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I’ll be glad to answer your questions privately.

In my previous post I should have mentioned that warfare is exactly why and how nation-states evolved. In the late middle ages Europe was a hodge-podge of city-states, duchies, kingdoms (most quite decentralized), etc.

As a neighboring state became better organized, each adjacent state had to organize in self-defense. Those that were not successful in forming true nation-states were eventually conquered and absorbed by their neighbors. Obvious examples include Ireland, Catalonia, Wales, Brittany, etc.

But the greatest example, and one seldom brought up by anarchists is Poland. In the early modern age Poland was one of the great powers. But it had a very weak central government, with the Golden Freedom of the nobles (the only real Poles, or real people, for that matter). Any noble at the Sejm could not only veto any measure, he could dissolve the Sejm and void all measure previously passed.

This did not result in peace and freedom. It resulted in constant warfare and eventual partition among the three neighbors who made the jump to nation-states.

Nation-states evolved by and for and really good at only one thing. War. When a nation-state runs up against any other form of human organization, the other group either forms a nation-state of its own in self-defense, or gets squashed.

Thank you for you email. The first thing I need to get across is that fighting in a foreign land and defending your local home area where you hunt, fish, camp and work is the difference between night and day. Literally, it is so different that you can’t imagine it.

When I know where the fuel pipelines, the telephone communication line junction/splice boxes, cell towers, electrical transmission lines, where the local cops go to have a beer, where the mayor and police chief live, know everyone on the city council and half of their extended families live, know the local trucking routes, heavy equipment mechanics, radio repairmen are in my home area that gives me a tremendous advantage should we choose to disable any part of them or all of them.

A team of thirty men can shutdown a city of half a million people in a day or less and never kill a single resident. Knowing where the local TV stations receivers are and how they wire in to the electrical system is something the men who repair them know without looking at a blueprint. Buy a guy a few beers and he’ll brag about every repair job that was critical to the station. Give him a couple of hundred and he’ll shut them down for as long as needed.

Do you think by coming into town with a few thousand troops that you are going to control the entire town? Not a chance and bring your artillery with you. Show it off. It won’t impress anyone who has used it or been on the supply line to an artillery group. They all know what’s needs to make it functional of the quickest way to disable it. We’ll contaminate your fuel supply and your water supply in a day or so. That slows down any single purpose group.

Do you think there is an army large enough (anywhere in the world) to control the entire USA, from coast to coast and border to border. There isn’t such an army anywhere. That’s why Zero is trying so hard to get us to register our firearms. Defeating an armed population the size of the USA is impossible. Sure you can put up roadblocks but in a day or so we’ll figure out how to move on.

As Dead Corpse said, “A decentralized “militia” is an uncrackable nut for any invader”. There’s no written plans. Nothing is stored on a laptop. There’s nothing traceable about it. Just hundreds of groups of men, women and kids who all think alike and know they are fighting for their freedom.

Imagine if the cops were ordered to start confiscation of weapons in Everytown, USA. Then imagine if there was 250 teams of men and women who decided to shoot one policeman in their city/town/community each day until confiscation of weapons halted. How long do you think it would be before you wouldn’t be able to find a single solitary cop IN UNIFORM anywhere? Would you drive an official cop car on patrol if you knew someone in your town was going to use it as a target that day?

Those are the things my local cops discuss. Interesting, huh?