With Reasonable Men...

Your skin color does not matter in the eyes of the Enemies of Liberty.

You're White?  So what?  They are slaughtering White men and women every single day.

Did you not understand as you were growing up that what you saw "Them" doing to the Black culture was what they had in mind for you, eventually?  Does not your knowledge of American history inform you that whether your skin is red, black, yellow or white, it doesn't matter?  Did you really think you were special because of that white skin, and that Bad People would never act against you?

Silly rabbit, they were simply saving you for last...

Tyrants do not care what color your skin may be.  They do not care to which God you pray.  They care that you bend knee.  Period.

Please stop focusing on the diversion tactics being employed against you.  Identify the real enemy, lock on target, and go to work.

It is my fervent hope that every real Patriot will read the words above and internalize them, make them part of your Soul:  With reasonable men I will reason.  With humane men I will plea.  But to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Read this from Bill, please.

And read this at CA's place on the topic, with Bill.

BonnieGadsden, here.

Kerodin
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Invitation for Guest Post

I'm inviting a tech-savvy Patriot to write a piece about options for turning on a smartphone, recording video and getting it up to the cloud as efficiently as possible.

Here's the scenario: Good Guy suddenly finds himself in a confrontation (of any sort) and he wants it recorded and disseminated ASAP.  Is there a Bluetooth (or better vehicle) camera/microphone that the Good Guy can wear wirelessly, and activate the phone that also gets the video/audio into the cloud? 

Holding the phone while both hands are otherwise busy poses a problem.  If you manage to record to the phone, but it falls into Bad Guy hands, the video can be deleted.  Also, you may not be able to actually reach the phone to start the app if things get sporty unexpectedly.

So, the goal is to touch a button (camera/mic) that stays on a ballcap or lapel, that automatically starts the recording and uploading functions.

Any of you Techie Patriots have a solution, or more than one?  If you have a blog, I'll link you.  If not, I invite you to write and I'll post it verbatim here.

Kerodin
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For a friend.

Share your wishes, here.

Kerodin
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How Hard

Training exercises I invite you to try:

1) Find a heavy punching bag and go hard on it for 120 seconds - I mean hard.  No stopping, punches and knees and elbows.  Can you make it to 120 seconds?  If you do, do you feel like dying?  Build your wind.

2) Get a partner, it can even be your wife/husband.  Arrest her.  Get a large zip tie or even paracord and truss her up.  Tell her to go hard and NOT get arrested.  The object is not to hurt your spouse or partner, obviously, but to give you a taste of what you will be facing if you ever have to make another person submit without breaking them.  Then try the same exercise on a guy who is bigger/younger/stronger/faster than you...

Annnnnnnnnnd - Go!

Kerodin
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I'm smiling today...

There is some inside baseball happening that is just flippin' amusing as hell right now, all fallout from driving a group of White Nationalist fucks out of my life.  They should have left me alone when I asked politely. 

One of the most amusing aspects is watching just how many people got butthurt over it - people who try to hide their racist views in religion and patriotism, yet when the light is shined on them they scatter like diseased roaches.  Like a black hole, one can't see exactly what happens inside, but you can get a pretty good idea what's happening by watching the edges.  I stirred the shit (with considerable help from Bill and others who shall remain anonymous) and I can't help but laugh at all the butthurt filth who are acting damaged because they got splattered.

Folks, please understand that there is a deliberate push to "take over" the Liberty Movement by racist garbage.  Associating with them will taint everything for which decent Human Beings stand.  You have to watch the people with whom you associate, many try to hide their true feelings and goals in drapes of patriotism and religion.  But when you see it, stomp it.

The first part of the song above is mockery.  The back half is not.  It speaks on many levels, and it is probably not the cup of tea many of you prefer.  But, I have a wide range of music I like, and I especially like music with a message.  And an ass-kickin' baseline is never a bad thing.

Vocational Terrorist - that's just adorable!

Stay safe, folks.

Kerodin
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NC PatCon Update

Are you coming to Brock's fall PatCon in North Carolina?

If you have not yet been to a PatCon or RTC event, open carry rally, I promise you that coming to Brock's place to meet your fellow Patriots will be an event that changes your life, that helps affirm that you are not alone, that gives to you the gift of meeting like-minded Americans who seek the Liberty described in our Declaration of Independence.

There will be training available, from my CQB course to medical and more.  There will be speakers.  There will be good food, good people, and a revitalization of the heart.

Here's Brock's update.  If you can be there, I encourage you to do it. 

I hope to see you there.

Kerodin
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Florida CQB

I have posted the above video twice before, the first time early in 2012, and again this March.  Please watch it.  Mute it, then crank your favorite head-bangin', kitten-stompin' music as you watch.  This is Krav Maga.  I have been advocating to every single person who is serious about Liberty to immerse in a Krav program for at least 6 months.  Immerse - that means you go to every class you can attend for six months and you go hard, surrender to the pain, feel what it is like to hit and get hit.  (Here's my March post.)

Krav is NOT an art I have studied beyond the academic.  It is an art I have faced, and I promise you this - facing a trained and motivated Krav fighter is going to be a handful, and I don't care what skillset you have built over the years.  I got my first taste of handling a Krav attack from a lass who learned it during her mis-spent youth in Israel, and then applied and refined it in the real world.  This is not to boast: I know I could handle her, but it would not be free, and it would take everything I've got to walk away alive.

We were very fortunate Saturday in Florida to have a Patriot among us who has a year of Krav under his belt, and his wife trains with him also.  As you can imagine, I paid considerable attention to him through the day and I remain convinced in my convictions: If you want to learn how to stay alive in a serious buckle-to-buckle ruckus, in the shortest time possible, find a Krav studio and do it.  The biggest problem our Krav student had Saturday was overcoming his muscle memory - he tended to receive an attack as he would in his Krav studio, he fell into his reflexive responses, and I promise you that is NOT a bad thing.  In a year of Krav he has enough muscle memory that in a real fight it will be his to lose - he has the skills to survive.  I was glad to see him really work to incorporate the techniques I shared, and I told him what I will tell all of you - take what works for you and ignore the rest. 

You might think my Ego would lead me to push my fellow Patriots into the arts I have studied.  Nope.  I have culled a selection of techniques from all of the arts I have studied, and created this course to be a fast, brutal set of skills.  I don't make a dime by steering anyone to a Krav school - I am telling you that from a lifetime in the arts, Krav is where you go if you want to learn real skills, real fast. 

I have only one critique regarding Krav - and it is a critique, NOT a criticism - unlike a finesse art, Krav is hardcore from start to finish.  The ONLY weak spot I see in Krav is that some students can become so focused on the attacker in their face, it becomes difficult to engage multiple attackers because of tunnel vision (Tunnel vision is a natural Human response in dangerous situations, EVERYONE needs to work to overcome it.)  Remember, that is a critique, and certainly not one that applies to all Krav students - I know they train to engage multiple attackers, and I know it is effective, but becoming proficient requires the student to train hard. (That same critique applies to many, many arts.  And many, many arts are absolutely useless against multiple attackers.)

So, folks: Find a Krav studio, please.  That pistol is NOT a magic Bad Guy Eraser.  It is merely a tool, one you may not be able to get deployed as quickly as you need.  That's when the bad guys will be on you, and you have to stay alive long enough to get that weapon in play.  Krav can get you there.

To my fellow Patriots in Florida: When you get together to train, follow his lead. (I'm not using his name for obvious reasons.)

Stay safe, Patriots.  This ain't no f'n game.

Kerodin
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Three Men - III Patriots who started it all...

Below is a reprint of Alan Mullenax's comment regarding the essential roles played by Sam Adams, John Hancock and James Otis in getting the Revolution properly underway.  Remember that the "Revolution" was in the works for decades before John Parker went to the Green to stand before the marching Brits.  Otis, in fact, was essential in laying the ground as early as 1761 when he argued against the Writs of Assistance, which permitted the King's troops to enter any Colonists home without cause.

The Revolution was won in the minds of men before anyone ever picked up a rifle.  That lesson must be understood today.  No, I am not advocating the "No Fort Sumter's" strategy.  I do not advocate waiting until the stack is coming through your door.  What I do advocate is that you understand and apply the true strength of this fight for Liberty, which is not in that rifle, but in the mind and mettle of the Rifleman.

I'll have a post on this soon, but until then, consider: We have Patriots today who make moves like Otis and Hancock and Adams, and they get stomped for it.  We have Patriots who seek to reveal the evils we face through contact - yet such people and acts are demonized within our own ranks.  "No Fort Sumters!!" is the cry.  Well folks, tell me there would have been a Lexington and Concord without a Tea Party, without a Boston Massacre, without a Gaspee.  It is time for the timid and meek to STFU and let real men work.  It is time to move to contact in prudent measure.  It is time to rip the mask off the Enemies of Liberty and reveal the face of the evil that hunts every one of us, right now.  It is time to STFU and let our modern Adams', Hancocks', Otis', Jeffersons' do their work without all the braying of spineless sideliners.

One of our Patriots once suggested a simple, silent massing of armed Patriots.  They wouldn't have to say a word.  They wouldn't have to fire a shot.  Like Tiananmen Square, consider 100 Patriots standing tall on the steps of any Courthouse in America, with video going viral.  Consider 500 or 1,000.  For all of you who shat all over the concept of the armed DC march, do a gut check, please.  You may have legitimate nits to pick about tactical aspects of the plan or the people involved, but you can't deny it is EXACTLY the same premise used by men like John Parker at Lexington - they showed up with arms and stood there quietly, ready for whatever the Bad People chose to do next. 

They did NOT cower at home waiting for the British version of a Stack, whining and finding excuses for inaction. (And don't give me any crap about "The DC March was an active event, Lexington was guys defending their home turf." - The reality is, as I stated above, those guys went where the Brits we to be found - they did NOT wait at home.  DC is YOURS.  Your local State House is YOURS.  You have as much right to be there as anywhere - and to channel Willie Sutton - that's where the evil is at...)

I'll get back to those points soon.  For now, read Alan's commentary below and ask yourself if you know an Adams, Hancock or Otis.  Look in the mirror first, please.  He may be closer than you think.  And, we need those guys, right now...

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To be sure, without Samuel Adams there would have been no American Revolution.

Make no mistake, simply put, he was a street organizer. While he rubbed elbows with some of the more high brow people, his power resided in the taverns and docks.

I believe John Hancock was absolutely petrified of him at the beginning of their relationship. Tory merchant-bankers felt the wrath of Adams and Hancock worried that he could be subject to having his home and business destroyed as well as being tarred, feathered, hung from the Liberty Tree and beaten. Consequently, Hancock became the money man for the Sons of Liberty for the most part. He really grew into the role of a Founding Father. Were it not for Adams, I'm reasonably sure Hancock would have worked for reconciliation with the king.

It's important to understand that Adam's did get people killed. The Boston Massacre was more than likely his work and he was in Lexington the night before the Green with Hancock and no doubt conferring with Captain John Parker. The Boston Tea Party, while no one was killed, was most certainly his work as well.

Along with Hancock and to a lesser degree James Otis, Adams formed the nucleus and impetus of the American Revolution. That nucleus and impetus resided solely in Boston but incited action in all of the colonies with the exception of Georgia for the most part.

The take away? Three guys. Three guys pushed the issue and created a rebellion. We talk of three percent. The reality is it was probably just three guys.

How? Why?

Take Hancock out of the equation. He was intimidated by Adams and grew into his role. However, the other two of the triad, Adams and Otis? One word, visceral. They absolutely hated the Crown. Those two guys felt personally wronged by it and spent every waking moment plotting and planning to insure independence.

Wrong? I don't think so.
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Discussion is invited.  Stay on topic, please.

Kerodin
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Political Reality 101

The world did not begin on the day of your birth.

Simply being born does not entitle you to anything more than your inalienable Natural Rights.

That's it.  Inalienable Natural Rights.  Mister Jefferson articulated the concept as "Rightful Liberty".

In America, a group of pretty sharp guys proposed a system of governance designed - for the first time in Human history - to protect the Natural Rights of the individual, particularly against the heavy hand of Government.  This happened a few hundred years ago.  Other men of that time put their heads together and agreed with the proposal, and by a very large margin of support, this became the law of the land.  It was ratified because people thought it was a good idea - no one had a gun to their head.  The people in the states could have simply voted "No" if they didn't want it.

The system of governance, called republicanism, is supposed to be implemented through our Constitution.  Our Constitution, as ratified and intended, does not provide any mechanism for "The Federal Government" to put their hands upon any Citizen, except in a very select set of circumstances for enumerated crimes.  It is only through perversion of the Constitution that abuses of Natural Rights occur.

Over the years Bad People have corrupted the system, as we were warned they would do, for in every age of Man there will be those who mean to be Masters.  You were never promised a rose garden, and you were never guaranteed a life in which Bad People would not try to do Bad Things to you.  If you were promised a rose garden or a life free of the schemes of evil men, you need to find that person and bitchslap him.  He lied to you.

I say this as kindly and gently as I am able: You are not special.  You do not have any right to change the system in place at the time you popped out of mommy, simply because you were born.  Get over yourself.  If you have beef with the system you were born into, first slap your parents for choosing this place to be your home.

If you want to change the system of governance into which you were born, feel free to work on it.  If you think there is a better way, show us.  If you think you can write a document that is "self-enforcing", please, write it and put it forward for consideration.  Here's the funny thing about ideas - good ones get support from many people.  Bad ideas die on the vine.  So, if you can do better than what we have, put it out there and see who salutes.

If you were born into a system that you think is inherently and deliberately evil, please never forget that you always have at least three options open to you: (1) You can try to change it.  (2) You can leave (I hear Belize is sweeeeeeet!)  Or, (3) you can eat a bullet.  (If you truly believe our Constitution is inherently evil, put forth and ratified by evil men as some grand scheme to enslave you, please choose option three - and use enough gun.)

You do not have the Right to demand anything more than your Natural Rights.  You do not have the Right to unilaterally interfere with the way other people voluntarily choose to live - even if those people choose to abide the words on a piece of parchment written a few hundred years ago by a group of white guys you do not respect.

To be blunt, that's your problem.  To be even more blunt, you're simply not that special, no matter what mommy told you.  The universe does NOT rotate around you.  You are entitled to your Natural Rights - nothing more.

Once in a while Concerned American puts up a quote that I think is balls-on accurate, and I'll paraphrase: Evil prevails because good men do not kill the bad men who are doing evil.

It is that simple.  Full Stop.  Take out the garbage and the room will no longer stink.  Think for just a few moments about how many Bad People would need to be smacked in the teeth before Team Tyrant backed the truck up.

I do not care what system is in place - if good people permit bad people to operate without penalty for their behavior, the system will not work.  It doesn't matter if that system is banking, or the US Constitution, or the Holy Bible.  Bad People must be corrected by Good People.  And to bring Mr. Cooper into the discussion, via some really generous paraphrasing: Bad men may not be receptive to reason and debate.  But they sure as hell can be sorted out by good men with rifles.

Help fix what is broken.  Develop a better system.  Leave.  Or STFU.

That's a pretty darned reasonable set of options - and none of them violate your Rightful Liberty.

Kerodin
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HIIDE

Question: To the folks who have recently served, either in uniform or on contract with a PMC - why haven't you mentioned this system being used in the field?  This is the sort of intel our non-.mil folks need to take an informed decision regarding the state of the ground and timeline for expected contact.  This has been in the field since 2006, according to the story.

To everyone: If you do not understand that you are at war, right now, I can't help you.  Men who mean to be Masters have already targeted you for submission or death, because your ideals are an impediment to their goals.  They are coming for you, right now, even though they may not be at your front door.  Everything you see them doing is to set the ground for making you choose not to fight, or to put in place the circumstances that will allow them to take you out "...for the common good...", because you are a dangerous and radical extremist/terrorist with a perverted interpretation of the Constitution and no respect for Law & Order.

You may not want a fight.  You only get to choose 1/2 of that equation.

Please begin to look at the world through a Warrior's eyes.  You are under attack, right now.

Here's the link at CA's place.

Kerodin
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Patriot Class

Are you a member of the Patriot Class?

A Patriot is not simply one who advocates Liberty.  A Patriot loves his Country.  A Patriot will not turn a blind eye to what may be wrong in his Country - but will seek to remedy those problems because he loves his Country, and the ideals upon which it was founded.

Here are a few quotes, from a single Founder, that help articulate my thought:

If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say "what should be the reward of such sacrifices?" Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Kerodin
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III Arms: Update

Just a portion of the work happening in Miller's shop, pictured above.

Just a year ago this was all an idea - nothing but an idea.

Miller received his FFL in February 2013 - about 6 months ago.  He received his CNC a month or so after that and built his skillset to include the ability to design code and run that very sophisticated machine, and he did it in record time.  He did all of this while working a day job that often claimed 60+ hours per week of his life, and maintaining his family.

And right now he is preparing to box and ship the first wave of III Arms Minutemen 15 rifles.

And tell me they aren't freakin' good looking rifles!

For Patriots, by Patriots.

You Founders allowed this to happen.  Miller allowed this to happen.  All of you in this community who supported the idea allowed this to happen.  III Arms is a III business.  III Arms represents what Patriots can accomplish if we stand together and put in the work.

And remember - III Arms is not a typical for-profit business.  It was created to build high quality, reliable, and symbolic Fighting Arms for the Patriot class in America.  ("Symbolic" in this regard: Morale, cohesion, and if you ever have to stand on a Green, a simple glance at your rifle with the III cut into the mag well serves to inform the world exactly where you stand.)   Profits from III Arms are destined to the Citadel, not the wallets of a fat cat Board of Directors.

Huzzah to all of you.

You have not seen much in the way of marketing from III Arms.  That is deliberate.  The folks behind the scenes decided it was best to wait until the first wave of orders was in quality-control phase and ready-to-ship phase before burying Miller with orders.  Well, that time is at hand.  You can look forward to video in the very near future as Miller performs a final test-fire of each rifle and gives each one his personal stamp of approval.

The marketing push begins very soon to the entire firearms world.  So, you III Patriots have a small window to place your order and get in line ahead of the masses.  If a III Arms Minuteman 15 is the rifle you want in your hands at RTC rallies, at the range, and perhaps on the Green, now is the time to hit the "Order" button at III Arms.  Building these rifles as Miller is doing is not like a massive cookie-cutter company.  He puts sweat, tears and probably a little blood into every single firearm he builds.  III Arms is building quality firearms to which you can entrust your life.

He has taken the path of the Craftsman.  III Arms will NEVER be a mass-production company.  He will never just "whip out" firearms to fill orders - each one will take time, each one carries his personal name, and I know the man, he will never sacrifice quality for expediency.  Now is the time to step forward and claim a place in line.

Here's Miller's III Arms blog post.

Here's his III Arms FB page.

Official III Arms page with order form, here.

Kerodin
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Heh...

The racist fucks on whom I posted a bounty have shut their website down.

Fucking cowards.

My thanks to all who have helped - and yes, the bounty is still offered.  I want the names and home addresses and anything else you can get on these pieces of genetic waste.

They have earned my attention, and simply shutting down their fountain of filth will not make me stop.  So, you two sick fucks who are now running offline to hide like little bitches - I'm still coming.

Kerodin
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CQB: Florida Report

We trained in Florida today.

I can now decisively say that sharing a bit of my skillset with fellow Patriots is the most rewarding endeavor I have ever undertaken.  Watching men and women as awakening comes to them in the martial skills is satisfying on a level I have never known in any "job" I've ever held.  Knowing that I am helping people grow in confidence and arming them with a set of skills that will help keep them alive if they ever find a sudden "Oh Shit!" moment comes upon them is wonderful.

But that is mot the biggest reward. 

Meeting the fine people that Holly and I meet at every class is not only a gift of simply meeting good people, but it informs us that across the country there are pockets of serious, patriotic, devoted Americans who still know what real Liberty is, and they mean to have it in their lifetime.  This Florida class was no different - the people we met today are simply wonderful, funny, well-informed, and Patriots.

Most of you know CDP through his blog, and if you don't, you should - here's the link.  He and his lovely wife drove many hours to make it to this class, and I am glad they did.  Holly and I are better for having met them in person.  Alan Mullenax took point and assembled the class, and the people he managed to get to Markham Park represent good, solid America - the America we all know can be.  Holly was able to meet Alan finally, and her smile said it all.  If we have a dozen Alan Mullenaxes in each state, Liberty will return in our lifetime.

I am proud to say that we have met several such people (as Alan) at every class thus far.  My goal now is to identify and meet as many such Americans as possible, and move this fight for Liberty forward.

There were several other wonderful people attending today - I won't give names because I don't think they have come out online, so I won't be the one to put their names out there.  Just know there are the sort of Americans we need in this fight.

My thanks to Alan for putting this class together, and for getting us all together after class for more discussion and bonding.  Sharing skills is wonderful.  Bonding and growing morale and cohesion is the true gift to the Liberty Movement.  Holly and I are looking forward to coming back here.

FYI: It was a first for me ever to train with the knowledge that alligators were just about 50' away.  It adds a dynamic to class I had never experienced before.  If one wants to up their situational awareness, I can recommend training near a lake that has serious carnivores nearby.  ;)

Michigan next weekend.  If anyone in the south east Michigan area wants to get in under the wire, let me know and I'll put you in touch with the local coordinator.  They have us for 2 days: Fight to your Weapon on day one, and Groundfighting 101 on day two.  If you are in the area, I strongly recommend coming to meet Patriots in your AO.

Kerodin
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Contact: ObamaCare

Leslie is one of us. 

She has had contact with ObamaCare, and it is ugly.

Take these first-hand reports seriously, and let them inform your path forward.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
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Butthurt much?

Two posts down I linked to Lizard Farmer. 

It seems MBV did a piece on him, and revealed his butthurt yet again.

Most of you know my position on MBV, no need for me to go there again.  If you choose to follow a narcissistic hollow hero with zero real-world skills who insists on tearing down any Patriot or Patriot endeavor of which he is not the architect, knock yourself out.

I said in my post below that our community is better when Lizard Farmer is able to contribute.  I stand by that comment.  When a professional offers you an honest critique, you should listen.  Take any criticism constructively, and work to improve your skillset.  Get out of your feelings.  Man the fuck up.  Stop wallowing in butthurt.  These people (LF, Mosby, Max, Mason Dixon, AmMerc, and others) are professionals who take the time to try to help you prevail.  You may not agree with everything they say.  Hell, none of us agree with everything anyone says.  But in this community of Patriots who, for the most part are NOT professional Warriors, yet intend that one day they may need to fight - listen when a professional fighter takes the time to help you.

Mosby weighs in here on the Lizard Farmer piece.

Kerodin
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CQB List of Techniques

I know some former students are waiting for a list of techniques - I haven't forgotten you.  Believe it or not my list isn't yet digital.  I'm working on getting it into the computer, and translating out of my personal shorthand into something you can relate to class.

Until then - train.

Kerodin
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Lizard Farmer: Counter-Insurgency Intel

Glad he's back.  Our community is better and more substantial when he has the opportunity to contribute.

Here's the piece.

Kerodin
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Taking the pulse - patient is dying

Whatever you think of Wal-Mart, one can't reasonably deny the company is a measuring stick that reveals the condition of the middle, lower-middle class and lower class American economy.

Their numbers are down.  They are down more than just a bad quarter or nominal decrease.

Here's the story.

Use this information as you will.

I would suggest you hold less cash, more preps.

But that's just me.

Kerodin
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Two stories you need to know...

I have no second source for either yet, but...

From Kenny, here - Obama signs 2A import EO.

From Freedom Outpost, here - ObamaCare Provision: “Forced” Home Inspections.

Use this information as you will.

Kerodin
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