Posted on 06/03/2005 1:00:44 PM PDT by mommadooo3
Excerpts from 101 THINGS TO DO 'TIL THE REVOLUTION
Posted on 05/14/2000 21:47:37 PDT by arcane
Excerpts from 101 THINGS TO DO 'TIL THE REVOLUTION By Claire Wolfe
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"This book is dedicated to you, the enemy of the state."
From the Forward:
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
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On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. But most people are still standing around numb and confused, knowing something's wrong with the country, but hoping it isn't quite as bad as they're beginning to suspect it is.
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Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many.
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The "revolution" of the book title may never be a shooting war. I hope to hell it isn't. But it will be a time of explosive change, of chaos, of entrenched power fighting for it's life against the forces of freedom, or of power collapsing and leaving a vacuum. It will happen.
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The ideas in this book mostly fall into three categories:
Self-liberation - things that are a good idea no matter what the government does or doesn't do;
Monkey-wrenching - little irritants to help wake people up and bring the system down (bit by bit);
Preparation - things that could help you survive the worst of the mess, once the government's fecal matter finally does hit the rotary airfoil. ....
One final warning. There are a few ideas in this book that would probably be illegal if you actually carried them out. A few more might be illegal in one state but OK in another.
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I can't and wouldn't advice you to do anything illegal. Of course, these days, there are 11 million pages of federal laws and regulations (which would take you 23,000 years to read). There are 200 pages of new laws and regs everyday. There are God knows how many state and local citizens, who have no idea what's legal or illegal anymore - leaving them prepared to follow any order issued by someone with a badge or federal ID card. If I advised you to fill a mud puddle in your driveway, chances are I'd be inciting you to violate the federal wetlands act. If I suggested you kill a cockroach, we'd probably both be conspiring to violate the Cockroach Protection Act of 1973. On the other hand, if you didn't kill that cockroach, you'd probably be violating the Urban Sanitation Act of 1967.
We're reaching the Orwellian point at which, "that which is not forbidden is compulsory."
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In order to keep from getting arrested or sued, however, the publisher and I have to tell you that any ideas about illegal or potentially illegal ideas are For Educational Purposes Only, and that we aren't recommending that you follow any of them.
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The only thing I hope is that you live in freedom, as you see fit, with as little interference as possible from government busybodies and bullies. If the suggestions in this book help you do that, good, but your life belongs to you. Live it well. Live it bravely. Live it smart.
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Excerpts from Chapter One. (The only chapter. The other 100 things to do are simply numbered things with no further chapter formatting.):
1. Don't write to your congresscritter Put down that pen! Close that word processing program! Forget all that happy crap you learned in civics class about sharing your views with your "representative." You don't have a representative any more. You merely have someone who thinks he or she is your "leader," unfettered by either your opinions or the Constitution.
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Marx was wrong: religion isn't the opiate of the masses, in modern America, the drug that keeps us numb, dumb and well-behaved is a belief that we can still make a difference by politely voicing our views to our would-be rulers and owners.
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4. Don't vote. It only encourages them. If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. That's old, but wise advice from an anarchist. In some of the world's dictatorships, voting is compulsory. Think about the implications of that.
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8. Kill your TV When we're watching TV, our brain waves are nearly identical to what they are when we're hypnotized. Think about it - the way a TV set draws your eyes even when you're not particularly interested in what's on the set...the way your eyes seem to glaze over and feel as if they're rolling back in your head as soon as they focus on the screen. That's hypnosis, people.
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I'm tempted to call TV a drug. But the vast majority of drug users can control their drug use.
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If you absolutely can't tear yourself away from that cathode ray tube, watch some good videos. Braveheart is a terrific one for starters.
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15. Be a Simon Jester Simon Jester never existed. He was merely a character in Robert heinlein's delightful science fiction novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In fact, Simon didn't even "exist" in the novel; he was a fiction invented by other fictional characters to irritate the government and spur rebellion.
"Simon" popped up now and then to plant anti-government poems, cartoons and sayings on the scene, then fade mysteriously away. Don't you think there could be a little "Simon Jester" in us all? Wouldn't it be a delight if, all across the land, evidence of Simon's presence appeared to remind would-be rulers they are neither sacred nor safe - and to let our fellow freedom lovers know they are not alone?
Here's how
Have some stickers printed up with thought-provoking sayings. (It's easy if you have a computer; just buy some Avery labels at the stationary store and print the stickers on your printer.) All you need to do is make sure your printer will handle the sticky labels. If it won't, print your at the local Kinko's or equivalent.
Carry a sheet of them and slap them everywhere you go: phone booths, rest room stalls, newspaper vending machines, park benches, post office or school bulletin boards, store windows - wherever they'll be noticed.
Short, sharp and/or funny sayings are best. Try these:
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I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at.
When only cops have guns, it's called a police state.
BATF: Bad Attitude Toward Freedom
If laws worked, there would be no crime.
Work harder: millions on welfare are depending on you.
Horiuchi: "Drop that baby or I'll shoot!"
If we all ignore the government, it'll go away.
A little revolution...is a good thing. - Thomas Jefferson
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. - Thomas Jefferson
Big Brother is here - and he's retarded!
[My current favorite not in the book is:
If you're happy and you know it - rattle your chains!
More good one-liners available HERE.]
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22. Visualize Vermont carry If the government issued permits for free speech, would you get in line for one? If your local sheriff was willing to grant you permission to practice your religion - after you passed certain tests, gave your fingerprints and let yourself be photographed, would you apply? If your state allowed you to hold a political meeting, but only if you obtained the proper license and consented to having your name entered in a government database, would you lay your money down?
The proper answer is, "We don't need no stinking permits!" Right?
Then you don't need no stinking permit to exercise your right to own and carry firearms either. If you ask the government for a permit, you are admitting you don't have a right.
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29. Identify the informant in your midst. If you're involved in any underground or anti-government activity, there is always one person you should distrust more than any other. [There's] a saying: You can always tell the FBI agent; he's the one who keeps trying to get you to bomb something."
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It was an FBI informant who helped a bunch of inept boobs (who couldn't even rent a truck properly) figure out how to bomb the World Trade Center. Then the FBI stood by while the boobs killed people so the feds would look better by having a more serious charge on which to arrest them - a barbarity that didn't seem to bother the media at all.
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In general, the feds are outstandingly bad at catching genuine evildoers. Look at the Unabomber case; it wasn't the FBI, it was the suspect's brother who caught him - after 15 years of useless federal investigation.
That's why feds concentrate instead on manufacturing crimes or catching ordinary people on technicalities; and feds from dozens of agencies - from the IRS, DEA, FBI, and BATF to the Immigration and Naturalization Service are all over the place, doing exactly that these days.
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[Other sections are just titled below without excerpts:]
31. Take your kids out of government school. [Gives resources for homeschooling groups.]
35. Cover your assets. [Good and unconvential financial advice.]
38. Fun and freedom on the Internet. [Tips for beginners, general info and hot links.]
41. Use PGP intelligently. [Basic info and where to get PGP.]
47: Read: monkey wrenching & getting around the system. [Resources for same.]
60. Buy and carry the Citizens' Rule Book. [What it is and where to get it.]
65. Watch your local government. [Why and how to get involved and win against city hall.]
71. Join the tax protesters on April 15.[Have fun, get media and make more people aware.]
77. Your three-day grab & go kit. [What you need in case of a disaster or short emergency.]
79. Building your emergence food supply. [Short and long term survival supplies: what and where.]
80. Building your medical kit. [Minimum recommended supplies.]
81.Your survival-weapons supply. [Good advice on guns & ammo with specifics.]
89. Make "them" fill out your paperwork. [A great counter-bureaucracy form I'll be making available here soon.]
96. Learn your privacy rights and protect them. [Lots of good resources.]
101. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. [If it ever comes to that....]
(( SLAP )) Ugh.. I was only dreamin.. really....
We're totally screwed.. you know.. Half the "people" voted for Al Gore, a known moron.. and thats only the ones that voted.. many more didn't even vote.. but we're sympathetic to him.. did I say blued and tatoo'ed, oh well..
Oprah's Harpocrites will be the death of us.. and the Dr. Phil'o'phites are not much better.. The Jerry Springer'o'philes and rastlin' fans are the MoonMoths that the MoonBats eat..
Revolts can easily become the mother of all riots.. which will not alter a thing.. Nevermind...
I agree, wholeheartedly. Thank you.
BUMP
It's past due time and the frog pot is on full boil.
Yep...it needed 'dusting off'....
Thanks!!!
redrock
bttt
You do realize that Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution was very small, and the coup was carried out by less than 100 revolutionaries, right? A nation with as many people that Czarist Russia had, yet a successful coup by less than a platoon successfully overthrew the Czar? That's something.
I guess it goes to whoever really wants it.
I might be having a blonde moment....but could you explain what your reply is supposed to mean? (type realllly slow, so I can follow ya)
Time to LOCK & LOAD ping!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/912809/posts
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But Russia had never known freedom from that day till this day.. basically a bunch of peons.. peasants.. No more than basically, they were peons.. were used to Mob rule(monarchy), a different mob mattered little to them..
Some mob has to rule.?. <<-says they.. why not the Bolsheviks.. Stalins purges was merely politics.. Russian style.. The Czars had been doing the same for centuries..
America was/is different.. thats why the public schools HAD to dumb down the people.. like it almost is now.. Not fast enough for some... Sooo, mexicans are being imported by the millions by Bush to speed it up.. The dumbing down continues at an increased pace.. At some point a Coup could take place.. by EITHER SIDE.. probably the dark side.. but I'm a cynic.. actually a cynic to me is an optimist.. Times running out for the light side.. if it has not already passed.. I believe all the homeland security being put in place is not for muslim terrorists but for domestic ones.. Some one is not stupid "up there".. they KNOW the sheeple are ready to stampede..
You know the revolution.. WHich would be promptly called domestic terrorism and all the proud marines(in Iraq and other places) would be sent to put it down.. and they WOULD.. And the all Democrats, RINOS, Bushbots, Oprahs Harpocrites, and anyone that didn't want their lifestyles messed with would clap as they killed the revolution, even here on FR....
Cause all MsM TV stations, cable companys, most Newpapers and other places would be targets of opportunity.. to pinch off the propaganda outlets of the dark side.. That is in a revolution, rioters could care less about all that..
I'm surpised the "riot" hasn't started already, frankly.. Take forty years off me and it would have.. I'm just watching to see if americas youth has not been totally brain washed.. They will do it, or it won't be done..
BLOAT
I wouldn't be too sure of that. There are too many 'old' Marines who would put their younger Brothers in their places.
They KNOW they made a pledge, on their honor, to defend against enemies, foreign AND domestic.(it won't matter much WHAT their political office is called)
To a marine the enemy is whatever they are told the enemy is..
else they would be army.. or navy,,
Give me a little time to rustle up my 'sources'.
bttt
No need.. hopefully I'M WRONG...
Would warm the cockles of my heart if I am wrong..
My heart has cockles that have never been cocked yet..
Believe it or not, Marines DO know how to think for themselves. To me, the enemy was the enemy of either my country or its Constitution or both... And sometimes the enemy I was told to kill WAS the real enemy!
O.K.. Whos the enemy jarhead.?.. spit it out...
I guess you hadda be there. In the late sixties, early seventies, the, as Al Gore would say, Zeitgeist had the aroma of revolution. Many people really believed that there would be a Revolution in the United States and in the West in general. The songs I quoted are my personal memories of that time.
I was young and didn't know much but I knew that if Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden and their ilk assumed power through revolution we weren't going to see the Age of Aquarius, but an American version of Robespierre or Bonaparte or both.
The stars were aligned favorably, however, for the sprouting of tin pot Messiahs leading impressionable young people to an ersatz utopia of communal living, drugs and casual sex. (Jim Jones was the religious variant.)
One such Messiah was Charles Manson. He ran a commune in the desert west of Los Angeles. He convinced his followers that the Beatles song "Helter Skelter" was actually an eponymous cryptic message about the coming revolution, "Helter Skelter". During Helter Skelter, Blacks would unite in uprising and take over the country, slaughtering the Whites. He and his followers would hide out in the desert. After a few years, he believed, the Blacks would see that they couldn't run things and would seek White folks to run the country. Then Charlie and his crew would appear from out of the desert and the colored folks would say, "Look, it's Whitey, we's is saved, Alleluia, Massa Charlie, we's sho nuff miss you all telling us all colored folks what to do."
Surprisingly, months passed and the Word was unfulfilled. This came as a surprise to Micheal Moore and even more of a surprise to Charles Manson. Being a proactive kind of guy and wanting to shape events, he decided to jump start the revolution. Rather than have a bunch of Whites, whom he had lots of, head into a Black community and kill a bunch of Blacks and blame it on Whites, this latter day Sam Adams had a bunch of Whites head into Beverly Hills and kill a bunch of Pigs (affluent Whites) and attempt to blame it on the Blacks.
This surefire, can't-miss, well-thought-out plan hit a few snags. For one, the authorities, rather than rounding up random Blacks and triggering a revolution, had the effrontery to trace the murders to Charles Manson and his commune and to prosecute them in a pig tribunal. Charlie bids his time in prison, dreaming of his dreams of power and the halycon days in the desert.
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