IIIGear & Raffle

New patches will arrive in about 10 days at the latest.

Order any patch, or donate $20 or more, or order $20 or more in IIIGear and you'll be entered into the raffle for the very cool Mossberg donated by Jim Miller as well as 2 slots in a future class offered by John Mosby!

Remember, all proceeds go to the 527 so we can continue to grow our community.

Here's the link for IIIGear.

Here's the link to the original post that details the raffle.

Kerodin
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Consider: Drone Swarms

Consider a defense contractor setting up an assembly line to produce a million disposable drones, armed with the new mini-missile Raytheon is building, coupled with a GPS guidance system. You already know your front door has been GPS'd by the Census workers. You know these things can be programmed to fly their entire mission without human interaction.

Consider they sit in hangars across the country, pre-targeted.

Consider a decapitation strike against every patriotic blogger, commenter, NRA member, gun shop...

With a single order a thousand, or ten thousand, or a hundred thousand Right Wing Extremists could be eliminated at the same time.

Sure, some folks would not be home. Significant collateral damage will happen, though Tyrants do not worry about such things.

And what if they did not target your home's GPS coordinates, but instead they locked onto your cell...

Remember the Suarez Philosophy of Law Enforcement, which is standard in the LEO community: When I was on SWAT our view is that "We will always win....even if we have to burn down your entire house by bombing it....we will win".

Think about it.

Here's the Raytheon story.

Kerodin
III

Fighting Femmes

We've been discussing fighting basics a bit recently, so now I direct this to the fathers and husbands, uncles and brothers in our community: Have you trained your woman and your daughters to shoot, to fight, to kill if necessary? Do the women and girls in your home know what you will do in a crisis so they can either help or stay out of the way? Do they know their E&E Protocols? Do they know what to say, and what not to say, if LEO separates all of you after a piece of action?

They are your responsibility, and you can't be everywhere at once.

Kerodin
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PJB: Entitlement Death Spiral

On the Web, one may find a pictorial tale of two cities: Hiroshima, a smoking flattened ruin in 1945, now a beautiful gleaming metropolis. And Detroit, forge and furnace of democracy in 1945, today resembling Dresden after Bomber Command paid its visit.

Column is here.

Kerodin
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Our Blood on Their Hands: IIIGear

KA-BARs are hitting mailboxes, and that makes me happy.

Building community, cohesion, morale - that is why I started the 527 and started offering useful gear for us all. I can't tell you how proud I was when I showed up at TL's Summit and saw all the IIIGear people were sporting.

We are all part of something very special: The III.

We are the only defenders of Liberty left in the world, Patriots.

If we do not do the work, the work will not get done.

Our IIIGear allows us to spot one another and I hope, if you ever see a Patriot sporting III Gear in need of back up you'll step in just because you were able to recognize a fellow III Patriot.

The picture above is from Our Blood on Their Hands, a very cool blog.

Click here to read the review.

Thank you all.

Kerodin
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In Harm's Way

Zoomie has a post up about his nephew, and he offers very good advice to everyone who has loved ones in the service.

Get them out.

The wars we fight today are not existential for America. We waste treasure and lives for political power and the whims of profiteers. There is no honor for an America that needlessly sends her young to kill foreigners in foreign lands unless that existential threat is upon us.

Get your people out.

Teach them what their oath means.

Here's the link. Keep Zoomie's nephew and all of our troops who do what they do in good faith in your thoughts.

Kerodin
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First Class: CADD Graphics

Thanks to those of you who have received your KA-BARs and given me the heads-up. The delay in delivery proves to me that our DC area mail service has been seriously impacted by the storms about 10-12 days ago.

Anyway, now that I know the KA-BAR's are hitting your mailboxes, it is time to properly thank the shop that did the work for us.

CADD Graphics, owned by David at NCRenegade. You'll remember that David and others were behind the Bank of America boycott, and he has some outstanding concepts for helping grow our community, which will be presented in the near future.

His son Chris did the work on our blades and handled the customer service aspects of our order. As I mentioned in an earlier tease, every single aspect of dealing with David & Chris was flawless.



Obviously we did not push the abilities envelope with our simple III graphic on our blades, but you can see by the top graphic and the images at their site that CADD is capable of doing first class, complex and beautiful work on your gear.

If you have been thinking about personalizing some of your gear, take your concept or artwork to Chris and have it done right. I am a big believer in personalized gear, because I subscribe to the John Hancock philosophy of letting my enemies know I stand against them in full view.

Stand up and be counted.

By the way: CADD did not do our first run of Cold Steel, but they will be doing all of our engraving in the future.

Here's their site. You will not be disappointed, and you'll be giving your business to III Patriots.

Kerodin
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LEO: Show me your Papers! How far are you willing to go?

Two stories from InfoWars showcase citizens who refuse to comply with LEO in a checkpoint and a demand for ID.

The guy who refused to present ID ended up tased.

So, folks, where are you on the response spectrum? If you were approached by LEO and they demanded ID, have you taken the decision yet that you will not comply? Have you decided if you will allow yourself to be tased or frisked? Have you decided if you will clear leather?

If you are willing to defend your 4A by clearing leather, do you plan to shoot & scoot and hope you don't get caught, or are you going to wait for their back-up and then take your chances in court?

Obviously if you are exercising 2A without permission, you have a real problem, because they will hit you with gun charges, which are almost certain to get you time. Clearing leather, or do you plan to merely make your 2A argument in court?

If you are on the road and run into a checkpoint that will reveal your Right Wing Extremist Terroristic proclivities, will you take your chances? Turn & run? Open fire when it is your turn in line? Backtrack, then Flank & Spank (TM)?

Someone will have to be the idiot...

InfoWars: ID story here.

InfoWars: Checkpoint story here.

Kerodin
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Spokane Mini-PatCom

Miss Violet and a few others will get together at Sustainable Preparedness at the end of September. If you can be there, you should be there.

Here's a post from Miss Violet on the gig.

This is how you do it, folks.

Kerodin
III

Dio: The Fleecing looms

Is ObamaCare merely another in a long line of thefts wrapped in the packaging of humanitarian kindness?

Read Dio's take, here.

Kerodin
III

TL: The Enemy of Law

TL's latest, here.

Kerodin
III

When you leave the porch...

I rarely go to pop culture to make a point, but when you leave the porch and you consider the moral costs of doing what must be done, one could do worse than this from Boondock Saints:

Now you will receive us.

We do not ask for your poor or your hungry.

We do not want your tired and sick.

It is your corrupt we claim.

It is your evil that will be sought by us.

With every breath we shall hunt them down.

Each day we will spill their blood ‘til it rains down from the skies.

Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. These are principles, which every man of every faith can embrace.

These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.

There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain.

But if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three [III], and on that day, you will repent.

And we will send you to whatever god you wish.

And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command.

We shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. [In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.]

The Restoration of Liberty and Morality is your task, Patriot.

There is no Evil or moral wrong in forcing the immoral, the amoral and the filth of our Domestic Enemies, of those who would be Masters among us to STFU, GTFO, or face your Judgment.

The security of a free state, the protection of the republic has always been, and shall always be, the task of We the People.

Think about it...

Kerodin
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III Patriot in Politics

I know a couple of you have put yourself out there and run for office.

I know it did not go well.

I wonder how much value there would be if a III Patriot were to run for a serious elected office, in terms of putting a voice for real Liberty on the airwaves.

Personally, I think the benefit could be profound. Of course there are many variables. Whoever stepped up would be brutalized. The odds of winning aren't even worth discussing.

But you can't name one single candidate for serious office who makes a case for our unifying premise: Liberty.

I've considered it, since noone else seems willing (and I don't blame anyone for not signing up for the abuse). I mentioned it to Holly, and I had to back out of the room very, very carefully. Obviously with my baggage I am not a good choice, but in the absence of anyone else being dumb enough to sign up...

Anyway, here is an article about DC Mayor Gray that demonstrates how even someone like me could rattle cages and get MSM attention for a Liberty message, even knowing how they'd spin it all. The Mayor accepted $650k in illicit funding, is unapologetic and has no intention of standing down. With an incumbent like that, even I could score double digits. ;)

Article here.

Kerodin
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CQB: Ma-ai

Ma ai is range, or distance, particularly in a combat setting.

One of the natural impulses of people just learning to fight at buckle-to-buckle distances is to create space between yourself and the enemy. The instinct is often correct. If a guy wants to kill me, I'd prefer he was in Ohio while I am at home.

But, alas, that isn't how it usually plays out.

In CQB situations there are times you want distance from your enemy and other times you want to get very close. The middle ground, where you can be hit while he/she is flat footed is very dangerous if you are otherwise out-matched.

For instance, if he has a knife (or she has a frying pan or Louisville Slugger) you will want to be sure to remain out of range of the weapon, until the moment you decide to engage. The distance between you is often called "the Gap" and when you choose to get close, it is "Closing the Gap".

I am smaller than most men, and lighter. I never broke 130# until I was 35 years old. Perhaps you can understand why I was eager to master the mechanics of range ASAP. Even today I do not want a big, strong guy to be close enough to hit me while he's flat-footed. Thank you, I'll hang out a bit further.

(Hard to believe, I know, given my sweet and diplomatic disposition, but I actually inspire the urge in many people to take a swing at me. It's a gift. ;)

When you decide to keep the gap between you and your enemy (or enemies) you must be quick, you may feel foolish at first if you have to run, duck, twist, jump suddenly, or put a tree between he and thee. Get over it. Yes, you are going to get hit before this is over, but getting hit on your terms is always a better option.

If he is going to swing at me, either empty hands or with a weapon, I want him to have to commit to the attack. That means I want him to have to close the gap as he swings or tries to grab me, so that he builds momentum and is moving toward me. It is in his motion that I find my openings to either retreat further or counter-attack.

Once I have decided to get close, I will close the gap or I will give him an opening to sucker him close so he closes the gap. If I close the gap, it is usually by entering the dead space he creates when swinging or moving, (for instance, he swings a bat and misses, I enter immediately after the bat passes me, while he is still swinging, or I enter ahead of the bat's leading arc and I am suddenly at his wrists) or I take the initiative and drive a simple kick toward his knee. If he moves, I have closed the gap. If he doesn't move, I step hard into his knee and take it out at a 90 degree angle. Many fights are over at this point.

When closing the gap you will often choose to shoot into his personal space as he lunges at you. Deflect the arm or weapon coming your way, let it breeze by you as you slip just off the line of attack, and then get busy.

Once you have closed the gap, it is time to go to work. End it as fast as possible.

Sometimes you just can't get anything to end the fight. He may be much stronger, bigger, faster, younger, angry. So, hold on and hide using his body. Delivering a knock-out punch is almost impossible if the person you are trying to knock out is hiding under your own arm. You just can't get the leverage or momentum for a powerful blow. Yes, if you are clinging to your enemy he'll land some annoying blows. Suck it up, wait for your opening, then execute whatever technique is available. Pull his throat out. Turn his eyeballs to jelly. Grab his 'nads and twist with both hands. Work for a choke or armbar.

Do you drill on reaching and deploying your folder with one hand while training? Strong hand and off hand? What about your pistol, if you carry? How good are you at getting those two fight-enders into action while deflecting blows, dodging bats, or wrestling on the ground with someone who is bigger, stronger, faster?

Work on it. If you can't reach and deploy your folding knife while pinned on your back, then use it to kill your attacker even while he is trying to crush your face, you have work to do.

Then do it with two attackers. Anyone in a serious Aiki dojo trains to 11 attackers.

You must learn to get comfortable up close. That's where you'll kill him.

Never quit. The moment you quit, he wins. You die. Everything you were fighting to protect now lives according to his whims.

Never quit. Ever. Take him with you if you must, but do not let him live beyond this fight.

Kerodin
III

Please stop sweating the UN Small Arms Treaty

Some folks are spending far more energy on this matter than is practical.

Fact: Only the President may sign a Treaty (At this moment the skuttlebutt is that Hillary will sign as a political signal)

Fact: The Senate must approve by 2/3 majority - and they do not have 67 votes for this treaty.

Fact: Even if the President signed and the Senate ratified, it is null and void because no treaty may trump fundamental Constitutional Rights.

This treaty has no more Constitutional validity than any other law passed in America that infringes 2A.

They only have the Power and Authority you permit them.

They may imprison or kill you for your disobedience, but they'll never have moral right on their side.

Of course, if Americans respect the law even if it is unconstitutional, then it doesn't much matter. Until Americans refuse to respect unconstitutional laws, the chains will grow tighter.

Kerodin
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Black & White

There is a reason Drudge is posting all images in black & white.

More and more people are aware of what is coming, what is being pushed by people who want a Ruckus.

Please do not fall into a Race War simply because Bad People set it up.

Here's Drudge.

Kerodin
III

Question: If Mo's Morons begin to destroy the Pyramids, should we kill them all?

So, Muslims are beginning to call for the destruction of the pyramids and other ancient creations that hold many secrets to our past.

The position of the Muslims is, essentially, anything dating prior to Mo's coming into existence is an insult to Mo.

So, does America unilaterally march into Egypt and prevent the destruction of one of the wonders of the world?

Here's an article on the topic.

Kerodin
III

PJB: Our casino capitalists are playing with fire.

Buchanan discusses the Libor rigging and general corruption in big finance, and the stain these Banksters are creating on the very fundamentals of Capitalism.

Banksters. Politicians. Lawyers. Voters who vote for Tyranny.

Enemies of Liberty, all.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
III

Basic Violence Preps

Every man, woman and child should be familiar and proficient in a core skill set of violent capabilities, even if you never anticipate conflict.

What do you need to know?

Here are my core recommendations:

~ Handgun: Become as proficient as possible with your preferred handgun. If you can hit what you aim to hit at 35 yards, with combat loads from un-natural positions, in poor lighting, good for you. Also practice double taps & triple taps (2 shots to center mass and one to the head). Shoot with your weak hand. Shoot with a pistol in each hand. Learn to shoot without the sights, both from the hip and from shoulder height. Finally, expose yourself to as many different handgun designs as possible, so if you pick something up in a hot moment, it isn't the first time you are trying to decipher the controls.

~ Rifle: Become as proficient as possible with your preferred longarm. Hit what you want to hit out to 100 yards with iron sights and without a rest, then work as much range into your shooting as possible. Learn optics. As with handguns, shoot as many different longarms as possible for familiarization. Work in a 12 gauge scattergun.

**Caliber: Shoot the most powerful load you can comfortably control and handle. If you can put more hits on target with your .22 Buckmark than your tricked & slicked .45 bottomfeeder, carry the .22 and trust it. Where you hit is almost always more important than what you hit with...and only a fool ignores the 80 pound lass who can hit him with that "pipsqueak" rimfire. When he's dead, give his cannon to someone in your Tribe. ;)

~ Knives: Train with a serious battle blade like a Cold Steel Tanto or a KA-BAR. Don't worry about "Knife Fighting", learn how to stick him with the pointy end while avoiding the sharp parts of his blade. Then train with a folder that you keep with you everywhere you go, including the toilet and bed.

~ CQB: Every single reader should get experience in hitting and being hit now, so the first time you take an elbow to the cheek is not in a real death fight. I don't care who you are or what belt you hold in whatever art - six months of serious Krav Maga will prepare you to kill the vast majority of people you need to kill when it gets up close and ugly. By serious I mean at least 4 classes each week, and go hard. You'll find as you get more proficient where you can work in your knife and handgun skills. If you have more than six months, find a good Brazilian Ju-Jutsu class to add to your Krav skills. If you are in good enough shape and can afford the cost and time, start your ju-jutsu at the same time as Krav. Please do not begin your training with an "MMA" program, because the teacher says you'll learn all the good stuff together. Learn Krav for your foundation, then experiment.

**Martial Artists** Don't bother me with "This art is better..." arguments, please. Save that stuff for your MA blogs. There is no better art out there for teaching a person how to defend themselves and kill an attacker as quickly and efficiently as Krav.

~ Attitude: There are simple realities with fighting for your life, especially at close range. First, you will get hit, you will take damage, you will get hurt, you may even die. Forget anything and everything Hollywood has told you. It does not matter how good you are, how much training you've had, you will not emerge from any fight, including ones you "win" without injury. Period.

There are some aspects regarding fighting that simply can't be taught, among those is the mental ability to kill. You can build skills that make you more confident and less hesitant, but no skills will help you if you are unwilling to use them.

Surviving a death fight is not about defending yourself, disarming the other guy, wounding him, or saving anyone else. There is only one goal, and you must learn to seek that goal even if you die to accomplish it - Kill Him! You must abandon your desire to live, push it down, for it will only get in your way. Your only focus is to kill him. Everything else will take care of itself.

~ Common Sense: Folks, never be afraid to run away. Run fast and scream like a girl being chased by a worm that wants to tickle your tonsils if it helps. Run until circumstances are as favorable to you as possible.

I offer my Shichi Toku core package in private settings only, offered only to a single person or a small group or family unit. My core program is a set of 17 techniques drawn from several martial arts, designed to end a deathfight in your favor, as quickly as possible. Blue handgun and knife trainers are used. I don't advertise, I'm not looking to open a dojo. I reserve the training essentially to potential SafeRoom clients, but I am considering offering it to Patriots. If I decide to offer the course to Patriots, it will be free. (It is decidedly NOT cheap to clients, they could buy a nice car for what I charge. I do not offer belts or certificates and I charge a flat fee per technique, as did most serious Japanese teachers of old)

If folks are genuinely interested I'll consider offering a few classes to III Patriots, so if this is something you'd appreciate, let me know either on this post or in email. If so, I'll try to find a way to work out the logistics.

Above is what I consider to be a minimum level of proficiency for every Patriot and Patriot's child. Obviously you'll want to evolve beyond the waypoints I've listed.

The womenfolk must know how to kill a man who gets too close.

It is going to happen...

Kerodin
III

Hard Things

The other day CA linked to a discussion on a concept labeled "The Orkin Man".

We have discussed the same concept on our blogs many times, usually with sufficiently nuanced language as to avoid a Stack. If you browsed the comments at Orkin Man you found a great deal of reluctance by many, many folks who claim to be Patriots. In our community the same hand-wringing turns nearly every conversation on the topic into a flame war by those who are morally offended at the concept of hunting Bad People and those who are not so encumbered with guilt.

If you are a Patriot who considers it morally acceptable to hunt Enemies of Liberty who are not directly and personally holding guns at your head, I hope you have realized just how many people will stand against you, label you a murderer, even from within the III. Many, many in the III community consider it a moral crime if you were to grab a blade and drag it across the neck of every Democrat donor in your AO.

Let me clarify that a bit: I think many people hide behind the moral argument to avoid having to go to work themselves.

Remember Scott Roeder? He walked into a church and put a bullet into the brain of George Tiller, ending the career of an abortionist. Yet every pro-life group raced and stumbled and tripped over themselves to condemn Roeder as a murderer, and they beat the pro-choice groups to the microphones! Even in the III community, supposedly filled with hardcore Patriots of religious fiber and a willingness to kill for moral reasons, not one single person ever defended Roeders actions as a necessary evil that benefitted the world by eliminating a man who butchered babies under color of law. Who has sent money to his prison commissary account so the man can at least buy a few packets of mackeral to get a break from the kitchen mess?

I find that fascinating. I find that lonely.

And for you folks who preach incessantly about the immorality of abortion, I find your lack of direct action to end it to be the very definition of hypocrisy. If you think abortion is murder and you do not have the balls to kill a murderer, just STFU about it because you are an embarassment, an intellectual midget, and worse, you lack the courage to act on your convictions.

And when I apply that knowledge to the Orkin Man strategy of leaving your sofa and hunting Enemies of Liberty in your AO, I am comfortable to conclude that if any Patriot ever does go hunting, he'll be abandoned by all of the tough talkers on these boards faster than the Merry Leader abandoned the Geriatric Militia and the Hutaree.

I know I am now talking to a very small minority of people in the III community, I am talking to that very small group of men and women who actually have the grit to do Hard Things without waiting for others. (If you are one of those III Patriots who constantly asks "Is it time yet" and looks left and right to see if anyone will go with you, a bit of introspection is in order)

We are now in a time of action. The words we type here will not contribute one whit to the restoration of Liberty. I am not saying leave the porch and start hunting Bad People. I am saying that action should be part of every single day of every single Patriot, in addition to words.

Whining, crying, moaning, wailing, hand-wringing, moral quibbling while Bad People are out there taking your Liberty as trophies is pointless. Think Nero.

When will the first Enemy of Liberty be found duct taped to the flag pole at City Hall with a III sticker stapled to his forehead? Hell, when will one of us even find the balls to egg his house?

It is time for Sons of Liberty to do Hard Things.

Kerodin
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