i know my house is something i am willing to make a stand in and for, i really don't think i want to see what comes after...
Posted on 06/12/2011 10:36:20 AM PDT by dagogo redux
however, I am putting all my money on "EMP attack from Iran". It just seems like the most likely external threat.
As far as the greatest INTERNAL threat, I'm not even gonna say his (foreign sounding) name.
i know my house is something i am willing to make a stand in and for, i really don't think i want to see what comes after...
No, didn't see it. Thanks.
“They would have to go on a major recruiting spree.”
They already have. From the TSA, Volunteer America, private agencies like Blackwater (Xe), FEMA, adding SWAT teams to the park service and NOAA, etc. The feds have been building a private army for a few decades now. There are roughly 4 million federal, State, and local people that can be called into service as necessary.
>>And: “Those instituting martial law will be looking for people to make examples of in order to quell any type of uprising or protest from the rest of the sheep. Harsh reprisals at the inception of martial law will keep the masses cowed and controlled.” <<
Now is as good as time as any to bring the subject of SWAT team tactics up with your mayors and town councilors. Grab a friend, make an appointment and go do it.
IMO, it should be common knowledge where our city, state and federal officials live. Yes, the county bureaucrats, the local, state and federal police officers, every single one of them. Let’s remove the cloak of anonymity from these public officials! They work for us, remember?
It is not difficult to make someone live in fear for their lives as many of you already know. Making our elected local, county, state or federal officials acutely aware of that feeling is not a popular idea but I assure you after once having that taste in your mouth, it is not one quickly forgotten. Why should we be the ones who fear them if we are not criminals? Don’t go after them in their protected offices when their homes and families are as vulnerable as ours are.
If our LEO’s or military troops under the orders of our elected officials ever administer violence to US citizens then I believe it should be returned in equal force to their superiors families.
I promise you that a single bullet through the kitchen window of the Mayors house will make for an excited dinner conversation with his wife that evening. The Mayor will then understand exactly what he did when he ordered violence against his townspeople.
The Chief of Police’s wife wouldn’t hesitate to explain in detail to her husband what a wonderful job he’s doing if her home were to receive a copper jacketed message through the front door.
>>What does “federalize local communities” mean?<<
Agenda 21, New World Order, control programs that make the population and local gov’ts submissive to the Feds. Encourage and financially support states rights!
Anyone who won’t meekly follow orders is a domestic terrorist!
We think alike in some regards.
Along more peaceful lines - pre-SHTF - I have on FR and other sites emphasized locating the homes of those in power, and not just the politicians and bureaucrats, but the leftist media and the power structure behind the ACLU and other treasonous groups and organizations.
We need to be showing up at THEIR houses - not their offices - to demonstrate and protest whenever they pull their anti-citizenry stunts, just like the SEIU has done, only peacefully and legally. Just enough to express ourselves, and let them know we are monitoring their actions, and to let them know we KNOW where they live. Even non-threatening letters sent to their homes would work somewhat. Make it personal - they do with us.
No need to act out or make threats: it’s enough at this time to merely let them know that we know who they are, what they are doing, and where they live.
Like you say, their spouses and kids will put a pressure on them we could never accomplish otherwise.
The next time you are having a friendly chat with a cop over a cup of coffee bring up the subject of firearm confiscation. Ask his opinion on the idea and then mention that there’s serious costs to such action.
“What if you left to go to work for a fun day of firearm confiscation and when you came home all you saw was ashes. That would take the fun out of firearm confiscation, wouldn’t it? Especially if one or all of your family was still in the house when it happened. Officer, remember that saying, “Protect and Serve? That includes my family and my home too.”
Before you pay the bill be sure to convince the man that these are measures that most certainly would not be taken UNLESS he steps out of line and changes from a protector/defender of our rights to a destroyer of them.
An even more effective way to get this message across is to have an 80 year old lady deliver it.
Cutting the power sources and communication lines/cell towers is probably the two most effective ways I can think of to mess with the power structure. Rail lines and highways would be 3rd and 4th. Rupturing the fuel lines that supply the airport would be 5th.
The book, Total Resistance, the Swiss guide to such things, covers the points in your last paragraph quite well. Many already know where and how such things could be accomplished locally.
WTSHTF, you’ll want to be in a gang. Gangs offer protection and stiffen your spine to fight back more effectively. Gangs will form naturally, but existing gangs or associations with a plan will have an advantage.
I know this article is months old, but after listening to Beck this morning, the possibility of martial law may be more relevant than ever. IF, that is, Beck is even close to being correct about what he’s saying today. Just listening to him depresses the heck outta me. Years back, I remember hearing the same thing about Clinton. He wouldn’t just step down after his 2nd term and declare martial law. I bit on the thought a little but we all know the outcome of that.
If martial law were to occur here in the US, I wonder how bad would it really be? Those that decided not to give in who would the fight be against?
VR
You ever simply have someone leave a whole bullet as a message?
At this stage of the game it is much better to have a meeting with the officials so you can let them know exactly what will prompt (to them and theirs) hazardous responses. If you order violence against the mass citizenry through such actions as confiscation of self defense tools or mandatory registration of such tools.
Keep in mind there is only 535 officials in DC. Your state probably has less than that, in total. When these officials get to the point where they fear the common people, all threats against us will subside.
How many officers is there in a battalion of soldiers? 30 or 40, maybe. That’s where the threat is. It is not the troops themselves.
“The USA has insufficient military and adjunct state & local police to impose martial law.”
True, but never underestimate the stupidity of liberals. They know they can recruit millions at a moments notice. Liberals now openly talk about violent revolution. They would love to have the chance. Toss in a bunch of good-hearted Amercians that would find violently reacting to the situation to be downright unAmerican and they would do as the liberals say. We would be but a few million alone against the rest.
Well put. I have had that conversation with the cops who “interface” with our neighborhood watch. They get real, real quiet.
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