Alan Gottlieb Scores another Win for 2A

Doug Ross has the details, here.

Polygonal.

Kerodin
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When you set out to take Vienna...

...take Vienna!

When a man bloviates incessantly about "Not one more inch..." and "...if you try to take our weapons, we will kill you..." and then surrenders his handgun at a routine traffic stop, one would be quite justified in dismissing such men from the ranks of serious Patriots.  This one has been covered, yet returns to relevance for the rest of this post.

When an organization sets out their RoE as has OathKeepers, and they go to Ferguson with good intentions to defend property from looters - yet they stand down when PoPo threatens arrest, one would be quite justified to wonder how deep the yellow runs in the upper echelons of the organization.

I am watching Ferguson not to pontificate on who is right and who is wrong.  From Day One we've been simply analyzing actions and reactions, cause and effect.

Analysis: The rioters, looters, and their Communist provocateurs are more committed than are the OathKeepers who showed up.  That is a simple fact.  Consider that reality when you plan for your Ferguson.

One more time: Never draw a line in the sand that you will not defend.  The moment you fail to defend a line you have drawn, you reveal your weakness, and your bluster and failure taints us all.

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Here's a piece on OKs in Ferguson.

Kerodin
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Red Terror is likely in our future...

Red Terror.  Lenin's Hanging Order, here.

Prepare to defend yourselves.

Kerodin
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Silver & Gold: Analysis

Is it time to trade some of that worthless green paper for silver?

Silicon Graybeard offers an excellent analysis of the current market, here.

While I still contend that lead is the best metal to horde - having as much silver and gold as you can afford now will put you in good stead in the near future.  The moment the dollar implodes, trade and commerce in America will pivot to barter and metals.  Silver and gold have the potential to bring wealth into your life the moment the current sham of an economy reaches the inevitable collapse.

Kerodin
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Brock Rocks

144,000 NICS checks Friday, a new record.  The final numbers will probably be available in a few days.  I'd love to know how many of those purchases were first-time buyers.  But the picture above is encouraging, isn't it!?  When our women begin engaging the Enemies of Liberty, we will win.  When mothers come to the conclusion that the Enemies of Liberty are a threat to their children, they will green light their men.  That is not a sign that Patriot men are weak - the fact is that Patriot men care about their families, care about what their wives think, and trust their judgment.  When wives and mothers believe the best interests of their families are served by men Standing Up and heading to the Green instead of going to the office, the end is near for the Enemies of Liberty.  Brock has the details, here.

Remember the Minute Women?

Today's Patriot women are modern Molly Pitchers.  Today's Patriot women are arming themselves so they can defend home & hearth when their men head to the Green.  Encourage your women to network and start relevant conversations with their friends.  A chicken in every pot and a pistol in every apron, and tyranny will die in America.

Polygonal.

Kerodin
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Two from Larry

Another blog that should be on your daily route.

Two posts: Ferguson and Denver.

Look around, folks.  This is what an escalating Civil War looks like from the inside.

Kerodin
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Jefferson on Immigration

Accept this simple reality: There are forces among us that mean to destroy and erase from the memory of Man every facet of our Founding Ideals.  Everything that made America and Americans exceptional in the world is a threat to those who mean to be Masters.

Immigration is a weapon of dilution.  It is an existential threat and it is effective.

The only way Liberty survives in America is if you and I keep it alive.

There is only one way to keep Liberty alive: Extirpate the Enemies of Liberty and the population living among us who accept that they are entitled to the fruits of another man's labors.

That's it.  Full stop.

Who will do it?

Look in the mirror.  That is the person who must stand and do the work.

Kerodin
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Ferguson Study Group: IX

I read the story at WeaponsMan this morning, and CA linked it here.

It is an excellent observation by the WeaponsMan Team, and CA nails the proper position on Race:

It ain’t the melanin that is dispositive.

It’s the amount of assholism present in the individual.

Each individual.

Just like any other freedom issue. - Concerned American @ WRSA

As Jim Klein correctly reminds us often: It is, and always has been, Individualism versus Collectivism.

And as anyone who bothers to think on the topic for even a few moments should conclude: The bad connotations associated with the concept of Collectivism do NOT extend to groups of people who consent to work together toward particular ends.  As our Tactical Trainers remind us all the time, if you do not have a Team, you are fooked.  And if your Teams do not have the support of at least a modest percentage of the non-combatants in your AO, your Team will be fooked.

Local, Local, Local as Bill Nye coined.  Build a Team and earn the support of at least a portion of the people in your AO, and you can be effective.  It is not all about defending yourself and your AO with violence.  Your role is to make certain your AO has showers, drinking water, food, medical support, and the other day-to-day essentials of life.  And when self defense is required, you will have the support of your community - regardless of their skin color or ethnicity.

Blanket statements such as "Your skin color is your uniform" must be understood to be as destructive to Rightful Liberty as the Marxism coming from the other side.

There is very little room in the Liberty Movement for people who do not think.

I hope everyone has taken the time to watch and consider everything that has been happening in Ferguson, and in the name of Ferguson across the country.

Kerodin
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Your Papers, Citizen...

The image above is from Mike's place, here.  It should be a daily stop. (The below post has NOTHING to do with Mike or his site.)  He simply posted a great graphic - his site is full of great stuff - that I am able to use to make a point.

It illustrates my point about Voter ID - but first you must remember the old Soviet Pig Farmer logic.  A Pig Farmer had 2 pigs, and his neighbor had three.  So he calls the KGB and demands that they come and kill one of his neighbors pigs.

Same-same with ID requirements in this country.

The knee-jerk argument most people on the political Right (and the flawed thinking runs deep even in the Liberty Movement) is that since you need photo ID to do all those everyday acts listed on the left side of the graphic, you should therefore be required to show State-issued Photo ID to vote.

Do you see the Pig Farmer logic at play?

Take a moment and look at the long list of actions that require you identify yourself to the State, with State-issued papers, and apply this simple premise: Should I have to show my papers to: Buy alcohol, buy a firearm, drive my car, ride on an airplane...etc.

If the answer is no to those things, then you must conclude that to apply that standard to voting fails.

The word is "precedent". When you bend knee and accept the argument that you must have a state-issued permit to exercise your inalienable Right to locomotion, or self defense, or feeding yourself with a fishing pole, you set the precedent that you are willing to bend knee.  It is that simple.

The answer is not to once more bend knee and produce your state-issued papers when you want to vote.  The answer is to move everything in the left column to the right, and stop bending at the knee - period.

There are ways to exercise the franchise without surrendering to the notion that the State has the Authority to issue papers to you and that you must comply and produce those papers on demand.  I thought one of the things we are fighting against is Iron Curtain controls.  Right?

If you think we should be required to produce State-issued papers to do anything on the lists above, I strongly suggest you sit in a quiet room and think hard on the topic.  Because if you do agree, then you have not yet truly broken free of the Statist shackles upon your mind.

They don't do it for the fucking children, folks.

Kerodin
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Governed by Consent - OK. By Force - not so much...

Here's the link.

Be ungovernable until it is by your consent.

Kerodin
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Thanksgiving

If you are fortunate enough to spend the day with family, friends and loved-ones, be certain to remind yourself why you visit III & Liberty blogs and venues.

America is at war with herself.  Americans see other Americans as enemies.  Many of the people in your life actively work or passively accept the actions of tyrants in our midst to prosecute this war against Liberty.  Look at the people with whom you share this Thanksgiving and ruthlessly consider which of them intend to ever stand upon a Green to defend you or Liberty.  Consider how many of them will undermine your efforts to reach a state of Liberty.  That goofball brother-in-law who you usually tolerate - the one who believes in global warming and ObamaCare - is not merely the family stooge.  He has the hearts & minds of your sister and your nieces and nephews.

While you eat and share the day with family and friends, Enemies of Liberty are working even today to continue prosecuting their war against Liberty.  They never stop.

In RevWarII brothers fought brothers.

RevWarIII will see the extinction of Liberty and those who dare claim it as a Birthright.  Or, the forces of Liberty will slit the throats of enough tyrants to keep Liberty alive for another generation - even if only as an abstract possibility.

How many people at your table this evening will you have to kill in this fight for Liberty?

Thanksgiving, it is.  I give thanks that my wife is in my life, and I give thanks for the Patriots I have met and will meet who have the same hard road before them as do I.

But "Happy" - this day is not.

Kerodin
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III Society SWAG Shipping

More III Society SWAG packages shipping Monday.

Kerodin
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GoPro: Feedback Needed

Looking for feedback from anyone who has first-hand experience using the GoPro system wifi to stream video to Facebook or elsewhere.

Comments welcome on the post or by email if you'd prefer anonymity: K@Kerodin.com

Thanks,
K

Will Grigg on Michael Brown

Michael Brown was apparently a shoplifter and a bully. If this was the case, he should have been compelled to make restitution to the victims. (Interestingly, although Wilson claimed to have seen stolen cigarillos in Brown’s hands during the “assault,” they were never found.) While there’s no clear evidence that Brown ever assaulted Wilson, it is indisputable from Wilson’s testimony that he was the one who escalated the encounter by threatening lethal force. This is problematic even under positivist legal precedents: Per Bad Elk vs. US, Brown — even as a criminal suspect — didn’t have a duty to die simply because Wilson had the means to kill him, and according Tennessee vs. Garner Wilson didn’t have the legal authority to kill Brown simply because he tried to evade arrest.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
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Ferguson: Before & After Pics

Fire.

You want to end X in an AO?

Fire.

Kerodin
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Ferguson Study Group VIII: Thanks for the tip, Chief...

“I don’t think we were underprepared. But I’ll be honest with you. Unless we bring 10,000 policemen in here I don’t think we could prevent folks that really are intent on just destroying a community. It doesn’t take very long to throw some kerosene in a building and burn it as you’re running past.” - St. Louis Police Chief Jon Belmar

An ally suggested I examine the comment above:

So, let's do a bit of analysis.  The Chief of St. Louis County PoPo doesn't run a small shop.  He's got some experience and insights.  And his statement last night was very insightful for coming events that may see Patriots on the Green.  Let's assume he simply pulled the 10,000 number from his bum. 

Ferguson has a total population of about 21,000.  The population is just a hair over 2/3 Black and just a hair under 1/3 White.  Out of 8,200 households, just under 29% of the population is younger than 18.  Just a hair over 10% of the population is 65 or older.  Starting to see a picture develop?  So we have, perhaps, 13,000 adults in the community between 18 and 65.  One would expect that only a small percentage of those people were actually on the street - but for sh*ts & giggles, lets just use 13,000.

Using the Chief's number, he needs one LEO on the street for every 1.3 adults over 18 and younger than 65, in order to stop people from burning down their own community.  But the actual number of people on the streets in Ferguson was well under 5,000 from everything I saw and every source I have read.  And the number of people who flipped cars, broke windows, grabbed televisions and set fires was very damned small in actual numbers compared to the total population.

So, the Chief is really saying he needs at least 2 LEO for every 1 person who takes to the streets.

Heh - that ain't happening anywhere in America - ever.

How are you liking the odds in your AO, folks?  Does your LEO shop have even a 1:10 relationship with your AO?  1:50?  The Ferguson shop has 53 LEO - to 21,000 residents.  1:500 anyone?

We call this the Ferguson Study Group for a reason.  Watch.  Take notes - not sides.  Consider what you see in Ferguson through the lens of the Minuteman and apply it to your AO. 

Because the men who mean to be the Masters in Ferguson Missouri are cut of the same cloth as those who mean to be the Masters of you.

Kerodin
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Ferguson Study Group VII: 13 Hours from the X

It has been just about 13 hours since the announcement.

Fire was used as a tool. 

While there were gunshots - reports of LEO coming under fire do not exist.

We shall see how things go tonight.

Outside of Ferguson: Erroneous information proves again to be more dangerous than facts.  Reports that LEO lost an AR and were taking fire from that weapon demonstrate again the importance of verifying information before acting on it.  When you let someone else tell you what is happening and you let them interpret what is happening for you - you may as well slip a hoop through your snout and hand them the leash.  Anything you do not see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears MUST be considered unfounded until you have more information.

Why is this so important?  Because when your town becomes Ferguson you will essentially be on your own.  You may have a Team with you, but your Team will likely be in the soup, without the advantages of eyes in the sky and reliable real-time information.  Your perspective will be narrow.  You can NOT permit yourself to point your weapon at people and potentially take their lives based on the information of a removed third-party.

Final note: As I look across the Commentariat I see WN has a larger footprint in the Liberty sphere than I thought.  Many people are painting with a large brush, making broad generalizations (and recommending targeting and RoE based on those generalizations) - and for a Movement that is supposedly founded on Individualism, this can not obtain.

If you only see forests out there - unfuck yourselves and start treating the individual trees as would a moral person.

Kerodin
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Ferguson Study Group VI: No True Bill

Live Feed

I'm not seeing a guy who was just punched in the face by a linebacker-sized 18-year-old...


 

Ferguson needs at least one new patrol car...

22:33 EST: If anyone on the ground can get better images of the Comms units in this staging area, send them up.  Here's the link.

22:28 EST: Shots fired reports appear valid.  LEO using gas.  Tweet from reporter in St. Louis: 'What's done is done now do what you gotta do' angry woman yells into bull horn outside #Ferguson police.

Now let's settle-in and let the minute-by-minute guys do their thing, the protesters to do their thing, LEO to do what LEO does.  We'll review lessons-learned tomorrow...

22:15 EST: Watching at least one LEO car getting trashed, and several businesses with broken glass.  At least a couple small fires - let's see if fire is used as a real tool...

21:25 EST: No True Bill...

20:58 EST ...

Bracken: Free

Get them.

Kerodin
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Charles Dyer: Still in Prison

Here is an update.  A legal defense fund is seeking donations.

The list of unconscionable malevolent prosecutions and actions incentivized by our for-profit "legal system" grows daily.

There must be a Reckoning.

Kerodin
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