Enemies of Liberty are ruthless. To own your Liberty, you'd better come harder than your enemies..

Friday, May 16, 2014

USDA Gearing Up


People are banging their heads, looking for a logical reason a bureaucracy like USDA would need armor and SMGs.  There is no need to look for the outliers, folks.

When USDA and FDA step in to shut down farmers who have the audacity to sell unpasteurized milk or hold parties in violation to some arcane regulation and USDA/FDA wants it shut down - those organizations have to call on local LEO or brothers from other FedGov agencies, correct?

Now they do not need to call anyone.

Every bureaucracy is being positioned to enforce it's regulations at the point of a muzzle.

It's no more difficult than that.

Here's a list of your FedGov bureaucrats who have their own Hunter-Killer Teams.  The list is probably already behind the curve.

Kerodin
III

Vietnam Vets: Consider


As you know, I sometimes look at things with a political eye.  Is it wrong then for me to suggest this theory?

Vietnam Veterans were treated like shit when they returned to the United States because, unlike the recent wars in the Middle East, the Vietnam Vets kicked the living shit out of Communists.  

Just a theory, but one worthy of this advice until proven untrue:  Don't kill communists by the hundreds, win every battle, and set their expansionist plans back, and then expect a warm welcome home from their fellow Marxists here in the states.

This is from Karl at Ushanka, here.

It's awfully hard to find fault with the logic - in fact, I can't find one.  Beuller?

For you Leftist 'tards & trolls who surf here - Fuck you.  Sideways.  In the neck.

Kerodin
III

Thursday, May 15, 2014

What Name is Best for III Ops


The 0805 meeting brought us to the formation of a new team with a specified mission for the III.

We continued fleshing it out all day and that evening.

I'd like to settle on a name by consensus.

My original name as presented was "Liberty Defense Team".  Personally, I don't think it fits the mission very well.  While the ultimate goal is to defend Liberty, the term "Defense" implies fighting - and that is not the primary mission of our Team.

Holly came up with "Liberty Support Team" and I agree with her the word "Support" articulates not only the primary mission of getting media out of the AO, but also the secondary mission of providing direct support to Militia, III and other FreeFor on the ground.

So - I've put a poll at right.  Please take a second and vote.

If you think there is a better title for the Team, please leave it here in comments.

Thanks,

K

Force-on-Force Training


While we contemplate issues posted below and across other blogs and venues, take a moment to remember that we are beyond the academic.  RevWarIII has begun.  At any given moment the next Bundy may spring to life and it may be in your AO.

Lying to oneself is among the most foolish things a man can ever do.

So, answer this in the silence of your own mind: Do you have a Fire Team Buddy with whom you move like fluid synchronicity?  You know where and what and how he is going to move in X circumstances while engaging the enemy?  And he equally knows you and your intent?

Now - what happens at a Bundy event where your Buddy couldn't muster and you are paired with a Militiaman from another unit.  Are your methods standardized?  Are you and he going to intuitively know how to stalk that OpFor on the ridgeline?  Are you and he going to know what to do when OpFor pops up unexpectedly during your stalk, leaving you and your new Buddy to beat feet to cover and concealment while keeping one another alive?

I watched Grenadier's class this past weekend enough that I feel comfortable answering: Most of you will die under such circumstances.

Get yourself, your Buddy, and as much of your Team as possible to Georgia and take Grenadier's course.  If that isn't possible, contact the man and find a way to get him to come to your team.  Just because you think you know how to shoot and move and communicate with your Team, doesn't mean you do.

Here's his blog.

Do not die unnecessarily.

Kerodin
III

Just a heads-up


As I am certain many of you are aware, in many Patriot households right now minds are whirling at mach speed, trying to solution challenges identified this weekend.  I can tell you in the Kerodin household there is a state of overwhelm.  There is much to do, little time and even fewer resources.

But that's never stopped us before.  ;)

Two quick points for those who are skilled in these topics:

Drones: Consider how we can deploy drones with the ability to get close to our targets and relay audio/video back to a more powerful transmitting station, or perhaps even upload real-time from the drone.  Second drone notion, and this comes from Kerodin: Think kamikaze.  Unless of course Kamikaze drones violate some silly Federal statute, in which case, I'm jus' funnin'.  ;)

Finances: Our weak spot is cashflow.  This has been the weak spot of every Liberty movement in all of history, so far as I know.  If any of you have professional experience in your corporate world in professional fundraising, please put some effort into divining a way we can raise money from as large a cross-section of the population as possible.  If it means the only way we can tap into the NRA Law & Order types is to raffle stuff, we'll work it out.  You professionals tell us how, tell us the obstacles, and we'll help you noodle a work-around.  Work-arounds are what we do goodly.  ;)  Many organizations finance their ops via crime - but that simply isn't us.

Finance Two: It has been mentioned recently that we need some sort of safe repository for our assets.  This is a topic several of us in the Citadel have considered. I can't say much in such an open venue, but I'll go as far as I can, and hopefully your gears will get turning.  Consider a very safe and defensible physical location - a place even Demons from Hell will fear to travel without US Marines providing cover.  The III has such places.  Now consider a series of vaults that would require heavy explosives to breach.  The III has the ability - and the plans - to construct such vaults in the near future, very quickly.

Now consider such vaults being made available to Patriots who want to keep certain caches away from their normal AOs, and the III/militia Teams who choose to keep their financial reserves protected in such vaults, all guarded by very serious men and women who will die protecting said vaults.

This can happen very quickly, with relatively little investment.  Individual vaults with dedicated biometric access can be had if you want your special cache private.  Communal vaults can be had for units or larger groups.  Seed vaults.  Ammo vaults.  Medical supplies.  Whatever - all off the line of attack, ready for that awful day.  Obviously this is not a solution to keep all eggs in one basket - it is merely a basket that is safer than most. 

If participating in such a vault system holds any appeal for you, write me: Kerodin@Kerodin.com.  Obviously - nothing illegal.

Back to money.  Folks, I do not know what to do about money.  I have run the 527 for years now.  The purpose has never been to turn a profit, but instead to have a few bucks from each sale left over that can be put to radio airtime, or helping a Patriot in sudden financial need, etc.  At this moment after all the transactions through the 527, there is under $1000 in the account.

We are now talking about funding fighting men and units.  We are talking about the need to cover a man's mortgage if he gets called to Bundy for 3 months.  We are talking about a logistics train.  These things require REAL money, and a steady supply of it.  Selling patches will never, ever satisfy that need.  You have trusted me in the past with money - enough to secure a beachhead for the Citadel and III Arms, to help Jim Miller to start III Arms (which, by the way, he has dumped a LOT of his own money into as well, and you've NEVER heard him complain, because that's not what real men do.)  Money for this venture should have oversight by multiple trustworthy Patriots.  I have some in mind, I have not yet asked them.  I will reach out when the time is right.

We III and Organized Militia and our allies are NOT 1% folks on the economic scale.  Most of us are no more than a few paychecks from missing a mortgage payment.  III Arms will, one day, be a source of revenue - but today it is not there yet.  Holly and I still cover the monthly note for the III land from our pockets until III Arms can take over.  But if we are to carry the weight of feeding, clothing and providing fighting essentials for our Patriots who run everything from Propaganda to Overwatch to Underground ops, we need real cashflow.  Back in the winter I called for "real" investments to use as fundraisers, and I had 2 Patriots who were in a position to do more than most.

Tell me how we can get a Beck, or the Kochs, or some other source of real and consistent money inbound to support the work we need to do.  Some of you in the business world have skills we can apply.  Please help us find an answer that is realistic.

More later.

Kerodin
III

TL & the I-Beam


TL immediately grasped the significance of the alliance being forged between the III and the Organized Militia.  Here's his piece.

The Steel I-Beam has a great weekend recap, here.

Kerodin
III

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

We the III



Here at the III Percent, we try to undertake important, large-scale endeavors only after allowing you to weigh-in and help shape the discourse and direction. 

No man alone is the III.  We are all equals.  We share our successes and our challenges. 
  • You helped us tailor the message we put on radio stations across America. 
  • You helped us decide Idaho was the proper place to settle the Citadel.  You now are actively helping us establish a safe place – for III Patriots, for Tribe – to settle in Idaho.
  • You helped us launch III Arms, a firearms company helmed by one of the most trusted, talented, and patriotic men I have ever had the honor to know – Jim Miller. 
  • You helped us travel the country offering CQB training to groups from coast-to-coast and border-to-border, all the while deepening ties among the Patriots we met along the way.
  • Through III Gear, you helped us provide patches, caps, shirts, tactical gear, and much more to thousands of Patriots, all to build cohesion and IFF (the ability to identify friend from foe).
  • You helped promote and make Brock's PatCons incomparable events for Patriot gatherings.
  • You helped us host the first Citadel PatCon in Idaho last year - with the next already scheduled for this August.
  • III Patriots were there last October in DC so our WWII Veterans could visit THEIR Memorial. 
  • III Patriots were there when Barry-cades were dropped at the front and rear gates of the White House.
  • III Patriot allies helped us plant roots in the Western Redoubt and helped us prep to open a III business.
  • III Patriots, and the work WE are doing as a group, is the only reason the Kerodin name has been featured in nearly every major media outlet in the Western World. Granted - that media has been, shall we say, unkind ;) 
  • It is also because of you that several of us were featured for a full hour on Beck's TV show.  That does not happen unless you are playing at a dangerous level. 
There is much, much more!

You have been responsible for every significant step forward made by the III community.

Now it is time, once more, to ask you to lend your voice, your wisdom, your support, and your cautions as you see fit.

It is imminent that future Bundy-type confrontations will occur.  The consensus is that OpFor will be far more prepared next time; they may even bait as many Patriots as possible onto the field, before unleashing Hell upon them all.  The Regime must save Face.  The Regime must remind the masses that the Regime must be obeyed.

Are you and I to tremble at the prospect of Regime Forces with standing orders to murder us at the next event?  Are we to yield the field and simply allow Regime Forces free reign to shoot down, beat and Taser fellow Americans who dare stand tall on behalf of the next Cliven Bundy?  Are we to hide safely in our homes?

If you and I are as we claim to be - American Patriots, American Militia worthy of standing alongside Captain John Parker – then we have but one course open to us.  You and I must charge TOWARD the sound of gunfire.  Throat-punch Regime thugs who seek to infringe the Liberty of our Countrymen.

You and I must never be the good men who do nothing.  May God himself smite us all if we fail to do our duty.

At the PatCon this past weekend we fleshed out the basics of our strategy and tactics on this front.  We concluded that the most critical tactical element of all future Bundy Events is to collect audio, stills, video (including interviews) and Intelligence on OpFor from the ground and get it out to our allies to disseminate that information to the world.  We must deny the Regime and their MSM Propaganda Bureau sole control of the message.  Images like the line of Cowboys and Patriots facing-off in the wash against BLM, the now iconic image of the Patriot on overwatch from the bridge, the images of BLM using Tasers and dogs against unarmed Americans, the images of the "First Amendment Areas" - these media elements made it impossible for BLM and the Regime to win at Bundy. 

Yes, the Regime could have won the physical confrontation at Bundy.  But they would have lost the first fight - BLM would have been slaughtered.  Then the Regime would have had to go hard with Militia and singular Patriots using overwhelming ground and air assets - and they would have "won" - but only after slaughtering hundreds of Americans.  Over cows and unpaid fines.

Next time will be different.  You know it.  We know it.  The Regime is already preparing it.

So what does the III intend to do about it?

This post is already long enough, so I am going to close with a very quick thumbnail that I will flesh out over the coming days.

PREMISE
The Mission (the Commander's Intent) is very specific: Arrive-on-scene and ensure the truth gets out of the AO in audio, and video, including interviews, to off-site allies who will be responsible for disseminating that Intelligence to deny the Regime the ability to lie to the American people.

FIRST: We are establishing a special nationwide unit of III Patriots.  We are calling this unit our "Liberty Support Team."  (This unit stands independent of our III 300 - though III 300 Patriots are welcome to join the Liberty Support Team.) 

SECOND: I think Holly and I have proven that – for the sake of the III – we are willing to take point. Taking point also means we take the heat.  We are about to do it again.  We have put ourselves in Harm’s Way before.  But we do so knowing we are not alone.  Holly and I purchased a school bus that is in excellent condition.  We bought this with our own money, to ensure we put our money where our mouth is, as it were.  We have skin in the game.  Most of the seats have been removed to allow for gear.  It has a hydraulic lift & diesel drivetrain.  It's an International.  We will re-purpose this bus for use by the III Liberty Support Teams.  This vehicle must be outfitted with the gear and supplies necessary to accomplish our Mission, as well as provide logistical support to the Patriot forces that congregate at events - from radios to showers to water, etc.  For now we are calling the bus the T.S.C. - Tactical Support Center.  (This is WIDE open for change as we discuss these matters in coming days.)

THIRD: When a Bundy-type event occurs that we agree requires our presence, we will deploy the Tactical Support Center to the scene, set up our center, introduce ourselves to the Patriots and Militia on the ground, and begin our primary function – getting the truth out to Americans.  AND, we will provide support to the units already on-site as needed and as requested. 

NOTE: We are NOT on-scene to assume command.  Our task is laser-focused - get Intel out of the AO.  With any additional resources made available to us, we will provide support to our allies on the ground.  Maybe that's a run to Wal-Mart for a pallet of water.  Maybe it is a stand of showers for troops who have been in the muck for weeks.  Maybe it’s a place to give exhausted allies a place for some rack-time and to provide first-aid as needed. Whatever... 

Our primary role is collection and dissemination of INTELLIGENCE.

Our secondary role is providing SUPPORT to our Patriot allies on the ground.

FOURTH:  The Intelligence that our on-the-ground Liberty Support Team assets gather, in audio, video, stills, interviews, etc. - will be relayed to III bloggers, web experts, etc. who will make sure that the information from the ground gets pushed out on social media, gets emailed to MSM & politicians, and to everyone else we trust to bring pressure on the Regime. 

The TRUTH is the most powerful weapon FreeFor will ever have in this fight for Liberty.

We intend to go into Harm's way to get that truth.  Our allies beyond the AO, such as WRSA, The Steel I-Beam, Free North Carolina, Wirecutter, NCRenegade, etc., will be risking their hides just as much as they push that intelligence out for the masses.

That's the synopsis.  Feel free to weigh-in on anything - stream of consciousness.  There is a LOT of detail still to be released, but it is never too soon for you to jump in and help guide us.  This is another serious III Project that is designed to chip away at our Enemies' ability and their will to use violence.  We must delegitimize them at every turn.  We MUST get the truth to the world.

You and I are RIGHT.  You and I have the MORAL HIGH GROUND.

As the saying goes - being right when the government is wrong is dangerous.  Make no mistake, if you volunteer to be part of this project, you will be climbing the ranks of whatever FedGov lists on which you may already be listed.

Thus far we've broken the Liberty Support Teams into two primary parts: Ground Teams - anyone going to the event.  And Web Teams - everyone involved in disseminating the flow of data coming out of the event.  These two categories are too simplistic, obviously.  We'll further delineate team designations as we go.  For instance, I have already been in touch with a few Patriots around the country who are willing to work as HAM relays if we get comms jammed on-site.  It is going to take many of us to make this work.

Personally, I can't see a higher RoI project currently available to FreeFor - until Total War is loosed on us all.  Please think how you can help, where, when, and even why.  In time we will need gear to outfit the Tactical Support Center (TSC).  In some cases we will need cash.  In other instances, we will need some of our Patriots to look through the gear you have at home and see if you can donate anything we'll need - such as command tents, military-styled cots, medical supplies, radio gear - you get it.

Sorry this is so long.  It's a big deal. 

And if you are wondering how this project concept was received at the PatCon amongst the Patriots there - I am very, very proud that a good part of Saturday night was spent discussing this project and how to make it work.  I asked this question after laying out the idea to an invitation-only debrief on Saturday morning: Is there anyone here who thinks this is a bad idea or a waste of resources?

Not one Patriot thought this was a bad idea.  So folks, I am going to charge hard...

I welcome any insights you may have,

Kerodin
III

III is Militia & Militia is III


If you are III, you are Militia.

If you are Militia, you are III.

Stand and be counted.

Fly your III Militia tab in support of our Organized Militia allies.

If you are III, you are Unorganized Militia.

Whether you are unorganized or part of an Organized unit, you are part of American Legend.

It was our brothers who met the British.

It is we who will meet the Regime.

Wear this tab on your cammies.  Wear this 1" x 4" tab on your Tactical Caps.  Adorn your gear bags and Go Bags with the tab so everyone who casts eyes upon you understands, you are one of that proud lineage of very special American Patriots.  All proceeds will help further our III Projects.




III Militia Patches



Tuesday, May 13, 2014

.Mil Guys: Military Beret Flashes


Question: Is there a historical or other reason that almost all of the US Military flashes I have found for berets are of the same shape?

Flat top, rounded bottom...

Are there other shapes that are acceptable on a beret, such as a circle, square, rectangle, whatever?

Thanks,
K

Liberty Defense Teams


This PatCon at Brock's place was special in many ways.  In addition to the usual suspects and scoundrels who look forward to coming to Brock's for months in advance such as myself, Israel, Lewis Wetzel, Alan P., Doug S., David from NCRenegade, and so many others, this time we had among us people such as J.C. Dodge and his significant other, Whitney.  Concerned American.  Trainer.  Grenadier.  Randy B.  Eric A., Sandman, and many others.  As a group we spent considerable time Saturday considering an analysis of FreeFor performance at the Bundy Ranch, and how we could put together a network of Patriots and a system to engage future such events for greater impact, efficiency and political points for FreeFor.  There were many people beyond those listed above in the discussions, I just can't recall all the names - so forgive me if you don't see your name.

I am still synthesizing the meat of those discussions, and I hope to be ready to present a working analysis to you here on the blog by the end of the week.  I would like to take the best of our discussions in NC and present them here, so that we can further refine the concept and begin putting rubber to the road quickly.

In a nutshell: We think it is in the interests of FreeFor to put together a network of Patriots who work together to maximize all future Bundy-type events for FreeFor.  We need to get Patriots on the ground to serve the critical functions of getting the truth from the ground out of the AO and back to Patriots who are manning websites, social media, Twitter feeds, etc.  We need to get that raw footage from Ground Zero disseminated far and wide to prevent Red Team from filtering the truth, hiding and twisting the truth, and deny cover to Red Team on the ground when they use Tasers, dogs and brute force on innocent people.

In North Carolina we discussed what was needed, how to get it, how to get it out and how to get it disseminated.  We discussed how to influence and control, wherever possible, the message.  We discussed Patriots who would go into Harm's Way on the ground, Patriots who would risk exposing themselves online to report the news, we discussed the tools and supplies and technologies we would need.  We discussed the importance of providing logistical and support functions to the Militia (organized and unorganized) on the ground, of being prepared for medical emergencies, providing food and water, and even comfort stations for the Americans who will spend days, weeks, or even months on the ground.

As we have all seen in recent years, the ability to get truthful audio, video and statements out of hotspots, such as Maidan, Eastern Ukraine, at the Mall in DC, et cetera, is one of the most fundamentally important aspects of winning confrontations with Tyrants.  If we do not allow Government or Media to suppress the truth, they can not win.

The Patriots at Brock's NC PatCon worked together over many, many hours of discussions to put together a strong plan of action that we have already begun to implement.  This counter-revolution, this fight to recover Liberty, will take us all pulling the rope.  It will require many of us contributing our personal skills, from radio to medical to social media to brains and balls.

We've got this.

I'll begin to lay it out in detail tomorrow, so we can put the finishing touches on it together.

Yours in Liberty.

Kerodin
III

Monday, May 12, 2014

Another PatCon Extraordinary Success: Mason Dixon Vixen


Chris Dodge (J.C.) was another great Patriot I was able to meet for the first time in person thanks to Brock and his PatCon.

The man is a serious Patriot, funny, smart, and in his carriage and demeanor it is obvious that his training courses come from a place of experience and expertise.

In addition, we were gifted to meet his significant other, Whitney.  Like so many of us in NC this weekend, Chris obviously found a woman above his station.  ;)  This woman is smart, quick-witted and undeniably an asset not only to Chris, but to Liberty itself.

Whitney left the PatCon and immediately demonstrated she is more than talk and more than simply the Mason Dixon Vixen - she has started her own blog!  Congratulations to her, and on behalf of the Liberty Movement, thank you.  I have said for a long time that when Patriot Women become involved, this Movement will become unstoppable.

Godspeed, Whitney.

Here is her blog.  Please visit her and welcome her to our community.  I've added her to the blogroll below, as well.

Yours in Liberty,

Kerodin
III

Militia & the III


"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." - George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on  Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788

I have been made aware of a troubling disconnect in the Liberty sphere.  I have known for many, many years that "The Militia" has been demonized by MSM, targeted by FedGov, and has a reputation among a very large cross-section of America of being undisciplined, out-of-shape, cammie-wearing Navy SEAL wannabes who get together once in a while, run around the woods pretending to be John Rambo, then get to work afterward on continuing to shape their beer-bellies while congratulating one another on their bad-assedness.

What I did not know, as it never even once crossed my mind, is that stereotype exists in the minds of some Patriots.  Folks, if you buy into that stereotype, I am going to ask you to step out of your assumptions and reconsider your position based on interaction with actual Organized Militiamen in your AO.  Somewhere in your area exists an Organized Militia unit.  I implore you to seek them out, take the time to meet them, and with an objective mind, see if your pre-conceptions apply.

Constitutional Organized Militia units - not all, but most - have a deep commitment to defending the Constitution.  Many of these units perform community aid actions during natural emergencies.  They often collect and deliver food to local food banks.  You'll never read about these things in MSM.

It is very important we understand the truth about Organized Militia.  First and foremost, these people are not professional soldiers, and they are not trying to be.  They come from all walks of life and professions, bound together by the common goal of wanting to support and defend the Constitution and their homes.  There are certainly former .mil in their ranks, so their competency regarding military skills should not be under-estimated, with the original caveat that these people are not trying to be front-line professional, high-speed soldiers.

It is no accident that the original III patch I put together combined our III alongside the classic Minuteman image.  If you are III, you are Militia.  If you are Militia, you are III.  Afterall, what is the definition of a III Patriot?  A III Patriot is an American who would have gone to the Green in Lexington and stood with Captain John Parker in 1775.

It was not professional soldiers who met the British on the road in Lexington.  It was not professional military who harried the British all the way to Concord and back to Boston.  It was Militia.  It was farmers, ranchers, merchants and tradesmen.  Are we not the same today?

There is a difference between modern Organized Militia and Unorganized Militia.  If you are a member of a Militia unit, you are Organized.  That has legal distinction.  If you are not a member of an organized unit, and you are a III Patriot, by definition you are part of the unorganized Militia.

Militia pre-dates the Constitution and the republic.  Congress has no authority to control or regulate the Militia.  If particular Militiamen and units choose to accept and respect statute, that is a choice I will respect.  But I will also respect those who rest their authority on Natural Law.

It is time that we in the III and the broader Liberty Movement (those of us who are not part of any Organized Militia unit) to make certain the world understands there is no daylight between us and our Organized allies.  We are all Militiamen. 

To that end it is important for us unorganized Militiamen to understand a legality that matters: If you take arms as an unorganized Militiaman and you are NOT wearing an identifier that says the word "Militia" on it, then you are not afforded Militia protections.  You are an "Illegal Combatant".  Yes, I know it is a distinction our enemies will not respect.  But it is a formality that you and I should respect.

To this end, to show our Organized Militia allies we stand with them and will defend them against political enemies, and to bring ourselves into proper standards, we have ordered a supply of III Militia tabs for our III Patriots to wear when in the field.  You and I are the Militia and we need to stand tall and be counted as such.  We are unorganized Militiamen, we do not belong to a formal, organized Militia unit, we have no rank, no dues, and we do not surrender our III status - we simply stand proudly with our organized Militia allies, and we claim the rights and protections of being an identifiable Militiaman.

I placed the order this evening.  It will take about 2 weeks to receive the patches in the shop, then we'll turn them around and ship out.  I am pricing the tabs as a fundraiser to help with other projects that were discussed at PatCon, to be revealed here in the coming few days.  Help us all by purchasing a tab (or a few tabs for your gear), stand tall and proud as a Militiaman, and prove to our Organized allies there is absolutely no daylight between us.  We stand with them.

Here's the patch.  PayPal on sidebar --->

 
Kerodin
III


Attention:


A post requested by Militia allies:

Warning this is a Pro-Militia post! 

My friends and countrymen... the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty.

The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible.

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom?

Congress have no right to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American....

The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

Tench Coxe, delegate  to the Continental Congress in the Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788

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Please continue to answer the polls at right, Patriots.  This matters.

K

Question about Militia

I am working on a very important post regarding Constitutional Militias.

I would ask all of you to take a moment and answer the polls I just posted on the right column.

NC PatCon: AAR One


So much happened over this long weekend in North Carolina it will require a few posts, and I'll probably make each relative to a specific topic. 

Once again Brock opened his home and provided Patriots a safe, comfortable and pleasant environment for everyone to gather and continue to build bonds of trust, to welcome new faces and welcome them to our piece of the world, and to consider the issues and challenges facing us as Patriots and Americans.  Our thanks to Brock and his wonderful daughter Dixie for being such friendly, warm and sincere hosts and making everyone feel so welcome. 

As expected this PatCon was just as fun and happy and wonderful as each before it, yet everyone there felt the serious undertones related to our changing world.  The recent events in the struggle to recover Liberty in DC at the Barry-cades, at the Bundy Ranch, and the continued ground prep being done by the Regime was present in everyone's mind.  Our conversations were serious, pointed and determined to knit together a path for us all.

Holly and I arrived very late Thursday and essentially went straight to bed after greeting a few friends who were still awake near the fire.  It was like coming home.  Friday morning we hosted Fight to your Weapon, which went wonderfully.  Israel and Lewis Wetzel were kind enough to share a series of techniques from their Krav Maga training that helped everyone understand visually just how effective Krav Maga can be in a short time period for Patriots who are essentially beginning at the beginning of CQB skills.  I think they proved to everyone watching that signing up at a Krav Studio has nothing but benefits for the Patriots who mean to survive and prevail in the war that is already upon us.

After CQB I was able to finally meet Grenadier1 who had come to participate in the PatCon and to host his Georgia Force-on-Force course.  I can tell you from having had my eyes on the course and Grenadier as the instructor that it is a training tool every Team, Tribe, Militia unit and individual should find a way to attend, under the instruction of a Patriot you can trust.  Using the AirSoft rifles as a training aid permits allies to train more often, more safely, more inexpensively, and yet realistically - than meeting up and trying to master the shoot-move fundamentals in the limited places/ranges acceptable for that purpose.  You can set up an AirSoft training ground almost anywhere safely.  A full day or weekend of training costs almost nothing while you get to pull the trigger thousands of times while seriously drilling with your Team.  I'll leave you with this: Get some.

The Friday night campfire met all legendary expectations.  In the coming days some of that will be shared, including PatCon essential haiku.  The strawberry brandy wine circulated with other libations, including some cup-melting magic potion from Lewis Wetzel that scored saucer-eyed approval from all who dared.  Around the campfire were many people who call one another friends, brothers and sisters who know one another from previous trips to Brock's, as well as new faces that were immediately welcomed to the family.  There was much laughter and pure joy in being with one another again. 

Holly and I headed for bed sometime near 1am, leaving the more robust Souls at the fire.  I think we all headed for our sleeping spots knowing that Saturday would be different.  There was much serious discussion and work to be done.  I'll get into our Saturday beginning with the next AAR update.

Patriots - if you have not attended a PatCon, especially the NC PatCon, you are missing out on one of the highlights of a lifetime.  It's not just fun.  It's not just a weekend of camping and relaxing.  It is about building family - and I don't know of much in life more rewarding than to discover and meet brothers and sisters you never knew you had in the world.

Kerodin
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

NC PatCon


H and I will arrive tonight.

We are looking forward to a wonderful and productive weekend with fellow Patriots.

Expect light posting.

Kerodin
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Oughtsix: One Win, One Fail


Before I begin my series of posts from this weekend at the NC PatCon - which was a magnificent event with outstanding progress on tangible, important issues, I want to address Oughtsix on a discussion that we were having before I left for Brock's.  I wasn't ignoring you, Oughtsix, I simply didn't fire up the computer since Thursday night.  And since WRSA shuts down comments on threads after a few days, I can't respond there.  Your question is a good one, so I'll answer it here.  I'm not sure if Oughtsix even reads here, so if anyone has his email, please point him here so he doesn't think I was just ignoring him.

Here's the thread: http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/nevada-analyses-from-the-commentariat/#comments

Here's the question from Oughtsix.  You may need the entire thread for full context:

oughtsix

One win, one fail.

How does this:

” If we can choose our actions in such a manner that minimizes pushback by those who will never pick up a weapon anyway – good.”

Square with this:

“Yup. They gotta go. Period. They are not Americans anyway, they do not share the values of Liberty. They gotta go lest they simply re-infect the reset.”

???

The first statement is based on sound principle. The second, imo, is based in the emotionally satisfying urge for payback upon, well, just about everybody. I sympathize, I share your concern, but…

It’s an impossibility any way. Too many of “them” and too few of “us.” Among “us,” there are, I suspect, a majority who will have nothing to do with a “french” style revolution. No “J’ accuse!” No guillotines and tumbrils. The movers and shakers, the architects and the corrupt… those who in every word and deed knowingly sought to impose tyranny, enrich themselves through staggering schemes of corruption and outright theft and shred the nation… they may be legitimately killed in combat, while trying to escape, or captured and put on trial for their lives.

Then later:

What I will not countenance is any sort of organized, wholesale slaughter, deportation, internment or other collectivist/tyrannical/pathological Final Solution of “them”… as to be determined by WHO? exactly? Such would seem to be the gist of Kerodin’s remarks here, and many similar elsewhere.

 - End of Oughtsix comments relevant here.

My reply:

You and I are on the same page regarding any "...organized wholesale slaughter..." but we part ways there.

Popping a cap in Ganny's braincase just because she voted for Al Gore (which unquestionably makes her stupid and part of our problem) does NOT, under ANY circumstances, justify death.  Now then - Granny who voted Blue, donated money to Blue pols & groups because she likes those pols & groups that actively work for the violation and infringement of Rightful Liberty DOES make her more guilty because she wasn't just stupid, she took active steps to advance those goals.  But again, that action does NOT rise to the level of a noose.

For the stupid, low-information, uneducated masses who are part of the problem, once the really Bad People have been handled, must be dealt with in such a manner that they can't undo the Reset.  That means they must become self-sufficient - because of course there will not be any Entitlement programs in the aftermath.  You feed yourself or you will die of starvation.  Next, these people MUST be removed in every way, shape and form from the levers of society.  They have proven they do not respect Rightful Liberty via their actions.  They have demonstrated that they approve of - and help facilitate - theft by proxy.  They no longer get the vote.  Contrary to myth, voting is NOT properly Constitutionally guaranteed to all citizens.

Finally, I believe there is only one way these people should be permitted to remain physically on the continent: They must swear an oath, in front of their peers, to respect genuine Liberty and swear to never again take any action that infringes the Rightful Liberty of any other American - under penalty of immediate death or forcible deportation.  And for anyone who refuses to swear that oath - they are invited to walk - or they will be dragged - to a conveyance out of the country and ordered never to return, under penalty of death.

Note: I am a hardcore Constitutionalist, but you'll notice I did not say they must swear an oath to the Constitution or the country or anything except to respect the Rightful Liberty of their Countrymen.

That's it.  And I do believe if they refuse, it is entirely within the Natural Law right of freemen at Liberty to remove such people, who refuse to stop infringing upon their neighbors, period.  We give them the option to leave unharmed, with whatever property they own.  If they refuse, duct tape and the hold of a ship or airplane is how they leave.

We can not tolerate, and do not have any obligation to tolerate, people who refuse to leave us alone.

They have nearly destroyed this country and the millions of good people who live here by their meddling and intent to be Masters.  We have every right to be rid of such people.

Kerodin
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Home & Safe - Posting to resume soon.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

How the Bear hunts


Two interesting tidbits regarding Russian activities, posturing and testing our Regime.

LAX air traffic control fried the other day, in such a manner that it required US Air Force techs to get it back up and running.  The speculation: One of those Russian bombers that has been probing our coasts deployed a non-nuclear EMP.  While an interesting and reasonable possibility, I have one concern: If it was not the Russians, then our FedGov is playing a dangerous game.  If it was the Russians, they are not merely poking our Regime or testing defenses for PR points.  Delivering an EMP payload on LAX is unquestionably an act of war.  Russia would not do such a thing unless they were ready for that war...

That should help you sleep tonight, huh?

Second story is over at NCRenegade.  He's got the story that in the same time frame Russia launched two SLBMs that scored hits on their targets inside Russia.  Of course Russia is calling this merely War Games - but what else would they call it?

RevWarIII will be fought at the same time as WWIII.  Even if all the above is merely "games" - someone will mess up, somewhere, on one side or the other, and go too far.  That is the one aspect of Human Nature of which I am certain.

LAX story, here.

NCRenegade, here.

Kerodin
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Can you say Alien & Sedition?


Anyone with even a passing understanding of the history of Stalin and the Soviets, and especially Hitler as he laid the ground for his "legal" tyranny, has got to see that America is heading there, right now, at full speed.  You and I know that we are living the same paradigm as did the Jews in Germany before the war.  Many of them knew what was happening, yet cognitive dissonance allowed them to lie to themselves, all the way onto the trains.

Are you and I any smarter?  We know the history of the Jews and Hitler.  We know through the written history that he did everything that our Government is now doing.  We know - because so many have said so in public - that many people in this country believe you and I should be imprisoned, re-educated, or murdered for our beliefs.

If we are smarter, then I ask you, how long will the window of opportunity remain open to us?

At some point it was possible for the oppressed in Germany and Russia to thwart those who would be their Masters.  But those who would be free failed to act.  At some point thwarting the tyrants was no longer possible.  Are we, who are smarter and have the benefit of watching and reading the history of those who were subjugated before us, going to wait too long?

We know what they are doing.  We know how they plan to do it.  We know their playbook.

And we know who will do it to us.

Remember the guy who lamented he did nothing when he heard the boot steps in the hall?  He and many others just hoped the murderers would knock on another door.  He decried that no one dared kill the men coming to make the arrests.

We know what, how and who.  The when is right now.  This is how it happens, and how it happened to others.

How much more do we need?

How much more time do we have before all we will be able to do is lament our own inaction for generations to come?

Here's the Alien & Sedition piece - the Left wants to shut down conservative speech, through law.  Sound familiar?

Kerodin
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