The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has proved what all patriots hae been suspecting for a long time: the Left wants us dead. It’s that simple.
If you try to protect businesses from violent rioters and looters ... and they attack you ... you should just die.
When Aaron Jay Danielson was murdered by an AntiFa member in Porland, the Leftists there cheered. Academics even posted essays justifying it. Of course, there are decent people on the Left who do not do this, but they’re not in charge anymore. And probably the people who are nominally in charge aren’t drooling for our demise, but they are unwilling to confront the radical activists who are now setting the agenda for them.
This is not a political argument over whether we should have a minimum wage or how high it should be, or whether the government should borrow more money to build a highway ... this is a war. Our side just doesn’t realize it yet.
But the other side sees it that way, and “in war, the laws are silent”. You root for your own side, and look away when they commit crimes. You demonize the enemy, magnify his crimes, exaggerate his evils, and even invent some. In war, truth is the first casuality.
We have to prepare. Every serious patriot who does not own an AR15 or the equivalent, should get one as soon as possible, plus the usual accessories ( a half dozen magazines, 2000 rounds of ammunition, etc). That’s going to cost a couple of thousand dollars, so if you don’t have it, something is better than nothing, even a bolt-action single-shot .22. [In fact, in some situations, a .22 or a shotgun is a better weapon than an AR15, because it gives you the option of inflicting less-than-fatal wounds on attackers, which it may be in your interests to do.]
Plus, you had better start preparing for a prolonged breakdown of the social/economic/legal order. If you and your family are able to live on your own provisions (food, toiletries, medicines, etc) for a few months, you’ll be in a much better position if and when such a situation comes. And it’s not really an expense, since you ‘queue’ your purchases and consume (now) from one end while from time to time replacing at the other. (First-in, first-out.) Instead of spending several thousand dollars over two years, you spend it all now and consume over two years. (Or, in practice, spend 10% more each time you shop and build up your stores.)
Note that in a real social collapse, you will be under moral pressure to help out less-provident friends and relatives and neighbors. So it’s in your interests to get them to prepare now.
Finally, community defense — both now — when violent rioting and looting is effectively permitted by Democratic officials — and in the future, requires organization. Just having a bunch of men with rifles turn up at a spot being targeted by the criminals and the Left is NOT enough. The defenders must have been previously organized into a disciplined group, with a chain of command, auxiliariy support teams (legal, intel, comms, transport, logistics), and have trained for all sorts of situations.
Once your group reaches a size of a few dozen members, with another hundred or two sympathyzers, you will have people with the skills you need: military, medical, engineering, communications.
If there had been such a group at Kenosha — instead of just a group of well-meaning patriots — Kyle Rittenhouse could have been incorporated into it, and wouldn’t have gotten mixed up with the human garbage they were there to defend against. Similarly in Portland, where Aaron Danielson was murdered because he thought he could walk the streets safely amidst the Porlland vermin.
Some people who seem to know what they’re doing in this department are the USCPT.org — contact them and see if they can help you.
We should start acting now. No one knows the future, but we can be pretty sure it is going to be turbulent. Those who have prepared, and organized and trained with others, will be in a much better position to survive it.
“Once your group reaches a size of a few dozen members, with another hundred or two sympathyzers,”
And 50 of them will be FBI informants.
This is some really DUMB advice, excepting the armaments and provisions.
I understand your concern = and each of us needs to choose which part of the barricades we defend. My section (which is NOT a criticism of your position) is to back up and support police departments and their power within a city. And to call out mayors asking police to stand down while a riot is happening... In Florida we're putting laws in place to support sanity and stand up to criminal thugs. The police ARE suppose to be our first line of defense against criminals. And that's how it should be. That IS the "group" we've formed.
One of the main reasons we agreed to pay city taxes (taxed ourselves) is to provide protection for our cities and ourselves.
My barricade:
First, run against every blue mayor that told police to stand down. Educate citizens - tell them police function UNDER mayors and if told to stand down - they must stand down. A city burning is the fault OF THE MAYOR - NOT THE POLICE. Ask for help to fire democrat mayors - at the ballot box. Then change laws...
As far as a commie takeover we have more time than you think - commies always kill their 'useful idiots' first. Those are the people who helped them take over... and those are the people who will be most pissed they've been used... and they will fight back. Commies 'get' human nature on the level of evil... so it'll be a long time before they come after us. Commie will kill the white liberal 'elites' and their flunkies first.
(Have you noticed democrat extremists have NOT called to 'de-fund the FBI or Military' - that's a hint about who they see as 'on their side'...)
The left wants us all dead or enslaved.
I’ve been saying that for years.