the golden calf at the foot of Mt. Sinai. He did it after the numerous phases in which Israel had bad kings and fell into idolatry and immorality. He did it with King David after David’s sins of the flesh.

The exuberant joy of the “honeymoon” period after Israel’s return to God was put into words by Solomon in the Song of Songs. The image of the rocky trials of the marriage relationship was put into writing by the prophet Hosea.

Every macro image of Israel presented in the Bible maps perfectly to the micro context of the individual. Every sin committed by Israel corporately is a sin I have personally committed as an individual. The worshiping of idols, the failure to trust in God’s provision, the hypocrisy, the sins of the flesh – all of them. Every single one. They all map precisely to me as an individual. And to each and every human being.

And now we move into the New Testament. There are many verses in which Jesus soundly and harshly rebukes the Jews and the Pharisees. Knowing now as we do that Israel is standing in our personal stead as the proxy representatives of humanity as a whole and as us as individuals, we need to read these words of Christ as chastisements and critiques of us individually and personally, not as a critique or condemnation of a third party.

When Christ says, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites . . .” He is speaking directly to me. “Woe to you, Ann, you hypocrite.” When Christ says, “You are like whitewashed tombs which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth” He is speaking directly to me. I am the serpent. I am the brood of vipers. I am the liar. And if I may be so bold, so is every one of you.

The more a person thinks that Jesus is speaking not to them but only to the Jews, and then considers themselves able to sit in seething hatred of the Jews, the further from Christ they actually are. These people who read Jesus’ words as exclusive to Jews aren’t in the right ballpark, they aren’t even in the right galactic cluster. This is the Heresy of Stupidity in full bloom.

Now to ten of the most beautiful words in the New Testament. Every Jew watching this has heard these words, and probably has shuddered every time they heard them. These ten words have been twisted by stupid, ignorant people to justify horrific acts of evil against Jews for 1978 years. And many of these people have claimed to be pious Christians. Well, we’re going to fix this deal once and for all. The ten beautiful words are: “Let His Blood be upon us and upon our children.”

These are the ten words shouted by the Jewish crowd to Pontius Pilate as he was sentencing Jesus. I repeat these words internally at every Mass, because these are the words that give hope to humanity. These are the words that open the gates of heaven. These words are the means by which our salvation is accomplished.

At every Mass, the temporally transcendent sacrifice of Calvary which is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ Himself, re-presented to God the Father by the power of God the Holy Ghost. This is accomplished through the transubstantiation of Bread and Wine as prefigured by the priest and King Melchizedek in Genesis 14. This sacrifice is the Todah sacrifice of Israel, which is the only sacrifice to be offered in the post-messianic age and for all eternity, according to ancient Rabbinic teaching. The Todah sacrifice is the sacrifice of Thanksgiving. The word “Thanksgiving” in Greek is Eucharist. The Divine Surprise to Israel and the world is that GOD provided and provides HIMSELF IN THE FLESH as the final, worthy and fully efficacious Todah sacrifice.

There is a saint called St. Gaspar del Bufalo who was an Italian priest who had mystical visions during his life. In one of St. Gaspar’s visions during a Mass, he saw angels approach the altar after the consecration of the wine into the Precious Blood. The angels took branches of hyssop and dipped them in the chalice. The angels then turned and proceeded to sprinkle the people with the Blood of Jesus, exactly the way that Aaron and all of the Levitical priests sprinkled the people of Israel with the blood of the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant. We are literally being showered and cleansed with the Precious Blood of Jesus.

Let His Blood be upon us and upon our children.

I believe this is happening at every Mass in a dimension that we are not, at this time, able to physically see. And so TO the Jews who stood in Pilate’s courtyard as my representative, and as the representatives of all humanity, and called the Precious Blood of Jesus down upon humanity, all I can say is THANK YOU. God heard the deep, groaning cry of Israel, and answered it, even though Israel didn’t understand it themselves. And again, isn’t this exactly what I do as an individual? I lash out at God in groans of anger and despair and misunderstanding, and He hears me, and answers by transforming my anger and despair and misunderstanding into grace, through His Mercy.

In the last month and a half since I burned my Koran on YouTube, I have received a significant amount of anti-semitic email and comments left on my YouTube Channel. They are all fairly similar, but I did reply to one in particular. The man started out by complimenting my burning of the Koran and then asked, “When are you going to go after the Christkillers?” And then proceeded to launch into a typical anti-semitic diatribe, concluding that if I didn’t share in his anti-semitism, that I wasn’t really a Christian. I responded thusly:

“Sir, you are deeply confused. I killed Jesus. The Jews are merely the historical proxy for me.”

That shut him up. And I would invite all of the Jews the world over to feel free to use my reply if ever accused of being “Christkillers”. Please reply by saying, “No, Ann Barnhardt killed Christ.”

Because that is the truth. I betray Him, and like Judas, I do it with a kiss.

It is ME who is whipping Him with the flagellum at the pillar. It is ME who spits on Him and laughs at Him as He carries the Cross that should be mine. It is ME who nails Him to the Cross. And it is ME who callously walks away leaving Him to die in my stead. And I do it every damn day. And yet He stays. You would think that He would eventually get to the point where He would simply say, “This is too much. I can’t do this anymore. I’m sorry it didn’t work out between us, but I think it is better that we just go our separate ways.” But no. He’s not going anywhere because it is the same with me as it is with Israel. We are in a covenant, and He will not forsake that covenant. Ever. No matter how much I deserve it. He chose to enter into it, and I am free to choose whether or not I respond to that covenant or not – just like Israel was free to drift in and out of His Grace over the centuries.

Now that we understand that Israel is the proxy for all of humanity, both on a macro scale, and on a micro, individual scale, we can now turn to the question of proper systems of human governance as revealed to Israel and recorded in scripture.

We need to start in Exodus chapter 18. Israel has just escaped Egypt and is traversing the desert toward Mt. Sanai. Moses is visited by his father-in-law, Jethro. Yes, the Jethro on the Beverly Hillbillies is named after Moses’ wifes’ father. And for very good reason, because Jethro was blessed by God with wisdom that would affect all of humanity. When Jethro arrived, Moses was sitting at the head of a huge line of people. One by one, each party would approach Moses and tell him of some sort of problem or disagreement between them that needed judgment, and one by one, Moses would judge these issues and claims. And this would go on for days, because there were hundreds of thousands of people in Israel, even at this time. Moses was judging them and governing them all alone.

When Jethro saw this he told Moses that it was “not good”. Jethro then, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, explained to Moses the concept of governmental subsidiarity. Jethro laid out a system whereby the people were encouraged to govern themselves in a tiered representative structure. The first tier removed from the individuals themselves was in groups of ten families. This would be the analogue of a neighborhood. The next representative tier was in goups of fifty. This would be analogue to a city or county commission. The next tier was in groups of one hundred. This would be the analog of a state legislature. The next tier would be in groups of one thousand. This would be the analogue of a national legislature. Finally came Moses himself, with Aaron at his right hand and Joshua at his left hand. This would be the equivalent of a Chief Executive with a cabinet.

Yes, our current system of representative republic governance in the United States was modeled after the Jethrine system in scripture. The big difference between The Jethrine system and our system is that in the Jethrine system, Moses personally appointed all of the representatives based upon their Godliness and good character. In our system, representatives and the Chief Executive, or President, are elected. However, the over-arching concept here is the concept of SUBSIDIARITY.

Subsidiarity is defined as the idea that a central authority should only perform those tasks which can not be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level. In other words, the most power resides with the sovereign individual, and as layers of government move away from the individual, the power structure necessarily dilutes, being tasked with those objectives that only they are capable of performing.

In the case of our federal government, those tasks would include such things as coordinating national defense, negotiating and entering international treaties and trade agreements, and perhaps most importantly, ensuring that the Rule of Law as defined in the Constitution is preserved, protected and defended throughout the chain of subsidiarity all the way back to the individual.

This concept of subsidiarity was first formally defined and codified by – GUESS WHO – the Catholic Church, although the concept existed and was understood and practiced in various ways all the way back to Jethro and Moses at the foot of Mt. Sinai. The Catholic Church has always understood subsidiarity through the life and actions of Christ Himself. Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, manifested His Kingship by submitting Himself totally and completely to his subjects, to the point of willingly dying for them, and thus doing for them the one thing that they could never do for themselves, which is make perfect atonement for their sins.

Subsidiarity is not exclusive to democracy, representative republic or parliamentary republics. Subsidiarity can be executed in many systems of governance, including hereditary monarchies. This is why Christ did not call out a specific form of governance, because He knew that many forms of governance are feasible, so long as subsidiarity is observed. History has shown us that a Godly man can reign as a king, living as a humble servant to his people. In the Old Testament Good Kings included Asa, Hezekiah and Josiah. In modern times, King St. Louis the ninth of France, King St. Stephen the first of Hungary, and King St. Casmir of Poland are examples of Godly monarchs who ruled in a spirit of subsidiarity.

As a corollary, democratic or representative republic systems do not guarantee subsidiarity, and if infiltrated and usurped by Godless, power-hungry, money-grubbing moral degerates like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and all the rest, those systems will lead to totalitarianism and ultimate collapse.

That is what we are seeing happen right now. This is also why the so-called “Arab Spring” is no such thing. The totalitarianism of the Islamic political system, elevated to power, though it may be, by democracy, is still totalitarianism. So long as islam is the driving force behind ANY form of government, that government is satanic by definition, and by definition will destroy the people within it. Don’t kid yourself. The Arab Spring is the Arab Winter, because that is all it can ever be.

The Catholic Church, and many Protestant sects as well, today have been infiltrated and infested by Marxists. There is still a remnant remaining, but please understand that the infiltration and rot is DEEP. Any Catholic, from a lay person all the way up to an Archbishop or Cardinal, who proclaims Marxism, and ratifies the concentration of power in the state to redistribute wealth by force, or to elevate the importance of the collective above the dignity of the individual is a DIRTY SATANIC LIAR. Period. End of story.

And that goes not just for Catholics but any Christian or Jew, because the concept of subsidiarity was revealed at the foot of Mt. Sinai, recorded in the Torah, and demonstrated par excellence by Christ crucified on Calvary.

The argument that Christ’s call to love and serve the poor is to be achieved by dehumanizing the individual and installing a totalitarian state is satanic, serpentine manipulation. You filthy Marxist scum have been twisting and perverting the Gospel into this satanic filth for decades, and you know what? I’m ending it. Right here and right now.

You CAN NOT BE both a Christian or an observant Jew and a Marxist.

Specifically to Christians now: you cannot advocate a satanic system of governance whilst claiming to be preaching the Gospel of Christ. Nope. You have to pick. It’s either Marxism or Christ.

And so to Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the majority of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the majority of the Jesuit order, the majority of the United Methodist church, the majority of the Presbyterian Church USA, the majority of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the majority of the Episcopalian Church (what little is left), and of course, the ironically named Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ, and all of the others, CHOOSE.

CHOOSE NOW.

It is either Christ or Marx. If you choose Christ – great. Praise the Lord. If you choose Marx – in even the smallest way – and we all know that you will, pack your bags and get out. And we’ll be praying for you and for your conversion and return to the fold as authentic Christians. But your days of squatting in the Church are OVER.

Finally, I would like to lay out my three-point tactical plan should the Marxist-islamic poop hit the proverbial fan, which I am afraid is all but inevitable at this point.

In this portion, I would like to focus once again especially on the Jews in the audience. So far, we have established how Israel has been the proxy for humanity throughout Salvation History. Understanding that as we do, we can now see that to hate Israel is to hate humanity itself.

All we need do to confirm this is look at where the locus of anti-Semitism exists in today’s world. There are two main loci today: Marxism and islam. Both of these political systems have at their core an intrinsic hatred of the individual man. Both mask this seething hatred by wrapping themselves in a false cloak of collectivism, manifested in the call for Marxist class warfare and jihad. Both systems use the Jews as their primary scapegoat and whipping boy, blaming all problems in the world on Jews, and then calling for the “final solution” to the stumbling block to utopia that is the Jewish race.

From the Koran to Mein Kampf, the rhetoric is exactly the same: exterminate the Jews so that utopia can be achieved. But what this is at its core is a call to exterminate humanity itself, which is the ultimate goal of both Marxism and islam. If the Jews are exterminated, the rest of humanity will follow quickly, because if the Jews are exterminated, that means that there are no longer any people of good will on earth who could see and understand the representative quality of humanity itself in Israel. No one would be left to take up the banner of Christ and the Church Militant to march against the forces of evil in defense of not just Israel, but of all human life on earth. It is essential to approach, understand and see this coming war with the forces of evil through that lens.

I recently saw a video of an Islamic execution taped in the Middle East. In it, the three condemned men were bound hand and foot, standing beside an incinerator, or furnace. The men were doused with an accelerant, presumably gasoline, and then thrown alive into the incinerator, where they could be seen writhing in flames as they died in the furnace. These men were not Jews, but that is beside the point. They were human beings who ran afoul of Sharia Law.

This is what is coming. This, and executions like this, are the inevitable destination of both islam and Marxism. Hitler had his ovens. Stalin had his gulags. Mao had his execution quotas. The Khmer Rouge had their killing fields.

And so here is what I say to all people of good will, but specifically today to the Jews. If a second holocaust begins and you find yourself standing bound on the precipice of an incinerator – I’m coming.

My first tactical objective will be to come in, guns-a-blazing, and rescue you and we’ll both get out of there, and hopefully take a bunch of evil men out in the process. That is objective number one.

If that doesn’t work and I am unable to free you by force of arms, I will negotiate with the evil executioners to switch places with you. I will offer to be executed in your place, so long as you are freed. That is tactical objective number two.

If that doesn’t work, then I am going to stay and die with you.

There is no possible way that I am going to turn my back on you as you stand on the precipice of the incinerator, walk away and let you die alone and afraid and then congratulate myself on my ability to “handle and survive the situation”. No. I am going to stand beside you, I am going to throw my arms around you, and I am going hold you and tell you that I love you. I am going to make certain that the last sounds you hear ringing in your ears on this earth are the sounds of a friend telling you that you are loved, and that you are precious, and that you are not, never have been, and never will be alone. And then we will go into the incinerator together. Because I can’t think of a better way to die – with the words “I love you” on my lips. THAT is tactical objective number three.

One final question. Do you honestly believe that Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or John Kerry or any of the Hollywood people, or Michael Moore or Keith Olbermann or Joy Behar or any of the people who would call me a venomous hate-spewing bigot would stay and die with you if it came down to that? Of course they wouldn’t and we all know this. But I am the hate monger. I’m the bigot. I am the danger to society.

Ladies and gentlemen, Western Civilization has officially jumped the shark. The words, “I love you”, delivered in sincere Christian charity are now a hate crime that warrants the suppression of free speech.

Thank you for your time.

My name is Ann Barnhardt . . . . and I love you.

Rawles: Almost 30 Million Visits

2011-05-17T03:51:00.000+01:00

As a reader from the early days of JWR's SurvivalBlog, WRSA is happy to note that they are about pass 30 million unique visitors.

Kudos to Jim and staff, and thanks for all they have done over the years.

PS: Yes, I know about the book offer. Yes, I would have made the same congratulations had the book not been available.

The Inexpressibly, Unthinkably Obvious

2011-05-17T03:28:00.000+01:00

Fred Reed discusses this book.

Haters, they are.

And heretics to boot.

Burn them at the stake.

Facts burn, don't they?

Oh, and don't read the book before expressing an opinion.

It's the modern way.

Cornered

2011-05-17T03:10:00.001+01:00

Three pieces on current events:

Homes And Castles

RIP, 4th Amendment

I'll Be The One To Say It

Options?

Geert Wilders, Islam, And The Polygonal Battlespace

2011-05-16T23:36:00.006+01:00

Jihad Watch has the speech given outside Nashville last week by Dutch parliamentarian and freedom fighter Geert Wilders.

Read it all, then come back, please.

Think of the term "polygonal battlespace".

It implies multiple threats, of varying severity, over time.

If one wants to get graphic, you can plot each of those threats against the axes of time, severity, magnitude, vulnerability, and proximity.

This threat matrix becomes useful when several threats are plotted and then a particular time is chosen.

Like now.

If we are honest, we have to admit that as of this moment, Jim-Bob in his SWAT outfit and total submission mindset is a helluva lot more dangerous to Joe and Jane American than your standard-issue Muslim extremist.

One of the reasons Jim-Bob SWAT is more dangerous is that most Americans outside of the criminal-justice system cannot grasp the mindset gap between a typical LEO and those whom he is sworn "to protect and serve".

Despite the valiant efforts of places like Injustice Everywhere, exposing that gap so as to bring meaningful change is simply beyond the capacity of we, the Few. Decades of 'Officer Friendly' indoctrination from early ages, coupled with incessant police drama programming on the telescreen, has been sufficiently successful that most Americans do not fear the police.

That may change with time and advances in the War on Freedom, or it may not.

But in the meantime....

Why not focus at least some of the FreeFor's advocacy efforts on exposing the realities of Islam and its barbaric practices?

Why not underscore the innumerable connections between Islam and the transnational progressives abroad, domestically, and in your hometown?

Why not do exactly as Wilders urged in Nashville, and develop:

***
...a spirit of resistance.

I repeat: What we need is a spirit of resistance.

Why? Because resistance to evil is our moral duty. This resistance begins with expressing our solidarity to Christians, Jews, indeed, to all people worldwide, who are the victims of islam. There are millions of them...
***

And in developing that spirit of resistance, understand and constantly expose that the Left, the irresolute Right, and the satanic domination system of Islam are murderous allies with a single common objective: the permanent eradication of every individual freedom on this planet.

I'll say it again:

The Left, the irresolute Right, and the satanic domination system of Islam are murderous allies with a single common objective: the permanent eradication of every individual freedom on this planet.

Those who lead, as well as those who stand with the Left, with the power-sharing RINOS and other collaborators of the Rights, and the true believers of Islam are nothing more than different aspects of the same totalitarian machine.

And that machine is winning.

Across the globe and across North America.

Even as it holds up adherents of one of its allies as the reason for ever-more power and resources - all in the name of protecting you.

Are you ready to resist?

Draw your polygonal battlespace matrix in your AO.

Keep it updated.

And don't forget your range cards.

UPDATE 16 MAY 2011 2305 EDT: Here's a video interview with Wilders, courtesy of GoV:

Interview with Geert Wilders. Ottawa May 10th 2011 from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

Barnhardt: Banned In Boston, In Three Parts

2011-05-16T22:18:00.000+01:00

Vanderleun cites to Barnhardt, with links to her speech as planned for delivery in Boston.

Watch them all (part I above, parts II and III below).

Gunwalker: The Latest

2011-05-16T22:11:00.002+01:00

Read it all from Mike and David.

Then ask yourself where we will be in two more years.

Amber Waves Of Grain

2011-05-16T18:43:00.001+01:00

John Venlet posts this insight into how Leviathan sees its limits.

"Boundless" doesn't begin to describe it.

And remember - wheat was a big piece of how we got into this mess.

They will not stop.

They.

Will.

Not.

Stop.

Get it?

Maybe Mr. Douglass can help; read it all, but here's an excerpt:

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

Your move.

As Indiana Goes...

2011-05-16T05:15:00.001+01:00

Four takes on the Indiana Supremes' decision re resistance to illegal government action:

Tam

Denninger

Kerodin

Arctic Patriot

More is coming, folks.

Lose your illusions.

More Muir

2011-05-15T23:50:00.000+01:00

(click to enlarge)

From Chris Muir's Day By Day.

Three From Billy Beck

2011-05-14T23:14:00.000+01:00

Read each and ponder:

A Good Day At The Monkey Cages

Overheard In The Garage A Minute Ago

What's Theirs, And Not Yours

Do you understand yet?

Blogger FUBAR

2011-05-14T16:09:00.001+01:00

Disappearing and then returning posts.

Disappearing and then partially-returning comments.

The free cheese from Blogger is causing binding and griping.

Will look into relocating to Wordpress or other.

Anyone with experience, weigh in.

Meanwhile, go do PT and enjoy the weekend.

That's what I am doing.

Bracken: Just A Working Man With His Tools

2011-05-12T03:46:00.000+01:00

Matt Bracken, author of the Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy and the upcoming novel Castigo Cay, sends:

I was out for a routine morning run on trash day last week, and snagged this empty plastic tool box off a pile of rubbish set to be collected. At one time it carried a "saws-all" type electric tool. It's very rugged yet light, with good hinges and clasps. This particular plastic case is 24 inches long, and it can contain a 31" overall carbine, broken into upper and lower and nested. Plus a few magazines.

As a novelist I have free rein to imagine every type of tactical scenario or trick. Sometimes I put them into my books, sometimes I keep them to myself, and sometimes I decide to share them. I didn't set out to make the compact carbine carrier, it was found trash put to a new use. I already had the foam sheeting and the other parts. All I needed to buy was some contact cement.

The hardest part of the job was cutting out the stiff plastic dividers molded into the sides of the case to hold the old saws-all in place. The muzzle sticks about 1/4 of an inch out the side of the case. It just missed being a clean, perfect fit by that much. If you like the idea, you need to play around with assorted cases and various weapons. Old tool cases are readily available at thrift stores and pawn shops for a nominal cost.

You can't tell from the picture and I wanted to spare you too much boring "how I made it" detail, but there is one sheet of one-inch foam below the gun parts, covered with a piece of denim scrap. Two sheets of foam on the top lid, with just that L shaped cutout in the nearer sheet of foam. That's where the overlapped grip and the white light on the forward rail make a high point. Then I cover the weapon with another sheet of denim before closing up the case. Without even trying, it also holds 3 magazines - you can see 2 of them.

I can toss this rig anywhere and it won't get a second look. Ditto for carrying it between vehicle and whereever without attracting attention with an obvious "assault bag" complete with velcro-flapped magazine holders.

Just a working man with his tools.

Yup.

Principals & Accomplices

2011-05-11T03:19:00.000+01:00

Read this piece by professional irritant Tom Baugh, author of Starving The Monkeys.

Compare it to this essay by Gerard Vanderleun.

What is similar?

What is different?

Are the authors' positions in conflict?

If so, can the two positions be reconciled?

Phrased alternatively, if Islam and national socialism are both antithetical to individual values, which is the greater threat?

Or are they equally threatening?

More on this subject later in the week.

Porretto: An Overfilled Heart

2011-05-10T03:46:00.000+01:00

Fran contemplates American flaccidity; read it all.

More on this topic later in the week.

Alvie: Blowing The Levees

2011-05-10T03:28:00.000+01:00

Read it all.

DIY Air Surveillance

2011-05-10T03:23:00.001+01:00

Read this Samizdata link and its embeds.

Think.

Plan.

Build.

Test.

Incorporate results.

Test again and reiterate until acceptable.

Do.

Others are.

Word

2011-05-10T03:15:00.001+01:00

(From Chris Muir; click to enlarge)

“Scarcely have our minds been able to emerge from the astonishment into which one stroke of parliamentary thunder has involved us, before another more heavy, and more alarming, is fallen on us. Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery. When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution”.

--Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774

-- From Vanderleun via this joint; read the original in full.

Broken Box

2011-05-09T15:17:00.003+01:00

Power jack fubar. Fixing asap. More today.

Weekend Plans?

2011-05-07T05:27:00.000+01:00

With decent weather in most places outside of the Pacific Northwest, you may want to reconsider the actions in these posts this weekend:

Ruck Marching Tips

Combat Fitness - Getting Started

Building Your Distance Capability

Fartlek

See you Sunday night.

Steyn: "...TSA operatives sniffing round the panties of grade-schoolers"

2011-05-07T05:15:00.000+01:00

Read Mark Steyn's take on this week's famous victory.

Wolfe: What's An Outlaw To Do?

2011-05-06T04:59:00.000+01:00

Read Ms. Wolfe's latest for some perspective and advice.

GardenSERF: Only Lawyers In The Federal Government Laugh At Their Own Jokes

2011-05-06T02:29:00.000+01:00

GardenSERF writes about several aspects of the growing madness.

Don't fall for any of it.

Focus on essentials: food, friends, water treatment, good boots, hand tools, and so forth.

You'll need them all.

Get Yours Today

2011-05-06T02:10:00.000+01:00

From Alvie.

Ritual For A Worn-Out Flag

2011-05-06T01:58:00.001+01:00

Read this sitrep from Denninger.

And this piece from Causapatet.

Then remember the opening of The Revolution Was:

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road.

But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don't watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago he wrote of what can happen within the form, when "one thing takes the place of another, so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about revolution in the state."

Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.

But it could not be so embarrassed, and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme.

It took off from a revolutionary base. The design was European. Regarded from the point of view of revolutionary technique, it made perfect sense. Its meaning was revolutionary and it had no other. For what it meant to do, it was from the beginning consistent in principle, resourceful, intelligent, masterly in workmanship, and it made not one mistake...

Best to be working on plan B, campers.

Plan A is about played out.

Billy Beck: "Being There" In The White House

2011-05-05T03:42:00.003+01:00

From Billy Beck:

Read "Atlas Shrugged". I'm telling you.

Obama is Mr. Thompson.

I disagree more and more with my old net.mate Martin McPhillips. Obama has a revolutionary's aspirations, but they're pretenses in him.

This country isn't really all the way there, yet.

(my comment at Western Rifle Shooters)

More --

"But he pursues his revolutionary ideals like a true believer."

No. Rodham does that.

Obama has stumbled into this whole deal. Did you ever see Peter Sellers in "Being There"? Obama is almost like Chauncey Gardner, in a lot of ways. He just floated into the scene on irrational tides -- and right up in Rodham's face, I might add. He crashed her whole program in 2008, but she was able to parlay her presence into exactly the right spot in the regime: State is high-profile enough to keep her in power-play for four years, but detached enough from domestic policy that Obama is deniable to her, afterward.

I think Obama is worse than The Lying Bastard, who never had an original political thought in his life. This is something endemic to collectivists: intellectual leadership (we should graciously call it that) is genuinely rare among them, even at what appears to the public eye to be top-level. Rote recitation of dogma has been a collectivist way of life for over a century and, in Obama, this whole effect is observably manifest in his inability to speak improvisationally.

Obama is a symptom. This makes him very different from Rodham, whose misfortune has been to exist in the form that she does, in a political culture leaving little or no room for authentic revolutionaries.

"So he is a symptom of the endarkenment, rather than an avatar of it - we are collectivising this rapidly on our own?"

Yes.

(Facebook discussion)

Sinclair: Maybe They Know Something?

2011-05-05T03:31:00.001+01:00

Read this post from Jim Sinclair.

And another, a little closer to home, with an explanation:

Do you understand yet?

Barnhardt: Watching The Other Hand

2011-05-05T02:37:00.002+01:00

From Ann Barnhardt:

Buried under all of the Bin Laden distraction was the biggest news story yet . . . and it has gone completely unnoticed.

Click here for the Reuters story.

Treasury Secretary, Seditious Traitor and walking porcine anal sphincter Timothy Geithner announced (read DEMANDED) today that the U.S. debt limit be raised immediately by TWO TRILLION DOLLARS. Geithner indicated this will be the amount of additional debt taken on before the 2012 election - and the election was cited REPEATEDLY as a benchmark date.

That's $125 Billion PER MONTH. What Geithner is saying is JUST RAISE THE CAP $2T now so we don't have to go through the charade of raising the cap quarterly, because we all know damn good and well that there really isn't a cap at all. The "cap" is just a Marxist linguistic manipulation designed to pacify the gullible thralls in the soon-to-be-exterminated bourgeoisie.

There's your QE3, kids. The gross GDP of the US when Obama usurped the Presidency was $14 Trillion. They have already printed $5T, with AT LEAST another $2T slated. That's $7T. They have debased the US Dollar by fully HALF of the GDP and will do it in less than FOUR YEARS. The Dollar Index is into new lows for the move and is hovering just above the huge 2008 lows at 0.7100. When the Dollar breaks those lows at 0.7100, and it could be any day now, that will be the lower G.I. effluvia hitting the high velocity rotors.

Time to stop worrying about fake pics of Bin Laden on the interwebs, kids. Your economy and way of life is about to be slaughtered and bled out on the altar of Marxist Totalitarianism.

Buy silver coins now. There has been a $10 per ounce pullback since Sunday night driven by the big banks in collusion with the futures exchanges. The exchanges DOUBLED the margin requirements on Monday, thus driving out all but the big players. Use this opportunity to buy physical coinage. I use www.Apmex.com , but there are several outfits on the internet that do a good job. Also buy emergency food if you haven't already, water, essential medications, spare eyeglasses, firearms, ammunition, batteries and whatever fuel you can safely store.

Because when this collapse of the dollar happens, there will be nothing anyone can do to stop it.

It will be the economic equivalent of trying to stop a tsunami.

AP: Domestic Enemies

2011-05-04T23:17:00.000+01:00

Arctic Patriot lays it out.

Resist.

Quote Of The Week

2011-05-04T23:06:00.001+01:00

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

-- Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no 1, 1776

See also more of Paine's The Crisis.

Alvie: Observations And Thoughts From Tornado Relief

2011-05-04T04:19:00.000+01:00

Multiple lessons learned and thought-provoking situations in Alvie's report from the storm-devastated Birmingham suburbs.

Please read it all.

And no, the lessons are not simply limited to storm relief.

Billy Beck: Well, I Said It Was "Uncanny"

2011-05-03T22:49:00.001+01:00

"This order did not originate from CoC."

I cannot find this implausible.

More. Reading it now.

{hah!} Wow.

"What will be most interesting from here is to now see what becomes of Valerie Jarrett."

(linktrain: Daily Pundit --> Pamela Geller)

Fjordman: Preparing For Ragnarök

2011-05-03T17:13:00.000+01:00

Please take the time to read this essay from Fjordman at GoV, along with the associated comments.

Keep your tribe alive.

By any means necessary.

VDH: The American Soviet

2011-05-03T04:03:00.000+01:00

Read Doc Hanson's lastest.

Think.

Gather more facts.

Read more accurate world history materials.

Synthesize.

From that work product, lay out probabilities for the future here in the former US of A.

Got any fact-based good ones?

I'm dry.

Alvie: On The BC

2011-05-03T03:42:00.000+01:00

(graphic courtesy of Peenie Wallie)

Take the time to read Alvie's take on the document proffered by the Mighty Kenyan last week, and even more importantly - the nominal opposition's omega-dog behavior throughout the controversy.

We are well and truly FUBAR.

Embrace it, and move on to protect your family.

By any means necessary.

Gunwalker: NRA - In Or Out?

2011-05-03T03:19:00.002+01:00

(graphic courtesy of Alvie)

David lays out the question in letter form.

The answer - explicit or implicit - will be forthcoming.

Special bonus question: Think Holder's gonna cop to Gunwalker tomorrow before Rep. Issa's House committee?

Bracken: Castigo Cay - Excerpt

2011-05-02T01:38:00.000+01:00

Matt Bracken's new novel, Castigo Cay, is in final production.

The first portion of the book is now available online here.

Matt's put a big part of Castigo up for us, and you'll learn a lot more about Dan Kilmer, the novel's lead character, as you read through Chapters 4 and 5 especially.

Ordering information for all of Matt's novels is here.

Read, order Castigo asap once available, and enjoy.

The Cliffs: Thoughts On Convoy Operations

2011-05-02T01:20:00.000+01:00

Alvie shares some of his experiences during tornado relief work in metro Birmingham.

One meta-lesson:

Doing anything with a scratch team is hard, slow, and filled with errors.

Practice now, while it is easy and mistakes do not matter as much.

Sparklies Of Death

2011-05-02T01:14:00.000+01:00

Some musings on priorities for your consideration.

If you think that there is a solution coming on any front other than self-reliance and local action, you are most probably mistaken.

And some mistakes leave little room for recovery.

Think about it.

AAR: Airsoft As Training - Part II

2011-05-02T01:09:00.000+01:00

More from the reader who previously filed this report:

Having caught a little more rest, I’ve got a couple of more observations from yesterday’s activities.

1) Rifles with vertical fore grips are a real PITA to carry and don’t help shooting. They also hang on brush constantly, as do big mags like AK mags.

2) In order to use cover properly, be prepared to shoot weak hand 50% of the time.

3) Often, a good shooting stance has to be sacrificed for cover and concealment. To offset this, however, the rifle usually can be braced against something solid to compensate for the poor position.

4) Rifle mags tend to get lost easily, as do pistols. If you have a pistol, you had better wear a lanyard loop for it.

5) PT is worth its weight in gold. The better your PT, the more you can think about other things while on the move.

PT is worth its own discussion. The most important thing is, of course, to do something strenuous regularly. As it stands, I see a need for a blended approach. We’ll take my fat ass as an example of OK, but with some obvious weaknesses.

First, given the circumstances, one must be able to cover a long distance, a/k/a bugging out. Note that the US Army, until recently, put an emphasis on this aspect. This means distance running and hiking. This endurance will also carry you through a long day of other activities. It also burns calories efficiently. I’ve got this part down OK.

The next area is sprinting, from distances of 20 to 200 yards. I haven’t practiced this one enough. I was fast enough at first but slowed down as time went on.

Crawling is an undertrained area. I’ve practiced this some, but need to do a lot more. It is hard physically and will wear muscles that you never knew you had. The best place to practice crawling is in the field.

High and low crawl theory should be used as the basis, but in the real world a blend of the techniques work best. A true high crawl is too high in woodland and will get you shot. A low crawl is too slow and will not allow you to see what is going on in a wooded environment.

Also, I rolled from my front to my back constantly, depending on what I needed to do.

Klaven: How To Behave During An Islamic Massacre

2011-05-01T22:03:00.002+01:00

Presented as a public service; pity that PJM feels the need to include the apparently-obligatory ad hominem attack on Terry Jones.

Freedom-oriented people who aspire to mainstream acceptance and status are to be both pitied and mocked.

This classic shows how it should be done:

GardenSERF: Counterpoint - The Ragtag Uprising Versus Armor

2011-05-01T15:12:00.000+01:00

Read the comments by GS, then watch the vid.

Badness.

Best plan?

Be elsewhere.

AAR: Airsoft As Training - Part I

2011-05-01T15:03:00.001+01:00

From a reader over the transom:

There are some good points and some bad points to using airsoft as a training tool.

Bad:

1) Rifles have very short range, allowing people to walk around with impunity past distances of 40 to 60 yards, depending on the weapon. Obviously, this leads to a bad feel for the need to keep under cover. This can also develop a willingness to ignore proper movement tactics.

2) Just about anything will stop an airsoft BB, creating an artificial feel of cover when use of such “cover” would result in instant death in the real world.

3) Almost all have full auto, resulting in poor fire control and a very unrealistic view of what is possible in the real world.

4) When you get into the game, you tend to ignore injuries, thereby aggravating them.

Good:

1) It is great exercise and very fun. Even people who dislike exercise will enjoy doing it.

2) It easily shows certain weaknesses and observations in field operations which I will go into detail below.

Observations, the vast majority of which are old news but a good way to show new guys reality:

1) If you get into close contact with people who are properly equipped, you are dead.

2) Old people who do PT can keep up with young people short term but will feel the pain after a period of time.

3) Rapid movement is easily spotted.

4) Slow movement with well chosen routes will keep you hidden. Always stay out of the light when moving if possible.

5) THE BIG ONE: Force identification is extremely difficult. We had 3 teams and it was very difficult to tell who was who.

6) Friends will betray friends. (This was part of the scenario.)

7) Armor (and aviation) will be a big problem.

8) Amateurs tend to bunch up and do not move tactically.

9) Command and control (C&C) at platoon level is difficult, at best. Company level C&C may be possible, but extremely difficult. Anything larger is impossible.

10) Without training, C&C breaks down easily. Even with people who have worked together before, C&C falls apart easily. With a scratch force, C&C will disintegrate immediately. Good C&C will be require constant, frequent training. The team I was on consisted of a core of people who worked together before, including several military veterans and police officers. Attached to that group were several of us who had never worked with them before of vastly different skills and age levels. The core group made up the leadership. Even in these ideal circumstances, C&C broke down frequently, largely due to overall lack of training. The other groups who had no such advantages lost C&C completely. Good C&C and ability to move quickly helps a lot.

11) Even simple chemical weapons such as CS will be a problem.

12) We had some people using FMRS/GMRS radios. The radios frequently failed to work, causing additional problems as there was no plan for runners. In addition, hand and arm signals were not in use. In a real scenario, all commo would be intercepted in addition, giving the opfor full knowledge of plans.

I’m leaning towards brown as a good color for clothing. Black stands out. Camo will be widely used by .gov forces, as will green and black.

See Part II for further insights.

The Middle Class Problem

2011-05-01T04:41:00.001+01:00

Read this Human Events essay first, please.

Then follow where Fran Porretto goes with it.

Those who see the events of the last several years (or several decades?) as the products of mere incompetence need to get more facts and think harder.

Especially when contemplating the brave new future that has been brought to us.

Your children and grandchildren will be asking if you knew, or at least could have known, what was done to them, as well as what you did to stop it.

Got good answers?

Happy May Day.

Contrary Action: Defending Your AO Against Hostiles

2011-04-30T19:08:00.000+01:00

Read all, including embedded links (h/t Causapatet).

You might also want to review these classics as well:

The Urban Varmint Rifle

Guerrilla Sniper Rifle Project

Scoped Hunting Rifles As Long-Range Rifles

Fry The Brain: The Art Of Urban Sniping

Wolfe: Ya Gotta Be Contrary

2011-04-30T04:53:00.000+01:00

Claire Wolfe's latest is here.

You may not be interested in politics.

But politics is interested in you.

Resist.

Tor Browser

2011-04-29T23:55:00.001+01:00

For your consideration.

UPDATE 2250 EDT 29 APRIL 2011: See also Tails; h/t to commenter CR.

AP: One Shot, Then Displace

2011-04-29T23:40:00.000+01:00

Arctic Patriot explains.

Thank goodness nothing like East Berlin, or Hungary, or Prague could ever happen here.

Right, Lee?

So do your homework.

Now, while it's easily and quietly done.

Ten Rules For Liberty Guerrillas

2011-04-29T23:18:00.000+01:00

H/t to Insty for this link, which, while a trifle mild, contains some useful propagandizing advice.

Especially when combined with more...pointed messages.

Resist.

Barnhardt: The Canada Free Press Interview

2011-04-29T23:00:00.000+01:00

Read it here.

Money quote, on government officials in general and the Mighty Kenyan's crew in particular:

"...These are not intelligent people. They are opportunistic, ambitious sociopaths that are simultaneously dumber than a box of hair..."

Yet they have the instruments of state power and an apparently-consenting populace on which to inflict their economic and social revenge fantasies.

Do you understand yet?

Resist.

TL Davis: If A Patriot, Also A Criminal

2011-04-29T19:42:00.000+01:00

Please read TL's latest.

And consider ground truth in light of what is now, and what is coming.

A Basic Plan

2011-04-29T04:54:00.001+01:00

(graphic courtesy of Natalie Dee)

Distractions (including this place) can be deadly when danger approaches.

How many of the steps listed in this SurvivalBlog entry have you completed?

How many more could you complete with better focus on what matters and what does not?

Make no mistake - this is not a drill.

Better five years too early than five hours too late.

Really.

ZH: America's Economy Explained In One Picture

2011-04-29T03:54:00.003+01:00

From Zero Hedge:

One animated gif is worth a thousand FOMC press conferences...

h/t Rational Capitalist Speculator

Facing Reality - Or Not

2011-04-29T03:14:00.000+01:00

Your choice.

AP: Sultan Knish's "Muslim Inquisition"

2011-04-28T18:21:00.002+01:00

Read the SK piece, then AP's riff on same.

Then review this comments-based discussion of "khilafah, or a united, single and central muslim government".

Then recall how the US military in currently engaged in three overt wars in support of Islamic regimes and/or "revolutions".

Finally, ask yourself what this government would not do if the House of Saud snapped its fingers, using its petroleum and dollar reserves as leverage.

Do you understand yet?

Just remember Sultan Knish's mastersnark:

You can't spell Socialism without Islam.

Reed: Bad Time In Baltimore

2011-04-28T17:40:00.000+01:00

Read Fred Reed's latest.

And remember this caveat from the DumpDC team:

(Editor’s Note: Fred is spot on in his analysis here, but does not hint at how bad it could get and how quickly. In most of the “graveyard cities” he lists…as well as most cities above 50,000 in population in America…or any city where you find a Martin Luther King Boulevard…the city core population is not middle class black families. When the permanent underclass gets hungry and can’t buy gas for their rides, they will fan out into the neighborhoods closeby and keep fanning out in raiding parties. This can begin within the first couple days after the dollar collapses. Remember the video footage of New Orleans after Katrina.

And don’t kid yourself that your non-black neighbors will be more virtuous. You should start now asking yourself whether or not you’ll use deadly force to protect your property and your loved ones. That could mean pulling the trigger on a 14-year-old breaking into your house or car-jacking you. You’re going to have to make some life-changing decisions about who you will help and who you turn away. If you have rations to survive for 6 months and you take in two more, now your rations will only last two months. )

Once again: it's not about race.

But be realistic:

When the President of the United States embraces a known race-baiter as his Attorney General and another as a major 2012 campaign advisor, race is already in the mix.

Alabama/Georgia Update: Cliffs & Sipsey OK

2011-04-28T17:28:00.000+01:00

Got text today from Alvie at the Cliffs; all well there but no power.

Mike updates his status; all well there but no power.

In-perimeter ATL was spared.

Many other places in Alabama and Georgia were not.

Do what you can, please.

GardenSERF: More On Yugoslavia

2011-04-28T04:31:00.000+01:00

Read.

Watch the embedded vids.

Think about all of the people who want America dismantled.

Do you understand yet?

Barnhardt: Protected By The "100 Heads" Guarantee

2011-04-28T01:29:00.002+01:00

(click to enlarge; graphic background here)

Several commenters on Ann Barnhardt's posts have raised this point.

Amen.

Codrea: National Media Decides You Have No Need To Know About The Gunwalker Travesty

2011-04-27T18:44:00.001+01:00

David explains what the Authorized Journalists do and do not want you to read.

Minitruth, anyone?

Bovard: Misdefining Liberty

2011-04-27T05:53:00.001+01:00

From Jim Bovard:

The definitions of liberty devised in ivory towers and elsewhere have a profound impact on political and judicial thinking. Regardless of how wrongheaded some concepts of liberty prevalent early last century may now appear, America’s legal structure is now based on those ideas. And that legal structure continues binding today’s citizens to the intellectual follies of previous generations of thinkers and reformers.

The Founding Fathers’ concept of liberty was forged by decades of abuses by British colonial rulers. “The Restraint of Government is the True Liberty and Freedom of the People” was a common American saying in the 18th century. Historian Forrest McDonald wrote that “political discourse [in Revolutionary-era America] was an ongoing public forum on the meaning of Liberty.”

The Founding Fathers’ concepts of freedom fit into the classical British tradition. In 1721, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon defined liberty as “the power which every man has over his own actions, and his right to enjoy the fruit of his labor, art, and industry, as far as by it he hurts not the society, or any members of it, by taking from any member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.” Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, advocated a system of liberty whereby “every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way.”

However, changing political circumstances and shifting intellectual tides would eventually help to obscure American thinking...
***

Read the rest.

How clear is your definition of liberty?

Sultan Knish: Freedom Of Speech On The Run

2011-04-27T05:31:00.001+01:00

Gun rights and free speech are brother and sister in the hierarchy of fundamental human rights.

Give the Bad People credit: they understand that fact, and are doing their damnedest - both here and elsewhere in the West - to restrict, constrict, and punish anyone who dares to question the collective received wisdom of the elites.

Sultan Knish provides a detailed discussion that's worth your time, which opens:

Freedom of speech is governed by legal restrictions and public mores. And what most of us have discovered is that a multicultural society means more 'mores' and more people to offend. That has taken us from one general set of social speech codes that governed such things as obscenity and public abuse, to a thousand fiefdoms of speech in which every group strives to impose its own speech codes in public forums. The Constitution still protects some forms of political speech for now, but it is a weak and fitful defense in a society where it is not the content of speech that matters, but who is offended by it.

In Postmodern America, censorship has become one form of political clout. The ability to suppress a word, is bona fide power. Municipalities, corporations and public figures are constantly pressured to neuter their vocabulary. The groups that do the pressuring count coup for each successful act of linguistic castration. This battlefield of the dictionary leads to a colonization of grammar. The group that can force a word substitution claims credit for controlling how people think. And there is a certain amount of truth to that, but not a great deal of it. Neutering language only spreads euphemisms. The more we try to stamp out a meaning, the more it slithers into new words, subverting the meanings of even words specifically constructed to be inoffensive.

The Bill of Rights tried to protect freedom of speech from the government, and accordingly today it is the government that directly threatens freedom of speech the least. Indirectly is another matter. The government cannot clap you in irons for saying the wrong thing, unless you're standing in an airport, but it can mandate that companies fire you for saying the wrong thing, or be held accountable for failing to do so. Such indirectly direct censorship is repressive, but not actionable. When government controls the business environment, it also controls the speech of the workers.

In such an environment, the less you say, the safer you are. When you need to speak, it's best to use meaningless words. Corporate language has already achieved a high water mark of emptiness with pages and pages that mean nothing. And that language is spreading to the general public, as students learn from a young age to use the appropriate words to express the hollow phrases that are mandatory in a politically correct society. The formal pieties of political correctness lead to hollow sloganeering, an elite that knows the right answer for every question, but doesn't understand the question itself...
***

Read the rest.

Salman Rushdie understands:

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

-- Salman Rushdie, quoted in Mark Steyn's Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West

Barnhardt: The New Sign On My Front Door

2011-04-26T21:35:00.000+01:00

Oh, and all of the multiple indoor and outdoor video feeds (with audio) are being wirelessly uploaded to an offsite server. So if any drama goes down, the entire spectacle will be on YouTube within hours.

In other words, screwing with me is BEGGING for total, worldwide humiliation.

THIS, my friends, is how we do things in the United States of America.

MOLON LABE.

Shooter ready.

GoV: The Europeanization Of America - Center For American Progress To Fight ‘Islamophobia’

2011-04-26T04:32:00.001+01:00

From Gates of Vienna:

Whenever I post about Islamization, cultural enrichment, and the suppression of free speech in Europe, commenters are likely to remark on the difference between Europe and the United States.

“Europe is lost,” they say (a particular favorite on my posts at Big Peace).

Or: “We’re lucky things aren’t this bad in the USA.”

Or: “Wake up, America! We don’t want to be like Europe.”

Well, think again, fellows: we already are like Europe. You’re late to the game — it’s already underway here.

Five years ago I said we were roughly a decade behind Europe, and we were. But then we elected Barack Hussein Obama as our Dhimmi-in-Chief, and after that we caught up very quickly. We’ve all but closed the gap between United Socialist America and the EUSSR, and Mr. Obama is working very hard to finish the job, and maybe even pull ahead of the EUniks...
***

Read the rest.

And what meaningful opposition is there?

Be honest.

And yes - the Center For American Progress is the group that sponsored this speech by the former cigar-wielder-in-chief.

You may remember it.

Quote Of The Month

2011-04-26T04:13:00.001+01:00

From The Belmont Club:

...If the evidence of totalitarian behavior means anything, then tyrants as a whole act like individuals matter. They don’t believe in ants. They fear men. Their entire apparatus of control is designed entirely to suppress individuals, lest one act of solitary freedom touch off a blaze.

Although it was Anatoly Rybakov, in his book, Children of Arbat, who attributed to Stalin words he never said: “death solves all problems — no man, no problem”, Stalin himself said something similar. He regretted that Ivan the Terrible showed any mercy to women or children.

One of Ivan the Terrible’s mistakes was to overlook the five great feudal families. If he had annihilated those five families, there would definitely have been no Time of Troubles. But Ivan the Terrible would execute someone and then spend a long time repenting and praying. God got in his way in this matter. He ought to have been still more decisive!

There in different words is the same message. “No man, no problem.”

GardenSERF: The Death Of Yugoslavia

2011-04-26T03:53:00.002+01:00

Read GardenSERF's comments here, then watch this BBC documentary on the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

The sections above take you through the first chapter of this series; GardenSERF gives more viewing advice here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Yugoslavia

If you take your mouse pointer over the lower right hand corner of the embedded video the option will come up to “Watch on Youtube” in another window. The series is posted by a user named “The Death of Yugoslavia” so you will want to stick with that user’s videos and look for them in order on the right sidebar in youtube.

The series in order is:
1. “Enter Nationalism”
2. “The Road to War”
3. “Wars of Independence”
4. “The Gates of Hell”
5. “A Safe Area”
6. “Pax Americana”

Each part of the original series was broken up into 5 sections to fit a 50 minute program on youtube, so watching the second 10 minute section of “The Wars of Independence” has this title format on youtube:

The Death Of Yugoslavia [3/6] – Wars Of Independence [2/5]

Who cares?

What chance is there that today's US of A (including AK, HI, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands) makes it through the next ten years as currently constituted?

And what is the basis for your answer?

Photo Bleg

2011-04-26T03:26:00.000+01:00

Alvie delivers the ask.

Can you help?

Denninger: The End Of American Energy

2011-04-25T22:28:00.002+01:00

Read.

Think.

See a way out?

Billy Beck: Real, Live Endarkenment

2011-04-25T21:54:00.006+01:00

After investing nearly four billion dollars, the bureaucratic pencil-whip comes down, and Shell Oil says, "To hell with it."

"Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.

Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico would take about 45 days. He’s especially frustrated over the appeal board’s suggestion that the Arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area. 'We think the issues were really not major,' Slaiby said, 'and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in.'

The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, which is 1 square mile, sits right along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, 70 miles away from the proposed off-shore drill site."

Try to understand, ladies and gentlemen: learn to live with high fuel prices and everything that means. That's what happens when we are not allowed to produce. And we have no other choice: we either produce, or we eventually starve and freeze in the dark.

And don't be dreaming about "a simpler way of life". Once you're forced to that, you're going to pine your half-assed little heart out for Pringles, DVD's, synthetic fibers, and antibiotics.

Watch and see if you don't.

Vanderboegh: Meet Dan Restrepo

2011-04-25T19:02:00.001+01:00

An essential Gunwalker piece from Mike.

And a follow-on.

Do you think these people are bounds by any rules of engagement, save their own appetites?

And if not, what does that mean about what will be necessary to defeat them?

Hint:

Nice guys finish dead.

AAR: RTC/Georgia Carry Rally, Georgia State Capitol - April 23, 2011

2011-04-25T18:44:00.002+01:00

All well.

No problems whatsoever.

We took back the ground we were illegally ordered from back in February.

Around 50 in attendance, split about 50/50 between handguns only and longarms.

Good speakers.

And to summarize, here's a first-timer's comment:

My reply to the comments on the post about chamber flags and empty mags.

Sorry to side track the rah rah but Those of you bitching about chamber flags and empty mag wells I have to speak up about.

I have not been very supportive of the RTC rally in the past. I did not feel that it was worth the effort. I did not feel that I was getting a very good ROI. I began to change my mind. I still do not think that the political impact is very significant. I don't think that there will be a single rally that leads to our restoration.

I decided however that it was worth me going to the rally in order to connect with like minded men and women. It was worth attending to stand sholder to sholder. When the time comes to muster on the green I want those who have been to the rallies to remember my face to know that I have stood with them before and to trust that I will stand with them again. I went to the RTC rally on Saturday at the Capital in Atlanta. I stood with like minded men and women. I heard the speaches and watched the looks on the faces of those who drove past. At no time did I feel that I was at a disadvantage because I had a chamber flag or did not have a mag in the well. I carried a 5 round mag in my pocket and in my bag I had three 30rd mags for the AK. Had an air of danger presented itself I could have had the 5 rd mag in the gun in seconds and when I racked the bolt that chamber flag would have hit the ground.

Stop using this as an excuse to not attend. Walk the walk as you talk the talk. You go to the rally showing your good faith to the politicians. Think of it as a flag of truce. I will attend every rally I can going forward for the reasons I stated above and I expect to see more of you there in the future.

Grenadier1 (the man in the flecktarn hat)

Thanks to all attendees, speakers, and promoters, as well as to the Georgia Capitol police and the Georgia State Patrol, who, in the words of one officer, "got their act together."

Just Say 'No' To The Donald

2011-04-25T04:16:00.001+01:00

David Codrea explains one of the reasons why.

There are others, as well.

Billy Beck: "We're All Hostages to the Dopiest Person With a Phone"

2011-04-25T04:04:00.002+01:00

"'We live in a free country, and you can’t regulate everything, but common sense should tell you something that can easily be mistaken for a weapon shouldn’t be sold — and people shouldn’t buy it,' said Burlington police Lt. Glen Mills."

Christ, what a little judy-boy worm. At least he's a fucking moron, to boot.

Try it like this, Mills, you sodden little fop: the average American could walk right now out to his garage and, without even trying, lay hands on a device which could be a weapon, but would not be understood as such until a moment of attack. Just about anyone could beat your chimpanzee brain out with a snow shovel, and I'd give a lot to see the look on your face then.

"Doh! It didn't look like a weapon!"

You're a goddamned vegetable, and a soul-deep disgrace to a once honorable endeavor.

"Disappear, scumbag!" (the D.I. -- "Full Metal Jacket")

Zero Hedge: China Proposes To Cut Two Thirds Of Its $3 Trillion In USD Holdings

2011-04-25T03:47:00.000+01:00

Read what the Zero Hedge crew and commentariat have to say about this Xinhua story.

Punchline?

Nailed by Bachman Turner Overdrive:

You ain't seen nothin' yet
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet

Christos Anesti

2011-04-24T05:03:00.000+01:00

Turn off the doom until sunset.

Enjoy the day.

For believers, acknowledge the Savior.

Pray for wisdom, courage, and strength.

These are the good old days.

Moral High Ground = Win

2011-04-24T03:52:00.002+01:00

AP gives the formula and the rationale.

Think the chap above understands?

You'd best be able to grasp when your opponent does not share your rule set, and play the ensuing game accordingly.

Unlike you like life on the rez, that is.

Special Pleadings*

2011-04-23T05:16:00.000+01:00

Read these four entries from Gates of Vienna regarding the attempts by koran-burning Pastor Terry Jones to protest in front of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan:

Peace Bond Hearing For Terry Jones

Dearborn Demo Would Breach Peace

Terry Jones Goes To Jail

Terry Jones' Closing Remarks

Watch Jones' remarks, as well:

Do you understand yet?

Michigan used to be part of this country.

And the issue is not limited to Dearbornistan.

Your AO is coming soon....

*

Steyn: Road To Ruin Getting Shorter

2011-04-23T04:57:00.001+01:00

(image courtesy of Alvie)

From Mark Steyn's latest:

***
...The president's plan is to balance the budget by climbing into his Little Orphan Obammie costume and singing: "The sun'll come out tomorrow/Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun."

We've already bet our bottom dollar and it's looking like total eclipse.

But Obammie figures if we can only bet Daddy Warbucks' bottom dollar the sun will shine.

The "rich" don't have enough money to plug the gap: As a general principle, whatever the tax rates, the Treasury can never take in more than about 19 percent of GDP. Since Obama took office, the government's spent on average 24.4 percent of GDP.

That five-point gap cannot be closed, and it's the difference between the possibility of a future and the certainty of utter ruin. Hence, outlook "negative"...
***

Read the rest.

And remember the concept of "crush depth":

You only know it once you've passed it.

For a few fractions of a second, that is.

TL Davis: To Dine As Slave

2011-04-23T04:26:00.001+01:00

Please read TL's latest.

Excerpt:

***
...This is a moment in time. Do we support the boldness of addressing our debts, or the greedy demand of the scraps? This is when we decide who we are. This is when we decide if there is anything left of the greatness of America...
***

Individual or collectivist....

Who are you?

The Gift Of Fear

2011-04-23T03:58:00.000+01:00

Bill Nye models leadership.

I am humbled.

Keep on, Bill.

Keep on.

Forward, all.

Two From Alvie

2011-04-23T03:50:00.000+01:00

Miracle

Principles/Practices: Follow-Up

Read and think through each, please.

"Atlas Shrugged - Part I"

2011-04-23T03:32:00.002+01:00

Trailer here.

Surprisingly good.

Best achievement? Avoiding the visual and technical anachronisms inherent in a literal rendering of the original. The film is set in 2016 and it was, to me at least, completely credible on that point.

Second-best? Casting unknown actors who do a workmanlike job in the roles of Dagny, Hank Rearden, James Taggert, Wesley Mouch, and others.

Final noteworthy accomplishment? Compressing Rand's material into a dramatically-brief Part I without losing the essential spirit of the novel.

Now, if I hadn't read the book, I am not sure if I would have been able to follow the movie's events.

But for those who have read the original, you'll give it (I hope) at least the "B" I give it tonight.

BTW, if you wait for the video, you'll lose some nice full-theatre-screen exterior shots of the John Galt Line blasting across the gorgeous Colorado countryside in fall.

But that's all you'll lose.

He Knows His Stockdale

2011-04-22T04:40:00.000+01:00

From commenter Sean at this post:

Everybody I see and hear talking about the confusion and direction things are taking, and the various factions going at each other, reminded me of something.

I once led an infantry platoon. Not combat, but dress rehearsal for it in Germany, for nearly five yrs.

32 men and 1 officer.

There were 33 different takes on everthing from chow, to wiping your ass, to how to best engage armour, to women, to doctor appts, to maintenance, to every and each damn thing we were involved with, or might be. Sometimes it sounded like a deranged debating club. Add to that, each mans' personal, physical, and spiritual problems, and you've got a nuthouse waiting to explode.

I cannot adequately explain what a challenge this is to a platoon sgt. Anyone who has been one will tell you it is like herding hydrophobic cats in the dark with a 12volt cattle prod that shocks you, every other time you use it. Upbringing, drugs, crime, habits, values, no values, hate, love, and everything else gets thrown into the pot.

I had two jobs. Prepare these men for combat, and support/lead them in combat. All other considerations, including my own, have no value.

Mission, and Men. That's it.

That's what a leader does. Leads. Self is gone, and what's left is the job.

Find and kill the enemy, destroy his resources, negate his ability to make war.

Being a good leader lost me my wife and children, what meant the most to me in life.

So I want all the infighters and syncophants, and keyboard kommandos to understand. If you go for this, expect to lose everything and everybody that matters to you in this world including your life. It will be confusing, intolerable, hard, hungry, diseased, despised, thankless, and unprincipled.

Should you stagger out to the other side, victorious, or otherwise, you will not be who you were, in any way. Your remaining days will be painful, difficult, and short.

If you want it bad enough. That will be your reward.

You will be free.

You will also have freed a lot of people who did not lift a finger to help, and who are ungrateful.

I don't suppose many remember Rogers of Rogers Rangers, dying alone, sick, and in abject poverty, not a long time after the cheering stopped. Yet we do remember him as great and mighty man. I wonder often, how he felt about it, hungry, desititute, and unloved.

Let all understand.

You're not going to get rich, famous, or laid by the Prom Queen, when you go up against IT. Your ass will be on the chopping block, and if all you lose is a little pride and a leg,or arm, health, you're lucky. Make up your minds, and get with the program, and forget all this scrapping.

The darkness comes, like a roaring lion, seeking all whom he may devour.

I put it all on the line before, and I'll do it again. I believe in principle, and in practice, get out of my way.

I ain't got time for any of this small change shit.

Victory.

Death will come anyway.

But Victory.

Losing

2011-04-22T04:02:00.001+01:00

Fred Reed:

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...The relentless affirmation of [the US military's] lethality leads to underestimation of the enemy. Before you stick your hand into a hornets’ nest, it is well to examine the hornets. We don’t. The Taliban are primitive mountain-crawlers with AKs. “No problem, sir! We can take them. We’re the best equipped etc.” In an ancient war of classical antiquity, the Vietnamese were held in contempt as rice-propelled paddy maggots. No problem, sir. We’ve got fighter planes and tanks and endless zip-wowees. Everything but understanding and curiosity.

Of course, Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City. In like fashion, the French also got run out of Viet Nam, and from Algeria, the Russians from Afghanistan, the Israelis from Lebanon, in each case a trained modern military losing to angry and inventive amateurs...
***

Read it all.

More From Colonel Cooper

2011-04-22T03:40:00.000+01:00

In a recent paper, we listed a number of reasons for which men fight. One reader took exception to us in that we did not list liberty as a primary motive. As in all philosophic discussion, much depends upon semantics, so I suppose the first thing to do here is to define "liberty" so that we can examine our position. In my view, liberty is that condition which exists when men make their own laws, either directly or indirectly, and are protected from bureaucracy or despotism by unbreakable rules.

Now then, I have fought through a couple wars and a larger number of fighting situations and I have never yet encountered a man who felt that he was fighting for liberty. That doesn't mean that this cannot be a motive, but I did not list it because it seemed so very unlikely to me. I think we could say that the colonists at Bunker Hill were indeed fighting for liberty. I think the Boers in South Africa were fighting for liberty, but I don't see anyone doing it now. Singhalese are not fighting for liberty. The Iranians are not fighting for liberty. The Somalis are not fighting for liberty. The Serbians are not fighting for liberty. Moreover, no American I ran across in the Pacific war nor in Korea felt he was fighting for liberty, and I don't think that anybody on either side in the Vietnamese affair thought that he was.

Thus it is that I do not regard the idea of liberty as a primary motivating force in man's history of combat.

I did leave out one major consideration and I will hasten to insert it now. That motive is hatred. Hatred is a big one, and it appears more often than the rabbit people would like to admit. In my own limited experience in the Pacific war, hatred was the primary motivating emotion of the American forces.

-- LtCol John Dean "Jeff" Cooper, USMC (retired)
May 10, 1920 - September 25, 2006

Hard Things: You Are Already Dead

2011-04-21T04:29:00.001+01:00

(click to enlarge; image courtesy of Alvie, based on snark in this post)

Caveat #1: This post is advanced ugliness; you will be well-served by having read in advance and thought through the implications of these previous posts, along with their associated comments:

20 Questions

20 More Questions

Feedback On 20 More Questions

Let's Win

Counterforce vs. Countervalue

If You Read One Article This Month

Caveat #2: I fully understand what Suarez means by being "the first man" in this essay, but what if the first man actually sets out to build a perpetual motion machine, or to breed unicorns?

Do you really want to be him?

Some observations for your thoughtful analysis:

1) You Are Already Dead: Face it - you are mortal. We don't have any viewer data here at WRSA on the average age of our readers, but anybody want to bet those regulars aren't closer to 50 than 30?

If, by that age, you haven't reconciled to your pending demise, stop reading now and get help with that simple issue.

Seriously.

Even for those who have accepted their biological short-fuse, consider what the Bad People and their allies such as Google are doing with the IP address information for visitors to sites such as WRSA, Sipsey Street, and other "irreconcilables".

If you were the Bad People, would you sort that IP info (along with its correlates from the hordes of other government and commercial databases) and classify each visitor into one of three buckets - high risk, medium risk, and low risk?

Wouldn't you then have contingency plans for each category, including special action for those deemed unacceptable risks?

Wouldn't that special action work something along the lines Sam outlines here?

Sorry, grey men amongst our visitors.

Maybe you'll be in the "low risk" category.

Maybe.

If I'm wrong on this or any other observation, please explain in detail why in the comments.

2) In Many Cases, Your Spouse, Family, Friends, and Neighbors Will Be Your Most Dangerous Enemies

The people closest to you know you the best.

Is their knowledge and exercise of OPSEC and COMSEC equal to their knowledge of your supplies, political ideation, associates, and other information?

Are all of them always happy with you and thus not susceptible to the always-human "I'll show him" blab-attack?

What about financial pressure from their primary income source?

Are you sure?

How?

3) There May Be No Shortage Of Leaders, But There Will Be A Profound Shortage of Good Leaders

Suffice it to say, how many people have you met along the trail who you would trust enough to follow in a kinetic environment?

How do you know?

Do you think you have time to improve that situation?

And if so, how?

4) If You Have One Friend You'd Call To Help You Feed The Pigs, You Are Lucky

How do you know?

Do you think you have time to improve that situation?

And if so, how?

5) Do You Think The Authorities In Your Area Have Any Objective Reason To Restrain Themselves When The Centre Does Not Hold?

Or is it more likely that they will go NOLA on you and yours?

Your mileage will vary.

Got a plan for both scenarios?

6) The Point Is Not The Spear, And The Spear Is Not The Point

This koan speaks to the interrelationship between combat arms, their supporting mechanisms, and the myriad of political controls and influences that impact the use of force in the modern battlespace.

If you have not yet meditated deeply on the concept, you should.

7) The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

How's that PT going?

And I don't care how crippled you are; you can feel better and be more capable if you begin to eat less and move more, even at this late date.

No slack.

The good news?

Eating less is coming soon, regardless of your plans or desires.

8) Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail

Got range cards?

How about a checklist?

How about a list of lists?

How about a ten-week "worst case" plan?

9) You Are Not An Army Of One

You are a lonely, scared American deep within enemy lines with little to rely upon except your own wits and whatever you have manage to secrete at whichever of your alternate caches that didn't get snagged on the initial roll-up.

Think American remnant in the Philippines of 1942 and you'll be better oriented than those infected with much of the attrition warfare bunk that has been drilled via repetition into people's minds.

You are in the mess until you die, or you win.

There is no chain of command.

There are no rescue convoys.

There is no CSAR.

There ain't even any Dugout Doug and his photog crew.

Suck it up and deal.

You're still alive, right?

10) Come As You Are

All of the gear, skills, and reliable people you are likely to have comes down to what you have now.

Plan and execute to those capabilities, even as "now" changes and your fortunes increase or subside.

There are no reinforcements coming.

And even if they do arrive, how do you handle recognition codes?

Be a pity to get whacked with Blue-on-Blue fire, wouldn't it?

You do remember that you are a domestic terrorist, right?

11) Three Men Can Keep A Secret If Two Of Them Are Dead

If you want to better your odds, study successful criminal organizations - outlaw biker gangs, major cocaine and heroin organizations, ethnic smuggling tribes, bootleggers, and the like.

You'll find a number of common themes.

You'll want most of those themes as your own, odds are.

Conclusion: Better get used to thinking through issues on your own, because that's the situation you are in.

And it ain't gonna get better anytime soon.

But be of good cheer.

At least you're here, amongst friends.

How'd you like to be one of the "whah hoppened?" crowd as the Collapse accelerates?

Besides, those folks will be out of your way within the first six months.

Forward.

Nation of Moochers

2011-04-21T01:07:00.000+01:00

Sam riffs on this FoxBiz story.

So does Denninger.

Which way do you think Team Moocher will vote in 2012?

I think we just lost #4 engine.

Feather #4....feather #4....

Principles & Practices

2011-04-21T00:12:00.000+01:00

Alvie provides wise counsel.

Read and think.

Then do.

Denninger: "We're Not Headed For Greece, Folks - We're Headed For Egypt"

2011-04-20T20:29:00.001+01:00

Read.

Best to embrace the horror.

Prepare to repel boarders.

Junkies, Redux

2011-04-20T20:06:00.000+01:00

I posted this piece in April, 2009.

Donald Sensing posted this piece today.

Do you understand yet?

Codrea On Russia Today TV - Today

2011-04-20T19:50:00.000+01:00

Details.

Pass 'em along.