>Leaflets

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Sixty-four years ago tomorrow, warning leaflets were dropped over major Japanese cities, reading as follows:

“Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. In the next few days, some or all of the cities named on the reverse side will be destroyed by American bombs. These cities contain military installations and workshops or factories which produce military goods. We are determined to destroy all of the tools of the military clique which they are using to prolong this useless war. But, unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America’s humanitarian policies, the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives. America is not fighting the Japanese people but is fighting the military clique which has enslaved the Japanese people. The peace which America will bring will free the people from the oppression of the military clique and mean the emergence of a new and better Japan. You can restore peace by demanding new and good leaders who will end the war. We cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked but some or all of them will be, so heed this warning and evacuate these cities immediately.”

Five days later, on August 6, 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was obliterated by the first use of an atomic weapon against a populated target.

On August 9, 1945, a second atomic weapon was dropped by the US Army Air Force on Nagasaki.

Flash-cut to today.

At the American governmental Leviathan’s current course and speed, is it not predictable that someday soon, government lackeys across the former Republic will soon be receiving modern versions of that warning leaflet?

Read this leaflet carefully, as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend.

In the next few months, personnel and facilities of some or all of the governmental agencies at the local, state, and Federal level listed below will be attacked and destroyed by free American men and women. Those personnel and facilities have been hired and used over the past decade to deprive Americans of their basic human rights, including the right to be free from unreasonable arrests, searches, and seizures. The operations of these personnel and facilities violate the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As such, we are determined to destroy the totalitarian vermin who have placed their interests ahead of their fellow Americans, as well as all of the tyrants’ tools possessed by those traitors.

Unfortunately, despite every effort to target only specific personnel and facilities, innocent people may be accidentally injured by our actions. So, in accordance with America’s traditional beliefs in fair play and justice, American freedom fighters, who do not wish to injure innocent people, now urge you to do the following:

- If you possibly can, resign from your position in the government. As a believer in traditional American values, you should no longer be willing to aid and abet the monsters who use you to inflict their will on your fellow Americans.

- If you cannot resign from your position but believe that your agency is part of the totalitarian regime destroying this country, provide any and all information you believe might be useful to the American Restoration, in electronic or hard-copy format, to the following electronic and physical addresses:

[insert 3rd-world addresses located in nations estranged from the US government]

- If you must stay in your job, remember to “strike in place”, whether by refusing to work efficiently, obstructing or sabotaging your agency’s anti-freedom efforts, and/or by providing information regarding your agency’s incompetence and/or corruption to as many media outlets as possible.

We in the American fighting forces will make every effort to provide specific advance warnings of attacks against specific targets, wherever possible, so as to minimize any risk to innocent Americans. Stay aware of your circumstances, and when in doubt, avoid government locations and the company of totalitarian collaborators.

Remember: if you are reading this leaflet, you are the American Resistance. Together, we can restore American political freedom and individual human rights.

DEATH TO TRAITORS, COLLABORATORS, AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES

[insert potential target list]

Food for thought, against a terrible hypothetical future.

>Beck: The Horrific State of Politics in This Country, Now

>Excerpted from Billy Beck:
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… My net.reading over the last couple of days is fraught with every sort of bloody outrage, but this is very illuminating of the horrific state of politics in this country, now. This is criminal arrogance. No polity that values freedom could possibly brook that in peace. That doddering old sonofabitch — and all like him — would be instantly pitched straight into the Potomac. The implications of his audacity ought to be obvious, and I simply do not understand a people who would not be summarily done with him.

That’s the very face of hell, right there.
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>Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and The Nation

>For your weekend perusal, a long and thoughtful essay from Charles Hugh Smith on what to do post-Collapse.

Read it all.

>"The Window War" Begins (?)

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From a reader:

Man throws brick through City Hall, police HQ windows
CBS 42 Reporter: Gregg Watson
Email: gewatson@keyetv.com
Last Update: 7/28 6:28 pm

Austin police say a man tossed a rock through the window of police headquarters after he hit Austin City Hall with a big rock minutes earlier.

The suspect is described as white, in his 30s and with a beard. Police say first a security guard on duty saw the man smash the glass and sprint down Cesar Chavez.

Then 14 minutes later police say the scruffy suspect was captured committing a crime on camera outside police headquarters. On video the suspect is seen shattering the glass and taking off.

The glass at City Hall has been replaced but some are upset city hall was targeted with this misdemeanor madness.

“It’s pretty upsetting. I would have to wonder why someone would do something like that,” says Austin lawyer Nikelle Meade. “It’s a beautiful building. It’s a safety issue they could have really hurt somebody.”

“There’s no evidence to show he was trying to commit a burglary. He didn’t stay. He didn’t try to pull the windows open or anything like that,” says APD spokesman Scott Perry. “He walks up throws the rock turns around and runs off.”

He also created a problem for the cash-strapped city that now has to replace all the broken glass.

“It’s about $500 for the window here at city hall. We don’t know the cost estimate for the one that was broken at APD yet,” says Austin building service officer Jill Maness. “It’s a bit of an inconvenience the glass has to ordered, it’s a double pane safety glass. We’ve made a temporary Plexiglas replacement.”

Police haven’t added any officers to their patrol but say they will patrol city owned buildings more often.

See also this site and this site for more helpful information.

>’The Window War’ — Coming Soon To A Window Near You

>As submitted by a commenter:

‘The Window War’ – Coming Soon To A Window Near You
by DustoneGT (libertarian)
Thursday, July 23, 2009

What would happen if three percent of American gun owners or maybe even three percent of the American public decided they were ready to take things to the next level with minor breaches of the law?

When British colonists put on the clothing of the Native American and walked out into the ships in Boston’s harbor, they weren’t there to protest peacefully or be law-abiding citizens.

The message they sent the King of England was simple: “If the law no longer protects our interests, it will no longer protect yours.” They let him know that the days of a peaceful and law-abiding citizenry had come to a close in the face of evil and corrupt laws.

Fast forward to 2009. Conservatives and others angry at the recent government actions gathered en masse in many cities to protest peacefully and dubbed these events TEA Parties, but unfortunately the message they sent was far different: “We are unhappy with current government policy, but will continue to abide by the law and work within the corrupt political system.”

This is about to change. Many citizens, upset at the lack of results from peaceful things such as voting, calling and writing government officials and even mass protests are about to turn to the time-honored American tradition of minor law-breaking in the form of vandalism and property damage.

It all starts with a short piece of fiction called ‘The Window War’ by blogger Mike Vanderboegh. In it, a citizen facing similar frustrations writes a small message on a rock and hurls it through his local Republican party headquarters. Realizing that he felt betrayed by the Republicans because he expected better of them, he also destroys the glass over at the Democrat’s HQ because they are also a big part of the problem.

In the following days, the town’s newspaper editor makes it his personal quest to ridicule the person who threw the rock, but in so doing manages to get his story onto the national wires and spread the idea to the rest of the country. Democrat and Republican windows across the country begin to feel the hurt in the weeks that follow.

This ten-year-old piece of freedom fiction is starting to get popular again. The story has found its way onto many forums and other interactive sites by way of copy and paste, with some suggesting that the Tea Party of 1773 could be repeated in this fashion.

But what would push otherwise law-abiding citizens to this kind of behavior? Would a thing like a senator calling the police and having them remove peaceful protesters from public property after she felt ‘threatened’ do it?

In response to the above incident, Western Rifle Shooters Association is asking whether anybody yet has the guts to throw a few of these:

But what does the ‘III’ on the rock mean?

“Three Percenters today do not claim that we represent 3% of the American people, although we might. That theory has not yet been tested. We DO claim that we represent at least 3% of American gun owners, which is still a healthy number somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million people. History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. We are one such minority. So too are the current enemies of the Founders’ Republic. What remains, then, is the test of will and skill to determine who shall shape the future of our nation.The Three Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act. Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any further circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration of the Founders’ Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against enemies foreign and domestic.We are the people that the collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril.”

Read the rest of ‘What is a Three Percenter?’ here.

What would happen if three percent of American gun owners or maybe even three percent of the American public decided they were ready to take things to the next level with minor breaches of the law?

It’s doubtful the damage would be limited to the headquarters of political parties and the offices of the house and the senate in their districts. Expect to see damage at the multitudes of new offices, which have sent forth swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance in recent decades. Many an alphabet agency’s windows are likely to get in on the action. ‘The Window War’ also hints that private residences are likewise on the list.

It is unclear what would happen after that, but it looks like we are about to find out.

Audentes fortuna iuvat.

>Lefevre: The Constitution Revisited

>Take a listen to this audio file from the collection of Robert Lefevre’s lectures hosted by the Mises Institute.

Food for thought, especially as discussions turn to the Collapse’s aftermath.

To quote Einstein:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

>Questions

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Anybody had the guts yet to hurl a few of these?

How can one reasonably claim to be a “deterrent” when one’s opponents don’t even know you exist?

And finally, read this account of “constituent representation” and ask yourself why there were any windows left for “banging”, per the gutless Congresswoman’s subsequent apology?

Sic semper tyrannis.

>Vanderboegh: Stauffenberg’s Choice

>Mike links the July, 1944 plot to kill Hitler, the July 21st anniversary of Count von Stauffenberg’s execution, and our recent “20 More Questions” essays in his current post.

Hie thee there and read it all.

And make damned sure you know who and what you will serve.

Tempus fugit.

>Denninger: TWENTY-FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS?!

>From Denninger’s Market Ticker:

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Ex-freaking-scuse me?

Barofsky said that while the TARP program that Congress passed amounts to $700 billion, the total federal government support since 2007 for the economy and the financial sector could reach a far higher figure of $23.7 trillion. The government has committed significantly more money through a variety of other federal agencies and programs.

WHAT?!

$23.7 trillion dollars?

Where was the Congressional appropriation for that?

This is blatantly unconstitutional, folks. We’re talking about nearly double the nation’s GDP in debt commitments and more than 33 times the amount authorized by Congress.

Oh, and it gets worse:

Meanwhile, Barofsky’s office has opened 35 criminal and civil investigations into issues including suspected accounting fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, mortgage servicer misconduct, mortgage fraud, public corruption, false statements and taxes.

That’s right, we have 35 criminal investigations connected to this nearly $24 trillion dollars of largesse too, and that’s only what Mr. Barofsky knows about. Anyone care to gander about what’s hidden from him? Oh wait – we got a problem there too:

“Treasury’s continued unwillingness to provide basic transparency despite the many recommendations of SIGTARP and Congress and the repeated demonstration that meaningful data from TARP recipients can be gathered and easily disseminated is unacceptable,” said a memo prepared by Republicans on the oversight committee.

Hello Richard Nixon! Bailoutgate anyone? Obstruction?

Shall we continue?

This is outrageous and threatens the very stability of our nation. How anyone can believe our banking system or indeed our nation’s Treasury can survive the exposure of $24 trillion dollars, twice our GDP, is beyond me.

We most certainly cannot, and when (not if) our creditors and lenders, including China and Japan, wise up to what’s going on here the game will quite literally be over, perhaps as soon as “right now”…

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Read the rest.

Alea iacta est.

UPDATE 1915 edst 7/21/09: Read the entire follow-on article by Denninger, which included this direct link to the IG’s report and this table:

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Who will guard the guardians?

>COIN’s Siren Song

>Please read this essay from Sic Semper Tyrannis, as cited at Fabius Maximus, on the challenges of effective counterinsurgency where the indigenous folks don’t want to be pacified.

Money graf:

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…In its fullest form the doctrine [of counterinsurgency] can be reduced to three basic elements:

1-Political warfare designed to eliminate the symbolic causes of revolt. This would include such efforts as a reduction of public corruption, adequate representation in government for all parts of the population, etc.

2- Economic development that provides incomes sufficiently large for the masses so that they are not inclined to risk the hazards of support for insurgents.

3- Counterguerrilla operations. Such operations must be a hazard for the insurgents and NOT for the population. We have not been doing well at that in Afghanistan. These counterguerrilla operations are conducted so as to provide a protective “screen” behind which “1″ and “2″ can occur.

Basically what is attempted in this doctrine is the construction of a society that is more attractive and viable than that promised by the insurgents…(emphasis added)
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As the situation in North America continues to devolve over the next decade, anyone care to set odds on the ability of an impoverished and discredited Washington (or Ottawa) being able to construct “a society that is more attractive and viable than that promised by the insurgents” — especially if the “insurgents” are preaching a gospel that says, “We won’t take your money, we won’t take your property, we won’t interfere in any way, shape or form with your family, and we’ll help you stop anybody who tries to do those things”?

Freedom could be very popular.

>Recommended

>Highly recommended for its first-person accounts of political action by free Irishmen against the occupying British and their lackeys during the Irish War of Independence, this book also features the final warning issued by Michael Collins to members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the occupying British.

There’ll be more reference to that declaration in a subsequent essay, but between it and the warning dropped by the USAAF over Japanese cities on 1 August 1945, readers of the recent 20 More Questions, Feedback on ’20 More Questions’, and Reactions posts will have additional food for thought.

For now, get and read “The Squad”. In the meantime, read the text of the pre-Hiroshima warning below and consider a possible 21st-century usage of the concept:

“Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. In the next few days, some or all of the cities named on the reverse side will be destroyed by American bombs. These cities contain military installations and workshops or factories which produce military goods. We are determined to destroy all of the tools of the military clique which they are using to prolong this useless war. But, unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America’s humanitarian policies, the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives. America is not fighting the Japanese people but is fighting the military clique which has enslaved the Japanese people. The peace which America will bring will free the people from the oppression of the military clique and mean the emergence of a new and better Japan. You can restore peace by demanding new and good leaders who will end the war. We cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked but some or all of them will be, so heed this warning and evacuate these cities immediately.”

To be continued…

>Quote of the Week

>Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

– Frederick Douglass

>Reactions

>Several outraged reactions have been posted thus far to this piece discussing the vulnerability of government workers to political action by freedom-lovers.

Read all of the comments, but a few things need emphasis:

1) Oath-Keepers: I was an early supporter of this fine organization founded by Stewart Rhodes earlier this year, both in this space and elsewhere. Unlike many, I traveled (along with Mike Vanderboegh) to Lexington Green on April 19th, renewed my oath, and participated in the Oath-Keepers’ truly inspiring event. I applaud every single Oath-Keeper’s commitment to personal freedom, political liberty, and the restoration of the American Republic. I commend all Oath-Keepers for their unwavering commitment to The Ten Orders We Will Not Obey, and I will stand and fight besides the good men and women of that organization, do or die.

But remember Admiral Stockdale’s Paradox?

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

The most brutal facts of our current reality are as I posted in comment reply last night:

Re Oath Keepers:

Presumably, every Oath Keeper who is honest will acknowledge that:

a) they are paid via taxes collected through the threat of force from American citizens;

b) as such, they are, by definition, subordinate to the people that pay them, both by virtue of who is actually the productive party in the taxpayer/tax parasite relationship and by virtue of the guiding principles of the American Republic (see comment above);

c) all of the current and former oathtakers since 1916 or so have failed in their duty to defend the Constitution from domestic enemies such as Wilson, FDR, Truman, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and the Kenyan, along with the respective Congresses from 1916 forward; and

d) they are well overdue in actually doing something (other than talking) about reversing that abysmal 93-year record of failure in actual, effective oath-keeping.

Re Anon and his point re target ID, amen. I do not truly believe that every .gov employee is my enemy.

But boys and girls, it is no-shit well past time for those men and women of good faith within government to start linking up with the Resistance and getting as much info and materiel out to the freedom team as possible. Every day that you folks sit on the sideline, the more each of you is tarred forever more with the indelible fecal smear of Comrades Soetero, Pelosi, and Reid.

Maybe I should have titled the essay “Collaborator, Quisling, or Undercover Operative? Time to Choose”.

Know my rules?

1) The man or woman shooting besides me at the enemy is my friend;

2) The man or woman shooting AT me (or helping others shoot at me) is my enemy; and

3) Anyone not in groups 1 or 2 (unless they are feeding me information/materiel/other logistics support) is, at best, a high security risk.

Make sense?

Now, to be honest, in the light of day, I regret that reply.

More specifically, I regret that I left the philandering Jack Kennedy off the list of American Presidents who have successfully violated the Constitutional limits on their power, based upon his undeclared wars in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and in a little place called Vietnam.

Everything else stands.

Note that I said nothing derogatory whatsoever about Stewart’s organization.

Nothing.

What I did say is the simple and bitter truth — that since 1916 straight through today, everyone who has taken an oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution and its express limitations on Federal power has failed completely in their oath-bound duty.

Everyone.

Myself included.

Has failed.

Completely.

Anyone who doubts that painful fact need only look to today’s Leviathan, comparing the scope and scale of the combined Federal/state/local apparatus to the minimalist structure mandated by the Constitution.

If you need any additional proof, run your copy of the fundamental human rights enshrined and “guaranteed” by the Bill of Rights against the everyday and unaccountable actions of Leviathan’s agents everywhere across this country.

If you have the courage and the intellectual honesty to do so, you’ll weep. I know I have, on multiple occasions.

I’ve wept for what has been lost, and I have also wept for how few men and women in today’s America are willing to do what it will take to stop the totalitarian bastards who continue, even as I write, to use all of their energy and all of their power to eradicate the country and the principles in and by which I was raised.

So what to do when you get knocked on your tail?

You get up and do whatever it takes, by any means necessary, to

- stop the enemy, including his allies, accomplices, collaborators, and Quislings;

- reverse his gains;

- destroy his fighting ability; and

- hold any surviving enemy forces fully accountable for their actions.

So, my fellow oathtakers and Oath-Keepers, let’s get busy. We’ve got 93 years of defeats to avenge.

Forward.

2) Fundamental Principles: The next part of my comments was inspired by the late Bill Hicks, a brilliant comic who performed, flamed out, and died in the Nineties. His advice to marketers and advertisers in the following video segment is my advice to every government worker, be it at the Federal, state, local, or tribal level, who does not understand the following basic principles:

a) You live off the tax dollars stolen by force from every productive non-government worker, business owner, and saver in this country; and

b) As a government worker in the American system, you are, by definition, subordinate to your true bosses — the taxpaying non-governmental American citizen. As long as you remain as a government worker — from new hire, all the way up to President of the United States — you remain, regardless of rank or job description, subordinate to every single taxpaying non-governmental American citizen.

I know that there are many (most?) government workers who understand, accept, and even celebrate these fundamental principles of the dying American Republic. For those of you in the audience who do not, I commend to you the same actions as Bill Hicks suggests for marketers and advertisers in this video clip (caution: harsh language):

Really — I am not kidding. Do it now.

And you’re welcome for the advice.

3) “Terrorist Organization”: A commenter called the essay “a sure fire recipe for failure for your “freedom team” since it will be considered a terrorist org. by anyone except radical Atlas Shrugs toting anarchists.”

Well, chiefie, everyone’s entitled to his opinion. My opinion is that everyone who comes to this site is already pinged for special treatment as a thoughtcriminal. Rather than deal with that fact and acting accordingly, you and your ilk are wasting precious time trying to figure out how to be nice to statists so that they won’t hurt you.

Guess what? Leviathan will eat you too.

So sorry.

And besides, I’ll bet you haven’t even read Atlas Shrugged. You should — it might clean some of the mush from your skull.

Forward.

>Vanderboegh: The ATF Keeps Tap Dancing in a Minefield

>Mike updates the story he broke last May about a FedGov death threat against a noted member of the Second Amendment community.

Not good news, either. Read both articles, please.

To me, the key message is in this paragraph of the letter Mike sent to Attorney General Holder in May:

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… And Eric, not to put too fine a point on it, but you and I both can make an educated guess about what mischief will likely ensue if ANY high-profile Second Amendment activist “has an accident”. Best to tell your lads and lasses to stick to those nice safe paper cases (you know, the ones with the 4473s completed with a “Y”, rather than “yes”) and confine their wet-work fantasies to their off-duty reading. There’s still lots of vicious drug gangs, murderous career criminals and real terrorists out there to keep them busy without picking a fight with honest American gunowners who merely want to be left alone…
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As I noted here:

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…For in the end, there is no chain of command for American freedom fighters. The lack of centralized command-and-control mechanisms that insulate leaderless insurrections from many conventional military tactics also leaves the “launch order” as a matter of individual (or small group) discretion…
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Keep poking the bear, boys.

Just watch what happens next.

>Volk on Freedom

>Courtesy of Oleg, another classic.