Get it?
III
Hearts & Minds are the flanks.
Kerodin
III
Enemies of Liberty are ruthless. To own your Liberty, you'd better come harder than your enemies..
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Every Citizen...
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
If you are not ready or willing to heed this counsel, leave us in peace and we will forget you ever thought yourself an American.
Kerodin
III
Borders exist for a reason.
Former Polish president – and famed anti-communist activist – Lech Walesa agrees that the U.S. and Nato’s arming of Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war.
One other thing. Russia has about, I think, 10,000 tactical nuclear weapons, sometimes called battlefield nuclear weapons. You use these for short distances. They can be fired; you don’t need an airplane or a missile to fly them. They can be fired from artillery. But they’re nuclear. They’re radioactive. They’ve never been used. Russia has about 10,000. We have about 500. Russia’s military doctrine clearly says that if Russia is threatened by overwhelming conventional forces, we will use tactical nuclear weapons. So when Obama boasts, as he has on two occasions, that our conventional weapons are vastly superior to Russia, he’s feeding into this argument by the Russian hawks that we have to get our tactical nuclear weapons ready.
Riddle me this: If your neighbors in your neighborhood, those immediately surrounding your property lines and fences, started mounting machinegun nests and pointing them at your home, into your yard where your children play, how long would you tolerate such behavior before you burned every one of those homes to the ground?
Do not tell me Vlad does not have not only a legitimate Natural Law Right to defend his borders from American meddling, but indeed, a moral obligation to his Countrymen to do so.
But discussing it is less than futile. You and I can't legitimately do anything to stop it. Bad Peopleat the highest reaches of many world governments have decided that World War is inevitable and desirable - and they have already set the machinations into motion.
All you and I can do: Try to survive, then hold anyone we can find in the aftermath responsible for their crimes.
Here's the link.
Kerodin
III
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Redoubt
A Redoubt: A temporary or supplementary fortification, typically square or polygonal and without flanking defenses.
Some of us have chosen to form the hard nucleus of our defensive and productive community by living in close proximity to one another in a particular county in a particular state. A walled city? Maybe, one day. Piece-by-piece and bit-by-bit. But the concept is evolving as we warned all that it would. I can promise you some individual homesteads will be walled, and some neighbors will share defensive walls, among other terrain-sculpting features to enhance defense and improve survivability and mobility. I can make many more comments about the Citadel and those who choose to live as part of that community - but this isn't the place. Families have moved in, and more are coming to be part of a strong, Liberty-respecting community. We are bringing businesses, the ability to be self-sustaining and charitable when the world shits the bed.
(For the record: I never read a word Rawles had written until he started running his mouth about my wife. We'll chat about that, one day...)
The larger American Redoubt, as defined by Rawles and his followers, is lacking a fundamental requisite for any regional Redoubt: Access to the sea. Without access to the sea, you have nothing. I can't even be bothered with the arguments - and I have never once heard or read a convincing argument for any land-locked redoubt. Without access to the sea, too many doors close to be taken seriously as a sustainable regional Redoubt. Rather than argue about it, I'll simply include the entire states of Washington & Oregon in my definition of the regional Citadel Redoubt. Why Oregon? Lewiston, Idaho has the furthest inland seaport in America, as Jamie can tell you. If you can't hold the route from Lewiston to the Pacific - ya gots nuthin'.
Most of them will be part of the primary die-off. Those of us in the deeper parts of the Redoubt will not need the sea in the first year - so let them kill each other and suffer the disease and famine, then it's a simple exercise to come down from the Cascades and secure the beachfront property and shipping hub. Many of the seaboard survivors will be people we can deal with - like men who run fishing platforms and know how to feed themselves. Coming down from the Cascades with the bounty of the inner redoubt to trade for those things that can be had in a seaport city makes for handshakes, not gunfights.
But having access to the Pacific for food and trade is a sine qua non for any serious mid-term (1-5 year) sustainability plan for the larger Citadel Redoubt.
Why am I calling it the "Citadel Redoubt" So it doesn't get confused with similar, though less prudent, concepts.
Kerodin
III Percent Society, here.
Oh, please...Russian General Demands Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO
Folks, this is a headline, not news.
Anyone who has ever bothered to scratch the surface of Russian/Soviet war-planning knows that the Kremlin has consider a nuclear war to be winnable, via First Strike, since the 1950's.
Yamantau, anyone? Bueller?
Golitsyn.
Oh well, the world is filled with too many stupid people, anyway.
Here's the link.
Kerodin
III
Rightful Liberty by the numbers
The fundamental question: Has the notion of Rightful Liberty expanded or contracted since 1776?
Does the concept of Rightful Liberty have any legs among Mankind?
The numbers say - not so much.
A powerful notion or idea sweeps the planet in a generation or three - and that was pre-internet. Now with the net powerful notions can literally catch fire in hours and rise to global recognition in less than a day.
Say what you will about the Constitution - RevWarI was not fought for the Constitution, it was fought for the notion of individual Liberty, best expressed by Jefferson's Rightful Liberty quote used so often around here: Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
It has been 238 years since the DoI, and of course people had already been killing one another over the notion of individual Liberty for a while when July 4, 1776 rolled around. Since then we've had a couple-hundred years without the internet, and a couple decades with the 'net. Jeffersonian Liberty hasn't caught on - not even here.
Let's compare to a topic with which I am quite knowledgeable: Aiki.
We'll focus just on the Aiki-do variant for the sake of easy numbers, and Aikidoka - please let's not have a debate. Modern Aikido is a joke in most dojos. If you do not get to the Aiki-jutsu roots of the art, you've got nothing. And do NOT write me and try the argument that "Aikido is the actual practice of Rightful Liberty" - don't waste my time or yours.
Anyway, the old guy in the picture is Morihei Ueshiba, credited by the world for the "creation" of Aikido. He died in 1969 (just 2 years after my birth) and the word "Aikido" began to be used in the 1920 - 1930 period as Ueshiba began to refine his formidable martial skillset (primarily based on Daito-ryu Aikijutsu) into the kinder and gentler Aiki that has today, in most schools, been reduced to the combat effectiveness of a dance & massage parlor. Anyway, compare Rightful Liberty - over which a world war was essentially fought - to Aikido, and tell me which has more reach of active participants. Aikido practitioners number in the tens-of-millions and is practiced in every country on the planet. Aikido can't be compared to something like McDonalds (which is also global), because Aikido training requires the participants to get off the sofa, pay money, and physically invest considerable energy in every session. That is a notion that has "caught-on" in the world.
How many people in America - even one day per week for 60 minutes - get off the sofa, drive to another location, pay money, exert physical energy, to advance Rightful Liberty?
Was the notion of Rightful Liberty Mister Jefferson put forth and the war fought over it simply a birthing contraction, a natural evolution of the Greek and Roman notions, that will now begin to expand once more in violence across the world, or was it merely an aberration that will be snuffed out of existence because so few refuse to embrace it and become a practitioner?
Sadly, I think the odds are better for the survival of hippy-based Aikido dojos than Rightful Liberty.
Kerodin
III Percent Society, here.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
It's not "Coming to America" - It's here, right now...
Normalcy Bias: This could never happen here. This sort of thing only happens to people in foreign lands who speak funny languages, and it only happens in history books.
If you do not think this can happen here, in your lifetime, I would suggest you un-fuck yourself most ricky-tick.
Evolution of the Liberty Tree, or just a dead branch...
I wrote this a while ago at Kerodin - decided to post it here as well:
My shugyo days are long behind me.
I'm not ready to find a cave and write my book of five rings, though. I have tasks before me that will demand all of my skills and experiences. I have Patriots to meet, to teach, from whom I still have much to learn, and with whom to stand in the name of Rightful Liberty.
At least once each year I try to write a piece designed to remind my fellow III Patriots that there is more to life than the fight for Liberty. But for some of us that fight for Liberty is hard-wired and inescapable. When we find infringements in our daily lives, we do not hunch our shoulders and move on - we turn and square-up to the problem. It is our raison d'etre.
You and I are part of the Natural Order of the Universe, as designed by Providence. Each decision we take courses through the Universe, changing it. As ursus maritimus evolved from ursus arctos, everything we do affects the 'DNA' of creation. You and I are creating the future of Man, as is every other person on this spinning rock.
Just as the anomaly of a white-coated Grizzly was rewarded by the Natural Order, so too will Man be affected by the outcome of our imminent Candid Exchange of Views.
When generations of Man continue to breed while living in a state of Liberty, eventually the DNA will evolve and more young bipeds will be born with an innate and powerful yearning to live in that same state. However, as is the way of the Natural Order, competing traits such as sloth, deceit, and a sense of moral entitlement to the fruits of another mans labor, are also impacting the DNA of Man. When Freemen breed with Freemen, they will grow little Freemen from the womb. And as Human Parasites breed with their fellow travelers, they grow children who are innately parasitic. When Poodles mate, they have baby Poodles.
These are not my rules, I simply recognize how things work.
Man has only been on Earth for a dozen million years, and recognizable to us as few as a two hundred thousand years ago. Mankind is essentially a cherry in the Universe. We only began to separate from our Hunter-Gatherer roots about 12,000 years ago. Natural and artificial selection forces are at work on Man, taking us to a place we can't see from here.
Man is something to be surpassed.
You and I are part of that process. Earth has seen five Extinction Level Events (ELE) and Humans may perish at any moment. Whether an asteroid takes us out or we do it to ourselves with the weapons we create, tomorrow is not guaranteed to Man. Yet every day we remain, every day we continue to breed, every decision we take affects the Humans who will come after us.
Most change in our Universe is a byproduct of violence. Violence changes the course of existence. An asteroid ended the dinosaurs and gave eventual rise to Humans. That was a violent event. And as our species fights to assert dominance over our fellow Man, that violence alters our evolutionary course. Our Founding Generation in America is that mutation of Man that first demanded and then succeeded in establishing Rightful Liberty for their Tribe. As everyone reading this column knows, it was only through savage violence that the Liberty Gene was able to survive and begin to take root in the DNA of Man - specifically Americans.
Yet every generation since our Founding has seen the Liberty Gene under pressure by the hard-wired Humans who would be Masters. Will the Liberty mutation of Man be snuffed from the gene pool? That is something you and I have a direct ability to influence. Is the surpassing of Man dependent upon you and me working first to keep the Liberty gene alive while reducing the dominance of those who mean to be Masters?
It would seem so.
And it is that group of Humans who mean to be Masters who are pushing to remain the dominant bloodline of Mankind through violence. It is not the Liberty gene pool that is murdering fellow men. It is not the Liberty-inclined who seek badges and use weapons to murder homeless and old and other men in cold blood under color of law. Not one Liberty-loving Soul has ever joined the ranks of the genocidal evil manifested in people such as Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot.
You and I are part of the evolutionary process, whether we wish to be or not. You and I have the ability to help Man surpass itself and inch closer to Ghandi and Jefferson. You and I will face violence brought by those who mean to be Masters, and through that violence we will affect the future of Man, whether we win or lose. If we lose, or we take the decision not to respond to that violence, we still impact the evolution of our species, though we help undermine the Liberty gene.
You and I have the gift of being able to help Mankind evolve toward a state of Liberty, an evolution that will endure until Man is no more. That is immortality.
The question is then simple: What kind of world do you want for your posterity?
The violence of change and opportunity, our Candid Exchange of Views, is imminent.
Stand and be counted. Help our species evolve. Be willing to do the Hard Things required to ensure the Liberty gene is not ripped from the DNA of Man. Leave your mark on Humanity for your posterity. Do your part to reduce the dominance of the genetic perversion that creates Humans with a desire to be Masters.
In the end, remember that you must die.
When on your deathbed will you look back upon your life and know that you helped Man in his quest to evolve and surpass himself?
Kerodin
III Percent Society, here.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Combatives: II
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| Colonel Biddle showing a palm strike, with a dash of eye-gouging. Note his left hand has the enemy by the waistband. There are times it may be important to drop your enemy on an X at your feet, rather than let momentum send him sprawling. There are times it may be important to keep your enemy in close, if he is trying to create space. Biddle is in absolute control, and if this training pic was real, there would be no worries of a counter-strike by the enemy. He's done. |
"Why X instead of Y?" "What about Krav?" "What do you mean MACP isn't ideal, if you are recommending it?"
OK, let's begin with a few simple definitions so we are all on the same page.
"Combatives" is fighting at close quarters without firearms. Other sidearms, such as your blades, are included in Combatives. The Japanese short sword, called a wakizashi, literally translates to sidearm. Improvised weapons such as a brick and a shield fall under the Combatives umbrella, for my purposes. If a physical distance helps you - I use 30 feet as my metric for what falls into "Combatives". Beyond 30 feet, you should have time to begin the fight with your firearm, or to run like hell with a little head start.
"CQB/CQC" is Combatives, adding personal firearms into the mix.
"Combatives" must be fundamentally intended to either take your enemy out of the fight, or give you enough time to deploy a personal weapon - to take your enemy out of the fight. "Combatives" should not be a stand-alone aspect of your skillset. If you can't transition from deflecting a man who wants to slip a garrote around your neck to breaking him with your body, drawing your knife, or getting your firearms into play, your Combatives suck.
Combatives is a bedrock skill. You build upon it. Just as you must learn fundamentals of your rifle before you begin sniper training, this candid exchange of political views begins and ends with your ability to stay alive when a man - or men - are trying to kill (or capture) you at contact range.
Here's the bottom line.
First: If you are able, get to a Krav Maga studio for a solid six months of real training. 1 class per week doesn't do you much good. One class per day, six days per week, for six months. Two classes each day - more better. I know most people can't commit to a 60-90 minute class every night. But try to find a way.
Next: The US Army MACP (Modern Army Combatives Program) is my recommendation for most of you who plan to train together in small groups. The primary reason I recommend MACP is because there is plenty of information available publicly for graduate-level study in SOCP (Special Operations Combatives Program), which is essentially geared for troops in full kit. I would suggest to you that if you ever face a stack, you'll probably be faced with an incoming team of guys who have trained, on some level, in some variation, of the SOCP system - plus your room/building-clearing techniques.
If you never plan to fight in full kit, MACP is still a solid, well-documented system of techniques, you just don't have to bother with the SOCP aspect. If you never plan to fight in full kit, you can also consider more fighting system options.
MCMAP: The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program is also a fundamentally solid system, with plenty of public documentation so small groups can adopt the system and work on developing skills.
Everyone: Krav for 6 months.
Teams/Militia: MACP/SOCP or MCMAP.
What about "MMA" schools and single-system schools such as Aiki or Brazilian Ju-Jutsu? You'll have to invest too many years in any single system to become combat proficient with them. The two .mil programs above include many techniques from several systems, assembled in a logical order that cuts away a lot of what you don't need to know to stay alive in a sudden scrum. They are, for all intents and purposes, MMA systems.
Downside to current .mil systems: First let me make it clear - there are more pros than cons regarding the .mil systems. My complaint with them is that they are designed more for a "Peacekeeping" force than for killing the enemy with an economy of motion and energy. Without a doubt anyone who is proficient in MACP/SOCP or MCMAP will fuck up your day if you tangle with him for too long. However, a man proficient in the Combatives taught by Fairbairn, Sykes, Applegate, Biddle and others in WWII will kill most MACP/SOCP & MCMAP fighters, most of the time.
Is the Fairbairn & Company system "better" than the modern .mil programs. As a whole, for killing enemies at close range in the shortest amount of time - yes. But you have to understand that there are Fairbairn & Company techniques in the .mil programs - but they are not the driving force of the systems. The Mission since the days of Fairbairn & Donovan has changed within our military, and that Mission shift is what drives the current curriculum. Believe me, the troops in the field when WWIII gets truly ugly, will shed most of their .mil CQB training and settle on about a dozen quick, lethal techniques when they get into bayonet range.
Where can you go to learn the techniques taught by Fairbairn & Company? Not too many places in America, today. Seattle. Prescott, Arizona. That's really about it.
Unless you are coming to Idaho...
III Percent Society, here.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Stupid or the calculated beginning of the next Human Genocide...
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| NATO Countries |
Two weeks is allowing his guys to walk as they invade, at a leisurely pace. Ukraine could not slow the Bear if he chose to take it. He knows it. NATO knows it. 1600 Pennsylvania knows it.
On its face this would appear to be yet another blunder by the West to seek to intimidate Russia, stumbling us into conflict that may escalate to the brink of WWIII.
First: Everyone in the middle-management levels of .Govs and .mils and NGOs everywhere actually believe the drama and hype. There is no mass conspiracy into which they are read-in. They believe it. They have to buy into the façade for the feints and propaganda to work.
But like WWII in Japan, when we embargoed them and pushed them into the fight, so now will NATO be used as a stick to start the next global genocide, with two primary purposes. Do not be fooled for even a moment - WWIII is underway, and it is deliberate.
One: The wealth of the planet has, essentially, been stolen and that act must be concealed by misdirection. If you are scrounging for breadcrumbs or penicillin, you probably won't be taking heads at Versailles.
Two: There does exist a shared worldview among a minority of people in every part of the world that Communism, in whatever flavor, under whatever label, is the goal. I won't call it a conspiracy, because that word connotes cigar-filled back rooms with brandy in a glass and Brandi on the lap as old men plot the course of your life. It is less organized than that - it is a shared belief and goal, and people in all corners of the world, at all levels of the socio-economic spectrum, work toward that goal. Shared worldview is the proper descriptor.
Three: One and Two do not matter. Every single one of those fuckers deserves to have their heads chopped the fuck off for the infringements and liberties they have taken, will take, and believe is their right to take. Remember their names and faces.
Remember.
Here's the NATO piece.
Kerodin
III Percent Society, here.
Reality
Much is made of securing your communications, whether on the phone, radios, email, sneaky-squirrel stuff online, et cetera. I'm not going to knock it. If you have the time to learn how to make your email to Auntie Joan, who lives across the country, more secure, go for it. WRSA links to a good site for such things, here.
A question only you can answer: Are you properly prioritizing the skills you need to learn? Spending time trying to learn about muffler bearings when you still can't point-shoot a paper plate at 20 feet or you haven't earned your HAM ticket and learned to use the radio, or you can't sneak up on your own dog in the house may be clues you need to check your To-Do list.
The ability to give your neighbor a loaf of fresh bread is worth more than most other skills on the To-Do list.
Most of us agree that a straight-up counter force approach to Enemies of Liberty is a silly strategy. They have bigger guns, more of them, more ammo, and almost every other advantage in that battlespace. The same can be said for long-range comms, the internet, and several other pieces of the field. Bill Nye coined Local, Local, Local for a reason, and it is a reason with which most of us agree: Any fight is going to be local. Small pieces of Earth populated by small numbers of people who make up your AO.
Your local intelligence network is local. Sally at the diner. Tom at the auto parts place. Jim who drives for UPS. Are you networking with people who actually live in your AO? Or are you playing spy games with people who live 1,000 miles away? With those locals you have formed tighter bonds to and looped into "Tribe", however you define that term, have you practiced dead drops? Have you distributed OTPs? Have you practiced good, old-fashioned team skills like following Mister X as he walks or drives in your AO?
It has been said, and it is true, that OpFor infiltrates Bad People into Tribes. Depending on who you are and other circumstances, at some point, that OpFor Agent, whether it is Sally at the diner who you know only casually, or a trusted confidant, may go hostile against you. What if Sally pulls a pistol from her apron instead of her order pad one morning, surprising you, planning to arrest you? What if a member of your inner-circle clears leather while standing in your own kitchen with the intent of putting your brains on your refrigerator?
Focus on reality and the most likely scenarios, train for them, get good at it. Walk as far down each training avenue as you deem necessary - but don't try to become an expert in all things - it can't be done and leaves you vulnerable to easy attacks.
Leave the reindeer games to the reindeer.
Kerodin
III Percent Society, here.
Monday, September 1, 2014
III Combatives
You can not learn combatives from a book. Let me get that out of the way first.
Now let me say this: If you are trying to learn a solid combatives course, especially at the Militia Unit level, you can't properly learn combatives without the book above, written by Greg Thompson.
I have never had the pleasure of meeting the man. I have no financial interest in promoting his book or his training. I am not an Amazon affiliate, so I don't even get a commission if you buy his book. I have perused his book and if you trust my judgment at all regarding fighting Warriors at ugly, dangerously close ranges, I'm suggesting you buy his book, find a competent vet or Warrior who has any experience in the MACP or grappling arts, and start at page one. Use this book as your unit bible for CQB.
MACP (Modern Army Combatives Program) is the fundamental core. He shows you the techniques, does an excellent job describing details you need for proper execution (and defense), then at the end he even includes an equally outstanding primer on SOCP (Special Operations Combatives Program). I'm calling it a primer ONLY because I strongly suspect there are more techniques that are reserved for students in the official program. In the Japanese martial arts world we'd call these the "Hidden Techniques". SOCP specializes in fighting in full kit.
When you flip through H2H, if you have been through my Fight to your Weapon course, you will recognize many techniques.
Is the Marine Corps program good? Yes sir, it is outstanding. But if you are looking for a well-designed set of techniques, laid out in a logical order for the student, order H2H from Greg Thompson. The level of information publicly available regarding MACP & SOCP is sufficient to get your unit's combatives program standing up and effective, especially if you occasionally bring in an expert to help you work through a few of the spots where you get stuck.
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| Benchmade 176 SOCP by Greg Thompson |
Something I discovered reading H2H is Mr. Thompson's patent-pending knife design. When looking at how and where he deployed it in various techniques, it looks pretty darned effective, and clever. So, I ordered one. I'll train with it for a while, then give you all my thoughts. I can already tell you it is designed in such a manner that it is a situational blade - it won't replace my Randall for offensive and most defensive wetwork, or my KA-BAR as a field knife - but in certain circumstances, it may become my go-to blade.
Here's an Amazon link to his book.
Here's an Amazon link to the SOCP blade. I purchased the dagger option.
Kerodin
III
**Disclaimer** "My" system for "my" Tribe is not MACP/SOCP or any of the .mil systems. I mentioned the other day that grappling as the fundamental core of a Combatives program in a Kill or Die unit must be more aggressive and avoid the ground - most of the time.
But that is not the purpose of this post. I wholly advocate the H2H/MACP/SOCP for you - unless you are in my Tribe and plan on working on my Team. The Mission of my Team is...different.
PT
Much is made of PT, for good reason.
I promise you most people reading this post will lose a 60-second fight with a heavy bag at full speed. Most will lose a 30-second fight. If you can stay alive until your enemy tires out, you'll probably win. Win = Live.
If you have ever grappled in a dojo, or run through modern .mil combatives, you know if your wind isn't up for 2, 3, 5, 7 minutes of going hard, you are in trouble if the other guy is able to last 10 seconds longer. Because in that last 10 seconds while he still has gas in the tank, and you are on empty, he's going to break your physiology.
I am now 47 years old, and to you younger guys I promise you this: A 50 pound sack of rice weighs less when you are 20 than when you are 40. That's simply the way things work with us bipeds - and why doing "it" while as young as possible is so critical as you get older, so that experience can make up for those lost physical attributes.
A young man will fight you - an old man will kill you.
There is a reason such axioms exist in our world. I am not grappling anybody at this point in my life. In a scrum today, I am not going to try and win, I'm going to neutralize the threat you pose, right now, and you'll probably die as a result. Or, you'll kill me. There isn't any middle-ground.
Everyone has their own notions of what a good PT regimen is for them. Go with what works for you.
Since we are fond of the Warrior Ethos around here, be it Spartan, Samurai, Viking, whatever - here's how Gerard Butler and the cast of 300 got shredded for their movie. Obviously it would be almost impossible to keep that level of fitness for very long - but try getting as close as you can, and staying as long as you can. The life you save may be your own. Because just as I know most 40-60 year-old guys reading this blog would lose a 30-second, full-speed fight with a heavy bag - I also know the average 16-25 year-old would lose as well - and he'd quit sooner because, as they say, today's boys got a lot of quit in 'em...
Here's your 300 work out:
Here's a link to visuals.
Yes, we will be doing the 300 workout in Studio III for those who want to give it a go, if you are part of my combatives/CQB classes.
Remember, you don't have to know 30-years of knife-fighting to kill a knife-fighter, if you can stay alive for about 10 seconds after he runs out of gas with all his fancy training. Then you just hit him in the head with a hammer, or stab him with his own knife. (Though my preferred weapon is still an up-shifting Chevrolet, hitting overdrive, from his back side...)
Kerodin
III
Who owns you...
It all comes down to the simplest basis: Who owns you?
You think the Sheepdog is there to protect you?
He is.
It's his job to ensure you make it to scheduled shearings, and finally the stew pot - or curry kabob, depending on your tastes.
Here's a story from Britain. The people in Britain's Government believe they own all Britons.
Kerodin
III
III Percent Society, here. Don't be a sheep, don't be a sheepdog, and do not permit yourself to be owned - by anyone. Ever.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
General Reuben Goldberg - You are relieved of Command...
As a species we tend to tinker and try to improve methods and tools of work. We are constantly seeking a better mousetrap. In most cases this is a good trait, except when we over-complicate a simple matter.
As Mosby has pointed out 4GW is truly nothing new - it's just a fancy new title to describe how Mankind has been fighting since Mankind began. When genuine, innovative tinkering presents useful results, such as more crop yield for less work, it is a good thing and to be embraced. When we simply re-package X and call it "new & improved", we are better-off if we stop kidding ourselves.
So be careful not to let Reuben Goldbergs into your sphere. They will needlessly complicate simple matters.
Like the picture above.
When you decide to go to war and win, all you do is find your enemy, then cut his fucking head off. Then, go and burn his home to the ground. Repeat as necessary. Hearts & Minds? They tend to fall in line when heads are - literally - rolling in the streets.
How do you think the Leftists in America plan to mop-up the few of us remaining Liberty-minded folks just before claiming victory?
Kerodin
III
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