New Blog

Mrs. Wirecutter started a blog, here.  Yes, you need to be there.

Sidenote: Folks, I adjusted the settings to comment IIIPercent - too much Spam getting through.  I'm not sure how this may affect regular comments.  But no more Anonymous comments is the result, I think.

K

Counting Down...

I will be busy and probably offline most of the day, working on III Projects with others behind the scenes.

The bubble above is the stock market.  I wrote on this the other day.  The stock market is at highs that simply do not correlate with any reality in our known Universe.  This is a bubble of a magnitude that dwarfs even the housing bubble, and it simply can not obtain in a world governed by physics and mathematics.  Simple arithmetic will demonstrate to anyone who cares to check that this path leads directly, and quickly, to Implosion.

Here's the real problem: There is no more cushion in the system to absorb this implosion when it happens.  There is no other place to shift the debt.  When the banks were exposed as financial failures in 2008 the debt shifted to sovereigns - and now that the sovereigns are failing, there is no remaining marketplace that can absorb the hit.  None.

Lead is Gold.  Food and water will be weapons of mass destruction.  If you do not have silver or gold to buy what you need to survive, if you do not have lead to defend what you have or take what you need, if you do not have liquor, tobacco or other barter items, you are going to die.

It can't happen here?

Look around.  It is happening here.  Right now.

Americans have been many generations removed from direct threats.  Our nation has so long-prospered that the average American does not understand true peril, what it means to not have a stocked grocery store, what it means to not have easily obtainable anti-biotics, what it means to have rape, murder and pillage and plunder as a part of every single day.

We are about to be reminded.

Humans are a savage species.  Americans have been lulled into a state of delusion over generations of safety and easy food and easy life.

That is nearly over, and the learning curve is going to kick some ass.

I do not know if Implosion will be this week, this month, or my original 3-18 month prediction.  Millions of clever people work every single day to push Implosion one more day into the future, driven by their own self-interests.  But there are Men who mean to be Masters using great forces to crash the system, and they will win.  The clever people are simply trying to keep the current system alive in an effort to loot as much as they can before Implosion.  So the end is the same, the only variable is when.

In the coming economy (there will always be an economy, even if the rules become a bit more realistic and ruthless) the people who prevail and prosper are those who are producers.  Do what you can now to become a manufacturer of some vital good or service that you can implement post-implosion.  Can you manufacture (and defend) food?  You win.  Can you heal the sick (even if that means you know how to grow penicillin?)  Can you produce the means of defense, such as firearms or the bullets they eat?  Can you make knives?  Can you make liquor?

Find something you can make or build and use what resources you have right now to acquire the means to produce that widget.

The economy will recover and a new form of governance will emerge.  This is the way of Man.

Personally, I intend to work to provide a safe place for my Tribe, to include as many producers as possible in that Tribe, and then to assert our strength to ensure Liberty remains alive, even if only beneath our own feet.  I think some version of 1.5 is essential - Citadel folks get the reference.  We'll have to work on fleshing that out beginning next week.

I would suggest every single person who routinely reads the III blogs should hit a gun show this weekend.  No matter how much you have, it isn't enough.  You will need more ammo than you think.  Your firearms will break and need parts.  Magazines will wear out.  You will have some stuff looted or distributed to Tribe.  You don't have enough, and the 2A industry will never return to where it was prior to Aurora.  The Marxists will never stop coming for 2A.  The Marxists in .Gov will not stop placing ammo orders that keep ammo off the market or priced too high, powder and components in short supply.  What is out there and available now is, essentially, a finite, zero-sum Universe.  Pay the money today to get what you need, because the next Sandy Hook will crash the 2A industry - it will never be able to re-supply retail shelves.  Period.

You have been warned.

Kerodin
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No Peace

Do you remember in the movie Independence Day when the alien was speaking through Brent Spiner, and told the President there would be no peace between the species?

I had the misfortune of having to be in Chicago yesterday for reasons I care not to disgust - er, discuss.  I scanned through radio stations and had  the greater misfortune of learning that a woman named Stephanie Miller has a radio show and she's something of a big deal in the world of Marxists.

Anyway, since I must have misogynistic tendencies, I listened.  It was like a horrible and bloody train wreck - I just couldn't stop listening.  The station also features shows from Alan Combs and Ed Shultz, so you get it.  Thank the Gods I was out of range as Stephanie's show ended and I didn't make my ears bleed with whatever show followed hers.

My take-away: No Peace.

I have said it many times in the course of three years of writing: Patriots and Marxists can not coexist.  It was confirmed for me once again, yesterday.

No Peace.  We can not coexist because the Marxists will not permit it.  They have an agenda predicated on interference and dominance.  They are physically, verbally and mentally incapable of simply leaving people alone and minding their own f'n business.

Every Patriot I know - and I know many thanks to this blog and you fine people - just want to be left the hell alone to enjoy our Natural Rights until we die peacefully, surrounded by our loved ones.  We'd let them do whatever-the-hell they want to do - but leave us out of it.  But that simply is not in their DNA.

And they mean to be your Masters.  Just listen to one of her shows.  I bet one will be enough for you to understand - they will never, ever stop seeking to impose their will upon you, using your dollars to finance the activity.

No Peace.

There can be no coexistence.

Own it.  Then we can resolve it.  Stop trying to avoid the issue, folks.  Stop trying to back up and avoid the confrontation.  They will chase you anywhere you go.  They will chase us to the Citadel, I know it.  If you stay where you are, they will come into your home.  They will disarm you by attrition if not by force (Bought any good, cheap fighting ammo or arms recently?)

In all ages there will be men who mean to be Masters.  Some of those *men* have vaginas.

Stop tolerating.  Stop backing up out of the goodness of your Souls.  Our fuses have been too long.

You'd better find your war footing, because they have theirs. 

They mean to have you bend knee, go to prison, or die.  Bought a pound of butter recently?  The cheapest is $4 per pound at my local grocery store.  Diesel fuel has jumped 35 cents per gallon in 3 weeks.  Any idea what that does to truckers who move goods from A to B?  That's part of the reason butter is $4 per pound.  They are deliberately murdering the dollar and they are going to make it impossible to eat.  Got seeds to grow your own?  Got 2A to defend it?

But the fight need not go that way.  We need not wait until we are starving and broke and our cities are in riotous and smoldering ruins.

I'm thinking of Rommel and CA's evolution of the Desert Fox's simple, efficient war principle.

When the time comes: In the absence of orders, go find something Evil and kill it.

CA: That may just become part of the new & improved Kerodin Doctrine.  ;)

If every single Patriot reading this blog simply hog-tied 5 Marxists and put them on a boat leaving US soil, this nonsense would end overnight.

Think about it.

Kerodin
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Truckers: Hunting Permit

Professional big rig truckers: You hereby have my endorsement to hunt stupid drivers in their natural habitat - or wherever you find the bastards - and you have an unlimited bag limit.

No paperwork.

Run 'em in a ditch, or add a MadMax bumper, or simply drive them into a ditch at any point of interaction.

You have my permission.  In fact, if you catch a case and land in a Low or Camp, I'll lead an extraction.  I can't promise I have the energy this week to pull you out of a SuperMax.

It is time to cull the herd of stupid people, and stupid drivers are as good as any place to start.

Drive right, Pass left.  What's so freakin' hard?

Kerodin
III

Texas proposes criminalizing Federal 2A Infringements

I mentioned there is significant interest from some folks in the great State of Texas to locate certain III assets along the Gulf Coast.  A significant number of you weighed-in.  You seem to like the idea, too.

Bob Owens is reporting that Texas is considering whether to join Wyoming in making it illegal for Feds to enforce anti-2A laws in the state.

I'm only one guy with an idea for another business in the 2A arena (not III Arms) and I also have a fondness for the idea of a small-scale Citadel in that part of Texas.  But I can say this: If Texas follows through and double-dawg-dares FedGov to stay out of Texas with anti-2A crap, I'll make it happen.  I'll make sure one of my businesses locates in the Gulf area and that we pursue a Citadel.

But none of that wishy-washy stuff as happened with airport scanners.

Do your Texan politicians have what it takes to do this and mean it?

Here's the link.

Kerodin
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Bracken on Democide at WRSA

Think it can't happen here?

Then you're the one they have in mind.  And your little dog, too.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
III

The Stock Market Bomb - tick, tick, tick...

Folks, you know that I never really give investing advice, because I'm not qualified beyond my minimal existence as an adult of 45 years age.

My number one bit of advice remains the same: Lead is the new gold, preps and barter items such as liquor and tobacco are worth far more than current FRN costs.

Now to the Drudge headline: The Stock Market is breaking all records, and I think we all know it is a bubble of unconscionable proportions.  When it blows, it may well be the trigger many of us anticipate for full contact life.

Silver is under $30 an ounce at the moment.  Gold is at or near $1600 - a low spot for the last while.

If you have satisfied all your other prep commitments, I'd seriously consider silver right now.

And that's all I'm going to say about that...

Kerodin
III

Mo. House Bill Makes Proposing Gun Control Illegal

Item One: This is how you deal with people who would infringe your Natural Rights - in a polite manner.  A less polite manner would be an immediate beat-down and/or double-tap.  On the spot, at the moment of attempted infringement.  And no, waiting to file paperwork with LEO is not necessary when defending your Natural Rights.

Item Two: Anyone who doesn't see an imminent violent clash between Liberty and Enemies of Liberty is not paying attention, or not realistic.

Item Three: Win.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
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Just repeal the Second Amendment...Not

I've seen some dangerous language from a few people on "our side" of the 2A debate that is essentially taunting the Marxists and Enemies of Liberty to simply muster the votes and repeal 2A by Article V requirements.

If you surrender the premise that 2A can be repealed under Article V you do 2 things: You reveal that your comprehension of the mechanics of the Constitution are shallow, and you surrender the premise that Natural Rights are inviolate, that Natural Rights may be morally revoked by a majority vote.

I will begin with a premise that many on our side argue with me.  I hold that the phrase "...declaratory and restrictive clauses..." in the preamble to the BoR takes the BoR off the table from Article V.  Most of the people who argue against my position are modern-trained lawyers who have been "taught" what the Constitution "means" by their professors.  The moment a lawyers tells me what is "legal" under the Constitution, I add a pound of sea salt to the answer.  (I offer as an example that a 78 year old lawyer lost a bet with me that there even existed a preamble to the BoR - and that SCOTUS says ObamaCare is Constitutional)

Here's a better argument: The Bill of Rights merely recognizes Natural Rights of Man.  They are not bestowed by Government or any group of men, therefore they may not be infringed by Government or any other group of men.  Who has the Right to take from you the freedom of speech?  Who has the Right to take from you anything that was bestowed upon you by your Creator?

Bad People may vote 2A out of the Constitution, but that does not remove your Right to to self defense or the tools thereof.  And any such Bad Person who tries has helped in your IFF matrix.

But look down the list of the first ten Amendments and tell me which is not a Natural Right bestowed upon you in the womb by your Creator, and I will yield the point that Article V may apply to that Amendment.

You can't do it.  I would even add that the 13th Amendment fits the litmus test of "irrevocable" under Article V: The 13th certainly can't be morally revoked by Man, because slavery is a direct violation of the Natural, Creator-bestowed Right of the enslaved.  You might think I would add the 15th, but you'd be mistaken.

2A allies - please stop challenging the Enemies of Liberty to simply repeal 2A.  Instead, take the hardline position that to even attempt to criminalize any Natural Right is Treason, punishable as such.

Remember folks: Some mistakes in life you only get to make one time.

Kerodin
III

There will be an American Reign of Terror...or absolute Slavery

The number of people new to this blog is significant.  I know many have surfed through my archives and the material at Kerodin.com, but given some of the questions in email that I receive, I know there are many who have not perused my old material, only cherry-picked.

So I will offer this one post to serve as a "State of the Kerodin Mindset" so new readers don't have to try to fit 3 years of writing into an analysis.  I will not go into depth on any single topic - the answers exist in my previous writings.

I am a Constitutionalist, and I believe the only true hope for Liberty is Restoration, a reset to an ...as ratified... state.  No, ...as ratified... does NOT mean black people return to slavery or that women revert to chattel status.  I can't be bothered to explain why that argument is dishonest, at best.

The Constitution (including the Bill of Rights) implemented in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence is the only realistic way for Liberty to survive in this world filled with Marxists.

For clarification: The Citadel is open to anyone who embraces Jefferson's Rightful Liberty.  One need not be a Constitutionalist to be accepted in the Citadel.

I am an ardent advocate of Jefferson's Rightful Liberty: Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I have been accused by many of my enemies of advocating child murder and wholesale genocide of anyone who is "Blue" in our modern American vernacular.  This is, of course, hoakum put forth by people who want to taint my message.  Here is my position, and you will find it repeated in dozens of my columns dating back for years: Marxists, Socialists, Liberals, Dems and Establishment Rs, and anyone who votes for them or supports them or facilitates their actions are all guilty of violating the Rights of Americans, using the Constitution as their "Legitimacy".

This is Treason.  These are attempts to overthrow the Constitution.

These people must be removed from the levers of power in America.  They may go home, shut up, and all is well.  They may leave the country, never to return.  If they persist in violating the Constitution, thus our Natural Rights, they will be given the option to be put on planes, ships, caravans or Nikes and sent across our borders - never to return.

If they fail to shut up, stand down, and leave, and they fail to stop attempting to violate the Natural Rights of Americans, the final option on the table is trial by their peers for Treason and for violating basic human rights.

Treason: Yes, voting for a politician who promises to violate the Constitution is most definitely waging war against the republic in an attempt to overthrow the Supreme Law of the Land.  If you can't see that, then I can't help you.

Traitors suck.  We give them the chance to cease and desist.  We give them the chance to walk away.  We give them the chance to get on the plane out of the country.  And if they refuse, trial by peers.

Trial by peers will not be an orderly and organized affair.  History tells us so.  It will more closely resemble mob justice.  That's just life.  I didn't make the rules, but I recognize them.  So any Enemy of Liberty who ends up in a shallow grave in their front yard, put there by a group of neighbors has only himself to blame.

The issues before us are black and white.  There is only gray if one chooses to obfuscate the reality.

Liberty or denial of Liberty.  That's it.  Nothing else is on the table.

Which side of the table is yours?

It is the Marxists and their allies who are pushing this conflict into reality, right now.

The Law of Unintended Consequences is a bitch.

P.S.: A Con-Con is an immediate act of war.  There will not be a single anti-Marxist in the room - it is a Coup.  It is war.

Kerodin
III

Where Armalite stands...

...here's the post.

My position: If you are a seller of weapons or ammunition to members of the State who deny their Citizens the same weapons, your firm deserves to fail.  Every person earning a paycheck at such a firm is doing so at the expense of the oppressed Countrymen being denied the tools for self defense against the State.

That's simply not cool.

I rec'd an email advising me that FedGov has just issued an RFP for "...7,000 short-barreled LMGs..."

Now, 7,000 could be nothing more than a routine rotation of inventory - or not.  Either way, the company that fills that order is complicit in arming those who would be Masters.

Use the information as you will.

Kerodin
III

Audentes Fortuna Iuvat

Raven's Wood Enterprises is offering a III Patch, pictured above.  (This is *NOT* a IIIGear product, just for clarification)

I don't care where you buy your III gear, folks - just fly 'em.

Morale.  Cohesion.  Brand Identity.

It all goes to the same place in history.

Here are the details from the vendor:

~~

Raven's Wood Enterprises has received a significant number of requests for the "III" patch and so here's the updated and improved original "III" patch, Audentes Fortuna Iuvat (Fortune Favors the Bold) will be available on 1 March 13 for a limited run to gauge interest.

Patches are $6 each post paid, and orders are accepted for cash (sender's risk), USPS money order, certified or cashier's checks made out to:

Raven's Wood Enterprises, LLC.

PO Box 962

Birmingham, MI  48012

Orders should include a note with a shipping address, and the number of patches ordered equal to the total amount in the envelope.

Example:  Order for 3 patches

Note:

Send 3 patches to J. Public

1234 Main Street

Any Town, USA  00000

$18 enclosed

Cash, USPS Money Orders, certified and cashier's checks processed and shipped immediately; personal check orders held for 10 days until cleared by RWE's bank.

Lords of War

A few gun companies have capitalized on recent events and sentiments to help raise their brand awareness among the gunning world.  OlyArms is one of the more widely known.  In a former life when they acquired Safari Arms (a brilliant line of 1911 pistols in their day prior to Oly, by the way) Oly was held in high esteem in my mind.

Now ask yourself this: Does your gun company, favorite ammunition brand, or other gear supplier actively solicit LEO contracts?

Denying New Yorkers a 1911 is to deny them the means of defending themselves against the very tyranny they now face, no?  Are the companies presently not sending to New York and California doing so for ideological reasons, or crafty PR?  Taking the business decision not to submit your wares to expensive California hurdles is one thing - yet selling to California State forces is quite another.

Arming those oppressors is something altogether more cynical, indeed sinister.

OlyArms would fold tomorrow without their Government contracts.  I wonder what brands of rifles are in the hands of the LEO riding in your town, right now, who may one day crackle over the scanner "...burn that motherfucker..." at your residence.

Are you allowing yourself to be played by clever marketing slugs?  You'll have to decide.

Any arms company that is willing to arm both sides of a conflict is immoral.

So, what to do?  If you want ammunition that is made by a company that doesn't sell to any Government, you'll have to roll your own - and that includes making your own brass and primers, powder and bullets.

If you want a well-made firearm made by a company that will not sell to Government, you have a few more options, but not many.  Glock?  Beretta?  Ruger?  Colt?  Good luck finding a modern large manufacturer that doesn't sell to the State, indeed, that does not actively chase .Gov contracts.

What to do?

Good luck with that one.  I have a few ideas, but none are very realistic at this point in time.  Well, one or two are...

Kerodin
III

IIIGear

Large shipment ready to go, and another will go Wednesday.  Remember, Post Office is closed today for the holiday.  Patch SNAFUs all squared away and the only thing outstanding once these two shipments go will be an order of KA-BARs, the replacement 1245 Tantos they owe us, one Cold Steel Master Tantos.

I am still waiting for my new patch order with the Molon Labe tabs, will let you know when it comes in.

Shirts and sweats all shipping this week.

Tom K. - got you covered.

It will remain very busy here for the week and into early next week, but don't hesitate to write if you need to touch base.

K

How would you conquer America...

Communism is a very efficient form of tyranny.

If you think Communism has been relegated to the history books, you are wrong.

There is a piece at Activist Post and the writer draws several conclusions with which I differ, though he also articulates many points that can't be challenged.  In the piece the author assigns our coming Civil War as a design by a small group of families that rule the world.  I can't go there.  He also states that multi-national forces from tyrannical countries are standing in the wings to put boots on American soil and aid a traitorous American FedGov (and some State Govs) is murdering Liberty and dividing America among the several players.

I can't really go there, either.  I just can't get my head wrapped around US .mil permitting ChiCom or Russian boots on the ground, even under UN blue helmets.

What I do see is a group of people who want an America that has been scaled back to a hemispheric power and transformed toward a Communist State, leaving Asia for the Chinese and Europe for the Russians.

I agree with the article in that a disarmed American populace is on the agenda, and those who remained armed will be branded enemies of the state.

I will go further, and state that I think the final phase has been engaged.  The Enemies of Liberty plan to have this rolled up before the question of a 2016 election cycle comes around.  I see the next 3-18 months as the time period in which things go hot, by hook, crook, or otherwise.  States are on the cusp of confiscations, right now.  They are laying that ground.  States are being isolated with cooperative governments in place.  In New York, California and Illinois - major populations, and critical to American economic infrastructure, the Leftists are putting in place laws to criminalize self defense.  It will be manageable for FedGov to combine forces with NYPD, LAPD and ChicagoPD assets to enforce capitulation on three fronts, leaving red states alone - for now.

Once these blue states are under control, the ability to concentrate forces on the second-tier states, a few at a time, becomes easier.

It is the same philosophy of Waco on a state-wide level.  Concentrate all forces to achieve the ends, then move on to unconquered territory.

Time will tell if my assessment is correct.

But consider three years from now the possibility of FedGov's ability to focus 80 percent of its resources, combined with assets from New York, California, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Florida, and a few other enclaves on Texas.  The ability to make Texans starve to death becomes easy (remember the mere threat to stop air travel into Texas?) combined with the military force at hand and the betrayal of Texans that already control political offices in DFW, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso...

Texans, set your pride aside, and look at the reality.  Now consider how fast Alabama or Louisiana would fold under the same pressure...

Think about it.  The divide and conquer one bit at a time works - so long as Patriots stay on the sidelines and do not flank the Bad People...like we are doing, now.

Here's the link to Activist Post.

Kerodin
III

A picture is worth thousands of words...

'nuff said.

III Arms, here.

Kerodin
III

The Left's new Spin on DiFi's Ban

"Silly Right-Wing Extremists gun-nut domestic terrorists!  DiFi leaves you more than 2,200 machines of death available to kill Bambi!  Can't you find one on the list to sate your bloodlust!  You just can't reason with these gun freaks!"

Here's the spin - er, article.

Artwork courtesy of Zoomie, even if it is wrong.

Kerodin
III

How do you say Fuck You, let me count the ways...

Sometimes you don't need to say a word to your enemies.

Sometimes you can simply smile and let them simmer in their own suck.

Times like this, for instance...

Good job, Mister Miller.

Kerodin
III

Remember: The Universe doesn't care...

This last week has been busy for several people and projects in our little III world.

Last week one of our little helpers sent several IIIGear orders out with the wrong patches.  Not the end of the world, new packages with proper patches shipped.  A small pallet of other IIIGear orders shipped.  4 new IIIGear orders placed with vendors, thanks to all of the new Patriots who are finding the III.

Discussions on a very preliminary level with certain elected officials in Texas about locating a Citadel and related businesses along the Gulf Coast.  More Citadel discussions with 2 international documentary film makers who want the Citadel as a series - and yes, you'd recognize the names.  (In case you are wondering - there are more than 18 such film makers we have not answered.)  III Arms has an event coming up that has kept several people busy - from publishing a newspaper with a tip of the hat to Thomas Jefferson, to arranging trips to Chicago and other destinations, to having banners made, and more.

Contact with a local official in Idaho regarding Citadel details was made.

There is much more, but who cares?  They are all details.

What have you done in the last week to prepare for the Evil that this way comes?

You know it is coming.  You know it is not slowing down to give you more time to prepare.  Did you use the last week wisely?  If your preps are good, did you lay-in barter goods from the liquor store and tobacco house?  Did you hit the Krav mats?

In the last week the Enemies of Liberty have continued to lay the ground and advance on your positions.  Earth has traveled about 11.2 million miles in the last week.  A few meteors hit.  About 1.07 million people died in the last week.  About 2.5 times as many were born.

How many years do you have left, if you die of natural causes at an "average" age?

There is a big world out there.  There is a lot that happens every day that has nothing to do with whether or not Liberty in America expands or contracts.  Your life is on a countdown clock.  Make sure you get some Life in before you croak-out.

And here's another hint: If each and every Patriot in America would simply gear up and live for one single month at true Liberty, protecting the Liberty beneath your feet against advances by Tyrants of every ilk, Liberty would be secure for generations.

But that's another conversation.

Kerodin
III

Gun Show Reports - What did you see - or not see?

What's out there?

What's *not* out there?

Crowds?

Kerodin
III