The Fighting Book of the mad old man: a rant in the form of an e-book.

To my brother: Today is a good day to die. Eh Chief? Copyright 2007, 2011 by mad old man. Second Edition. Uploading, downloading and copies for noncommercial use and distribution permitted. Host the file on your servers if you wish. All other rights reserved. Please do not make changes to the text. 4/19 Moln Lab!

Sample Review ...a shallow thinker, full of stereotypical aphorisms... Untidy prose quite suited to the lumpen mensch so common to America,... Not to be read by the unstable...a hodge podge of viral ideas guaranteed to infect the foolish. Jejune, inchoate incoherence. P. Pettinuff Nooyawk Etc., Etc. of Books. They don't believe in our laws! The Police. They don't believe in our laws. The Constitutionalists. It is God's will. The religious. We believe in Unicorns! The loony left. We don't give a fuck. The general public. What are you going to dosend me to a combat zone? The Soldiers. Q. What if you kill the enemy leader and someone even worse takes his place? A. You kill him too. Legal notice: read carefully! I do not offer legal advice. I am not an Esquire and this is America. I do not offer self defense or spectrum of force advice. That would be legal advice. I do not offer medical advice. I am not a doctor and this is America. Nor do I offer nutritional advice as no health claims may be made for nutritional supplements, and that would be medical advice anyway. I never infringe on trademarks, and never quote and analyze copyrighted material. That would be fair use and I could be sued. I am not an engineer, an approved expert, or a certified repairman. (Luckily people are no longer cheated by those as they are authorized.) Not being an authority/official, I am not telling you what to do. I do not offer offense to anybody as some of my best friends are people. I do not believe anything about sex, weapons, drugs or violence to offend any group dynamic. I never have ideas, or items that could be misused. Heh. I do not hate communists, fascists, or kill-the-people-to-save-the-planet enviros. Hate destroys the hater, so only hate hate groups. I do not discriminate based on legal status, crime, rank, office, lifestyle, behavior, sex, race, ethnicity, religious or cult practices or personal appearance. In fact I never offend anybody, except of course, WASPs. I believe what I am told, and do what they say. This is America, so I am only offering someone's opinions for entertainment purposes only. The product may include other unlisted ingredients, no warranty is implied, you have agreed to this contract by having read it, and you may not modify itbut I may change this agreement at any time. I never say the peasants are revolting and that rank smells rank. Oi, the pong! Mother nature loves us. I'm from the government and I'm here to help you, and the UN (Fed, G8, IMF, DOD, MOD, EU, NAU) is our friend. (That BCT from NORTHCOM too is here to help you.) There is no such thing as race and bushes are just height challenged trees, except when they are brain damaged people. Vive la France, oops, I mean: this is America! Oh yea, America; where the fruit juice is corn syrup, water and flavors; and the chunk light tuna is 30% soy and is a gray mush. May I have more cellulose burger? Key point is know how to blast large craters. Know how to acquire and safely transport, store,

and effectively use explosives. In guerrilla warfare explosives are the new rifle. Nearly as much so as the civil war rifled musket was the new sword, bow, musket and pike. Firearms are still important but explosives are key. With regard to freedom; and equality though such ought to be before the law and never will be absolute in terms of capability, cheap explosives and fast-shooting small arms with a good magazine capacity, personal computers, armor, vehicles, communications, cameras, electronics, and optics; have done more to make man, woman, rich, poor, citizen and government equal than has anything else in the history of the world. Including democracy and Christianity. With a good semiautomatic weapon, and good use of cover and movement, a single person has a decent chance while defending against an entire street gang. You do not see this? Ah. There is a caveat. This does not work if you have no balls. This does not work if you allow liars and thugs to con you or deter you. This does NOT WORK if you DISARM YOURSELF! Witten Man walks into a bar. He sees skinned and eviscerated people hanging from the ceiling. Murder, he shrieks, like a culturally intolerant little man. Sir, says Careeb Man, all groups have both good and bad people in them. He continues, when you are in my home I must ask you to respect my beliefs; you love hate and hate love. Therefore you hate love of hate. Witten man winces in true and abiding pain and says he, I am cold and do not understand the ways of others. Forgive me my Witten lack of balance and nature; and can I offer you any nonjudgmental monetary aid? He waits in bated apprehension. Verily man tries to destroy what he cannot understand...or to worship it. The Priest, the Rabbi and the prostitute laugh. Heeeheehee! (Teehee...) Blue eyed devil. Ice man. Childish. Goy. Infidel. Hayseed. Nationalist. Hey, this is a book of fiction written by nobody real who was isolated from birth so any resemblance to anything is coincidence unless you are starting, hah!, to protect nonfictional speech in which case this book is serious political speech by a respected commentator. P. S. Others have said similar things to that which I shall say, and I footnote no sourcesso sue me. Can I patent the wheel, please? ...Not trying to avoid any laws here. This is only an attempt to do it whatever way is required: and fuck you. Baaa! Baaa! Baaa! Herds of confused sheep being marched and counter-marched by members of the guild of sheep herds. I will eat you right up, sheep herd, and your little dogs too! To an extent America has never been. Now, America is dead. Long live America! This is a need to know only world, and you do not need to know. You are either a net resource or a drain. If useful you will be taught a few things, much of which will be lies to keep you amiable, and how you will feel the honor of being such an insider; and how you will sneer at the outsiders undeserving of information. Especially if they complain at the door. It is easier to kill a person than to trim a hedge. Well, as easy as working up the nerve to jump a very small hole which is, however, a very deep one. It is not so easy to survive psychologically afterward, or to survive when people are trying to kill you back. Did you need to know that? I thought not. Writers are all mad, you know. They are dogmatic even when promoting the dogma of keeping an open mind. This is the disease of all writers: they think everyone should read the oh-so-veryimportant prose that they pen. Don't do it! Ignorance is not cured by books alone. Ignorance can also be bliss until the wages of ignorance arrive to bite you on the ass. Save a writer from hubris and put this book from you. Do it now!

All is the Dragon, useless even to itself; death will not serve me, nor life bear me up; I was not, then I was: I have been been dead for a thousand years. Anonymous. Indifferent to fate and contemptuous of the gods, we live while we may and die when we must. Haaahahaha! There are those among you who will say the old man is a pessimist. The glass is half full, not half empty! Idiots! Everyone knows a glass is half full when you are midway through filling it, and half empty when you are at the midpoint of draining it. Fair warning, this book is full of error. I am mad after all. It is also disorganized. A disorganized house is the fruit of a disorganized mind. Blow this for a game of soldiers; an example: You are what you eatif you eat pork you are a pig. Vegans are either fruits, nuts or in a vegetative state. Also, modern Americans die more often of cancer and heart disease than did those of the past. This is because they now smoke and drink heavily, eat steak, eggs, real butter and baked goods made with lard...and so on. Them old timers wouldn't even touch bacon, yeah? Wisdom seldom comes with age as stupid young people tend to grow up and become stupid old people. Then comes loss of mental acuity and possibly senility. Remember, the reason given for the doing of a thing is almost never the real reason for the doing of a thing. And reasons given are most often rationalizations made after the fact since real reasons are normally subconscious reasons and people feel silly if all they can say is I feel like it. Harrumph. Nah, some of them are purely lying to you. I will write and read whatever the fuck I want, 'cause I feel like it! Genocide is for sissies. Torture is for deviant sissies. We must save our troops! Their children may grow up and attack us! If torture did not work, do it again! Are the manly-men a smidge hysterical? No you! Uh uh, you! Humbug, I say!

There is enough, and too much, violence in much of the world. Some places have too little violence. America is one of those places. Violence is like sex in that it can be good or bad. It is unlike sex in that good sex would still be needed even were the bad to cease forever. There are mass murderers and serial murders, but stop calling serial murderers serial killers. There is nothing wrong with being a killer, unless you are also a murderer. When people endure rather than fight, and when children in the schools must deal with even the most brutal of bullying with no real help from anyone: not from police, school nor fellow students; then there is not enough violence here. When rights are violated and fear keeps the average person quiet, rather than comity, then there is not enough violence here.

You, in your walled and monitored schools, and your patrolled and time-clocked places of employment, will not be armed. You are taught the way of the slave and the peasant; to be obedient when observed, disobedient if only to the point of slacking off when unobserved, and to take your beatings without resistance under the theory that a beating will soon be over but resistance will bring down untold troubles. How shall we know how good we have it if there are no slaves with which to compare ourselves? There are old, and wiser, fighters who say to be aware and to avoid attack. To see the mugger coming and to not be taken in by his words or taken by surprise. To run away at first hint of trouble. To not go to places where you are not welcome. This is good advice, up to a point. Do not allow ego to get you killed. Never go up against an attacker when you can avoid him, unless you know the situation and have the advantage. Is he really alone? What are they doing and how armed? Why is his hand down behind his leg? Is he holding a blade angled up behind the wrist? Here is the other side of the issue, does it remind you of the old Kung Fu television program? If a robber jumps you on the road, do you run, or fend him off with your vast skill, and leave him to murder the next party to come along? Do you stay uninvolved in order to be moral, and to limit future violence by refusing to incur anger and hatred from the violently criminal and the invader? I can hear it now. The police will handle it. Well and good, when they do. You know full well they are seldom there when most needed. Their job, primarily, is to pick up the pieces and investigate. In respect to most crimes they are too busy even to actually investigate. If a criminal threatens your life you must not offer violence in return. Give him what he wants or run away. I am shocked that you would try to run away. Huh. You are not yet docile enough to suit me. A god on a stick! Toss the god of peace and keep the bloody stick. It may come in handy. Civilization must be fought for. Nonviolence is not the height of civilization, it is its surrender. Fighting is not uncivilized, but if you, in fighting for civilization, use criminal methods you advance not civilization but barbarism. We run to practice for emergencies, especially combat. We do not run to make an appointment on the minute. We do not get up at 5 AM to allow for security's incompetence in order to make an 8 AM flight time. We are prompt. We are not servile, flustered or driven like cattle. The mundane and routine is just that. Further be reminded to never rush, or Gods forbid run, in public while armed or in uniform unless the attention you will get is acceptable. You will disturb the dogs and the flock. But, yes, we will run like hell to save our lives. Quote loose and terse, "not with bang but whimper." Some person takes a couple of shots at you. The police come by and take any cartridge cases and bullets found. Before they leave they ask you some questions, including whether you have been perhaps involved in any bad drug deals? They also say they can't provide any protection, unless you care to be a witness against your nonexistent supplier, and when you say you will buy a gun they advise you to stay away from your home and that guns are more likely to kill a family member than an attacker and will attract burglars. Why do you put faith in what they say? Why tell them your plans? Your problem is already larger than burglary, and you are not putting a sign on your door offering unguarded jewelry and guns inside. Statistics about gang bangers in their late teens passed off as child violence, and about murder by family members and acquaintances are crap. Most but by no means all people murdered do know the attacker at least slightly because he picked them for a reason. Yes. If your household has a history of violent outbursts and substance abuse get out now. There is danger there. Are you sensible enough to listen? If a person attacks you because of your money or position, race, sex or appearance being armed improves your chances. If it turns out that the attack comes from an abusive husband being armed still improves your chances. Your household should stay away from guns if none of you can be careful, will you listen to me if this is so? The average household keeps firearms for a lifetime without any fatal accidents. Period. A woman with a gun will never be bloody minded enough to actually shoot her attacker. When

she hesitates the thug will take her gun and use it on her! Yes, which is why the military should not allow women to be in combat, right lefty? Wait. I mean, come on, it is obvious people should go live with strangers. If you have a gun the biggest danger to you is yourself. Your family contains the person most likely to kill you, especially if you keep a gun in the house. Friends are to be feared like the plague. Therefore the people from whom you will get the most support and with whom you will be safest are strangers, and the more foreign and strange the better. Remember to move on at the first sign of people beginning to know or understand you and your culture. They have to remain strangers as unlike you as possible so you can be safe as houses! Yes indeed. Normally women try to limit contact with strangers. How bigoted. Yet those who are separated from friends and family as prostitutes are on the street are often raped or murdered, and female soldiers are often raped and not only by the enemy. How can this be? There are exceptions. Muslim (Islamic, submission to G-d and his agents, the men) women who spend their time among strangers are more likely to be murdered by male family members than by non-Islamic outsiders. Fucking Muslims. The list of countries most dangerous for women is dominated by Muslim and black African states. If you have a gun you are worthless and liable to shoot yourself, or have your gun taken away and used on you, but people should not have guns because a criminal with a gun is deadly. Apparently the lesson here is to become a criminal if you want to successfully defend yourself with a gun. You can try to minimize your exposure to crime. You can try to change a criminal's mind. For the most part it comes to this, only the the criminal can decide if he will attack and when, even if that decision is a split-second one. If he intends to do great harm he will arm himself with something useful such as a lamp or chair if not a knife or gun except in some cases where he has much greater strength. You don't really get to decide for him. You get to decide for yourself. Will you fight, yield, talk or run; or do nothing? If you are a good judge of these situations you can choose to talk when another would fight. If your understanding of things was not as good as you thought it was this choice may kill you. Ah. Too bad, but nobody else can do your thinking for you, most notably when they are not even present. It is generally a bad idea to argue with or swear at someone threatening you with a deadly weapon. It is generally a good idea to immediately use a firearm when so threatened. (Do not forget that the threat must be criminal and immediate. If he is not threatening you, or is too far away or does not have a weapon nearby you really can't legally shoot. He has to be in a position to carry out the threat. If he is not arrest him or report him, or something.) You had better be able to display a credible ability to defend yourself. Nobody else is going to protect you. Well, if you were a beautiful young woman the most likely to at least try would be your husband or boyfriend. But if you were being stalked or threatened by someone who really wanted to do you harm security would be a full time job. Your family will not do it. Friends will not do it. People with handgun concealed carry permits are told to protect only family due to legal liability, but most of them are not going to dedicate their full time to a family member and are less likely to do so for anybody else. In the unlikely event you did get a volunteer the government, which is not going to protect you, will threaten your guard with arrest for acting as armed security without a bond and certification, even if you do not pay him. This even though constitutions, most importantly, and the legality of carrying firearms openly in most states, allows your guard that freedombut laws apply to others, not government drones. Exception: You can if you are wealthy hire certified armed bodyguards from a government licensed security firm. Tens of thousands of dollars, and hope the threat goes away soon or even rather plump wallets will empty. If people had any sense there would be no violence. No situation ever really needed a violent solution. Of course, we just need to make everybody sensible! If everyone simply stands up and refuses to tolerate crime and tyranny it ends and peace wins. If everyone stands up there is nothing to stand up against. (You are mistaken if you think I refer to Iraq.) (Second World War: make lots of enemies and

kill\cripple\capture and cow them faster than you make them. Vietnam conflict\undeclared war: making enemies faster than you kill them. Cool. I do not like it when American soldiers, militiamen, police officers, security officers or armed citizens are killed, maimed or crippled; but there are places we do not need to occupy or attack, and things we should not be doing.) Stand up for what you believe. Do what you know to be right. You have not been listening to your conscience. Indeed. Too bad people are idiots. Too bad conscience is flawed. Idiots should remain sitting, please. Never fight in a situation where other means would serve better, and this does not mean you should always get what you want! Stay out of an incident until you know what is going on. Stay out if you don't know what to do. Right thinking people do not start avoidable fights. They absolutely do stop criminal actors, and the best way to defend is often a very active defense. Did I hear the plaintive assertion that if we stop being violent then, why, there would be no need for any violence? We can try to convince would-be thugs to find a better way. That is all to the good. How about starting with them first. End the need for violence first and only then stop being violent. Love whomever you wish, and your love will not make everyone else love everyone else. The loving people will be lovable, if their love is not too perverted. You are not everyone, you do not partake of the one great soul and god is not in you. Try not to be any more grandiose than must needs be. We cannot simply decide to be good. Some of us have to be persuaded. Always with the "we." You may or may not be able to get together enough people to overthrow a tyrant of whatever kind, and by whatever means, or to become one. You can never remake everyone in your image and all the people into "we." We are all one! You know, except for being all separate people and everything. You know? You dislike me. You really, really dislike me. Wisdom is wonderful, not to mention pitiful. It is so cool that our feelings and desires come from outside knowledge and wisdom; unless nothing is really outside of anything else. We know what is right. We never have to study and, ugh, think ever again. Only the selfish and unfeeling need to think. Poor things, their spirituality is constipated by past bad choices. We will give them laxative laws! Once everybody is unblocked all will be well. Do not remain entangled in blame and guilt? Just go take active measures to fix things. We should look forward rather than back? Who need learn anything from history. The best way to fight crime is not to reduce conflict by maximizing fairness, freedom and prosperity on the one hand while also investigating who is guilty of what when crimes are committed. That is the blame game! That involves violence or force! No need to identify the criminals when we do not intend to fight them. Why even find out what went wrong. Simply make everything right! We should open our minds/third eyes and take up our godlike powers, and resolve problems without anyone ever being hurt. There is no god doing any such thing. Obviously no all-powerful beings care to make such an effort. As for you, or we; you have no such powers, nor do you have much sense. No doubt the best way to handle a riot in drunk-and-stupid town is to go out and make sweeping changes in another country entirely, or globally. Chaos theory justice. Justice tempered with mercy? Nah. Don't fight with the thugs among the demonstrators, get thee forth and end the hate! Change the nature of the world! Honestly. You are all hot air and big plans with unintended consequences. You call us inactive and lazy while you act as though your words or spirituality alone will reform mankind. Your spirituality/god(s) is mental filth: a meme dysfunctional lodged deeply within a lobe of your excuse for a brain, and your reform involves monolithic government much more than it involves spiritual evolution. Death does not exist, merely different states of being including the state of not existing and the state of being dead! If you don't believe it I'm gonna kill you infidel! Wait until I catch you, blasphemer! A horrible death! Let God stand on his own merits fool. By his fruits you will know him, oh rabid one. God is the universe contemplating its navel. The universe is God contemplating his navel. God and Allah and G*d is a man of war stomping his enemies and dripping with their blood and betrayed he shrieks like a woman. He is a young maiden who sees the

birdies fall and nurses them back to health by the running waters. On second thought come try to punish me because I could use the exercise, and cuz I like the cut of yer jib, m'dear. I curse you. My ancestors curse you. Do you feel a little unease? You better go do some protective rituals. Do a few counter curses too since you are already there. Do you call it hexing or call it prayer? Feel safer now? Humph. :insert Twilight Zone theme here: (You communist scum should feel free to meditate on inevitable History/Fate at this point.) Obviously there is only one thing. The universe is made up of it, and there is only one universe. What do you think universal means? This thing is God, very tiny, and must have an origin so it created itself. This is the result of the nature of time, after it came into being within the nature of the universe. God moves at faster than light speeds, is the only real particle, and seems to be almost everywhere at once, interacting with himself. This part time presence gives us the illusion of solidity. God the time sharing particle is the particle that makes up the subatomic particles that make up the atoms and molecules, & etc. You see? How simple, minded, it all is. If you don't like what I say you are an asshat moonbat wingnut tinfoil-hat wearing fucktard lib oppressor. (Idiotic terms but I must keep up with the times, so do me something.) I am the subversive because I support our constitution! I am the terrorist because I resist your attacks on our traditional rights! Tyranny only works for the tyrants you utopia tripping drones, but even if slavery would end all crimes and evils I would despise it because I am not a drone. I think a reasonable giving up of our rights and some loss of liberties in order to defend our freedoms is absurd. I think saving free enterprise by means of becoming socialists is idiotic. I think that letting criminals run free if they are powerful enough corporate or government types is no argument regulatory increases or re-regulatory changes are needed. I think democracy does not trump rights! I am so crazy. Just enforce the criminal law. Put frauds and criminal dumpers in jail. Freedom is not something you buy. That would be privilege or a license. It is not really something you earn. You owe no debt on it, and freedom entailed is not freedom. You owe fellow freedom fighters your respect and thanks but not in any kind of actionable way. Gratitude for freedom allowed you by the state is rather like gratitude to a thief who chose not to steal from you. You either have freedom or you do not, because you or others have wrested it away from the punks or have failed to do so and having it you will lose it if you ever yield to them. There is no duty owed for freedom! Do not fall for the double-speak of authoritarianism. The pen is mightier than the sword. A single pen in the hands of an expert is mightier than a single sword. It influences more people. The pen used against violent people only works if they can be talked out of it, or more commonly because the pen convinces a large number of others to use violence against the first group. That is to say that the pen is a partner of the sword. You banned swords but failed to ban the pen. Now I ask you to take up the hammer against my enemies. (Ha. Water, acorn, vinegar and a nail. Lamp black. A nice goose quill. Fuckers.) Blood and Iron! It is agreed that we should run when we need to, and can, and not let ego kill us. Sounds reasonable. Duty to retreat? Hell no! Here is another. We should all step in and help anyone who is assaulted, even if he is a stout young man. Overpower and arrest the suspect. Outnumber him. Humiliating for the victim (I could have handled him!) and unfair to the criminal? Now, remember, don't be such a man! Ego should not get in the way of good tactics. My dear fellow, this kind of banding together; this repression of low-level aggression, will result in an explosion of group violence in the future. Not a problem. Luckily the non-repression of punks never leads to repression of non-punks. So much for zero tolerance. So much for banding together under centralized government. Be open minded, but not so open minded your brains dribble out your ears. Be tolerant, but not so much so that you will accept anything. All sex is rape so all violence must be murder. You must be flexible enough to disperse or hit and run when that is best, but must know when grit and cohesion will

carry you through. The Roman legions were successful for a long time. This was not just because of more flexible formations and tactics, and more discipline. It was not superiority in weaponry. It was cooperation. They did not rush in and fight man to man. They helped each other. Well, workmanlike planning and an attitude of no surrender played a part. Roman soldiers were not vegetarians, but they did eat a lot of bread. How could they have been so aggressive if they had been? But they must have been because they were tough and had great endurance. Most everything people believe is false. It is delightful how dissolution or death is the end and yet everybody knows it is the only way to be truly free, all-seeing and blissful. God himself must have died many many times and probably looks like a heroin addict. Whimpering in pleasure and blind looking. Yeah. You are not merely sleeping. You are merely dead. It is, everything is, not merely a dream. Who is doing the dreaming? Dreams are real dreams, and dreamers are real mammals. Dreams do not dream. Divisive and offensive prattle, eh? Troublemaker. Your wife will not thank you if you get into trouble. Want to sleep on the couch? That is an interesting subject, actually. Women are the curse as well as the blessing. (Cursed by whom, blessed by whom, and fated or intended by whom?) If you stand your ground they will be enraged at your childish behavior, run away and they are embarrassed to be seen with you. When you really want them to vacate a dangerous locality they may choose that time to balk. Did you notice how many women go into patriotic tizzies and cheer the troops off to war? And uniforms are sexy. ( If you wear a uniform not because it is camouflage, armor protection, or because it may keep your friends from unfortunate accidents regarding combat identification; then why are you wearing it? Not, I hope, because you a mind-fucked institutionalized drone?) If some idiot gets you down on the ground watch out for his girlfriend, buddy. Also, beware of the abused woman after you have taken on her misunderstood man. Perhaps they still have to wake up to the end of their slavery. Most vote for parental government, gun control and reasonable restrictions on speech. They need to get their thinking heads out of their emotional asses. Still led around by mostly male social experts, they think service providers should be governmental rather than businesses or employees and authorities instead of people you pay directly. Male voters are almost as bad, but really. Still, it is not like American men are making themselves look good, with half of them trying to take advantage of the open meat market while missing child support payments, and the other half whining as they search for a submissive little woman who will bring them their manly manhood back along with the pipe (sorry, forgot, smoking bad) and slippers. Then they, mostly women, say something like this: violence is bad! Violence never solved anything; you need to grow up and use your head instead of your fists. Anyway, bullies are cowards who will back down if you hold your ground. Reason with them. You need to understand the other person's problems. You need counseling. The world would be a wonderful place if people were taught to compromise. Yes, and people lash out because they fear. It is ignorance: you fear what you do not understand, or the unknown. Even hatred comes from ignorance. You must be ignorant of conservatism. How interesting. If Billy Bob assaults Joe Bob they should both receive counseling. Then, after they have learned to understand themselves and each other, both can apologize for their failings and shake hands in friendship. Not usually. Absurdity! The bully learns to smile and shake your hand. He will get you later Joe Bob. The slap on the wrist was annoying but hardly painful. Joe Bob learns that he will be treated as a criminal if he fights back. He learns not to complain to authority. He learns to submit, albeit with resentment, or he learns to strike back quietly and on his own. Private justice! Not a problem, agents of socialization. Makes people tough and self reliant. Eh? The trick is learning to be tough while making more problems for them than for yourself. We will perhaps surprise

them a little by becoming very tough indeed, but not by joining and and having them use our socialization on their behalf. Thank you, Sir. May I have another? What about those who simply can't handle the stress and violence? You should protect your friends as they ought to protect you. Those of you who think only the strong should survive consider the fact that people weak in some environments may be strong in others. Your weak friend may be a fine businessman later on, and having a wealthy friend is a helpful thing. The more sensible among you will help a friend because he is a friend. But if you help the weak he will never have to become strong! Wow, you are so concerned for your fellow man. Who knew? If he is destroyed he will never become strong. If he does become strong like you, isolated and alone like your altruistic self; even the strongest are weak without allies, brother. This is part of the lesson the the system is trying to teach you, but they want it turned to their own ends, and having bad allies is worse than having none. Their idea of tough tends also to mean tolerance for regulation. The fucking morons who believe freedom is served by equal opportunity regimentation. Who cares if the constitution is violated so long as the defective laws apply to everybody? People seldom say we should not have been forced to do as we were ordered, when they can complain instead about people who were not so forced. Unfair! A couple of youngsters get angry over some nonsense and one takes a swing, so a fight breaks out. This kind of thing can result in an apology and a handshake. The apology should come from the instigator! It does happen, even among friends (immature ones). Do save your eternal vendetta for real foes. Arbitration, counseling, peace making and keeping are not about justice; and not even so much about law, as they are primarily about order. The tendency is to depict both attacker and defender as at fault (sometimes they both actually are) and then to try to enforce peace by getting everyone to lean on the troublemakers until they all slink away in mutual guilt and shame. People who come to the aid of any of the combatants, right or wrong, are even worse than the original disputants because they escalate things. Peace studies are done by ivory tower types and promoted by change agents, and the highest goal is benefit to the bureaucracy. Sometimes this benefits the bully most of all since he is most aggressive and needs the greatest amount of stroking, though he is likely to find himself subject to contact with the system or overseen by peacekeepers forever more. However, the primary duty of peacemakers is to the peacemakers. A good justice system is mostly about order and a bad one mostly about the promotion of insiders. How do you deal with this? Reform the system if you can (huh!) or learn to work the system and to fight your wars in the dark. Government was instituted among men in order to promote the rule of the ruling classes. Fear and misunderstanding is the cause of violence. A sort of communitarian ideal is held. Compromise. If everything is done as a group and nobody gets everything they want but everyone gets a part of their wishes there will be no violence. Unfortunately some are driven to violence when the loss of everything private is imposed on them. They become the true enemy of order. You can struggle for your share of things, you may not keep your own things to yourself. Others realize the power and wealth this system controls and set about controlling this system. They are not above using the system's tools for violent purposes. Socialism is an unworkable idiocy. It is a destroyer of freedom. A tool to be used to quell any opposition from the foolish. It is the creation of tyrants and would be tyrants who want even more control over what does not belong to them. The old modern thing. The new aristocracy. The New Age return to ancient feudalism. Lord. Priest. General. Overseer. We do it all for you. We lead you, and feed you. We will take care of you, darling masses! Bullies gravitate to certain types of state positions. Some bullies are cowards, some are insecure but act bravely, and some are brutal sadists and as brave as they come. If the math works it must be true. If it can be put into language it must be true. Everything means whatever I say it means. Whenever and for however long I say it. You say freedom. I say freedom from the drudgery of having to make decisions. You say lifesaving. I say first do no harm by leaving people alive to face pain and drudgery. Besides, the gods want destruction. How do I know it to

be true? The gods said so. Spiritual people are irrational. Irrational people can be dangerous since they are lacking in good sense. Does it surprise you to hear that while most people believe their ideal diet is healthful, their real reasons for the choice is almost never about objective issues of health? Look to their spiritual/religious/philosophical/political/economic/environmental ideas. I might as well add that people have at least two diets. The one they often cheat on and what they actually eat. By their fruits you shall know them? Do not be absurd. By them you shall know their fruits. Surely good does good, so if you know they are good the results of their behavior must also be good. How can you know they are good? They will tell you. Give gifts but not as a habit, and remember what a gift is. Pay for what is sold. Keep what is to be kept. Know what a person could do, but do not expect. If you are attacked or cheated do what can be done rather than saying what can be said. If you were born into the world an optimist, perfectionist and idealist you have a difficult path. Not a problemyou will change unless you are retarded. Most people think they are realists, reflect on this. Most people are not. Realists are slaves or slave owners, pragmatists, because that is the way of it. Optimists think they are not slaves, or that they are to soon be freed. They think the master values them. What is a real realist? Cynics know what they are, won't change, and pessimism is a comfort. At least if you expect things to go badly you are less often surprised. If you can't win, yield, and be a slave the way sensible women accept a mean spirited husband. Husband. Animal husbandry. Interesting, no? No. The answers are already within you. Not, you fucking morons. People think they are given powers and only need to be themselves and they will prevail. You are always yourself. Nobody prevails in the end. It is easy to isolate yourself when the truth is subjective and within, to be cold when pain is illusionary or well earned in any case and death does not really exist. You must love and care for others because otherwise you will not evolve or be rewarded so you are doing it for yourself, but others have their own fate within themselves anyway, and there is no self and we are all one. If in these cults of death suicide were not explicitly banned by either decree or the need to advance by experience people would be killing themselves to hasten the reward they dare not want for fear of selfishness or of lack of selflessness. If murder were not specifically banned they would murder without much care since death is not the end anyway. Everyone knows. I do not. They know by feeling. It must be wonderful to be sure and to know you are right based on that. How like gods, and they are gods, because the tales of the gods show what stuck up know it alls and fuck ups the gods are. But in truth all the error, suffering and mayhem mixed with elliptical wisdom is actually truth and goodness I do not understand because they say so, with a few exceptions wherein it is admitted they just do what they wish because they have power so there! Power you should believe in because they say so and the truth of this will be known to you once, but not before, you believe. I would say what is this bull, rational minds want to know; but rational minds do know. I don't because I am crazy. Veterinarians vaccinate, neuter, do straightforward drug and surgical procedures; and leave most of the work to the customer whenever possible. They do a great deal of putting to sleep. They seldom seem to have heard of mitigation of fatal disorders, treating secondary diseases, or pain management. In other words they don't make a practice of managing and delaying the effects of serious and fatal chronic conditions. Why? It would not be right to let a pet suffer. Kill it if it is going to suffer. Pain management is not only expensive and time consuming, it does not always work. Are people not more important than animals? How can we justify not putting people to sleep? The average American is a naive socialist. It does not matter what he calls himself. Greed. Greed! This is the evil. Communism is bad, but only because some people want something for nothing, and others abuse, greed!, the system from the top. Otherwise, communism would be wonderful! People are easily led. Freedom. Freedom, freedom! Freedom from violence, fear, want, guns, disagreement, insults Take my rights now! Don't let them have that if I don't. Don't let them say that! This is a free country, man, so how dare you say I can't work to take your constitutional rights away! You are rude if you don't agree with me. We have freedom of religion and of speech so you have no right to be rude

about what I tell you of my beliefs. Everybody has freedom of choice so shut up! We do have free speech on the internet, though. Some. For the most part free speech on the internet is a joke. In some places the authorities censor everything to the best of their ability. In some others web pages and archives are left alone. There are ISP and web hosts that operate on the wink and nod principle. When they get legal threats they thank the complainer and delete the files, and then let people go back to doing the same things until the next threat. How can they be aware of all uploads and posts? The only way to be free is to live in a free area of the world (?) and to either build your own ISP or find one of the few existing ones which do not censor. This is because web-hosting firms and the administrators of web pages virtually all censor. Just read the hosting contract or forum rules. Nothing offensive is allowed. "Report this post as inappropriate/offensive." Nothing offensive to any idiot at all on race, religion, sexuality, weapons, and so on for some time; and finishing with "or anything else we want to delete." To bad truth is very offensive to most people. You are thinking private parties cannot censor, only government can. People have the right to refuse you the use of their bullhorn. It is not unconstitutional for them to censor your posts on their forums. It is not censorship legally speaking. You are right about the most of this but wrong in thinking they do not censor. It is not the primary definition of the word I use when I say almost every "webmaster" censors, but they do censor your posts. You think not? Are you the bloke who said, that socialist rag censored my letter to the editor? Case closed. Nongovernmental censorship, of your own media and not someone else's, is in fact constitutionally protected, but this does not mean freedoms are always used wisely. A problem is that many media holders are politically correct, or dogmatic censors of anything they dislike, but the real problem is that they do the government's censorship for them. They fear being sued and in some cases charged over what their posters do. Everything must be legal, of course. Do not radicalize. Oh no, you quoted a whole chapter from a book published in 1925! When the next fairness doctrine and hate bills pass all patriots must delete all offensive material. Resist without risk and following all applicable government orders. You are the loyal opposition. A troll is not just a person trying to disrupt a thread and start fights. He is anybody who posts things we do not like. A spammer is not only the source of floods of cut-and-paste adverts, he is anyone who keeps trying to post things we dislike. For now: None of us want government censorship, so censor yourself so the government won't have to. The web in ten years: "The government announced good news in the environmental sector. Isn't that wonderful? The weather is delightful. The flowers are lovely this time of year! Was your aunt able to visit on World All Peoples Are Good Day? Good news, and the chocolate ration is going to be increased!" (And hamburgers banned.) Capitalism is evil because criminals in and out of government are not arrested when they defraud us, because the people in government are criminals...so we need more government now, more international bankers now, more, more, more! Besides, people who won't work to our benefit are evil whether blue collar or white, and companies that have not even taken anything from us but won't give us access to their stuff are greedy: they are not working to our benefit! The greedy parasites! There are both good and evil capitalists. There are both deluded and evil socialists. Much of what is today called capitalism is in fact socialism. Socialism and other big government policies just make it easier for elites to steal and control your resources. (And communism, greed and selfishness, and any final utopian anarchy aside, is not productive because there are no uncontrolled prices. A command and control economy is required since demand must be estimated by people who monitor everyone and then send out production orders. Massive state planning results in major errors, fault finding and authoritarianism. The economy run like the DMV. Anarchy would work (?) within each tiny village where everybody knows each other and what each makes and needs. It cannot work at all with high technology, short of

personal matter converters, nor with mass production.) Combine the nearest DMV office and the most intrusive home owner's association you know ofthis is your next government, America. Manipulated mass movements, corporate government and government corporations along with the use of force are the order of the day, 'cause your constitution is a dead letter boys and girls. Those of you who bother with history know there was a time when our medical system, and general economy as well, compared quite well with the best elsewhere in the world. Yeah. See? At the time. Then current state-of-art. That was when most other nations foolishly allowed out-of-control wholly unregulated free enterprise/capitalist medical endeavors while our medical system was 100% died-in-the-wool democommusocial government healthcare for all. Too bad we are now the ones with separation of hospital and state. Yeah. Mmm hmm. Why should we kill a variety of foreign communists, fascists and other authoritarian and totalitarian scum for you? You just want to consolidate your power and we your lapdogs, eh? Gits. You arrogant swine who push your own brands of socialist centralism while laughing at our simple-minded constitutional beliefs! Fuck you most sincerely. Your weapons are going to turn unless you better hide your contempt for them. You do not care for your tools. You are piss-poor craftsmen. Keep smirking, elitists. You have grand new ideas. Those of you who think yourselves progressive and for the common man are among the worst. If you do not change you become irrelevant. Yes. Look at the history of the world. Fewer rights, regimentation for the common good. This is a new idea? This is clan and tribal taboo and order, kingdom and principality, theocracy, empire, oligarchy and demagoguery. Simple minds. It reminds me of those who say we should dispense with the old .45 ACP of 1911 and transition to 9mm Luger because it is a modern cartridge (of 1908). Yes, the first version of the .45 for semiautos, using newer propellants to allow for a shortened case, came out in the 1904 pistol. Contemporaries. Transition if you will but not because the 9 is a newer invention, it is not, and decide for yourself but not for the rest of us. You are dealing in the kind of choices where imposition is a crime. The trend in the western hemisphere since the middle, or if you prefer, dark ages has been an erratic march with some major backsliding to greater freedom, civility and decency. Now we are falling into ignorance and superstition once more. (To be technical, the 9mm Luger came out in 1902, and the .45 ACP in 1905, but were not in common use until the P08 Luger and M1911 pistols were in full production.) Freedom has a major flaw. People hate it and have to make war on it. Superiority has a major flaw. It is always vastly outnumbered. Superior is as superior does, it does not rise to the top, it does well but can't do enough of it. Thuggery, fraud and favor trading rise to the top. There is more surface scum than cream. The salt of the earth is bitter. Blacks fear bringing the man down on themselves. Whites fear running into a group of black men on the street, but also fear being swept into the system they originally created but no longer control. Who is afeared now? Do you know loyalty is a virtue less only than freedom and justice? White men have done most of this nation's fighting and dying. They did it in Vietnam and are doing it today. Hispanics are doing their share. Do you expect sympathy? Priorities. It is time to stop. The serfs lose control and are at their most brutal as they are being freed. Western civilization is indeed in the dust bin, unless you prefer to consider it a relapse to the dark ages of the west. No, too much of the east and south are already here. Hey hey, ho ho; Western Civilization has got to go! Hey... Some people are better than other people, but not in all ways and all people are people, and nothing justifies violating people's rights, with the obvious exception of people when they are in lawful custody as this is not even really a violation; even then there are major limits on how roughly people can be treated, or there are supposed to be such. I love a police state, but only if it is our (my) police state. Educate people until they have nothing to fear and peace plops out like a huge wet growth. Lord love us indeed! This all works so very well. What garbage. You may fear the unknown, you also fear the known threat. You may hate people without knowing them, a misunderstanding, but some people are hated most by those who know them best. Familiarity breeds "contempt." Certainly, but what of the fact that most would-be experts and masters are distrusted by those who know them well because they know what lunatics they are? Evil

people may harm you because they fear, but there are many other possible reasons. Some people are simply brain damaged. Some people enjoy hurting the weakest and least frightening of victims. And you may fear the harm someone may do without feeling any fear at all. Some like to steal so they will have lots of stuff and rule because it makes them feel big. You also make fools who believe in privacy and justice your enemy. You can't make peace with predators. OK, sometimes you can by not looking like prey. Hatred is not the root of all evil, nor is love of money. There is no single thing that is. Hate the rapist all you want, don't let it ruin your life or corrupt your principles. There is nothing wrong with ambition at work and enjoyment of both work and leisure. You have a problem if you love leisure so much you get no work done, and a greater one if ambition makes you criminal. Evil comes of being vulnerable whether physically or psychologically, of having wants and needs which are strong enough to to make you selfish. (Psychology is in fact a physical function.) It is evil to harm others in order to benefit yourself, emotionally or materially, when they are not doing you any harm. Selfish is not the lack of selflessness. It is not the defense of your own. It is your failure to value the rights of any but your own. Needs are merely things necessary to acquire wants, such as food if you want to stay alive. There is nothing wrong with wanting things, and you would die without them as living takes effort and dying does not. If you did not care whether you ate or not you would starve. No self means dead, wants are no sin. (There is wrong and there is evil. There is no sin because sin is a crime against God, and where is God?) Everyone dies eventually so why not just die now? Yeah, and why clean your house if it will just get dirty again? Yet if nothing is more important to a man than life then he is a coward. Self is not evil, living is not evil, taking what you want by fraud and by force is evil. In fact most people who teach how selfish you are for not giving them your obedience, and your property to control, are manipulating you because they are selfish. The remainder are simply brainwashed or stupid. Don't fuck with people over what is theirs. Damn well fight for what is yours. Your freedom. Your life. Your rights. Justice. Your property. Your family, community, state and nation. Your people. It is all just "me, me and mine" with you selfish individualists, ain't it? Cooperate, do not obey. Evaluate, not trust. Faith is the defect, the tool and the strength of activists and leaders. It is not limited to religion. It is myopic feeling. Faith is the last refuge of scoundrels. There is nothing childish about the effective application of force. Violence is the tool of criminals, gangs and nations. Some of the most corrupt and brutal people are also the most brave, stupid, or insane. The Nazi SS were sometimes most fanatical in their bravery. Communists have made numerous suicidally brave mass attacks: and you thought dying for your beliefs was a proof of your doctrine! Obviously if you stare at people and fondle the grip of your weapon, or start building up an invasion force, your neighbors will react to this. So if you buy weapons and create armies you are more likely to use what you did not have before and others are more likely to consider you a threat to be attacked. The problem is that people do not fight only out of fear and insecurity. There are many reasons and some people attack not because they feel threatened but because they see vulnerability, fear and insecurity or other weaknesses in you. Violence is also the tool of those who fight the criminal. Compromise is fine if you are not compromising with evil. If you do that the evil will continually gain ground and you will lose in the end. Hypocrites! If violence never solves anything then why are you calling the police for help? Policemen and soldiers. Armed citizens. Servant class. Racists and sexists. Yes? Do your own fighting. I don't care about you. You call for help. Confused? Or, are you fine with mercenaries so long as you never have to do any dirty work yourself? The police are official! you say. Any violence is OK as long as it is the officials doing it? Bah! 'Civilian violence is wrong! you say. No Constitution (and Bill of Rights, which trumps the constitution and is more important) for you! Communitarian filth:

Herd animal! Ha! People who want to fight, for any reason; all the smart, smug, and peace-loving spiritual know this, are idiots who want to die. Let those among them who will defend others defend you. Hide behind the idiots and let them die for you that you smart ones may live. Middle and upper class men who have never faced the truly implacable. It is well when people do not have to fight on a regular basis. But how can you have forgotten the past, and why so much nonsense from you when you are such know nothings? You are fleeced daily but there has always been some room for argument or legal action for you. You are protected to an extent by the general activity of the police, military and armed citizens you despise. Your country has been comparatively safe, unlike many, and you have stayed away from bad neighborhoods. You have allowed yourself to become incompetent. What will you feel and how will you behave when you are faced with those who will not be gainsaid, who want to destroy you, and who will be stopped only by the shock of vicious and maximum violence? Psychologically you are unprepared. Materially you are unprepared. Things will not always be as peaceful for you as they are now, nor for your people and country. You will see the truth in their faces, and you will know absolute impotency, and then you will die. Beyond a minimum level it is not directly the amount of security that counts. It is the unexpected types and amounts that count. Do not fall for the usual feelings of embarrassment and silliness. People always think being prepared is overreacting, and most people should not know what you are doing. If security is needed get busy, and maintain security at all times. Know too that while excessive concentration is a sin, so are being taken by surprise, caught alone, and outside of supporting range. Do not split your forces too much or without solid cause. Dying is as easy as falling off a log. How you feel has no effect on it. You can endure it because you have no other choice. Your efforts to live fail. It is that not dying thing that is difficult. Not dying is hard. It takes effort. Officials hate do-it-yourself types. They hate people who think, and they can spot it from a mile away. When they say jump they want you to be Japanese, to jump at once. Any sign of thinking will be pounced upon the way a drill sergeant jumps on a sloppy boot. You have insolent hips, Master Bob! They are not simple, they are realists. This means they are right if they have power. They kick ass on those below and kiss it of those above. You do the same or you are childish; a pain in the ass; contemptible. You do not accept the realities. If they wanted you to ask how high they would have told you. Doing things exactly according to the book is a net advantage if you are a neophyte. While the "book" contains errors and does not cover every situation to a usable degree, it was written by people who are not neophytes. Another problem with it is that it makes you predictable tactically. This is a bad thing as a rule but there are times when competence and skill are more important than surprise. So, people tend to go by the book for these reasons and in spite of the downside? No. If you follow the regulations to the letter and things go well you get bennies, if things go badly even if the regs were a mismatch to the job at hand you almost always avoid blame. I know. I know. If a fellow is always armed he is trouble waiting to happen. If he does run into trouble we know whom to blame. When another person only arms himself when threatened and runs into trouble when armed this is proof that he intended to do somebody harm. No doubt. If a person runs into trouble unarmed and dies we can see that he made mistakes. Perhaps he was not careful, left his property in plain sight, or did not obey the criminal. Now that sweet victory we have when an unarmed person cooperates with the attacker and is left virtually unharmed. It happens. Yay! Pacifists tend to think themselves among the powerful. They say we should go easy on attackers because they seem not to understand that delays and half measures can result in our quick deaths. Have you ever heard that our leaders should fight their wars among themselves? We can resolve issues among ourselves based on the outcome of duels! Do you see why we should discuss our way to agreement so that violence is rendered unnecessary? Really. Argue with the average rapist? Put the

onus on the victim to be calm, wise and erudite beyond her years and station. Ask her what she did wrong if the attack continues anyway. If a situation threatens great harm, such as an invasion of barbarians, have the President and the Leader for Life duel it out. If the President loses everyone will let the barbarians do to them as they will. Is this likely? Should it be? So then let us use negotiations to avoid war. Sometimes this works. You give them something they want, or they see they have been wrong, or you frighten them. It works poorly against tyrants though. You buy them off and they come back for more until they weaken you and attack anyway, or until your own people have had enough and rise up. If you use brinkmanship to scare them off, well, do it too many times and eventually somebody trips off the brink. When important issues are at stake and violence may ensue at the least talk before fighting. War may be avoided. You can always fight if the talks fail. OK. It works sometimes. But things can get really wonky when people use this logic. It is like the self-righteous salesman who only uses high pressure tactics and fraud when the customers refuse to buy. Talk. You win the argument so the other side attacks. They win the argument? It is an important issue, the talks have failed, so you attack. When mankind is invulnerable it will no longer have any need of defenses. Apparently, until that day, freedom requires us to stand aside and let people choose to commit crimes. It seems not, however, to mean people must be allowed to defend themselves, or possess tools which they could misuse. Nor does freedom keep us, or the wisdom of Universe keep us, from punishing those we refused to fight. Pity the fool who will respect the pronouncements of those who are obviously wise, because their words are so enlightened that the fool cannot understand; and who cannot speak plainly to the fool because they themselves are either unwilling or unenlightened. If you can't prove me wrong I am right. If you have no solution then there is no problem. It could be true as far as I know, which is as good as a probably, so act on it as true. The only true evil is I don't know and neither does Guru. People are too fucking trusting. They know what was, is, and will and must be because people feel it, say it or write it. People do not understand it. Not the how nor the why of it. They need the certainty of it even if it is horrible, and need the sweetness of it even if it is false. They hear the gods whisper in their heads. They do not really know the speakers. It is like geas, fate and doom. Oracles do not speak facts and logic, but make pronouncements. People just believe as if everything was nothing but a bloody Celtic myth. We need to stop the cowardly anonymous users of the internet, and they can't actually, you know, grab us over the network. What we really need is large signs on every person and vehicle going about in public. At minimum names, addresses, and 'phone numbers should be posted thereon. Sound silly? What have you got to hide, boy? If I am armed it is my right to be so. If I arrest someone who is assaulting Grandmother Jones it is my right to do so (turn that someone over to police as soon as possible). When that hard-nosed old cop or tough young soldier asks me what I am doing he is on duty and armed by privilege of office. They can fire or discharge him at any time. The state can revoke the police officer's certification immediately if they so choose. They can restrict my rights (and have), but not rightfully or constitutionally. Let me be clear. This is America. You have a right to use reasonable force to put a stop to a plausible criminal threat. At the lowest threat level this means you can use force if a person's words or behavior, actions, location and apparent capabilities indicate he is willing and able to do harm. You can arrest him if you can, failing this you can use necessary force until the threat is endedhe yields, is unable to continue, or has run away, nor must you let him get away if you can stop him though lethal force is not authorized for this in most cases. If he puts his hand on you in a belligerent manner you may forcibly strike it away. If he touches you in any way and will not stop when told to do so you may knock his hands away. If he shows fight because of this you may attack him. If any person approaches you with obvious criminal intent you may attack him. You may not use more force than is reasonable. Do not use a baseball-bat pummeling to arrest an elderly 90 pound thief. This is not the old Soviet

Union, nor is it Euroland where you are forbidden to use your shotgun when threatened in your own home by multiple knife wielding yobs. Are you my Chav mate? I have a right to do anything against which there is no criminal or civil law, or when that law is unconstitutional. The officer has the authority, acting as an agent of government, to do anything law authorizes him to do. Government is limited by state and federal constitutions. I have rights. Officer: you have the right to remain silent, except where the law requires you to identify, and the like. Anything you do or say can be used against you in a court of law. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy while performing your duties. You have the right to an attorney when being questioned and detained, being required to sign a document, or if you are a defendant in court. If you cannot afford an attorney, I am sure you can obtain one through your union. Do you understand these rights? Do you understand these rights?! Sign here, or you may be subject to termination. The very premise, reason for existence, of the first ten amendments to our form of constitutional government is that freedom is all about rights and rights are not about numbers. Rights are not to be subject to the many versus the few argument. Authority does not trump rights. Majority votes do not trump rights. How can this be? When the new great thing comes you will be stuck in the past with only right and good left to you. Old and new mean nothing, void in head, look for the good in both. Come now, old boy. Travel is a privilege, work, business, construction all privileges. You have an Article 5 privilege! Surely, don't call me that, Sue, carrying weapons is the right of the privileged? Life is a fucking privilege! Radical! Perhaps I should revoke yours? Maybe there was a need to have guns back in the old times. You know, when we needed firearms with which to murder mild, meek and harmonious Native Americans and take their land. Hey pal, for all I know you might be a terrorist. Yes, officer whose supervisor is a sergeant, keep your hands where I can see them: for all I know you may be a wife beater. (Said officer will respond by asking why you are worried since you are not a wife.) Here is your answer when you have been detained: Last name, first and middle, Citizen of name of state; ID number and date of birth. You may be required to give primary address rather than ID number, it depends on the state. Never give your social security number. You do not resist unless they overstep their bounds, but you do not do their job for them either. (This will not keep them from using pain compliance and charging you with passive resistance. In Germany they will charge you for unlawful possession of a passive weapon if you have a gas mask.) You do know that our constitution says anyone who is a citizen of a State is also a citizen of the United States of America? If you are a mere resident you may as well live in Porto Rico. Federal territory. (Porto Rico is a territory and has shown no great interest in becoming a state. I say cut it loose.) I never worry, be like me and be the master of all you survey. This is done by carefully limiting the survey area. So you know, when subject to a traffic stop you signal and pull over, lower your window halfway, and at night turn on the interior light. Turn off engine and place keys in pocket if you wish. Sit with hands on the steering wheel. There is nothing wrong with using sir if the officer is doing so, and neither of you minds being the other guy's honorary daddy. If he wants to search without probable cause simply say no. And weapons are not contraband in America. Move slowly and tell him what you are doing before reaching into the glove compartment, or removing the seat belt. It is better to have your gun in the locked (and key removed) compartment and your papers clipped to the sun visor. When he asks give him license, registration and insurance card but not your wallet. If you give him all three and he snaps at you and says he only asked for the license just smile. This reduces the likelihood of getting shot, but makes him think you are a con. There are many fucking morons in our police forces. If he goes completely over the line it is up to you how much abuse you will take and how much conflict you wish to partake in that day. Also how many months of legal harassment. Escalation! This is not "suicide by cop" but is "I would rather die fighting." Do not answer questions unless required by law. Do not tell the officer there is a gun in your car

unless you have a permit and must do so by law. If ordered, not requested, get out of your car, hands in view, and let the door lock behind you. Ask if you are being detained. Ask if you are being cited or arrested before telling them who you are if you have not already done so, and do not provide paper ID unless you were driving or want them to know you are armed with permission. In fact, when questions are asked simply say you don't answer questions without your lawyer being present. If an officer suspects you of something and decides to hit you because of it my advice is to beat the shit out of him. Then you should prepare to be stomped to a pulp and charged with first degree battery of a police officer, or possibly attempted murder. It is sad that innocent people really should not defend themselves from any police abuse since escalation is the norm and a full-out engagement from the start is more productive. You are only dealing with the officer or officers at the scene at any given time, so perhaps Mexico needs a new resident, but Mexico sucks and money for bribery is needed. Luckily the justice system almost always punishes police excess, right, so all this is hyperbole. Sure it is. I once read an article by a well known expert that said you never attack criminals that remain outside the system of justice, that would be unmanly or cowardly. He said real men would only fight with the security or police that protected them even if that too was illegal. What a maroon. I guess it works this way: organized crime boss is completely beyond the law and that makes you silly and angry. So you attack the police who respond to protect him when you show up and you bravely defeat them. Then you say ha! to the mob guy and leave. Yes indeed, indeed; never provoke trouble, just be prepared to finish it. It's not as if Trouble was my middle name. Oh my God, I think there may be trouble! Imagine the the revolution. Our founders say the British are acting like tyrants and cannot be argued with. They will not listen to reason. So, they say, do not gather together and use violence against the state because war is horrid. Go home and farm, but do not allow the servants of tyrants to take your children, take you to prison camps, or take your weapons. Dudes, says Billy Bob; how can I stop them? A mob of them shows up on a farm, the farmer is outnumbered and taken or killed, and the mob goes on to another farm. The courts seldom rule in the farmer's favor and this is going on right now! Well, say the founders, we will have to take action if these things are done on a massive scale over the whole country at once. We will rise up then, you can be certain of that! But do not organize, equip or train in readiness for that day since it provokes the tyrants and justifies tyranny. That is what they want! Sorry, I guess the founders in this imaginary revolution did not found anything. They did avoid war unless frustration resulted in mass uprisings of the angry masses, but we know how that kind of anarchy generally turns out. Police have higher rates of criminal behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, family violence and suicide than the general public. Some say this is karma or punishment for their evilthis is false. They are in a better position to get away with crime, and criminals are drawn to power. The leadership is corrupt. In corrupt agencies none of them are good. They will remain quiet because they want to keep their benefits, even if they take no direct part in the crimes. A higher percentage of child welfare workers are child abusers. They are drawn to the job. But medics have high suicide rates too. It is depression and stress from any source, not evil, that kills them. Hell, a child who does not honor his abusive parents may feel as much guilt as a corrupt public official does. Quite probably more. Karma is bullshit. If you do harm to people some will try to harm you back. and if you get in the way of the wrong people by doing something good the same applies. When you drop a package over you foot it drops and your foot hurts. That's it. If people are allowed to be armed there will be outbreaks of great violence on a periodic basis. Being armed is just the first step down a road to greater and greater brutality. Yes, and it is not pornography that leads to sex crimes and immorality, it is having any sex at all. Think so? There are outbursts of such violence already in certain cities I shall not bother to name. A right is not so bad if it applies only to those times when it is not needed. Cancel it during emergencies. The right to bear arms is rather like a man's legal right to his own opinion, it is OK if he will not, you know, persist in

speaking it. How is it that you have not seen this violence in areas where we are, in fact, most often armed? Since the last great weapons banning craze in UK the violent crime rate has increased almost 50%. There are places in this country where groups would fight virtual wars if allowed to be armed. Even worse, and God forbid, allowed to be armed in public. They just can't get along. Those places are places even the police are less likely to go. It is dangerous, and a police presence is as commonly a lit match as a calming influence. Indeed. Periods of calm are not the product of an inability to get weapons. The police are not exactly zealous on an average day in the neighborhood. People are showing some sense, or simply fear retaliation, which is a kind of good sense in itself. If even the tough guys are not carrying on a given day it is because they do not truly expect trouble, and bad luck could result in an (unconstitutional) arrest with associated irritations. If a person is wrong about this who is going to suffer the most? The man shopping and minding his own business, except for his failure to be armed, or the person who left home feeling like some trouble and armed accordingly? Places where a person can be killed for dressing wrong or having the wrong skin color should have more police in them, not less. Citizens should swarm the area. If the locals take this as an excuse to fight a war: boils should be lanced. "God, grant me a good sword and no use for it." The Poles. But nooo, high crime areas are dangerous. People get attacked there all the time. Even if it is technically legal to carry a gun there you should not do it because you might actually have to use your gun. Guns ought only to be carried if you don't need one. Besides, the police might shoot you. How are they supposed to know you are not a criminal? Only government has rights, plus criminals to a degree once in court. Citizens in general have only authorizations and duties. The State's monopoly on the legitimate use of force; Hey-zeus Christy! In America? Since when, you Eurotrash? People are as dumb as bloody posts. What is wrong with these people? If anyone besides themselves is armed in the land of the Second Amendment they piss themselves and spit as they talk. Pussies. The government monopoly on violence is no crowning achievement of civilization. Not at all. The low level of violence among the middle classes of America and the UK, in Switzerland and Sweden, is an accomplishment, although these groups have problems of their own, but the state's monopoly on arms has been a temptation to the armed agents of government to abuse more than anything else. Try to count the number of people who have been directly or indirectly killed by governments, of whatever political/religious/ethnic motivation. Look and see, in what percentage of those cases were the common people forbidden arms for self defense or any other private purpose? In some societies broader legal access to weapons results in more violence, and in others less, and more violence is not always an evil. Within most groups more guns means less violent crime. Weapons restrictions effect those common people who tend to obey, by leaving them unarmed at the start of any emergency, and those who happen to get caught out whether they are citizens buying black market or government agents overpowered by an angry group of citizens. Democracy. Democracy! Social democracy, industrial democracy, christian democracy, socialist democracy, and people's democracy. Everything some idiot calls democracy so taking other's rights is authorized by the people themselves. White woman abused in sensitivity class until they cry, and blubber out their apology for their ancestry. Phony smile and sing-song voice. Doan- be'uh Hate'uh. I will put my foot so far up your smirking ass you will be spitting shoe leather for a week. Or hobnails. If only the government provided housing, shoes, medical insurance\care, higher education, jobs...! Safety! Our government has grown bigger and bigger for more than a century. Our weirdest and worst economic problems have occurred since the bankers took over monetary policy. We still have wars every few decades. The robber barons? Bribed the right people and got government lands and protection. Evil warmongering Republicans? Plenty of Democrats from Wilson onward. Government

and corporate regulation has made medical care more expensive than ever. Do you want universities run like the public schools? They are getting there. Heavy regulation and policy for government and schools alike from the foundations. Do you want everything run like an office of the DMV? Fine. Go for it. No rights for you, but many shifting entitlements. And duties. Not moral duties, but government requirements. National service. Draft the men. Draft the women. We obviously should have grown government even faster! FDR saved democracy (pah!) and capitalism by socializing the country enough to avoid revolution! Some of his supporters thought they would be able to rid themselves of private business within five years. This in close cooperation with the biggest capitalists and financiers in the country. He fooled them. Still, they managed to consolidate wealth and socialize agriculture until it could be handed over to big agro! Assholes. Puerile dunderheaded fools. Orthodox Jews are supposed to lie to the Goy. Muslims are supposed to lie to the Ferengi. Priests are supposed to lie to converts. Corporations and unions are supposed to lie to workers and consumers. Investment bankers are supposed to lie to investors. Every agency of government has a public affairs office. Its job? Lie to the citizenry, when not merely glossing over a refusal to provide any information at all. Media is supposed to lie to you. Avoid panic. Get sales. Achieve support for policy. Avoid exposure of waste and corruption. Guess what? Socialists are supposed to lie to the masses. Manipulation is good. It is for a good cause. Do you ever get tired of being lied to? Freedom from choice! Paper currency is not money. Constitutionally, money is gold and silver coined under the authority of congress. Not that privately minted bullion coins are a problem in commerce any more than other means of barter. Any system has its ups and downs, but private banks (and banks should be private) can do a decent job of funding the economy under certain conditions. If a bank makes loans of "virtual money" to investors, businesses, and to an extent to consumers; and has to eat its losses when it makes bad loans the economy gets funded quite well without much inflation. On the other hand, if fraud is not interdicted, and if dishonest and manipulative or foolish bankers are bailed out instead of being allowed to go bankrupt things will shortly go to hell. Inflation, stagflation, massive debt, or depression and consolidation by the influential result. You notice anything like that going on? The federal reserve is not a legal agency, by the way. It has taken congressional authority to itself, and it "manages" both the currency and the markets. Some of the "regulatory" agencies would be legal if they limited themselves to honestly fighting crime. They don't. Learn what is to be taught you. Let the party tell you how to take care of each other. Do not be self centered, be centered on the people. The people as seen by whatever party is on or near the top this day. What people? How many peoples are there? The human species? Know your place. Do not go beyond your bounds. This is the pale. Do not try to be something you are not. If only people would be happy with what they have. Follow the savior and he will deliver your enemies to you and bring prosperity to the common man; and be happy with what you have, if we were then no economy would be needed at all. Rights? God damn you all to hell! Have any of you heard of state militias and of the citizen's right to keep and bear arms? The second, ninth and tenth amendments, state constitutions and compliant laws speak of the right to defend your state, defend self and others, to make citizen arrests (read your state's law, this does not mean you can issue summons for infractions or arrest suspects in noncriminal matters, nor make arrests based on the reports of others; writing speeding tickets is a racket and reserved for government), and to use reasonable force to repel resisting trespassers. Do you think Americans can even be told about equal treatment under the law or due process without getting into a fight over ethnicity, religion or government's need for authority? The finer traditions and principles of this country are lost and forgotten. Free speech zones! Gag orders! Fucking lemmings. Americans are terminally brain dead. Civil relations are impossible. You are too dumbed down for self rule. You belong to your masters, and think you are for freedom. There is less reason every day to

bother hiding crime and error from you. You will accept anything. Contradiction does not bother you, but it hardly matters as you have forgotten last decade's lies and never knew any history. In fact you are the army of tyranny. Can you be spoken with? How many of you are the enemy? To paraphrase Patton, Live by the sword and die by it. Everyone else dies of smelly diseases. What exactly is meant by "live by the sword" anyway? If the law allows you to make a citizen's arrest on a violent subject you are not obliged to retreat to avoid an avoidable threat. Otherwise arrest would consist of saying "you are under citizen's arrest," followed by the arrested person attacking you and then watching you flee the scene to avoid charges of self defense while failing to obey the duty to retreat concept. (Or being stabbed or shot in the back, as the case may be.) If you see a crime being committed and have the means use reasonable force to stop the crime and secure the suspect. Now try that in Hy-me-city and see what happens! And I ask you, what kind of man is worrying about legalities when he should be doing whatever he can to defend family that is at risk of being murdered? I do not know where people get such stupid ideas, but just in case I will warn you that it is not legal to shoot, or even menace, those who trespass on posted or separated land. You can shoot them if they resist arrest or removal in a manner that endangers your life. You can shoot them in some states if they are trying to set an occupied dwelling afire, are engaged in a carjacking, or violently break into and confront you in your home. We need a system more inclusive, and more intrusive. Freedom and individualism are to blame. Constitutionalists are a nasty little white minority of inbred high school dropouts. The most grasping and cruel people ever. If that were true some white boys would have shot up every Mexican protest march last year. When it comes to violence them white folks are the most passive people in the country. Why has nobody killed Rockefeller? People like him have their fingers in some interesting pies. The people whose form of government he twists are passive. Rednecks are not big on spy and assassin mastering. Freedom fighters don't want to lord it over folks, which is why their enemies are the ones who run for office. I tire of you. I am sickened by you. Constitutionalists have been threatened every day of their lives. Their rights, including their property, physical freedom and lives, threatened everyday of every year. One day, if those right wing nuts continue to resist, it will be the SWAT team or army unit for them! Now you express disbelief and outrage at the belligerent attitude of those you have threatened. Huh. All a bunch of crackers and rednecks anyway. Constitutionalists are to blame. Everybody and his dog has done harm to every other or his associates, ethnicity or ancestors. Fine. Stop being such a phony about it. White members of the working class (white trash, crackers/rednecks) did not own slaves, and some blacks and redskins did. You Mexicans can complain to Spain. It no longer matters. Who are acting like little shits in the here and now? Are you tired of this rant? Stop reading. Drop dead. Pass stronger censorship laws, and then drop dead. This is, of course, mere paranoia. Hater, you have a mental disorder and should be committed. Government has not and is not taking power to itself, and away from the states and the people. Of course not! Or, maybe so, but change is normal. Therefore all change is OK or to be accepted; not really, since a return to traditional American isolationism, racism, etc., would be terrible and if some groups reacted with violence to that it would be understandable. Now we admit the truth. Constitutionalists and whites who do not kiss our bums are the enemy of our kind of progress. Violence on their part is criminal. Violence on our part, preferably delivered through police or military agency, is justified. When you try to disarm a population you are wrong. You leave good people without the means to defend themselves from crime. You put the police to searching for illegal firearms and to fighting with resisters. Police busy doing this are not investigating crimes and arresting criminals. The crime rate goes up. What a surprise. There are sheep dogs who try to protect the sheep from the wolves, but sheep dogs work for the shepherds. Why do shepherds keep sheep?

We are all mortal. Violence is dangerous, not always as dangerous as failing to meet the threat, but dangerous. So be it. We are not sheep to be lead to the slaughter. Remember Rwanda? Are you so moral that you would stand by as your wife was taken to the camps? Perhaps you would demand a court hearing after her death in order to prove her treatment improper. You are so law abiding! Flummery! People hid behind their doors when the communists came in the night. Nazi guards could sling arms when escorting victims to the pits. We are men, not rabbits. Die like a man. Die with your fingers in a pigdog's eyes. What! Do you want to live forever? There is only one thing you actually have to do. Nope, not pay taxes. The only thing you have to do is die. Well, hey, death is just a part of life. It is perfectly natural. So is vomiting. So is cheating on your spouse. It is natural be be angry at times and natural for some to kill others when enraged. It is natural for some who see this to become homicidally enraged themselves. We must have balance, so do something evil for every act of good thus keeping the simply two sides of the same coin spinning. Do not interfere with Mommy Nature. I for one or two will not even use a bandaid 'cause it's natural for wounds to bleed and I gotta wait to see if God wants me to bleed to death. Hell, yeah! I just adore natural things, don't you? Anyhow, other people's deaths are part of your life. What death really is, need it be more obvious?, is the end of life. In the land of the blind is the one-eyed man king? No. Congress bans the use of any working eyes. (After which the president guy signs it with provision that he won't apply it to himself though he actually has no eyes, and the supreme black dress boys refuse to rule on the issue as it is obviously a matter of overriding state importance. Besides, they have as yet no international court guidance.) Symbolism is crude. Useful, up to a point, but crude. It can be taken too far. So the mustard seed is scattered rather carelessly about, and symbolizes something as does the good dirt and the stony. The birds eating seed before it can grow and so on do also. What does the sunlight, water, fertilizer and the other factors of plant growth mean? What mean the proportions of nitrogen and carbon dioxide in the air? Are there no weeds involved? Was the ground plowed? Light and dark. Good and evil. Life and death. Without darkness there can be no light, and without pain no pleasure. Darkness is the relative absence of light. If there is always light there is no darkness at all. Darkness can exist without light forever. Analogy has its limits. It is often used by fools to explain away things they do not understand. People must have come from somewhere. Living people breathe. A god formed mankind of clay and breathed into it. Every cloud has a silver lining (?). If things, even if not really good, do not result in good in the end (?), it would be bad; thus life must be like a cloud, having its own silver lining. When people explain the need for their beliefs to be enacted into law you may well fail to understand their logic. You may be unable to prove their facts. You will not understand them if you do not know their language. This includes scientific or professional jargon. More likely is your failure to understand because they are lying idiots or smarter than you are. Ask them what you must do under their system. If they say sacrifice this and give up that, limit this freedom and require that regimentation you know all you need to know. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Authorities react badly to that kind of disrespect. Fighting means being willing to risk injury and death. Give it some thought and draw a mental line in the metaphorical sand. There is no purpose in being an extremist about this; none of us are aloof elf lords in white silk who kill and die instantly over the smallest insult. Some things are tolerable while other things are not. Place your line, right there!, squarely in the center of matterswhere the obviously unacceptable is on one side and the acceptable is on the other. Use reasonable force, but use it at once, when it is called for. The silly young man threatening you with the knife should be shot at once. If he is threatening you and is close enough, and equipped, to seriously harm you just shoot him. That is not the time to think about your future legal problems. Nor is it the time and place for working out your belief system. Proportionate responses are nonsense. Reasonable responses are not. If your buddy is struggling with some fool who is trying to stick a knife into him don't just stand

there with your mouth hanging open. Pick up your pistol and shoot the guy. So you point it at him, but are not sure you can make the shot. They keep moving! Jeez, it is not that complicated. Walk briskly toward the fool until you can shoot him, even if that means you have to grab him and place the pistol onto a likely part of his body. Tilt the muzzle whichever way to avoid your friend and shoot until the idiot drops the knife or dies. Whatever. If he turns on you during this process your partner is expected to break the asshole's neck 'cause he is one crazy cowboy. You would think it was wrong to stop him without wrestling him over his sharp, or something. Poor guy deserves his chance at cutting you up? Y'all act like this is a difficult job of work. Nah...just a dust up. When a bunch of nervous guys all decide to draw down on each other they all end up with their peashooters held stylishly sideways but precisely pointed at each other's faces. They wait to see if anyone will shoot and then yap at each other to yield. Right? Nope. When this happens most shoot, some freeze in fear or surprise and some run away. The only time you wait is if you are not much concerned for a person being held at gunpoint (or don't know who the bad guy is, use cover) or when the gunman's weapon is so far off of a target you are sure you could shoot before he can get on one. You better be certain. Reasonable force means the force needed to stop or arrest a criminal or defeat the enemy, but without going to extremes. You want to stop a screaming shooter who is threatening, and spraying saliva on, a bank clerk. You shoot him, you do not throw a bundle of dynamite into the room. Unnecessary force, that, blowing up the clerk, six customers, and the bad guy. You do not defeat an infantry company by nuking a city of fifty thousand people. See how it works? You do use land mines in warfare, you just do not leave them scattered around for farmers to step on when you leave. Nope, cluster bombs (burst and scatter bomblets over the next 100 meters or thereabouts, which bomblets then exploded at or above ground level producing a storm of fragments, some directed armor piercing slugs or jets, or leave mines on the ground), white phosphorus (big burst of burning material and white smoke) and napalm (massive fuel fire), thermobaric (FAE or novel explosive) weapons (the big bombs give you a tremendous blast and massive shock waves), lasers and the like are not and should not be banned. Chemical weapons are banned but should not be. You should not target civilians and civil infrastructure with them. Biological weapons that will lead to indiscriminate epidemics, huge thermonuclear devices and antimatter bombs that could cause regional or global destruction should be banned. To ban them would require banning tyrants, and to ban a tyrant you have to stop him. This usually, but not always, means you have to kill him. Anyway, even if a certain weapon should be banned the citizenry, the constitution says it is not a federal issue any more than regulating the shouting of the word "fire" is part of the federal government's powers. What about depleted uranium projectiles? DU is not very radioactive and will not remain a surface hazard for the usually reported eons, but breathing contaminated smoke or dust is both a toxic hazard and a cancer and birth defect risk. The general use of DU is justified if, for example, a nation is facing a brutal invasion by a power in possession of large numbers of modern tanks with very difficult to defeat armor. Using DU in counter-insurgencies and peacekeeping operations, or against armor that is penetrable by other materials is absurd. Heavily contaminating an urban battlefield when the enemy doesn't even have tanks is criminal. Oh dear me indeed! You shot him! He may have been bluffing with that deadly (or dangerous) weapon. He would not have shot her, and now there has been a death! Yes Sir, I knew that as I do have mind reading powers. Booga, booga! We are both incompetents who should not be armed and so perfect we could disarm without injury any disturbed attacker if we would. Jus' shoot his shoot'n iron out of his hand, Cowboy Bob! We are supposed to place the criminal's life above the risk to the clerk's. You are saying something? Oh, yes, if I shoot and hit a customer instead of the hostage taker I am the murderer, and resistance just adds to the death toll. Hmm. If it was not intentional it is not

murder, it may be negligent, if I exhibit no care for the other's safety. As for adding to the death toll, I want to; but with the corpse of the criminal, not the bystander. We do not kill people because they deserve to die but because we are stopping their dangerous activities, but lethal weapons are the fastest and most sure as uncertain as their effects may be and are fully justified here. When the incident starts it is started by the criminal, not by me. He is responsible. When I fight back I am responsible for that decision, but he is threatening the clerk's life. Her life is just as valuable as the customer's lives. It is just as valuable as the gunman's life, and he is threatening her life and is no more important than she. She deserves to be defended. If I do not shoot I am placing his life above her life. This is wrong! If I think I can shoot without hitting the customer and still fail to fire I am putting the customer's life above the clerk's. Also wrong! It is not about taking lives to save lives, nor about fighting for peace. It is not about taking few lives to save many. We are not Spock...amoral bastards with logic but little volition and no morality. We are not gods either. It is about doing our best to save good people by killing bad people who would harm them if not stopped by potentially lethal means. Is shooting a mad dog to save a child evil? Do not do foolish things thinking your weapon will get you out of trouble, but not having one when you need it is like changing a tire without a jack and wrench. If your wife is present you protect her first of all. Selfish, are we? Putting our own above others? We are not obliged to take suicidal risks for others, nor obligated to sacrifice our own in favor of others. Are you going to put everyone else above her, or are you going to roll a die to see who comes first? You are so fair about everything! In so far as your wife and children are concerned, you swore an oath, buddy. Heh, if everybody really is all the same to you just do triage. Interchangeable human beings. How civilized! You think private property, business and industry; if allowed at all, ought to be heavily regulated and taxed: right up to the point where more would put them out of business. The pennies thus squeezed out of them can be put to more social use. I say tax enough to pay for constitutional government and regulate by punishing crime and carelessness. You think nobody should be given special treatment, except minorities and women as groups. Nobody is special to anyone else. Yeah. Friends are people you carefully treat the same as strangers, and lovers have to be shared. Hell. Have sex with everyone. Don't be selfish. Don't be chauvinistic. The government, the law, liberty... These belong to everybody. My wife does not belong to you. You are emotionally retarded, or you have soaked up leftist propaganda for so long that doctrine is in and good sense out of your head. Yes, I know that the criminal has problems and is a human being. He will suffer, and cry, if he lives long enough, and sometimes people like him are actually helped rather than further harmed by the reform and psychiatric systems. His girlfriend will have to find another guy, and his mother will be very sad. Do you know that the people he threatens are also human beings with families? Nothing said herein should imply that the evildoer killed himself, that I did not kill him. A murderer executed did not kill himself through his own actions. Murder was his own action, and execution was the action chosen by those who would protect the population from the likes of him. Everyone makes mistakes and being fallible does not make you evil, but it hardly makes you good. You should not pity him, that would, that would be insulting. You should be sympathetic just as people should always offer charity. He should never feel sorry for himself as there is always someone in the world who is worse off. Perhaps that one person may feel sorry for himself, but it is not as if he has to do it himself because nobody else will. Having tried to do it right, if I hit the wrong person anyway; well, shit happens. It sucks how perfection just don't work, yes? If a reasonable person would have known not to take the shot then I would be negligent and liable. If the situation would normally have been doable but something unexpected screws things up I am not guilty of anything, but will still be skewered by our fine legal systemdoes that make you feel all warm and fuzzy? I am happy for you. Sometimes you can recover from mistakes, and you should not let the inevitable errors destroy

your life. Yet in life and death situations any false step, any choice or failure to make a choice, and any completely uncontrollable factor can be fatal. Once past the point of no return things happen, cannot be stopped and can never be undone. I take responsibility for my own actions. Do I have any choice? Hmm. Are people responsible for their actions? Yes and no. Many people have played a role in events leading up to any action, but the actor is one of them and makes the final decision; as flawed as it, and he, may be. A thing not to do is to take responsibility after the fashion of officials. I admit errors were made, mostly by my subordinates, and I take full responsibility. No investigations now needed. This means nobody now need pay any damages for errors or crimes. Cool, eh? Another thing you do not do is fight on even terms or follow the attackers lead by using the weapon and force level he uses. He pulls a knife? Do not argue with him. He is busily trying to push your nose in? This is not a boxing match: kick him in the testicles. Better yet, make use of the nightstick (baton), the pepper spray (OC) or the electrical stun gun. (By the way, the police have been misusing Tasers and stun guns. This has created a movement for the banning of them. This is foolish. You don't ban weapons, you punish the abusers. If they are banned you will find that you are under the ban, but the police are not!) Dear me, you have been scooped up, and are now in lockup. A rustle is heard, a few mutters perhaps. There is a rush of footsteps and it is the old pillow over the face and blanket party for you. Do you fight back? Now many men drag you from bed and proceed to rape you. Give in and acquire a protector (keeping house is not so bad) or fight to the death? Hell, if you lose; probably lose, you may not even die. That means you get to be raped anyway. Do you fight? And if you recover do you go after your attackers, starting another round of violence? Make up your mind! Bars do not make a prison, so this is all moot. It is like censorship: it is freedom if you start wanting to say only allowed things. No dictatorship in the world has ever banned approved speech, some even failed to ban that evil pornography. The Soviets did so ban, yeah communism! You know what is wrong with porn? It is not even a woman, much less your wife. It is not prison if you do not want to go anyplace. We are morons, yeah, so we know our happiness should never depend on other people. People are basically interchangeable. True, the authorities really ought to let us go so that if we come back we belong to them. As if people can rightfully be owned. (People should not be held against their will unless criminal or EPW, and some pets should not; while others should not be released into what will be a dangerous environment for them. Animals are not people, however, and some are about as aware as a rock.) We should be happy always inside ourselves, nothing outside us should be of any purport. When we sit happily until we die of exposure our essence will continue on in eternal bliss! This is the reason only a few of the brain injured are happy all the time, but it does make inaction into a virtue. There have never been true slaves, you see, as everybody has a choice and could have died or have been punished instead of choosing slavery. Choice is freedom so only death is unavoidable, and thereby slavery, and if you choose to die rather than serve that too is freedom. Philosophy much? Geniuses! Free will. That means nothing limits your ability to choose one thing over another. Right? No overriding influences or inherent limitations on the mind? It just means you may be "programed" but not in such a way that you must completely ignore environmental changes not foreseen by the "programer." People do not automatically think only of preapproved choices. Freedom of choice? Oh yeah. You still have it if you are allowed to make a choice and act on it before being punished for not making the approved decision. Right? Right? This is much better than being told to obey or be punished, and then ordered to do the approved thing in the first place. You think? I told you there is no such thing as slavery. Would I lie to you? You have freedom of choice if you can select from anything not already defined as criminal without being threatened with punishment. You have no freedom of choice within a category if all choices, or all but one, is criminal; or if you are given preapproved options to select from.

It is privilege, by the bye, if it belongs to another but you have permission for now to use or do it. It is right if you own it, and it cannot be rightly taken away, or not without lawful due process and necessity in order that you may be stopped from carrying on with your crime. Crime is the reckless risking or harming of another or his property. It also is the deliberate threat of or act of directly harming persons or property outside of your right of defense and of dealing with emergencies, or in excess of that right. Please stop telling me only people are violent killers because animals only humanely kill enough to eat. You have never seen chimps beat, rape and kill; a wolverine on a tear or what is left in a chicken house after a small predator has killed all and left most behind. You have never seen a cat play with a mouse, chickens or horses abuse a weakling. You have never seen a bear kill a cub or a cat a kitten. Political liberty, individual freedom (and economic freedom is individual and all groups are made up of individuals), voluntary cooperation, national defense and necessary law enforcement. Yes, but if you cannot recognize the enemy when you see him or are unwilling, or unable, to fight him then freedom is a pipe dream and your future is in the hands of others. Bah! Should you be free to be poor, or to be killed by ravening guns? Indeed free peoples have always been poor and unprotected, while subjugated ones have been safe and well fed. Read any history lately? Sophistry is the true name of all schools of philosophy and religion. Also of most schools of politics and economics. All an excuse for what is or ought to be. And it is all so scientific too! (If it can't be tested it is not scientific, even when scientists say it. A thing may be, but is likely not, true but untested; but it is not science.) But some well favored slaves have been cared for and protected. Is true, macho. Times and places ruled by strong tyrants who nevertheless treated loyal peoples reasonably well and maintained peace have been among the most stable. If you can attain that high position and do not find it appalling to live at benevolent feet all is well. Peace to you. Pacifists are evil. They can be harder to deal with than than violent scum. They would like to help the tyrants and criminals, oh yes, learn the errors of their ways. They understand the damaged and insane, the selfish and the cruel. Most of them are phony. They wish to apply the concept to you. You should be required to join them. They will use massive force against you when it is to their benefit. Government force. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our breasts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, may be the Government of the day, ... But what do we really care what Gandhi said? Dalai Lama said if somebody with a gun is trying to kill you it is reasonable to shoot back. What a nut. The true believers are also evil. Even if fully capable of defending a child from harm, they will allow the abuse to continue. Sometimes a criminal will be influenced by their entreaties, or shamed into compliance by the pacifist who says hurt me if you must harm someone. Usually, however, the punk runs away to abuse again, while the meaner fellow simply attacks the pacifist before returning to the child. Idiots. Since it is difficult to control these people, militarists and criminals, the pacifist finds it easier to turn on those closer to them; the more reasonable, the family; citizens, employees. A man with a gun can often control 100 unarmed people, so they turn on victims who fight back. They will harass you, threaten you, and destroy your reputation and business. They will get you fired from your job. They will confiscate your weapons and threaten arrest. You will be sued and judges and lawyers will eat you out of all substance. The rights of the many do not outweigh the rights of the few. The few and the many have the same fucking rights, but do not do anything about it. That is what they want. They want you to resist. They want you to fight for liberty. So don't do it. The only way to win is to yield. Be Gandhi; perhaps

they lack intent. Tyrants feel guilty and go away if you are nice. Do not be like your own ancestors. They were just asking for trouble. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Feeling weak, feeling weak. Your dick is dragging, pick it up! 1, 2, 3, 4! Oh yeah. Gonna die. Who cares? Who cares? Second wind. Second wind. Three miles. Four miles... Feeling strong! I don't know but I been told, Eskimo (Inuit) pussy is mighty cold! Heh. You know, nothing I advocate is illegal. Do I expect Constitution "interpreters," government employees, and unpatriotic flag waving authority-worshiping punks or leftist thugs to agree? Huh. When unjustified force is used things play out just as it does anytime force is in play. The people who can apply force more effectively win. Never play the other guy's game. Force him to respond to what you are good at using methods he is not well skilled in. Count the number of times in history when tyrants gave up in the face of peaceful dissent. It happens, situations vary, but it is rare. Gandhi broke many laws, which Americans think justifies police violence, but he was not violent. However, he played a psychological game with a tired empire and the general Indian population in an environment of violence from both the Indian and British sides. Force was in play, but the British were walking a fine line in an attempt to keep the mass of people out of it. Gandhi was bait. Too outrageous treatment of him and all those nonviolent supporters of his would have hit the streets in anger. South Africa was a somewhat similar case. There was a relatively peaceful opposition, much violence from certain other groups, and heavy economic and political pressure from outside. Look at your situation and choose wisely. India is better for once having been British. SA would be better if it was still under white rule. This hardly means I expect anybody to be happy about that. Domination is seldom right, and the recipients of it are not pleased in many cases even if the long term results are positive. I mean, like, that car is so gay! Do not agree with me. I offend. Truly most who use the term today do not give much thought to its origin, but some of us think gay is kinda, you know, gay. I have no right to think that? Make me stop. You are only dreaming me but I have become a nightmare. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." "In the sure and certain HOPE of..." resurrection. Dude, it is like a movie where everyone trips over his shoelaces and steps on banana peels; but people are not laughing because he has already done it a dozen times and blood has begun to flow. Stop the comedy. Is is not funny anymore. Haahaha! Can man with a gun (MWAG) control one hundred? "All power comes from the barrel of a gun." So say the humanity loving reds. Power comes from being convincing and from force, both, and no power can exist without the backing of force at some level. So, renounce all power, and all the crazy people will renounce it with you. Nope, you are gonna live or die on your sanctimonious knees. Pacifists tend to treat people they know and have some control over like shit. They can't help it. They are like those who can't pass by without a snide remark about something, even if it is only about the color of your tie. They treat the "other" the way they would a lion in a habitat. If you make a mistake with a lion you will die, but it is not really the lion's fault. Lions are dangerous, what did you do to set it off? You made the mistake. The lesson here is that it is better to be the lion when dealing with pacifists. Those of them who are cowards want everyone they know to be cowards too, you trouble makers, and will use any pressure they can to rein you in. You also hurt their feelings! Any indirect effect of your actions, even disapproval or worry, is a personal insult and attack of them. You are a selfish fellow. Too sad. Boo Hoo. They can limit the amount of violence by suppressing the defender! If you stand up to violent people then you have antagonized them. Their threats can never have antagonized you, and anything the criminal does is then your fault. Swine! Sometimes when resisted very disturbed people commit suicide. Sometimes even out of guilt. Your fault. Double swine! It is no doubt because you were either beaten or not beaten as a child. I blame the parents, no not their parents; I blame Adam and Eve. It may simply be your race. The simple answer is usually the right one. No need to go into genetic code, environment including disease and injury (and parents);

complexities like why a person is the way he is, why he will react to his environment the ways he does, and how he, changed by the environment will change it. Simple solutions are best. We may never be perfect, but we must approach perfection as closely as we canno matter the cost. Central government and social planning, that's the ticket! Eugenics anyone? Mandatory religious conversion? Extermination of the unruly? Brainwashing, drugs, surgery? We must return to nature and overcome nature simultaneously! The civilized savage, the coming golden age. At the street or battlefield level this is all irrelevant. A threat is a threat. Good does not win in the end. Power wins. The power to change minds and the power to destroy wins. Evil loves power over others so it cultivates power. If too few, or too weak, good people put up a fight evil always wins. There is more solidarity among the evil than you think. They betray each other, but even evil people usually love their children and have friends, nor do they like to weaken their alliances in the face of opposition. They don't care if things are worsened by their actions so long as their own cut is larger, but they protect their own class if only to protect themselves. You should not, as a rule, threaten people yourself. When you do make threats, offering fair warning, do not make threats you do not intend to carry out except while drawing an enemy in (tactic) during combat operations (which is deception and not fair warning). Do not yield your rights, but never put a possible enemy into an corner unless you want him to fight and at a disadvantage. Remember that cornered does not always mean otherwise at a disadvantage. A habit of bluffing is going to hurt a lot. Bluff rarely for a specific tactical advantage. You could bluff whenever you can promptly run away if it fails, but you will get a reputation and will become a target. Do not bluff when a failed bluff will put you in a seriously degraded position. Do not go into fights thinking you will not have to carry it through. You will get into fights you are unprepared for. Once begun do not stop until you win, are losing but can escape, or you have been defeated. Yes, sometimes you can win without fighting; not wars without fighting, however, unless you are taking advantage of someone else's war. Sometimes too you have the good sense to recognize when there is nothing you can justly win, but never expect to win a fight without having to fight. Sometimes the other side folds abruptly for any number of reasons but rarely. Do not depend on it. Pacifists have charity in their hearts. You must treat the criminal and the decent the same. Other than with regard to the extra help they need. Do you know what charity is? It is love for your fellow human beings in your heart. Charity is to be offered by anyone with manners, and refused by anyone with manners. Those who actually accept help are to be pitied or reviled, as are those who fail to offer help. Once charity is accepted, however, the charity case must know his place; he must then allow the more enlightened to control his life for him. (Federal welfare, including social security and tax policy, is a corrupt mess and unconstitutional. State welfare is often legal, but also often bloated and corrupt. Charity is often good and equally often not, and mandatory charity is slavery and an excuse for theft and government power grabs.) Are we then not to turn the other cheek? Resist not evil, and render unto Caesar? Obey the government no matter what they say since they only ever use the sword to punish the wicked? Is allowing your child to be murdered turning the other cheek? If you think the communists and fascists, the universal church or the Mongols all were only in the business of punishing wicked people then I think you should take your pills and go watch some nice reality TV. Please do say everyone is evil so all deserve any evil they receive, so that I may give you a well deserved bludgeoning about the head and shoulders. Freedom junkies have some facts on their side, but things are different now. The end times. The end is at hand! Yep. The end is at hand for individuals on a regular basis. It is often at hand for governments, nations and at times even entire cultures. One day it will be at hand for humanity or the whole planet. You know what? The end almost always takes place over time, bringing down individuals and groups, and it is sad and pedestrian. There are bangs, even some big ones, but there are more blank stares or whimpers than big bangs and roaring berserker endings.

Resorting to violence is evidence of a lack of good arguments. Use your indoor voice, use your words Fancy Nancy! So what are stupid people to do? Violence is probably nature's way of providing equal rights for stupid people! Gun control uses police violence to enforce its regulations. If people did not resist control there would be no need for force. This must mean both sides have poor arguments, stupid people! You know gun control is not very effective at stopping crime. So what. Criminalizing murder has not kept everyone safe either. So we should stop doing what we can? Do you want to know a difference? The vast majority of gun owners are not in the least criminally violent. The majority are not careless. The majority of gun owners are not violent enough. Thus, gun ownership is a right and murder is a crime; there is your difference. I will not have that gun in my house! If you know you are unreliable you should not bear arms. If you are a woman you should leave a dangerous man, gun or no. If you have a gun in the house it must be on your person, or otherwise separated from childrengiven enough time children will always manage to get themselves into trouble, although there are surprisingly few child related shootings. That said, women are often the ones who say such things, and they should not be allowed to disarm you. Both you and they have a right to arms unless disqualified for sensible and basic reasons. Not so henpecked, friend. I am a very proud (pride, not hubris) and courageous man so I would help you fight for our liberty, but I have a wife; so I really have to get home with some milk and bread. Good luck, fellows! You had your castration yet? Hubris is overbearing or unjustified pride. Humility is the proper response to just and fair examples of superiority; the proper admission of error or wrongdoing. If you are humble all the time you are either a fool or have nothing whatever to be proud of, and humiliation is what you ought to feel if you are totalitarian or another type of criminal or creep. Do not argue with the womenfolk. Listen to what they have to say. Think about it. If you do not agree tell them why and go about your business. Do not try to dominate their behavior, but do not let them stop you. We are all fully aware that a wife can make us more angry or conflicted than any ten bad guys, but do not let that make you stupid! (Since you really want to know; anyone who says now! Because I said so, better be talking to a 5 year old who is about to step into traffic. That is marginal with police who could just say warrant and OK for soldiers loading war prisoners for transport. A person subjected to because I pay most of the bills and it is my house should leave.) Do you live in/on property owned or controlled by others, government or private? Avoid this if you can. Property rights are being eroded every day yet most of the things you can still usually do independently can only be done with security on your own land. Everywhere else your activities can be more easily aborted indirectly if not directly. A home you do not own is bad, so at the least have one under a legal agreement that protects you somewhat. People are unreliable. Never move into another person's home. He can kick you out in an instant. He can keep, damage, or toss your things into the street and you have little recourse. If you resist the police will confiscate anything they disapprove of, and put you on the sidewalk. They do not always let you take a bag. You can arrange for pickup of your property later. The homeowner can tell you what to do and what you can own under threat of kicking you out. He can be entirely reasonable and then suddenly evict you for not agreeing with his theory on the propagation of light. Employers and functionaries can order you about well beyond job related matters or the law under threat of job loss, lawsuits, blacklisting, denial of permits, charges and harassment and many more. You must have a car, your own money, and the ability to find another place. If you do not you will be on foot in public or using public transportation. Every large item you own, your cat or dog, and any firearms or other objectionable items will have to go. Try walking around town carrying rifle cases.

If you work for morons and there is constant conflict you will quickly become unemployable. If you are on the street for too long you will be unemployable. If you hang out with morons you are asking for trouble. If you are attacked at work, in public, or in your best friends home you are obliged to be unarmed or to not resist. Your employer, the police, or your friend have said they don't want any trouble in their domains. Don't bring your troubles to me. A shootout there violates your good friend's wishes and safety so disarm. Go quietly or die without adding to the damage to your good friend's home, psyche, and safety. You must own your own home. Whatever else never make casual agreements to live on another's property. Never give up your right to fight whenever criminally menaced. Never give up your rights. Stay off your "good friend's" property. You don't need friends like that. Do not live with friends or family. Why pay for food, utilities and rent in a place where you will give or receive rules or orders when you can pay the same market price for a place actually zoned for rentals (Yay!) and where only the rental agreement and the law apply to you, and you have 30 days to vacate if so ordered. Again owning your own place is best, if you don't have to pay double for a 30 year mortgage. Criminal trespass is a crime. It should be one. This means that if a landowner tells you to leave you need to be prepared, pack your traveling bag and walk out. Do not be tolerant of people who use excessive force, or of those without the legal authority they claim. Stay out from under the thumbs of others. People are pathetic, or disgusting, or both pathetic and disgusting. Arrogant old man. What about you? Hey. I look like a people. Don't I? Be correct in your dealings with everyone. Do not work off your frustrations on woman and children. Do not work off your frustrations by committing crimes against even the enemy. Always be civil to those who are doing you no harm. American treatment of occupied nations, Germany for example, has been shameful. This does not mean you should politely tolerate abuse. Yes, we must suppress the defenders. We mean well, honest! Good Lord children, do we have to play these stupid games forever? Why must we lie? Why must we always hide our thoughts? Do people really learn from these social and legal pressures, or are they driven underground? If they are forced to pretend, how much frustration, anger; and even hatred does this produce? Even the foolish or often mistaken usually notice unequal treatment of themselves. Do you want to provoke reaction from people who could have remained uninterested in, or ineffectual toward, your activities? Possibly you actually want a major reaction because you believe it possible to destroy it while making a major advance for yourselves? It would justify further crackdowns on the politically incorrect? Always haring after those you label racist, sexist, homophobe, polluter, drug user, vigilante or fascist. A homeowner in New Orleans may not use or repair his septic system without a permit, but the government operation dumps the city's overflow into the sea. Whatever the label, it is only a label and is used to justify your actions. You do not imprison communist writers, perhaps communists have only killed reactionary wreckers. Another possibility: you cannot allow equal protection under the law, any real freedom, because you are trying to build your own class regime or racist state? Cameras in the bathrooms, but we are arrested under color of law if we shoot video on the streets. (If people with cameras follow you around feel free to ask them why. Otherwise, arrest them if they block your movement or keep bumping into you, and naturally the same if they break in or trespass to do it. You can photograph them if you feel the need.) You may be harassed for taking video only, but police in most states will promptly arrest you if you record audio.

Are we all to hide when we are weak and strut about in smug moral superiority when we are strong? Do we all pretend in public while working toward our own preferred party's domination over everyone else? Cycle after cycle of abuse upon the people, or descendants of the people, who abused us in the past; retaliation for the retaliation for the retaliation. Yet you say that to avoid a cycle of violence you must allow the unprovoked attackers to escape any serious or long term retaliation. Help them, do not resist them. The friends, family and countrymen of those already victimized can be restrained. They are your people after all. The other side's people will not be restrained, so to avoid future violence the force applied by you must be against your own side as any force used on the enemy will anger the enemy. Too bad your own people are now angry at you. Too bad the other side attacked for reasons other than retaliation, and probably will do so again having gotten away with it once already. Factor possible vengeance into you plans and never make enemies you do not have to make, but do not lie down with lions believing they would never eat the sweet lovelies like yourself. Sweet like butter, that is me. This is the argument of Nazis and Zionists: we deserve to rule because we are superior. The argument of Racists and Communists: we deserve to rule because we have been abused and are morally superior to you. If you do well because you can that is good. If you do well because you are superior at applying pressure to others that is bad. You can be a superior abuser, and nature does not care, but this kind of superiority does not make you right. It makes you evil. Combat effectiveness wins fights. Your good or evil is part of what determines or attracts your opponents. But evil has no cohesion? Tell that to Das Reich. The "devil" don't divide his house, eh? Satan adversary, devil slanderer, demon enemy. Scary what? Either way if you attract too many enemy you will die. You can judge a man by the quality of his enemies, but did Hitler make Stalin good? There is no evil in the spiritual world because there is no spirit. There is no evil in nature in general because nature is not a being, it is a class of beings (being does not equate with person). There is no evil in most animals because there is no intent. The human animal, of course, does contain evil intent. You can often detect evil people by their eyes. Dead eyes indicate illness, depression, drug use, and evil. Some evil people are suave or merry but many have dead eyes. People are irrational. Their underlying reasons are seldom expressed and often misunderstood even by themselves. Religion or philosophy is at the root of movements and policies. Religion and philosophy are the constructs of men; usually very irrational men. Do not expect things to be fair, nor should you fall for facile arguments that unfairness is realworld thus as near a natural virtue as not. Life is unfair but it is not a person. Half the people who go around saying it is unfair are just using that fact as an excuse for their own bad manners. Kick their asses and explain to them that life is unfair when they complain. People, nations and political systems are imperfect. Freedom is imperfect: just not so compared to the alternatives. Look Mommy! That man has no soul. Just ignore him, dear. I do not give my soul to Odin, because I do not have one, and because he was a perverted tribal leader, but rock on Manowar. Hey man, everybody save me is perverted. Nobody but myself should be armed. You people just can't be trusted! I feel so sorry for you. You have a closed mind. Aw, you are so sweet to care; and I just adore the arrogant concern of those who have no respect for truth. Smug much? What percentage of the loving spiritual are hiding their personal antagonism and elitism behind speaking on behalf of higher powers? Is it possible that fools and idiots dislike intelligent people and defend the indefensible with claims to spiritual authority? The dear hearts believe in tolerance but have no patience for facts and little apparent tolerance for the normals, the mundanes. Standards are going, going and gone. Pop tart eaters and tofu eaters. "Thank you for helping us, now please leave." Yoked unequally with unbelievers? There are two things wrong with that one. Being yoked, and thinking they are the superior ones involved. It seems that the best way to prove a point is to tell a tale about ghostly punishment for people like the doubter fictionalized. Bah!! Oh yeah? Yeah! Amen makes it so.

Everything is actually energy. No, fool, everything is actually material. But solid is an illusion! No, fool, it is liquid that is illusion. There is space between particles, so the gaseous is really solid, too. Jesus. Froggy sees the world from the bottom of the well, and it is amazing! To say everything is energy? You may just as well say everything is matter. Everything is everything. Once again, we are back to all is one yet separate but connected thus we are one. There is no we, but only I; no I but only we. The group is one made up of no individual parts. Blah. You know, to truly understand the world, "becoming one with it," is to take on and accept its nature without complainttaking on the guilt of the world, or doing harm without conscience. You have evolved into either Christ or Satan! No? Then you have become an automation which can no longer tell right from wrong. Those of you who do things because of fate, of the Godhead, of suffering and perfection; the Tao, yin and yangand lingam. God's plan and Gaia's whisper, and the portents, dooms and wisdom within. Yes, yess, good and evil are two sides of the same coin. Oh, the vibrations! Yummy colors, ascended masters. You know nothing. You are led by flotsam. You are so very wrong but I will not argue with you. You are not ready. We all have our place on the wheel. I sneer at you but smile for you. I feel pity. The truth can not be explained. It can only be known, and not known but only felt and only then experienced. When you grow up you will then know I am right. There is no god but god and is no god. When you do understand the illuminated you will see the king's clothes. Not to worry, one day you will be ready for the truth, and the truth will bind you to the world. A mentally troubled Jewish person who has confused the effects of drug intoxication with enlightenment produces another highly symbolical great work. How unusual. Germans are not evil because Hitler was an Austrian. Anybody who supports his policies today is evil whether German or Austrian, or anything else. Americans are not evil because many in the past thought the only good Indian was a dead one. Many of the Indians of that day were evil. By no means were they all. Today Indians who want to scalp and kill all whites are evil, as are people who still today want all Indians exterminated. If people are going to maneuver to be able to send the servants of the state after their pet evil, even knowing they are going to antagonize many people who love liberty, (and are 'otherwise' good law-abiding people :) ) they should be honest enough to admit what they are doing: sending proxies in body armor out to shoot those who resist and incarcerate those who don't. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; unless you are a sadist, a masochist or any of a number of political or religious totalitarians. For shame! War is not something to undertake lightly. If you will not accept abuse you will have to fight. Wars should never be fought, however, if they can be avoided. They cause great suffering. They often fail to obtain the desired ends. WWII saved us from the Nazi and gave us to the Communist. Our President's dear Uncle Joe. Tyrants love wars. They think they can kill off all the troublemakers, and like God, put all their mistakes out of sight and mind. Beware of revolutionaries because most are either vainglorious idiots or plants. Do you know how many revolutions simply replace one tyranny with another, including those that replace one front man with another (tag team)? Most of them! You finally gained control of the world. Don't even want to be a tyrant, eh? What do you plan to do with it? Oops, you did not think it through. All fall down. If you use violence you empower the tyrant. He has an excuse for drastic measures. If you do not you better keep your mouth shut. Demonstrations worked really well against Stalin, yes? Peaceful resistance works sometimes when the tyrants lose support and internal cohesion. It never works against violent people who simply do not give a damn. Those who have a narrow view of their own self interest and no interest in the well being of others have no use for morality. If you are moral only in fear of drastic punishment you have a criminal mind. (But be aware that many who demand morality are con men who use any good sounding thing as an excuse for their actions.)

You are not responsible for the violence of tyrants. They choose to commit crimes when resisted. When there are huge mass demonstrations or riots throughout the North American region do not be surprised if weapons of mass destruction are used. Neutron bombs, for example, which kill by radiation without harming buildings. The population is too large anyway. The tyrants are the criminals, but this does not mean you should not try to limit the exposure of the general public to harm; and you are a member of the public and should stay out of such masses. When targeted do not move into the most dense concentration of grandmothers, babies and school children you can find, but do not let the bad behavior of others guilt you into the virtual suicide of you and yours. Resistance is futile? No, you are not a fucking human sacrifice. Ah, harsh. Do not think of something else, do something else and the thinking will follow. If the gods did exist sacrifice would be the moral equivalent of sucking up to the mob hoping either to shed the stress of making decisions for yourself (even if the powerful end up killing you), or to gain mercy through payoffs and respect. You pay prices. Some of them are destructive of human dignity, ethics and morality. Worst of all, some are paid to nothing. Beware of those who love you without even knowing you. One made to be the enemy, another designed to be the savior and torturer. Games, games, and games. Born for a purpose. Domination games. Good is not evil but the "greater good" is. The US government already meets the kind of standards used by the Founders to justify rebellion against England, but people have refrained for tactical reasons and for fear of rebellion causing more harm than good. This may change if the country at large is treated the way people in New Orleans were treated. There are those who would rather die on their feet than live on their knees. There is no freedom in death, also no enslavement. You can't be anything when you are nothing. Founding Fathers. Radical thinkers! Terroristic racists, sexist dead white men. Oh well. Many of them were deistic Masons anyhow. (No, children, I do not like masonic mysticism.) Yes Masonry is a religion. One that teaches perfection through works. This is a very anti-Protestant idea. Yes, everything influences things which influence other things, yes your feelings effect your health and the reverse as well. Mystical? Spiritual? Good God! They were a bunch of criminals so they agreed to the 5th Amendment. And the 4th & etc. Gotta go free on a technicality. This amendment is not there for the protection of criminals. If served with a valid warrant you may not resist when they come in to investigate your probable crimes. This does not mean you must confess, nor that you must search out and turn over evidence. You are not obliged to investigate yourself on their behalf. You may not resist if they take what they think is evidence. You need not give them anything. You need not do their jobs, for which the taxpayer pays, for them. If there is a locked room in a house they are, properly and legally, searching they can look for the key. They can ask if you care to open the door or provide the key. Failing this they can break in. Why is this? Without these provisions it is easy for the state to use you as an unpaid servant, and to push you around and lord it over you both in and outside of your home. If you must tell them what they want to know and lead them to evidence you have little protection from forced confessions and could be charged with withholding evidence which never existed. Also you and your lawyer have no reason to provide information which looks bad, makes it seem more likely you are guilty, when you know you are not. Suppose they ask for the key you have lost and convict you for refusing to hand it over? Criminals abuse this freedom! Yeah. So get in there and prove your cases through hard work and hard thinking. If the founders wanted to treat everybody like shit in an attempt to catch and imprison every single criminal without fail there would be no constitution. The founders would never have put up with being treated like criminals. Those terrorist scum would have taken a saber to your asses. S'okay. You fuckers deserve it. Racist antisemite nativist capitalist elitist white pseudo-commando mall-ninja scum. You can not frighten us with words anymore. We are not talking to you haters of the West. The time for politely listening to hate is over.

Fuck Einstein, fuck Freud, and fuck Marx. We know these sciences are mostly religions. The moral superiority of the rest of the world! The wisdom and religion of anyone not descended from the likes of the Founders. We are better in some ways than they were, and not as good in others. But our morality is not the morality of the minorities (actually majority) of the world. We know what their morality is. We know what their wisdom is. It is irrational, and hierarchical, and it is hate and sacrifice and contempt and duplicity and caste and smug superiority and racism. When they speak of their unrealistic brand of equality, and the like, they want us to put ourselves under despots in order to achieve it. Two-faced political correctness. Three-faced, Jacob? For those of you in the tax protest movement: None of your arguments matter at all. Cogent or not they will not be accepted in most courts. It is simple. The government is massive and it, and its partners, needs a lot of your money to sustain itself. They use the income tax to pay interest on the debt. Most judges are purely bullies and will allow no nonsense in their courts. Probably 90% of what goes on is not part of an enumerated power, but we have a democracy now and everything is legal if we tell you to do it. The real issue is that agencies do not follow basic principles of justice, such as innocent until proven guilty and no seizure of property without a jury trial. Hey, Gandhi was a flake, but he did say not to pay taxes to tyrants. Government suck-ups know that you are supposed to do what you are told, if you don't you are greedy and cowardly; you will end up in a prison camp or prison where you belong, and will be abused by your cellmate Bruno; which is really funny. The proper response to this is not to surrender, and to kill government suck-up when he takes part in the coming troubles. Constitutional government is what we want but why do you all tie yourself in knots over the underlying historical strata of law and regulation? The state is going to honor none of that red tape if it finds it inconvenient. The law, red tape, is there for the benefit of the state and exceptions are for show and for the use of joiners. Confusion as a cover for unconstitutional force and for fraud. Sovereign citizen, 14th amendment incorporation, old tax law, commercial and admiralty law, accepting the currency, social security number or driver's license, the law on taxing gain, and all the rest is bunk. The law is whatever the state will allow before the bench. It is absurd how people think doing something publicly or in return for currency makes unconstitutional government behavior legal. They are legally bound no matter what the excuse, but criminals are free to do as they please unless forced to stop. Alexander, cut the knot. But the banking system is private, and if you fall for their frauds you deserve what you get? Fraud is OK now? The Federal Reserve is, unlawfully, acting as an agent of government or vice versa and as an agent is bound by the limits of state authority. Why do they, government in general, sometimes punish basic corruption of a mostly financial nature but never go after major constitutional violations? Because they are all in violation and don't care for their chances if such punitive activities gain momentum. Judge Assenstern. A contact shot in the ass with your elk rifle risks blowing his head off. Well, you see, the problem is, comedy is not funny. I have a great sense of humor but, oddly, nobody ever laughs. They do wince when I open my mouth. It is not really wise to flaunt the power of the system you support since that can provoke reaction. My favorite are those who threaten people with mistreatment by a third party and think themselves untouchable. They are not going to be Bruno, after all. They will only set Bruno on people. They are so surprised when they end up spitting teeth. How violent! One thing the otherwise moronic Brown Shirts got right: When communists got in people's faces on the street, pushed and prodded or simply beat, in order to intimidate the Nazis came in with the ax handles. (Yes I know the Brown Shirts used the same intimidation tactics as the communists on other groups. They were just better at it.) (If I see one more holy fool or peace and love anarchist, I swear to God. Honestly. They dress up and get into people's faces with the intention of inducing rage. They interfere with freedom of movement or grab and touch, perhaps smack you in the face with flyers, flowers or a cloth, and then

shout you are missing the love, don't be a hater, or no violence, don't push me! These little bastards are scum and should immediately be dealt with as follows. Tell them to let you pass, or say hands off, and when they fail to obey after the first warning spray them down with OC (pepper spray). Bang, right now and no delay. Them go on about your affairs.) Now, don't you shoot anybody! When confronted by good people who merely want to have your constitutional rights stripped away y'all be polite. You think you can solve all your problems with a gun? You can't solve all your problems with immigration controls either, just some of them. If unable to acquire the tools and organization even for simple sabotage of military factories, blowing up of truck convoys and explosive cratering under the feet of attackers and under train tracks and armored vehicles (keep in mind that low velocity explosives will not blow up or hole a tank, though hundreds of pounds directly under a tread may overturn one) you still may be able to use modest tools in a more personal way. It is helpful if you can get armor to drive into enough loose wire to bind up the track mechanism. Identification tracking and sensors may be beyond your technical means to spoof or disable. Military and paramilitary units too well equipped to engage. Aircraft beyond your reach, even when revetted on the ground. Artillery units well protected. But an enforcer getting into his car to return to his job or unit? Well, a bat to the back of the head is good. Perhaps with your hood up to thwart hidden cameras in the area. Given time and space along with excavation equipment you can dig holes big enough to trap a tank, cover them with strong decking so only armored vehicles will fall through, and camouflage. Degrade, disrupt and destroy citizen tracking systems whenever you can. Opportunity will come. Too bad the utility guys dug in the wrong place. They knocked the highway camera network offline for hours. The authorities delete records and turn off cameras when they misbehave, a good example for you. (Uh. Don't break cameras after they have your image and leave the stored images intact, and the data may already be off site. But you knew that.) Icky. This guy must really need to shoot somebody. Call a therapist! And yet we do not shoot the guy with the white flag on sight because the flag means they have run out of ammunition. We are very cautious about surrender offers because they can be used as delays while the enemy maneuvers behind the scenes, but we like it when the enemy surrenders without further fighting. How humane of us. I know some overly enthusiastic types say the enemy has no right to surrender if they kill as many of us as possible and then expect mercy when they are trapped or disarmed. They also think snipers and ambushers should not be allowed to surrender. Childish attitude. People ought only to be allowed surrender when they have no reason whatever to do so? Germany should not have attacked France, even though the French government was not a notably good one. Germany should never have attacked the Soviets, though the Nazis were slightly better than the Communists. All that was achieved was more abuse for the people of the east, and defeat which resulted in the mass torture and murder of many Germans, especially of the women. Do we need mention the millions of German soldiers starved and abused in the camps after the war? Once this occurred the Germans should have fought Russia to the death. A man has a very difficult time living after he hides and watches the rape of his countrywomen. I enjoy hearing the French talk about American evils in Vietnam. I agree with them, but I do have to laugh at them. I remember Algeria. Do you see why these kind of situations must be avoided whenever possible? Conflict at any level is sad. It is depressing. Combat itself is horrible. It can also be exhilarating, and there are enemy who can be killed without any remorse; but fear, pain and death are not fun things. There is no sadness, usually, in repressing a murderer by stopping a murder attempt, but repressing people is often pitiful even when their behavior needs repressing. Forcing your will on others, although sometimes justified, is sickening. Where is the human dignity people talk about? Humiliation, agony, disability and death. Pain can be unbearable. Imagine the worst stomach pain you ever had and that it just went on hour after hour and day after day. You need some really good drugs.

Why so negative, Gramps? Why sully your mind? Puppies, dude! Pretty flowers. Do not follow events if the news is bad, and preparing for disasters is probably a sign of metal imbalance. Here we go again. Normal people feel sad about sad things, and happy about happy ones. They focus on upcoming disasters, even when the flowers are blooming. You normal people should not fall for the smell-theflowers and let God and the Feds save you propaganda. The same kinds of people also broadcast constant scare stories to justify their government fixation, and to feed the appetite for sensation. Normal people don't fall for this transparent crap. Even some crazy people, such as myself, can see through it. The lies often do not even have to be very good. Most people are warped. They do not want to know. You think you are brave and principled. If tyranny was coming, if you believed it, you would have to do something dangerous, or would have to admit yourself an unprincipled coward. Far better to refuse to listen. If doubt begins to grow take the lies at face value. Feel better now? When a war needs to be fought it should be fought whenever, and how, it is most likely to be won, and this is not usually after you have waited until things have sunk to disaster level. Be happy if you have killed the right people for the proper reasons. You have done a good thing, the pathos of the human condition notwithstanding. Don't go by what I say. Everybody has a legal, and for the most part moral, right to his own opinion, but that does not prove his opinions right, nor does it justify wrongful actions. I mean hell, what do I know? I think I may have had a shoving match or two with a sibling when a child. You don't see me out burning down a forest service station because they closed our county roads into the woods and banned cabin building on private land. Jeez, I never even went hiking. What do I care? When they ban chocolate then they will die. The soldier. We do not fucking pass on. We die. We do not simply engage the enemy, or serve the piece in order to implement the fire plan and service target matrices. We kill. We know who the enemy is. He is human, and a son, father, brother and husband. He is also the one we will kill unless he kills us first or chooses to yield. Soldiering is a state of mind. Serve your country when it is right to do so, soldier on as a civilian if not. Have some dignity and honor. Defend your rights, your family and your community. (As an aside, this is important, there are no crimes against property. Property rights are the individual rights of property owners and vandalism is a crime against a person. I hear you bubba, the Founders set up a government for the purpose of protecting their property privilege. And work is a privilege, as is travel, buying a glass of beer or owning a gun. They was selfish elitists, they was. Freedom is the right to be free of guns and poverty. Issue my rations please. {Note: Currency, water, oil and food are weapons. Bankers and oil policy controls nations, tyrants and counterterrorists control food supplies to force people to come to them and their enemies to starve}. Too right, oh social planners; it being also true that life is a privilege of/for constitution breakersyour papers, please! Give me liberty or give you death, hehheh.) We do use force to protect property, whenever the thief resists arrest. We do not kill to protect our pocket change. We kill because someone is willing to threaten our lives to get it. Nothing is gained by unnecessary fighting or suicidally risky combat, but you are a citizen and a human being. Grow a backbone. What kind of society will you end up with when the common people are required by law to move and leave their property behind whenever threatened by thugs. Reduce the violence indeed. I think you mean encourage the violent thugs indeed. Any economic emergency or disaster will be pushed by some. There are always some who profit financially by it. Government will attempt to grab more power during it and every economic crank and would-be revolutionary group, communists for example, will try to take advantage of it. Prepare for artificial shortages. I mean some of these will be faked, and others will be real but at root man made. Think Enron. Think out of gas in 1973. What you need is a silver skull and bones ring to wear on your non-shooting hand. Dude, you

are wannabe SS! No, they stole the emblem from German cavalry units, and there are German units using it today; your great granddaddy may have worn it. This is a symbol of, and self reminder of, your willingness. Rules of gunfighting: rule 1; bring a gun, rule 2; be willing to fight, rule 3; use cover and rule 4; fire the first accurate shots. Symbols mean nothing of themselves, the thing symbolized is the active force. If you are a marshmallow no display of symbols will change that. You will be like a phony punk with spiked hair and wristbands who smears his mascara with tears when actually attacked. The biker lifestyle is filth, but you have to admire the hardcore biker who will not submit until the bones in his arm actually break under the pressure. The French Foreign Legion was a death's head unit, but not so much that as a rather die than yield type. Many of the soldiers had very little reason to live. Some thought to do the nation some good before they died. Most of them just wanted to take their frustrations out on people on their way out. If you care to know, black uniforms are useless. They are far too dark for use as camouflage even at night. I do like black, I admit it, but black uniforms are only good for instilling an elitist attitude in the wearer. They do intimidate some people. Don't make you explosion resistant though. If you love death you are a nut. If you want war and justice be damned you are a criminal. If you love pain you are a freak. You may enjoy enduring pain if you are overcoming an obstacle by doing so, but no pain, no gain is an exaggeration and pain tells you you are alive no more than any other sensation. If you enjoy life and death power over people in general you are like many of our psychotic judges. If you are willing to risk death in order to kill the enemy you are more than OK with me. That symbol shows attitude! I like courage, and death should not scare you into effete shivers. Stare it in the eye sockets. Hurrah! (No, death is not a person, this is symbolic, people.) Hey, know that guy who, the longer it has been since his last confrontation, begins to dread the idea that he may no longer have the guts or tolerance for pain he once did and picks a fight to get it over with until the next time the fear builds up or he is dead? Don't be like him. What it is not about is becoming the neighborhood warlord. Giving haughty orders to the riffraff and having really shiny boots is stupid. Keep your gear functional. Be mission oriented. Do the job. Misdirected discipline is counterproductive, and don't start thinking yourself more important than anyone else because you defend others. If they are not important then how can you be important because you defend them? "That girl knows about our operation. She is not an enemy spy but she knows too much. She will talk and cause a lot of damage before we have found new safe houses and changed plans and identities. She will have to be taken care of." Wow, you punks are so much more important than anyone else. I thought you were opposed to eugenics style and collectivist thinking. Elitists. Socialist/utilitarian filth. (Ever notice how "even" collectivist "equalizers" consider themselves vastly superior to those outside of their perfect little plan, and how individualistic freedom fighters are so very quick to throw the rights of others out the window?) "She was a sacrifice to freedom, and to our people's future." Pius fraud. Slaves, those weeded out by the harshest possible trials and subjected to extreme punishments and arbitrary hardships (wasted humans), have not fought historically as well as free men. They have been more likely to go to war on orders from on high, until, at least, their organizations are shaken enough to allow them opportunity to run away from their masters. That is, if you manage to shake said organizations, and desperate men often fight very hard. Free men benefit more from innovation and adaptation than do slaves, their leaders may be no better from a professional point of view. The real clincher is that free men lacking cause and cohesion fight less well than slaves who have punishment, rewards and the feared and revered masters at their backs. Liberty is a rare thing in the world's history. Defend each other. Also defend those less able to defend themselves. Do not think you will be rewarded for defending them either, my boy. No good deed goes unpunished is an exaggeration and thus technically false. It is more nearly correct than no good deed goes unrewarded, and no evil

deed goes unpunished is infantile. Those Christians among you should read Job, even if you will persist in believing in the glorious afterlife. (Just how patient was Job, a jolly good complainer that boy.) Your life is not worth more than the lives of others. This does not mean you have no right to defend yourself, your rights, and people you care about: your life is also no less valuable than theirs. When you come across someone who needs help you should help them if you can. It is good to have the means so that you will be able to help, but you are not the property of those other people. Do you run around looking for people needing heart transplants of your tissue type in order to offer to shoot yourself in the head? Take my heart, please! Bah! If you are the tactical leader for a group of 10 men, please, do not call yourself Sergeant Major of the Militia. If your group organizer calls himself Colonel you should suggest that he may as well call himself Grand Field Marshal of the Armies of the Militia! Know when you get a raise? It is when you have more men. Roughly 100 men or lieutenant to a battalion commander and you get to play captain, or major. Pick your battles. The world is full of people who need killing. You are not the one who will kill them all. You feel like dying, there are any number of groups and neighborhoods just full of people who would be tickled to scrag you. Just hang out in those places too many times and you will soon be playing a harp, or something. Fighting is like charity. Give away everything you have, spend your capital, and you will never be able to help anybody again. Old man Paul said it, work so your family will lack nothing. In the movies the man who saves a woman from a fate worse than death always gets the girl himself, like he won a prize. Forget that drivel. When everybody gets slaughtered in the pictures a breeding pair remains alive. Forget that too. Not give everything you have? But if you have a gift you must use it, it is from God and not truly yours. Humbug, fellow mortals. You should help others when it is right to do so. Why? Because it is the right thing to do. Society is, and you are, the better for it. Mandatory voluntarism? That is a recipe for authoritarian utopia, a program for everything and yet more and more charity is needed. If you are gifted it is indirectly, it seems, only Adam and Eve are direct creations according to most. If your strengths are really gifts, and weaknesses curses, of God, or a god, or of the gods: what is a gift? It is you and yours and none any longer of the giver's. Perhaps gods are Indian giver's? So you take care. This is not to say that you won't lose in the end. But it is embarrassing if you die like a Gomer; take some bastards with you. Of course dying of disease, or old age, before you are able to kill any of those worthies is just not right! OK, I tell you a thing. The Militia is a total joke. The few serious militiamen will be left hanging in the wind by their less stalwart brothers. You get together and talk tough, and half of the tough talkers are spies. You do a little half-ass training. Most of you are candyass blowhards. Most of you keep firearms not because the constitution recognizes the right, but because it is not yet illegal to do so. There is no serious training; in most states you risk arrest for paramilitary training if more than two of you go shooting together outside of licensed ranges. When firearms are banned you will give them up. They will go to the state or forever into a hole in the ground. No stable units, no intent or determination, no supply network, no quality training, no explosives skills. If you ever got into combat half of you would run away. Then the other half would end up in a head-on using only rifles and would get shot to pieces both by the enemy and each other. That is not likely to happen. What will happen is you, having nowhere to run, will hide your guns and never use them at allstep by step you will back down until you are nothing, or you will screw around until a SWAT unit comes calling and will surrender your weapons and go into the system with no legal defense to speak of. You don't even openly carry in places where it is legal because the governments do not follow their own laws and the police will stop you at gunpoint every 20 minutes, and their trigger fingers are kinda happy. Know why people walk into the killing fields without ever having fought back? Every step of the way they think

fighting back might not be needed, might make things worse, and when the ax falls they are thinking they may have waited too long. You are going to to slog through life doing your job and paying your taxes. You will take what is allowed you or do without. You will try to stay out of sight and mind, or will try to suck up to the biggest bad in order to (you hope) inflict rather than endure harm. This unless anger, recklessness or bad luck make you prey; then you may find yourself personally attacked: you will react only when they come to get you, instead of your neighbors, and you will scream for help and either cower or try to fight baseball bat versus arms and armor, alone. Don't brag it. Be it. But, people are not really all that. Are they? They do not want to be it. They want to want to be it. Put some of it out there the way your drinking buddy wants to spout off and make fists in the hopes that you will hold him back from any actual fighting. Add to this the fact that half the people who are it are a really stupid or insane it and we have an interesting world. Combat is a good drug. Putting it out there may bring the fight to you. Bad trip or good, we are boarding now. You are probably going to fly. Since violence must be justified it should not be used unless you have nothing left to lose. The risk to self and others is great. It is fantastic what people will put up with under this concept. Most can be enslaved and actually at labor under the eye of the whip man and overseer and still think he has something to live for. His family broken up and some members killed, and he still would rather yield himself up to "fate" and authority than fight. Some break and fight, most wait until they have no chance at all even if they should make an attempt at a later date. Why? Rationalizations aside, the biggest factor is not the specifics of the situation, it is what you are. You are a fighter or you are not. You will die like a dog for no good reason. That commie Hemingway. Nobody will come to help you. What about you, old man? I don't see you out there fighting! Of course you don't. I am just a worthless old coot. I don't carry openly because the justice system is broken and the whole endeavor will only lead to a losing firefight in most jurisdictions. I am not out there fighting because I am not one to go out alone and stick my head into the nearest cannon barrel. The time for a fight is not yet. Even wearing a politically incorrect T-shirt is just asking for trouble. Besides, they may never come for me so I intend to die quietly in hospital, except for a few whimpers, inside a police state; and violence is bad. I also am lazy, smelly and weak, and I turn to a quivering lump when threatened. Quail hunters who can walk together, cover their sectors, and hit moving targets without shooting their buddies and dogs have better squad level training than you do. And do not think you can't learn to hit running men with a rifle. If hunters can hit small fast birds with the shotgun, you can hit slow fat people with your .30-06. Realistic training, tough training, is needed. Not careless training. Every crippling or fatal injury is pure loss and waste. Any such loss is to be avoided, and every careless act practically unforgivable. Careless is not the same as reckless, or bold. None of these is the same as intentional harm, nor of careful and yet failed. Even in combat we do our utmost to avoid losses due to our own actions, and to limit losses due to enemy action as much as we can. You are fundamentally alone, and it is very difficult to operate alone. It is easiest to work in large groups as people are herd and pack animals. That is why police should operate in pairs. The right partners can be relaxed and sensible when one of them alone would be uncertain or even abusive. This does not mean you won't engage in large operations in the wrong environment and get thrashed. It is fairly easy to work in small groups (fire teams, squads) if the unit is tight, and even in pairs (deuce, Tway (heh!) battle team, buddy team). But; it takes balls to face mortally dangerous situations alone, and dying alone is very...lonely. Most households are meat. The remainder usually have only one fighter. Study sabotage. Study fieldcraft, camouflage, patrolling, and sniping, raids and ambushes. Study logistics and evasion and escape. Practice these things and you will see how difficult battlefield command and communications can be. Study emergency medicine. Learn to walk silently, glide, the

loose limbed ground covering walk, lope, and minimum effort run. Learn how to sprint for your life, and the sniper's, low and high crawls. Can you be silent on twigs and dry leaves? Study explosive demolitions and traps. Know the methods of breaking contact and escape. You need caches, covered routes, places to dump your military gear and clean up, and hides. When you shoot an enemy at long range or with barriers between you, you must break contact quickly and use the terrain to the maximum in order to gain distance and revert to your no-evidence-present civilian self. This is one of those situations where, if the situation allows it, it is much better if you have comrades in support. If they are posted in concealed positions which allow them to fire on the enemy from another direction if you are pursued, and if others are offset to fire on the enemy as you pass by on one of your escape routes things will be much better for you. You may have to circle around and set up quick ambushes. Do no forget to seed your back-trail with traps. Do not do this on your way through a crowded mall or people's yards! Throw grenades or leave explosives on a timer in some cases, but it is not nice to blow up your neighbors. The most important thing is speed and misdirection, and concealment, however; because delay will bring in helicopters and drones, and will result in artillery fires, roadblocks and the like. Setting dangerous traps is illegal in peacetime. Reckless or murderous handling or use of explosives is illegal. On the more stealthy operations the security acts more as lookouts and preparers of escape routes than as a source of fires. There is a time in every revolution when it is better to operate alone. People with similar ideas but no direct linkage can damage the state, upping the ante, without organization. Large scale organization means large scale disclosure. If, however, you are the only one in action then your fine revolution goes nowhere. People of like mind must be in action all over the region. The right kind of event may be an obvious signal for this kind of action. Don't depend on it. Anyway, your first mission will probably be your last. Threats of violence are illegal? Not at all, my friend. Illegal threats are illegal. Immoral threats are immoral. A threat, or warning, of legal and moral violence is neither. Also, law in violation of federal or state constitution is void. Law grossly immoral is void. The constitution does not say the militia, you, cannot be called out by state or federal officials. It may not say you cannot be severely punished if you fail to report for duty, but not being unconstitutional does not make this form of serfdom a good thing. Hell, involuntary servitude with regard to jury duty, and contempt of court findings (having no trial before conviction and incarceration) are not good things. Never let a judge or prosecutor intimidate you; yield maybe, panic no. What would you do if a government called up the militia in order to defuse it, and keep it from resisting tyranny? It would then have a legal excuse for punishing any militiamen who failed to muster. We are so crazy. The young ones will fight wars not because they are crazy, but because they do not know what they are getting into. We are the crazy ones. Older men who understand what war is but will do it anyway. Y'all know what happens when guys like us decide to keep their heads down? Some stupid fucker pushes and we stand up like the hardasses we are. We are unable to yield even if we want to. We are enraged by punks who push their weight around. Bang. However far they want to ratchet it up. Do not harass my wife, get off my land, and don't push me. The whole world is in a state is it not? We are all going to die. Rather likely, yah? Let's go out with a bang. We are the crazy ones. Dinosaurs. Everything is just routine, ma'am. Beware of unlawful coercion. Threats of harassment or excessive future charges for the purpose of tripping you up and getting into your house, for example. Beware of plea bargains. They are how you threaten people with maximum punishment in order to easily get convictions. Guilt or innocence is of little importance. Better yet, get a confession. You can convict with no need to actually go out and work. You know, without any need for verification. Too bad about any fools or wimps you trap. Nobody is truly innocent anyhow. Eh? The police know who the bad guys are. Who really even needs courts? Too bad one truly routine thing is threats and lies. When they come for you, and if you will not fight, do this. Depending on who they are they will shoot or blow the place up, or will break in and put you in cuffs; unless you look at them wrong and

they kill you. In those cases try to sue them if you survive. If police, feds, social workers, or the like, come to the door with paperwork and actually let you read it let them in to do what, and only what, a valid warrant or court order allows. No paperwork, or regulatory and administrative bullshit paperwork and you just say no. They usually come in anyway. Observe their behavior and try both to sue and to get them charged after, and if, they let you see a decent (humph) lawyer. If you want to crank things up a level, you can do this: do they have probable cause to believe someone is in danger or that a crime is being committed at that very moment? No? Do they show you a court document signed by the judge of a court with jurisdiction and following the rule of law as our founders would have recognized it? No? Slam and bar the door, call for legal help (the cellular might still work), and settle in for a long and painful legal battle. Never sign anything a government employee hands you. They will consider you to have signed your rights away. If they threaten and you give in try to write that you signed under protest or coercion. All rights reserved indeed, then what did you sign in agreement of? Never allow them into your home voluntarily. Once inside they will not leave until they damned well feel like it. Never answer questions, but do move as they direct you if you have no grounds for resistance or no ability to resist. Do not help them humiliate or injure you. Do not help them search your premises. They will read you your rights after they have asked questions and when your detention becomes an arrest. They will insist you tell them you understand your rights as they have read them. Do not answer. In the days of Shakespeare it was required that you plead guilty or not guilty in court on pain on having bricks placed on a board on your chest until you either cooperated or died. At least now they just enter a plea on your behalf. Do not blink if they accuse you of having raped the Madonna. Their insanity is limited only by their imaginations. They will threaten you because they want you to plead guilty to a lesser charge, to a crime you did not commit, to avoid even more bizarre and serious ones you never committed. But there are criminals out there. Absolutely. However, the government does not care that the charge matches the actual crime. Even criminals, who should admit guilt, need lawyers to see that the law is followed and that the punishment is appropriate. Keep your mouth shut. They will lie to you. They are taught to do so at the academy. The courts hold that lying to you, since you are a suspect now, is a good way to get you to comply and is no crime. Please realize too that when an officer wants to make a trade with you he is unlikely to have the authority to fulfill his side even if he wants to, the exception being honest cops (?) offering something they can do without reporting it and without oversight. The psychology of the thing is for you to be responsible for your behavior and theirs, and to them. They imply or flatly say, "You got yourself into this, be a man, take it like a man. You are not acting like a man. Take responsibility, be upright." How insulting! Are you going to let yourself be provoked? Will you try for their approval and answer questions? Will you get angry and lash out in a futile way, and get charged with assault in addition to everything else? Your attacks need to be effective ones, or last-ditch defenses (the indignity!), not emotional cries for approval. Do you think you will prove to them what a manly fellow you are? Cracking and giving them what they want, or flailing about and swearing will earn their respect? You are weak, you handle stress badly, vomit on the floor. That is just the way of it. There is no need for you to let it humiliate you, and do not fall for the so-called good cop/bad cop routine. They want you shaken enough to try to reach out to good cop for reassurancein return for concessions. Yes, you should behave well, you are a man and ought to be a good one; but will you be the manipulated man? It is a mistake to allow your voice to raise in tone, sometimes in volume but not in tone, ever. Whining is suspected and will get you nowhere, but never try to fake a deep manly voice. Posture good, always alert, smooth and balanced. What a fine boy you are. It is well if you do not twitch when pressured, look at a guy when telling the truth, up to the left when lying, look blank when thinking and stare past him before attacking. It is best, in short, if nothing moves of your face, your eyes are always steady, and even your breathing and blinking do not change no matter what is

happening. Think before speaking, if you must speak at all. Speak in level tones. The down side is little old ladies think you must be on drugs if this becomes a habit. Remember who you are. The constitution is the supreme law over the federals, though they mostly abuse it. No one should be above the law. What is the law for? People need to be restrained if they are abusive of others. People need to avoid private justice whenever possible, because mistakes are made; because vendetta tends to lead to excess and because criminals abuse it if there is no oversight. Duels are rightfully illegal because a good fighter can use them to legally murder people. Nobody can use the law to do these things, of course. If the justice system becomes corrupt all bets are off. Do not obey blatantly unconstitutional laws and refuse to obey when ordered to do be an immoral bastard. The law of the jungle does not mean become an animal, it means deal with animals as you would deal with the enemy in a guerrilla war. (Survival of the fittest is not really correct. Survival of the fit enough in that time and place is more so.) In war you hold trials only when you have evidence of war crimes. Otherwise, you can take prisoners and hold them until the war is over, or you can refuse to take prisoners and leave the captured, both the fit and the disabled, alive, behind when you move out. How is this actually done? If they are taking losses they will murder the next few prisoners they take, and likely burn your house down as well. Not the kind of thing you would ever do. Hunger, loss and suffering would never make you loot or destroy a neighborhood. Isn't that so? When they do it it is evil. When we do it understand a moment of weakness. Even if there are times we do it more than they. Hah. Take all enemy property; weapons, and gear, supplies. Never take private property other than privately owned military type gear of an opponent. Expect absolutely no mercy from an enemy. You may get it but are a very great fool to expect it. If you find yourself, your group, in charge and start handling regular (civilian, and hype aside, you police are civilians too) justice operations; remember this: there is always government because any group on top is de facto the government. Government has moral obligations, however it may act in practice. When you have nifty show trials with a three officer board and jurors, and every single trial results in a quick conviction and summary physical punishment since you have limited jail space, it would be well if you took a mental step back and wondered how y'all got to be so perfect. Almost everyone feels fear when threatened. Courage is the ability to do what you think you should even when afraid. If you know a problem is coming up apprehension will be the result. Breath deeply and concentrate on your preparations. Do not hyperventilate! When you are in action concentration on the task at hand will keep fear at bay, a cold rage or defiant determination can be helpful in some circumstances. Get icy. Hey Snake, how are you doing? That sort of situation really messes with the fine motor control you know. You hurry to the point of fumbling, you think you are moving too slowly, and may be, and you feel as if you are wearing mittens. Moving in the open when an enemy is near or supersonic bullets are cracking by is interesting. You will not hear them until they pass. Same with tank and cannon fire, and some missiles. Howitzers, mortars, grenades and most rockets and bombs are subsonic. Huh! Here we go. That lovely flash of heat from head to toe, and remaining in the chest. What a rush, eh? You are very alert indeed, and normal environs may look strange, everything sharp and perhaps tinged in a slightly off tint. Energizing, is it not? Projectiles and fragments may hiss, flutter or buzz, with a sonic boom if supersonic. Whipcrack. Sometimes the ones that bounce do whine or hum. Hits on metal ping or clang. Dirt and twigs spout into the air, and solid hits on people produce a puff of dust and a whapping sound. You may feel insulated, as if watching a movie. Your skin feels as though it is waiting for something to smack into it. Small arms at a distance can sound like a crisp crackling. When things begin to happen everything may seem in slow motion. Tracers seem to be floating until they pass you like a flash. This

is perception more than any real speed on your part. Subjective time is just that. It is not time, it is your experience of it. You do not move faster, or your enemy slower. Your perception of these things changes. Sometimes things blur with motion, or escape your conscious attention and you are aware of only what is right in front of you. Vision may then dim or blur. You may stop hearing things that do not directly involve your interest, though explosions are very loud and you will feel the shock in the air and ground. RPG launches are a bang followed be a rather sissified hissing, and then a boom. Flashes from explosions may not be noticeable in daylight, there is a shock wave and lots of dust and debris, generally clods are thrown up in a spout. Airbursts produce a puff of smoke and a bang and fragments will visibly impact the ground forward of the burst due to the shell's original velocity. In point of fact high explosives propel the fragments ahead of the blast. Good hits on soft skinned vehicles may produce visible debris and produce black smoke. An obvious kill on tanks is, at minimum, when they are clearly venting smoke and flames. Obviously a quick and direct hit with a powerful AT weapon is best. If nothing like this is possible attack through the hull bottom, top, rear or sides into fuel, ammunition, engine, electronics and or weapons. When even this cannot be done attack sensors, vision blocks, antenna mounts, hatches and external weapons, track-laying system, intakes and vents and the turret ring. Better yet, avoid MBTs. Sometimes people fake screams to make you think you got them, but badly wounded men sometimes make such strange sounds you would swear they are faking. If you do not like some aspects of combat, never have a bit of the berserker in you, you may have problems. On the other hand, how will you react if it is all hooah! we are invincible and we ain't afraid of death? You are enjoying the fight and then your best buddy gets splattered all over you. Hooah means heard, understood, accepted? How disappointing! If you do have a problem during combat it will probably take the form of mental inertia, blanking out and freezing up; or you fiddle with your sights rather than facing the situation and taking action. The primary cause of this is failure to train for the realities of combat. Other causes include failure to think your priorities and values through ahead of time, and just plain terror. Do not tolerate this. You can become shocky and be aware only of your own internal struggle as you fight unconsciousness and the illness due to the chemical maelstrom in your body, hormones and nerve activity and such. Break the feeling of being stuck in quicksand by a jolting effort to hit the deck and then follow your training and get into the tempo of fire and movement. You can just do what your squadmates are doing until you get your head on straight. At the tactical level if in doubt, attack is not bad advice; but don't be a robot. Operationally, move to the sound of the guns is generally sound policy in the absence of solid information. Cloud tactics, eh? After a stop in a concealed position move back and then continue forward on a slightly different route. When hell breaks loose it is not a good thing when everybody, not knowing what to do, does nothing. If you turn into a rabble the enemy will not be put under an effective fire and will have a field day. What is worse? People panic and fire off all their ammo in all directions and at anything that moves. You kill your own that way. We have contempt for hunters who get the fever and shoot reflexively at the first hint of movement. The guys who can't aim for trembling, who keep yanking the trigger with the safety on, or jacks all the cartridges out of his rifle but forgets to shoot. It is very easy to shoot your own when somebody looms up or you hear them getting very, very close to you. It is easy to empty your magazine into a friendly position. Keep your head, and your finger off the trigger. You may be off balance mentally, emotionally and even bodily. This makes it difficult for you to function effectually. Home may not be where you are, and there is no guarantee of safety in confidence, but you need to make space you occupy your own. Remember that you want to be there, have every right to be there, and are there for a reason. Know that whatever happens you will deal with it as you realize it will come or that it has arrived. You can't defeat the enemy from the safe room in your home. Know why you are where you are, and by your own choice. You may be able to, or to learn

to, concentrate on your environs, your actions and what your future actions should be. If not you need to be able to focus on what is happening and what you are doing well enough to respond appropriately to events. If you are vibrating you need to ratchet it down. If you are not tracking you need to WAKE UP. Either way you must carry on. Focus on what really matters. Lights, sounds and projectiles in the air are not important. The facts of human hatred and threats are not important. Fear is not important. What matters is effective fire fire that is hitting your people or is a serious threat. Do anything you can to minimize the weapon effects of the enemy while maximizing your own. Take cover, out shoot the enemy or move weapons to positions which expose the enemy to your fire. Whatever it takes, use every advantage. The direct way is often the best and fastest way, but by no means always. Joe Bob wants to turn off the light. Billy Bob will defend the switch with his life. Joe Bob could use stealth, an unexpected direction of approach, or a full-on assault. It would be better if he went outside, mined the area around the utility distribution box; threw the main power switch, and took an overwatching position with his rifle. It is not well done being where the enemy expects you to be, or are you out there as the hanging bait? The best defense is something to give you time to go to a good offense, the best offense is a surprise. If you know what the enemy will be attacking do not occupy that enemy objective. Defend it from the sides and rear, or forward of it. You can't really defend anything. You want to give the enemy a bloody nose and hoof it. If you have not even the merest idea how long you have just set off some explosives and run. Do not push your luck in any case. Some situations can hit you like a jolt of electricity, or suddenly strike you as too horrible to take. You may urinate in your trousers. You may vomit. There is such a thing as stress diarrhea. Do not worry about it. You have more important things to do. After the action is over you will be exhausted and your fingers will probably tremble. Don't mean nothin'. Do not allow that exhaustion to make you a grand target for another oncoming threat. Do keep in mind that too much stress over too long a time will eventually cause illness and collapse in anyone. It is not just dread, dry mouth and hollow fluttering stomach that you ignore and push through. It is hyperactive hormonal and nervous activity, chronic high blood pressure and exhaustion. Not all of this is under your conscious control and most people have health problems or have collapsed after a year of this kind of activity. If you can kill without remorse you are a very balanced person or a psychopath. If you never feel for others you are the latter. Probably you will have nightmares and will spend a lot of time reliving events in the fear that you could have controlled things better and done differently. This is the price you have to pay. Talk to your comrades. If you did do wrong turn yourself in. Otherwise you must, again, carry on. Myself, I am terrified of humiliation, failure and the loss of people I value. That is why fucking wimps have got to fight. They are afraid not to! If you are a really macho and manly bugger with a big dick and a bald head (all that testosterone (?)), unlike my humble self, congratulations. Please try not to use that as an excuse for getting yourself into bad tactical situations, and don't think it justifies abusive behavior or unnecessary fights. That OK with you? Chill out. I am alive, but do have no life; am a gun owner, so I do in fact have no penis! This raises a question. How large is the government lover's penis? The government has nukes. A microscope may be needed. I mean, we all know how cowardly guerrillas are. They won't stand up and fight like men. The same with sneaky snipers and raiders. What happens when you take your thirty-thirty in one hand and your convictions in the other, and you step out into the street and open fire on the mechanized infantry company plus tanks, artillery and attack helicopters? You die like a man! Well, anyone who will die fighting is worthy of at least some respect. Even the stupid ones.

On the other hand, suppose you are the subject of a raid. (How many hands do I have?) You better get any women and children into cover or on an escape route. This is not because they are intrinsically more important than men. It is because they need more help to survive violence. If the enemy is unusually humane, and all else fails, you release them to the tender mercies although you may refuse to surrender yourself, being a crazy fighter type. This also applies to the badly wounded if you lack medical support. Here is how you are a coward, however: You leave children undefended because you are afraid. You abandon your wife because things have gotten scary. If you hold up a child and shout, you can't fight me, I'm holding a baby! I will shoot you myself. Look. If you take hostages you are scum. If you intentionally use noncombatants as shields, or shoot them, you are scum. Yes, that includes you IDF. When you can attack the enemy without endangering civilians you do so. When you can't, especially when the enemy is pressing an attack using others as a shield, you use less lethal weapons to break up the shield or you fire on the enemy even though noncombatants will also be harmed. Ain't war grand? Damn, if I had two brain cells to rub together, some endurance, and was even more crazy than I am I would organize the biggest baddest traditional culture defending paramilitary organization the world has ever seen! I must be KKK. Those idiots? You do see them everywhere. I have noticed that when the small bands of immigration rights types hit the streets they are immediately outnumbered by masked bigots who shout obscenities and wave this is our continent placards. Eh? If you have no food, water and water filters, medical supplies, ammunition, or explosives you were not really prepared. If you do not have concealed escape routes, anyplace to go, an active alternate identity, then you were not prepared. A fake ID is not good enough. It has to match an identity on the computers, a first target should be the server farms and network handling citizen identification, records and tracking. Hard kill or soft kill? A pleasant mix of the two I think. If your survival manuals are on your computer and not in your head, or on paper, how will you use them when the power is cut? Good training teaches minimum necessary exposure, maximum firepower at the correct time and place, and plans for breaking contact. Massing fires means both by volume and weapon types; firepower also means sufficiently accurate to be effective, but does not mean you mass troops. First contact by a few, the majority close in enough to mass weapons effects, the attack or breach by a small unit on an enemy flank or isolated and neutralized position. Withdrawal with heavy fire and IR smoke, bounding overwatch and obstacles, traps, blocking and ambush units and snipers. When they reach your original fighting positions blow said positions up. It teaches movement relative to others, sector coverage and not walking into your buddy's fire. It also teaches many, many failure situations and drills. Things always go wrong. A casualty can put a complete stop to the whole squad's operations. Firepower is important, and you need numbers as well as high rate of fire weapons, but placement and application of weapons is critical and it is just as possible to have too many people in a space as it is to have too few. People get in each other's way and shoot each other by mistake, as well as making a good target for enemy area fire weapons. If you outnumber the enemy you are more likely to win in some situations, sometimes with smaller losses to yourself. Does this mean that if you could win with 10 men, 100 would be better? Not always. Imagine pushing so many men into a building that they end up packed together like the crowd at a rock concert. Every defender's shot would hit a target and probably pass though several. You must "outnumber" the primary target at that time and place, while still maintaining a watch on or suppression of nearby enemy. This can consist of actual numbers of soldiers, 3 or more to 1 is preferred, or can be superior targeting capability and firepower. You must be fast if the total number of enemy is great. You must isolate and kill the target before others react and intervene. You have to face risk in order to prevail. If the necessary exposure needed to do the job is obviously unsustainable you need to rethink the job. Make your plans and stick to them, and you will have doubts. If it becomes obvious that the situation is clearly different than expected, or has completely changed, make new plans at once. Otherwise, persevere.

Look, combat leadership is not rocket science, but a leader needs not only technical training but also a character that deserves respect and a feel for the battlefield. He must study navigation, maps and terrain in order to maneuver, but that is not enough. He must study tactics and weapons but that is not enough. He knows to attack when an enemy is sufficiently exposed. He knows to attack when the enemy is suppressed, but are they suppressed? The terrain looks completely different on the ground rather than on the map. Since he can't sit down and use a computer to calculate relative position, time and space factors, weapons effects, and weather and terrain effects, then he has to develop a feel for things without killing all his people off first. How fast will the enemy move? Can we get there in time under these conditions? How are the troops holding up? How dangerous is that enemy position? Are we too exposed, what can we get away with? Can he tell when the enemy is giving way? When the enemy is faking? Where the ambush is likely to be located? Can he identify and assess the effectiveness of enemy weapons by sound and a glance? When he can safely roar by enemy RPG positions 300 meters away, and when he can't? No aptitude? You will never be good at this: switch jobs with a rifleman or a tactical planner. During medical emergencies and during combat operations there are times to take things slow and careful and times to move fast. Are you one of those folks who respond to the need for action, including the need to carry out important orders quickly, by getting up and scratching your ass before deciding what to do next? Whoa, what is the problem? Are you in in the correct job? A unit leader must be worthy of some respect, and the men must consider him competent and well-meaning. Things will go wrong, they always do. Talk your plan and the next higher commander's intent over with your men. Take their comments seriously. You might learn something. If things look suicidal throw the whole thing out with the trash, and do something else. When things go wrong your comrades will do their best if they were involved in the planning. This does not mean all will be happy, after all they did not get to decide everything themselves. This is where any respect they have for you is important. If you are an arrogant ass who delivers orders from on high and will not listen to others watch your back if things go disastrously wrong. You will be blamed and somebody may frag you. You have to be brave enough to do the things you tell others to do and sensible enough to avoid avoidable risk, and to know when a mission should be refused. Don't wait until you are in the thick of it and other people's lives depend on your mission, speak up! Note also that if you are a reluctant fighter you should remove yourself from the unit, and if you don't the unit leader will. Too much combat refusal or sluggishness means the leaders are unrealistic, or that the troops are too timid. Good sense yes, timidness no. This must be balanced with an internal toughness that allows leaders to disallow criminal behavior and to fight anything truly needing a forceful putdown. And you think you want to be not only a fighter, but also a leader! A narrow path and a short one. A poor leader is worse than having no officially qualified and assigned leader at all. Every unit that has not disintegrated has one or more de facto leaders. (A destroyed small unit may have all personnel dead, or killed or wounded, but destroyed means unable to perform its function until rebuilt. There will be many killed, 3-7 times more wounded, and remaining soldiers too few to carry out the unit's role; or disorganized, physically scattered or run away, or mentally disabled.) Hey, chaos surfer! You must ride the wave in order to create or preserve a positive and local kind of order for yourself. Protect and maintain contact with the board, keep your balance and choose your path wisely and quickly or learn how to breath the sea. Technical officers can be bright people with a good education. Combat leaders should come up through the ranks, should be given good educations and technical training, and should learn the job at each combat unit level by being assigned to the current commander as a command trainee. There is nothing wrong with a good platoon leader staying on the job for years. There is something very wrong with putting someone in charge of something he cannot handle, and then leaving him there because you do not want to promote him even further. Put him where he can do a good job. It does not matter if it is

up, down, or sideways in terms of unit size or type. It is most often a mistake to take volunteers less than 21 years old into combat units. The army likes them young since youngsters are more fearless and competitive and less fixed in their own beliefs. Government types think it well that youngsters killed are without children and wives they may have to support, and no real loss to anyone save mommy. There is no wasted expense for college either. The truth is the loss of the genetic potential of these valiant young men is wasteful. And anybody, young or older, discovered to be a trouble maker ought simply to be expelled. We should fight fairly. A fair fight! Some dumbass decides to batter your body just a bit. He feels like it. He thinks he can take you. He does not like you. It is a fair fight, one on one and no biting. We all know the rules. There are no weapons allowed. No kicking like a girl. No hitting below the belt. No gouging or spitting. You can't hit a girl, the handicapped, the elderly or the small. Specs to be removed before contact. When the loser is too dizzy to walk straight or refuses to rise after his latest trip to the floor the fight is over. The winner is cool, but is resented by some and may be attacked by the same. The loser may be respected, but if he gives up too easily he may be targeted again and again. He may want a rematch if he has been humiliated. Never be a quitter. If you fall off that horse get right back on. It does depend on the current condition of yourself, your horse, and your gear but the longer you wait the harder it will be, and the more fear you will feel. You might want to know if you enjoy or actually need to ride. I mean if you force yourself to do everything you dislike in order to avoid being a quitter you will have time only for the things you dislike when you are old. It is just like Proverbs! The wisdom. Where else can you learn that honey is tasty and refreshing but in excess will make you sick? Rarely, but it does happen, you will need to defend yourself from the you can't hit group above listed. Even more rarely hitting will be required. Reasonable force seldom requires your best right cross to the jaw of a 10 year old girl. There is no such thing as a fair fight. Someone will win because, under the circumstances, he has the means to win. A truly fair fight would end in a draw, always. Fights are justified or not. Legal or not legal under a reasonable law. Fights are voluntary or forced upon you. They are not fair. Daddy, it ain't fair! Life ain't fair, son. The old excuse for doing nothing. Not that every problem can be rectified, but there is a reason for battery being a crime. Walk away if you will and may. Cowards are attractors of abuse and attacks. Take him on if you think you have the advantage. Let him win if you do not want all those other yahoos to pound you into the floor. They may be a bit out of control. They may not like your methods. What is a little pain? Hell, fist fights don't even hurt that much, it is mostly jolting impacts and numbness. Those shots to the stomach and testicles do hurt, don't they? Whatever. Tomorrow, you will feel some pain. You go it alone because you want your friends unharmed? Shame. Your friends would give up one of their own? Shame. You insult your brothers. Oh, your friends know your actions are stupid or criminal and good on them. No? Oh. There is no brotherhood, I forgot. If you won't fight one on one the punk(s) will catch you alone later, since nobody has done anything to convert or deter him. Your fraternity ought to have caught him alone and terrorized him a few times. Evil! Anyhow, he might have a gang too. The beginnings of clan warfare. I love this shit! I have more honor scars than you! Make a citizen's arrest if you can carry it off, or have the police handle it: do not expect any real assistance, respect or sympathy from them, however. They will arrest the man with the fewest injuries, or all/both men. They will not arrest any women unless they go off on them (the police). Have the money? Now sue the thug out of every penny he has. Notice that the police have a right to defend themselves. The lower economic classes...not so much. They are usually simply guilty of fighting. But dignity is just pride and all pride unjustified, just hubris. Eh, eh? NHI. No humans involved. If you are the kind of person who picks on people, especially small people, you are probably amazed what you can get away with in this petty country. You do have to be careful when the police

will be seriously involved. Otherwise you can get away with almost anything. Damn, you are pitiful. You fear lawsuits only if you can be identified and have real savings or property. Eventually though you will run into someone, perhaps a reader of books like this, and you are gonna get your slats kicked in. Great Caesar's ghost, reader, I do not say every scuffling 10 year old should be arrested. Break it up. Pull the instigator in for some castigation. Zero tolerance? Let the kid draw pictures of guns, even! That Daddy stuff above was sarcasm, man. This is the lowest level of violence. It ought, certainly, to be handled because wrongful behavior is wrong and small problems cascade when left unmet. Seriously, this kind of thing may make you sweat, take away your sleep, and give you a tummy ache. It may result in cracked ribs and a bent nose; but most of these guys qualify as enemy only under definition #3 or 4. Real enemy are killed on sight, or taken captive if they surrender. When somebody insults you on purpose say, You sure are a rude bugger! and leave, or taunt him indirectly for not attacking you. If you can't hit him when he has already assaulted you (came in close and threatened you with fists clenched, or cocked back a fist, made a grab or the like) then stand and wait for the attack if any before counterattacking. Or run away, if you must. Fuck it, brother. What a rush, indeed. Certainly children must be guided. They must learn to be responsible and how to work, but do not use work or exercise as a punishment. Let them play. Teach them to work. Educate them to the maximum your resources and their abilities allow. By "resources allow" I do not mean mortgage yourself into heavy debt. If you are one of those who are opposed to socialism so you do not give, or allow, anything a child has not earned you are not antisocialist, you are antifamily or antichild. You brought them into this world so they owe you payback for what you had to do to support them before cutting them loose. Heh. Your choice, not theirs. They did not choose to be born. You are going to end up depending on social security and other welfare programs. Payback? Dude. (If a youngling puts up any resistance he will be punished. He may be right, but is often wrong. Some parents will give him the silent treatment, ground him or whatever. Others will pile on chores, spank, verbally humiliate or beat him. Sometimes the parents are morally right and using a suitable punishment. Sometimes not. Unless the child ends up taking his chances on the very dangerous streets or in the often perverted child protective services\corrections he has only two real choices. Maintain resistance and take the hits, or keep his mouth shut and obey. Since children have poor impulse control even the second choice will involve some hits. Some parents will abuse children no matter what they do. This process is a part of the gaining of control over those childish impulses. When it works it may teach the yielding of self to the power of power, good or evil be damned. Another outcome is a person grown to be very dangerous if he ever gains power of his own. Some strange kinds of love and hate can be learned. Good luck kids.) Sir and ma'am? You ain't my mommy or daddy. Mister (master)? Call no man master, baby. Ms.? What the hell is that. There is authority in every society. Usually abusive authoritythat don't justify your own stupidity. We bow or kneel to nobody. Hell, listen to your parents, children, 'cause you ain't no font of wisdom. Patriarchy? Matriarchy? We love our parents if they took care of us when we were children. We respect them if they were reasonably respectable. We obey them if we have no reason to believe them malicious or fools; unless we are acting like idiots. Still, would you bow to your parents? People respect you if, rightly or wrongly, they think you are worthy of respect. They act respectful if you scare them. If you are not going to kiss an authoritarian parent's ass, why sir (sire/father) some guy who ain't even your daddy? And if ever'body is my brother my brother is not. Who died and left you in charge of stupid? We are right because history indicates that freedom is good for most people save the criminals. Not having masters does not leave you without a good justice system as that is a separate issue. The masters being in charge of the justice system is a bad thing, by the by. You are right by the support of wannabe masters, criminals, and by means of manipulation. Both of us win only by using violence against any unregenerate opposition. So who died

and left you my master? You, your stupid supporters, and people like you that have warped our institutions in the past are at fault. People like me allowed you this by being too few and too weak. We must not allow any disrespect! If people will not obey in even the smallest of things, how can they be trusted to show discipline with regard to the big ones? Try this, nappy; Some people do the big and important things because they are important, and will not obey you on minutia because it is unimportant. Amazing. Furthermore, tyrants and proponents of liberty might just disagree on what is important since the tyrant values most power over others. There was a time when Americans would not bow, and were undraftable, no matter what the Miss Manners and Puritan preachers of the day thought, Goody Brown; God damn it, it is blasphemy, I say! People go by the way you dress, your manner, and most of all by official-looking paperwork best backed up by computer files or call back numbers to authority. God help you if you don't dress correctly or they find out you dress outside of your proper station in life. Be polite, basic good manners. That means do not harass people who are polite to you. It does not mean ritual or subservience on either side. If you cannot tell nervous and clumsy people from those who are challenging or intentionally offending you, or those from ass kissers or people who expect you to kiss their assesthe problem is yours. Assholes should neither be seen nor heard. If you want to be respected you have to do whatever the other person thinks is worthy of respect, and some people have stupid standards. God forbid anybody should be fucking offended, eh? If you don't like them do not hang out with them. People do not have to agree on everything. They do have to agree on basic morality: on what is abusive, and even more so; what is criminal. If they find you offensive, consider your behavior and either apologize or tell them to sod off. When you find that you are unable to offend the offensive this is proof of your weakness. Everyone you offend will try to hurt you in some way, whether in what they do or what they do not do. Thus, carry on as you intend to carry on. Cultural ass kissing is a mistake over the long term. It shows you to be, or makes you seem, weak. Example: when you see an Arab you must keep hands out of pockets, sit straight, wear no crosses, never drink, not ask a direct question, allow him to invade your space or hold your hand and return his kisses. You must never point out that he cannot rightfully punish a woman for driving a car. And on, and on. People, including you, are always right. People do not like it when others do not do things their way. If they are contemptuous or enraged it may lead to violence. If you yield to their standards until they feel empowered to abuse you mutual frustration and anger may result in violence. Not that it really matters. If what you are doing is wrong, sometimes other people actually have a point, then stop doing it. If you are right keep doing it unless you are too weak...better manipulate and hide. And if they are criminally wrong you kick their asses, if it is worth your while. Male circumcision is mostly a crock. Female circumcision? Aaargh! Why in fucking bloody hell is this tolerated? Why is the actual operation often done by other women? Fuck. Be intolerant at gunpoint. Cultural freedom and respect my Great Aunt Fannie's big white ass. Do not be tolerant of interference. The exception is those people who are well meaning and tender hearted. This is no reason to do stupid things in order to spare feelings, but if you are nasty about it you ought to be ashamed. Morning, is there something you need? I am not 'you,' I am DOCTOR Eisenspringbockstein! Good for you. Anything else? Heh. Naturally, if you have intentionally insulted him from the beginning by the tone of your voice old doc might have a point. On the other hand you may be trying to be fair without being submissive, and your nervous tone makes him mistake it for challenge. That is his problem. Probably, though, old doc is just a prick, and if you are afraid to back his ass down it is because you are in a weak position. Tactics trump morality unless you are willing to go all the way, however far that may be in a given instance. You gonna nail him in some small way later? That is the risk, however small, that he takes for being an ass. How very professional. "If you are going to be disrespectful, I hope the police don't come the

next time you need help!" "Well! I hope you kill yourself with your own damned gun!" "Rights, my ass! They had every right to take you down. You were not cooperative." "If you won't waive your rights that is probable cause right there! That's not normal behavior." Yep, every time you oppose some government stupidity the roaches come out of the woodwork. Order freaks, government employees, and passive/aggressive pacifists, and when is the last time the police came in time to protect you from anything? That's OK, if you are polite and obedient they probably won't beat you down. "That's just your opinion, who do you think you are?" Johnny Reb, and my opinion usually is my own, cupcake. See, failing to kiss officious ass is not abusive, and not being accepting of unlawful authority is no justification for it. Yes, boy, I just have a problem with authority. Make me stop. Might does not make right, but it is what enforces both right and wrong on those who disagree, and some people don't agree even after you explain it and everything! Never act like a squishy toy and try to tolerate people and cultures that are so alien that you have to accept the criminal in order to get along. It will not work in the long run. Some behavioral standards cannot survive in close contact with one another. People who think it is OK to steal from anybody outside their religion, or think it is proper to beat woman and children and murder those they think immodest can not live next door to Americans without conflict. Good. If someone murders your girlfriend for being with you where were you fucker? Kill them all, legally if possible. Hang out with good sensible people, if you can find any. It makes things much simpler. Again: You do not have to be all the same to be Americans. You do have to be compatible with us, to support the Bill of Rights and to have the same core understanding of what freedom is and what the criminal is. If you do not support freedom you have no right to live here. Enjoy your visit. If we all just had the same core values we could have a wonderful and peaceful global socialism! Again, I do not have your totalitarian core values. I am not a pacifist. Make me become one. You think you stand for freedom. Very amusing. You think the whole world and American should be the same thing, or vice versa and perhaps once America is civilized just a bit. Good luck with that. Pacifist opposition, when it really does use no force, worries some. This is because lack of cooperation, people not doing their damned jobs, shrinks the economy and the tax base. I don't care because they are not obliged to produce to my benefit, and they sure as hell can't steal that which is mine without fighting for it. I must repeat though that pacifists almost always do use force, by banning firearms and using the police as enforcers for example, and them I will fight. Know this. Equal treatment under the law is not discrimination. Treating people differently because of their class, religion, race, office, or other grouping when their unlawful behavior is the same is discrimination. Telling the truth is not unfairness. The state has limited legal powers, and should discriminate not at all between Americans. Example. Federal drug laws are unconstitutional. Most drug laws are stupid and destructive, as is drug use/abuse to varying degree. You will get years in prison, but members of religious groups may use illegal drugs in their sacrament. Religious freedom does not mean discrimination for church and against the irreligious, nor does separation of church and state allow unconstitutional controls on the behavior of the religious. If you commit a crime, or cause direct damages, the state should step in no matter who or what you are. Otherwise, they should leave you be. You neocons who like to say there is no separation of church and state in our constitution are spinners. Do you think the no foundation and free exercise clauses might entail some separation? Neolibs, naturally, turn the whole thing on its head and use freedom of religion as an excuse to interfere in religion in order to protect it. Right. The closest thing to a fair fight is not a fight, it is a fighting game. Fairly evenly matched, some rules to follow, and we spar. Combat has no rules save the rule against atrocity. Self defense against crime has few rules other than against excessive force. This is not a pickup game where you have fun, and lie about doing your best and giving 110%. Only hard working professionals and fanatical amateurs work that hard at games and 110% is physically impossible. It does not matter how hard you try. It does not matter how good a person you are. Aptitude, training, application and equipment add to

the number of situations you can handle, guaranteeing nothing. You will lose if the circumstances so indicate. You will then lose freedom, property, health or life. Fighting is not a game, it is a business. Our business! Self defense is about staying alive. Combat is about killing the enemy. Tactics is about winning firefights; killing the enemy without being killed yourself. Self defense situations that become kill or die ones have become combat situations, and if possible tactical ones as well. Practice does not make perfect. Too much wears you out, and too little wastes your potential. Practicing stupid things makes you good at being stupid. Good training or practice improves your skills or helps you retain them, and nothing is perfect. Period. Every business has its tools. When we use tools, and weapons are tools, we are utilizing technological achievements made over many years and by many people. Sometimes it seems wrong that we can not make everything we need ourselves. Sometimes it seems risky to depend on products made by only a few and shipped from far away. Some people actually think of it the way some feel about unearned income and inherited wealth. Everyone should make their own living. Otherwise we must be controlled and have everything rationed to us. We have to be communists in order to help the weak (ever heard commies talk about useless eaters?), or free egoists who must die when they can no longer make a living. A living is enough to live upon. Without a living we die. Those who are of no use to us should be ashamed to be alive. Let each person make his own tools by hand, or let us rule and kill all dissenters! There are only two choices: both choices involve selfish elites who must kill or imprison resisters. Wow! Ever heard of straw men, or of false choices? The world owes you no favors. Duh. Favors are by definition unowed, although most people try to trade in them as if they were money. I totally <3 the world. I do. By the same token you owe the world no favors at all. You owe your friends. This is not about paying off a debt. There is no quid pro quo, payment in equal measure. It is about liking, appreciating, respecting and is about loyalty. If your friend runs into trouble you help if you have the means, and him first if someone you do not know also needs help. The assistance is related to resources and need, not to equal payment. If you choose to accept aid from somebody you dislike due to dire circumstances you pay him back in full measure as soon as you can because you do not want to be beholden to the bastard. Also, if a "friend" always wants help but will never support you in any way cut him loose. Family and friendship are such socialist constructs; that must be why socialists try so hard to break up the family. The world don't owe you no livin', boy! The world owes everyone freedom from his abuse; each person owes every other freedom from his criminal impulses. This is a moral debt and they have no direct value at all. Ideas that are not actuated materially have no effect. All this means is that debts unpaid willfully may be redeemed by force, but in practice theft works also with sufficient stealth or force. As for the rest of it? No one will care or remember your death from the great grandchildren on at best. What will you care then, you'll be dead. You had a right to life when you were strong and did the approved things. Now you are weak. Life is now a privilege. Your living can be revoked. ...don't owe you no livin', boy. I mean, it is like nepotism or something. You have an obligation to treat your employees right. It is not fair to society to "give" a job (I gave you a job, and thus a paycheck. It's not as if you produce any profits for me, or anything.) to somebody who is not the most qualified or is without minority status. While it is true that you do not have to lie to employees about their chances for future advancement, and that you cannot actually steal control of or things from a company you own; it certainly is good that we have destroyed family owned farms and that family owned stores are disappearing. Only individuals have wealth, which they should have earned themselves. Families and classes of people should not have wealth. The law should require people to leave home at 18 and accept no assistance from anyone after university. Start at entry level and work your way up. Actually, I tend to think that youngsters should make 40 to 80 thousand dollars annually working entry level jobs while

going to college at the same time. See that, working your way through a good college like proper Americans, and good schools cost lots of money. They can do the same with our current highly regulated medical system as well. Right? Right? If you believe all that you probably think I also want government to pay for it all. We love contradiction and extremes, do we not? Building on a foundation of past work is what civilization is. If everyone should go out on his own and build everything for himself or for trade, then the work of every generation would die with it. There would be very little change. Don't even suggest turning all inheritance over to government. Those oligarchs will manage it for us. Sure they will! Communism is what we need! A dictatorship on behalf of the people and run for them by the elites. Private ownership is at fault, or is it big and corrupt government and corporate partnership? Not that I have any real dislike for a well-run corporation, you understand. It is just not that easy to like them as a group because ownership is so diffuse, the stockholders are mere speculators for the most part and actual control lies with financiers, government and corporate officers, and sometimes large unions. They own nothing but control everything which is a major magnet for corruption. It is not easy to classify then as privately owned so they tend to operate rather like large communist bureaucracies. Red tape and much skimming off the top before the "owners" have any say or profit. It is good to learn to improvise, there are things to be done to lessen the shock during disasters or when transportation is cut off. Don't worry though, it is easier to learn primitive skills than to learn advanced ones. The civilized are more able to meet the need for low technology production than a savage is able to make tools for the making of tools until high technology products are obtained, if the situation were to require it. This does not mean your ammunition and repair parts ought to be manufactured for you by a potentially hostile country which can stop delivery without warning. Well, you could buy and store a lifetime supply. Be aware that plant seeds provided by corporations will not produce plants capable of producing usable seed. By the way, a good weapon may last a long time. A skilled gunsmith can copy a rifle with hand tools, a machinist can mill weapons in his garage. Lead bullets can be cast. The smokeless powder is dangerous to make in the garage, and good jacketed bullets are hard to make. Primers are a blow-offyour-fingers hazard to make especially if you use fulminates or chlorates. The problem with smokeless powder is controlling the heat as you react cellulose with nitric acid, along with safe and effective washing and forming of consistent grains. But the cartridge case is a real problem. You need brass (copper and zinc alloy of the correct type) disks to hammer into dies in numerous steps, and primers (dangerous to make in the home). The making of cartridge cases requires a machine press, and 3 or more punch and die operations on a suitable disk of brass to extrude it into a tube, plus heat treatments, lubrication, cleaning; and stamping of case head, drilling of primer pocket, cutting of extraction groove, a die operation to form any neck, and trimming and polishing. Then powder and primer are added, and the bullet pressed in and sometimes crimped in place. The bullet jackets used to be cupro-nickel, but they fouled the bore more than brass so now brass is used; 95% copper and 5% zinc (gilding metal). The cartridge case is 7 parts copper and 3 parts zinc. The lead core has a few percent of antimony for hardness. Fire forming or otherwise modifying compatible brass cases to be used in reloading ammunition for another caliber firearm is a much easier proposition. Since ammunition can be stored for more than fifty years if dry and cool, and since access to ammunition can be cut off more easily than access to weapons, you need to lay up a supply of cartridge cases and primers or complete ammunition. Most WWII cartridges, properly stored, have dirty primers (clean weapon carefully after use) but still go bang. There are a few duds, so keep weapons pointed down range after a failure (hangfires are rare but do happen, as do weak charges that leave a bullet in the bore.) This longevity is why some want a federal mandate to require smokeless powder to degrade after a year. Five thousand rounds is a reasonable quantity to have on hand. A backup and/or parts for

your rifle, ammunition and accessories for each weapon! It is not a good idea to leave a weapon exposed to direct sunlight on a hot day. It is worse leaving ammunition uncovered. Hot ammunition will not shoot to point of aim and will stress your rifle. Super cold ammunition is erratic and shoots low. Wet ammunition greatly increases pressure on the bolt head. Ammunition that has oil on it does the same, dry the inside of magazines before loading. A ban on firearms, and especially on ammunition and explosives, would be a major windfall for greedy manufacturers worldwide, and for bribe takers, thieves and smugglers. It would add a good sideline to the business of the current drug cartels as well. Prices would be higher and illegal buys are obviously more dangerous than legal ones, so for jobs not requiring modern weapons crossbows, bows, and black powder revolvers and rifles are a good backup. Make your own black powder if your supply runs dry. "Why should you be allowed to have firearms or armor some police departments do not have?" The patrol officer is not issued some of these things, and some smaller forces do not have them. Armor is available to them although most companies will not sell armor to citizens even where this is "legal." Many departments have automatic weapons, grenades, and short-barreled shotguns on hand, not to mention helicopters, armored cars and tracked armored personnel carriers. You do not find these things in the usual neighborhood gun shop. They have to kiss the BATFE ass for the weapons. Private citizens can also get permission for such from the feds, but this permission is slow, or never, coming for them and does not include permissions for post 1986 weapons. These regulated/infringed upon weapons include explosives and devices other than propellants, smoke, flares and some fireworks; small arms ammunition of more than .50 cal., plus any with bullets that are explosivebut black powder and hunting big bore rifles and shotguns are legal as are pyrotechnic bulletspen guns and the similar, machine pistols\submachine guns\assault rifles\automatic/machine rifles, selective-fire battle/automatic rifles and light, medium, heavy and general purpose machine guns\automatic shotguns; any firearm that fires until you release the trigger or run out of ammunition. It does not effect external devices that pull a semiautomatic firearm's trigger really fast, nor sniper, sharpshooter rifles, or the majority of antimaterial {heavy, large caliber, sniping} rifles. You will get no permission at all for automatic cannon or artillery ammunition, mortar bombs, mines, etc.. All such munitions will have explosives removed. Armored vehicles are legal if unarmed. Defense sprays are unaffected, riot control chemical grenades are. (Note: An infantry rifle is any rifle suitable for general infantry use, it could be small caliber within limits. A battle rifle, main battle rifle, is a high-powered, rather that intermediate-power, infantry rifle, most often 7.62 NATO and never 5.56 NATO. It does not use assault rifle cartridges. {Micro caliber is less than .223 or according to some .20, small caliber up to almost .284. Full-sized "modern" military calibers are small bore/ high power, but not big bore or magnums in velocity or caliber, happy yet?} Modern versions of the infantry {general purpose infantry}, battle rifle are selective-fire {change lever allows for safe, semi, and auto or burst selection} light automatic rifles. A self-loading rifle is an automatic loading, autoloading, rifle meaning a semiautomatic rifle. Some of these are military semiautos that qualify as battle rifles, as do the old military bolt action high-power rifles; more correctly the bolt action standard infantry rifle was the battle rifle of its day, but no longer qualifies as a general issue main battle rifle. It is obsolescent in that role. A self loading or autoloading pistol is a semiautomatic pistol. You will hear old timers talk about .22 cal. shells and automatic pistols. Technically they are cartridges, not shells, the clips they speak of are actually detachable box magazines, and they do not mean an automatic or machine pistol but an autoloading pistol. Add to this the Germans calling submachine guns machine pistols and the British calling them machine carbines, and the Americans saying single-shot rifle when referring to a rifle loaded by hand and having no magazine, when the British take this to mean a repeating (magazine fed) rifle with a action operated by hand. Carbine? A short version of a particular rifle, having a much shorter barrel. But some will call any small or light rifle a carbine. The assault rifle is a type of automatic rifle, one using a cartridge of

power intermediate between pistol and high-power rifle, and using high capacity magazines. It is always selective fire. It is never automatic fire only. It is never semiautomatic only. "Civilian" rifles based on an assault rifles are semiautomatic only. They are not assault rifles. You can't buy an assault rifle at the local sporting goods store, but you should be able to buy them there!) Now we are happy! The answer to the above question is: "Because they work for us." The shotshell, shotgun cartridge, is still considered a shell because the payload in completely contained inside it. I guess is is like a shrapnel shell even though the shell itself never leaves the gun. A revolver is not a gun, but is a handgun. A rifle is not a gun, but a light machine gun is, as is the cannon on a tank. The terminology is never entirely consistent. (Fragments are produced when a munition explodes. Secondary fragments are caused when the blast produces debris from surrounding materials. Shrapnel are preformed projectiles blasted from a munition, but the old shells were not effective due to low velocity of the balls, and resulting poor penetration. Shrapnel from the claymore mine is effective since the explosive is a high velocity one, C4, and the steel balls used are really moving at close range.) The sniping rifle is sometimes small caliber, usually high-power rifle caliber, and sometimes magnum or large caliber. It is always an accurate, manufactured to close tolerances, rifle with a telescopic sight allowing precise range and windage adjustments, and may be bolt action or semiautomatic; but the truly accurate semiautos are very expensive. You may have immediate access to only old, WWI or WWII era, rifles. Some of them can be very effective. When you first use an old rifle inspect it carefully. Clean it well. Measure headspace with a gauge made for the caliber. Look for bulges or cracks in the barrel, check the bore for blockage or erosion. The locking surfaces and bolt head must not have cracks, obvious heavy wear, or missing parts. The receiver must be checked for cracks as well. Use standard ammunition, not hot loads. A completely flattened primer in the ejected case is a sign of high pressure. Old ammunition cannot be used if cracked or corroded. If you have doubts take it to a smith or put a number of rounds through it from a rest. The cheap way to do this is to put the butt inside one side of an old tire with the forend over the other side and the bore pointed at a nearby backstop. Use a cord tied to the trigger to fire the rifle. If the bolt freezes up, or is hard to operate, cartridge cases have stretched heads, splits, obviously protruding primers or other unusual damage, or things blow off the weapon it needs adjustment, repair or rebuilding. If it does not function reliably it requires better cleaning, adjustment, or repair. Do not use unreliable ammunition for this or you cannot be sure of the results, but when you test it remotely do use hot loads/+P if you want to stress things. It is not a good idea to use +P ammunition in weapons ill suited to it even if they are new. Do not use pre-WWI 8mm Mausers until you know the exact bore diameter, as modern bullets are too large for the old bores. The crown of and the rifling near the muzzle are critical for accuracy. Excessive wear of the rifling at the muzzle is bad. Do not scratch or ding the muzzle, or the bore at the muzzle. Know your firearm. I am not going to say tools cannot also be toys. Tools well maintained, of quality design and construction, and skillfully used. Fun! Do not play at the wrong time, however. Say you are going to carry concealed. You are carrying a tool. A weapon. Prepare it and securely conceal it. Go about your business. Do not think about it all the damned time. Walk normally, let your arms hang naturally, and do not keep touching to see if it is still secure! You might as well be carrying a sign. And if you swagger around glaring at people I am going to slap you upside the head! Some situations require the methods of the hunter, others the skills and attitudes of the soldier. Sometimes even the brawler or berserker is the best model. But the combat engineer is very worthy of study. You do the job, no need to always strive for brave attacks and defending at all costs. Glory? Nonsense. Be steady. It is better to blow them up, or block and channel them into the kill zone, than to fight them man to man. Don't worry, you will still be a man after you have won. Be effective, not glorious. Do you know how people often die in a war? It does not have to even be a soldier. A supersonic

blast, fragment or projectile hits a woman in her home or a child on the street. Nothing heard, nothing seen other than occasionally a flash. No warning. Dead and never knew anything hit her. Sometimes it is a soldier, a supply clerk, sitting on the toilet in his warehouse. Glory indeed. More common still is another source of death. Armed conflict causes economic dislocation for obvious reasons and because of government takings of resources. This causes malnutrition, and that and harsh conditions leaves people with weak immune systems; resulting in epidemic, and often untreated, disease. Soldiers who are still being well supplied tend to see such conditions as an opportunity to trade for sex at really low prices. Governments trying to handle bad outbreaks of disease tend to try to shift hunger onto populations they distrust, and to isolate and murder infected people in an attempt to end an epidemic. Usually more people die of war related disease and starvation than of direct violence. Note also that while resources and what you can use as resources depend on innovation and technology as much as anything else; poverty and red tape are not conducive to innovation, and when war does stimulate technology it is focused on the military activities of the day, at least for a few years or decades until old military technology is sometimes converted to wider uses. The world is full of poverty, war, and regulatory excess. Peasants do not invent things, they are too busy trying to get enough to eat and to meet the demands of authority, and too mind-numbed by hunger when they fail to get enough food. Yes it is possible to be overcome by disaster and by shortages of resources. It happens all the time. Yes it is possible to overload the carrying capacity of your environment and of your capacity to adapt and to innovate, that too happens all the time. If you depend entirely on wood, rather than also on plastic and then on carbon fiber that time comes sooner for you, and the well-to-do have fewer children than savages, are better able to care for the ones they have, and with less damage to the environment as well. But if something is possible it will happen if given enough time. One day there will be no human species. Private property is inefficient, as is private cooperation and endeavor, but do not think government totalitarianism will extend your time. Collective property and government red tape make private property use look like efficiency and perfection in comparison. It would be well if human beings could work together without conflict, but we are trapped in defective bodies and even more certainly in our more defective personalities. Why do people think working together must be one great totalitarian plan, and encompassing all activities? Cause and effect. Even a young lady who starts her own maid service has more initiative than most people. The only fate is the nature of things, cause and effect, but our nature traps us like insects in amber. There are criminals. There are dangerously defective people. Whole cultures can be made into forces for evil because given time you can get people used to almost anything. Five years, step by step, from serious and frank young man to grim and hopeless camp guard. Those who have the means to resist save for the understanding or will needed to act are just as surely trapped and defective as are the criminals themselves. Those who act but with tyranny and dogmatism the same. Bugs in a jar. And we feel the urge to learn and accomplish, to keep fighting or building, learning, creating and working. Corporate socialization steps in. Now we take the classes and meet the standards. We get gold stars and certificates. We have cleared level 3! We have learned to trick our own psychology. We have trapped ourselves in the world of red tape and progressive honors where innovation is rare and unauthorized activity is penalized when not strictly forbidden. We are part of something so much greater than ourselves. Busy all the time, taking tests and shuffling paper. Living for official notice, and we are proud of standardized and preapproved officiousness! Cockroaches in a toilet bowl and butterflies pinned to the wall. Y'all need to learn some new habits. Walking smoothly without clunking along in an obvious heel-to-toe manner. Alertness, always scanning near to far, side to side and focusing on possible threat locations. Look from near to far in overlapping strips, then near to far in rays. Be very aware of high ground, buildings, etc. just coming into view. Look closely at things that catch your attention, try to catch movement from the corner of the eye, and do not look directly at an object at night or focus on

one place for too long. Very importantly, looking behind you, above you and below. Being aware of new lines of sight opening up as you move. Warning, if you do this in crowds, or for example banks, have a care; crude technique makes people think you are staring at them or casing the place. Finally, learn to counterattack or run the instant you are threatened. Learn to attack instantly if you catch the enemy in a weak position. No confused dithering please. In a noncombat situation where the legal conditions for attack are not yet met either quietly maneuver to avoid the trap or confrontation, loudly question the situation and call the attention of others to it (in some neighborhoods there is absolutely no percentage in doing this), or close with the threat until the punk(s) give you legal cause or run away. Do not allow fear of fear or macho self image issues to force you into confrontations you are not ready for and need not risk! Do not allow vague impressions to cause you to harass people! Calm is good, honesty about nervousness and the realities of a situation are also good. Vague impressions are enough to justify avoidance, but if you are certain there is a threat you are probably correct. Try to avoid target fixation. This is when you shoot up a target and then follow it down, if you shot down an aircraft for example, and ignore everything else going on around you. It is when you kill someone and just keep shooting the corpse afterward even as an enemy walks up to you from the side. Combat gives you tunnel vision and dulls background noises. Break out of it, pay attention. You must be alert. Look as you pass doors and windows, any open spaces. Do not walk past a corner without looking, stay out far enough so you cannot be struck or disarmed. In combat do not pass in front of nearby windows. Pass under or over them. It would be ideal if military units could work in 8 hour shifts, because operations need to be sustained. This is not possible due to enemy action. Usually you end up with 12 hour shifts, but even then off duty personnel must be in the vehicles during moves, and must jump into action during firefights. In an observation post shifts may be 12 hours or more, but when not sleeping two hours at a time quite possibly, men should relax for 15-20 minutes while their partners observe very alertly. Why trade off this job? It is not possible to observe at full alertness for the entire duration of your shift. There was a fellow who diffidently informed a clerk that a youngster had pocketed a candy bar. He then went into the parking lot and began to get into his car. He got a piece of wood to the side of the head. Once he was down he took a number of follow-up shots. He almost died. How could that kid have walked up from the side without being spotted? The man was not paying attention. Pay attention! When something feels off it might just be because something is off. Check it out, or avoid a possible risk. When you put the match in to light your gas furnace and are not sure the fire caught it probably didn't catch. Fight the effects of fatigue. You can fall into a stupor where you get locked into a course of action and fail to adapt to events. And do not wallow in necessity. Hard decisions and serious consequences can make people feel important and hard. This can lead them to automatically do disgusting things. Things such as killing the wounded, their own as well as others, and torturing people. Sometimes this leads to the killing of the badly wounded even in those cases where extraction is actually possible. "You cunt!" The man shouted at the windblown girl. She turned on her heel to look into the man's eyes. "I am not a cunt," she said. "I am a hand." "Smug complacency, time cures all things. It is mediation or medicine after the manner of the peace of the bayonet. It cures nothing but the feelings of the tender bystander, and the existence of the suffering or troublesome. The place is peaceful when all are dead." "Bullshit!" said the man, hissing. "We only do what needs to be done. We can't waste resources and talents on poor chances and freedom generated pipe dreams; and you do not do your fair share, my girl! We'll have your guts for garters I vow! The tousled girl walked on. "Eh," she said. To and fro... Peaches and cream... What do I mean when I say freedom? I do not mean free to do whatever you want, or freedom from the realities. I mean political liberty and the right to make your own decisions about yourself and

your property. Government has no right to control you beyond punishing you for criminal and negligent harm or threat to others, and protecting children and the mentally handicapped (and it will use that as an excuse to lock you up and steal your stuff). It defends the nation from invasion, protects the currency from devaluation (LOL), and enforces valid contracts. It enforces laws against direct damages to others. This is the sort of thing it should do. People are the same, but for a few unimportant details. This is why diversity is so important. When diversity prevails at last there will be only one culture, and all will have the same skin color. Get yourself out there and take part in the great but nonviolent political and cultural struggle to choose what kind of one culture it will be. Nationalism is so last century. We can never have perfection and love when people are still divided. Citizen of the world, so very bloody urbane. No borders. God is not love, fools, he is God. Goddess actually is nature. (This is anthropomorphizing "nature." which tries to make all history and all the world into a sort of cosmic Disney Bambi cartoon.) So what? The mythologies. Fucking utopian bastards; perfection does not exist so don't destroy the good fighting for the perfect. Nothing good lasts forever, though some bad things do, which only makes the good more precious and worth fighting for. Globalism will destroy those people who are both good and patriotic. Civilization, such as it is, imperfect and limited in geography and appeal, and those few nations who hold the line, is all that stands against the next dark age. The states which now make up the US could join because while very different they still had a common core of compatible values. But we still had the Civil War and how many died? Where are we headed now? Open your eyes. Most of the world is savage. Most cultures are still incompatible. Globalism will destroy the worst and the best, then the floodgates will have opened and the barbarians will bring in that new dark age. Patriots, not jingoists, are among the few holding the line between civilization and barbarism. Globalism will kill the patriots in order to struggle for perfection. I leave you to decide if that perfection is idealism or perfect power and theft, but chaos will be the result supposedly itself followed by a new order. "Right human relations." ROFLMAO! Here is a difference between business and government. Do understand that government franchises and "public" corporations and utilities, as well as any other sort of public\private partnerships/cartels/monopolies/trusts act like government. When demand increases businesses see opportunity and increase production. If required they will try to devise substitutes for rare materials. Prices may rise until shortages end, or may lower as companies attract buyers and make more money by selling more product at a smaller profit on each item. When government sees demand increase they try rationing, and increase taxes even when more population (the demand) already means more people are paying taxes. They also grab more power for themselves because of the problem or "crisis" needing solution. (Those of you who talk about somebody "stealing customers" consider the following. Customers are human beings and do not belong to anyone. They do not belong to you and therefore cannot be stolen.) So isn't "hoarding" wrong? No, not unless you are buying up half the market for the purpose of putting the boot to others, malicious swine that you are. Large and powerful monopolies operate rather like major organized crime operations. Both can exist for long periods and without serious government interference only when bribes buy protections and advantages or when they are government operations in the first place. Don't even bother telling me that free enterprise is destroying this country. We wackos have never worshiped free markets to the point of condoning collusion with government, importing foreigners or lying and defrauding people. Free trade with those who put up barriers against us, with slave states; free trade with thousands of pages of regulations! Nor do we worship the property rights of people who stole the property. We do not have a free market system anyway. We have a very heavily regulated economy dominated by government/private partnerships. The general public cannot take a shit without a permit. This does not mean everyone should be returned to the place of their ancestors of

500 years ago. And no all property is not theft, all takings of a person's property rights are theft. Reasonable restrictions do not include using force against people who disagree with you or use their property differently than you would have done. If someone buggers up his land, it is no concern of yours unless it endangers you, spills over your boundaries or threatens his children. Yes, religious people like the Amish should be held to the same laws as everyone else. No, nobody should be subject to the multitude of building regulations and permit requirements. If something being done is a serious hazard it should be handled as a careless or reckless endangerment, or as intentional crime depending on the facts of the case and handled in civil or criminal court. Government has the right to tax constitutionally, legally, and reasonably to pay for those justified government activities, and people have the right to protect themselves from harm. Anything much beyond this and you are no longer free. No! Oh, sweet Goddess! If only we were more progressive, collective, primitive! Finite resources! It is less what we have between our ears and more the rationing of renewables that counts. Red tape! Er, I mean collectivist responsibility! Back to nature, the earth can support more earth delving savages than it can industrious polluters. Uh, a human die off before Your Mama! does it for you. Sustainable grown, no more growth, that is reverse growth now! No one owns the land, because the world collective owns the earth; actually the Earth owns you! Live simpler, shorter and happier lives. Grow lots of cannabis, and meditate muchly. All will be well. Wait, I forgot, it is the Glorious Leader that will save us, or was it Jesus once all have suffered enoughno it is the space aliens! Sorry I either went off my meds or have taken too many drugs, but there is a single great solution to everything so live forever (but it is OK if you die now) and unite and do something or other: We want perfection sanity transcended, not the good but imperfect, and we want it now! (Acting locally but thinking globally, and never mind the globalists, but use change agents and the Delphic method.) So there! You are making fun of progress. Real progress, not materialism and the unsustainable. For true? And I thought advanced societies had smaller families and did less damage to their environments. Silly me. You just fear change. Indeed? Change is not bad. Bad changes are bad. When there is freedom the central principles of government may not change, but change occurs under freedom more than under any other system. Western Civilization is dead because the supposed wisdom of Orientalism and the altruism and egalitarianism of socialism have been pounded into the heads of stupid people. Women are idiots, as are men in a somewhat different way. Yes I know the East, Oriental, is now the Asian. So it is that male secretaries (keepers of secrets); lieutenants, organizers and gatekeepers became women secretaries which forced a change over to the terms executive or administrative assistants. Freedom is not the goal of the group thinkers. Constitution. Conservative libertarianism. Everybody has a right to freedom of association, even women and blacks if you are one of the idiots who need to be reminded, and even white people! Everyone has the right to make choices for him or her self. Everybody has the right to resist takings of his freedom and criminal attacks. Most think or pretend to think we need laws to protect diversity and quotas in private and public sectors, and need education and propaganda to protect and promote things like interracial marriage. They are substantially correct. Too bad fairness and freedom must be destroyed in the endeavor. People who think we must have laws to keep races separate are fools and they too would end freedom to do something that needs no doing. There is no doubt that some race mixing will take place under any regime, mostly to the good. As for interracial dating and marriage? Too much of it is a mistake but little of it normally takes place which is why the left has to encourage it so much. In any case, individuals who deviate from your standards may earn your disgust and avoidance but this does not automatically make them criminal or the enemy. People have the right to make their own decisions and mistakes. You have the right to withhold your support. The left needs laws on these subjects. We do not. Men are so sensitive and fragile. We have our little feelings hurt. We are prone to violent death, and to depression leading to inaction or suicide when belittled, especially if by woman. We need to have our authority admired and respected and only

blatantly thwarted behind our backs. We do so need to be needed. Poor darlings, let me bring you your fuzzy wuzzy bunny slippers. The enemy is legion and you fight among your fellows attempting to prove your manhood. Woman cannot take what is man's because they are not men. Blacks cannot take what is white because they are not white. You cannot take what is God's because you are not a god. But anyone can be rude, abusive, a thief of rights or some other category of criminal, or just plain annoying if they have the leverage to get away with it. It is only theft if the item belongs to a person. It is only criminal if the association is not free for at least one of those directly effected. Ah yes, what if one of those involved asks to be beaten? Insanity ends the right to freedom of choice, as does youth or relevant disability. Contract implied or otherwise protects no crimes and confidence men are still frauds. It is unwise to limit your organization to only one type or class of people but it should be legal unless you are government and exclude qualified citizens. Don't think so? Then you think free association means the privilege of associating with people who do not want to associate with you. Men need no special protections from women or minorities. Individualism and free association and cooperation with those you respect is enough. Get used to being ostracized. Stop being so damned tender and thin skinned. Learn how to fight. Even if you were on top you would have no right to force people to pretend to like you. Freedom of speech and such rot. Use reasonable force if they trespass, block your movements or won't let you hear your TV or eat your dinner, whatever, but words are only actionable when they are evidence of preparation or intent to commit a crime. When they get you your whole life will not flash before your eyes. If you die slowly you will think of certain people or past events perhaps, if quickly nothing is the norm. Most last thoughts and words of those who die violently probably consists of "Oh shit!" Oh yea farmers are the backbone of America 'cause you gotta eat, no truckers 'cause if it is not delivered..., police, doctors... Yep, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link, eh. And a free man has a right to just sit under his fruit trees. So who is most important now? They are important to you depending on where you at and what you want, and the most fragile may be the most critical. Now my manly sensitivities have been injured. I want a 23 million dollar settlement. I have no choice. If I give them food when they are starving they will become lazy, nor will they plan ahead. Also, if I feed them when they are hungry they will come to expect it and will force me to continue. To save my ability and right to choose I must never use my choice but must do what must be done and teach them to be prepared, except for those who have starved. I must serve them in this way for I am their master. Have a nice day. It is none of your business what flags people fly (though if it is flown by anti-constitution insurgents or crime groups we thank them for the tip), what color they paint the house or if they mow the lawn. If your property valuation depends on how the neighbors look, then property values will fall. So be it. Your house is untouched. This is not direct harmyou would have to constructively seize his property (and him) in order to make something you do not own, the neighborhood, add value to what you do; your own home. If God did not like rifles he would have given us fangs and claws. Direct harm? If they make so much noise that the sound level on your property or street is a health hazard or keeps you up all night, that is direct damages. If they are criminals or foreign agents that is harm. Public behavior? There does have to be more, limited but more, control of that. Why? Because if people on the streets are constantly subjected to the visual, verbal, physical, or sexual harassment of the pushy and perverted something is going to break. Preferably their necks. If you are one of those people who use Mace when someone asks you out, or runs half a block in order to get close enough to shriek at a smoker for polluting your air; you are one of those in the pushy pervert category. Just for your information, if you throw paint on my fur you are going down hard. Cultural conflict, gotta love it. You do not have to like people. You need not agree with them, but you have no right to regulate everything they do. You have both the right and a moral duty to fight, however, any who commit crimes against you. This most certainly includes those who try to take your human rights such as the

ones listed in the Declaration of Independence and The Bill of Rights! A hero, are you? If you die your family or spouse will be sorry, and admiring. You will fall, say some pithy words, close your eyes and be dead in a quiet and wonderfully brave way? Not likely, my friend. You probably think your pure and soldierly spirit will rise into the sky. Ugh! There are times when heroics are called for. Mostly it is something to be avoided, and you are not a hero just because you got killed, were an officer, woman or of a specific race. (It is hard to believe just getting killed makes you a hero, but even harder to understand how getting killed while black or female makes it so. I thought race was a figment of the racist minds of the white race? I say there is no gender! Gender is an artificial construct with no objective reality, which makes the fact that women are subjected to the majority of sexual assaults on adults rather odd as well. That is, until you recall that there is no objective reality at all (?). Yeah science! That is why there are no separate species and all forms of life, or need it even apply to life forms?, can successfully interbreed.) You are not a god. You will make horrible mistakes, and anything that would have killed another will assuredly kill you. When you die, and you will die if you fight long enough, you will die in a large pool of your own mixed bodily fluids, and I mean large. You will either be alone or in the company of a few very busy people. Someone may even take the time to help you. Try, anyway. You may even be aware enough to notice, for a while. Guru say: The drop of water is the ocean, the ocean is the water droplet. God is everywhere and everything is God. Must be the reason for the rash of beachfront properties being destroyed by lonely but rampaging single drops of salt water. People have no idea what they mean when they say spirit or spiritual. Your being, but like a puff of wind? How you feel, or having to do with psychology or nature or wisdom. And I have invisible leprechauns under my house. They will never let you detect them but prove they are not there! You can feel the wind, see it blow the grain. You can feel emotions, think (poorly!); the brain is where your being is centered. Show me a spirit moving stalks of grain. Nothing ever truly dies, it just changes form. Law of conservation. The atoms that once were a part of Napoleon still exist today. His energy is changed but still at work. Life is not matter. Life is not energy: particles that can influence other particles traveling through space, the effects of matter's activity traveling through matter. Law of Entropy. Life is structure, organization, function. If I kill a man and then make two perfect copies of him has anyone been killed? Of the two men present, which one is the original? A wooden branch carved into a wooden dolphin is still a tree limb? Will it bud for me this spring? Grand truths, faiths and mysteries are like an onion. You look for the great central meaning of things by peeling layer after layer of onion away and find in the end that you have run out of onion. You say then that you have nothing. I say that you have a pile of ingredients for onion soup. You say, oh joy, there is a sort of core in an onion. It is the layers! I say shut up and eat your soup. You say life is what you make it, proving life is not merely what you make it, but that making even more of it is the great meaning. I say bugger off. Faith is not really trust, you know, as it only partially meets the definitions. I trust the universe to help me. No, you believe the universe will help you. You believe your good friend will do his best to help you. Only the second of these is trust. Both involve faith, and both involve a sort of trust. Only the second is trust fully. But faith is for fools as is trusting too much. Nothing I say is true. Little that I say is false. Nothing I say matters. But what is the meaning of life? Three? Adams may have thought life had no real meaning, and he did kill off the planet in the end, but life does have meaning if there are things you enjoy or find important. Life has no one great meaning. You are alive because you were born. You will live until something kills you in spite of your efforts, or until you have fewer things to live for than things you dislike about life. If that happens you will stop trying, and will die. Come on, man, you know there is nothing out there (an exaggeration). Some animals are

sentient. Nature is not sentient, and has no mercy because it has no feelings. It has no it. People should have mercy, nature has none. When you hope and pray you are hoping this is wrong and that a force out there will save you. You run or fight badly when on your knees. Magic is trying to earn the impossible by ever increasing groans and emotional or mental effort. Mind over matter (I don't mind and it don't matter), unlike your hand, will not lift a weight but will give you a headache. Healing another person's cold or cancer with your mind is of no interest. When you heal a missing limb or rotting corpse I will take notice. Odd how miracles are indistinguishable from the statistical background noise. Man, I died and had an out of body experience! I don't know what you had, but you did not die. Your heart stopped beating for 3 minutes. Your brain was receiving no oxygen, which is critical much more quickly than when your lungs receive none. I also know that most Christian near death experiences are not technically biblical, and that when Hindu guy had his experience he did not meet Jesus. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio. So what ever I believe is right. Right? You think life is but a dream? Idiot. Dreams do not exist, nor do dreamers. Everything is a belief. No believers required. If you prefer, all believers are beliefs, as are all dreamers and all dreams. When beliefs contradict mine rule of course it is so. I can tell you right now being immaterial is a problem. Ghosts can't pick up and use material things. That is the least of it. They can't see, hear, smell, taste, feel or think anything either. This is the result of the fact that eyes are material things which react to the material, and are effected by gravity, light; and the other organs much the same. Now, the poltergeist can move objects. A different kettle of fish, that. It believes things into motion. This is a fine example of a belief moving a belief by belief but without there being a believer! Pure energy? No such animal. Without matter there is no energy. Hah. "But thinking makes it so..." Thinking something is so changes nothing outside your own body. External changes related to your thoughts exist only if you are able to take action based on those thoughts, with the exception of minor changes to your electromagnetic field. Communication is an action that has its effect on other people. I keep saying it but nobody listens, and the fuel gauge reads empty but I'm sure things will keep working long enough to get us to our stop. Yes it is true that some who call themselves atheists have spiritual beliefs. This does not make atheism another religion. It is thought that not believing in God/gods and the like is a matter of faith since the atheist cannot prove there are no gods of one sort or another out there somewhere. Absurd. I am under no obligation to be agnostic about the existence of mythical creatures because I cannot prove the nonexistence of unicorns. There is no proof of unicorns, thus I do not believe in them. Some parts of the theory of evolution are unproven. This does not make evolution a religion. It makes it not especially good science. Anyway, if I have faith in my wife's fidelity is that religion? Causes and effects are the only fate there is. Takes courage to admit that, yah? Ja! The nature of things. So how did the nature of things begin? Did it begin? If I don't really know I am obliged to accept your proclamations as truth? Nah. But, only religion and the religious are good. Don't make me laugh too hard. Only good is good. Religions are only good when they are good, not anytime they happen to be religions. Religion, when not simply a tool for manipulation, is a search for truth by turning inward and using feelings, beliefs and speculation. Prayer wheel spinning. Science without the experiments and tests, i. e., without the science. It fits right in with much of today's speculative and untested theoretical science. Cool. Everything is real and everything is what it is. This does not make ideas worlds or thoughts stones. Ideas spread like a virus and bad ideas do far more damage than a virus is likely to do. False beliefs make you feel bad or good, but do not prepare you for upcoming challenges unless by chance. When people admit something is false but say it makes people feel better or behave themselves it is wise to look a little deeper. Your body and your mind? The brain is physical and your mind is brain function and content;

but content also is a physical state in\of the material brain. Fantasy is real, and generally really stupid, ideation. But we do not know how memory works! This proves the spiritual realm! Oh. I forgot. We do not fully understand brain function which proves how the mind works. We do not fully understand our own minds and this failure proves how the brain works. Fabulous darlings! Think what you must. It is well that you do progressive science and metaphysics rather than science and engineering. A psychiatrist (soul doctor) can charge mucho bucks for truncated hours of mentored self realization but an engineer with odd ideas about conduction and switching principles can't get the lights to go on. Of course snowflakes, crystals, planetary alignments, eyes and chromosomes look artificial and we don't understand how they can have come to be, so they had to created by God. Yeah. Fine. It is interesting how your soul chooses to be violent if I poke a physical hole in the correct part of your brain. Materialism. What a terrible thing it is. We need to be spiritual instead. OK, but let us use some common sense. Try being immaterial and try living without owning or using material things. Do you plan on becoming a breatharian? The first law of nature is stupidity. But, hey, nothing is impossible, right? If you try hard enough, and never give up you will win in the end. Bull! There was this fellow people call Adolf. It is possible he was God incarnate working a goodness for the world. Like myself he thought in long rambling and disjoint ways. He was a pretty smart guy and had a good memory. He also, sadly, was an evil man who thought himself good; and deluded and psychotic in general. Ever heard of the triumph of the will? This Adolf guy felt that Germany would not have lost the war if the people had had the will to win. They failed him. I wonder why he did not save them by having enough will for everyone? The man was a vegan, that says it all right there! The truth is this: you cannot succeed unless you try. You cannot succeed unless you persevere. You cannot succeed no matter how hard and long you try if you do not have, or cannot acquire, the means to do the job. You can get into situations you can never get out of, or out of in time. That person who hangs off the ledge may loosen his grip because he loses concentration, or because he is startled. He may give up and let go rather than suffer any longer. If nothing like that happens he will still fall eventually his muscles will be exhausted and will no longer work for him. Physics. Insufficient energy. If you have no friends, you are in a much inferior situation. Family does not count, unless they are friends or allies also. Allies count to the extent that you have mutual goals. Two men operating in cooperation are much stronger than one. Have you ever tried to provide security for yourself as you plant land mines or throw a grenade? Tried to suppress the enemy while simultaneously running for a fall-back position? But how much should you trust? The Jew says to the Goy: You too cheat, steal and use any position of power you have gained. Stop complaining. We are simply better at it. This one should be bloody obvious. Who do you trust? You trust absolutely nobody. Some people are very much more trustworthy than others. If you know them very well, or are a great judge of character, you can place more trust in these people. But no one is completely trustworthy in all situations. You cannot even trust yourself. You will fail to follow through in regard to some of the promises you make, no matter how hard you try. Can you be certain you will not drink that fourth bottle of beer waiting in the refrigerator? It looks so tempting too. Most people are even worse. They will turn on you in a heartbeat. They will follow authority, do almost anything to avoid humiliation. If helping you will make them late for work they will decline. The boss might be angry! Put a little pressure on them, a few threats, risk to their jobs or bank accounts; threaten problems with licenses. The IRS might get them. They will stab you in the back. If your area falls under occupation most of your fellows will be leading the enemy to the homes of the wealthy and the armed in the hope that they will then be spared, and possibly even given some of the spoils. Should you then enslave everyone in order to declaw their treachery? No. Slavery makes them

even worse human beings. Pacifists are funny people. They will not fight an evil tyranny as violence is not an option, and they may turn in resisters in an effort to limit the fighting and thus reduce the death toll, even though the people they report will be killed by the government. The brave ones may refuse to talk to government on pain of torture, or they may think the rebels are criminal and inform on them knowing they will be killed for taking an active part in the war against the revolution. All this without, in many cases, ever breaking down and so much as punching anybody themselves. You are a handsome, muscular male: 6'2 and 190 pounds of manliness. Your hair is blond and your eyes are blue. You like to flex your muscles and talk tough with your friends. You are not above bullying a smaller man at the club, but you think gun control is a good idea. What do you do if you see a woman being violently assaulted by several disgusting persons? You run away! Then you argue with yourself because you ought to call the police, but court proceedings are a pain even for mere witnesses. What a man you are. Most people think themselves trustworthy and generally good. People like to think themselves humane. They like to force others to give. Other people are important only in theory to most people most of the time. You owe what you have to the community because it is the environment in which you worked, and probably worked the system, and they have not taken most of what you have by force. Be grateful. So give. The groups you give it to will probably pass at least 10% of it on to those who need it. Never, however, display distrust without solid evidence. It causes discord. Do you know how easy it is to break friendships? Put out a little rumor to to effect that Billy Bob is secretly your spy and watch the opposition destroy itself with mutual distrust. People are fools, don't let it happen to you. Anything that happens to you is your own fault. The protruding nails are the first to be hammered down. You are a trouble maker if you resist. Do not expect any sympathy. Most people are most certainly not going to help you. Human life should be valuable but it is not. Why do you think second world war draftees called themselves GIs? Government issue items of supply. Used up and then individually replaced, that is why. Guerrilla warfare is a war of sabotage, ambush, mines and traps, sniping, hit and run raids and assassinations. The guerrilla does not maneuver to engage his enemy. He maneuvers to target, not to engage, and he maneuvers to avoid engagement and counter targeting. He closes on locations as such only when it is safe to smash and grab supplies. There is no air war. He destroys communications and other utilities of air bases and normally attacks aircraft only when they are on the ground and exposed. Command and control and logistics targets are preferred to attacking tank units of course. Battles are to be avoided like the plague. It is the legitimate tool of the outnumbered and the ill equipped and of special operations troopsso long as it does not degenerate into terrorism and atrocity. It usually does. Special operations forces have always been in the assassination business, among many other things. The problem is that they kill people who informants and intelligence operations finger as likely opponents, and seldom known enemy leaders who cannot be extracted and held, or persons already convicted of capital crimes. Additionally they tend to receive orders to kill or turn over to allied thugs any witnesses, to shoot combatants who try to surrender, and to kill all enemy wounded except for one prisoner to be brought back for enhanced interrogation. Surrender is a valid option, but seldom. Don't know what to do? If your mind is going to go blank, follow friends, not enemies. If you are going to freeze up, at least freeze on the ground or after reaching cover, and if you have a submission response submit to friendly and leader actions and not to the people who are trying to kill you. The United States government has a long history of, not usually ordering but of turning a blind eye to, war crimes; murder, rape and torture. When you do not do your reasonable best to stop war crimes just about any fool with issues will eventually start committing them. The Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishments, and revolutionary soldiers were ordered not to use torture though no doubt a few of them disobeyed.

They do sometimes order them. During the Korean war a Scandinavian hospital ship was taken by pirates. It was a US operation undertaken because the medical staff was going to care for enemy military and civilian alike. The nurses were never seen again as they were handed over to Chinese pirates for disposal. In the Philippines a psychological op was set up where a prisoner was murdered with an icepick and drained of blood. The body was left near a village as a putative vampire victim. It was hoped this would keep the locals indoors at night. Evil is sometimes very silly. Torture is nearly always adopted by both sides. It is a vile and mostly counterproductive practice, but people hate and they get frustrated. Do not do it. We do not torture. We do not steal, cheat or take bribes. We do honest work whether we do manual labor or are financial executives. How can you enjoy your sense of moral superiority if you are just like the scum? Do not copy the American police and their expectation that everyone should cooperate with them, and should comply with them. My dictionary says cooperation is working together. That is what you ought to do with your friends and allies. The police think cooperation means obey. They also mean obey when they refer to compliance. Sensible people use a reasonable amount of force in order to arrest a resisting suspect. They overcome the resistance, pile on to get the cuffs on, and drag the guy away. The new standard for compliance teaches that you give someone an order and then apply pain until they obey you. This is torture. There is no license to torture people until they obey, or to threaten them with mayhem. Necessary force to stop an attack or to get the cuffs on is what is legal. They are not supposed to break the law or resist lawful arrest but you don't get to punish them for a bad attitude. If the encounter is a deadly force one, reasonable force is deadly force, obviously. Why not torture the common criminal, the terrorist, and the enemy? Hah. Bushites and those like them: Fight your war like a man. You are like an hysterical old woman who was once stung by bees, and now if she could she would fix every bee in the world to a board with pins and malicious glee to avoid ever being stung again. The police should be cooperating with the general public, the citizen should comply with the basic law. But some people deserve whatever happens to them, are vile criminals or the most evil enemy. Torture is a justified punishment. Bull shit. No one deserves to be raped or tortured. Some must be killed or imprisoned in order to protect others. Nobody deserves torture, and even if they did, what good person would rape and torture the criminals in order to punish them? A pervert, that would think to do those things, that is who would do it. Intentional humiliation, cruelty, novelty and suffering degrades everyone. It caters to prurient interests and there is no need for this indecency. Too many punks are on the job these days. Torture works, Bob. Yes and no. Did torture work when Stalin wanted his hands on every traitor to the people in Russia, or did it just kill millions of suspects? Did torture work when the church wanted all the heretics and satanists, or did it just kill millions of people? People drawn to the business of torture are not decent people. A suspect under torture provides several names, and each of the new names the same. After 10 years of theft and sadistic self-pleasuring such progressive suspect-tree building can literally result in the whole country being on a list. Being able to steal the property of suspects doesn't hurt the process any. Bob, just do not go to excess. It is always excess, especially to innocent suspects and decent people, but it also very easily gets completely out of control. It is understandable when an individual tortures somebody he is certain buried his child in a box somewhere, or something similar. He wants to go save his child. He does not know where to look. It still should be a punishable offense. If he turns out to be wrong the sentence should be severe. But extreme cases make poor law, and if you base your justice or military law systems on torture you are setting yourself up for major problems later on. Suppose someone threatens to torture another person in order to force you to obey them? Are you guilty of a crime if your refusal results in the torture or death of a innocent person? Remember that the criminal is the one who commits the crime. You did not kill that person. You did, however, refuse

to do something to save that person from the criminal. If you must obey to protect another, that is OK: unless you trade one person for another, or unless it would cost you your freedom or life, or the tools you need to maintain them. This is the reason police are forbidden to give up their weapons to a hostage taker. This is a valid general rule. The leadership of any movement should never be trusted. Observe their actions more than you listen to their words. Most groups are heavily infiltrated, many were actually created by the enemy so that arrests can be made, or so that you will commit atrocities for them. These are false flag operations. Never fall for the old excuse that the leadership is behaving badly but we must stay the course or the enemy benefits. Swine are not to be served, other than for dinner. We do not obey criminal orders, or follow tyrants in order to defeat other tyrants. Do not allow yourself to be manipulated. Never let provocations and taunts push you into doing what you do not want to do. There are three types of equipment which are key, the basis for guerrilla warfare operations. You need a rifle with plenty of ammunition, you need a large quantity of bulk explosives (which can be used for many things) and you need a rocket launcher (whether improvised or an RPG or AT4). Antiaircraft weapons are useful, Stinger is your friend if the helicopters and gunships are actually attacking you, but guerrillas need to hide from aircraft more often than to shoot them down. Attack helicopters are lethal to the visible guerrillero. Light body armor and a chemical protective mask might come in handy. Machine guns and mortars are nice if you can get them. If things get really bad you will need a chemical protective suit as well. Body armor is benefit, not justification for silly heroics. It will improve the odds. That is all. Use cover and concealment at night as much as you can the same as you would in the day. Sometimes in close quarters battle you present your armor plate to the enemy rather than the less effective side panel, and there are times when audacity but not foolishness requires using the advantage camouflage or armor gives you to its maximum. As a general rule, however, night sights, darkness, camouflage and body armor ought not to influence your behavior too much. They give you an edge, but you should mostly operate as if you were not using them. Caution, people, but not hesitation or cowardice. You can't win a war from a deep and hidden bunker if you never leave it. Yet you cannot be perfect. You can't be safe. While, make no mistake, a trained and outfitted soldier is more fit and better equipped to survive than others; war is all about getting in there to impose your will by the use of force, and all to often this means your enemy gets to inflict damage on you and yours as well. Remember that every weapon is a weapon system. Armed vehicles are weapons systems. All weapons should be issued with all accessories and supported by organized training, supply and repair services of whatever nature and to the required degree. This means a rifle comes with bayonet and scabbard, sharpener, sling and muzzle cap, blank firing adapter, range finder and wind meter, sights and lights with batteries, rechargers, filters and hoods, and cleaning supplies. It comes with magazines, pouches, bandoleers, clips (en bloc/in magazine) or magazine chargers (aka stripper clips) and the various types of ammunition, and repair and cleaning kits. It comes with operator's manual, performance and firing tables. It comes with camouflage tape and materials. Of what use is a rifle without a rifleman, or without a trained rifleman? A rifle inaccurate, or malfunctioning or not working at all because the commonly broken parts are not at hand? Is a rifle of any use beyond bludgeoning range when there is no more ammunition? The soldier too is a weapons system. He comes armed and armored; equipped to camouflage, navigate, move, observe (binoculars, spotting scopes, periscopes, thermal imagers and night vision goggles), shoot and communicate (whether hand signals and smoke or flare, infrared or otherwise; or advanced jam resistant and encrypted radios). Also to live in the field and to treat minor diseases and take first measures with wounds. He too must be supported, supplied and maintained to at least the minimally required level.

Every person in the field with a weapon should have a small cleaning and maintenance kit on his person. It is amazing how often this is not done. You can get away with a backup pistol, kept clean, and 15 rounds of ammunition if it is seldom used and a defensive shootout will probably take place in poor light at a distance of 8 feet and with an expenditure of 3 rounds. This attitude will destroy you if extended and applied to combat operations. Maintain it, repair it, rebuild it, remanufacture it and replace it. If it won't work it is as useful as mortars, rockets and machine guns which follow in the train but never actually place fires on the enemy. Ask yourself why old M1911 pistols and M249 light machine guns are so loose and unreliable. Major wear and this is tolerated. They were not rebuilt. (The 200 round belt box that clips to the receiver of the M249, but won't always stay there, is not a true drum magazine. They are cylindrical magazines that feed cartridges under spring tension and the box on the SAW is just a holder. Do soldiers and marines refer to this box as a drum mag.? Sometimes they do, as both the USA and USMC machine gun manuals label them as such.) Store the explosives and chemicals properly. Defenses which blow up the neighborhood's children and dogs are amateur. Prepared electrically detonated charges which explode during the first major thunderstorm will do nobody any good. Any massive charge which will put your own position inside the crater, or will blow your home and family into the treetopswhat can I say? A detonator is a military blasting cap. It is not the signaling device a person may use to trigger the switching of current into an electric blasting cap. Electrically fired explosives can also be set off by enemy transmitters unless the unencoded electrical portion that actually fires the electric blasting cap/detonator is very well shielded. Currently the military uses shock tubes, rather than electrical wires, time fuse, or det cord. This is a narrow plastic tube lined with RDX. A blasting cap sets it off, a detonation wave travels inside the tube from one end to the other, and the cap on the other end detonates the explosive charge. That second article of the bill of rights, the one that says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed because a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state? Keep in mind that it recognizes a right, and forbids the federals to violate it, but that this right and others are also covered by the ninth and tenth articles. Furthermore, keep is not the same as bear. Bear arms means to wear or carry and to use. Finally, arms does not mean firearms alone. It means weapons (including bayonets and other arms) and ammunition, as well as helmets and other armor. Have you ever heard the term armed at all points? The idea that, OK, the right to keep arms is more than a state right to have a state militia; but is not really an individual right either because it is about people having guns for when they are called up for militia duty is silly. The fact is that individuals had the guns and were free to use them for any noncriminal purpose militia preparedness notwithstanding. The Feds have no constitutional powers with regard to self defense, target shooting, hunting or gunsmithing. Look for it. The founder's writings contain remarks that prove they knew individuals had every right to own weapons and to defend themselves. But all the studies show [lie!] that the availability of small arms makes conflict more deadly! Oh my God. If all factory owners, governments, militaries, paramilitaries, terrorists and gangs were truly unable to acquire firearms then an armed citizenry could inflict higher losses on them. They would have to fight with only airpower and artillery, and the like. That would make them vulnerable in the close fight. It is to laugh. If the people without corporate, governmental, or organized crime connections could truly be deprived of firearms then tyranny would be even more ascendant than it is. But this is all drivel anyway. You are talking about gun control laws, not an actual end to arms. What will you do with the country, group or person who breaks the law? Attack him with arms and kill him before he uses his arms to kill you. A wonderful decrease in deadliness is incurred! Morons. "Yes? I suppose you think your next door neighbor should be allowed to have a nuclear bomb too!"

Oh my. And how many of your neighbors are on the market for such? They are bloody expensive, very difficult to make and more lethal than helpful to amateurs who try to roll their own. If there were signs that a person was trying arm himself in such a manner any investigation would almost certainly show conspiracy to use said weapon criminally and raids would ensue. I say indiscriminate infectious biologicals and city/region destroying warheads should be banned. Perhaps this should lead to a proper constitutional amendment to that effect. However, I can tell you two true things now: If such amendment was made under today's ingrained mental and moral stupidity you would find that weapons of indiscriminate and mass destruction (murder of noncombatants) now include non-sporting firearms; and, dumbass, my firearms are what you are after. My weapons " made only for killing" are not nukes! Nor atomic bombs, they are not the same things. So after all that, "My rifle is not a nuclear bomb." Good God, that means you think people should be allowed to have tanks. Well certainly, although very few families could afford to buy and maintain a modern tank. It works like this, if a rich nut goes on a rampage with his tank before anybody got around to reporting his madness his fellows, the state and the feds could take him down. If there was a revolution it would be effective as a conventional war if and only if it was a very popular. Should a state run wild both the locals and the feds would put it down. Finally, if the fed and part of the states violated the compact citizens and the other states would be a real problem for them. I think people should be "allowed" to have explosives, and in your mind that radical thinking justifies your belief that pocket pistols need to be banned. I do support gun control, the above notwithstanding. Slaves and prisoners should not be armed, nor should small children and lunatics (sorry kids). While it is true that armed societies tend toward being polite societies, when things get out of hand and some level of warfare breaks out (because some group of punks can't stop pushing, or wants it that way) then I am all for shooting the enemy and taking his guns. Firearms are not for defense because they are designed for killing people... Uh huh. Firearms are designed for many things. Killing people is one. Some advice: when someone is seriously trying to kill you with a lethal weapon, never, not ever if at all possible, ought you to defend with a less-lethal weapon. If you do this you give him every psychological and material advantage. And if there was a truly effective and safe nonlethal, which there is not, imagine how it would work. If all lethal weapons could actually be effectively banned and both you and the mental defective used the nifty nonlethal defender one of you would probably get in the first shot. If you then he would go in for his latest mental evaluation. If he then you would be down and he would saunter over and stand on your neck for awhile. Less lethal means are for countering even less forceful less lethal attacks, for taking down a potentially dangerous subject when you have armed backup should lethal force be required, and for distraction, disorientation, and harassment of the oppos during lethal combat. Gun control would work if you could make every person nonviolent, and if you did that gun control would be completely unneeded. You cannot control all our minds. Bothers you, eh? Anyhow, a truly effective and safe knockout gun would be banned for civilian use as too useful a tool for muggers. Men with rights carried swords of old, today they carry handguns. You are afraid of the laws? If you live in a red state or city and can't bear arms, you he-man you, do this. Handguns, batons, Tasers, large knives and automatic knives and sometimes defense sprays and stun guns are banned? Carry a locking folder of legal length, a short stick on the key chain, pepper spray, a small stun gun. No handcuffs or flex cuffs? Carry an industrial zip tie. No spear or firearm, ha ha? How ever can you dance and make threatening sounds without your spear? The tire iron in your car can be thrown or used as a spike or bludgeon. Carry a dense, smooth river stone of suitable size in the pocket. You so crazy! I would actually prefer it if modern weapons could be removed from society. Big, fast and strong men could fight better with baseball bat and spear (I do love those shovel handle with securely wire wrapped on butcher knife things) than the weaklings could. If I lived inside a totalitarian country

where all weapons had been removed I would love to take on the disarmed police with my sharpened broom stick and plywood shield. A sling can be made with two pieces of rope, and a stiff piece of cloth. Stones are everywhere. Slingshots: a crooked stick, surgical rubber tubing and steel ball bearings. How hard can it be? Lovely places like Mexico North (California) ban anything a putz like you might misuse, or use properly, as the case might be. I doubt you are as stupid as the police who fired pyrotechnic CS into a vapor filled house. What about the officers who apprehended a mental who had doused himself with gasoline by shooting him with a Taser? One spark and instant crispy critter. Blackjacks, saps, corn knives, daggers, automatic (switchblade) knives, nightsticks, stun guns and batons, Tasers, chemical sprays; certain firearms, ammunition and magazines (feeding devices), explosives, bullet resistant vests, and the list goes on. It has worked really well, too. (Buy a Benchmade automatic knife. Good knives and good people. Buy an FN FAL, a good basic infantry rifle.) England has taken to having knife buy-backs rather than gun. It is funny how you can buy back something you never had. If you don't want the risk of importing or buying these evil things, well, do you really need them? Some, perhaps. However, railroad spikes and large construction nails are handy. There are some dandy hunting and kitchen knives. Several sturdy socks tied around a bar of soap or a flat and heavy river stone, anyone? Nightsticks of hardwood are easy to make. Do you have a baseball bat? A ball peen hammer? A pitchfork? A hairspray squirt to the eyes is always good, though it will do more eye damage than Mace. Have you ever heard of cattle prods? A simple stun gun is rather easy to assemble for yourself. Even a bolt action rifle can be used much more effectively than those stooges think, and certain long-range big game rifles, plus varmint rifles if small or micro caliber is OK, make good sharpshooting rifles. You can do quite a lot if you keep some Pyrodex, black powder, and shotgun powder and primers at hand. Black powder is easy to make. Stored safely now! (Though these are more a fire than explosive hazard, and complete cartridges in storage do not produce high velocity projectiles (uncontained in any chamber, the cases just split but the primer is expelled). Sometimes the right amount of packaged powder will detonate if hit by a bullet fired from a rifle, however, due to a degree of containment offered by the weight of the powder above, and beware of flash powder and primary explosives. An unconfined pound of flash powder will blow up your shed, and primary explosives must be stored in much smaller quantities. That is to say that propellants in the usual quantities and packaging are inflammable; for you youngsters flammable.) (And perishable is not the same as fragile, nor is imply the same as intimate.) Lighter fluid is cool, kerosene also, or gasoline and motor oil. You can even make a decent vest with certain metal plates, or layers of hightech fabrics or fibers used, for example, in the boat making industry. Package it tightly in a pair of nice panel holders, and there you have it! Test these things before you use them, man! Almost anything can be mishandled. Water can be drunk to the point of poisoning you, and you can drown in it. Black powder can be dangerous if mishandled. A commercial can is small enough, and unconfined enough, to burn the hell out of your hands instead of blowing you up if ignited. Commercial powders are coated with graphite, etc. also, to reduce the chance of sparking from static electricity. While it is not as powerful as high explosives are, it is more sensitive. When you use large amounts of powder for blasting or strongly confined charges such as in iron tubes an accident can be fatal. A spark, a touch when carrying a static charge, pouring large amounts of powder from one container to another is a bad thing. Homemade powder is even more sensitive. Be wary of directly igniting fuels, and of vapor buildup; and note that black powder flares more violently than smokeless. You all know, naturally, that gunpowder has not been a powder since they first started corning black powder long ago, and that smokeless powders are balls, disks, perforated tubes and whatnot of various sizes and uses. Smokeless powders still make smoke. Some more than others. Black powder still produces a large cloud of dense white smoke though. Well, you don't need arms anyway, because small arms could never defend you against a

government anyhow! A blatant disregard for the direct wording of the Constitution, oh well. Leaves you unarmed in the face of an armed individual criminal too. Sacrifices must be made. This contradicts the previous argument, unless you think that deadliness only harms the general population and not criminals, police or armed forces. (Yes, I am talking about criminals supported by corrupt government types. International terrorists, organized crime, corrupt corporations and major insurgencies ALWAYS are.) Ask the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, and others, if firearms are of any use to them. With guns you can go get explosives, with explosives you can...blow things up! Just make some Mexican Mafia contacts and have them bring you some nice Chinese AK47s. Real ones, not the semiautomatic assault weapon variants. Fucking Mexican Mob. Y'all drug dealers do something useful for a change. Start putting your ammunition smuggling networks together. Thank you. The gov is allowed by the constitution to regulate interstate and international trade so it would be legal to ban or tax certain goods until most people would be unable to publish, keep arms, practice their religion and the rest. Not at all. They have no rights, they have designated powers and duties, and no amount of trickery and indirection empowers them to violate a citizen's rights. They can't use legal powers to legally break the legal restrictions placed on them. Lawyer speak notwithstanding and full stop. Disarmament does not work well on those who who have not been killed, incapacitated, or imprisoned. Effective gun control is mind controlthose who believe all laws must be obeyed and those who believe eternal peace is at hand are the ones fooled. What about that well regulated part, Nazi! As if the Nazis had no gun control laws. Look up regulated in an old dictionary, one printed before our modern love of regulatory agencies: the fourth branch of government, or is that Halliburton or CBS? What does it say? To subject to law, to put in good order, to maintain. Which of these and to what degree do you think would not infringe? Notice that the right is not the militia, it is the arms. The militia is the right guaranteed by the right being guaranteed. It is the militia that is regulated, and not the arms or the people keeping arms. However, the militia is also the people. What kind of law do you subject the people to while putting them in good order and maintaining them as an armed militia? To maintain the right to have arms in order to maintain the militia in order to maintain the people's ability to defend themselves and their state in order to maintain life, property, and constitutional government. Defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic you twofaced fuckers! Please! The national guard is not the people. It is a select militia and one that has been completely federalized. Congress has even pretended to law that authorizes federal call-ups for state disasters without the permission of the state in question. Remember who you are. Some say; since the constitution provides for congressional regulation of the militia, and the second amendment (and amendments trump the body of the thing amended) itself mentions regulated militia, that the second of the amendments itself authorizes regulation of the people's arms by the federal government. Ha! The militia is the majority of the body of male citizens, or more to the point is the base from which well regulated militia are supposed to come. The one specific regulation banned by the amendment itself is any federal law infringing on the citizen's right to keep arms. They thought the source of citizen's militia would dry up if people were disarmed. For those of you who think the 9th and 10th articles do not apply to gun control because the constitution enumerates federal controls over the militia: consider the preceding paragraph. There is no constitutional authority for federal gun control of any kind. There is very little federal authority for crime control as well. They have the right to seize enemy ordnance and munitions, and to disarm enemy prisoners, during declared wars and insurrections. They have the right, as long as their actions are constitutional, to control foreign affairs, piracy, counterfeiting and treason. American's have always had the right to arms and defense of their own, and that right is, technically, protected by articles 2, 9

and 10. In reality, of course, a legal right is only a protection when there are those both willing and able to enforce it. Come now! Be reasonable. Taking away the right to keep and bear arms may be unconstitutional, but registration is OK, and what about military style arms? Really, and what is the purpose of registration? 1. To have a list of people and their guns so you will know who to go to when you ban some or all types of firearms. Unconstitutional. 2. To have a list of guns in case a gun turns up at a crime scene. Unconstitutional. Denial of a right unless you agree to a warrantless seizure of information. Also, the files are out of date and inaccurate, and only list guns owned by those who try to comply. 3. The ability to deny permission to those with poor records, and to check up on people periodically. Unconstitutional. Requires previous permission to exercise a right. Usually also denies those it denies administratively, rather than through due process. You people are twisters. You want it both ways. The laws about who can own machine guns was an end run on the Constitution. It was presented as a tax law, and is used both to register and to deny people by refusing to accept their tax payments. This is like refusing a person land ownership by refusing his property tax payment and then taking his land for tax delinquency. (Property taxes are idiotic anyway. Minimal necessary taxes on commerce is one thing, but to tax property which may not be a direct source of income? Of course income taxes are bad for a different reasonthey give government an excuse to monitor and manipulate people. The social planners love property taxes because they do not believe in private ownership and such taxes do allow them to sell your land if you miss payments and this allows them to put land in the hands of those more worthy, and the sale value of your land in their pockets.) Military style firearms? The 2nd Article is about military arms primarily. The 9th and 10th Articles protect both sporting and military arms as well. The Miller case held, absurdly, that firearms can be banned if they are not military types. Specifically in that case, short-barreled shotguns were not considered military and could be banned. Then the so-called assault weapons ban came along and you said it was legal because it only applied to military style guns. Most federal agencies are illegal. None of them are very legitimate as police. It is hilarious when some loser from IRS shows up in body armor with police written in giant letters on his back. Christians in Action, the boys and girls at no such agency, the feebs, T-men; even the bat fags, would have a role to play if they stuck to national defense and even-handed and legal excise enforcement. They do not. When the feebs were created they knew everybody else knew they were operating under weak legal cover so they did not call themselves police and did not even carry firearms. They talked the locals into making the arrests. Look at them now. Sticky fingered narcs. The traitors in the border patrol. Central government and higher authority. Give punks an inch and what happens? Bow ye, bow ye, bow ye down before the light of the world. Call no man master; sensei, rabbi. Offer nobody legitimately offensive treatment. Bow to nobody, kneel to no one. Sacrifice is evil. Do not bow to man nor spirit. Power alone does not equal virtue. Listen for truth, not to threat and abuse. Be the willow, be the dog? Live for treats and caresses. Love your master for his cuffs and for his kicks because he chooses not to do worse. Dogs. See the smirking servants jostle for rank! See the Americans learn to bow and walk backwards in order to greet a foreign queen who deigns to visit the land of the sorta free and kinda brave? Dogs. Remember too that citizens of other countries and Americans that accept rank under foreign authority are Americans no more. Do you see the people who prove their importance by showing you the number of permissions they have received? Diplomas, certifications, licenses, permits and approvals. False and entailed deeds that are actually permissions. Privileges. Registrations and identifications. Credit cards. Passes and access codes. What is in your wallet, dog? I have more tags on my collar than you do. A sensible judge says, I see the evidence you have brought me is solid, the suspects do appear to be attempting an attack on freedom and constitutional government. Here are the warrants. Arrest them, disarm them and bring in any other material evidence found there. Judge Backbiter says, I see you have banned all arms save two, and no ammunition is allowed.

You have allowed licensed persons to own one model of 19th century black powder revolver, and one type of medieval helmet. Well, this is no complete infringement on a right or legal privilege to bear arms, and there is a sort of current emergency or governmentally important interest involved. Make exceptions for police, military and judicial bodyguards and I will allow it. How soon the federal knife controls? Knives and other bladed weapons make some of the most massive and debilitating wounds of any weapons. They require closing with the enemy to a degree usually neither necessary or wise, but even a small pocket knife can produce deep slashes easily. Just don't hold that kind of knife improperly, though, or it will close on your fingers. Lethal wounds to most areas of the body require about three inches of penetration. This does not apply to the throat, or eyes. Do not use a knife for sentry removal. Do not creep up and slit a throat. One of the best lowtech tools for this job is a hefty ball-peen hammer with a longish handle. Slam it into the top of his head from behind and put him down faster than 9mm bullets would. 80% of the time he dies, the other 20% of the time he falls unconscious. Knife resistant vests are different than soft (flexible) bullet resistant vests, there are combination vests which are more bulky, as well as vests with added stun gun resistance. Why is this? Some materials are hard to push a pin through, but a pin can be easily jabbed through it. Others are easy to push into, but bend the pin if you jab. Most flexible armor materials flex and pull when hit violently which uses up the bullet's energy, but if you push slowly into it the fibers can be separated and penetration occurs. If you want to go through flexible armor use a pointy knife with sharp edges. Serrated is good. Jab and then put your weight into it. Be careful if the knife has no guard, as your hand may slide down the blade. Do not try this on rigid plates. Ice picks create more friction as they have no edges. As an example, the current Marine Corps bayonet has tested well on soft armor. The human skin is more resistant than the underlying muscle, but a sharp knife makes it seem as though you have simply unzipped it. The body just unzips, it even sounds like a zipper with very small teeth being opened. When the knife is punched in soft tissue will be compressed by the hand and this, as well as the handle following the blade into the gap, can produce surprisingly deep wounds. Nevertheless, stabs are fatal more often than cuts, multiple stabs are even better. The results are not pleasant. They had better be justifiable. It is not just the suffering and\or dying. The sounds and smells are not enjoyable. You will be bled on. It is interesting how many feet pulses of blood from a damaged artery will travel. Any wound into the abdominal cavity will result in the protrusion of intestines. Blood, feces, urine and intestinal contents all smell bad. Cooling flesh has a smell of its own, which changes once the cooling is complete. It is a very rank and noisome odor. Blood! Bah. Fresh blood itself does not have much of a smell to it. The next time you get a little cut try detecting the scent of blood. I doubt you will smell anything even with your nose nearly in it. Animals smell it very easily. Humans do not. A fact about knives: young people tend to take risks and they get cut. Do not point a knife at any part of your body or at anybody else you do not want to stab, if you trip or fall bad things occur. When cutting something keep the knife edge facing away. I don't care how unlikely you think a slip is because if you keep leaving your flesh in the path of the blade it will eventually get cut. Ah well, nothing was permanently removed and the feeling in that appendage probably will come back in a few months. We hope. (Pressure, sometimes just a thumb, on a wound in an extremity containing a nicked artery will work. A severed artery or one bleeding into a cavity is a problem. How many people can clamp off an artery and repair it? Even if you have a tube handy {such as a pen barrel} for temporary bleeding control it is not easy to get it inserted in both ends of the severed artery, even if of a suitable size. Look into emergency bleeding control. Cloth folded into a wide constriction band, packing and direct pressure, pressure points and elevation; as well as the risks of these methods.)

If any of this gives you a thrill then you have sadistic tendencies. Control it, or get into another line of work. Yes, there are people who are sexually stimulated by injury or death. Usually it involves domination of pleading or scantily clad victims. This kind of thing is more common in the abstract than when faced with the reality. Observe the popularity of gruesome vampire novels. Yes, there is rape on the battlefield. Not during firefights but during lulls in the fighting. Soldiers who want sex and think they will be dead tomorrow can lack impulse control. Hatred and fear can result in a need for sexual domination. (Rape is about sex, but also violence. It is sexual violence you see.) The idea that sex is craved after killing because it affirms life is mostly crap. When great stress is ended people want to blow off steam. This may involve sex, or it may consist of drinking and generally rowdy behavior, but the most common immediate reaction after a battle is to want to sleep for 12 hours. The stupid belief that fighting gives men as a group an erection is crap. Soldiers are focused on survival during a fight. Sex never even comes to mind. Some find that they have urinated during the fight. Damn few discover any tumescence afterward. Strength is weakness. Anger is fear. Everything is sexual, including cigars and combat. War is peace and homosexuals have longer and more stable relationships, while straight men hate women...sure. Breeders! A violent death can leave a corpse with an erection. It is most common when the brain or spinal cord is damaged. A discharge may be present but is as likely to be urine or blood as anything else. This is not about sex. It is just a physiological fact. It is also common to try to counter pain by applying pressure to a wound or rubbing another part of the body. This may help because the sensation distracts the nervous system to an extent. Sometimes when people are dying they counter one pain by clawing at or grasping another body part, even the penis at times. This too has nothing to do with sex. Go read some more erotic horror, the realities are not for you if you think everything is sexual. Do not allow people to stand close to you. Stand five feet away. Be aware of the content of hands and suspicious of hidden hands. If you are near and a person lifts a hand he can touch you before you can react. If that hand has a knife in it you will be stabbed. A knife should be large but not unbalanced or clumsy, and as small as it needs to be in order that it can be carried. Two edges are better than one, and there should be at least some curve to the edges, but most folding knife blades must be single edged. Folding knives should open quickly and lock solidly. Never buy cheap stainless steel knives. High quality stainless is OK and will slow but not stop corrosion. The best knives are quality carbon steel that has been properly tempered. It is tough and flexible, and takes a sharp edge. Variable tempering is the best. Yes, you have to keep the blade clean and covered with a film of preservative. Are you going to be spending two weeks in a swamp? Oh, you are? Never mind. Sykes, Applegate, Gerber: ease of carry along with good stabbing ability and defensive slashing in both directions. Sykes is a bit fragile. Tanto: armor piercing knife. Ka-Bar: general fighting knife. The sheath must be secure and fast. Your use of the knife sudden and continuous. Hold it fingers down and thumb near the guard, keep it moving and never leave it out in an extended position. If you leave something hanging out it will get sliced off. Turn the blade sideways when stabbing into the ribs or behind the collar bone, but do not grapple with the guy unless you have to. Do slice up any body parts he leaves hanging in front of you. You ought not be using a knife against a man with another knife, a cudgel or a firearm. But emergencies do occur. Remember that; while you may have to block, parry, deflect or slap a weapon, and that a counterattack into an opening is often best; stepping, slipping and turning the body is important and you are not there to fight a weapon but to fight a person. Look at him, at what is in his hands, but do not focus on only his hands or eyes. Then look at him generally, do not focus on any particular part. You need to know when he shifts his weight, how he is moving, and when his shoulder drops; or torso twists, or his hands move; keeping track of his weapon(s). He may step in or even lunge. Take advantage of any openings if you will be able to get in

and back out quickly enough, but if he is fast he may fake you out. He may just come in jabbing and slashing like a hailstorm. Did I mention that this kind of force-on-force thing is foolish? If he blocks your knife hand instantly rotate your wrist over or under and stab repeatedly or slice his wrist. If the blocking hand holds his knife withdraw or avoid it, or slap or hold his wrist with your offside hand as you stab him. Stay in motion, keep the knife moving and your arm retracted when not inflicting a wound. Do not play the parry blade to blade game, but in desperation... Know that parrying edge to wrist is good, but that sharp edged blades parry with the flat against another blade. Slap with the side just back from the point. Parry or block with the flat just forward of the hilt. Blocking is bad joss, especially just forward of the grip if there is no guard. (What makes you think your parry will even catch his moving blade, anyway?) Your left arm protects your chest and neck, in close, when not otherwise engaged. Do not leave it out front or it will get hit. Hell, knife vs. knife and you will get hurt, anyway. Gardens are a good idea, using heritage seeds if possible. Gardens noticeable from the air can give you away. Snares and silent methods of hunting are good. Bows/crossbows. In such circumstances the more powerful compressed-air guns are excellent for hunting small game. With swords parrying is both doable and important, though you still should focus on the target, and parry only when it is useful or necessary. The sword is a truly lethal close combat weapon but it is large and cannot match a pistol unless inside about 6 feet of the opponent. It is not worth carrying in the field as a result of these factors although it also has the advantage of needing no ammunition. It can be very effective still in home defense. When armed thugs break your door rush them with a SWAT bullet resistant shield tucked against the body for maximum coverage, and the sword upright and back with the pommel just visible above your eyes. Bring the sword down forcefully so that the edge about 1/3 back hits the junction of neck and shoulder, and repeat. The arms and legs are also always a good target when fighting a skilled and armed and armored enemy, especially the lower legs if he has a shield. This kind of thing assumes a fairly high ceiling and a real carbon steel sword with a good edge and a hilt that will not fall off at the first blow. With a low ceiling hold the sword with your elbow down and bent, and the sword point aimed at the intruder's eyes. Then thrust above or below any plate armor. Do not stop there, but only when all opponents are out of the action. Have fun. Keep the edge of an edged weapon facing away from self. Ever heard of falling on your own sword? What about having your weapon knocked back into your body? Is it true that sword dancing at Highland Games is out of favor due to the ban on swords? Will the madness ever end? Speaking of home defense, you can drive off a belligerent trespasser who refuses to leave with a sjambok, and if harassed by paintball or BB/pellet gun users a shotgun marked and set up for rubber shot is very handy. 37mm launchers are not regulated by the fed but much of its ammunition is. When using riot projectiles do remember to shoot at legs and torsos, and not to shoot when inside the dangerous range of the particular cartridge. Riot munitions are useful against rock throwers as well, but someone with a lethal weapon should back you up anytime you use them in case someone decides to play dangerously. Genetics, disease and stress may drive you mad, but reality will also; as will a half brick to the head. So, if people will persist in running up close and rearing back to fling fist sized stones at your head just shoot them dead. The mind you save may be your own. The handgun! A true warrior's weapon! Well, I am not big on that warrior shit. Do not, by the way, listen to the folks who say things like be one with the weapon. Nobody is one with the universe, or with God, and you are definitely one flesh with your wife, eh? You all must look right funny. You and your peashooter will never be one being. Also do not take the old do not think and empty your mind concepts too seriously. If your mind was empty you would be dead, thinking is kind of important for some of us. All you need to know is that you must be practiced in the handling of a handgun that is not too big or heavy for you, and that you need to concentrate on the job at hand.

A fumble is more likely if you rethink consciously every step of an already learned physical skill. Just do it the way you trained to do it. And thinking about other things, or worrying, while in the middle of a firefight will really slow you down. That mind of yours can only process so much in those few seconds, so worrying about how all this is going to look to your girlfriend can wait. Do not think things will work the way they do in idiotic books and movies. Cars do not explode that way. (Fuel tanks may explode if the vapor in a partially filled tank is ignited, but they normally just split and burn. They often do not burn at all when punctured by non-pyrotechnic bullets.) Explosions don't look like that (most movie explosions are mere fireballs repeated thrice). You cannot trace calls or computers the way movies would have it (no need to wait, the 'phone companies know which connections are made in computerized networks); fist fights do not work that way (hammering to no effect followed by a sudden one punch knockout by the hero, who is unmarked the next day), nor does lock picking (you need a pick and a wrench in order to keep tension on while pushing pins up one-byone), and bullets do not lift people off their feet. Shooting the locks out of doors may take multiple shots and is a real bullet splatter hazard (but a shotgun using frangible breaching slugs can make short work of locks and hinges if you use the correct aim points and standoff, which is a matter of some inches.) You keep hitting people in the head hard enough to knock them out, if they are knocked out, and you will eventually kill someone, and concussions cause brain damage in various degrees. In fact it always does but not always to a noticeable degree. Only the largest trees will stop rifle bullets. If you leave someone gagged they may suffocate. And if you chloroform a person you may overdose them, they will be sick as a dog (which can be terrible if they are gagged and vomit) and their skin will be burned. You watch movies, yeah, so you know American street gangs are the equal opportunity employers of disaffected youth. Most gangs have Hispanic, Asian and both black and white members. The meanest leaders are always white guys with makeup or really strange hair, though, and the worst behavior, like murder, torture and selling hard drugs to children is easily traced to all white gangs and gang leaders with milky skin and both bright blond hair and spooky pale blue eyes. Criminal biker clubs do exist after all. Politically correct; there is no end to it, I tell you! There are gangs in Cali that are large networks made up of 60% illegals and the rest the children of immigrants. They mostly brutalize their own people, or each other, but by no means always. Most street gangs are made up of blacks or Hispanics, with some Asian or white gangs. Probably 80% of the violent crime in the SW would go away if they did. Yeah, but it is our fault. Not theirs. For example, if we did not buy drugs illegally they would not sell drugs illegally. Sure. Mobsters are great guys. They don't take over legal businesses like construction or garbage disposal if they get bored with illegal work. They don't then run those businesses illegally. Right? Different drug laws would help. So would social reform and immigration controls, as would taking them on instead of hiding from them. White flight. Sometimes smart but mostly cowardice. Soldier squinted into the dust, as loud booms shook everything around him. The bunker was nearly dark. They were taking losses, damn it. Time for the artillery final protective fire. He could make out the radio, but where was the handset? It was missing. He searched, feeling the frustration build. He jerked awake, gasped once, and sat up in bed. He was soaked in sweat. He got up, showered and dressed, and walked down the sidewalk. It was still dark. As he approached the corner he saw a group of youths in baggy sports gear. They stared, and one said, "Hey white man! Where you think you goin'?" Too many to take down by hand, though the rest would probably run if he crushed the throat of the first. He flashed back on a face splitting under the impact of an entrenching tool. He ignored some further catcalls and hand gestures and strode past them, but far enough away that the nearest would have to take several steps to cold cock him in the back of the head. There were more people around as he entered the parking lot near the coffee shop. Near the entrance stood a young guy in a jean jacket. "Hey man, got a cigarette?" he asked. Soldier did not

understand him due to his Cali accent, soft voice, and the effect past loud noises had had on his hearing. The guy repeated the question more loudly. Soldier stopped and gave him a cigarette. The kid looked at his blank face and still posture. He obviously decided Soldier was kinda slow. He grinned. "What would you do if I kicked this trash can over right now, dude?" "It is not my trash can," Soldier said as he walked into the cafe. He took a seat inside as Maddy the waitress came up. He smiled. "Black coffee, please." She smiled back, but her smile was slightly strained as it always was. She seemed to think him a trifle odd. If he were her small nephew she might have said, "What a solemn little boy!" as she pinched his cheek. As it was he was merely potential trouble, so she just went for the coffee. Yet she decided to ask him for an escort to her car when her shift ended in a few minutes. Yet America is not the most violent country in the world, not by a long shot. It is one of the most heavily armed. The white violent crime rate compares pretty well with Canada's rate. Go look at a list of murder rates by country. Look at the target. When you have to take the shot while the enemy is near a noncombatant, such as when shooting a hostage taker who is using a human shield, you will be tempted to focus on the thing you do not want to shoot. Do not do it. The need to watch the hostage, in case he is moved into your line of fire, is understandable; but trying to aim at the target's head while simultaneously concentrating on what you must not shoot is like missing trees while skiing. If you stare at the tree instead of your selected path you are more likely to hit that tree. It feels almost like a physical pull on your weapon, like a giant magnet, and will cause you to hit much closer to the hostage than you expect. Look at the shooter, and the hostage, and decide if you can or must take the shot. Focus on the target and shoot, only aborting the shot if something comes in to block your line of sight before the shot is away. Shoot him at the top of his nose, in the ear, or at the base of the skull. If he is too far away for that you may have to shoot him in the center of his upper chest (below the throat and above the nipples). Try to take that shot when he is not holding his pistol to the hostages head, or is glancing away. Aim high if using a carbine with high-mounted sights, and the range is very short. A similar thing occurs when you see the opposition is armed and start shooting at him. You are focused on his weapon and end up shooting at it instead of him. When you shoot you should look at what you want to hit. At night aim slightly down and to the right of the muzzle flashes. Hope he wasn't left handed! At longer ranges just aim at the flashes and go rapid fire. It is nice if he has no flash hider and self blinding high-flash ammunition. You should buy a damned night scope! At least tritium night sights or an illuminated red dot sight. You have to be fast, but don't bother shooting faster than you can shoot accurately. You will not be able to miss fast enough to defeat your opponent. No number of misses will be of any use against a threat up close and personal. Shooting too slowly not only may get you shot, it also makes you less accurate. When the sights are on and it feels right fire now. Delay and you start to question your aim point, and it will change anyway as your hands will not be perfectly still. This does not imply that you should rush the shot by jerking the trigger if you must do so to fire at the precise time you would wish to. Now it is true that you have already failed once if a sudden close-in threat requires the use of the handgun. An even greater failure if the weapon must be drawn rather than fired from the hand already holding it. Why is this? Should we have avoided all danger; have left all scum free to do as they will? No! Also, since we cannot control everything, errors are inevitable. This is the question: why were you taken by surprise? Or, why is this enemy not known, or not yet dealt with more efficiently? You see? The handgun is holstered securely. The holster has a good thumbbreak and possibly one, or more, anti-snatch features. Here is a threat needing an immediate lethal response. The hand drops over and down onto the grip of the pistol. Directly and smoothly. Thumb the thumbbreak tab to the side, as much down as out. The web of the thumb pinches the grip as high as

possible without being in the path of the hammer or slide. Wrist in line. Always in the same place! Your eyes are on the threat. Always! Your off hand is against your body, or is perhaps releasing a security feature of the holster. Now you draw straight up. (This may vary with some holsters.) Some retention holsters require twisting the pistol or pressing in with the middle finger of the gun hand. Some holsters seem to be designed to keep you from shooting anyone at all. When the pistol is free you complete your grip, but the trigger finger is lying forward along the frame. A firm grip with the pistol in line with the wrist, not twisted in the hand. Comfortable. (Level 4? Level 5? A standard level 3 holster might have a thumb break, internal lock on the ejection port or trigger guard, and an external tab to press. But there are many possible features to deactivate, some by pushing the pistol down before the draw, others by twisting or drawing to the side, front or rear, or straight up relative to the alignment of the holster. The idea is that an attacker will seldom know or remember how to use a holster he does not own making it hard for him to draw your gun before you do.) The best holster is one that works well, stays where you put it, and will never lose the handgun if you have to roll on the ground. For the rest of it, it is your job to keep rear snatch attempts blocked, to keep track of possible threats, and to defend your pistol with immediate force. There is nothing wrong with stabbing an attacker, or shooting him if he struggles with you for control of your gun. Arrest and cuff these people if you can. Bring the weapon up and forward, smoothly and directly. When the muzzle is forward of the off hand the offside hand comes up to join the other handthumb over thumb and fingers over fingers, you may acquire a nice smooth rotation around where the thumbs join (or thumb under thumb, whatever works). Eyes always on the target! Thumb over thumb is best for revolvers. Thumb tightly against and under thumb gives better recoil recovery with semiautomatic pistols, but may not be as smooth otherwise. The thumb of the shooting hand should be resting on the safety of 1911 style pistols. You thumb off the safety as the hands continue bring the weapon up before the eyes and onto the target. Extend the pistol as you raise it. If you place it literally right in front of your eye it will hit you in the head when fired. The sights, especially the front sight, are brought up to the eyes, interposed between you and the target. Do not drop the head, no unneeded movements. Find the front sight as it comes up, the threat may blur a bit, but eyes always on the threat. We always know where that front sight is, except briefly while under recoil. Both eyes are open, if the target appears double use the inside image. If you see the weapon double-imaged use the inside image. Front and rear sights aligned, even on top and equal space on the sides. The place you want to hit just above the front sight. A small error in sight alignment is much worse than a small error in centering your aim on the target. Jolly good. As you do this pull back with the supporting hand and resist this pressure with the shooting arm. Not too hard, don't induce any trembling. This is to improve stability, not to resist recoil. Wrist straight. Note that if you do not resist the recoil enough an autoloader may not cycle and you will have to operate the slide by hand after the shot. If you shoot isosceles tilt the wrists enough to direct recoil into the center of the triangle. Weaver may be faster for you overall, but isosceles controls recoil better. You make a triangle, with elbows slightly bent, instead of having the offside elbow down. Night sights or a flashlight are required for shooting in the dark. You need to identify a threat, and then hit it properly. Hold the light so that you can place it under the shooting wrist and then up beside the pistol. Push up with the bottom wrist and down with the top. Turn on the flashlight and carry on. There are other methods and various types of shooting lights. A push for light and release for light off button either on the neck or base of the flashlight is excellent. There are lights to mount on the pistol. Use whatever you like best. In a nighttime firefight a rifle or pistol without night sights is virtually useless because it is hard

to see an enemy soldier and then, even worse, you can't even see the muzzle of your weapon when you try to aim at him. Aim low and shotgun style, eh? Hell, at a minimum put some luminous paint on the sights. That way you know, at least, that you are shooting where you think he may be. Laser sights (pointer) are slower than illuminated sights for many people because looking through the sights is faster than looking for the laser spot and then moving it over to the target. The laser may be red, or green which is brighter. While you do have to track moving targets, with no real lead required at short range, you will have better control when coming up onto the target area rather than from the side. This is useful to know when you switch from one target to another. Should you be in some kind of stance? Legs comfortably apart, shooting-side foot back? Do you take a breath, release and pause before you shoot? Not really. Those things are useful for accurate shooting, but you need to be able to shoot from any position in which you find yourself. Legs spread and gun-side leg back about shoulder width is standard, with knees slightly bent. Do not take the time for this if time is too short. Place your finger on the trigger. On the center of the trigger with the center of the pad of the trigger finger, from this point on the finger is always lightly in contact with the trigger. If the trigger is a poor one you may have to insert more finger because you need to apply more force without jerking the pistol. Usually the trigger is over against the first joint. Make sure this does not pull the weapon to the side as you fire. Get a better pistol. Here is a truth. You do not stand still when you shoot. You are faster and more accurate if you do not move, but others will be shooting at you as well. With training you can shoot well while moving smoothly and you are harder to hit. When you look at something, except friendlies, the weapon points at the thing you look at. You use any available cover and you glide your feet smoothly as you move to the side, or to the front or rear at an angle. Don't trip yourself up now! Crossing your feet up is a little risky, do not do it if the feet are close together. If you go down remove your finger from inside the trigger guard, let your legs bend or fold and try to come down on your behind or back using the heal of your palms or the back of your upper arms to reduce the force of the fall if needed. Avoid bouncing your head off things. Resume shooting when it is safe, never point the pistol at your own leg. You always watch the threat, you always have the front sight on target, and an actual sight picture on target if you do not fall or move too fast. Shoot, keep shooting, and keep moving. Get a sight picture good enough for that target at that range (sometimes that means merely jamming the pistol against the guy, but some autopistols will unlock under the pressure) and press the trigger directly backno jerking and no pulling to one side or the other. With a rifle in the prone position you can hold absolutely still, the sights will rise and fall on the target, absolutely straight up and down, only when you breath out and in. Pistols will not be still for any length of time. With practice you will become steady, more than you may expect. Shoot when the aim moves to the place you want; close enough. Focus on the front sight and stop breathing for a more precise aim, if needed. If your eyes are not very good you may get a sharper focus by looking through the sights just below the edge of the bill of your cap. No squeeze for a surprise break to foil flinching. You see the position of your sights when the shot goes off, you know if adjustments need be made. If you don't know where the bullet went you are flinching or not paying attention. (Get a .22 and practice watching the target get hit until you've cured that nonsense. Dry fire also. It is telling if you load a flincher's pistol with a mix of dummy and live cartridges.) Find the front sight as it comes back down and shoot as soon as the aim is good enough. When the shot is fired you do not take your finger off the trigger, you release pressure on the trigger until it resets. You will feel it, and may hear the click. Stop only when the threat is over. Precise aim and breath control is for target shooters and snipers. Trigger control, some follow through, and recoil control is for everyone, but not the kind of trigger control that requires you to not know when the shot will be fired. You know exactly when the shot will be fired! (But precision is also for small or distant targets.) Combat shooting requires speed and hits anywhere on a useful part of the

target. With multiple targets at close range shoot each one quickly and once, immediately returning to you start point and continuing the process on any remaining active. That is, if you yourself yet remain armed and active. Always shoot a threat until it stops being one, avoiding armored areas of the body if hits have not been effectual. Never shoot a guy once and stop to see if it worked! Perfect the fundamentals first, but combat shooting entails shortening and fusing the the steps into one fluid process. Sniping requires learning the basics to a very high standard, and then maintaining that standard and consistency of form with regular practice. There may be times, if you have the time, when going low or high, right or left, before firing will allow you to get a better angle on the threat; also, allow you to avoid bystanders in the background. It is a fact, however, with hollowpoints fired from a pistol, that hitting the target is the best way to miss the bystanders. (Some pistols and most rifles will shoot through the target and kill bystanders behind him. Sometimes a rifle bullet will go through 5 heads in a row.) Given a little time use a supported position, place the hand or arm against or on something to add stability and thus accuracy to the handgun. Don't lean into a wall or sit back if you have to do it in plain sight of a nearby shooter. Given even more time switch to a shotgun or rifle. If you use a pistol with a long and heavy double-action trigger pull and find that your aim is not good enough while you are pressing the trigger you should keep the pressure on the trigger, but pause, until the aim is corrected, and them finish firing the shot. As you are increasing the pressure on the trigger focus on the front sight just before you shoot and improve your aim if needed. Pause your trigger press, but do not release it, if you must. If you are moving too fast to keep the sights aligned look down the barrel and use the front sight only, and if too fast to use the sights lower the weapon to chest height and use your arms and hand movements to isolate it from the jarring of the rest of your body while smoothing your gate as much as you can. Think of this method as the stabilized gun in the rotating turret of a tank. If you can't get hits this way increase your stability, lower your speed, and improve your cover. Whom do you shoot and when do you stop shooting? Easily said. Shoot any enemy (combat) not surrendered or disabled or captured. Shoot any threat (law enforcement) who is an immediate threat to life or limb, comes with tire iron, knife, firearm, or in a group too large to handle with less lethal means. Stop shooting when the firefight is over, or, in law enforcement situations, the threat is disarmed or has run away. Why is this? Inside a civilized state when the justice system usually works you can have a reasonable expectation that a runner can be arrested later. In war you can expect the war to continue and that a runner will be back to fight again. Never shoot a captive; and in crime control actions, never shoot a person who stops and drops his weapon, or a runner unless he is running to attack someone else. It is legal and proper to shoot anybody who is a real and current threat to life. This is as it should be. Police, however, ought to use less lethal means whenever they safely can. Do not take this to mean they should allow a threat to place them in additional danger, but self control is a must. Soldiers and both police and security must learn some control if they are to be any good at what they do. Some fool attacks you and you just get your fighting blood up when the situation abruptly changes and you must cuff and protect the prisoner as you take him in. If you cannot make that change you will end up being fired, or a criminal. Mistakes will be made. It is quite possible for police to shoot a runner in the back because they could not get off the trigger in time after realizing the suspect was turning away. Poor control is a much greater problem, and 14 pistol bullets in the back is obviously no mistake. Think the action is over? Eyes always on the threat or looking for threats. Look around, don't lock into tunnel vision. Nothing? Take your finger off the trigger. Reload the pistol without looking at it. You can pocket the partially empty magazine, unlike when you do a combat reload. Apply the thumb safety, if any. Finger along the slide, place the weapon in the holster and fasten the strap. No jamming it in with your finger on the trigger; this is fast draw, not fast holstering, my friend! You are heads up:

holster without looking down. While all this craziness was going on you may have had a malfunction. Now, that pistol had been cleaned, right? The magazine and ammunition were good quality? If a handgun misfires during a short shootout, unless the magazine or ammunition is crap or the pistol full of oil, dirt and lint, then that pistol is a piece of shit. Not maintained, I think, worn parts not replaced? Maybe it was junk from the beginning. If it has one misfire during a day of shooting, say in 300 rounds, it is not too bad, but not particularly good. Use unreliable or repaired magazines for training only. Good magazines are criticaldon't buy the trash the government buys for the troops. We are trapped, by the enemy most vile. Cedo Nulli. We roar and beat on our shields like the children we are, the sons of our house; until we can hear only the roar and feel only the white heat. Then we pour out and die. We flinch at nothing. We feel nothing but the rage. Nec spe, nec metu. Trigger press and no bang. Shit! Grab the slide, at once and palm down with the thumb to the rear. Rack the slide, a cartridge (unfired) should be ejected. (If an empty casing is ejected run a cleaning rod through the bore. You have time for that?) Shoot again! Ah, I do love load noises. No ejection means bad magazine (unseated magazine or weak spring failed to feed) or failed ejector. It is possible to chamber and fire a cartridge having no propellant in it. The bullet is stuck in the bore and the action does not cycle. You work the slide, an empty case is ejected; you shoot again and blow up the gun. Less commonly yet, the action does cycle but the report and recoil seem odd. Press the trigger again without checking the bore and oops. Don't worry, it is more dangerous for the pistol than for you, but you could put out an eye with that thing! Are you out of ammunition? Should have done that tactical reload before you ran dry. You see a cartridge case jammed in the works: first sweep it back and out with the web of your thumb, charge the weapon and fire. The slide is locked back? Out of ammunition, or catch or magazine failure. You could slap the baseplate of the magazine to try to unkink the magazine spring and unjam the cartridges before racking the slide again but a reload will work best (especially if you are out of ammunition!) and this stuff is starting to get silly. You did fully seat the magazine the first time, did you not? The magazine spring was strong? Perhaps it is time to transition to a backup weapon. No? Make that rapid reload without looking down and while taking cover. Magazine pouches offside and sideways with the flaps to the outside. Sweep the flap open with the edge of your hand (palm down, and not with the thumb side!). Grasp the magazine, which should lie open end to the inside and bullets down, and remove it from the pouch. Drop the magazine from the pistol and bring replacement up and into the pistol, feel that? Hear that click? Press the slide release and resume operations. You did keep your eyes on the target? Good man. I do love the smell of gunsmoke in the morning! (But not inside an armored vehicle. Enclosed spaces do show you how sour and acrid it can be.) I will carry almost anything as a backup if it is available or small enough for hideout purposes, but a service pistol must be reliable, and 9mm (or .38 Special) or better. Shoot it right, keep shooting until the threat is down, and maintain it. Get rid of that piece of shit! Yes, I know .38s are revolvers, not auto-loading pistols. But guess what, a revolver is a revolving (cylinder) pistol. Hah! Eh? Anyhow, one of the best hideout guns is a .38 Special snubby with good hot hollowpoints and no spur on the hammer. Double tap, two rapid aimed shots upper chest; hammer, one rapid aimed or front sight-press shot and a second as soon as the pistol is level again; triple/2 to the body and one to the head; anybody? No. Continue shooting as fast as you can get hits, if it is not working try for hits where any body armor isn't, and stop when the threat is ended or more cover and a reload or a change of weapons is needed. Head shots are dead easy if you are cool, the head is in range, and it does not move at the wrong time. Headshots are bleeding difficult in a gunfight. Do not go knowingly into an armored dustup without armor piercing capability. Do not knowingly go into a gunfight with only a pistol. Glocks and similar pistols are generally good, if you remember that more people shoot

themselves by accident with them, and that striker fired handguns are more prone to light primer strikes. Use consistently high quality ammunition. Do not use reloads or lead (unjacketed) bullets. Keep the chambers and strikers very clean and strikers and springs lightly oiled. Always dry the chamber of any oil before shooting. All else being equal a large capacity magazine is better. All else being equal, a large caliber is better. All else equal and a higher velocity is better, a flat or hollow point is better, and more penetration is better. All else is never equal! Shoot the pistol light enough for you to handle smoothly and that fits your hand, and in a caliber you have good rapid recoil control with. If it is not comfortable in the hand, well balanced, and does not point naturally when you extend your hand it is not very good. No matter what you are shooting, it may not stop that baseball fan before he puts his bat into your head, so do not just stand there shooting! Move! Duck! Let him break or slice up your nonshooting arm. Whatever, but defend yourself while you are killing him. Watch out for the old twist the pistol out of your hand, breaking your trigger finger, maneuver. Yes, he also could grab the weapon so as to bind the cylinder or slide. If he manages that he still has to dodge the first bullet from a semiautomatic pistol, unless the slide is pushed out of battery before you pull the trigger (it will fail to chamber another round in any case). A revolver cylinder properly immobilized will prevent any shooting at all unless the hammer is already cocked. He will need to keep his body parts away from the muzzle, as a shot will produce a dangerous blast by ita blank cartridge fired into your head will kill you, just so you know. If he fails to stop the rotation of a revolver cylinder he will not enjoy that either since the gap between cylinder and forcing cone (cylinder gap) allows gas to escape and will do interesting things to his fingers. Admittedly .22 cal. blanks are not much of a threat, and some revolvers are more likely to smudge or burn a hand at the gap than tear it up but caution is indicated. If you grab a firearm never pull it toward yourself. You will help him pull the trigger. Don't be afraid to pistol whip the guy, on the wrist, elbow, or on the head. If pot metal and plastic fall off then stop buying plastic and pot metal handguns. You do this with the barrel or side of the handgun, it is better not to have your finger on the trigger but you have the grip firmly in hand. You do not reverse the thing and strike with the butt! Clean it the way they say in the little handbook that came with it, and learn the function of all the controls, but don't take the manufacturer too seriously if it says the handgun is not a toy and not a weapon. What is it then? Don't you point it at anyone, now! It certainly can be a toy, just think safety. It damn sure is a weapon. Do not point it at anything valuable, including people you are not going to shoot!, and do remove the magazine and any cartridge still in the chamber before taking it apart or cleaning it. Never put your finger on the trigger unless you are ready to shoot something. Do look for any oddities of design. Some firearms will be damaged by such things as cocking with the safety already on and the like, or by incorrect disassembly. I have had two negligent discharges in my life. Both involved battered old .22 caliber rifles. In the first case I dropped the butt to the ground in order to lean the rifle against a tree. It fired into the air, though the safety was on and the trigger untouched. In the other instance I was standing near a cabin and bumped the stock against the corner of the building. It fired into the ground. Firearms with worn mechanisms will do this, as will pump-action shotguns and open-bolt submachine guns. See why you don't point firearms at things you do not want to shoot? If you have to look down the barrel of a weapon, if it can't be done from the breech and you need to see the lands for example, clear the weapon and leave the magazine out and action open first. Take the bolt out if indicated. Some weapons are hard to check for ammunition or the action cannot be left open. A minigun, electrically powered Gatling, will fire if ammo remains and you rotate the barrels. It is a basically bad idea to point a weapon at yourself, or to stand in front of the muzzle of any weapon. By the way, if you have someone at gun-point and need to lift or grab something with the offside hand, you need to take your finger off the trigger first. This is because using one hand can contract

the other. This, or being startled, can cause an unwanted bang Mechanical decockers can fail, so point the pistol in a safe direction when decocking. Do not manually decock a revolver or single action pistol in an unsafe direction, you may slip up. Some handguns have a halfcock position for the hammer. This is to catch the hammer if you let it slip before you have fully cocked the weapon by handdo not use it as a safety. Some handguns have a locked trigger when in this condition, but others can be fired from halfcock. The best way to manually decock a revolver or pistol with your thumb while pulling the trigger is after you have unloaded and cleared the weapon. Accidentally firing a pistol into the ground with you thumb near the hammer can be painful. The single-shot pistol has no magazine and is reloaded by hand between shots. Some of these have very strong actions and use potent cartridges for hunting and steel silhouette shooting. A single action revolver must be cocked, hammer pulled back, by hand for each shot. Double action revolvers are cocked and fired by one, long, trigger pull. They can be cocked by hand also, point in a safe direction when you lower or cock a hammer by hand in case you slip at the wrong time. Get a good grip on the hammer spur and lower slowly while pressing the trigger with the other hand. Single action semiautomatic pistols are left cocked when you operate the slide, loading the chamber. The hammer can be lowered by hand and recocked later but there is no need for this. Place on safe and holster correctly. Double action pistols will cock and fire with one long trigger pull if the hammer was down on the first shot, but each shot fired will recock the hammer. Double action only pistols cock and fire with each trigger pull, single action is not available, so each trigger pull is a long one except for striker fired pistols. Now considered obsolete, the best overall design for combat use is nevertheless a single action autoloader with a well-placed thumb safety. Only old designs that may fire if dropped should be carried with an empty chamber under the hammer. Such designs are not good service pistols. (Obviously revolvers should not be carried with the hammer cocked back, and semiautomatics should not be carried such that the thumb safety can be disengaged accidentally. Also do not stuff a Glock type pistol down your pants.) Please do not think you can safely pull the trigger on a loaded handgun. Safety mechanisms can fail. Do not think an empty cylinder under the hammer of a revolver can keep a shot from being fired if you cock the hammer, or pull the trigger of a double action one. The cylinder rotates as the hammer comes back, and different models rotate in opposite directions. For you writers out there: Virtually no revolver has a safety lever, most self loading pistols have one safety lever; few have two, and Glock and clones have no manual safety levers. When you practice, or are in a firefight inside an enclosed space, do wear shooting glasses and quality hearing protection. Don't be an old artilleryman. And I do not mean artillery-person, I mean half deaf. If you have to protect the ears and have no hearing protection do not try to do so by jamming your fingers into them. Continued pressure may paralyze the eardrums so that you are deaf for hours. Foam ear plugs are not to be jammed into place either, compress them before insertion and they will return to their previous shape in the ear. Discard them when they will no longer do that and also when they are too dirty. Do not take this lightly. Eye and ear infections and injuries are serious things. When practicing, or hunting, check your backstop and if you are not sure what something is do not shoot it. Whenever armed always be prepared to block, deflect or pin if unable to avoid completely any attempted grab for your weapon, and counterattack immediately. The police, or other police, or more dangerous to you than the scum are. Never be waving a gun around when they show uplate as is usual. Identify yourself with hands in plain sight. Never reach for anything without permission and NEVER startle them. If they start shooting and won't listen to reason you may properly shoot them as self defense is a right, but do we want to get into that kind of situation? Suppose the silly bugger bad guys were wearing body armor? Soft armor will stop pistol

bullets, though the bruising can be severe. Sometimes armor made of plastic film can be burned through by the muzzle blast, but you have to be at contact distance for that. Use a rifle. Blow them up in their barracks. No time for that? Shoot them in the collar bones or head. Shoot under the arm or the hip from the side; shoot in the hips, groin at or below the belt, and the upper thighs from the front. A hit to the stomach, at least, usually makes them drop everything and grab at the wound. They may fight on from the ground but usually scream a lot. Rigid body armor? They will hardly feel most hits on the plates. Do not shoot at the plates! You can break lighter plates with a good rifle (not an M16.). Heavy plates can only be pierced by many hits or by a powerful rifle and better than average armor piercing bullets. A good bet at relatively close range is a bolt action elephant rifle using solid, not lead core, ammunition! Remember! Look at the thing you want to hit, and not at what you do not. Standard handgun calibers that are a serious threat to soft body armor: .38 Super, .30 Mauser, 7.62x25 Russian (Tokarev); the 5.7x28 has good penetration with the AP bullet but is restricted to soft point (plastic tip) for civilians, .22 WMR (Winchester .22 magnum rimfire, jacketed) and expanding 5.7 are marginal at best versus the lowest rated soft armor in common use. There are a number of +P+ and magnum handgun loads at the high end of the velocity range which are a threat, especially using FMJ bullets and even more so if you could find AP. Of course almost any armor piercing bullet is a threat to soft armor, whether it uses a hard core or is a so-called cookie cutter in 9mm. Level 2 is much more likely to fail than level 3a with regard to the above threats. Good armor has side as well as front and back coverage, has armored epaulettes, and both higher than average coverage at the neck and a plate hanging below the belt. Armor for the artery and large bone of the thigh is needed. What if the bad guys, and we (like the neocons and neolibsa joke!) no matter what we do are always the good guys, hide behind something? Shoot right through it! Some .45 ACP FMJs will penetrate 9 or 10 inches of pine. At close range with standard velocity loads 5 inches of pine, 10 of dirt and 8 of sand is to be expected. Shooting through soft cover, like wood, can be effective even if the target is some distance behind the cover. Hard cover, glass or metal for example, really tears up bullets and they are effective only if the subject is near the barrier. Do not hug your cover! While a hollowpoint fired through wood or cloth may not expand, the point may just be filled with fibers, FMJs are more durable as a rule; but all bullets take a beating. Only water and the least dense materials will leave FMJ bullets unmarked (pistol, rifle bullets may fragment in water). Water will expand hollowpoints, some low density dry materials will not. A softpoint (expanding bullet, exposed lead tip) fired from a rifle in 7mm Mauser will shatter if it clips a twig off of a tree or bush. This will put several small holes in a target a meter beyond the twig, but an opponent farther back may be untouched. A word on incapacitation and lethality. You are going to have a problem if you are in the cratering zone of an explosive. Nothing short of a direct hit to the body by an artillery shell is guaranteed to be lethal, and a lethal wound may not immediately incapacitate a person. A few have survived through and through .50 cal. MG wounds of the chest. A hammer blow to the head is more lethal, and more incapacitating, than a hit to the head from a .25 ACP bullet (poor penetration). 9mm pistols are poor stoppers and not very lethal, but five 9mm rounds in the torso are very lethal and usually produce a good stop as well. Assault rifles are not much more lethal using military ammunition but are effective at longer ranges. Multiple hits are highly lethal. Single hits may be lethal but often are not. They often incapacitate at least enough to keep the target from taking part in any attack, but the guy may still shoot if you approach him. Shotguns using buckshot are highly lethal at close range. High-powered rifles (military ammunition) are very lethal, a shot which perforates the chest may not immediately stop but usually kills. Hunting rifles, such as a .30-06 deer and elk rifle using softpoints, are good stoppers and highly lethal. A good hit may or may not keep the target from shooting or running for a short time, but often does. Either way, the wounded man is unlikely to survive to be

evacuated. The .308 Win/7.62x51 (there are small differences in case thickness, primer hardness, chamber dimensions and the like between military and civilian ammunition, especially between .223 Rem and 5.56mm) performs about the same as 7.62x63mm US (.30 US/.30-06 Springfield) when 145-154 grain bullets are used. The Springfield shines when loaded with heavy and long streamlined bullets. The new dogma is that accurate shooting is the thing and that anything aimed properly is good if it has enough penetration. Then they praise bullets that fragment in the body, a minor contradiction. There are specialty bullets that shatter on impact. These are mostly pistol bullets and have poor penetration. The M16 bullet will often break up in the body if the velocity is still high enough. 200 meters and less, perhaps, but the shorter the barrel the closer you must be. Some military 7.62 NATO bullets do the same. It is true that anything passing through the brain, upper spine, or heart is probably going to be fatal. The problem is that nobody can shoot well enough to get one shot, one kill hits with every shot at head or heart when trying to hit a running man at 200 meters. Even under perfect conditions the average assault rifle will not stay on a stationary target with every shot at 500 meters, many will not at 300 meters. There are times when a bigger permanent wound channel is better than a smaller one. Nothing is ever lost but just changed, so environmentalism should not be an issue for you at least. Caliber is not everything, nor is velocity, or any other single factor. Rifles are more effective than pistols because of a very large difference in either velocity or bullet weight. A .30 caliber rifle bullet weighing 168 grains is more powerful than a 9mm (.355) weighing 115 grains, and than a .45 ACP (.451) bullet weighing 230 grains. Numerous factors, including bullet construction and design relative to the target material, are important. A .243 Winchester with the right expanding bullet is more effective at chest shots at 100 meters than is a .30-06 firing 220 grain soft points. This is because they are designed for controlled expansion on elk and do not expand quickly or well enough on people unless they hit large bones. Bullets ricochet surprisingly often off of surfaces hit at an angle. More often off water and hard surfaces than off of dirt. More often off of grass than dirt, in fact. Slow moving round-nosed rounds do so most often of all. Fully jacketed rifle bullets do so very often if they hit at a sharp angle. High velocity hollowpoints and frangibles ricochet least of all. The bullet often follows the surface hit, but can bounce and go almost anywhere. This means you can sometimes use this to good effect by bouncing bullets up from under cars and around corners. It also means rounds hitting short of the target may follow a wall or floor into it or may bounce bullet or bullet fragments up into it. You need to be very careful when noncombatants are present. It may be worth saying, at this point, that all this sounds easy enough. It is not quite so easy to do. Well, it is easy in a way. Most countries involved in a major conflict just throw in the draftees and use them up, no pros required. You need to have some balls. Some aptitude or talent is required. You need to learn without learning too many bad habits. Then you need to practice until it is all as smooth as glass, and to keep practicing to maintain your skill. When you buy silhouette targets buy them by catalog. I once went to a chain sporting goods store and was immediately given a stern lecture on the evils of shooting at depictions of human beings. No Ma'am, I practice on depictions of squirrels, I shoot human beings! No more business for that chain, they have never even heard of the Bill of Rights! Most commercial ranges are also useless for anything beyond basic handgun marksmanship. They will not allow you to draw from the holster, nor will they allow anything they consider rapid fire shooting. Point shooting, shooting without using the sights, is something we do at very close range. We do it by simply tipping the muzzle up from the holster at contact distance. We do it if the weapon has not been raised to eye level when the target is close enough, and using the front sight only when it is a

bit farther away. Point, hip and under-arm level shooting at longer ranges is actually slower than aimed shooting. You either have to shoot more times to get the hits, or you have to pause to fine-tune your aim. Hasn't this book begun to grate on you yet? Stop reading this thing! Fuck this noise. Video games can teach some skills. Tactics and techniques can be learned but be wary. Depending on the game, some things which would work in the real world will not work in the game, and some things work in the game but not in the real world. (Not that games are not part of the real world.) Nobody can learn to handle and shoot firearms in a video game. Crosshairs and a mouse do not a pistol make. Use a simulation to gain extra practice in a skill or skill set, if it is realistic enough. Mental visualization and dry fire are a help. (Dry fire practice is important. Also very important is paying attention and carefully clearing the weapon, using the dummy cartridge, and a good backstop. Never dry fire at another person and if you stop training for a moment check the weapon again before resuming. Use the time wisely, do not screw around use proper shooting technique. 20 minutes every couple of days is excellent. Some firearms should never be dry-fired on an empty chamber. Use a suitable dummy cartridge with something with a little give in it in the primer pocket. Sometimes damage also occurs when you repeatedly operate the slide of an unloaded pistol.) Simunitions, paintball, and Airsoft? Sure, but never use simulations as a substitute for real training. And don't fall for quirky and stylized martial arts school techniques. The Israeli shooting technique is pure bullshit. An expert is going to be fast and accurate, and will be good from various positions. He will be familiar with a variety of drills, including team drills. But the method slows him down. The less expert practitioner will be more seriously hampered by this silly system, and the less skilled need all the performance they can get. Those guys seem to think that no pistol can be safely carried with a loaded chamber, when we know you should carry single action semiautomatics cocked and locked (you can have the thumb strap under the hammer if you wish). They have unnecessary and ritualistic movements which do nothing but waste time: the low horse stance crouch, the pistol sideways and charged by hand as it is coming up, the pistol held aside when you go from kneeling to standing when it should be in line with the eyes and even fired as you rise if need be. We maintain our balance, we glide step and slide or shuffle and run in the smooth crouch, we avoid crossing our feet uphell, we even waddle or jump when we have to. Those guys seem to be doing a lot up waddling, hopping and frantic shuffle/jogging. Weird! Did some theatrical fencing (sword) or flowery and showy Kung Fu master invent this stuff? This is almost as horrible as those bolt action rifle users who drop the butt down from the shoulder before operating the bolt. Those guys are doing kata! Sad, sad; the above did not work. You got hit. Fuck it. Move and shoot. Keep that front sight on target. We are not dead until our brains cease to function and begin to rot. Square, whitebread, sexist, homophobe, racialist. Ah, it smells like candy. We build it and we fight to defend it. You squabble over it. We are so uptight. It hurts so good. Kinda like when a bunch of nasty little urchins natter at you on the street; quite an annoyance until you decide to paddle some butts. When you are hit hard and the enemy is close and a continued threat you should not go down and cease resistance. There are exceptions to this, the enemy may pass by thinking you are dead. Naturally, if you no longer have the bones, muscles and tendons in your arms and hands to continue shooting you are screwed. If the shooting hand won't work then get that handgun with the other hand and use it to shoot the bastard. What if you must reload with only that one hand? One way is to eject the magazine, apply the safety, and stuff the pistol behind your belt. Then get a magazine out and insert it into the pistol, draw and disengage safety, release slide and shoot. This is not safe if the safety is left off, and keep your finger off the trigger until the muzzle is pointing downrange in any case. A better way involves

holstering the pistol. If the slide was not held back you may have to operate the slide by hooking the rear sight on your belt and pressing down, and that finger better be clear of the trigger guard. A massive hit to the circulatory system, serious hits to the nervous system, will put you out of action. If still aware at all you will be, wham!, on the ground. What am I doing down here? Breaks to the large bone in the upper leg will also put you down, moving too much then will kill you from shock. An arterial wound gives you little time so take care of business and then stop the bleeding at once. (It is a good idea to carry several Israeli combat dressings and a one-handed tourniquet.) So much to learn. Did you know there is room enough inside a broken hip joint for internal bleeding to kill? That a small penetrating wound into a body cavity may hardly bleed externally but may be causing major internal hemorrhaging? Wounds that bleed little or not at all may begin to bleed heavily once the firefight is over and you have calmed down? Bandage before that happens. Go down voluntarily if it is better to continue shooting from some degree of cover. If the opposition is not very close the low prone with your head tucked down onto your forearm is very effective. Just continue upright, and shoot the guy who shot you, if he is too close and immediate a threat. If shot through the heart you should be able to shoot for eight to ten seconds, sometimes as long as fifteen. Since you are busy, and full of adrenaline, you may not even notice a hit at first. This is often true with small fragments and .22 rimfire bullets. Other hits tend to feel like a heavy blow from a fist, followed by a raw numbness. The effected part may be cold and limp, dangling heavily. Not cool, eh? When a bullet plows through it causes the effected part to swell like a balloon, and then return to normal, except for that hole it leaves in you. Rifle bullets may tear flesh from bone, or break bone with this pressure wave, and will damage fluid filled organs nearby, but most damage is caused by the actual hole made. Expanding bullets mushroom to some extent, depending on resistance and the depth of the body part hit, and shed some mass on the way. Pointed rifle bullets will wobble and then tumble until they stop base first, if they have enough room for it. They usually leave a small hole in limbs hit because the limbs are not very thick. Some will break off at the base and fragment if they tumble and this tears up more tissue. The skin is as tough as about 4 inches of flesh which is why pistol bullets are often found just under the skin on the other side of the body, and the skull often deflects pistol bullets (and shotgun shot) around and out the back of the head without penetration of the skull. This also happens with shotguns using buckshot at longish range, for buckshot. Hits to the bones are hard on bullets but vary in effect. Sometimes rifle bullets make a small hole, sometimes they break the bone and sometimes they shatter it. A .45 ACP bullet can leave you with a leg dangling and the foot pointed to the rear. Broken bones hurt like the very devil and movement after the numbness wears off is a killer. There are some wounds that hurt like the devil from the beginning or damage your brain so that you scream like a lunatic and lose control of all bodily functions. Nice. There are of course dyings that take hours of pauses between seizures. A person may not be fully unconscious for much of this. Death agonies/throes. Oh yes. Then there is the struggle to keep breathing, and periods of easing. Indeed, which may continue long after awareness is gone. The death "rattle" at the end. If I never saw another death I would be just as happy. Truth is bitter. Man cannot live without illusions. So, people are spirits, yeah; and have already left the body of clay. All the suffering and the permanence of destruction and loss happens to be the breaking down of unneeded flesh only. Nature will provide and it is on to a better place. Wait. Mayhap there is some suffering but only so the spirit can grow and earn a better state thereby. That's the ticket! Bah. If there were gods I would curse them. If there were devils I would spit on them. If nature had awareness I would hold it in contempt. As it is all I can do is kill or capture dangerous criminals. They make currently unavoidable evils worse. While no one deserves to be raped or tortured, and should not be, some people must be killed in combat even though nobody really deserves death either. This is not some metaphysical mumbo crap about doing evil that good may come, serving the dark, the balance or death. It is about people having the right to kill the insane and dangerous, and the evil, in defense of themselves and

others. It has nothing to do with what is deserved. It is about stopping evil behavior. I do not care if mass or serial murderers that survive arrest are executed or imprisoned for life as long as they are convicted on strong evidence and have shown that they are willing to murder over and over. Punishment works to deter future crimes with some people, but is actually not very effective. Prison keeps people away from victims, or would if prisoners were segregated correctly; as does death. Death is no punishment, of course, as the executed learns nothing from it. It is a threat to others instead. Wishes and prayers. I wish my husband to stay healthy. Oops. I wish he would get well. Uh. I wish he did not suffer. Oh. I wish he would die faster to end the pain. Wishes even trend down to "match reality!" Lucky, it almost hit you! You are lucky, it is only a flesh would. Lucky you, it is a bad wound but not a fatal one. It is good he died fast and clean. It is a blessing he finally died, as life would have been terrible for him. That which damages you is the same thing that is good for finally putting you out of your misery. All evil and all good come from God, so I didn't do it! God is the real Devil, and the Devil his Humanity-Testing demon. The Devil made me do it, Ma! We do not kill our friends. We kill our enemies. It matters to us if we are still alive. The sea fights the shore and the sea wins. When you kill a killer you become death and death wins twice. It grows in strength. You become what you hate. Oh indeed. The sea is not an entity having volition. It does not fight. It neither wins nor loses. Death is not an entity, is is a state or condition of once living entities. You do not become death by killing. You inflict death. You will become what you hate only if you hate all killers, and will hate yourself for resisting injustice only if you would rather accept injustice than take any active part in violence. Perhaps instead you will become criminally insane for any number of reasons and revel in murder without hating yourself at all. Who knows? People crack under extreme pressures. It would be better if death did not exist. Certainly you can imagine a world that is worse without death than with it, just as you can a better world without death, not that either scenario makes much sense. So what? Death exists and you can't change that. Sometimes more killing is better than less, sometimes you must kill to survive or to have a life worth living, and sometimes killing just increases risk and makes things worse. You wanted simple? People seldom get what they want and when they do they often live to wish they had not. Do not move and shoot in the close fight if speed is needed and you can't get the hits while in motion. The fastest attack or defense is direct and uses no unneeded movements. This does not mean maneuver will not be needed, nor that cover need not be taken. Far from it. Often directness is blocked by prepared defenses. But when cover cannot be taken in time and speed may save your life you should never move before you shoot unless you know you can still get the hits while in motion, and never should you shoot faster than you can shoot accurately; consider just running for it. Maneuver at speed is not just a matter of fleetness of foot. It is about organization or lack thereof. So too is shooting both speed of body and of mind, and do not rush a shot. Use all deliberate speed. If the battlefield is a pristine nature scene that seems odd and surreal. Not to worry, extended fighting will render it a moonscape. That seems much more natural. But most battles occur in the most common of surroundings. You are not really ready, never get to do all the cool things planned. The last thing you see is a cloud floating by, or the weeds in the cracks in the concrete near a dingy gasoline station. Hearing is the last to go. Death is usually rather violent, though you may be unaware of that. Sometimes the brain is turned off like a light and the body goes as heavy and limp as a body bag full of jelly. More commonly there are gasps and gurgles, shuddering and kicking. Before the body goes limp all muscles go stiff as a board for a time. The eyes are fixed and staring. They film over. The light goes out. Nature is bad enough. What do you think of people who help nature along in this way because they want power and glory? Just charming. What a pessimist, eh? OK, the country is full of standup guys and all the various international and national socialists and other authoritarian and totalitarian types will see their resolve and back off. Then we will have a pretty decent next 50 years. There ya go! You believe that?

There is little glory and no magic in the world; thus the popularity of fantasy novels and religious dreams. Take the novels rather than the dreams as you need not believe the fiction in order to enjoy it. Do not give up your dreams of the possible. Do not stop fighting the enemy until you are dead, but do not believe the lies. Party, tribe, nation and global alliance. If they are not disgusting criminals; if they will deal with you honorably, then treat them the same. If not leave them to stew in their own filth. Because every person there is evil and deserving of no help? No. It is because you do not have the power to police the entire world in an effective manner. You do not save a precious vase by sending the bulls into the china shop. You also have too few bulls. If they make an enemy of themselves you kill until nobody is left who chooses to resist with arms, or they choose to stop attacking you and to police their own remaining enthusiasts. If they are too much for you you hide or die fighting. But no matter how overmatched you are, never allow your own to be abused because you fear the bully. Individual rights, not the good of the many communitarian shit. No human sacrifice. By the way. Never allow citizens of other powers to cluster within your territory. You will pay for it in the end. This means you just stand by and watch abuse when visiting a country with which you are not at war? Yes, you just leave if you have no power to intervene to help an abused native. Why are you hanging out in that shithole? What if you do have the power to take action, and perhaps to hide or escape afterward if this is needed? Hell yes, take action and enjoy. Punks having the nerve to do such things before our faces are asking for trouble. Force the government, the three branches; get rid of the fourth and fifth and sixth: independent agencies and the corporate-government partnership and the globalist governance crowd, to return to constitutional government and equal treatment under the law for everyone. Force outlaw state, unelected county board and lawless city government to behave themselves. Do it right damned now, it should have been done several decades ago, and fight the multiple wars this will cause with dogmatic and hostile ethnicities and anti-freedom parties. Do it right damned now as it can only be worse the longer we wait. Is this going to happen? Who is going to do it? No, the US is breaking down and the chaos will only be the greater as it comes to fruition. When a war should be fought but is not cowardice leads to even worse harm to the cowards just as running directly away from the enemy during a firefight on open ground gets you shot in the back. The full Bill of Rights in effect for all Americans under any and all conditions and starting right now! But people will die over shit like this! Fucking A. Trailing the pike is one thing, dragging your dick in the dirt is another. You do not touch the person of a free man or woman without his consent. You never put your hands on his weapons. You do not remove his freedom of movement. If you do these things without just and honest cause, or at the least honest error, you should be engaged by every decent witness. Rifle bullets can do a lot of damage, and you may indeed blow someone's brains out. Entrance wounds are smaller than exit wounds. Some entrance wounds are actually smaller than bullet diameter because skin is elastic. But you are not going to be blowing off heads and arms, nor is somebody's whole back going to be blown out by the nifty highvelocity-superfrangible/tumbling-wonderbullet. Contact shots to the head with a rifle or shotgun may blow away so much skull at the back, and peel up so much scalp, that it looks like things have been turned inside out. Even then it is unlikely that the head will depart the body. You ever wonder why the first reports out of Vietnam said the XM15 ArmaLite with 1:14 rifling (so the bullet was not very stable) shot off heads and arms with each shot? Can you say three bags full, Sir? Jeez, how gullible do they think we are? Once you are not in immediate danger you should seek medical assistance. Don't be like old king whatsisname, bleeding out when you don't have to is stupid. If it doesn't kill me it will only make me strongerunless it damages my brain, blinds or cripples me...! Yes, I will be the stronger for it unless it weakens me. If you kill in self defense or kill in combat you may feel elation (you did survive) or may feel

fine. Adrenaline junkie! The gore may make you sick right away. Later you may feel sick for having felt elation. This should not be, but since when do things work as they should? You are lying in the weeds with your rifle. It is dark. You have your finger on the trigger and the rifle pointed toward the sounds. You are breathless and as tight as a bowstring. Take your finger off the fucking trigger! If the enemy comes into view put it back and shoot him. This is why firearms are bad, it is so easy to shoot by reflex, or to shoot the wrong person. Partially true. Try this: stand against the wall near the door, in the dark, with a golf club gripped tightly overhead. Listen to the slow shuffle as an unknown person comes ever nearer. Quiver like a violin string, but do not hit the guy in the face as he looms up until you have identified him. If you swing and then recognize Aunty Jane redirect the blow to miss. Not always so easy. Guns are evil. Use a bat or golf club for home defense, if you must! Have you ever seen what a nice driver does to the human skull? There is only one best man in the world, for whatever that is worth. Even the best is not good at everything. The best can be destroyed by combat at a level he does not understand, or by pure numbers. If the inferior outnumber the superior by a sufficient amount this gives them a type of superiority of their own. There are times when it is time for the death ride (or thunder run). Say goodbye to your brothers now. Terrorism is for criminals and the criminally insane. Shooting the family members of an enemy is terrorism. Even the mob generally frowned on that kind of behavior. Blowing up a cafe or bus full of noncombatants is terrorism. Committing atrocities is terrorism. Terrorism is the commission of crimes against civilians in an attempt to reduce support for your enemy and his policies. It is criminal threats and violence against people you want to influence. Firebombing residential areas is terrorism. Torture, mutilation and murder of captured enemy soldiers is terrorism. Using biological weapons which will spread and cause an epidemic is terrorism. There are always noncombatant deaths in wars, even if you do your best to avoid them. The maimed ought not indulge in self pity, very unattractive. If they deserve pity someone will probably give it to them. Then they can say, do not patronize me, I will not be pitied. It is criminal to shoot civilians because they are the enemy's civilians. Do not shoot police if their department is doing law enforcement and public safety but is not taking part in the fighting. But you really want to shoot cops? Fool. I would comment on people who think they need even more enemies than they already have, but the police will in most cases involve themselves and your wish will come true. Do not shoot medical and fire fighting personnel because they help the enemy in their rescue operations, and no shooting of bus drivers and doormen because they are in uniforms! Do search people if you have doubts about their actual origins and intentions, but remember that citizens have the right to firearms and self defense. What you do should be both humane and a reasonable necessity, and do not enter private places or disrupt private business unless legitimate law enforcement or the combat situation requires it. (Do not use military forces against civilians as police if there is a decent justice system still in place. Soldiers make poor policemen, military government is tyrannical, and the public will resent the treatment and may revolt. Military support for civil law enforcement is illegal in the US.) Sound boring? Not to worry; the fighting will require a great deal of trespassing in both tactical movement and occupation of fighting positions, while you do this you will have to keep people from interfering in your operation and help those who want to take cover or leave the area. Be alert. Some of the homeowners may want to shoot you. If you don't trust a guy do not let him hang about behind you, or temporarily detain him. Noncombatants should please stay well away from combatant facilities, personnel and vehicles. Some of them will mistake you for a threat and attack you, and if they themselves are attacked you may be killed in the fighting. Some think if you are nearby you need to be killed or captured in case you are a scout or spy. You may be one, and may be detained or arrested if your behavior is too strange, but sensible people know it is insane to shoot at everybody because any one of them may be up to something. Never approach the military in an ambiguous, sudden or threatening manner. If they think

you have a weapon or hidden bomb they will kill you. Try also to keep away from any type of military target such as military transportation centers, and factories making products such as logistical and tactical vehicle parts and ammunition. Rebels often attack general economic targets to make government look bad and to sting it into rash behavior that makes it look even worse. This sort of thing also makes the rebels look bad. Patriots attacking the country's wealth and utilities in general makes about as much sense as rioters angry at the police burning down their own neighborhood. The best targets are exposed leaders and information/planning/control/communications groups and centers. Next is anything enemy that is left isolated and poorly defended, but look for traps. Speaking of the shot and captured, or otherwise captured, capture can not always be avoided; but surrender is most often a bad idea even in conventional wars: if you are operating alone, or with a militia or guerrilla group who's cause is just, your operations may or may not be legal under constitution and treaty making surrender even more dangerous. Additionally some of the laws of war are mere crap. Armed citizens can be shot by firing squad. Even if you are legal it will make no difference. If captured you will be knocked down, booted in the head, and cuffed with plastic handcuffs (flex cuffs) or industrial plastic zip ties. The head bag or blacked-out goggles go on, perhaps ankle restraints and hearing protection. Then you will be dragged away and interrogated to one degree or other, probably while nude. No matter, you can make them jealous. They will not let you sleep, will push you around, and may refuse food, water or the toilet. Just piss on the floor and don't be the one to clean it up. Cold, heat, beatings, noise, dogs and abusive shouting and treatment. Offers of treats and rest. They will alternate threats and offers. Don't sweat the psycho stuff, actual injury and illness is what counts. Well, you did decide to be a fighter. You may be shot while trying to escape. Afterward you will be declared terrorist or unlawful combatant (maybe even before a military panel) and interned in either a concentration camp or a grave. The grave may be a better deal than the harassment in the camps. Truth serums make you babble, sometimes even truthfully. Sometimes they make you seriously ill or kill you. Lie detectors detect stress. They are about as accurate as rolling dice. This leaves things primarily up to the skill or duplicity of the operator. Another trick is to lock you into a small empty room for hours or days until you are hearing and seeing things and can't think properly. DNA tests are inaccurate fairly often, fingerprint matches very often. Blow into that tinkertoy drunkometer, dude. So? Lab tests are often faked anyway whenever certain people think you are guilty, or have developed a right good dislike of you. But, but, remember that if you are brought in they are trying to pin something on you, or are trying to scare you into doing something for them. Fingerprints are easily transferred, as is other physical evidence. Witnesses are confused, and easily ignored, led or cowed. But everybody loves confessions. Mostly easy convictions, and no tiring investigative work. So do not get into pissing contests with them, but never believe them or try to make them like you. Smiles are the biggest lie. Don't act tough, and do not whine and plead. Now there are consoles that can do a DNA match in about an hour, handhelds that can scan and match fingerprints within minutes, handhelds to scan face and iris, and systems that can do lie detection from a distance but with added features such as eye movement tracking and voice stress analysis. Some police are carrying blood taking kits and DNA swabs. Warrants are automatically approved and transmitted over the telephone. This changes very little aside from making road blocks so much more fun for everyone involved. It is very human to feel uncomfortable punishing those we suspect of disobedience, but quite OK with punishing people after forcing them to say they deserve it. The moral of this story is the moral of the cookie jar. If yo mama thinks you have been in the cookie jar she will force you to admit guilt and then smack you upside the head, so stay away from adults and from cookie jars because suspicion is enough and proximity breeds suspicion. (In the army spend on-base free time in the library as nobody goes there and you will avoid being volunteered for much extra duty.) Unless, of course, you are in a position to help or hinder the other person's welfare; in which case solid evidence may not be

enough. Everything is simple if you understand it. But will being simple result in your disposal, or having some power get you targeted for disposal? Never, never give up others in order to save yourself. You may be forced to, and when you are taken your comrades should immediately take steps to minimize the damage of a security leak. However, do not sacrifice others willingly so you yourself may skate; assuming your keepers care to keep such a promise. Have you become a Christian or something? Do not sacrifice another in your place. It is a different matter if you are innocent and have evidence against a real criminal, but do not expect to get off Scot free. They have been abusing you for a reason and everyone says they are innocent. Destroying enemy facilities, supplies and equipment is not terrorism. Killing the enemy is not. Blow up an ammunition plant staffed by civilians? Shoot workers who attack you in an attempt to protect the plant? Not terrorism. You gather up the workers and shoot them all, yep, that is terrorism. And, surprise, roadside bombs detonated against military convoys is not terrorism; not even when the ammunition trucks are being driven by civilian contractors. Special operations types have used roadside bombs for decades. Most have electronic components and the troopers are less likely to stay behind to trigger the explosions themselves when a target presents itself than guerrillas would be. Mines have their own sensors. An orbiting drone can detect an approaching target and set charges off for them. Claymores and fragmentation mines are good for use against personnel, but to really "kill" tanks you need the right antitank mines or more than 100 pounds of a good high explosive. 200 pounds is better. Large incendiary devices and fuel fires are not without worth, even if thy only stop the tank's engine, but the tank will drive out of trouble in many cases unless you can trap them inside the hot zone. "Dust", fuel/air and novel explosives/thermobaric devices are for use inside buildings and tunnels. Only the large bombs/aircraft bombs are very effective outdoors and not very effective on buttoned-up modern tanks at that. Wait, soon there will be drone onand off-route mines that will travel to a target or mechanical ambush site and set themselves. Expensive? Yes but that does not keep people from buying robotic cargo helicopters and 4-legged tactical load bearing robots in addition to the more common wheeled explosives disposal and machine gun machines; plus remotely operated armored D9 bulldozers and other vehicles for use on land, under water, below ground and under sea, and in the air or in space. God, if we only had cheap and mass produced androids so we could respond immediately to every regulatory violation our computers detect! Most "fire bombs" do not explode. Gasoline vapors in an enclosed place will, liquid fuels mostly do not. A Molotov Cocktail made of a glass bottle, gasoline and a cloth used as a wick will not explode once the wick is lit. If the fire is hot enough the bottle may crack open and the fire flare up. Gasoline flares up hot when the bottle breaks, but short-lived unless thickened. The wick is lit to provide a flame when the bottle breaks after it is thrown against a hard surface. The source of fire can also be chemical, as when a cloth is wrapped around the bottle and coated with a mixture that reacts with spilled fuel. Also a grenade fuze could be used with a pyro charge. Most methods of thickening fuel are not very good, and make poor flamethrower ammunition, but for Molotovs try dissolving polystyrene (styrofoam is best) cups or packaging material in the liquid fuel. Note: These devices are very ineffective against modern armored vehicles unless used in very great numbers and the vehicle is not entirely sealed. Open hatches and the engine or crew compartment air intakes are the usual targets. An attempt is made to harden even small machines against electromagnetic interference and bullets. EMP hardening is most effective when the vehicle is acting autonomously, and can work very well. An electromagnetic pulse is still worth trying. Dusts and smokes for blinding sensors, control signal jamming or targeting, pits and barriers, electricity, flame, and explosives are tools. Water traps are of some use, it depends on the machine. Mines and direct fire, or guided indirect fire, weapons are good if they have the penetration needed. Wire tangles and fences will stop the small ones, but this will not stop them from shooting at you. Those with the right kind of access can hack the system. Robots

will turn on the previous handlers with no concerns, they are just computers after all. A little suggestion? There is a little man sitting in a van or trailer. He is monitoring or directly operating one or more machines. His position may be obvious, or may be obvious only when you use radio intelligence. If you locate only remote transmitters find out what they are in communication with and follow the trail. Find him and kill him. You spend your inactive time staring into the distance? You repeat odd sayings and shout out before you are aware you are going to do it? Dead emotional response with random bursts of rage or crying? Have you begun to shoot any animals you see, or abuse corpses? Well, it is not murder, or anything; those people are already dead. People are meat and probably hostile anyway? You are losing it old man, get out. No matter how bad it is, don't commit suicide, brother. While there is life there may be hope. Suicide is too much like letting the enemy defeat you without a fight, you know? You start shooting people at random? Turn yourself in. Psychological pain is a category of true pain, and can last a long time even at unbearable intensity. Some memories hurt and cause people to flinch away every time something reminds them of an incident. If you make a face and swear automatically when this happens people will give you odd looks. We all know of cases when flashbacks disorient to the point of disassociation from the present environment. Uncontrolled aggression toward self or others is the real danger sign however. Some types of therapy are helpful. Others are BS and harmful. While extreme cases require drug treatment, and some people do well on a specific drug and dosage it is well to remember that the side effects can be severe and the long-term outlook is bad with most of these psychoactive prescription cocktails. Drug reactions and interactions can destroy proper mental function, making rational perception and thinking impossible, and produce violent episodes. In other cases drugs can destroy your general health over time. They do say it is easier to break things than it is to build them. And easier to build than repair. Yes, some truth in that. But try to break the head of a bruiser who is really trying not to be broken. Assassination is easy if you catch people off guard. It is not so easy to kill someone force-on-force. Have the surgeon who just finished relieving a depressed skull fracture compare himself to you after a real drag-out during which you created one. Of course he will not be relieving any fatal ones... Men do most of the breaking, but also most of the building, and have kept ahead of the curve too, which is why we are also blamed for urban sprawl. Also overpopulation is out fault. We do not have a growing population, but our ideas and technology are part of the reason for longer lives and burgeoning growth in the so-called Third World. I don't get no props :') Other people having many children is not an issue. The best and brightest marrying late or not at all is. When these people do decide to have a child they are often too old to easily, such that childbirth ever is, and safely do so. Shades of the days when the brightest scholars tended to have to be churchmen immersed in mystical minutia, their bastards not withstanding. But wait! Just as there is no such thing as race, genetics is of no moment. Environment is what counts. We merely need government planning, a great master plan over environment. Too bad those who reach the higher levels of government are selected for greed, cunning, and sloth instead of wisdom; and yet eugenics is popular among them. Never mind. Nobody ever wrote a book. God did it, or Satan, or a Greek Muse or Roman Genius. Perhaps somebody's soul did it but no human. I am greasy. I am a spoon: but I am not a greasy spoon. What am I? You need first aid training, get some, but you should buy and not just read but study these books. Do the math. Practice the drills. The Ultimate Sniper, by John Plaster. Tactical Pistol Marksmanship, by Gabriel Suarez. How to Win a Gunfight, by Tony Walker. Tactical Pistol Shooting, by Erik Lawrence. The Last Hundred Yards, by H. J. Poole. (I take that back. This guy won't sell to his fellow citizens, and the copies available on Amazon are greatly overpriced. Try Light Infantry Tactics for Small Teams, by Christopher Larsen.) FM 3-34.214 Explosives and Demolitions, field manual. (This is not classified, but distribution to citizens is restricted. Say fuck the Feds, and get an older version if you

must. However, the minimum safe distance formula in this publication is defective. Do not use it. Use a corrected version or the formula from an older demolitions manual. Meaning use the last version of FM 5-250 (1999) or any later versions of 3-34.214 but not the current one (2007), change 1 to it should come out fairly soon.) When faced with death people will do almost anything to survive, cannibalism is pretty common under these conditions. That is, when they do not just sit down and die. If I say I will never do certain things even to stay alive there are those who jeer. They think I would change my mind if actually faced with that kind of necessity. You do what you have to do, they say. Would you, then, kill others in order to take their food and water; take food away from sick children? No limits means becoming a sickening beast. Maybe you will get lucky! If a well equipped party tries to murder you you can confiscate enemy supplies after the firefight. Resistance, struggling down there in the dirt is so undignified. Actually, peer pressure or being alone is the primary factor for most people. Normally people will do almost anything to avoid humiliation or a new hardship, but will not do anything to survive. Don't believe it? How many people truly take the fight to a threat? How many people go hunting for a murder suspect? They complain to the police and, sometimes, hire a PI for a time. If they get substandard care for a potentially fatal condition they beg, or they sit at home and wait to die. What percentage rob a bank in order to pay the hospitals, or take a doctor hostage? It is not a percentage at all. If you think this shows how moral people are you are mistaken. Most are easily manipulated. They are passive, not moral. When people starve they beg and scream, few confront armed men but some do kill and eat another if the victim can be caught while alone. Then they all sit on the verge eating grass and dirt thus feeling full as they die even more quickly. Most people lost in a forest will walk until exhausted and then sit and wait for rescue or death. If they are rescued the taxpayer funded agencies involved will bill them for another few tens of thousands of dollars and help them set up a payment plan at 20% interest. Americans will tolerate anything. Do not cut off medical care even to the enemy. If you close hospitals because some of the people helped may be enemy you are an animal. Blow bridges in the face of large enemy attacks, and destroy military transportation systems, especially military supply. Knock out electrical power to military facilities. If you destroy civilian water, food, electrical, sewer, and general transportation and communications systems because the enemy uses them too you are a criminal. Appalling, ain't it. Overloaded the lifeboat and now we have to throw the weakest and least viable overboard. Here is how it is done. Ask for a show of hands, shoot the people who voted to sacrifice the weak. Then throw the corpses overboard. The spaceship earth. Nothing to it. And medical ethics is become the home of mercy killers and resource rationing. What? We never kill our patients, we just stop giving them fluids and nutrients, or we overdose them with something. We do not have to give people our food, you know, and if we won't let anyone else feed them either I'm sure we have our reasons. Our system is threatened unless we can ration resources, even the resources that belong to others. (This is because nothing actually, in reality and at the end of the day, belongs to others. We are socialists.) God damn, man, I do not say you must help more people than you safely can. I am saying you cannot take what they have, do them harm, because you are so much more important then they; and if you will be a policeman, militiaman or soldier you must accept risk. Riotous scum say, Give us your troublemaking daughter to rape and murder, and we will leave the rest of your household alone. Father answers with bullets. Wimpy utilitarian household pleads with the father to sacrifice his daughter for the good of the many. What ever should ye olde patriarch do? Tell the oh so very much more important ones they are free to leave, perhaps to try to join the mob if they can, or they are free to take him on if they wish. Gotta love that hard old bastard. Then silly guilt-ridden daughter offers to die for the others. She is not important, and democracy does not like individualism. She thinks she is a god, responsible for what the mob may do. Father, grumpy old sod,

shouts: Twit! No one dies my death for me! He drives the traitors out with his stick, and binds his obviously mentally unstable daughter to keep her out of trouble. You know what? When someone is suicidal you don't help him do it because he has rights. He has no rights over you. You try to help him live. If he is mentally incompetent you may have to give him a guardian as well. Don't fight back. That's what they want. Gives them an excuse. Don't break laws, and don't disobey. That's what they want. Dare I add, give up, disarm, obey because that's not what they want. Really? We could resist peacefully while never disobeying an order in their presence. What would that get us? Well, who knows? It might wear them down over the years. Problem is, those guys tend to make justifying incidents if we won't do it for them. Cheaters. Who is they, white man? You don't know? I will eat grubs, worms, snakes; locusts and ants. Termites, tasty! I will eat nettles (boil with several changes of water first) and dandelion. I will hunt, kill and eat rats and squirrels; zebra and sheep. Whatever and no problem. I will not kill innocent people. I will not kill pets. I would never eat people, family or pets even if they were already dead. It is obvious that there must be limits if we are not to become grunting, foraging and rutting swine. Where are you going to set your limits? You have the bad guy's wife and kiddy at hand. No evidence they took any active part in affairs, but hey, they might have. You tell them what you think daddy has been up to but they won't roll him for you. Don't they know you are the good guy? You are so special. So you push them around some and hold them as hostage to daddy's good behavior. I am so naive! I simply do not understand what must be done to save special good-guy lives. Unrealistic tender heart. Yeah, I hope daddy eats your balls. (Not literally, that's nasty. Heh.) Survival tip: you cannot live on edible plants in the forest. Unless you bring in or grow grain and beans, or beans, peas, and squash, or potatoes and milk for example; you have to eat animals. There are certain tubers, processed acorns and other things, but enough calories and protein are in short supply. There also is no B12 but the effects of that shortage may not be felt for years. In many cases you will live longer on an all meat diet than on whatever calories you can gain from wild plants. Be wary of contaminated greens and diseased animals. In order of importance: clean air, clothing or shelter as needed, ammunition, clean water, fuel as needed, unpoisoned food; first calories, then protein, vitamins, minerals and fats, etc. Most people lie to excuse themselves, to manipulate others, to gain favor and avoid embarrassment. Many lie automatically when the truth would better serve. Government lies constantly about almost everything: they are serving a higher purpose, just like lying preachers. Corporations always lie in ads and in contracts. It is not lying if it merely fools people so that money can be made. Unions lie, class conflict justifies. Politicians lie. Economists lie and philosophers lie. Scientists lie, they need the grant money. Lawyers and judges lie. Socialism is all about rights. They give and take rights away daily. These rights justify regulation, and are usually relatively unimportant ones or positively destructive ones. If food is short they will ration it when higher prices would bring both the well meaning and the grasping to produce, import and smuggle more food. They will not buy food for the starving but will seize foodstocks (directly, or indirectly by regulation and price fixing) and ruin farmers and merchants. Beware of socialists bearing gifts. Socialist rights are the perversion of all rights and an excuse for taking rights away. But in some industries when prices go up they never fully recover again. False scarcity when the people in an industry agree to keep prices high and to apply pressure to those who do not agree to the plan. Indeed, almost always with government collusion. Public utilities anyone? Oil, with its regulated importation controls? And many of the politicians involved are socialists. The true cost of goods in socialist countries is rather high in any case because socialist planning is not very productive. But the evil conservatives! Leftists use government to gain power and impose their insanity. Most conservatives use government to gain power and financial advantage. Big government conservatives. What a concept. Politicians and corporations both get richer. Freedom takes a nose dive

as both capitalist pigs and politicians promote socialist policies and reap the benefit of having the people's wealth in their hands. More corporate donations go to Democrats than Republicans. Republicans are socialists. Tax free foundations and international NGOs set the policies. How lovely. Those of you who most hate being forced to pay for welfare bums, not to worry, when the tyrants no longer have to pretend and the gloves come off socialist countries have always imprisoned or shot parasites who would not do the work given them. To them a parasite is not merely someone who takes. It is somebody who will not give. In mild nanny states you may find this hard to believe. They are still fighting the reactionaries, but look at their plans for the future. You better fit in when the time comes or mandatory reeducation, taxes and fines may be the least of your problems. Communist countries also have a history of abysmal treatment of orphans and the handicapped, and often put those with freedom disease into appalling insane asylums. People need to be kept ignorant. They need to know what they need to know in order to do their jobs. Their jobs for which they are certified, licensed and permitted. Knowledge can be used. This is power. Power can be misused. Tell people whatever will convince them to do the right thing. Tell them the truth and stupid people may do the wrong thing. Keep them stupid, imprint them and program them. Manipulate them. Only authority can be trusted. Aaagh! It won't be long before unlicensed chemistry will be illegal. There are already those who have been raided for selling sulfur and acids to students, gardeners or experimenters. Nobody actually needs matches and lighters, by the way. Open flames are dangerous. Camp fires can burn down forests, and wilderness access needs to be controlled anyhow. A few guided tours? Smoking is bad for the health. Wood burning stoves pollute. We can require that all devices using flame be self igniting and sealed. Repair technicians can be licensed and exceptions made for government approved projects. See how simple it is? We can buy black market, make our own matches, even use a piece of steel and a piece of flint with cotton wool. We can use a nine volt battery with steel wool and some gasoline, or a firestarting bow and stick. But they can punish us if they catch us. There is no reason for us to know how our machines work. A new dark age dawns. Testing and certification is fine if you want the little approved by sticker. It is good if there is any respect for the certifying organization. Testing and licensing is bad if it means there are fools who think they have a right to regulate something you already have a right to do, even if it is risky, Why do people have so damned much trouble understanding rights? Example of religion: Hate crime! Freedom means government can not regulate belief, and that I can not commit crimes against a person because I hate his religion. It does not mean a religious person is allowed to behave criminally because of his beliefs. Freedom also means I have the right to dislike, disagree with, oppose, vote against and generally talk about stupid religious people. Damn. Rights do not nullify each other. Both of us have a right to belief, speech, and so on. If not being offended was a right I could punish you if your speech was so bloody stupid it angered me. Rights are for all. They do not conflict. If the banning of motorcycles, cars, and all swimming pools will save the life of even one child it is worth it. LIVE FREE OR DIE. Now, don't let me shame you into acting foolishly! Propaganda is the art of governance. Propaganda is effective at first, then people catch on. The communists lied about America so much that Russians visiting later on were disappointed. The streets were not paved with gold. I always laugh when lies turn and bite the liar's ass. The US government has been doing the same thing, buying fake news. I hope they get bitten also. My generation is leading you youngsters to the end of America, many to the slaughter. Those of us who are not with the leadership in this have nothing to offer you now: perhaps some resources or a little knowledge, but we are tired. To hell with it, I am almost ready to die anyhow. We never were able to fight our own bastard leadership. Power corrupts, and absolute power absolutely. Not really. Power attracts the corrupt, and power tends to corrupt. There is no such thing as absolute power, but they try. Powerlessness corrupts, and absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. About equally true. Powerlessness tends to make people vindictive in small things, and weak people

tend toward powerlessness. Worms tend to excuse their own misbehavior. Absolute powerlessness probably means you are dead. What does all this mean to the soldier? Firstly, a contract signed at gunpoint is void. We are not the, mostly fictional, knights who could be tortured until they promised not to escape. Having given their word, they no longer needed guarding! When there is a war on we absolutely do mislead and misdirect the enemy. We confuse and surprise them. We ambush them, blow them up and cut their supply lines. This is justified. The enemy is not some uncooperative or disagreeable person. Again, the enemy is not someone who disagrees, or refuses to obey! He is those people who are trying to kill us. He is those who intrude upon us and will use force if resisted. Everyone who is attacked has the right to fight back, using every means possible, necessary, and not clearly excessive. Exception: if you are being arrested for or are engaged in a violent crime, or other intrusion on people's rights, you have no right to resist, and even then resistance is justified if the arrest is effected with excessive force. Again, there is no such thing as a crime against property unless it is a crime against a person. There are certain things you should never lie about. Not even to the enemy. Do not lie about the use to which marked medical vehicles are put. Do not misuse the markings for medical facilities. Never lie about surrender, a cease fire, or misuse the white flag. Do not lie in negotiations, lying and misdirection is a tactical tool, justified when you are at the point of the spear. What if the enemy does it? What if the enemy is evil and deserves whatever he gets? You don't need to be as evil as the enemy. These kinds of lie cause a spiral of atrocity. They hurt both sides in the end, and make it harder to take prisoners. Even bad guys may surrender eventually, but not if they have to surrender to animals like themselves. Do you know what is more irritating even than a soldier who abuses prisoners? REMF and women that come out of hiding once the fighting is over and immediately tear into the captured with great bravery and bloodthirsty zeal. Pathetic. If a prisoner can be tried on the basis of solid evidence of war crimes this is fine. If you think crimes against you justify your crimes against others you are an idiot. But crime is bad. We should lie to people because they might use the truth to commit crimes! We must restrict information, and commit crimes against criminals. If people are allowed to know how to do bad things or have the means to commit crimes then some of them will. We are sheep and must be protected. Information must be restricted! Weapons must be controlled! Bull shit! Restrict the enemy's activities, destroy and capture the enemy. Treat criminals as such. Are the rest of us the enemy? Are American citizens all criminals? Are American men so afraid to defend their own selves, families, and rights and properties that they wish to know nothing; to be disarmed? Do they wish contact with knowing and armed men only when such men are criminals to be ass-kissed and then reported to the authorities? Fuck you. Move to France! You must be a hard man. (I heard that. You smirking monkey. You damned stinking apes!) You must be a decisive man. You need not be an unfriendly one, and should never be an unjust one. Pacifists think hard men can never be good men. Pacifists are idiots. Remember who you are. Books are one of the best ways of preserving knowledge, but I have often thought only a fool would bother to write one. I was right. The day may come when first aid is illegal. There was a time when the first aid kit contained drugs and tools, not just skin creams, aspirin, peroxide and bandaids. Bandaging was an art form. Truly some people made ghastly mistakes with these kits, but the doctors back then had some wild and untested ideas themselves. They still used electro-convulsive shockoh yeah, they are returning to it for depressed patients. This is a guild issue. You have to get special permission to have an automated device to jump start a heart. They know manual CPR works with drowning, certain toxic chemical, and with electrical shock victims but hardly at all for serious heart attacks. They know medics arriving 15 minutes later is a joke. Yes, anything an American knows may be misused, or may be passed on to terrorists. The

American people are as good as enemies themselves. Amusingly enough, most of the things Americans should not know are already known by the bad guys. Restrict access to books on explosives, great idea. No American needs to know. He might do something bad, never good unless he is registered, and the enemy may read his book. Do you think foreign governments have their own books? Hostile military forces? International corporations? Might the global terrorist groups get their explosives manuals at the same places they get the explosives? Oh well, no need to let them read our books too. Keep the Americans ignorant. We will tell them if there is anything they should know. Did you know that the special operations forces pack animal field manual is restricted? Now none of them there Afghani tribesmen know what we are capable of. It is not like as if hill tribes have their own information on pack animals. Oh yeah, that don't mean they should read our books too. The WWII manuals are dated, also, because pack horses, donkeys, and saddles are much improved since the olden days! How about you won't let us read our pubs so translate and let us read theirs? No way man! Then they would know that we know what they are capable of! What if someone with holes in his shoes reads a manual on shoe repair and is enabled to make the forced march and defeat us? What if someone reads it and can repair his shoes instead of going to a certified repair shop? I say ban these dangerous books. Here is the thing. Large organizations learn very little from other organizations. They have their own politics and bias. If anyone is going to have any real effect it is going to be officers authorized to study the enemy and incorporate some of the things learned into the organization's approved training. How much of this information will actually be utilized? Common soldiers, and common guerrillas, do not sit around reading foreign military publications. The training they do get is based on the institution's dogma. Of course any really filthy outfit will probably be given US manuals by our government, along with American instructors. You, however, will be charged under antiterror laws if you set off fireworks. Gotta nail you with something you right-wing extremist bastard. We have to remove rights from Americans to keep basic information from the enemy, is that right? "But you are the enemy! You oppose the government! Why should you have access to taxpayerfunded government publications?" We are not the enemy of constitutional government. You are the enemy. The reason there are no Americans today is because they used to use explosives in the mines, quarries, and on the farms without any regulations. They had guns and booze and no drug laws. At least one tanked up farmer with a grudge in every town in the country went in and blew everyone up with dynamite. We have no ancestors! I blame the Internet myself. Military manuals tell you how they want a weapon to be used. Have you noticed how little data they actually provide on accuracy, reliability, penetration and effects on target? They do not want you to know. In fact, most weapons effects data they have and with a nod to political ass-kissing (have you seen what they said about their 9mm NATO studies?) is classified. Not don't give it to a civilian/ restricted/trade secrets (as if most patents are classified) but legally classified. Since most army technical people say the 9mm FMJ is just as effective as the .45 on people and both are ineffective on armor without the use of specialty ammunition, it follows that bullet placement is key and larger holes of no importance. (Also the 9 has higher velocity; the .45 kicks harder, has smaller magazine capacity and is shot more slowly by most.) Yet the same people admit police ammunition with controlled expansion bullets work better. I am confused. Expanding bullets, when they work correctly, just simulate a larger caliber. They make a bigger hole. How can this be any kind of advantage? You are governing constitutionally and want to classify the nuclear launch codes, the date and vector of your next military operation, and today's operational communications encryption key. You classify a new radar capability or submarine stealth technology until the enemy has learned of it? Good on you! You want to allow free publishing and speech, the bearing of arms; but only in so far as the information cannot be misused by anybody, does not offend anybody, never discloses embarrassing

errors or crimes on your part? You think bearing arms means the right to be drafted if I meet your needs? Hello, King George, and you will get your reward. You can't be drafted anyhow. They may be able to drag you in, but cannot follow you around the battlefield pulling your finger back on the trigger. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself... If they ever bring back the draft and get the idea they can go back to physically abusing recruits I recommend mass counter violence. I know, real men can take getting the shit beat out of them if they don't fit in. Real men can also take combat injuries and death before yielding up their rights. Put a bayonet in somebody. Mmmm, bayonets. Heh. Hey buddy, there is a war on! Man, there is always a war on. Small or large, here or there, cold or hot; there is always a war somewhere. The current clash of civilizations is not supposed to last more than a century or so. If you are going to give up your self-centered individualism and fundamental liberties, your human dignity, all your mental and material tools in order to be harmless during crises you might as well just throw it in now. Perhaps your newborn will not yet have reached geriatric oblivion before we can revert from emergency government. Or join the servant class: army of excellence; army of one, be all that you can be, as you serve your masters until such day as constitutional governance shall return. Very many pubs are restricted releaseincluding food inspection, etc., due to deals USA made with content suppliers. This is a run around the legal ban on government document copyright, they call it proprietary third party information but trademark or patent protection covers commercial use of the same not the copying or reading of it and patents even allow you to make the patented gizmos for your own use. If a document meets the legal standard it should be classified, restricted but unclassified is rather lame, and declassified as soon as possible. Restricted just means government employees releasing such documents will be punished for violating regulations. An anti freedom of information boondoggle. Citizens have a right to know what government is up to and taxpayers are paying for. The militia has a right to military information. Current operations and military secrets are one thing. All of this secrecy is another. Government publications may not, by law, be copyrighted against the American people. Patented information, proprietary, etc., all bunkum. Publications that meet legal requirements may be classified for a time. What are restricted/controlled distribution/for official use only/no foreign and such bugger all but unclassified pubs? Americans had such a sense of entitlement. We used to say innocent until proven guilty, right to speak, right to know, permitted unless forbidden by law... Now it is untrustworthy until vetted, incompetent unless certified, not allowed until permitted, need to know only, and administrative confiscation of both rights and property. We do not deserve more because we have not served, seen the elephant, made our bones. Do you think you really have a right to bear arms without a permit, without an earned place in government? Silly person. The minions feel very special, and will be diminished and hurt if others can bear arms as well. We have not been officially approved. Not to worry mate, we can buy our way back in in the same way our country's founders did. Americans, bah! Half of you are thrilling to the fake deaths of girlies in the slasher and suspense films, thirty percent of that lot want to nuke all the Iranians to death, and perhaps half think voting for a party hack means they can leave unpleasant knowledge and difficult truths to the elites and their servant class. Fucking mentally 5 year old victims of modern education or religious movements, including the new age. Don't let the realities free men need to know sully your beautiful minds, sweet arrogant and pure twits that you are! Seriously, if a 30 year old woman is small and childish in appearance no one should love her as it smacks of some kind of Lolita thing, and the woman herself deserves no kind of relationship. The servant class loves and derides its masters but has contempt for those who do not even qualify as servants. There is no such thing as weakness. There is the decision to behave as if weak. If the masters all move away the servants go home and take assistance until somebody who can actually create jobs comes along. Leaning on others is a mere crutch and crutches are an affectation even when your leg is broken. Acting as a crutch only facilitates dependency. I mean,

people who choose to be weak deserve, er, whatever they get, right? Why should the elites have to put up with bums? What have you done for them? Do not focus on the negative, but don't be blind to it. It is good to be aware of threats. Don't have negative thoughts, the outside can't hurt you. Only you can. You will attract negative energy! I don't want to think about it. There I was thinking the outside and I were one! Peace. Peace. When there is no peace. Stupid American dogs! During the revolution against the British the first attempt at drafting soldiers was tried. It did not work out. During the war between the states the military draft came into its own, but there were serious riots in anger over it. Americans just never seem to stop having trouble understanding that freedom thing. My master can be such a bloody pain sometimes. You Slavs stop being so white slavish. Damn it. Yes, master. Oh. Yes Master! This is not a war against illiteracy, nor is it a revolution in manufacture. Don't fight unnecessary wars, revolt or otherwise, because they are a mess; but when tyranny needs to be met with revolution there is no bloody such thing as a nonviolent war. How many died during the non-violent Indian revolt against the British? Expect a fight, and fight the enemy instead of fighting society for the good press. Do not blow up only uninhabited structures, nor civil infrastructure. Blow up the enemy and his systems wherever he is most vulnerable. Some of you think wars can be won with sweet words, and some that wars are best won in a single great and glorious clash of arms. A third part think wars are won by planning ahead of time each possible move and counter from beginning to end of conflict, the certain victory at the end of the maze as clear as the steps of a dance. You are all insane. Wars are won by politics, economics, preparation and planning, battles and refusal to battle, and thinking on your feet as if your lives depended upon it; also wars are lost by these things. I do not think most of you understand the true power and destructiveness of combined military and police operations. It is true that a force no matter how big and technologically equipped can not search out every place, and be and control everywhere. It is also true that a normal life under such occupation is impossible, that non-resistance has no impact on a tyrants plans, and that resistance that is exposed or too weak will be ended in blood. And whenever the military machine goes into action the physical destruction is great as is the damage to economic activity and society as a whole. Only a loss of supplies, a change in plans, or greater force can stop an attack once it begins. The Wise Man and the Fool Two men have flat tires on their cars. One looks at the tire and thinks it is bad that tires wear out. Changing the tire is also bad, it is something caused by tire wear. It is an endless cycle of the consequence of bad things. Yes you can have a new tire on again, after a struggle, but only for a time, and the old tire will be destroyed or repaired and never the same again. He decides it would be wrong to be a part of that. He feels enlightened. He feels self sacrificing. He walks. The other man sees the flat and thinks the tire is still quite good but for a puncture, and that he better be more careful where he turns around in future. He gets out his spare and tools while thinking he expects to best his past performance at tire changing. The new tire is a good one. Man, this new wrench works great, and allows him to use just the right amount of torque when he tightens the nuts down. He inspects his work, stores the old tire for later repair, and he drives. Recycling, by the way, is a good thing when practicable. When it, or when it still, costs more than it saves it is stupidity. Government has no authority to regulate recycling. Local and state, generally, has the authority to enforce anti-dumping laws on public and on private land (when dumping is not permitted by the owner), and when the dumping is a hazard to public health. The federal government has no jurisdiction. The Constitution is hated by people with big plans for central government. It stands in the way of all the "good" they can do. They seldom admit it but it is so. Impossible! You have no proof for this. Really?Article 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of

certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Article 10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Enumerated powers only, fools. We are no more responsible for the underlying nature of things than you are. We try to work with and improve what is there. You try to reach future perfection even at the cost of present injury, and I am giving you the benefit of the doubt here for most envisioned end world states are far from perfect in addition to being being impossible. You say you oppose all violence, which is silly; or you say it but actually either allow it or promote violence you think will result in your future paradise. When we say we do not attack we defend, or that we don't start wars we finish them, we mean we fight only when our rights are violated. We do not mean we do not attack and counter-attack the enemy whenever we can. What do you mean when you say what you do? You think our being willing to fight means we are the ones doing injury now in the cause of perfection later? No. We expect no perfection, and believe some things are worth fighting for, and that failing to fight is going to make things even worse later. Why are you willing to fight us? I myself once held the firm impression that cows might be holy to the gods, but after long meditation I came to realize that cows are good for steak, and that it was cats that were beloved of the gods (except for that damned Inanna-bobana :-( ). Which just goes to show you that the ancient Egyptians were ten times more wise than the Hindu. After all that time trying to do my share to prompt and nudge events into more appropriate channels this is what we get? Well, the higher paths are counter gravity as it were. What cheek, too! The righteous king blessing the highest god like that. Even the acolytes know the greater blesses the subordinate! A universal and spiritual love does have its advantages. If you love, or are in love with, a person and that person is in trouble you want to help. This is all inefficient and personal. I also makes you work. Prioritize. People do choose their own experiences, if they are suffering it is for a reason. Also, it is not wise to muck about with things too much. What really matters is their futures, so say a prayer or do a cleansing or something, then you can get back to your own life. If you are really really sure this is not good enough volunteer some money or time to an organized charity that helps people in need in a group oriented manner, or support the funding of government programs, but it is a caution how badly people in trouble are cared for even with several programs in place to meet every need; I think we may need 5 or 6 programs aimed at each problem area, don't you? Government social programs. It is kind of like the way I take care of my friends. I tell them I have decided to help them when they get into trouble. Then I have have half of their income sent directly to me and give them a list of all the rules they now must live under, and the list of fines I will extract if they fail to obey. I do not let them say no because at some point they will need help. They better pay, and had better obey those rules. I'll be damned if I will waste my resources on them if they get into trouble because of their own stupidity. The damned leeches always want something for nothing. You do not earn firewood by buying it or cutting down, sectioning and splitting, and transporting wood. You do not earn medical care by making a deal with or becoming a doctor. You do not earn a retirement income by paying for one. You earn any or all of these things by paying me to give you and others permissions and allotments. It is good to be a god. Most secrecy is aimed at the citizen, not foreign governments. The first atomic bomb was a secret to the US public until it was dropped on Japan, but the plans for the damned things had already been given to the Soviets. God damn, people! It is an excellent thing when you can get what you want without fighting. I want a banana. Wars, once started, are not won without someone doing some fighting. Sorry about that, but cheer up, maybe you will be able to use proxies. Again, you can avoid war by giving your self-proclaimed enemy whatever he wants. Sadly, you not being omnipotent and all, you may not be able to give him everything he wants and make everything as he wishes it to be so make other people give him stuff too,

and if even that is not sufficient too bad for you but give me a banana. By the by, free press does not mean licensed businesses like CBS or the Times. It means anybody who publishes. And the next time some leftist trash (socialist whether globalist or nationalist, communitarian or corporatist) starts harping on about reasonable restrictions and brings up shouting fire in a crowded theater, and I assume when there is none, ask him where the Constitution transfers that kind of issue from the States to the feds. When the clotting twits say semiautomatic rifles were not invented yet when the Bill of Rights was written, why just tell them television was not yet invented either, and that you want those morons at CBS shut down. Honestly, how stupid is a fed? They think they are regulating interstate commerce when they are controlling the operation of a small business in Maine. Why? You do ask do you not? It is because you use typing paper and most of it is shipped across at least one state line! Interstate commerce authority is about keeping the state borders open, and fighting certain types of related crime, perhaps; it is not about circumventing rights under color of law. In most states it is legal to own a sword, large knife, mace, ax, hammer or spear, but not to carry it in public. In many states it is legal to openly wear a holstered handgun or carry a rifle, but not a dagger, truncheon, or hunting knife (outside of licensed hunting). Brass knuckles, black jacks, coshes, saps/slappers are sometimes banned, and sometimes allowed if kept on your property, yet bows and crossbows are legal unless you are loitering with them on the streets. Sometimes defense sprays are banned, but not folding knives with less than 2 1/2 inch blades even when concealed. Some states allow automatic knife and gravity knife ownership, but won't allow any public carrying of them (or forbid concealed carry), and the fed won't allow citizens to bring them in from other states. Most states allow "machine gun" collections but only with city, state and federal approval. All of these laws are unlawful, and large cities have their own ideas as well. Fedgov keeps threatening to ban all automatics and all clasp knives and locking folders that can be opened with one hand by any means including a thumbnail groove or tab. Look all you want for any constitutional authority to regulate pocket knives, you won't find that provision, and the interstate commerce clause does not qualify except in the minds of twits who think that clause actually justifies anything at all. No problem. All pets and servants of the state get a waiver. Ha! Let them ban less-lethals, and abuse them too. I would rather carry dagger, sword or pistol; or even a rifle around, than a can of pepper spray or a baton. You know that a person hit by pepper spray can likely put 10 bullets in you before his eyes are too severely effected. Do pretend banning pocket knives or tonfa is regulation of interstate commerce. Say our constitutions do not apply to less lethal types of weapon, such as stun guns, go ahead. I need no brass knuckles to shoot you full of holes. Radicals focus too much on the first ten amendments, government has more power to regulate the states under later ones, such as the 14th. The fourteenth, you mean the one requiring the states to respect naturalization; equal protection under law and no property takings without due process? Ever heard of affirmative action and drug law property seizures? I am beyond sick of the fools who say the the feds are operating legally, and pretend a socialist centralized government is constitutionally compatible. We are not that gullible, punks. Protected classes in America include...it is easier to list those not included; heterosexual white adult males, as if they needed protection anyhow. Such white men are roughly 25% of the US population. Some people, including some of the founders, think or thought that the Bill of Rights applied to the states as much as to the the federal government. This is not really true, and certainly was not enforced on the states in any uniform manner. After the 14th Amendment was declared ratified the federal courts came to the point where they declared that the restrictions on them were restrictions on the states as well. This was called incorporation, and was based on the language forbidding any taking of rights without due process, and there is also a ban on laws that abridge privileges or immunities of citizens. That last clause is a joke as rights are not privileges. It applies to corporations and license holders. The clause about rights is amusing, what rights are we talking about here? While the feds

violate the constitution themselves they also actually add to their power over the states under the guise of enforcing rights and respect for the same on them. But there were states that jailed atheists and blasphemers into the 1920s, and to this day the states are not forced to obey the 2nd Amendment regarding gun rights. There are college textbooks on constitutional law in this country that contain no discussion of the 2nd Amendment at all. Some things are left to the states in the constitution because too much centralization is dangerous, some because they are more efficiently handled locally, and some because there is reasonable disagreement over particulars. This does not mean it is right for a state to abuse its citizens, and the federal government has the authority in its charter to stop a state that takes on legitimate federal powers, that no longer maintains a republican form of government, or that takes rights away from its people. Each state also has its own constitution nearly all of which protect the right to have arms. Cases of the breaking of state constitutional provisions are supposed to be handled by the courts. Rights, as opposed to grants of special status, are natural and preexisting anyway. So. Gun control is a state, not federal, issue and state gun laws may not involve non-criminal possession and use of arms, may not violate the letter of the state constitution, and must follow due process to adjudicate those suspected of unsafe behavior or violent misuse of arms, or of actively preparing and planning to do so. What do we have here? The feds go merrily along their illegal way, sometimes forcing their interpretation of rights on the states and otherwise not. They force the states to follow illegal federal laws and mandates at the same time they do this, federal drug laws for instance, and do not follow the law themselves. The states break their own constitutions. Everybody is happy except for factions within the oligarchy that are less dominant than others for that day and issue, pressure groups that failed to get the biggest cut of the largess that year, and a few supporters of liberty. There are others who think American rights do not apply to citizens but to every person in the world no matter what or where they are. It is true that every person deserves to have his rights protected. However, rights must be enforced and to think that the US should or can do this for everybody is absurd. Further, only citizens have any right to vote in American elections, and I very much doubt that our founders would have agreed that large numbers of foreigners, English subjects say, have any right to enter the country illegally, mass around the capital, and while refusing to give up their British citizenship have their right to bear arms protected or respected by us. Everything subject to a lot of legitimate disagreement or to personal preference is no business of government at all. Limited government avoids conflict. Some may be pushed into combativeness by this restriction on their ability to force others to behave properly, but you can't avoid all conflict. We have to have something to fight about or we would get bored. My land is posted round about with signs that say: No entry to government officials, employees, and agents without a lawful warrant, valid court order, or exigent circumstances such as medical emergency or hot pursuit of dangerous suspects. Violators will be subjected to citizen's arrest, and threats or resistance met with reasonable force. This means violence will eventually occur because law and regulatory enforcement agents never yield to the law. Who is at fault for that? Obviously not they. The reckless land owner is always at fault. So they send in a building inspector or telephone repairman with orders to search for evidence because he is not the police operating outside the law. Their own laws say a person used in such a manner is a police agent! No problem, they are just as likely to send an anonymous tip to themselves and then order in a SWAT team without any excuse offered. Who needs one? Confiscate everything in sight and let the subject try to sue to prove his property in no way crime related. Just remember this, if public servants come to you in violation of rights and law and you fail to show respect in the face of the potential use of force you are the one exhibiting violent intent. Obey with alacrity. A judge will save you after the fact. Make a plea for mercy. You gotta love those old boys and sere gals who deserve to make the decisions for others, the folk of judgment so infallible they can impose punishment before rather than after proceedings, that need not inform others of anything before handling things that impact on those others' rights and lives.

We shall think for you. We shall act for you. We shall take part in tests, trials and contests the outcome of which bind you more than they bind us. Masters of the Universe; wisemen and demigods. Philosopher-fucking-kings. The nobility of nature, nurture, and manufacture. Never forget that nothing has intrinsic value. It is important if you make a great hardship and effort of it. Pay the most to those who work hardest, not those who produce the most and best. Do everything the hard way! Red tape! Glorious strugglebut wait! The masters grow rich on bribes, misdirection of the state, and corruption. Lazy. Many despise them, but all feed them delicacies. Smart! Suffering earns things for you. This is why the rich are the ones who endure the most pain. No wait! Suffering justifies, no it purifies. No, it is blood that does that. ?? Never mind. People respect the person at the center of pomp, wealth, and ceremony even as they sneer at him. The more people kiss your buttocks the more people think they should or need to be among the ass kissers, and the larger the contingent that actually wants to be among them. Everything belongs to the Idea. To the Universe, or God, Justice, or the People, so these chosen ones (authorities) own your property; they own you. They may not have taken direct control of it all. They may not have the power, they may not need to take such control. They know they have the right, though, they have the Idea. They are Holy, Anointed Ones. Infant the retarded, nothing is holy. Sacred is a delusion of the mind. Symbols are a message and a reminder of the same. They are powerful, even if they denote an untruth. People will respond to symbols of authority out of fear, or in hope of gain, but also because they are emotionally effected by them and worship "greatness." Those who spit at symbols do so when unobserved, or at the symbols of an enemy of their masters. What freedom from stress when you give everything over to your betters! Yet when the master falls the loyal followers tend to violent outbursts as they blow off the frustrations of such peace and freedom. What message is there in the symbols of tyranny? Did you ever see the boys scatter when someone actually shoots back? Then they pull back and bring in the heavy guns, or your house accidentally burns down. Crew served weapons. They have them and you do not. You must use surprise, confusion and the delays that military organization, unit boundaries and inter-service and branch coordination offer you. Limit exposure to sensors and weapons. Aircraft may be looking down at you. Never stand your ground and take it in the open. Frontal cover without overhead cover, or at least good concealment, will not protect even against plunging fire from grenade machine guns (automatic grenade launchers). Maneuver using terrain to get into heavy cover, or very narrow and deep holes! The machine gun is the enemy of units in the open. The sniper is the natural enemy of the machine gun gunner. Under conditions where an assault rifle armed soldier shooting semiauto gets 15% hits on a stationary target, a sniper may get 90% hits. 1000 meters is not an unreasonable effective range in military sniping, unless you need head shots or one-shot-one-kill results, but magnum and large caliber snipers can get yet more range. You too can be a sniper! Given that you have some rather basic mental and physical aptitudes all it takes is training and practice and you too can kill and be killed! Battle is chaotic and every weapon and mix of weapons will be used when advantageous or necessary, but force on force and like on like is to be avoided. Tanks ought not to be the primary "killer" of tanks, nor riflemen the primary killer of riflemen. Antiarmor units and munitions, including munitions from aircraft and artillery, should be the main destroyer of armor. Tanks are the best penetration force and weapon against rear-area facilities and communications, but all arms must still work closely and protect each other as each has different weaknesses and strengths; and tank will always have to fight tank to some extent. Artillery and aircraft, or bombs and traps, are the primary wounding agent versus infantry. What are infantry for? Raids and ambushes, occupying ground, locating and passing on target information, protecting tanks and artillery and much more. Counter sniper activities by snipers will always be needed, and sniper teams are good at it. If you have no balanced combined arms team they will be your primary weapon against snipers, along

with close stalking, ambush, and unit suppressive fire. When you have options use a mix of all usable capabilities, and the primary killers of snipers are scouts and forward observers with powerful electrooptical devices in conjunction with associated fire from autocannon, tank guns, guided missiles and even artillery and aircraft. If you are fast enough on your feet to maneuver around a foe due to his defensive choices, difficult terrain he is in and you are not, or your heavy supporting fire and you are VERY heavily armored you (infantry) can use tank tactics. If you are fast both in the moving and the shooting on the run you can use airforce tactics. This requires moving fast enough to be a difficult target at the enemy's skill level. If you can operate in large open spaces while seeing and targeting the enemy first you can use naval tactics. The operational level of war is more alike among all branches and services than tactics, and strategy even more so, but you can see why light infantry at the small unit level don't often get to maneuver in the open. Speed on the battlefield is a matter not only of cross-country mobility but also of nerve, armor, use of terrain for cover and concealment, smoke, and suppressive fires on enemy positions. I guarantee you will not get far, no matter how fast you are in theory, if you move too much exposed to fire and get shot full of holes. Nor will you get far if you are constantly breaking down, running out of fuel and ammunition, or dropping out because of physical or psychological exhaustion. Combat in complex terrain is the skill light infantry must master. City, town, deep forest and jungle, and hills and hollows overgrown or covered in jumbled boulders and broken rocky crags. Do not engage full spectrum forces anywhere else, and be aware that if you run for cover the run must be short or you will be overrun. Feet are nimble and quick, bested only by small paws and mountain goat hooves, but they are not fast. Remember too that you can win every battle and still lose a war. If your battles do not produce operational level regional military effects or political changes that move you up a step toward your strategic final goal they are not worth fighting. And if you die you lose. Do not allow some moron to misuse you. Military history is full of stories about specialized troops put into battles for which they were unsuited and in which they were slaughtered, often for little or no gain to anybody. The obvious high ground will take a pounding, occupy such ground briefly or not at all. Less obvious high ground with room for dispersion and good cover can dominate lower lying ground. You do not stand out in the open. Do not walk out in the open. If the ground is not as flat as your kitchen floor you may low crawl out there. You may have to dash a zig-zag across there. Run. run, run! If you are trapped out there gods help, and shoot from the low prone. A single sandbag placed before your prone self will stop some bullets, then it is shredded. You are gonna die if you can't move and can't make a good smoke screen, can't depend on others for immediate intervention, and can't dig in really fast. If you have a really deep hole you stay in for too long you will be blown out of it eventually. If you just sit out on the flats you will die quickly. Use your pack and other handy gear as a barrier. How fast can a guy dig with a short-handled shovel while lying flat, anyhow? You would be better served by bounding away like a rabbit. At times it can be difficult to know when to freeze in place, to slip away using any cover, to open fire and dig in if possible, to withdraw using fire and maneuver, to attack using cover and fire with maneuver, or to simply run like the wind. (Or when to saunter away with the crowd, run screaming with the frightened office workers, wait in an attic or under a log, take tea at the nearest restaurant, or to use that key you made to hide in the trunk of a police car until it takes you away from all the annoying people.) Do not even momentarily think of houses as cover. Some houses have some cover within certain rooms, a bathtub full of water, your wood burning stove, and other things. Most walls are worthless against grenade fragments and .22 LR rimfire. Two story houses are safe against only light mortar hits to the roof if you are on the ground floor. Large buildings may provide good cover for a limited time. Behind such a building there is a safe place relative to indirect fire. It is about as wide as the building is tall for much of the artillery fire coming from the other side of the building, but only

half that for mortar rounds coming down at a very steep angle. If certain types of large building collapse you can come back. The rubble makes very good cover. Basements are good until they become traps. Fortify buildings if possible, use barriers and traps, and know when to move on using the safest routes. Use planks and anything else handy to shore up walls and ceilings. Cover, including overhead cover, is as important inside a room as it is in a forest or out in the open field. Stay put too long and die. Expose yourself too much or long and you die. Yes, you guessed it. If you move and are caught between positions, too visible and too long in enemy sights you will die. The enemy knows this, so they will plot artillery fires on your expected escape routes. They do not like you. It amuses them to see your limp body tumbling 30 feet in the air. The world is overrun with laws but is a lawless place. Our constitution is good but is a dead letter. Honor, family, community, state and nation. In that order. Kith and kin (friends and family). Decent and reasonably trustworthy people. Take care of each other. Provide for your own security. If you attack one you attack us all. Should I not then support the war on terror? Sure, but it helps if you attack the right people, tell the truth, and don't commit war crimes. It would also be jolly if our rights were not taken away under color of law and excuse of emergency. Hear me. An armor piercing round from a tank may pass through 32 feet of dirt, and still knock out a tank on the other side. If in the open you may also be hit by discarded sabot petals after they peel off. Explosive shells would have a larger lethal zone, and such delayed fuze anti-concrete shells will blast serious holes out of buildings, though it would take a hell of a lot of rounds to collapse a concrete office building. The .50 cal. MG can shoot through about 15 feet of dirt. (This depends greatly on soil density. A 55 gallon drum filled with sand is a good protection. A foam lining may keep the sand from draining out as quickly.) It is possible to be above the tank so that the gun cannot be raised enough to engage, but it is better to be below surface level. Tank and AFV gunners love little better than using second generation thermal sights to snipe at people who think rooftops and large boulders, for example, will protect them. Even at night a properly calibrated tank gun will hit and destroy boulders and anyone behind them. If you just lie there under the tree you may make a good thermal target. Try to cover much of your body with leaves, sand or dirt if nothing else. Drape your face with something as well. Automatic cannon are more area fire weapons, and have less penetration. They will still hammer cover to pieces given some time. You can approach tanks by using their blind spots if no enemy infantry is nearby. However, beware of cameras at the rear of vehicles. So, only the largest earthen berms and massive buildings are truly useful shelter from tank rounds, along with underground bunkers, etc. The best bet is to be too low or high for the tank to aim at you at the ranges offered by probable shooting locations. You cannot be hit if the gunner can't get an angle that will penetrate to your location. If within 200m and not in a ditch you may be killed by the muzzle blast. If within 50m of sides or rear the same. The good news is that the tank gun may raise so much dust and dirt as to blind the gunner's sights for several minutes. A 155mm shell weighs some 90 pounds and contains high explosives. If you stick around a fight long enough you will hear the shells coming for a few seconds, which is why vets drop while shouting incoming, and then burst in the air, on the ground or below it. Fragmentation is very dangerous within 45 meters or so of a surface burst but is not a perfect radius of equal fragment density. Perhaps a crater some 5 feet deep and 13 feet wide will appear. This depends on the hardness and regularity of the targeted surface, and on the approach angle, velocity and direction of the shell. Most fragments come from the sides and curve of the nose of the shell, fewer to the rear or nose. Mud, water (but don't be standing in the water) and snow tend to smother the fragments. A properly functioning delay fuze may detonate the shell after it is already 5 feet down in average soil, thus making a deeper hole, perhaps collapsing a bunker, but while seriously limiting the area covered by fragmentation at the surface. Depending on the soil most artillery shells with delay fuzing will be at about 7 feet when they explode. 100 lb. bombs at 11 feet, 500 pound bombs at 20 feet, and 1000 pound bombs at 32 feet, yet if a 500 pound bomb lands 20 yards away and you are behind a 30 inch thick

earthen berm or an inch of steel you will probably survive. A good 7.62mm armor piercing bullet would go through that plate without difficulty, through at least .8 inches. A .50 caliber AP bullet would easily pierce two such plates together, unless they were fixed in place at a substantial slant. If the plate is not properly fastened in place, and at an angle would not hurt, it might get pushed in on you by the bomb explosion. The resistance of various mild steel and steel armor types, treatments and alloys vary. Then there are plastic, ceramic, spaced, composite, and active armors, (and perhaps soon electromagnetic armor and automated close protection systems) as well as variation between lots. Also there are material and manufacturing variations in armor piercing projectiles and cartridges. Range, effecting impact angle and velocity of projectiles, matters. My point? Penetration figures are approximate. Mortar rounds fall much less loudly than the rushing-sound making artillery shells and aircraft bombs, but at certain ranges you may hear the mortar fire before the shells arrive. The shell may have been fired from 23,500 meters away, more with special projectiles (extended range base-bleed, rocket assisted, etc.); though accuracy at maximum range is not the best. There are GPS guided 155mm shells, at more than 100,000 dollars a pop, as well as those that guide on a laser reflection, but most still are ballistic, unguided shells. There too is now a add-on GPS kit for standard 155mm shells. They come with many different payloads, including bomblets, WP and mines. The antitank versions are either guided or use antitank submunitions, some types of which bomblets are themselves independently guided. A heavy machine gun gunner may open fire at 1,830 meters if using the tripod. A M2A3 25mm gunner at 3000 meters. A 120mm mortar may be fired from 7,200 meters, and a TOWII antitank guided missile at between 3,750 and 4,500 meters depending on type. If TOW is used on you you better have plenty of power lines in between you and they. TOW missiles have relatively limited behind cover effects, but will nail you if you are in a car or behind a short section of wall, and are often used to punch holes in buildings. If your vehicle is targeted by Javelin in overhead attack mode it may activate prematurely if there is a mass of metal it will pass over before reaching your tender self. Many of these types of systems, as well as unguided rocket launchers, are being supplied with "bunker buster" warheads in some of the munitions. This greatly adds to their ability to blow up small buildings, above the surface bunkers; and greatly improves behind cover destructive effects, but reduces penetration on tanks. Tanks may shoot at you from 4000 meters or so, and attack helicopter at some 5000m. Spooky the gunship may be doing slow orbits overhead in the dark, and he has night vision and massive rates of fire, some of which he will use within 50m of his own troops. He is a big target though, if you can see him. Everybody and his brother has night vision these days, from cheap gen II+ monoculars or field glasses, to late model gen III goggles and rifle sights, and on to thermal sniper scopes and gen II thermal sights on armored vehicles. This means cover and concealment are critical. The firepower involved also means you ought to worm your way out of the impact area if you can and they will be waiting to ambush you. With deep bunkers versus a heavy barrage the surface with be overlapping craters. Many bunkers will survive but who will dig you out? Note that direct howitzer fire is very good at pounding buildings and surface built bunkers apart. This is both because of the explosive triggered by delay action fuzing and because a 90 pound projectile smashes things up well upon impact from close range. At this point antiaircraft guns and missiles are automated. So are, in large part, self propelled howitzers such as the M109A6 Paladin. Within a few decades towed artillery, and possibly even infantry mortars, will be the same. The crew will place them in a decent position and will keep an eye on things while feeding ammunition to the weapon. The mortar will level itself, and locate itself very precisely by GPS or other such means. (The GPS system will have to be upgraded soon with so many users.) It will calculate its direction to the mil. When digital fire missions and meteorological data are received it will add data from its own sensors, such as its own muzzle velocity, and will calculate for itself fire tables and environmental adjustments. It will apply the deflection to shift from its current

facing and the correct elevation shift for the range to its sights, pointing its sight away from its previous aimpoint in the opposite direction of the new target, and then will rotate and raise or lower the tube until the reticule is back on the left edge of the aimpoint. It will then fire the requested type and number of rounds, with the correct fuze settings. It will modify its positioning after each of the first few shots drive the baseplate deeper into the ground in order to re-level its sight. As it does so it will make any changes requested over the digital link while the crew feeds the ammunition, and in some cases sets the fuzes. This is truly serving the piece. Boring. Keep in mind that barometric pressure, cant, ballistic drift, shell shape, weight and velocity effect the fall of shot. Winds vary in speed and direction at different ranges (places) and at different altitudes. Not all of this can be predicted or measured. Even a tail wind can cause misses at range. So while these weapons will be more accurate and observers more quickly able to adjust fire than ever they still are not going to be perfect. This although more of the projectiles fired will have terminal guidance as well. Robot weapons? Yes. Robots that replace the individual soldier? Not for some time to come. The technology is too primitive. Even the little wheeled or 4 legged armed robots of the day require close supervision; it is rather like having your weapon operated by Microsoft Windows. The powers that be salivate at the thought of truly obedient killers and yearn for the time. Does the sword wield itself? The larger aircraft bombs can make a hole you could build your cabin at the bottom of. One or two guided weapons will destroy any place you are likely to hide in, if precisely located by the enemy, and this includes bunkers 30 feet down60 if heavy deep penetrators are used; 200 feet with a 15 ton advanced version. The Mark 84 2000 pound bomb lethal radius is 366 meters (meaning the majority standing exposed inside this range of the bomb will be hit by one or more primary or secondary fragments capable of producing fatal or serious wounds), the lethal blast radius is about 150 meters (people inside this zone will be killed or badly injured by blast overpressure, you can be closer if in a trench although it has an open top so there is a limit), but an almost completely safe (from large fragments and debris) distance when standing and exposed may be 1000 meters. 1300 meters might be better. It can make craters 50 feet wide and 36 feet deep. Best penetration is approx. 15 inches of steel or 11 feet of concrete. They are not highly accurate though most will land within a few hundred meters or less, but if fitted with a guidance kit and everything works, including the electronics and the weather forecasts, you can hit a mobile home. Poor delivery protocols and poor device performance degrade accuracy and a complete loss of guidance can result in a miss by 1000 meters. A 1000 lb. GP bomb often passes through about 14 feet of sand even if it fails to explode. An aircraft can drop bombs on any laser designated point from a height of 15,000 feet and from 3 miles away. You may never see or hear the aircraft, but will hear the bombs coming infor the last second or two. Very big bang. Hope for a heavy overcast. This does not mean a general bombardment will kill everybody. This does not mean skyscrapers are unable to take a pounding when hit from above, and in some cases even from the side. It does mean you must not stay under continuous attack unless you are very deep or widely scattered and imprecisely located. Of course laser guidance is only one type. GPS is another. There are air launched munitions, guided missiles of various kinds, with much greater range. Shotguns are the poor man's submachine gun. Submachine guns are marginal against soft armor and nearly useless against hard. Penetration can be poor even when all the protection the target has is a lot of gear and magazines in pouches. They are not, however, quite as inaccurate as some would have us believe. Yes, both tribesmen and European police are quite capable of popping the muzzle up, tracking a runner at 30 meters, and holding the trigger down for 32 rounds of dust and mayhem but no hits on the runner at all. A good operator can shoot semiautomatically to perhaps 300 meters and has no trouble putting short bursts into runners and enemy positions. At close range he can empty the magazine into a specific area or into the body of a charging fool even from the underarm position. Especially with closed bolt guns he can fire short bursts into head or upper chest with precision from

the shoulder. One German sniper who fought the Russians used a bolt action rifle while sniping, switched to a semiautomatic rifle when in need of rapid aimed fire, and carried his encased rifle slung across his back and a MP-40 submachine gun on his chest or in hand when on the march. The rifle needs close combat optics, or ghost ring sights, if you are optimizing for close combat. In such configuration it may need a mounted flashlight. An infantry rifle needs good adjustable peep or optical sights, but not a scope with a narrow field of view. Illuminated sights or night vision is a must for nighttime combat, although in poor light a telescopic sight with low magnification and a wide field of view, or an illuminated reticule, may do. You may be able to get 25% of your shots into a target at night, using standard iron sights, at 50 meters range. Some run a strip of white tape from rear sight to front to aid in this. Use illuminated iron sights if nothing better is available. Precision long-range fire requires a quality tactical highly adjustable scope for target detection and precise aiming. You cannot make constant range and wind setting changes on a cheap scope as they wear quickly. Get a Leopold or something. You need a thermal or image intensification sight if sniping at night. Day scope magnification much above 10x may be a problem under some circumstances due to heat mirage or dimness of image, but to get the most out of a .50 caliber sniper you may have to work around any such problems while using a 40x sight. Vertical forward grips belong on machine pistols, submachine guns and squad automatic weapons, or possibly on sawed-off shotgunsmost especially if the shotguns also have full pistol grips for the shooting hand, because such grips focus much of the recoil into the palm and two is better than one. They do not belong on rifles. Bipods are useful on automatic rifles and light machine guns. Also, on some sniper rifles and select-fire infantry rifles. They do not belong on infantry rifles in general. Carrying handles are useful on machine guns, especially if they are attached to the barrel and can be used to unlatch and remove the same. They too do not belong on rifles. Collapsible and folding stocks are useful when you need to store rifles in compact spaces. They are OK for noncombat troops who work with a slung rifle or carbine. They do not belong on infantry rifles, but an infantry rifle is hard to store in an armored vehicle, and to use from one. Truck drivers find it difficult to sling an infantry rifle across their chests and to fire one out the window with one hand! Therefore, folding stocks on carbines, submachine guns, and personal defense weapons (PDWs) are handy as they will be used mostly for close-in emergency defense or specialized entry operations and will be carried slung on the chest, under the arm, or even in a holster. The infantry rifle itself will not suffer from the presence of a stable and durable folding stock but should be carried at the ready and with the stock unfolded. Some such stocks can be adjusted for length. If said stock does not allow a proper cheek weld then toss it. There are fads in the weapons field and sometimes the results live in the bureaus for decades. At other times they are quickly replaced by the highest ranker's new pet idea. At least everyone is now truly hardcore since they wear French peasant caps. Ass kissers are always available to push the new trend. Bullpup rifles have a place, for example, due to a short overall length, but they are not infantry rifles. (A bullpup may or may not be handy and quick, and may or may not allow fairly rapid transition for use on the opposite shoulder as direction of ejection can usually be changed; but they clang and heat up, and eject smoke and cartridge cases, right beside your face. Triggers are normally poor. Balance is odd. Never point the rifle at anything you are not willing to shoot, and keep the finger off the trigger until ready to shoot. Keep the safety on until entering combat because brush, or any number of other things, may snag the trigger, and when the safety is off you must shield the trigger with your supporting arm and shooting hand. How many pictures of professional soldiers have you seen where they are running along behind their mates with their fingers on the trigger? With friends like these... Cross obstacles with the finger outside the trigger guard and the firearm pointing in a safe direction: If you fall you should never have a finger on the trigger and should use the butt of the weapon to break your fall if you need to; beware of breaking your face on the receiver of your rifle, and use of the free hand

is preferred. No longer being an idealistic fool does not mean you have to embrace every evil of the day. Do not place your weapon on the ground beyond arms reach at any time. Your rifle goes where you go. If you are new to this it can be surprisingly difficult. People are not used to carrying something around all day long. How will you feel if you are the one who has to report that he does not remember where he left his assault rifle? Make certain it is secure before releasing it and never lean it against a surface with your head above the muzzle, or if it might slide and topple over. The safety should be engaged and your fingers away from the trigger as you do this. Keep the ejection port closed. Muzzle covers are OK if they are of the shoot-off variety. However, trapping moisture in rather than out is worse than ineffectual. Load bearing gear, a concealed weapon, and a slung rifle will all be an irritation, nagging at your attention, until you become accustomed to them. This is much like wearing gloves all day for the first time. Just go on about your business. With others on guard you can work with your rifle slung across your back, muzzle up, or muzzle down if it is raining. If you jab the muzzle into the dirt clean it immediately or it may burst when you fire it. If it is full of water lower the muzzle and open the bolt to let it drain; and, yes, it will corrode even with a chromed bore if you leave it long enough. Double slinging allows you to put a strap over each shoulder so that the rifle is worn upright like a pack. More comfortably, with straps under both arms and both straps over the right shoulder; butt centered but barrel at right shoulder. On a road march you can carry it slung across the back, slung muzzle up on the right shoulder, or slung muzzle down on the left. To get it in action quickly from the last two positions you grasp the forend with your offside hand and bring the rifle over and forward, or you drop your offside hand down and grasp the forend, thumb inside, and rotate the wrist while raising the muzzle until the rifle is upright with the butt down and passing in front of the body. You can also sling it on your chest, carry on either shoulder, or over your shoulders, or in both hands muzzle down or up (and butt inside or over the wrist and in either direction, or resting on top of a shoulder), or in one hand muzzle down and aside or in the crooks of your arms. You can rest it on your belt buckle. This sounds like a lot of unneeded variation, yes? And if your friends find you are doing this with the barrel pointing at their backs they will not be happy. The thing is, carrying a rifle for 30 miles overland is like carrying the pack. It makes you ache and you will have to periodically shift the straps to avoid the worst of it. (Under these conditions loose boots and wrinkles in the socks are murder. It may help to wear dress socks under the wool socks. Keep dry socks available. Loose boots may allow the foot to slide, a recipe for blisters. If boots are too tight circulation suffers. Also wide padded straps and H pattern rather than Y pattern gear is good. As are load bearing vests and armor attachment points.) Now, wait a moment. Discipline is a value in itself. The weapon should not be switched from one shoulder to another except on order. You let the common soldier (poor gene pool) do things of his own volition and his formations will become ragged, his movements will lose snap, and he will start thinking he can decide where to wear his protective mask bag. Bugger. Snap is important when stealth is not, and formations are like fortifications. They are supposed to be ragged. Uneven in appearance and location (without being out of place and unable to perform their function). Camouflaged and dispersed, they are harder to target that way. In open terrain, ouch, a patrol sized unit in diamond formation might be more than 200m wide and 150 deep. Very ragged and flank guards with one man staying within sight within any nearby trees while another goes even further in but in sight of the first man. Where you need to be to do what you are to do, whether rear guard or point man, dictates your general location at any given time. If you do not keep in regular contact, visual or otherwise, you will not be able to maneuver relative to your leader. Otherwise go where you need to go to observe your sector and do your job. Yes, but it needs to be varying and as ragged as hell. If you look at a diagram of 4 men in diamond formation you will see the point man and rear guard in line with each other and the

flankers abreast. This is wrong. one flanker needs to be further ahead than the other. The trail man should follow the leader but to one side, not directly inline. Mix left and right handed troopers in the van. Honestly, leaders are leaders and followers are not, but this orderly and uniform pattern fetish; this salute it if it moves and paint it if it doesn't credo, makes a person wonder. Not that I haven't seen some stone stupid and unruly enlisted... None of the above should imply that you, especially unsupported infantry, can or should get into a formation requiring many to stroll along in the open waiting to see if anybody cares to take a shot at them. Break up into smaller groupings and make use of all terrain features no matter how small. We do need a manual of arms to be practiced regularly. Not one about marching and saluting. One containing function checks and shooting and handling drills. On the approach march you do not sling arms unless using a tactical sling on the chest, with the butt up near the shoulder. Normally you carry your weapon at port arms or low ready. If contact is imminent place the butt into the pocket of your shoulder and lower the muzzle enough to see properly, scan your sector and move the weapon along with your eyes. Safety off but finger straight along the receiver, and don't aim at your own. When carrying muzzle up at eye level and butt down you can rest the butt on your belt when fatigued. You can shoot while walking, and even while running, at close range. Actually good infantry do not clomp along, do not jog, and do not really run either. They sprint when they need to, walk with a loose limbed ground skimming stride, and lope using minimum effort. When shooting on the move they try to smooth things out even further and glide their feet along. Don't forget the deliberate steps and zigzag path up steep hills. Know your rifle. Understand how best to operate all its controls, and what they all do. Understand the sights and how to zero and adjust them. Rezero when you are a new user, when there are substantial differences in temperature or altitude, and when the sights have been knocked about. With some ammunition it may be that different settings need to be used for range as well; not just when using another brand or type, you will need to fine-tune the zero of your sight, if it allows such a thing, for each new batch of ammunition.. How accurate is it? At what ranges is it useful against point targets and at what range area targets? How does it handle in close quarter combat? Against moving targets? How quickly into action? At battle sight ranges and at long range? During rapid fire, and automatic fire (if any)? How effective is it, for example, with chest shots on deer? How much penetration will you have against common cover, including barrier materials, structures, vehicles and trees? How much lead do you use for moving targets? How well does it buck the wind? Do you need to short stock it when going through doors? Yes, it is possible to shoot rapidly with high-powered rifles. Two shots per second at close range, one shot per second rapid aimed fire. It is possible to produce rapid aimed fire from bolt action rifles, but your arm will get tired and begin to slow, and the small magazine capacity will force constant reloads. This high rate of fire can be maintained for short periods, a minute or two, but the rate that can be sustained without overheating and damage is usually 1 shot every 4 or 5 seconds. It is possible to obtain controlled and effective bursts from 7.62mm rifles also. What usually happens is that the first bullet hits, the second hits very high and to the right, and any further rounds clip leaves off the trees, even at close range. But an experienced user, and how much force to apply down on the barrel can only be learned by experience, with the proper stance and enough strength and/or mass can hold on target with a whole magazine long burst. If you are not one of those people you should fire bursts aimed low and left on the target. Again, under the majority of circumstances rapid aimed fire is the most effective anyway. Put the rear leg well back, crouch enough to lower the center of gravity, and shift the weight forward if needed. Buttplate solidly into the shoulder. For minimum wear during training, you should allow the rifle to cool, breach open, any time the barrel threatens to become to hot to hold in the hand. You really should do a good shoot and clean procedure to prepare the bore of a new sniper-quality rifle, and shoot thereafter at a low rate of fire to

maintain accuracy; probably still lose accuracy after 4000-5000 rounds though. Many people say that modern, primarily assault, rifles replaced the rifles of world wars one and two because long range and massed fires were replaced by machine guns and artillery, and the rifles of the day were too heavy and powerful. Keep in mind that many of the infantry rifles of the day weighed around 9 pounds. The first assault rifles were heavier than they, as were the first submachine guns. The truth is that the the small bore short rifles of the of the time were the replacements for the black powder large bore long infantry rifles and the long small bore rifles of the late 1800s and early 1900s. This because of the performance of smokeless powder and pointed jacketed bullets. Machine guns did take over the long range massed and indirect role from rifles, and the mortars took the indirect role from machine guns. Targets were usually (but by no means always, it depends on terrain and your optics) hard to engage past 300 meters due to cover and concealment, and due to troops running rather than standing quietly until shot. The average soldier does have difficulty firing light automatic rifles accurately. Today, however, the sustained-fire machine gun is seldom used as such. A respectable rate of fire can be maintained with continuous barrel changes (1 after the first 2 belts {200-250 rounds each} and 1 after each belt thereafter), even if not as good as that of the old (and heavy) water-cooled guns, but long range and indirect fires are artillery and air support, and sometimes mortar, functions. Machine guns are used to shoot up the landscape during ambushes, and structures and thin skinned vehicles. There is perhaps too much specialization. Yet note: machine guns are often carried by the person, without any special training, who shows a knack for it. Worse, gunners may be the smallest men in the teams or squads because the MG is a priority target for the enemy and a small man makes a smaller target when exposed; or may be the least experienced newbies due to more senior men not wanting to hump the weight. Most of the time, depending on the unit type and primary mission(s), an experienced and skillful man of the utmost reliability ought to be designated gunner. It is not well if the machine gun is the first weapon to be ditched or taken away by a fleeing soldier. According to the beanie-wearing battlespace shapers everything will soon be automated and all fires will be guided munitions from air or sea. We will never be ambushed again, though a technician may have to handle a rare personal defense situation. Cool huh? We are Olympians. Truth is sensors, information systems and superlative command and control networks are great when they work, although even when working not as good as the hype implies unless operating in very simple environments. They never work reliably so do not depend on them too much, they give you an edge but no more than that. If you depend on them your people will sit on their hands when things fail. Did you ever notice that modern cars run very well, though designed for fuel efficiency instead of performance, but that when they fail it is more often a sensor or electronics problem than a breakdown in the basic electrical or mechanical components that do the work? Kinda like building a submachine gun being simpler and using fewer parts than a semiautomatic only handgun-caliber carbine. Those guys are so sharp they cut themselves on their trouser creases. If you do not have heavy weapons, and have no artillery or aircraft in support, it becomes even more important to have a more flexible rifle, with better range and more penetration. (By the way, do not listen to those who think automatic weapons need not have any kind of optical sights. It is true that machine guns produce, hopefully, a dense beaten zone. They do not fire a series of aimed shots. When a burst is fired the sights become a blur. You can fire a burst at a barrel at 300 meters, nicely centered, and may not hit the barrel once. It depends on the machine gun used. The sights are good for this reason: you can detect and identify targets at a longer distance, and more precisely center the beaten zone on them. Those same people say bayonets are only good as utility knives, for cutting wire or opening beer bottles, and for menacing prisoners and rioters. Well, kind of. If you think a bayonet charge over the fields and into the trenches is a good idea you are rather insane. Bayonets do not make very good utility knives, and are crappy wire cutters. A jab to the chest with the rifle muzzle and no bayonet is no

joke. Some of them make decent fighting knives, and can come in handy if you find yourself wrestling over a firearm. And nobody is likely to try to take your weapon from you if it comes around the corner preceded by the bayonet. When you do use a bayonet make certain that it is a good one. The British used the bayonet on the L85A1 and found they tended to break off of the rifle. Bayonets were important in black powder days. They were never as important as was thought by the first world war proponents of elan, and are more useful than most people today believe. When entering a doorway with an infantry rifle, especially with the bayonet, you may want to short stock the rifle. Grasp the forend near the forward sling swivel and place your other hand around the grip, and then move the weapon back until the receiver is behind your hip; in trail. Zip into the room, shooting anyone who wants to contest you, and if they want to run into the bayonet that is fine too. From this position a rapid follow-up shot is not possible with a bolt action rifle, so a semiautomatic is better. Tactical slings really should have a quick release like the chinstrap on helmets do, so you cannot be yanked around on the other end of it. They are, however, handy if you need to switch weapons as you can drop the rifle without losing control of it. Uh, you do know to stay out of doors and windows? You do know about booby traps and explosive demolitions? The Canadians seem to think explosives and mines no longer exist. Try to get their manuals on the subject (until recently all copyright of the Queen of England!). Man, use them (doors and windows) when all else, such as mouse holing walls and ceilings with explosives, is not possible. Do slice-the-pie from a distance first, and a preparatory rocket or grenade (or nice demolition charge) might be in order. You slice the pie by standing well back near a wall and looking at what you can see through the door. Then you move out and around past the door and watch each part of the room inside as it is exposed until past the door and back near another wall. Naturally you do this with rifle shouldered and you shoot any enemy you see along the way. It is all very nice to say the day of grenade into the room followed by indiscriminate automatic fire is over. You do gain nothing by blowing up every home and civilian you meet. If fire is coming from a room, though, you do respond in kind. Amusing sight: squad goes in with flash/bang and precision CQB weapons, there is resistance; so they back off and call in the 1000 pound guided bomb or rig up a propane tank. Building goes away, nothing indiscriminate about that! They stack up outside the building along the wall near a door, remote charge is set off, or they are hit by machine guns and snipers. Nice cluster. If you do enter through a door do not ever just walk directly forward, and never stand in a doorway. Do not run in and trip a trap, and then charge directly forward and screaming! Blow the door, which may set off any traps, wait for any explosions if you use grenades; and then either approach the door from one side and go through the doorway at an angle in order to exit past its other side; or step into the portal at an angle and then immediately step back toward the wall inside the room but on the same side of the doorway you started on. The thing is, if you can enter a building at all it means the other side has not had time to fully prepare, or is really not very serious about things. When the opposition breaks in to your building (using ram, pry bar or hammer; power saw, cutting torch or rod, shotgun breaching, or cutting charge or pound door charge; if not direct fire from heavy weapons) you set off explosive charges or chemical devices. A nice dust charge. You have barrier materials, wire for instance, they still must get through, and release ammonia. Ammonia is good as protective masks handle it badly. Open the natural gas valves. (Propane is a good source of building-wide incendiary flash or fuel-air explosion. Natural gas is often turned off at the source.) Burn the place, create some carbon monoxide, gas masks fail against this. You have barriers inside as well as out. If you can't stop them and can move under cover to your next position, or figure you are going to die now, you drop the entire building on their heads. When armored vehicles come in you ambush them and then fall back. If they move next to a tall building or into a narrow alley or street you drop a building on them or set off buried charges large

enough to place them at the bottom of a crater. See how it is done? You don't need high velocity explosives in clever or high tech munitions capable of shattering or cutting metal or penetrating armor. You can best drop hillsides and create near instantaneous ditches and craters with the heaving action of low velocity bulk explosives tamped down in bore holes. Basic dynamite works just fine. What happens when a huge crater is created in a massive cloud of dirt in front of a speeding tank? It is too close to be avoided and the tank noses into the hole and goes from 45 mph to zero in seconds. 70 tons of unyielding vehicle. Very sudden stop. How do you think this effects the crew? Imagine if during WWII our policy had been to detain civilians in every building we occupied and fortified. If we let them go some would have told others about our position, no? So what if they die when the building gets thrashed in the following battle, at least while they live we can use them as household servants. Nice attitude that would have been. Of course, the tactical situation may be better served by a hit and run. Remaining too long in a targeted building will result in your death. My point is that a well equipped enemy need not allow you entry into a defended building, though no amount of digging or fortifying justifies staying in place for too long. If located precisely and not blown out of your hole then someone will come along and pump your tunnel full of gas (water filled sections and sealed internal doors?). It is always something. The effective range of a rifle in the M14 class is about 600 meters for point targets and 1000 meters for area. The effective point and area target ranges for M16 class rifles is approximately 400 and 800 meters. This is not what the US Army says. They say the M14 is good for 460 meters, the M16A1 for 460; the M4 carbine is good for 500 point and 600 meters area, and the M16A2/3 for 550 and 800 meters. They give the numbers for the M16A4 as 550 and 600. They have said various other things at other times. Why should we listen to them? What are maximum and maximum effective ranges, anyway? The first is the farthest the bullet will go under standard atmospheric conditions when the rifle is pointed up to the optimum angle, usually 30 something degrees. Effective range is the maximum range at which you expect useful results. In practice this range is not the same in one country as in another. A military sets some reasonable minimum penetration and energy remaining standards and the maximum effective range must be within a range where both of these minimums are not exceeded, but the primary limitation is accuracy. This is handled a bit differently for machine guns since the number of bullets into a beaten zone and size of same at any given range tells them an average hit percentage per minute or the like. For rifles they come up with the average skill level of their infantrymen, and their idea of standard shooting conditions, and then figure a hit probability for each range when firing at a stationary target. If they think a hit probability of 50% is useful the range where they get 50% hits is the effective range. For assault rifles it generally comes out something like this: those that think a hit probability of .5 is needed end up with a maximum effective range of 300m, and those who think .2 is useful (1 hit in 5 shots) end up saying the effective range is 500 meters. Combat conditions are not always the same and basically never match the above conditions so do not be surprised if troops get 10% of the hits predicted by effective range calculations. On the other hand an expert rifleman can go prone with a good M14, which may be capable of 1 groups at 100 yards, and after appropriately adjusting the sights put bullet after bullet through a stationary silhouette at 600 yards indefinitely. This is using iron peep sights, but the light must be good so you can see sights and target and without having the sun in your eyes or reflecting off the sights at the wrong angle which produces glare. The sights should be blackened anyway. It must be a clear day without much in the way of crosswinds too, although a truly steady wind can be accurately gauged and then adjusted for on the sights. Flash, crack, bang, 1000 yards in 2 seconds. Mark the outline of the group by drawing a line from the center of each hole around the outside of the cluster to the next. Find the center of the group. If the group is shaped very oddly or has many "flyers" outside it you are shooting improperly or something is wrong with the rifle. Often wrong meaning loose. Loose sight, loose/missing scope base screws if using one, loose or too tight stock

screws, stock to receiver fit. Who knows, check it out. The M16A2 will penetrate a steel helmet at about 600 meters, as will the M14 with lead core ball. The M16 has its best penetration at 200 meters, and will shoot through 3/8 inch mild steel, but not both sides of a car body reliably, and a 16 inch tree. At close range mild steel is a stopper, to be honest. The M14 has its best penetration at 600 meters, and will shoot through about 4 feet of wood at that range. It will shoot through both sides of a car body, concrete blocks at 45 degrees and a layer of bricks at that angle of impact. It is more reliable on slanted car windshields. Note that a hit on glass, if it delivers useful bullet fragments, tends to blow fragments and glass in perpendicular to the window's original facing, but that the more slanted the surface (beyond 45 degrees) the more likely is deflection of the bullet. M16 bullets are usually stopped by 2 inches of concrete, the M14 bullets are generally not, and so it goes. By the by, the best resistance short of armor is hard natural stone buildings, but building down is always better than building up. During WWI it was found that the jacketed bullets of the day just spattered on steel, much as today, and that they penetrated even more badly at velocities above about 2400 FPS. Also the pointed bullets crumbled and turned sideways easily, as well as deflecting when they hit at an angle. Some used, at extremely close ranges, cartridges they had modified by pulling out the bullets and inserting them reversed. They felt this gave better results. Those of you who handload can make your own penetrators by using a hard material as a bullet; use rods smaller than bore diameter and paper patch them to the correct diameter. Take care when working up a load for this. The .45 is good on wood and people, not so good on armor. It will penetrate into a steel helmet at 30 yards, a 9mm will do this at 130, depending on the loads involved. Neither one is worth much of anything on body armor. Tip, place a hard (tungsten alloy, etc.) pointed .22 caliber projectile inside plastic spacers (sabot) that will come off after the bullet leaves the pistol. The projectile with sabot fits the bore (outside diameter .451), and the projectile is long and heavy for its diameter but not as heavy as the usual .45 bullet. This means you load to standard pressures (21,000 PSI), get higher than the usual velocity, and focus the energy on a smaller area. This does not decrease lethality only because if you do not get behind the armor there is no lethality at all. Keep in mind that very small charges are not a good idea, normally a powder that produces the correct pressures while filling the case properly is best. Modern helmets are better than the old steel ones, and will sometimes stop assault rifle bullets, but cannot be depended upon to stop anything better than 9mm pistols. But you could cook in the old ones! If you used to cook in the steel ones you were ruining their temper anyway. Did you notice that the army replaced the PASGT helmet because it had a poor suspension system and dug into the neck when used while prone? Did you see that the ACH helmet is lighter, more stable, and has padding in order to reduce blast induced injuries. Also it looks like a bike helmet and no longer protects the base of the skull, so they issue a separate armor plate to strap into place at the back? Amazing. How much cover is needed to give you protection for a useful time? Bullet hardness, toughness, weight and velocity vary. Range is always a factor, and ball ammunition may penetrate less at very short range, but most certainly will lack penetration at extreme ranges. Materials are not consistent. There are many types of wood, soil density is erratic, loose dirt may stop a projectile at 15 feet and hard packed at 4 feet. Timber may be green and better than dry wood, or waterlogged and worse, or it may dry as hard as rock and be even better. Treated milled planks may be better yet. Water may be better cover than some porous soils or muds. Rock is good, but there are many kinds of rock and wood, rock and metal fragments can be dangerous or fatal. There is also plastic, glass laminate and ceramic armor. As a rule sand, clay and dirt are half as effective when wet but this is a crude approximation. There are many kinds of mild steel, and of steel armor alloys plus face hardening, laminates and heat treatment methods. Concrete fabrication methods are many. Steel reinforcements in concrete may be tied together in different ways and be used sparingly. Normally a tested penetration capability is extended by one half to get a required cover depth. I. E., if a bullet penetrates up to 30 inches of a wood

barrier you need cover 45 inches or more deep. However, if the cover is soaked dirt, or the like, double the normal depth or more is needed, and if the enemy can fire accurate bursts onto your position you should double the cover again. This list of effective cover, until it is too shot up, is for heavy machine guns and lesser small arms but is not to be taken as exact and should be doubled if it will face concentrated automatic fire. While some materials are not degraded by the impact of certain projectiles, such as face hardened armor plate of great thickness hit by lead .22 rimfire bullets, most weapons will break down a barrier given sufficient time. For comparison to the table below; .30-06 ball will pierce 1/3 of an inch of steel, .62 inches if using standard armor piercing bullets. Protection from the common RPG7 is 90 inches of wood, 30 of concrete, 24 of rock, 78 of dirt or 18 of steel. You can also use wire mesh to activate the fuze early, but some fragments will penetrate the side of an M113 APC if it is only a few feet away. Mortar shell explosions are smothered by less wood or steel than is needed to stop small arms bullets. Icecrete is soil and whatnot mixed with water and allowed to freeze. Some concrete structures use a pressurized fabrication method that results in very great durability. Level 3 plate stops 5.56mm semi-AP Level 3+ plate stops some AP, military use common Level 4 ceramic plate stops .30-06 M2 AP Level 4+ plate stops modern tungsten AP rifle (Level 5 is a term used for some armored-up utility/passenger vehicles.) Depth needed in inches: Snow 180" Wood 120" Frozen Snow 80" Packed Snow 72" Clay 54" Loam 48" Packed Soil 36" Sand 30" Brick 24" Gravel 24" Concrete 18" Stone 18" Icecrete 18" Reinforced Concrete 9" Steel 2.2" Armor Plate 1.5" The reinforced concrete value above seems to be based on quality high-hardness construction. If I were going to spend any time there I would be happier with 12 or even 24 walls. If you poured some slabs of concrete, a rather hasty job and without steel reinforcement, to fortify your position and it had a reasonable amount of time to cure before you were attacked what kind of weapon effects might you observe? Single impacts from a .50 caliber MG might pock the surface to a depth of 6 inches at the center (10" if an AP bullet), 1 inch if fired from 1500 yards. What happens if the hits keep coming? 8 rounds of 7.62 in a cluster can penetrate 4 inches. A 20mm hit may crater the surface to a depth of 6-15 inches depending on projectile type. A hit, not with delay fuzing, from an 81mm mortar round may make a hole 18 inches wide and 6 inches deep at the center, and a heavy

mortar near miss, of several meters, can cause similar damage while a heavy mortar hit might make a crater some 4 feet wide and 9 inches deep. What might the 25mm gun on the Bradley do? It is not quickly effective on 36 inches plus of concrete, but has no trouble shooting through 17 inches of even steel reinforced concrete, though it probably won't cut the rebar. An explosive shell from a 105mm gun will blow a hole 15 feet wide through 3 feet of concrete. Note that if you are using sandbags in a semipermanent position you can harden them. Firstly, sandbags should not be filled so full that they can not be shaped and packed down into place. To harden them when your sandbag material is not waterproof use about 10% cement (dry) and 90% sand by weight. This works unless you are in an arid zone. If you wet it yourself try 8% cement, 10% water and the remainder sand. The best bullet for defensive shooting is a deer rifle soft point. For combat use, since conditions vary and penetration is valuable, the best bullets are long, heavy, pointed boat tails (fully jacketed), and have some armor piercing rounds as well. This is even more true for machine guns. A 7mm Remington Magnum very low drag bullet would be excellent for sniping. Magnums are not good infantry rifles as they, the high pressure and high velocity ones, will lose accuracy after only a few hundred rounds of rapid fire. Magnums have slow recoil recovery and will leave you bruised and with an aching head after a day of shooting. Shooting from the prone hurts even more. Recoil recovery is improved if you are more directly behind a hard kicking rifle. You can lie directly behind the rifle by lying with your right leg slightly to the right behind you and your left with the knee bent and the foot well to your left rear. The toes point out to each side, and the heels in, with the inside edge of each foot flat on the ground. The lowest possible prone position that gives you a line of sight is best, but will hurt the worst. The ball cartridge bullet ought to have the center of gravity toward the rear to encourage rapid bullet upset and should have a very long range and good wind resistance. The .30-06 M1 ball was good, as was the German 8mm 198 grain heavy spitzer. .30-06 and 7.62 NATO (both .308) are pretty much the same until we start talking heavy bullets, then the .30-06 is superior. The British .303 (.312 bullet) MK VIII also, and the MK VII is excellent save for being flat based (it has a fiber filled gap inside the point in order to shift the center of gravity back). The WWII 8mm (7.92x57mm/.323) AP bullet is still one of the best armor piercing rounds to this day. Urban combat is not just about fighting at pistol range, it is also about shooting up the enemy's cover. It is not just ambushes on groups caught moving between buildings and entrenchments. It also requires dominating the length of the avenues. What are city streets for in a battle? Yes, tanks sometimes if well supported, but mostly as nice long fire lanes for the shooting of people silly enough to appear on them. Do not try to hold an unfortified wooden dwelling, use it for concealment only. Infantry weapons will turn it into Swiss cheese. Rifles can shoot a house down, and through several houses in a row unless you hit a stove or something. (With .50 BMG 5 houses is more likely.) If you don't have a lot of time machine guns are faster, of course. Machine guns shoot down trees rather quickly. A rifle magazine of 7.62mm fired across the trunk of a large tree will take it down. A single round into a small tree will kill it slowly, so use a proper backstop at your range or you will be killing your own forest. Suppressive fires are fires placed on a person or unit's position in order to force the enemy to take cover and to interfere with his ability to shoot rapidly or accurately. This is helpful in keeping a moving opponent from overrunning you. It is necessary if you are going to win a firefight. Guerrilla units want no firefights. They want to do some damage and escape return fires. On contact you will shoot and then take cover if the contact is close and an immediate threat. You will take cover, crawl or roll to a firing position, and then shoot if it is not. You take cover when under effective fire. Effective fires are fires which will cause casualties unless steps are taken to avoid or silence them. This means you can change your location and rise to continue movement if the enemy's fire is not effective. In almost every case this means you do not move in the face of direct fire weapons unless the enemy is suppressed. Remember that a unit will no longer be suppressed once it

decides your fires are inaccurate or have ceased. You must maintain suppression. Do not think you can move in the open by alternate rushes. If your team tries this; has two men prone and shooting while the other two rush forward in adjacent lanes, a good shot on the other side can hit one man after another with ease. This unless he is fully exposed and targeted. You need units in overwatch positions with good cover. You need full blinding and suppression to justify an assault over open ground. You should move from your known firing position before rushing, and never rush forward directly from a position and at the enemy. This is not a combat roll in view of the enemy. Rolls and dives are attempts to be in unexpected postures when exposed for a short period. Roll and get up too slowly in the face of the enemy and die. If you can move a bit from your firing position without being seen before you are up and rushing this is good. Crawling around in the field of view of the sniper's scope will kill you, so changing positions when fully exposed is a waste of time, just rush with some curve to your trajectory. To break contact use suppressive fires at maximum rate. Use grenades if you can. Then have a subunit move back to the next position. When everyone else is in the new position and firing the last unit falls back, but not into the muzzles of their friends. Smoke will be helpful at some point. If you are in single file the man in front can empty his rifle and run for the fallback position. The next man does the same, and so on. Actually, the best way to do this, when the situation allows, is to creep away unit by unit without the enemy knowing you have gone. You can move a small unit that in on line to the side in a similar manner to the peel off breaking contact drill. Just have one man at a time leave one end of the line and move behind the unit to take his place on the other end. Remember Tienanmen Square? There was the usual pop and crackle in the distance. People stood and looked or walked away. They ran only after they saw some others flinch or start limping. When in doubt, hit the deck! Do not give mud and water any never mind, either. Deer in the fucking spotlight. At first you fire at the maximum rate possible using aimed fire. You reduce the rate of fire once you have them pinned, and increase it again just before any raiders enter the enemy position. Then you shift your fires away from your own forces. Bursts of various lengths are useful when you want to shoot up an aircraft or vehicle; quickly shoot up a barrier or the like. It is also good for rapidly placing a pattern of bullets (beaten zone) on a position some distance away. Where bursts are truly lethal is when you can place grazing fire across the front of an enemy unit moving in the open. Also, If you can center the beaten zone on the leading edge of such a unit. Generally, however, bursts from individual weapons are best for dumping a well-centered cluster of bullets on firing ports or into that guy who is about to bayonet you. Surprise fire is the most effective fire, fast shooting while the enemy has not had time to go to ground. And an attacker is less likely to reach you if quickly hit by multiple bullets. Burst control devices are a crock. Gun control is trigger control, and so is burst control. The only exception is an assault rifle with such a high cyclic rate that sufficiently quick trigger control is impossible. Do not shoot until you think you can hit your target, and will be able to escape afterward. This does not always mean you can see the enemy. When sniping or ambushing is does mean that, or that you have a valuable piece of equipment in your sights. If you get yourself into a firefight it means you hit the enemy in your sector of fire whether exposed or in concealment. All that suppressive fire can play hell with your marksmanship skills. If you can't hit a small bullseye at long range, to the maximum capability of the rifle, you limit yourself. If you have no heavy weapons it is vital that a good rifle be used to maximum effect because you need to maximize standoff from all those assault rifles. There are exceptions. You may have to close with the enemy to avoid his artillery fires. You may want to raid a suppressed or surprised position, or execute a close ambush. But

the enemy does not stand in the open and let you practice on him, so you need to shoot fast and as soon as the sight picture is good enough. Since people will be at least partially concealed and covered you will be shooting where they are, went, or may be. This can make your shooting sloppy. One way to limit this effect is to properly aim your suppressive fire. Do not just blast away at that window: place your shots into the wall below and around it if penetration is possible. Hit what you are aiming at, which is anywhere the enemy is likely to be. Unless you are doing hammers, or are dumping multiple rounds into people at very close range or into an area (maximum rate) at long range, you always re-aim properly between shots or bursts. Even then you have to be accurate enough to hit the occupied area. It matters little whether you are shooting an old bolt action rifle, a semiautomatic or an assault rifle. It can be rapid fire if conditions permit, but take the time to aim to the required degree. In any case do not reset the trigger until after at least of minimum of follow through. Do not rush a shot, meaning always go slow enough to maintain control so that your shots will do what you intended them to do, even if all you intended was to make people duck and look in a specific direction. You must always have a purpose, and must shape events to that end. For maximum effect all units should open fire at the same time, when the enemy is at his most exposed. To make it hard for the enemy to return accurate fires instead have units fire in sequence so that one unit begins shooting while the other displaces at once. In circumstances like this the more penetration your rifle has the better. This does not mean I think stone and concrete structures can be shot up by rifle fire. It does not mean you ought to waste your ammunition shooting at or through every barrier, tree and building in sight in hope of killing something. It means you sometimes must shoot at hidden targets and that more penetration equals kills in a larger number of cases. How do you choose the basic individual weapon? You balance factors. What is the nature of the area of operations? It may be open terrain where ranges will be longer or very close and cluttered terrain. How do the enemy operate? Do they mass or keep a very open order? What kind of armor do they wear? How good is the cover? Can they get in very close before suddenly assaulting in large numbers? This sort of thing will tell you if you need quick handling and high rates of fire or long range, accuracy or greater penetration. Keep in mind the nature of the terrain from the logistics point of view. You will have to carry or otherwise transport the ammunition, etc. Also keep in mind the fact that not every place in the AO will be same. Efficiency is important but military conditions are not fully predictable so redundancy is important also. Combined arms and open options, yes? Most people in a group can use the standard individual weapons but there must be other weapons as well or you will be overly specialized. It is possible to have a rifle with so short a barrel that it does not track smoothly, as well as one that is ballistically disadvantaged thereby. Muzzle blast and flash will be greater as well in most calibers. A rifle can have a barrel so long that it adds no velocity, more commonly so that it is muzzle heavy and slow. A very heavy rifle has low recoil but is clumsy. An extremely light one can be less stable in use. For most people a 20 to 24 inch barrel on a well balanced rifle weighing 7 to 10 pounds is best. It should pivot smoothly around its point of balance and should snap positively into the shooting position with the sights already naturally on target, minus any needed fine tuning of sight alignment. Some people can shoot down clay pigeons with the rifle the way most can with a shotgun. Aim at the leading edge, track and shoot. If you try to find your target again through a telescopic sight with a narrow field of view much time will be wasted. Keep your head up and your eyes on the target as you shoulder the weapon and place the scope between your eye and the mark. So, when the rifle is mounted it ought to pivot up or down and back into place without conscious effort with the cheek on the stock and the eye already lined up with the sights. This is one operation, and not a two step one. If the forend is too far forward, as it is with some pump-action shoguns, it will always be awkward. When you do this you may find that you have to move the head to

get a proper sight picture; to raise the head or to scrunch down, or to move it forward or back. (Never press your cheekbone onto the stock. Never place the buttplate on your collarbone.) This means the comb of the stock is too high or low, or that the butt is too long or too short. Keep in mind that armor makes a slightly shorter stock better (keep the buttplate off of the rigid ballistic plate). An extremely long stock will make trigger control difficult. If the stock is adjustable do so adjust. If it is not get another rifle. The Canadian rough test for buttstock length is to grip the pistol grip and, with the butt lying along the arm, to bend the elbow until you get a right angle. If the the buttplate just touches at the joint you are good to go. You should always wear protective glasses, prescription if needed. They really should be both ballistic protection and filtered to protect against the opposition's most dangerous lasers. You can't protect against all possible laser frequencies with any given filter. In a perfect world they also should darken in bright light without blinding you in dim light and while screening out ultraviolet and infrared since dark glasses make your pupils expand and leakage in the wrong bands will harm the eyes. In practice you cannot have everything at once, one laser filter will not work against another laser frequency, and many antilaser lenses will begin to fail after continued exposure to bright light. Do what you can. Additionally, many protective (gas) masks have very poor provision for the internal placement of prescription lenses. The lenses tend to fall out or poke you in the eye as you put the mask on. This means the army in question was not serious, and that your glasses really ought to be on thin rubber bands which will not break the mask's seal when worn. (And, of course, no beard for you.) A real problem is rain and sun, as well as sweat or a hot face on a cool day or cool lenses when you enter a warm place. The bill of your helmet or cap should keep rain and mud off of the glasses, and shield you from some glare. Humidity is a threat to your life. So is glare if you can't see the targets. Your glasses will fog up at times. There are vented goggles and wrap-around glasses, and antifog lenses and films. There are commercial antifog chemicals. You can use raw potato juice. None of these things work perfectly. Sunglasses? Oh noes! Cool shades alienate the norms. The fact is, however, you better be wearing quality shades when eyes and vision require protection in bright environs; but cheap plastic that leaks UV and breaks when tapped is a big waste of effort. Ah the hat or cap. It should keep rain and sun off the head and face, even the neck if possible. It should have an irregular brim like the boony hat or it should be possible to crumple it to disguise its shape, and the color or pattern should not make it stand out. The beret is a poor cap. When the army converted cavalry into infantry and sent them to fight in the first world war they took their smoky bear (like drill sergeants wear now) hats away and replaced them with the overseas cap (cunt cap). Fucking stupid army. Wear hearing protection whenever the tactical situation allows. A .22 rimfire rifle is a borderline noisemaker, earplugs are a good idea. A revolver is closer to you and has a shorter barrel. It is louder. With the M16 my ears ring more from the clanging going on inside the sheet metal receiver than because of the report at the muzzle end. This is not stamped steel sheet metal, it is anodized aluminum, but it is rather alike to it in some ways. Highpowered rifles are just, BOOM, plain noisy. With some weapons, such as TOW, always wear protection. Sometimes double protection is called for. This means good earplugs plus a good protective headset with the band worn over the head or around the neck. Helmet fit can be a problem. On patrol some of the electronic hearing protectors can be useful. These headsets provide amplified stereo sound when things are quiet, but cut out any loud noises. Damn, it is too bad I can't write. Very few soldiers and cops can, which is one reason there are so few in depth and technical books written by veterans. The larger reason is not liking to talk about their combat experiences. It is also unfortunate that everything takes batteries today. Some devices are not too bad, but others may require battery changes every 4 hours. (Do not leave the same battery in a device for months at a time. It will fail, or will leak and damage the equipment depending on type. Remove the

battery before putting anything into long-term storage. Note that refrigeration makes standard batteries, D Cells for example, last longer.) Zero the sights on the rifle. Military rifles should be zeroed as recommended in the manual, and the ammunition you use must be close in performance to the military ball cartridge if the range and setting are to match. Zero telescopic sights as explained in the manual for the scope. If it comes with target knobs and range settings rather than mere clicks it must be used with a cartridge which is a close match for it. A laser bore sight and target is always a handy way to get your rounds on paper. If the bolt can be removed and the bore looked through from the chamber end you can do it without the laser or optical probe. Center the sights or reticule. Sandbag the rifle into place after removing the bolt. Look through the bore from the rear and center a distinctly colored 1 or 2 inch bullseye in the image you see through the barrel. The target can be at, for example, 100 meters. Without further movement of the rifle position yourself to look through the sights or sight and make range and windage changes to center them or it also on the bullseye. Now replace the bolt and fire one round at the bull with the crosshairs centered on it or the center of the bull resting on the top of the front sight post. Sometimes a square bull is better for this. A standard zeroing target made up of squares of a given width is also good. The bullet hole will be slightly off the center of the target. Aim the sights at the bull and make sure the rifle is sandbagged into place. Now adjust the sight settings until the sights are aligned on the bullet hole. Do this without moving the rifle. You have to mark the bullet hole first if using iron sights, or you will be unable to see it. Once this is done move the rifle and aim at the bull. Fire another shot. It will be within an inch or two of the center of the bull unless your rifle or you are not very accurate, or you are using a run of the mill battle or assault rifle. A battle rifle should do better than 3 inches diameter. An accurate assault rifle will do well, many will give much larger groups. A precision rifle and shooter using a good scope may put most of their shots within a half inch diameter under ideal shooting conditions, but he will have to shoot a series of groups and fine tune (not by further bore sighting) the scope settings first in order to center his groups on target at different ranges. (One way to do a quick boresight on a telescopic sight if your rifle also has usable iron sights: sandbag the rifle into place with the properly set iron sights on a target, then look through the scope and move the cross hair onto the same target using the elevation and windage knobs but without moving the rifle.) Telescopic sight controls for focus and parallax vary. Parallax is the error between apparent and actual point of aim. For example if you look into the sight from an angle you will not see the entire circular field of view, and if you do this and place the cross hair on a target any shot fired will miss. You have to look directly through the sight. The sight was apparently on target, but was not. The sight can be internally off for the range and that is what the parallax settings are for. How well can you shoot? Most of you can shoot better than you do now given the training and practice you need. Most of you will never shoot inch groups at 100 yards, even with a suitable and expensive rifle. No one can shoot better than his rifle, by the way. The average hunting rifle can shoot 1- inch groups. This varies widely between individual weapons. A good rifleman can shoot 1 groups but not with an inaccurate rifle. It my personal experience, and rather off the top of my head: Average accuracy; there is a lot of variation with individual rifles within a model and each rifle shoots best with a particular brand and model of ammunition. There are numerous reasons for this, bullet length, or the way a given load vibrates the barrel, etc. Ammunition will also effect reliability. The variations in dimensions, fouling, the timing and maximum pressure of the propellant burning curve can be wrong for the weapon. Also, do not use some military, especially steel cased, ammo in civilian rifles with tight or rough chambers or you will have to punch the case back out with a rod. Really poor quality ammunition has manufacturing standards that are all over the place and will work better in some weapons than others but reliably in few (if any, it usually ends up being a bolt action rifle with strong extraction). Finally, it is good if tactical rifle ammunition produces less muzzle flash than most.

M14 slightly better than FAL and more upgradable/accurizable. Some are very good. M16 2" , has many accessories. Poor magazines, needs more cleaning than many. M4 carbine 3.5 AK47 6" SKS 4" FAL 3" Good as an auto rifle, not great in sand. Full auto does take some getting used to. The FAL is one of the best general purpose rifles. It needs no sniper scope, but it needs a reasonably compact day or day/night optic. If you wear night vision goggles put an IR laser on it. For building entry, for which it is not best suited, you need a tactical white light as well. M1 -slightly worse than M14. An advanced modern precision rifle .5" Most people can't shoot to this level. Many police and sharpshooter rifles 3/4 to 1 Many police can't shoot to this level. Average hunting rifle 1.75" Many old and new turnbolts, plus AR15s, M14s, etc., with luck and ammunition selected by trial 1". Precise aim and good sights coupled with the right ammunition and an accurate rifle (along with good range, wind, temperature, target elevation, altitude, and humidity measurement) for precision and long range is required for sniping. 1 inch groups or better needed. A soldier getting 90% hits at 50 meters may get only 30% at 300, and at those ranges when shooting at stationary targets in good light it does not much matter if the sights are iron or optical. An average shooter might get hits as follows on a stationary man, imagine if he was running for cover! At 25 meters a hit 99% of the time, at 50 meters 87%, 65% at 100, at 150 meters 60%, 50% at 200m, 35% at 250m, and at 300 meters a hit 20% of the time. This is using an M16 without adjusting the sights for each range, using battlesight. If he were shooting offhand things would go to hell immediately. Some people can't hit an 8 inch plate at 100 meters, while shooting offhand, to save their lives. Combat shooting requires fast shooting, good tracking and lead, rifle accuracy and sight picture quality enough to get hits on that target at that range, and good penetration. Remember who you are. Low magnification telescopic sights are fast, have a wide field of view, and are brighter in poor light; better than the unaided eye, in fact. Higher powered scopes allow more precise aiming at long range. With an accurate high-powered rifle and a 10x scope the point target range is about 800 meters. Magnum sniping rifles push beyond this range substantially. Holographic reticule and reflex red dot sights are for fast close range shooting. Beware of red dot sights that have large dots which cannot be adjusted unless they are close combat only sights as they will completely hide the target at medium range. The reticule brightness must be adjustable also, either automatically or manually. Rib and bead and ghost ring shotgun sights are for fast shooting out to roughly 60 to 100 meters. Iron sights which are very close together are inaccurate at long range. So are crude square and v-notch sights. Blacken the sights, or paint them with luminescent paint. Good peep (aperture) sights are decent day sights out to about 1000 meters if you can take your time and can find the target. This is really an area target issue, and must involve a powerful and accurate rifle. What if you are using a hunting rifle with few range settings and no way to apply windage other than physically drifting front or rear sight in its slot, or with limited and crude means of applying windage? Start by getting the bullets on paper, by bore sighting or by putting the target very close at first. Bore sighting is a pain because you have to remove the rifle from the rest each time you make changes to the position of the front or rear sights with wrench, screwdriver, hammer or hammer and punch. Make sure that the sights are actually designed to move up and down, or move from side to side in a slot. Never use a screwdriver on a firearm unless it fits the slot in the screw head properly, or you will damage the screw or slip and gouge something. Never use a steel hammer or punch on a firearm. Use a brass or rubber hammer and brass drifts or punches. Make a generous change, fire a shot and halve the distance and shoot until it is right.

Raise the rear sight to shoot higher, lower it to shoot lower. Move it to the right to shoot to the right, and left to shoot left. The front sight is raised to shoot lower, and lowered to shoot higher. Move it right to shoot more to the left, and left to shoot more to the right. Some not vary adjustable iron sights are preset for elevation but have marked positions for a number of ranges and are fairly accurate if the original type of cartridge is used. Others can be finetuned for a standard range and with the index thus correctly positioned are more accurate for the standard cartridge. Another type, generally peep sights, are carefully zeroed and then are set for range and windage by clicks in a manner similar to that of the usual rifle scope. Perhaps only the rear sight will move and a screw shifts it left and right, and a slider raises and lowers it to any of only 5 unlabeled positions. Set the windage to center the bullet on the target. Then shoot at each range setting and at every practical range; at close combat range, and at 100 meters, and at 200, and so on. Note which notch shoots the closest at each range, and how high or low that is from centered, then write down which setting is for each, and where you can expect the hit to be. Once all this is done you can zero the sights for the range best for that particular caliber and sighting system, with the exception of the last mentioned crude sights which are as zeroed as they are going to be. Battlesight/pointblank zero/setting or a separate sight notch or aperture is the range setting which allows you to shoot to the longest range possible without any sight adjustments. This means the bullet rises to (at 25 meters for the M16A1) and above the line of sight and without shooting over the target at any range then drops back to (at 250 meters, zero, for M16A1) and then below the line of sight until it is too far below to hit the vital target area. The last third of the trajectory is the steepest. The maximum range at which the round would still be on target is the battlesight range (300 meters for M16A1). When you want more precision (there is no more precision for the M16A1) or are shooting at ranges beyond battlesight range, and depending on the sight's capabilities, you set the sight to the index mark for that range, or you apply the number of clicks needed to change from battlesight to the wanted range (with the M16A1 flip up the L aperture to shoot out to 500 meters). The same sort of thing for windage, though with the truly crude sights you have simply to aim off by aiming an estimated amount above the target and into the wind to correct for range and crosswind; no quick adjustment to the sights being possible. The day will come when telescopic sights on rifles are digital and equipped with at least three sensors. Track a target and the reticule will be moved to account for local wind, range taken by laser, and how much you are moving the weapon to stay on target. Once the cross hair has moved just put it back on target, continue tracking and fire. It is quite possible to use a, expensive and large at first, rifle-mounted laser "radar" to detect the overall wind direction and speed effects from the shooter to the target. This "automatic averaging" of wind direction and speed will greatly improve over what can be done by measuring wind velocity at the shooter's position, or at specific points only down range. Snipers getting 60-70% one shot hits at extreme range? You know how much one click of adjustment to the sight will shift the line of sight in elevation or traverse (range and direction; "azimuth"/"traverse"/"windage.") at a given range. Usually at 100 yards or meters. Your target is at a given range, say 500 yards. If each click was a crude 1 inch displacement at 100 yards you would take the 500 yard range and divide it by the reference range, which is 100. The result is 5. Then multiply by 1 click which is 1.00 inch. The answer is that 1 click windage to the right will move bullet impact 1 inch to the right at 100 yards and 5 inches right at 500 yards, or would compensate for a crosswind that would have blown the bullet 5 inches to the left of the aim point. Another example: 1 click is .7 cm at 25 meters. Each gives displacement of 7mm at 25m. Your target is at 100m, 100m divided by 25m gives 4, and 4 times .7cm equals 2.8cm. Thus it is 28mm at 100m, 25.4mm is an inch. Good sights have more clicks available and each one is .5 or .25 MOA at 100 yards instead of 1 MOA. You need wind tables for the ammunition you are using in order to calculate wind effects. This

system is good, but not completely exact. At extreme range ballistic drift in the direction of bullet spin is apparent. This is seldom an issue, but bullets respond differently to environmental factors depending on bullet velocity. The difference between subsonic and supersonic velocities is most marked. Round nosed boattails are fine for long shots at subsonic speeds, the sharp point is important at supersonic speeds. At very long ranges bullet performance, predictability of accuracy for example, is not as good, and the last third of the trajectory is plunging. At maximum range it is very steeply plunging, though the bullet will still point as much forward as down. A rifle bullet is unstable for the first 100 yards or so, stabilizes due to its rotation but is not always truly precisely aligned, and begins to wobble as it comes down at long range. This does not improve accuracy any, but on the bright side, if it does hit with enough remaining energy to penetrate the hole it makes is bigger. Each click changes line of departure precisely, but does not select bullet impact point as well at long range. At sniper ranges the shooter needs to find the best scope setting for each range. Average MOA at long range is not nominal, the transition from supersonic to sonic speeds is rough. Hot, as in left in the sun, ammunition causes higher chamber pressures, sometimes dangerously so. This will cause the bullet to hit high. Large changes in temperature and altitude require different settings, bullets go farther at high altitude. Powerful and variable winds are a bitch, as is heavy rain. Muzzle jump is how much the muzzle moves before the bullet has exited. This is taken care of by the zeroing of your sights. Ballistic drift is only partially allowed for because you do not zero at extreme range. Your M14 rifle should have the selector lever instead of the selector lock, and thus be capable of automatic fire, but you will be firing in semiautomatic mode most of the time. If your rifle is an M1A, the semiautomatic only version of the M14, your choice is made for you. To zero the sights on the M14 rifle do the following. Examine the sights for damaged or missing parts, and for tightness. If it does not work adjust or repair. Do initial zeroing from a prone supported position. The target should have a distinct aiming point, and should be placed 25 meters away. Make a smaller mark 46mm, 1.8 inches, above the lower edge of the aiming mark. Use the windage knob to center the aperture, it can be moved 16 clicks in either direction. Use the elevation knob to fully lower the rear sight, and then come up 12 clicks. Aim at the center lower edge of the mark and fire 3 deliberate shots. The smaller the group the better. Locate the center of the group. Measure the distance from that group center below or above the smaller second mark to said mark, and do the same to determine how far your group is left or right of that second mark. If you don't love me then to hell with you! Oi, I am rahthur godlike. I just realized, and when I say two wrongs don't make a right I mean you don't like something we will call a wrong, for now, but I don't like what you want to do about it, so I am going to say two wrongs don't make a right. Are we good? Make generous changes to the elevation and windage settings on your sight between groups and continue this process until your groups are hitting the second mark when you aim at the bottom of the first. Write down the number of clicks, comeups, from sight lowered to this final setting. you started at 12 clicks so if you ended up a couple clicks more you ended up at 14 clicks. Write down the the number of clicks left or right windage you concluded with. This is your battlesight zero setting. You can leave the windage knob centered and calibrate it by drifting the front sight in its base to make the needed windage changes while zeroing. Shoot into or away from any wind during this process, if you zero with a crosswind blowing your zero will be off on calm days. To calibrate the rear sight, properly line up the range scale and the index mark on the receiver, turn the elevation knob forward until the sight is at its lowest position. Count the clicks as you do this to be sure your count was right the last time. When this has been done loosen the screw in the knob and turn the knob until the mark between 2 and 4 on the scale is next to the receiver index mark, then

continue the number of clicks you counted to get battlesight zero. Hold the knob in place and tighten screw, then raise sight to highest position and tighten screw again. Now if you lower the sight and raise it to the mark between 2 and 4 on the scale it should take the number of clicks equal to your battlesight zero setting to get there, and test shots with the range set thusly should be on target. The other type of M14 sight has locking nuts and is calibrated differently: Turn the knob forward until the aperture is at its lowest point, raise it the number of clicks of your zero setting, and tighten the locking nut. Then loosen the center screw and turn the knob, without moving the sight, until battlesight index line and receiver index line are apposite. Tighten the screw. This gives you a point-blank range, battlesight range, of 300 meters. The long index line on the range scale between 2 and 4 is 250m, not 300. The zero, battlesight zero, is 250m, the pointblank /battlesight range is 300m. If you aim center of mass the bullet will not be below or above that line enough to miss the vitals of a man from 0 to 300 meters away. At longer ranges or if you need more precision turn to elevation knob until the range scale mark for that range is aligned with the index mark. If the enemy is at 600 meters, for example, line the index mark on the receiver up with the numeral 6 on the scale on the knob. At the longer ranges superior shooting may be served by figuring out a more accurate custom setting for the range. If at 600m you always seem to be slightly lower than you would prefer you might find that always putting the sight at 6 (600m) plus 1 click is better. M14 sights are designed for M80 ball, or equivalent, and they are scaled for hundreds of yards not meters. Each click is 1 MOA, 1" adjustment at 100 yards for practical purposes. The best way is to zero at 100 yards, and the groups should hit your point of aim, not a separate mark above it. and calibrate the sight accordingly. It may be easier to zero at 200 yards so you can index the 2 on the scale to the mark. This is more accurate when a target, at about 300 yards for example, is engaged after the elevation knob is turned to the index line between 2 and 4. You can also turn the knob to positions intermediate to the 100 yard marks. Zeroing at 25m is always a trifle inaccurate, not just because the range is short, but also the bullet is not very stable yet at that range. Sights will vary. If the elevation knob has an M on it it is calibrated in meters. The M1A may have 1/2 MOA clicks, or even 1/4 MOA. M14s with National Match sights having 1/2 MOA windage clicks are fairly common. If the rear sight is hooded it gives MOA per click in elevation as well. You can't depend on the range scale to remain fixed, so always know the number of clicks needed for each range. Count them, verify them and write them on a field card. Warrior class, is it? Yeah, and you are the criminal class. Globalist scum and enemies of the Constitution. A proper infantry rifle would have the following in common with the service pistol: Good balance and a natural point of aim, fast recoil recovery (but not so straight a stock that you must crush your cheek and eye wear into the stock to see the sights), and sufficient accuracy, range and penetration to do the job. A good flash suppressor that also resists any pull to the side is best. The controls need to be operable from both sides or duplicated on both. The selector switches easily reached by the thumb, the magazine releases by the forefinger and the magazine to fall free. The bolt should lock open on an empty magazine and the releases be handy to the thumb of the reloading hand. The magazine well needs to be easy to find and press magazines into with the palm of the hand, and the catch positive. In other words you should no more have to look down at the rifle or fuss with things while reloading than you must with a good pistol. Take cover, keep looking for threats, and reload with the rifle still shouldered; or if it is too heavy for that with the butt wedged under the pit of the shoulder. The sights must be usable at night, durable and fully adjustable, and suited to the conditionsthis depends on combat conditions as you may need to shoot quickly, do mostly general combat shooting, or shoot often at the longer ranges. An ejection port cover that opens automatically, as with the M16 is good. Ejection must not interfere with shooting from either shoulder, but must not be up into the air above you because in sunlight the brass will betray your position. Ejection too far forward of you may do this as well. No rifle I am aware of has all these qualities. They should. The M16 has some of them. God, I

hate the charging handle on the 16! The M16 also ought to be fully ambidextrous. Finally, need I say it? It should go bang when you press the trigger, and poorly designed or badly manufactured magazines are Satan. (It is as sensible to rotate magazines as to rotate the use of your boots, but the question of whether a magazine spring kept under tension too long will take a set and fail to feed cartridges is no more certain than whether loading and unloading a magazine too often will break the spring too often worked. It depends on design, the spring metal used and and how well it was tempered.) The infantry rifle should fire 7mm or the like, long very low drag, bullets at whatever velocity lowers recoil enough to suit your particular requirements. Unless you personally really would prefer 8mm or .30-06, as I would. :) M14 stocks are somewhat inclined toward cracking, newer synthetic stocks are fine. The problem of extreme humidity swelling stocks, sometimes to the point of binding the action, is also solved by synthetics, or by maintaining a good sealed finish. The rear sight is fragile. Keep spare parts (nuts; and especially rear sight pinion) or a spare sight. Inspect flash suppressor alignment. Have replacement gas cylinder, small springs, and firing pins on hand. Sometimes the safety or extractor fails. The gas cylinder plug may shoot loose, and cause poor grouping or short stroking, if not tightened properly. Check your manual. Having a spare as well might be a good idea. The receiver should last for more than 450,000 rounds, and the barrel ought to be accurate for 15,000. Do not place on safe when uncocked. Do not exceed the sustained rate of fire (more than 30 rounds per minute over a 10 minute period, for example, or an average of more than 15 rounds per minute for more than half an hour), and note that bullets of more than 180 grains can damage the rifle. Barrels with rifling of 1 turn in 10 inches are best with the heavier bullets (168-175 gr.), accuracy wise, 1 in 12 with the lighter (145-154 gr.). 1:10 is a compromise. For you handloaders, the M14 has a reputation of being a bit hard on brass, but not as bad as the G3 with its fluted chamber. Do not use hot loads or heavy bullets in the M14 unless you want to prang the operating rod. Simiautomatics are as a rule less strong than bolt action rifles. They are more ammunition sensitive. There are wide variances within each group, but as a group this is the case. Keep an eye out for traps and mines. Don't use the obvious routes. Look for anything out of place on the ground or in the trees. Often times, it depends on the light, you can see disturbed surfaces, obvious camouflage, or browning or dead foliage. Look for tilt rods, electrical wires, and trip wires. Sometimes fishing line is used and glows or reflects in strong light. At times the shadow of a rod or wire is more visible than the thing itself. Beware of small mounds or depressions, of patched pavement, and of path or road with culverts underneath or places easily allowing bore holes from the side. In urban areas devices are often in trash or in a garbage bag. Utility and other underground access is as dangerous to you as is nearby high ground you do not control. A non-smoker near the point may smell things a smoker might miss. Before entering danger areas it is best if you can make a thorough and slow scan with binoculars, plus with a good spotting scope if the area is large and possible lines of fire to visible hills and buildings are long. Use the spotting scope for a closer look at things of interest detected with the binoculars. Sometimes color blind troopers see textures you do not. Cooperate, and trade off tasks that require intense concentration. When you look at a building you must think about what you are seeing. Is that shape, shine or movement in the shadows? Is it normal for all windows to be closed, for all windows to be open? Why is that window open, and why are those broken? If you see dark or discolored spots ask yourself if they are currently covered or open loopholes in the walls or roof. Scan with low magnification or widelensed binoculars, or night vision devices at night. All optics should have mil scales if possible. Built in lasers or compasses are a bonus. It is better to loosely guide on roads and trails than to actually walk on them, and the shoulders of roads are mined often. If you need to cross dry sticks and leaves near the enemy you need to walk or crawl while actually using a hand to clear a place for each placement of a foot, hand or knee. If you are concerned about trackers replace the leaves after yourself. A good tracker may still notice that they have been

jumbled or that damp undersides are exposed. Where have all the blondes gone? I mean, they are all over the landscape but it came from a bottle. Eh? Hey! Has there been some kind of rapture? Where are my people? I feel kinda left behind. Knowwattamean? Ah well. Wattayagonnadoaboudit? You are moving relative to cover and concealment, and to boundaries and possible enemy positions. You walk or crawl along or in concealment, using shadow, and from cover to cover depressions, mounds, large trees and logs, rocks and anything else that will stop some of the bullets or fragments that may come at any time. Move under overhead cover whenever possible, aware that trees may fall on you or produce a storm of splinters. Large fragmentation mines may be hung in the branches too, in fact. Also if there is only one natural line of drift along the easier ground or in cover the ground will be mined. Why should things be easy? You expect to get out of life alive? So. Why do people hate to properly camouflage so damned much? They do a halfway decent job on the face, but leave the hands and neck bare. They stick an excessive bunch of grass on the helmet so that a tuft moves along above cover and leave the weapon bare. Goggles are not in use but are on the helmet uncovered to reflect back any light, also flashlights are left reflective. Gah! So you must keep an eye on the surroundings as new things come into view. Look not only for people but for recognizable parts of weapons and people. You keep an eye on the nearest cover and may dash to it in an emergency, or between one bit of cover and the next, but mostly you try to be unnoticed so you can ambush or snipe and try to disappear again if you were ever seen by one still living. Good. Now the thing is, do not look like a tree unless you are in the woods and mostly stationary. A tree moving in the open at full speed looks funny. A bunch of bushes in frozen positions on the highway looks odd. When there is nothing but sand for miles you do not cover your fighting position with stark dark green leaf, light green, brown and black netting. Fade into the background colors and patterns are good anyplace there is a matching background. Oakleaf pattern is good only among the oak leaves. In the desert the netting should be sand colored and textured. Ideally it also should mute the thermal emissions and scatter radar energy. In a perfect world it would blend you perfectly into the thermal background while doing more than slightly shortening a radar's acquisition range. It is not a perfect world. Each subunit should move as a unit, keeping proper formation on each leader, but must be ragged and uneven. Maintain interval, but the interval also must be uneven even as you keep your distance from each other. Roughly 5 meters between persons is minimal, and 10 or 15 is better. Varied and ragged, and as far apart as you can be without losing communication, mutual supporting fire; without losing the ability to do the job. This does not mean individuals follow the leaders and small units the officers in order to do exactly as they do. You do whatever will effectively support what your leader is doing, sometimes changing your relative position and distance on your own initiative. Larger units need not be always close enough to share fires. They must be in place at the appropriate time to take part in an operation and able to come to another units aid in time to be of use. Do not continue to reinforce a failed activity. Get your people out of trouble whenever possible but consider the fact that the best way to help a friend is to defeat an enemy. Do not forget that walking over the middle of a flat section of sand or up and crosswise over dunes leaves a trail visible from the air. Walk along the length, the long lines, of dunes instead. Shadows are important both day and night. If you walk along the actual tops of dunes you will be skylined. Ach, consider the multitudinous grotesquery of the human ear. The horror of it all. Keep your background in mind, and look at each area and thing as it comes into view. Up and down are directions too. When leaving a building look for trouble from inside, and check above and behind as you leave. You look for the shape and texture of soldiers, but also for any part of them or their weapons, including shadows. Are you standing at the muzzle of a camouflaged tank? When the shooting starts do not be afraid to promptly put a bullet through any likely looking shapes, armored vehicles are another matter. When a unit hits the dirt not everyone will agree about the seriousness of the enemy fire. If they won't shoot at all they do not belong in a fire team, but is moving a good idea? If

people can no longer see each other they may lie there for God knows how long. You may never see an enemy soldier but there will be plenty of projectiles snapping about. If you are already being fired on and there is a lot of noise anyway do shout to each other. Do not get up and walk around telling people to shoot back if the other side's fire is heavy, you will get shot, but do try to avoid just lying there all day. It is very amateur, and even more so if cover is sparse and snipers can hit body parts at will. Know that being caught grenade in hand when a quick gunfight is called for is a bad thing, and that getting into close combat where you can be attacked from multiple directions easily results in situations where your numbers and weapon types lack both the firepower and fire distribution needed to stop the enemy in the short time you have to react. It is often said that team members must always look to the leader for hand and arm signals. This is mostly true during a stalk or patrol. Hand signals should be used up close and hands camouflaged. Loud hissing whispers are a bad idea. Let out most of a breath before you whisper near an ear. You leaders keep in mind that any person seen doing a lot of signaling and pointing is a sniper's main target. Once the shooting begins a rifleman needs to look around some, but he can not keep a leader in view and cover his sector with effective fire at the same time. In fact, he will not even hear shouts in some situations. Have security keep an eye on the sky, flanks and rear. Use a whistle to get attention or to signal important actions. Use pyrotechnics or other signals as well. Personal radios can be a boon if the amount of radio traffic is controlled for a whole passel of good reasons. Think safety. Never cross your mate's line of fire without signaling intent and getting clear permission. If you move ahead of him clasp his shoulder as you move up and observe that he lowers his weapon for you. Raise or lower your weapon if he is too near your line of fire, if you shoot when a misstep could get him shot on too many occasions he will end up shot. Need I mention that you do not point the rifle at your friends, nor at any part of your body? Safety on unless in combat, finger off the trigger until you have something to shoot. It is wrong to carry a firearm around children, concealed or otherwise, and you don't need to have a gun around all the time anyway. Just leave it in the car. Wait, what if somebody steals your car? The thief will murder someone, and it will be your fault! How do you know when I won't need my gun? Spirituality! For most people always having a gun is like always wearing the seat belt. Cool thing is, having that gun does not endanger the children, but if they see one they will be frightened. Really? Most of them ask what kind it is and want to touch it! It is amazing how deeply the it's for the children! propaganda has sunk in. If a thief stole your gun it would not be a good thing if he was a silly kid, a moron, or a murderer; but the big reason losing your gun is bad is because you can't use it any more. The vast majority of people are not going to murder anyone with it, including the majority of thieves. Also, murderers are capable of obtaining their own weapons if they can't get yours. Wow, when the day of my death comes I am going to smile and say, What a wonderful thing it has been. May I have a glass of water? Water. I need water please. Oh my God. Oh my God. Water. Oh my God. Please. Master. Let me explain. Let... Master. Oi master! Fuck the shadow of the noise. With an ax. You have the right to whatever happens to you. You will respond according to your nature. I was born in hell, so I'm gonna go to heaven. Stupid, stupid... I was born...born stupid. What is your excuse? Let me explain... You need to learn to shoot from either shoulder. You will never be as good with your weak side, but being good enough to get hits at moderate ranges will allow you to greatly improve your use of cover if you must shoot around something, and from the wrong side. Lying on the side, for a roll out, or to shoot through a narrow gap at close range. Cant the rifle at very short range only and to keep yourself behind cover. Prone, sniper's, low and high, supported and unsupported. A body angle of 45 degrees used to be standard, 30 degrees is common now. The prone position used to be an exact and highly regulated thing. Now it is understood that the person and circumstances vary. A stable and comfortable position is what is important, and nobody has quite the same body as another. Use the bones of the body for support. Do not tense up, use muscles only to the extent needed. A natural point of aim is more stable. This means you need to take a position aligned

correctly in relation to the target when you can. Do slump low over your supports if the field of fire allows. To make major changes in aim use the feet and legs to shift the whole body. Many who can shoot into a 1 inch bullseye at 100 meters from the prone will shoot into 3 inches when shooting offhand (from a standing position.) Only a very accurate or an accurate rifle will allow this, most hunting rifles will not group better than just under 2 inches at 100 yards. This varies with the individual weapon and the brand, etc., of the ammunition used. The AK is likely to group no better than 6 inches with military ammunition. (It is inaccurate, the trajectory is not very flat, the sights not very good. The controls are poor, the change lever clumsy and on the wrong side, and it sets up a peculiar sideways wobble when fired rapidly. On the plus side it is very reliable, and reasonably powerful. It is accurate enough at the usual assault rifle ranges.) The Hawkins, any position using the fist holding the front swing swivel as a support. The supine, variations including the Creedmore; lie on your back, hold your head up with one hand with elbow on the ground, cross the legs and rest the forestock on a leg. Sitting with elbows supported on the legs, not bone to bone, and legs crossed or spread wide as location and comfort indicate, or sitting back on the heels from a double kneeling position. Kneeling on both knees, or on the rear knee while supporting an elbow on the forward leg. Normally the forward leg is as horizontal as possible, but stretch the leg out and and sit back toward the other heel to go as low as you need and can. Before going into the kneeling position turn 45 degrees away from the target direction. Then go down on the knee that is behind you as you look at the target and sit back on the heel. Place the supporting elbow forward of the forward knee, with the shooting side elbow horizontal or a little higher. The sniper kneeling position is not the same as the standard one, when not using the sling. The supporting hand is placed on the shooting forearm instead of the forestock of the rifle. Lean the free shoulder into a tree or something for more support. Support need not be under your hand or rifle. It can be to the side or even above. If you can lean body, arm or hand into it or grasp it it may be of use. Shooting over the top of a barrier is to be avoided. If you must do this check your background, it is bad if the sky is your backdrop. If it is place something behind you that is a match for your uniform. Place sandbags randomly in various configurations along the top of the barrier and any other materials that will break up the line of it and leave loopholes and gaps. At your shooting position(s) use sandbags both for protection and as a support for your rifle, make a dent in the bag for your hand or the stock to fit into. It is not good if your weapon protrudes beyond the barrier, make changes as soon as you can. Another method is to place forearm or heel of palm into the side of a barrier, and use a vee made of the web of the thumb under the stock just in front of the sandbag or other padding you have the rifle resting on. Everyone I love is dead or not yet born. Remember that any position where both elbows are supported is the most stable, and that when the elbow under the rifle is on a support the shooting position must be adjusted so that a line from shoulder to support points at the target. If cover was good, you had the time, and you could see the target from it the lowest prone supported position would always be used. Squatting, this is a fast way to get smaller, but requires good balance. If you are on a steep slope and must fire down hill do not stand there wavering and shooting. Dig your feet in if practicable, squat or sit back on the heels, and place your elbows down in front of the knees, and then make yourself very small and shoot accurately. Standing, offhand and close combat: Standing means you turn the body with the firing shoulder and trailing foot back and the leading foot oriented more toward the target. The elbow directly under the rifle is back against the hip or side with he hand under the forestock fingers forward. The other elbow is raised to the horizontal and the weight of the body shifted back to balance the weight of the weapon. This is fairly stable if you have good breath control and the pulse is not transmitted through the arm pressed to the chest. Offhand is usually not square with the target either. Legs spread and firing side foot back, hand on the forend more forward on the stock and fingers to the side, and elbows one down directly under the rifle and the other lifted out to the side. Close combat shooting, quick and rapid fire

at close range and as you move through doors and the like means you face targets more directly, especially if you have armor, and keep both elbows tucked in rather. It is still a good idea to move to the side or a diagonal to get to cover, using lead step and follow up slide if necessary. Bend the knees and crouch, but not too low unless you are trying to waddle behind low cover in which event you may want to walk on your knees; elbow and knee pads are good. Glide the feet along using the flexing of the knees to reduce jolting to the rifle. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be torn apart by the rabid dogs of both packs, but for the Colts. Keep cover and concealment in mind at all times, do not hug your cover but get close enough that it blocks you off from enemy positions including those above you. Keep in mind the need for concealment from thermal sights as well as unaided vision, and that glass is poor cover and a secondary fragmentation hazard though it will deflect some projectiles, but also that glass is good thermal camouflage. Always deep shadow is the best place for you. Often it is best for your mate to cover the sector above you or to your front and for you to do the same for him. Thermal sights overhead? That shallow ditch may not cut it. Movement attracts attention. Movement attracts attention! But full exposure can be just as bad at times. If your exposure is minimal your chances of survival improve. Expose yourself to view for a few seconds only, or disappear before the enemy weapon can accurately engage. Do not keep popping up at the same position especially if you are doing it with predictable timing. Do not hug your cover, even though it is quite possible to be so far back from it that you expose yourself to shots from above or around it. Keeping fairly close to walls gives you some protection from windows above you as well. However, if you press yourself against your primary cover you reduce your own situational awareness and increase your exposure to explosive munitions and high penetration rounds. Steel resists shock waves better than earth, but if you are pressed against it the effect on your body can be dire even if no penetration occurs. If you were to put mud or petroleum jelly on it and really press yourself tightly skin to steel shock transference would be maximized. Sometimes too steel will flex and metal will spall from the inside surface (more accurately spalls will break off the inside surface). More practically consider the fact that the closer you are to a concrete wall when it fails the more likely that any blast coming through would kill you and that concrete chunks blasted from the wall by a projectile or explosion would hit you in large numbers and with deeper penetration. Yes, if you are not near the place a projectile passes through staying back may get you hit by debris that would otherwise have missed, but walls come down and explosives are common, so just make yourself small; be prone if you can be. Do not forget that deflected projectiles often follow along a wall. Wear the helmet and vest, and wear the ballistic goggles. Be aware that more weapons (explosive munitions) every day burst after passing through barriers, and produce a dense pattern of high velocity fragments inside a room. Minimum exposure and fortified fighting positions in unexpected places, and camouflaged in fact, are as important inside buildings as they are outside. Include overhead cover and cover behind you. Please do not shoot with the muzzle of your weapon extended forward of concealment. Do not shoot where you produce a large puff of dirt and leaves, or sand. I find it quite annoying. Wet the ground or use a piece of wood or heavy tarpaulin. However, the muzzle blast of some weapons will simply shred things like your poncho. Stay well back inside a room. Hasty (grapevine) sling is perhaps 1/3 as effective as the deliberate (loop) sling, but is much faster. If the loop is not well up on the upper arm, down by the elbow say, it is no better than the hasty sling. Carrying strap type slings are not shooting slings and can only be used in the hasty sling position. Do not bother using a tight sling with the M16A1 and clones as it will flex the barrel. The strap needs to be tight on the back of your hand and around the elbow, no more. The prone and sitting positions should be used with the deliberate sling, unless shooting from the bipod or sandbag supported positions. Take the sling loose from the rear swivel and open up a loop. Adjust the loop for a snug fit

around the upper arm, and the length of the sling overall to make it tight on the back of your hand when the elbow is under the rifle. The final step with both the hasty and the loop sling is to put the supporting hand in above the sling, rotate the wrist to go under and back up so the sling is around the wrist and the hand ends up under the handguard near the forward swivel with the sling against the back of it. The hasty sling is best when shooting offhand standing and from the kneeling position. If you can do so turn and sit on the side of the rear foot when kneeling. The only people who care about the sling are old mossy-backed gravel bellies. Yes indeed, accuracy can be improved when you are sniping and cannot use the bipod, but too tight a sling will stress the rifle, and thin barrels may bend (not best practice to directly attach sling to barrel either). So say the high speed and STRAC. If your rifle does not shoot well get a variety of suitable loads/bullet types of different brands and try them all. One of them will be more accurate in that rifle than the others. Sometimes much more accurate. Recoil does not make a weapon inaccurate. Flinching because of blast and recoil makes you inaccurate. Shooting again before you have regained control makes you inaccurate. You have better control if you are lying directly behind the weapon. This is done with hard-kicking rifles and with machine guns, but consider that if you lie with your body angled 30 degrees to the side behind cover this keeps bullets with good penetration from the length of your body, but if there is no cover to the sides lying inline is safer. Y'all believe in nature, letting it go and closure? Got ya beat; cause I let it go before I ever lost it. Walking through the old growth, gazing at the trees and the sky. Cover just ahead, and the artillery concentration a minute or two away. I got time to chill and watch the clouds float by. Shafts of sunlight between the redwoods. Walk in the shadows, man. ChOOohchOOoh. Supersonic bullets fired down a roadway create a rushing sound that travels back to you as deflected from hills and buildings. Nearby telephone poles reflect back miniature sonic booms...crack, crack, crack. When you hear a supersonic projectile pass you will also hear it recede. The enemy is in the other direction. If a fellow seems to have been hit do not stand there gawking while trying to verify this, or looking for the enemy you have not seen. Drop and take cover immediately. So what if you end up looking foolish? If the cover is not sufficient firepower will have to do, and if it is not going to do then speed will have to be enough. Maneuver on your leaders as they maneuver on the enemy however, as running completely away from your people is a good idea in only extreme cases, and scattered and alone may itself prove fatal. Here are some rule of thumb methods of estimating the range to a soldier who is shooting at you. What you see involves the speed of light, at combat ranges instantaneous for practical purposes. What you hear involves the speed of sound, and the velocity of bullets as they pass by. If you see the firing of a weapon this happens first. If you hear a bullet go by the time between the firing and arrival of it, related to its velocity, gives you the range. If you see the firing and then hear the shot, the range is dependent on time interval and speed of sound. And if you hear a bullet pass by and hear the shot fired after this the range is related to the difference between the speed of sound and the velocity of the bullet. (Crack\thump. For example, the shot is fired but you do not see any sign of this. The bullet snaps by. It took 1 second to arrive but you do not know this. A second later you hear the bang. There was 1 second between hearing the bullet and hearing the firing of the bullet. This tells you the sound trailed the bullet by 370 yards. The 1 second difference usually means about 600 yards range. Half a second about 300. Not easy to make use of this in the field.) So there are two standard rules: Flash\bang and flash\crack. The speed of sound varies with atmospheric condition, altitude for example, and sounds can be heard farther when it is cool and damp. Sound averages about 370 yards, 1110 feet, per second. One version of the range finding flash bang rule is to count rapidly when you see a puff of dust or smoke, or a muzzle flash and to stop when you hear the report of the weapon. The final count is the estimate of

range to weapon. If you had been making 3 counts per second and had ended with 3 the range would be 370 yards, but since the goal of this is to have each number equal 100 yards, I. E. a count of three means 300 yards, you must count faster; a count of almost 4 per second, 3.7 in fact. This makes this method a poor one unless you can practice your count at known ranges and learn the proper cadence. Flash\bang. 350 meters for each second. 3 seconds equals 1000 meters. 5 seconds indicates a mile. Flash\crack. You see the flash or blast. You hear the bullet pass or see it impact nearby. If the bullet took 1 second to arrive and travels 600 yards in 1 second the range is 600 yards. If the bullet would travel 1000 yards in 2 seconds, and the time interval was 2 seconds then 1000 yards is the range. To fine-tune this use a stopwatch and ballistic chart data for the enemy rifle listing bullet time of flight to the various distances. Taking the range. Get the range using GPS and map and compass. Use overlays. The accuracy of maps is not always good, but you can also get bearings, azimuths, from them. You can estimate the range based on the appearance of things. At 400 yards you can detect the movement of arms and legs. At 600 yards you can make out separate files within a line of squads, and at 1000 yards a skirmish line tends to look like a solid line. How small do people look, or other things you are familiar with? How many 100m lengths receding into the distance would fit in between you and that target? When you do this take your partners estimate and add it to your own, then divide it by 2. If you think the distance is x meters away, but maybe a bit more, go with the longer range. Such estimates are 10 to 15% off, as a rule, more so if the air is very clear or smoggy, you are looking down into a gorge, or up at a peak, etc.. This percentage of error at 300m may place the bullet 3 inches high or low. Things above you seem farther away, things below or on the other side of a gorge seem closer. It is not unusual for your estimate to be 1.4 times the actual distance, for example, when things are not nice, flat, and normal. For better results use an optical rangefinder, or a good laser rangefinder that will be correct to within a meter if you can find something to bounce the beam off of. Quickly correcting the sight setting for range, or at close range automatically aiming off to correct the error is important. You do not have to live with a range error. If you can not see what is happening to your bullets lower you aim and have a spotter with scope or binoculars tell you how far off you are. Then set the range on your sight accordingly. You have found the range using ranging fire. Yes, a rangefinder is better if you have one, but there is no reason to both start and end an engagement with a bad range estimate when you do not. There I was, old MOMthat's mad old man to the likes of you, and I was saying that science was no democracy either. 100 reasons a thing would be grand do not outvote the 1 reason it can't be done that way. So Bob says I should get off my duff with the pontificating and that I bring him to mind of a line in M. C. Beaton's Death of an Outsider. "Hamish hated change almost as much as he hated work." I call that rude. Bell bottoms, shag cuts and bloody "groovy" are coming back, for God's sake! I call that even more rude. At night you will be unable to see where your bullets are gong, in the vast majority of cases even with light intensification devices. You can use tracer to get a good idea of the fall of shot, though tracer trajectories are not quite the same as for ball, but even with dim tracer and tracer that does not ignite until well forward of your position this gives your location away even if your muzzle flash is small or screened by your concealment. Observation (explosive flash) and incendiary is good if you have it as it flashes on impact only. Smoke tracer may be better for daytime use. Thermal sights are a very good exception to the problem. A bullet passing through or destroying target material as it is destroyed creates a lot of friction. The hot spot may be visible for 20 seconds before it completely fades. The thumb is a crude range finder. Fully extend your arm, it is hoped there is a correct proportion between your arms and fingers, and place your thumb such that a person's side seems to touch the edge of your thumb. Look at his stride. If he were to "walk over the top" of your thumb how many steps would it take? One stride needed gives a range of 50 yards. If it would take 3 steps, 3 times

50 gives 150 yards in range. You can also use the mil rule, or do some baseline triangulation. The mil is .001 radian. A radian is 180 degrees thus 2 radians in a circle, and 2Pi radians in a circle equals 6.283 (57.296 degrees each), uh huh, the mil is the milliradian (1000th of a radian), 6283 in a circle, yep, rounded off to 6400 for military use. 21600 MOA. Whatever. A small scientific calculator, or programmable one, is very handy here and solar power is ideal during the day. This is not very helpful at night so batteries will be needed. In the old days there were slide rules appropriate for these tasks and no power source was needed but long calculations were slow. A table of sine values is good for triangulation. Since one mil is a shift in direction of 1 yard at 1000 yards, 1 foot at 1000 feet, etc, a 6 foot man (2 yard) at 1000 yards would be 2 mils tall. At 500 yards 1 mil would be half a yard so it would take 4 mils to equal his height at that range. You look at the target using a telescopic sight, spotting scope, or binoculars with a mil scale reticule and see how many mil dots, center to center, tall the target is: if a tall man is 4 mils tall he is at 500 yards. The formula is as follows: height of target in yards times 1000 and divided by target height in mils equals range in yards. The same can be done using meters or feet but you must use the same unit of measure throughout the formula. Another example: A man closer to 5 than 6 feet tall is 4 mils in height; 1.7 (yards) tall times 1000 is 1700 divided by 4 (height in mils in the reticule) equals 425 yards away. Consider a similar thing. MOA is just over an inch at 100 yards. There is a 5' 10" man out there. In inches: 70 inches tall times 3600 (100 yards in inches) gives 252,000, divided by 7 (the number of 1 MOA clicks on the sight to move the center of the peep sight from his feet to his top) equals 36000 inches and converted to yards ( a yard is 36") is 1000 yards which is the range to the man. You can also use your fingers and hand as a crude stadiametric instrument for estimating the mils between objects or the height or width of objects in mils at the range. Hold your hand out at arms length and bend the wrist so the palm is facing forward in the halt right there position. Rotate the wrist to place the hand sideways if measuring vertically. This produces different results for different people but not as much as you may expect since people with small hands tend to have short arms. The width of the index finger is 30 mils. The first two fingers combined is 70 mils, and the width of the first three fingers combined is 100 mils. All 4 fingers wide is 125 mils. The width of back of the fisted hand is 180 mils, and when you spread your fingers wide the distance between the tip of little finger and the thumb tip is 300 mils. This is an approximation only. A right triangle has one right angle. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle is the hypotenuse. Sine is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse. What do we care about sine? It happens that if you shoot a bearing to a target object and then lay out directly to your flank a baseline 100 meters long you have created a right angle. You know the length of the baseline but not the range to the target. However, if you take another bearing to the target from the other end of the baseline that bearing will differ from your first by a certain amount. This second bearing will not create a 90 degree angle, and the difference in bearings is your deflection. You have just created the third side of the triangle. If the deflection is 3 degrees, the angle at the corner you were standing in when you took the second bearing (at the end of the baseline) will be 90 degrees minus 3 equals 97 degrees. The closer the target the smaller the angle of the second bearing, this is predictability, or calculability. Changing the angle changes the sine, and put this relationship into a formula and you can get the range from it. The method: Length of baseline times the sine of the angle at the end of baseline, the product of this divided by the sine of the deflection. For example 100 times the sine of 97, divided by the sine of 3. It is well if you can measure the ranges to preselected reference objects before a battle or ambush. Make a list or a range card sketch or map overlay. Warning: laser may activate threat sensor on some vehicles. You may also be able to range vehicles with some commercial radar devices. This too may trigger an alert. Then, while there are devices for joggers, and neat wheeled instruments for making such measurements, there is the old standby method of pacing the distance off. Long paces and

tall man is roughly 1 yard or meter each step. The more picky among us measure their walking pace with a tape and come up with a conversion factor. 100 paces times .94 is 94 yards anyone? Set sights for range of reference point near the enemy. Walking to and fro on the earth. Oh yeah. Wind doping. There are handheld instruments for measuring wind velocity. There are both electronic and mechanical versions of anemometer. Get one, and get or use a computer to make a custom wind effects chart for your weapon. Sniping and mechanical ambush are much better in the early stages of rebellion than large scale firefights and ambushes. Be very careful about any raiding you do. A full scale engagement or battle is insanity. Fight only on the ground you choose, or to save your life if you are caught while escaping. A unit is moving in close terrain, in a ragged single file. It stops. A small unit trying to hide might enter heavy concealment and lie in a tight circle with each man facing out. A larger one might take up a defensive circle, a coil or herringbone, or might dig in. But for a temporary stop it might be better to lie down in place with each second man facing to the left, and with automatic weapons at point and tail. This makes it easy to shoot to either side necessary without risk of shooting your own in the back. A wind storm can make long range sniping impossible. If possible shoot between the gusts if the wind is variable. This is very helpful when you are shooting from a standing position. You will sway in the wind. It also shortens the time a bullet is exposed to the wind. You can get ballistics tables showing the effects of crosswinds of specific speeds in MPH and at the various ranges for the ammunition you are using. You can memorize some of this, or create a field data card, and ballistics software will calculate specific cases for you. However, in the field there are two things that you will use the most. They are the experience you gain from lots of shooting under a wide variety of conditions and wind doping rules of thumb. Use an electronic meter, failing that use the appearance of wind effects and the angle of heat mirage, cloth flags, rising smoke and dropping paper to estimate wind speed and direction. Winds of under 3 MPH are hard to feel, but will drift smoke; at about 5 MPH you can feel wind on the face; leaves will stay in constant motion in winds of 5-8 MPH; dust and paper will be blown around in 10 MPH winds, and a 12-15 MPH wind will make small trees sway. If you look at a target with the spotting scope and then back off on the focus you may see the rising heat waves, mirage. You might also be able to see the swirl, the disturbed path the bullet trails behind itself. Look at the flag flying, smoke rising, or drop a piece of paper from shoulder height. Now estimate in degrees how much the wind has or is moving the object from its normal attitude. In the case of the paper point at its resting place and estimate the angle from your foot to finger. Now divide that angle by 4 and the result is roughly the wind speed in MPH. Use a cigarette lighter and watch the flame to get an idea of wind direction and speed. Do not do this at night. The flame will be visible a mile away. The usual thing is to give crosswinds full effect in your calculation, quartering wind half value; but in fact some so-called quartering winds have as much as 80% of the full effect. A 10 MPH wind does have twice the effect of a 5 MPH wind. One shortcut to adjusting the sight for the effective crosswind is to multiply the range (1 for each 100m) by the wind (MPH) and divide by 15. The result is the number of 1 MOA clicks to apply into the wind on the rear sight. Thus if the range is 500 meters and the effective crosswind is equivalent to 5 MPH from the right; 5 times 5 = 25. 25 divided by 15 gives 1.7 (~2) clicks right windage. If your sight uses 1/2 MOA windage clicks multiply the required number by 2. Otherwise get range and wind speed and use ballistic charts or memory to get drift at that range, and then figure out how many clicks into the wind are needed at that range. For example if the wind will move bullet impact at 600 meters right 12 inches you need left windage of 8 times 1/4 MOA clicks because 1 MOA is roughly 6 inches at 600 meters, 2 MOA 12", and 1/4 MOA clicks are 4 times smaller. When you shoot at a ranged target that is clearly not at your elevation your bullets will hit high

or not at all. Multiplying the range by .7 is a common rule of thumb to correct for this, by .9 is closer to accurate at around 30 degrees up or down slope. If you want to get it right get a slope dope chart and an inclinometer or similar instrument. Some compasses have a scale for elevation as well, just as some will give you azimuth in mils as well as degrees. So for rough compensation for both up and down slope shooting: get range to target and if shooting at about 30 degrees multiply the range by .9 and set sights to the new range. If shooting at about a 45 degree angle multiply by .7. Is this a slant range issue? It is a slant issue, not a slant range issue. The bullet dropped under gravitational force which works directly downwards. If the bullet is fired forwards and drops 5 inches before impact it is a hit if the range setting on the sight is correct, if upwards and it drops 5 inches it goes high because the drop was straight down but the direction of fire is angled up. Imagine a long pole with a 5 inch long string dangling off the end. The pole is the line of departure and the string represents the total drop expected below this. You set your sights to compensate for that drop. Now remember that the bullet is moving forward, and tilt the pole up to a high angle. See how the end of the string gets closer to the pole all the way up? This is not as much drop relative to the line of sight as you planned for. You must come down the clicks needed to compensate for how much you overshoot the mark, or set the sight for the, shorter, range that gives you the same effect. Multiply the actual range, line of sight range, by .9 if the angle is about 30 degrees and by .7 if about 45 degrees, and set the sight for the shorter range. If you shoot straight up gravity is still working on the bullet to its full effect, and gravity and air resistance control how far up it will go (7000 to 17000 feet is common depending on caliber and load), but while wind will push it to the side there will be no gravity induced drop away from the line of sight. (But if you are using sights still set for 300 yards, not set parallel with the bore, you won't be shooting straight up.) It will commonly come back down base first and hit hard enough to dent wood. At say, 300-400 FPS. An example bullet might go up 9000 feet in 18 seconds and back down in 31. (Hatcher's Notebook.) You can calculate a compensating range: Line of sight distance times cosine of firing angle. You can calculate how high you will hit, so you can can come down the right number of clicks to compensate for the inches at that range. This tells you how high you will hit, not how many clicks to come down. I don't use this one so I hope my notes were accurate: Line of sight range times the result of subtracting the cosine of the firing angle from 1.0. (Cosine is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.) With indirect fire, whether machine gun or mortar, you take the range by map or electronic navigation device (GPS devices can be tracked, nongovernmental devices can be given inaccurate data), and altitude the same way or by handheld altimeter (again mechanical barometric or electronic). This because you must factor in a range change to compensate for the difference in height between weapon and target. This is not the same as adjusting for steep angles, it is a matter of aiming a bit higher or lower for even a 50m difference in elevations. There is a range difference between shooting at the base of a target and at its top. The slant range is longer. There is also a difference, however, in the effect gravity has on a projectile when shot at such a slant. I have such charts, but do not have data for adjusting for overall altitude effects which is why we make do with zeroing rifles and machine guns anew when we arrive in the mountains, or at a place with greatly different temperatures. This stuff is silly, right? In combat you will never have time for all this fluff. True enough, but in hit and run warfare versus the big machine sniping must be highly accurate and its duration short. The first shot really does count, and then you must be gone before they can engage. Any individual and local advantage is gold. Every superiority an opportunity, and every weakness to be protected and hidden. If you do none of these things at least lase the range to the base of the building instead of to the actual target high up in it. I dare you, double dog dare you, ya wimp. Loser. Gotta fit in. You just have to shake your head. Socialize. People have to work out their pecking order. You can't feel comfortable if you don't know your place. You can't feel comfortable unless you understand the cosmic truths. You just gotta believe.

There is no need to know. When prone you can lower the muzzle by sliding the supporting hand forward, and raise it by sliding it back, also if you leave the elbows in place but move the body forward a bit the muzzle will rise, back a little and it will fall. With a fist under the toe of the butt tightening or loosening said fist will slightly lower or raise the muzzle. Primary support ought never to come from tensing the arm muscles, primary direction should controlled by the facing of your whole body. Center the eye, scope and target on each other. You must have the full circular scope image in view, and your brow at least 2 or 3 inches back to avoid being hit during recoil. Place the reticule on the place you want to hit. With iron sights it is very important to center the top of the front sight exactly in the center of the rear sight aperture. Maintain this alignment as you place the top of the front sight post at the base of the spot you want to hit. With square or vee notched rear sights you need to have the tops of the notch and front sight blade precisely even, and the same gap visible on both sides of the front sight inside the rear sight notch. The only time you shoot with one eye closed is if you fail to focus on the sights otherwise, just as the only time you drop the butt from your shoulder is when you absolutely can't perform a needed function if you don't, or better yet you have nothing left to shoot. For more stability you stop breathing, refine your aim (last focus on front sight) and press the trigger before breathing again. Close range and rapid shooting means you automatically stop breathing whenever you need a steadier aim. Precision shooting requires that you breath in, breath out to the natural pause, and shoot carefully. Some people do better by letting half a breath out and holding their breath. Whichever method you use do not hold a breath for too long or the stress will induce tremor. A shooting position which transmits vibration from the chest or pulse to the rifle, your heartbeat, can give you a miss on a truly long range and difficult target. Too bad I am not a crazy person. I would walk the sidewalks of the city placidly minding my own business, wearing a holstered pistol and slung rifle. When attacked or threatened with deadly force I would defend myself with sublime skill until killed by the rabble. America used to be a place, mostly, where a person could travel without being expected to yield to manhandling and confiscation of weapons, valuables, rights and dignity at any moment and without resistance. Not any more. I don't like it. We are a people trained to fight ourselves. We are the enemy, and not to be trusted. I just love when things go all pear shaped. If you flinch you will probably hit low. If you have to use the trigger finger past the first joint to get a smooth pull on a heavy or rough action beware of pulling the muzzle to the inside. Focus on the front sight as you fire, but not if the guy is literally only a few feet or yards away, just point the firearm as if it were your finger and shoot. Follow-through when shooting at moving targets means you keep tracking ahead of it while firing the shot and for a time afterward (don't try to stare at the target and place the sights ahead of it at the same time). You may have a couple of seconds to track and fire on a visible and moving soldier. At long range it may be hard to judge the lead, even if you have done some calculations. You can try the allranges rule of thumb of aiming and tracking with the trailing top edge of the front sight rather than the top and center. Even a stationary target may take a few steps between the time you fire and the bullet's arrival, often resulting in a clean miss. 7.62 NATO takes about 1 second to reach 600m and another second to reach 1000. A long .50 cal. shot may take 4 seconds. Moving targets are a major pain for the untrained, and a good sniper will miss if his stationary target moves in the second or 2 before his bullet arrives. You can look at time-of-flight ballistics charts and calculate target crossing speeds to find exactly how much to lead a moving target. If the bullet will arrive at 600 yards in 1 second and the target is crossing at 5 FPS you need to move your aimpoint along 5 feet ahead of the guy, or apply 10 (1 MOA) clicks of lead and track him center of mass. (5 feet is 60 inches and 1 MOA about 6 inches at 600m, thus 10 clicks for 60.) Use ballistics software. Put the most useful data on a card. There are also

basic rules for estimating leads. This is no guarantee the target will maintain that speed. Finally, with a great deal of range and field firing you will develop a feel for this, and will apply pressure to the trigger and follow through to fire the shot when the lead feels right, maintaining the lead until after the shot is off. Times of flight for the US military sniper: 100m is .1 sec., 200m .2, 300 is .4, 500m =. 7, 600n is .9 seconds, 700m = 1.0, 800 1.3, 900m takes 1.5 sec., and 1000m = 1.8. To calculate lead in mils multiply time of flight (seconds) by target crossing speed (FPS) to get lead in feet. Convert this result into meters; and then multiply this by (1000 divided by range to target in meters) to get lead in mils. A creeping man moves about 1 FPS to the side, half that if moving at a 45 degree angle to you. Stalking 2 FPS, walking 4 FPS, walking quickly 6 FPS, running 10 FPS, and sprinting 12 FPS. One method for walking and running targets is as follows. A man walking across in front of you needs little or no lead at short range, and even less if his movement is not directly crossing. At 200 meters or less aim at leading edge of his chest. If he is between 200 and 400 meters away aim ahead of him by one width of his body, beyond 400 meters aim ahead 2 or 3 of his body widths. For the running man lead is approximately doubled. At 200m or less lead by 1 body width, running at 200-400m lead by 2 widths, and beyond 400m by 5 or 6. It is a simple matter to put in a small variable-speed electric motor and some cable. This can pull a side aspect silhouette target across your shooting range. With multiple assailants at close combat range quickly shoot each man once and go right back to the beginning to shoot any still standing again, and again if need be. Shoot the nearest man first, but if one has a shotgun and the other a pistol go for the shotgunner. At longer ranges take out snipers and machine gun gunners, or rocket launcher operators first. When the situation requires the fasted possible shooting to stay alive you shoot from your present position and as quickly as accuracy allows. Given more time you take a more stable shooting position first, but not a position it takes too long to get into, At all other times use the lowest and/or most stable position you can aim at the enemy from. Panicking or poorly trained troops usually end up shooting high, or even up into the sky in the direction of people they can't see. Remember that if you see a soldier disappear into the bushes you may lose him if you look away, even if you take note of a nearby reference object. You may be able to say, "10 mils right of the oddly colored fence post," but is better if you keep your eyes on the spot and bring your rifle's sights up between your eyes and the target. Then shoot up his position. Another method if you can't see a target in your sights is to have another person, perhaps using a good spotting scope, give you an obvious aim point and to aim at this with your sights adjusted to hit the correct distance to the side. Sniper "duels" are foolish. Sometimes unavoidable but usually foolish. The sniper's job may at times be countersniping, but most of all it is his job to kill high value enemy personnel and to destroy critical equipment at the least possible cost to his own side. Never try to duel military snipers when you yourself are a run-of-the-mill sharpshooter. Duel only when the need is great and you are a first class sniper with proper support. When enemy snipers are a great threat to your people it is best to use a combination of passive security measures and active countersniper activity including ambush, explosives and etc.; don't you wish you had a couple of ATGM launchers and forward observer electrooptics? When unavoidably out in the complete open it is better to keep walking s, small z, and small w shaped paths than to stand there, or even to lie low when snipers may be present. This kind of walking is also good when practicing keeping your pistol on target. When you shoot from the side of a moving vehicle the bullet is going very fast in the direction you aimed it, but also is moving in the direction your vehicle was moving, and at the same speed at first. This means you have to aim behind a stationary target, relative to your vehicle's direction of travel not the target's facing, in order to hit it. But how far behind it? Are you going to calculate hold off based on range, time and your vehicle speed? What if the target is moving in the same direction you are, at the same speed would help you out. What if it is moving the the other direction at high speed?

Remember this and be prepared to change your aim as soon as you can see impacts anywhere, y'all have any tracer? The sergeant looked down at my handcuffed wife. He held her upper arm firmly as he said, "You know, Browning, I think I'll just take your wife in for this one. Pretty little thing, isn't she? There's no need to bother you for it." I caught my wife's glance. She looked a little desperate. The sergeant smiled at me. "You right-wing tough guys crack me up. You know what, buddy? Once your wife is in the system whatever happens to her will be completely outside your control. We will control every breath she takes from now on, from the time we make her get up to the time we put her to bed." His smile widened. "We will decide whatever it is that happens to her, and where will you be?" My wife's eyes were on my face. They widened. She glanced at the agent standing just inside the door, hand on his pistol, and shook her head at me in small but emphatic movements. I snatched up my blacksmithy hammer and I GROUND THEIR BONES to make my bread. Don't you judge me. That is bad and in my judgment you are doing it right now! I am a very wide but shallow pond. I fly low and slow, my man. The trigger pull should not be so light that a bump or rapidly closing the bolt fires the rifle. Less than 3 pounds is dangerous even for bolt action precision weapons. It should not be so heavy that you have to jerk it back to fire the rifle. The average M16A4 may have a 7 lb. trigger, but some of the accurized rifles with match triggers may trip under 4 or 5 pounds of pressure. Pressing the trigger ought not to move the rifle at all. It should be smooth and reasonably crisp in action, no grating or hanging. Do you know why people tell you to squeeze the trigger? To actually squeeze it you would have to press the trigger itself between thumb and forefinger. That would achieve nothing. Originally the phrase was lemon squeeze. The idea was that if you tightened the trigger finger and the entire rest of your hand around trigger and grip the forces working from all directions would be equal and the rifle would not be moved off target. While you are firmly pressing the rifle into the shoulder, and pressing the trigger straight back with no part of the finger touching the receiver, you do adjust the pressure of your grip to oppose movement so there is some truth in this idea, and the supporting rather than shooting hand can be used to exert a slight rearward pressure. Do not pull the trigger only far enough back to shoot and do not release it only just enough to stop shooting. Press it back fully and let it go forward completely. It will reset and click into place. Do leave your finger in light contact with it, however. Removing it completely slows your shooting and may result in improper finger placement when you are shooting rapidly. Put your finger on the trigger down low enough to prevent binding, and usually with the trigger against the first joint. You must be able to press directly to the rear and without undue effort which can move the rifle. The controlled pressing of the trigger and finger placement varies with the rifle and must be learned by experience. Are you firing bursts? It is a matter of timing. A high cyclic rate may mean you are never able to consistently shoot the exact same number of rounds each time. An occasional 4 instead of 3 is no big deal. Extreme rates of fire require mechanical burst control. The others do not and give you flexibility. Practice until you get it right. Do not allow anything unnecessary to contact the rifle while shooting, not even your own forearm. Let nothing contact the magazine if at all possible. Particularly never let anything touch the barrel, not even soft materials such as a rolled-up jacket. That is for under the forend as a buffer between it and a hard surface when you are not using your hand for that purpose. If that surface is going to cut or abrade the hand wear a glove. Note that radar scattering or absorbing material, thermal camouflage, or the like wrapped around the barrel will change the point of impact of bullets and may do so in an inconsistent manner. This sort of thing is less than ideal but may be necessary. Shooting a rifle with fairly heavy recoil is fun. The boom, muzzle blast and jump, and the nice solid thump or shove to the shoulder; just a touch and the rifle is alive. This is like getting slammed back into your seat by acceleration when you rocket off in a sports car. It is like the final burst of speed when you win a horse race. Dude, shooting is for men what riding with his head out the car window is for a grinning dog. There is no need for trigger snatching, flinching or bucking, or any eye closing.

Keep your eyes on the target, touch the shot off, and ride it like it was the gale force wind in your teeth. Keep looking to see if you can observe bullet impactyou can, except for fairly short-range, but not very short range, shots when the impact occurs while the muzzle is in the way. Precise sight alignment is a key to accurate shooting, more so than the precise aim point. If you ever experience a slam fire you will be damn happy you practice muzzle control. Extreme fouling or broken parts, or the combination of a rifle design and ammunition quality cause a shot to be fired when the bolt slams home. Rare, but disconcerting. Truly powerful express and magnum rifles are another matter. Some recoil heavily enough to bruise the shoulder, and to bruise bone, or break it if the collar bone, when the butt is improperly placed. The prone position can be painful. You should fire no rifle with your eye too close to a scope but some of these require careful cheek placement and not being too close to the receiver. Do not shoot from the shoulder when the butt is not firmly in the shoulder pocket at any time due to poor handling and accuracy issues but with these big-bore rifles care may be needed to reduce injury. Sometimes shooting too many rounds results in a headache, not a good sign, and rare cases of detached retina in an eye have been suspected. This normally is not an issue with rifles in .50 BMG caliber as they use recoil brakes on the muzzle. This, however, tends to kick up sticks and leaves and deflects gases toward the shooter so double hearing protection and shooting or ballistic glasses (or goggles) are recommended. Recoil recovery is faster if you are directly behind the rifle, but lying at 45 degrees is less painful with magnum rifles. Muzzle blast can be dangerous. A friend once saw a guy preparing to shoot standing right next to his own car and warned him that the blast could blow out a window. The man said, yeah, right, took his shot, and promptly blew out his driver-side window. Red face time. Inside a room a rifle shot can move all the curtains and blow out any candles or lamps. Follow through after each shot fired with the rifle. It is possible to miss because you have begun to move as you press the trigger, the weapon moves a bit before the bullet exits the bore. Hold the trigger back and make no voluntary changes in your position until the shot is off and the rifle begins coming down from recoil. The process can be shortened during rapid fire at close range. There will be weapons as long as there are criminals, hunters, and wild animals. They are safer than many recreational activities when not misused. If you could end violence then why ban them if nobody misused them any longer? If you can't end violence why harass the defenders? We gun nuts would be perfectly happy collecting and target shooting, studying military history and playing war games. We do not need crime and war. Tyrants and thugs need crime and war. Do a speed (combat) reload when the magazine is empty. Take cover whenever possible. You should be able to drop the empty magazine while bringing up the reload, and insert the new magazine fully without looking down at the procedure. At any time during a firefight there may be a pause in the action. During these times take the opportunity to do a tactical reload if you know your rifle has few rounds remaining. Put the ejected magazine in a pocket for later use. Do not do this during speed reloads in the face of the enemy, but do pick up and stow empty magazines before you leave the location if you can. Some techniques for firing around cover: lie down behind cover, shoulder the rifle, and roll out just enough to shoot before rolling back; another method involves standing behind cover and leaning out just enough to expose the weapon, keeping the lower body behind the cover at all times. If you fire rapidly, for example a shot every second or faster for several minutes a cartridge left in the chamber may cook off after a few seconds. The M14 may do this after 150 rounds in 2 minutes. The chamber is hot. Leave the muzzle pointed down range for 30 seconds or more, or immediately eject the cartridge after you stop shooting. Lock the bolt back and let the weapon cool for awhile if possible. Keep face and hands away from the receiver and magazine as you eject the round. If the weapon fires with the bolt unlocked but nearly closed serious damage will result to the rifle. If the round explodes in the air only unprotected eyes are at risk.

Keep commonly needed spare parts and tools on hand. Be prepared. Practice the basics, minimalistic, complete and correct. Start slowly, perfect your technique, and let the speed come naturally over time. In the end practice enough to maintain streamlined, accurate and fast shooting. You will have casualties. I hope and expect you will cause casualties. You have to be prepared, the whole unit will be killed or captured if a wounded man requires everybody to stop and try to aid and remove him to safety. Take his attackers under fire. If he is exposed and immobile drag him to cover if it is reasonable to do so. Using smoke to screen his location may help. One man should render basic aid as soon as possible, and the first group to withdraw should carry or drag him if they can. Tarps and a couple of boards or a folding litter/stretcher is handy. You may not have time to take a severely wounded man with you. Always do so if you can, but do not die trying if you can help it. If you come into temporary custody of wounded enemy do not do what the police often do to suspects. They cuff the guy and stand there watching him bleed to death as they wait for medics. You may be able to to do nothing during the action, and may have few skills or supplies, but especially if you have had to tie him for your safety you should do what you can after you have taken care of your own. A pressure bandage or tourniquet at least for heavy bleeding. When you have to leave you certainly do not risk your life by staying behind. His own side is responsible for him after that. Timing is important. Catching an enemy off balance, or putting him there, is important. Directions and angles relative to high ground and other lines of observation, movement, and fires; and to the enemy's attention and fire concentrations are key. To delay the enemy use bounding overwatch. One element moves while the other keeps the enemy under fire. When the moving unit finds a position to the rear they switch roles. You need cover for this. Note that if you come under fire from one side you may have to move the main body under fire to come online with your own pinned down flank guard before returning fire. You need cover for this too, and don't advance into open terrain. Rant, rant and rant. Feels goood. Some things just beg to be driven home over and over again. Hah. Poppycock, but if it precipitates only one act of rightist violence, it is worth it! :joke: :rolls eyes: How do you move by vehicle before and after an operation? Firstly, hiding in plain sight is not driving around with a tracking device attached to the undercarriage of your vehicle. It is not driving the roads and highways when you are wanted and your associated license plates are being logged and tracked by the networked plate reading cameras along the roads. Some police cars record every license plate on the road with them. Some other vehicles have masts which raise cameras, other sensors, or weapons up high for a better view. Nor is it when you are not identified but are using a wanted vehicle under such circumstances. Keep in mind that some IDs and credit\debit cards have embedded radio frequency ID chips, and that credit transactions are logged. Toll road transponders are a bad accessory. Also that your 'phone, internet and credit services can be canceled unless the authorities choose to leave them on for eavesdropping and tracking purposes without alarming you. (Telephones may appear to be disconnected while still serving as bugs and tracking devices. They are easily temporarily jammed by hand-held devices as well. Police can do this from a mile away.) Driver's licenses and other permissions too are subject to cancellation. All retail firearms sales in the US are registered and the data is digitally stored and available. Dress like the people in the area. Act the way the locals are behaving. Drive a vehicle that is nondescript, that looks like what the majority of others are driving. If the neighborhood is full of Rolls you may need one! IDs have to be passable and vehicle plates must not be attention getting, no out of state plates, for example. Setting aside nonsense about freedom and fighting for your rights, let us be sensible here. It is wrong to stand out, attract possibly hostile attention, so do not dress in a flashy or provocative manner. Do not talk differently, disagree, be too white in a black area or too black in a white one. Do not carry any weapons. Most of you will not be violently attacked in any given year anyhow, but at times even

the best citizens may have to be sacrificed. Did you know America has towns in which 1 in every 45 people are subjected to violence in any given year? Economics, war, policy... Do not wear expensive accessories. Wear neither religious nor anti-religious symbolism unless most others are wearing the same ones. Dress like others, drive a car like the others, and fit in. It does not matter what is legal. It does not matter what you think. Be as assertive, and as meek, as the local herd. If you do not do this you will be detained or arrested for disorderly conduct, brandishing or incitement; though they will at times merely force you out of the locality. Enforcement does think stupid is a crime, and being a pain in their arses is stupid. You have some freedom due to any ability you may have to move into a place occupied by people who are alot like you. You are free to choose to fit in and free to choose instead punishment. Whatever you say will be used against you, as will whatever you refuse to say. You have the right to be anywhere you wish if your so being there makes money for us. Disobedience too is criminal, and the mere exercise of a "right" justifies "reasonable suspicion" allowing detention and investigation, or "probable cause" and arrest. Fit in and shut your fucking mouth and avoid most of this save for ongoing revenue generating operations. It is not wise to be angry about this. Be happy, that will teach 'em! See, letting people do to you as they will with polite unconcern for self or family makes some of them feel bad. It is thus a very clever way to hurt them, a weapon which doubtless should be banned. Smart! Don't be a "fuck the world" loser. Don't tread on me? Ha. No dragon tattoo for you! This being so and police and inspectors being public servants...it is not just unmown grass that brings down property values. It is offensive or unattractive people. Keep that dumpy-looking person out of my neighborhood! The police should park unobtrusively, and take their authorizations for being there to the servant's entrance. This they actually do in some places, for it is a mistake to fail to recognize superiors. Society has ways to deal people who will not yield, and it operates differently depending on your status, but is a long road beginning with mild applications of pressure, permissions, fines or hearings and perhaps years later it ends in a maximum security prison or hospital, execution or a shooting. It does not matter who is right. It does not matter what the law isdo you think you live in a nation of laws and not men? Remember, being sensible is a GOOD thing. And if you must be "alternative?" Heh, no problem. Put on the uniform of the nearest such group and stay within the protection of your own kind as you talk universalism and rainbows. I'm back! Operating in an environment of overwatching military or police snipers is very dangerous. Go for the snipers or do not catch their attention. It is almost as dangerous for government loyalists and undercover operatives there as well, because snipers tend to shoot if they see suspicious behavior or a weapon, and coordination is never perfect. Cop sees some guy has a pistol on his belt. Cops pulls leather and shoots guy 5 times. Cop finds out guy is a superior officer wearing plainclothes. Yes, I am just wait'n for the day when when my credit card and my purchases will be read from a distance as I head for the shop door. Then a computer can tell me what to put back before I leave. State restrictions, doctor's orders and the like. You bought beer yesterday, Sir. Return the beer at once. Thank you and have a nice day! Walk out anywayno problem. No credit will be transferred and a warrant for theft will be automatically filed. Not that anyone will actively search for you. Your status will be read everyplace you go, perhaps your account will be frozen completely. You will be caught eventually at a random stop or checkpoint. Do not just remove the magazine! Check the chamber. If you go off road in a vehicle with a metallic body and there are few others in the area you better hope there are plenty of folds and hills, depressions and trees and the like. If they really want you a radar and FLIR equipped UAV can take off and be tracking you with targetable accuracy within 5 to 15 minutes depending on how close they were to the area. There may be some utility in covering your vehicle with tarpaulins, even with military camo nets/radar scattering and absorbing materials and/or IR blocking materials. This works best if it is separated from the vehicle by an air space but it is not easy to tie it down over spacers and have it stay

in place when you are at speed. Screen reflective surfaces and any part heated by the motor most of all. Wheel hubs get hot also. Be advised that a thermal image can with sufficient processing of the heat pattern, pattern recognition, allow you to be reacquired even after you have come back into view in the company of other traffic off similar model and color. Thermal images do not identify persons with the exception of special devices at very close range. Spy cameras? Satellites are not going to be reading the paperback in your hand, or the plates on your car, but there are airborne and ground cameras much closer to you. They do not need to work through the entire atmosphere. It is not difficult to use simple fireworks mortar/starshell techniques to build pyrotechnic dispensers of chaff (video tape shredded to the right dipole size, other metalized strands) or IR screening smoke. However, though some military radars can be detected by x band police radar detectors, this is not always of great use because you are often already attacked before you can fire your devices and build up a useful screen. In any event you must be able to drive into cover while still screened or your protection is lost after a few minutes at best. If you wire this up to automatically fire when you are hit by ranging or guidance lasers or tracking radar it may save your life, but turn it off when you leave the vehicle in a hidden position. Some fool scanning the shadows with his laser might discover it only because he sees the smoke he provoked. You must rely on terrain masking and careful route planning for the most part. If you create a large plume of dust as you travel you can be detected from miles away. Be aware that routes such as this tend to follow ground water might also follow. Watch out for flash floods. Military terrain including the urban and land navigation are important subjects. So is emergency medicine. Don't forget explosives! Logistics is very important as well. How are you going to keep yourself supplied in the field (on operations in country or city) with ammunition, fuel?, and clean food and water (survival, maintenance and supply)? Reliable sources and delivery by manpack or vehicle? Prepositioned caches or delivery to such sites? Living off the land? Can you limit each operation to no more than 5 days and blend back into civilian life while resupplying? Who can you go to for more advanced medical care? How will the wounded be routed? Nothing ever works properly in war, and people are odd under stress. If you expect, for example, supplies to come to you on time and unpilfered you will be surprised. You are lucky your supplier did not just decide to turn you in. Fighters are treated like dogs, you know, working dogs. They are kept when useful and disposed of when not, when killed they are replaced. Note that nothing will save you if they are near and too directly overhead and you are in a vehicle, except for good thick overhead cover. When not using a vehicle or other obvious equipment always take cover outside of bomb blast range. Radio antennas should be remoted in any case. Large antennas need camouflage and really should be taken down or disconnected from any radios held in reserve or not needed during periods of radio silence. Foxholes can be dug under large boulders if there are many in the area. Camouflage is your god, children. Dispersion your daddy. Going to ground is your mother. Drop to knees and smoothly prone using the free hand to ease yourself down. If you do not go to the knees first trying to control your forward motion with the butt of your rifle can do you an injury. Another way of doing this when silence is needed is to go carefully down on one knee with the rifle under the arm on the same side, then go forward as you support yourself with the free (opposite) hand and move first the nonsupporting leg and then the other (kneeling) leg to the rear as you go flat. Kick the legs back if needed and slink into cover. Even under a smallish bush in the shadow is better than nothing. You do know that using radios allows any computerized radio direction finders in the area to triangulate on your position at once, also that cell 'phones are radios that additionally identify themselves to the telephone company and contain both location tracking and bugging systems? Use cellulars that are not registered to you, and short range radios, only when it is critical to do so and your use is short and intermittent and you move afterward. This depends on the local enemy capability

since the unit you are raiding may be notified of you radio use only after the raid is already over. Laser comms can be very effective between units in visual contact with each other. So can low-power directional microwave. Modulating the output of a low power laser is easy. Detecting the modulated beam and converting back into sound is not much harder. It is pleasant if you can use whatever radio systems you have at the radiated power level needed to reach your comrades and no farther. You will not be able to program your radios to encrypt your digitized voice and transmit it in a mix of the characteristics of radio waveforms and varied modulation methods and frequencies, but that would be ideal. Yes it is true that a moving target is harder to hit than a stationary one, even for guided weapons. But, especially at range, not hard enough. Still, you should never stop in the open under fire. Drive behind cover first if there is any. If you are crossing in front of a launcher only a few hundred meters away speed up as they may be unable to track. If there is no cover at all drive like a manic zigzag fool and swear a lot, or stop and run away from your vehicle to lie on the ground and hope they will leave happy once they have torched your ride. If attack helicopters or UAVs with automatic weapons are present they will enjoy a turkey shoot instead. Single vehicles, as you can see, should not operate alone in the desert. A loss will leave you with a long walk and little water. Your load bearing gear needs to be on your person or very much at hand. You should always have water, ammunition and a compass as a minimum. If you have been seriously short of water do not drink as much as you can when you find water. If you have been starving start with very small meals and work yourself back up to normal ones or you may give yourself heart failure. Take advantage of opportunities. Move in smoke. If enemy tanks are out there in the night using thermal sights move along behind any fires and burning buildings. If actually going to fight tanks every unit of whatever size has to have antitank weapons of some kind appropriate to its manpower, sensor capability and means of locomotion. It is the same with regard to aircraft. If there is often fog near a lake at the time of year in question, or the soil is damp and the temperatures are right plan to move or ambush in fog. What advantage can you gain from a cold morning when snow or heavy frost is predicted to melt later in the day? Your prints in the snow will disappear, but will any marks left on the ground be smaller than they would have been if you waited until the next evening? Many firearms make a visible flash at dusk and all at night. Some produce veritable fireballs. Some ammunition is low-flash, none are no flash. This is why military rifles use flash suppressors or hiders. The hider is a cone that hides the flash from those viewing from the side, but not so much if you are out in front. The suppressor is a muzzle attachment with slots in it designed to give the hot gasses exiting the bore more space to expand and cool and more openings to vent from. This allows us to avoid a concentrated hot spot. Some of these devices are very good. Some are combination flash suppressors and muzzle brakes, but none completely eliminate flash. An assault gun is a heavily armed and armored vehicle, unturreted but cannon armed, designed primarily for the delivery of direct fire in support of attacking infantry. An assault weapon is any weapon meant especially for use during the final phase of an attack. Assault weapon used to mean any firearm banned by the federals because they did not like certain kinds of semiautomatic weapon. If the congress says red is now black, well, they make the laws. Look, dude! The government makes the laws, and you are supposed to obey laws. If you don't like it you should move to another country. Democracy means any sacrifices imposed on you were imposed on you by you. Blame yourself. If you are going to complain just leave, if you get a passport, and prior permission for each trip, of course. We'll steal your laptop (or the data in it) and any large amount of cash off you as you leave! You can't say I love my country but hate my government, can you? Love it or leave it baby! Either run for office and change things legally or you can't complain when a few mistakes are made by a few bad apples, or we do things illegally. You get what you pay for, unless cheated; and the people have the government they deserve. Never rebel against a government that maintains some order, that would be like 1776 or something. Really! Are you special

or what? I had to be hazed in school, serve as a draftee, pay union dues in order to work. I had to walk miles to school every day. You think you are better than me? (Yes.) If you don't vote for a party candidate you can't complain if they steal your land and build a hotel on it (cough, cough). Everything the government has ever done was legal unless it was or will be overturned by the courts, they will tell you so. It may not be enumerated but it must be in the umbra! No prophesy is of any private interpretation. What tenth amendment? This is the way the world works. This is the way people work. You get what you earn. You get what you deserve. Do not make waves. Do not buck authority. Fit in. Never cause trouble by resisting the establishment, because you only have the right to do and to be whatever you have the power to do. Ranking persons should stay within their power base since if caught sufficiently outnumbered at any time they should fit themselves into the local reality, and if they fail to do so they deserve what they get. Power does not exist everywhere and equally. If you can't master the situation you deserve it when it and they master you. Fair game. No respect for authority, eh loser? Integrity? Hah. This is the way people work. This is the way the world works. You respect those who seem to be what you want to be, or think you should be; until you begin to resent them or until you realize they are mostly face and surface. Never help anybody unless you can gain from it. People who need help are made to look weak and will resent you for making that fact even more obvious, and once you are gone the bullies will come back for some face saving revenge. Surface and gutsy acts on the part of little men who must be brave in order to gain face and hide cowardice. Self respect is what men feel when they have earned their place, when they have played the game, and when the people they steal from have proven too weak or stupid to dominate the dominators instead. People like contrasting themselves with others far more than they enjoy the actual value of their own circumstances; not what I have, but look how much more than they. The people who support, or fail to resist, bad government deserve bad government. You equate cause and effect with morality. You absolve pricks in government as a result of fear or your own involvement. Really? If I can't stop bad government I deserve it? If I kill You it is Your own fault. You should have been able to defend yourself. Even stupid people do not deserve to be abused. What about the dissenters, children and disabled? What do they deserve? Hey, love liberty or you move to China, asshole; oops, I mean France! People get the government they deserve just as people unable or unwilling to plan food reserves get the malnutrition they deserve. Do you want to talk about hate? I hate, HATE, the filthy politicians who have destroyed my country. My laws. My culture. Students of hate should study the purity of mine. Your freedom ends at crime. Your freedom ends at destroying the Bill of Rights. Your authority ends outside of the law. Not when you go beyond your bullshit orders, rules, regulations and laws; but when you operate outside The Law. Now we are in law of war territory, my clotting dears. But what is an assault rifle? It is a short (shorter) and more or less handy rifle which may or may not be lighter, but has less recoil than a high-powered rifle. (A high-powered rifle is a rifled, shoulder-fired small bore {not small caliber} firearm in roughly any caliber from 7mm Mauser {.284} to 8mm Mauser {.323.} We are talking bullet diameter here, .30 US (.30-06/7.62x63) and 7.62x51 are both .308.) There are two basic schools of thought on achieving this: The lower velocity means less recoil folk, and the tiny bullet moving faster still produces less recoil group. The small caliber group also like being able to carry more ammunition. The assault rifle has a large magazine capacity (30-40 round magazines, 30 is normative) and a selector switch or change lever which can be set for automatic or controlled burst (usually three round) fire as well as for semiautomatic fire. The FN FAL, M14 and H&K G3 are not really assault rifles. They are selective-fire automatic rifles, or light automatic rifles. Also they are infantry or battle rifles. Why the higher rate of fire, but low-powered, assault rifle? The idea was that a more powerful replacement for the submachine gun would be more suitable for suppression of enemy defenses during an infantry assault and would be better for close ambushes and fleeting targets, while still doing a

creditable job in trenches and cellars. It had to use a less powerful cartridge because a rifle used as an automatic rifle can be hard to control. The most powerful assault rifle cartridge is on par with the .30-30 Winchester. Assault rifles put a lot of rounds down range, are are not particularly accurate, and are not very lethal using military, full metal jacketed, bullets. This very high rate of fire makes things very hot. There are some old bolt action rifles with a higher true sustained rate of fire than some assault rifles. What bullet hoses. Right? If you hold the trigger down your average assault rile will be out of ammunition in about 2.5 seconds. (30 round magazines are not as large as you may think. There are 40 rounders and others as well, but many of these make the prone position difficult. Modern battle rifles generally have 20 round magazines as 7.62mm cartridges weigh about twice what 5.56mm does.) This does you little good in most combat situations. It is fun. Do the same with your semiautomatic "assault weapon" and you get one bang and silence for as long as you keep at it. Of course, if you keep pulling and releasing the trigger really fast, really work the trigger and to hell with aiming, you might be able to empty the magazine of the semiauto in 7.5 seconds or less. Neither the assault rifle nor its semiautomatic children make good substitutes for belt-fed machine guns. They do not have the magazine capacity they need, and overheat quickly. They lack comparative stability when fired at a high rates, and long-range accuracy. Plus the semiautos have a slow rate of fire and wear out your trigger finger. They are not that good at bullet hosing. Get a MK43 Mod1 (M60E4) machine gun and put out 400-500 rounds per minute including reloading time. (You can keep linking the belts together during firing with an assistant. Barrel changes are quick but will slow things down when they become necessary after a few minutes.) On the other hand, given 12 magazines and fast reloads, you can put 360 rounds through an M16 in one minute if you don't care about aiming other than in one general direction and if the rifle does not fail before you are finished. This is very hard on rifles. Some folks can dump 4 or 5 shots per second into a nearby (a few yards) target, for a second or two, with a pistol. It is more likely going to be 2 or 3 per second if more than 1 target is to be hit. Salvation is of the Jeeews. That just means Christianity is the last and greatest phase of Jewish religion, what saves all those who accept the human sacrifice of the Christ on their behalf; unless they backslide in belief so far as to deny the Holy Spirit, of course. Yes? I say if salvation is of the Jews we are in a lot of trouble. Oy vey. The M60 originally was a pig, as an aside. It was not very reliable, the gas plug had to be handwired in place, and every spare barrel had its own bipod. Stupid design. The new 60s are good guns. Something like 90% of the individual soldier's business (regular army) can be done with a semiautomatic rifle, and perhaps 50% of it could be done with a bolt action infantry rifle, but automatic fire is handy for that last 10%. It should be mentioned that you cannot win battles without machine guns and other heavy weapons, and artillery and usually tanks and aircraft as well. Battles can't be won by riflemen alone. Guerrilla wars can be won without all of those things, however, and the early stages require none of them, but snipers and explosives are needed. When the other side has become disorganized, and begins to lose personnel who can see the writing on the wall, you will gain both numbers and weapons; also funds which can be used to smuggle in munitions. If this goes far enough you can then take poorly defended regions and finally engage in battles against recalcitrant remaining enemy units. It is amusing to look at the history of the assault rifle in the US military. The army has always refused to call it an assault rifle. They call the M16 series rifles the US Rifle, M16. In other words, an infantry or general purpose military rifle (battle rifle). When first introduced, and the initial M16 was a very unreliable rifle, the theory was that aimed fire was ineffective. (The original military AR15 was overrated and ammunition sensitive, the first M16 was an abortion, failure to eject, failure to cycle; keep a rod at hand for chamber clearing. Even the M16A1 was odd. The sling swivels and fragile plastic handguards rattled, but could be taped. Even the two halves of the receiver rattled together. All rifles are inclined to freeze up if unlubricated, some more than others, and a properly lubricated bolt is

a must even when operating in sand and dust, but the 16 blows carbon back into the action and this mixed with sand and the oil can cause problems. I have seen current production M16s choke up every 200 rounds or so even when properly cleaned and lubricated , and the M4 carbine is worse. I have also seen M16A2s in temperate conditions handle a day of shooting, 600 rounds with no stoppages. Reliability is not this good if the action is left dry, but special lubricants can work better in the desert than the usual oils and cold weather lubes are needed in arctic conditions.) That is, aimed fire at individual or point targets was ineffective. Ranges were close, targets were seen briefly or assumed to be in likely positions, and the volume of fire aimed at area targets was what mattered. Probability of hits based on area and number of bullets fired per minute. It was also said that small caliber rifles had the same effective range as the infantry rifles they replaced (was this based on point-target accuracy at all?), and were more lethal due to high velocity and more rapid projectile upset in the body. Military rifle bullets do not deform very much in flesh, they bend or flatten in or on bone, they turn sideways and tumble if the target is deep enough and depending on the characteristics of the bullet, but some designs both 5.56mm (including M855 ball) and 7.62 (not M80 ball) will break up in the body if velocity is still high enough. These are jacketed spitzer and boattailed spitzer bullets, jacketed round nosed bullets are obsolete in military use. There is also the spoon-nose bullet having a gouge along one side of the ogive. This would be a terribly inaccurate bullet if not for bullet rotation and is designed to speed up bullet upset and tumble. (Thus, lubricate well and keep lubricated, but do keep in mind that some weapons, such as the M79 grenade launcher, will spit oil back in your face if you really overdo it.) Then it was decided that assault rifles were less lethal and thereby more effective because they used more enemy resources in the treatment of the wounded. (This did not thrill soldiers who were shot by someone they had already shot themselves. In guerrilla conflicts, too, the government forces often end up in control of the field, and of any badly wounded guerrilleros thereon.) This theory was very popular in Europe, after the hydrostatic shock and high-velocity shattering impact ideas had lost some ground there. 55 gr. bullets at 3200 FPS were considered to be much more destructive, causing massive shock waves through the fluids of the body, than were 147 gr. bullets at 2800 FPS, and it is a fact that rifle bullets burst full bladders and usually the brain, but not hearts and lungs; the 5.56mm bullet did not stay above 2800 FPS for long anyway, for about 100m. So what was then done? I wish women ruled the world. Madeline Albright maybe. Perhaps Janet Reno. We no longer need a nanny state. We need a mommy state. No more violence! And when the sexist pigs fight our loving parentalism I for one would volunteer to help kill them off. I bet the uniforms would be much prettier too. It was decided that effective range (M16s are accurate rifles, as assault rifles go) and penetration needed to be improved, though combat ranges seldom extended beyond three hundred meters. The M16A2 replaced the M16A1. It was also decided that the troops were wasting ammunition because automatic fire was uncontrollable in the very weapons designed for the firing of bursts, even long bursts (for short periods). It is often said that 50,000 rounds were fired from machine guns and rifles in Vietnam for every known enemy death. This is why the M16A2\A4 rifles have no full-auto modethey have selector settings for safe, semiautomatic and three-round burst (mechanically controlled). The M16A3 is a full auto weapon but is seldom used. The M4 assault carbine has burst control, the M4A1 is full auto. They use 62 grain bullets rather than 55 grain ones. The bullets have a small penetrator within the core: the M855 green tip is often referred to as semi-armor piercing. These rounds are fired at a lower velocity, but are less effected by wind and are more likely to put a little hole through hard materials such as steel helmets. They still have very poor penetration in wood, dirt and sand, masonry; even against window glass. Even the AK47 has better penetration on soft barrier materials such as wood and dirt than does the M16. Best penetration on sandbags is at roughly 200 meters. The bullets get mangled at close range. No penetration or some fragments penetrate through a layer of bricks or commercial windows at 45

degrees angle of shot, no full penetration at any angle against concrete blocks. The police use 5.56x45mm (.224) expanding bullets in buildings because they have less penetration in wood than .45 ACP pistol ammunition, and they don't want to shoot up the neighborhood. Still, 35 rounds fired into the same spot can pierce an 8 inch concrete wall. Warning, do not fire at steel from less than 50 meters, or at concrete from less than 25. Bullet fragments can bounce back so wear shooting glasses always and wear armor when working close to these limits. Ever had an unfragmented bullet bounce off an old stump and lightly tap you on the shoulder? Did you ever see a .22 caliber bullet caught in a dangling hemp rope? It happens. Federal Tactical 5.56mm has better behind-barrier performance and faster bullet upset in the target than most 5.56mm loads. Assault rifles ought to be caliber 6.5, 6.8mm, 7mm or thereabouts, but I am no great fan of assault rifles. AK47 ball will penetrate a brick or concrete block hit at a 45 degree angle. The effect is more energetic than you will get from an M16. It will shoot through between 7 and 11 two inch boards, depending on just how soft the soft wood is. It will blast through 1/4 mild steel. It does go through brush more consistently. (All this at close range. Say 50 meters.) Of course a high-powered rifle bullet, such as that of the 7.62x54R ball cartridge, will blast through half an inch of mild steel. M855A1 lead-free ammo is slightly more accurate than M855, and is better on steel at 300 meters than M80 ball caliber 7.62x51mm. Since the bullet weighs the same amount as M855 but is longer it should carry farther. It has a copper core behind a better steel penetratorexpensive. To increase velocity when fired in the M4 carbine it uses a faster burning powder. This will not be good for the M16A4 rifle. We shall see how this effects carbine timing and reliability. Also, how well it kills people given that it is supposed to rely less on bullet upset for its lethality. The environmental requirement was a political demand so expect the military to do the best they can with it, and then to lie like dogs about how wonderful it all is. Armor piercing bullets do not increase penetration at all ranges, nor against all materials. Probably the only time 5.56mm AP bullets go deeper into soft cover is when you are so close the standard bullet would fragment before full penetration could occur, but when a bullet would bounce back at you if not for bullet deformation the hardened steel or tungsten cored AP bullet will often times bounce. Armor piercing bullets work better only if having enough energy, hardness and durability to penetrate fully or sufficiently a material, or at an angle, etc., due to toughness or nose profile, when a standard bullet would flatten, break, fragment or splash resulting in a corresponding lack or loss of penetration. Thus they are better against glass and metal, sometimes body armor, and not against wood, dirt or sand (or people.) There is a switch to FMJ, ball cartridge, bullet cores not made of lead in progress. Who knows what they will end up with? Lead is a satanic wicked pollutant you knowshut down all the shooting ranges at once. Thus, today, we have the theory that all shots should be carefully aimed, that multiple rounds should be fired into an enemy soldier using semiautomatic fire; that the effective range of the M16 is actually greater than that of the infantry rifle, and that the M16 is now equal in lethality to it. Lethality at ranges under 200 meters is also greater because the bullet may fragment, this does not always happen and 100m is a better bet, 50m or maybe a bit more for the carbine. The army says tests show that the M16 is most lethal at the muzzle and shows some small decrease in lethality already at 50m. They also say lethality of jacketed bullets of all weights, 45 gr. to 77 gr.?, is virtually the same at close range. What about penetration, eh? Nevertheless most training today involves battlesight use at night and in close combat, not that training accurate and fast CQB shooting is a bad thing. The Canadians train at 300m and less only (except for specialists), mostly ignore sight changes and hold-over, and use a very simplified windage hold-off rule involving tracking into the wind and shooting rapidly with gradually increasing leads, much like their moving target rule of thumb.

No government has ever issued, for the times, any unreliable weapon. Not according to the officials doing the issuing at any rate. Always the issuing authority knows the weapon is lethal and as accurate as it need be. The damned soldiers are at fault. They should have cleaned it properly. They should know that good shooting is the key, and that no weapon can be expected to be a one shot stopper. Since a guarantee of one shot stops is impossible, anything that puts a hole through is just as good as any other. And now many rifles are being replaced with the handy little M4/M4A1 carbine versions (model 4 alteration 1) with much shorter barrels and with lower muzzle velocities: and with many pounds of gear hanging off them; some of which is even needed at any given time. Need we mention the excessively high placement of the sights on the idiotic carrying handle on the older versions? Need we mention the relatively poor trigger (due to the burst control mechanism), the clumsy charging handle placement, and the fact that the lower location of the sights on the new models causes people to shoot with the toe of the buttstock in the shoulder pocket while the heel of the buttplate is sticking up in the air? Naw. It is not a powerful rifle so this does not cause the pain a harder kicking weapon would, and even if this position is not as stable as it could be it is still the case that we shoot better than Iraqis. The M16 type assault rifle is now pretty good overall, albeit underpowered, but it has been in service for so long because of official arrogance in Vietnam and because we have had very little sustained infantry combat since. Surely a weapon that has been in service from the mid 1960s to the current day has proven itself with its longevity? It has proven to be adequate. The top brass do not interest themselves in infantry basics, which is why we have had so many problems with boots and load bearing gear. They are focused on big ticket items, and on the future force concept. Wheeled armor and the computer and sensors network. The M3A1 submachine gun came out in WWII and was still issued to tank crew until the end of the 1980s/ early '90s. Does this prove the grease gun a good SMG? There has been no sustained high intensity combined arms or infantry combat for decades. Firepower comes from above. The US Army warfighting policy of the future is to fight using the Air Force as its primary weapon. The army itself will be busy acting as military police for the civilian populations. This is why the lack of quality infantry equipment has passed mostly unnoticed, and why so many woman can be utilized in military units. But with the war on terror, are we not returning to real infantry combat at the small unit level? Yes and no. Most soldiers in Iraq are not subjected to serious combat. Not even for short periods of time. Some are subjected to frequent attack. For them it is mostly rapid shooting in self defense while waiting for the heavy guns to take on the now located foe. Hopefully before he becomes unlocated again. Mechanical ambushes using explosive devices are more common yet. We replaced all the general purpose rifles with assault rifles. Then we insisted upon training and using the assault rifle as if it were a battle rifle. Very funny! Machine guns are area fire weapons, not precision ones. You can throw some light machine guns to the shoulder and fire bursts into trucks and persons at relatively close range, although they are rather heavy and seldom are equipped with stocks that allow a decent cheek weld. You can sling it over a shoulder and pin the butt to your side under your arm as well, and can hose down an area or put a burst into somebody at CQB ranges. When shooting off the bipod it is common to put the left hand under the butt near the toe, or on it near the heel of the buttplate. In the later case the back of the hand may be used as a cheek rest. When firing a light machine gun with no proper forward grip from the shoulder or underarm position it is usual to use the folded or partially folded bipod as a grip. Some machine guns will even group fairly well at 100 meters from the bipod or tripod. The true purpose does not demand high accuracy as such. Machine guns vibrate. From the bipod the MG3 gives you a substantial sustained push. The M60 rattles and the M240 recoil is, frankly, rather jolting. That is why you get right into the gun and lie more directly behind it than you do your rifle. (With the tripod you do not ride the gun at all, you let it recoil in its cradle.) You are looking for a cone of fire and beaten

zone that covers as much area as is possible at any given range while retaining sufficient density of fire to cause casualties. You are looking for grazing fire across flat terrain of some 600 meters, better yet a downward slope matching your trajectory. You fire from the bipod, and when the range is great enough to reduce hit probabilities too severely within that beaten zone you tighten things up by various means, but mostly by firing from a correctly dug in or sandbagged tripod and using more precise sights; with the M1917A1 you could get a tighter group by more evenly packing the water jacket seal at the muzzle. MGs are long range shotguns. If a machine gun firing bursts was as accurate as a rifle, scoped and firing aimed shots, the majority of rounds in a burst aimed at a target 1000 meters away would strike within about 12 inches of the point of aim, omitting all the usual errors of range estimation, wind doping, sight alignment, and the like. What kind of area coverage is that? About 7-10 feet of width is more likely, with a dangerous space more than 100 meters long. What happens in that beaten zone? A single soldier who moves may or may not get hit. A group caught out by surprise will have killed and several times more wounded. If you stay out there for minutes you will be truly chewed up, and the longer you are in the open the worse it will be for you. If you are closer to the gun and cross through grazing fire? It depends on the burst rate and length, and on any low ground or obstacles. If large units persist in crossing unobstructed grazing fire losses will be heavy, very heavy, or will result in unit breakdown. While there are places along this line of fire where one can crawl under or even (if very near the gun indeed) jump over, the bullets do not all follow precisely the same path (it is called a cone of fire for a reason); and the gunner will vary his aim if he can see what you are doing. Keep your exposure short and do not bunch up. If the time between bursts is predicable try to move between them. The M240B is very good indeed. We noticed that in time, but being that it is a variant of the FN MAG-58 of 1958 it is obvious we did so in our own good time. Blue eyes? When is the last time you saw someone with one of the more unusual eye colors... green for example? Here is a question for you. It is night and very dark. A machine gun is laying down a fixed final protective fire, because the gunner has no night vision capability and cannot see his sector. This fire passes in front of your objective outside of your hand grenade range. Two units try to attack through this fire. One charges through it as fast as it can in open order. The other does the same, but in a dense mass. Soldiers in the first may be able to time their runs more carefully as individuals, but it takes more time for the entire unit to get through. The second unit is past the machine gun more quickly as a unit. Which unit has the greater losses? Here is another. Why are you charging into unsuppressed machine gun fire? The attack is that important? Doubt it, and not in guerrilla warfare it ain't. You have to save a trapped unit? You do this by destroying the trappers, not by getting a second unit trapped with the first. When you do attack do not mass together in the center of your unit's objective. Do not stand about on the objective either. Your first priority is to secure your sector within the assaulted position, then take cover and defend and reorganize. Then it is probably time to leave. You may have to adjust to circumstance, but this is your original intent. Attacking through is common but not when you want to hold the captured position. Observe the fact that you advance to that objective in rushes only when the enemy's fire is not very effective. Heavy and effective fire must be suppressed, bypassed, or destroyed by surprise attack or attack by fire from an unexpected direction, unless you can use terrain and crawling to avoid that fire until at hand grenade range. The resulting all weapons attack and infantry assault is short and sweet but quite dangerous if the enemy fails to crack. Infantry assaults are poor guerrilla tactics so no charges that start more than 30 meters out, if you will (and if the enemy is not surprised; has the firepower or explosives he needs and is watching by video camera or periscope you die). If you want someone to do something on an objective or in an ambush kill zone after an action set up to cover those people as they work, and have them work fast. Always, always have security people out to warn of enemy on any possible approach any time you are on duty, wherever you may be. (When you are off duty the duty unit(s) should do this, but you still keep weapons at hand and don't make an

obvious and exposed target of yourself.) Also be advised that approaching along expected paths or actually going into the enemy position can subject you to computer controlled trapsfor example automated grenade launchers which will fire grenades some 25 yards apart in the area your group occupies. If this happens airbursts will probably hit everyone involved with at least 1 fragment. When we know the enemy can be taken by surprise, in terms of time, place or methods, and are superior to him; when we can over run, crush, overwhelm and utterly destroy we do it. We look for and attempt to set him up for such occasions. But we know he is attempting to fool us in turn, to suck US in. We know such joy is uncommon. The rest of the time we skulk and we hide. We ambush, hit and run, and we snipe. We destroy things of value to the enemy while they are undefended. Manpacked medium machine guns, and general purpose machine guns (GPMG) even when used in the light (LMG) role, are not really able to keep up with a fast moving light infantry maneuver. Of course this is only when there is room to maneuver, or the enemy is on the run. Most of the time there are excessively clustered groups of men crouched or prone who shoot occasionally or lie there waiting for orders while the invisible enemy puts a few rounds overhead and leaders try to decide what the condition of the enemy really is and whether waiting for further airstrikes is a good plan. If the MGs do fall behind the leading units you will be happy to have them hitting enemy positions as you move, and pleased when they suppress an objective. You will be very happy when they catch up if you are stalled by enemy fire or need flank protection and security for reorganization. Do not leave them far behind and alone. Never think reorganization is something you can spend a lot of time doing on an objective or while pinned down in the open. Put out security, do what you need to do and dig in or move on. In guerrilla warfare when under enemy observation it is better to move on if you can, an enemy concentration will build up around you very quickly if you don't. The cult of freedom. When a man in a free country thinks he is free to try to end that freedom he is killed or captured. The tyranny of virtue. When a man has a weapon in his hands he feels empowered to act more thoroughly what he is, whether noble or vile. I hate the UN. I hate the socialist state. I hate corporatism. If you want to party in a dress I don't give a damn, or if I do I will dislike you and won't party with you, but won't send the police after you. If you commit crimes or try to take my freedom you have gone beyond your own freedom and will be treated as a criminal or enemy combatant. This makes me a Nazi? You would not recognize a Nazi if he was poking you in the ass with a swastika on a lance! Why would I want single party rule, a dictator and national economic planning? So there are people who make you beg for Fed economic and work projects. They do this by screwing the financial system up so much that jobs start going down the drain. Not because of physical changes to plant, materials or your ability to work. Money. You find it hard to pay for things and employers find it difficult to do business. Or disruption or shortage due to regulation. All on paper, so you fall into their hands and ask for it. Idiots. If you do not want to be beaten, and can't avoid being beaten, better to just do as you are expected to do. Eh? Any chemicals, sources of electricity, of water or fire at hand are there to be used as distractions or as weapons. You can't have too great an edge. Look for any advantage at all. Use smoke. It would be best if you could place the smoke directly on the enemy, or just upwind if there is a breeze, but you generally can't. He would have much more difficulty finding targets outside of the smoked area than you would have concentrating your fires on it, but you do not have artillery or aircraft so he will be out of range. This only works on defenders who will stay put anyway, or fools who will come out of their positions, and the smoke, directly into your kill zone. Never leave a fortified or concealed position by moving directly forward! The next best thing is to deliver smoke between the two sides along an advantageous line so that a thick and tall screen builds up and drifts along that line. More smoke must be added at intervals to maintain the screen. This allows you to maneuver without being subjected to precision fires. That is another thing you probably won't be able to do. What you can do is throw smoke grenades between yourself and the enemy, and a bit upwind if applicable. It takes a little time to

develop, and once it does it will last only 45 seconds or so, so sprint over the open area or angle back to cover at speed. When attacked you can smoke enemy approaches with the exception of leading enemy units you want to engage while they are clearly visible. Pits covered and concealed are very good, but metal spikes will set off detectors and dogs will find them unless weathered for days. Set guns are fun. Improvised pistols, rifles and shotguns can be mounted facing narrow approaches and fired at close range by tripwires or buried levers. You can use cartridges or just black powder. Crossbows are good for this as well. The bow is better for silent hunting in the field. Expect having to snare and hunt the smallest of animals. Firearms can be mounted so that they can be fired at night to hit preplanned targets. If mounted in your close defenses firearms with solenoid activated triggers can be triggered by any sensor you wish. The old set guns of England were interesting. They were trip wire activated, the wire ran through a ring at the muzzle of a shotgun and then back behind the trigger before it was attached to the trigger. The gun was swivel mounted so that when the wire was pulled the gun was yanked around in the direction of the moving target as it fired. Sweet. Traps can be lethal or can provide warning and illumination. A trap that makes a noise or ignites or fires a flare can come in handy. If you bracket a tube containing a flare to a tree, and hold a spring loaded striker back by interposing a pin between flare and striker the flare can be fired when a tripwire connected to the pin is stepped on. If you dislike this put a buckshot cartridge in there instead of the flare, or use a blank. Use light carefully. It can expose you or light up the enemy. It can blind you or blind the enemy. Flares behind you are only good if bright enough to blind. Above you is a poor idea unless you are in prepared positions and the enemy is in the open. Above or behind the enemy is good, unless you are blinded by extreme intensity or the fact that the light is directly in line with you and the enemy; your line of sight. Directly between forces is only good in some cases when blinding sensors. Another method is to produce light from off to the side. It may take an hour or more to adapt to the dark, even luminous sights and compasses may reduce night vision for a time, and a man who has not adapted is at a major disadvantage. If you spend the day in harsh sunlight you may not fully adapt to darkness during the next entire night. Wear good sunglasses. If night vision devices, lights, and flashes/explosions are used or present go all the way and do not expect natural night vision to be effective. Exception: flares and temporary lights can be partly avoided by closing one eye and by not looking directly at the light. I'm bored. Let's ramble on within the nebulous bounds of yet another subject. Laurell K. Hamilton. Wow. Self absorbed woman. Really hates men, I think. Well, we are idiots. You have no right to judge me, Laurie. I really mean it; wow. Not really. It is wrong to be master, also to be slave. They are bending you more than you are them. This is not just sexual fantasy. You should kill them, in metaphor at least, even if you die in the combat. I do not want your blood. Your style of perversion is at the core of corrupt government. Greetings you masters and slaves: we will not trade in favors; we owe you nothing and will not be punished or manipulated, nor will we be paid, or petted or seduced. If you want our blood you will die for it. It is mostly psychological games so far, but when it comes to the claw we will fuck you up, bitch. You may be able to live on your knees, oh how like a willow and what strength, but you will not have to; we do not like having toe kissers around us. If we prove too weak to survive we will die without kissing ass. You fuckers already live by kissing ass. A storm comes and is just passing through. You survive by getting out of the way (willow) or by having a stronghold (oak). If you are not yielding enough or are not strong enough you die. You think you can hide by looking and acting just like everybody else. Are you hiding your secret rebellious actions? No. You think that eventually the criminals will become less so and the fools will learn some wisdom. Close your ears when you hear the foolish and the unlucky scream in the night. Hide. Things will get better. Here is a secret! You are not hiding because you have nothing to hide! Beware since tyrants sometimes eat their own people, but you did not hide. You converted. You obey. You are one

of them. Dictatorships and occupations cannot be avoided forever and they last for years, decades, or centuries. You may die of old age before somebody clever or strong enough brings them down from the inside or from without, or they lose will and cohesion and collapse. Also, you are not an immobile tree! Your superiors above and inferiors below. Snarls and sucking sounds. You are like a bunch of fucking goblins, or do I mean Orcs? Back to you, LaurieYou are a good writer, and I liked your Anita Blake character until she did actually become a criminal, sexual-favors trader and, yes, slave. Dead on about the rule. And I too would like to be able to take off the head with one strike. :) Be well. Women read more than men, now they are the ones writing the books as well. Some of their work is very good. The per capita annual number of books read is probably about one book, but the men are bringing the average down. Women are better educated than men as they value education more, and they along with minorities get first crack at public monies for what would otherwise be a very expensive university degree. John Ringo. What a pervert. Every man likes to dream of harems, under-aged girls and male domination. Right boys? I am just a weak sister, myself; I don't see it. Speaking of prostitutes, that life is disgusting (sad?); harder for some and less so for others. Making it illegal made things worse instead of better, naturally. Here is the amusing part. It is illegal to have sex for money if you have no audience, perfectly legal if you are paid to have sex in front of a camera. Hehhehheh. Whores of Hollywood. Sex is not a fate worse than death. It must be just one of those natural things, eh? Like breathing or sleeping. Like vomiting, urinating and defecating. Next time some one will only let me live if I defecate for them I will let you know if it is true. Hark! What do I hear? A wail come up from San Fran and Seattle? New Yawk? Goodness, I am filled with a Righteous Rage and my arm is strong. The ball busters, idiots unite!, have spoken: It is true, my anger comes of Insecure in His Masculinity. The only way to prove yourself a man and securely heterosexual is to kiss a woman's ass and fuck a homosexual. The only way to prove yourself secure in a relationship is to sleep around without a breakup. There are players, untrustworthy men; do not use this term for women! There are no sluts, as this is just a pejorative concept which was born in the misogynistic imagination of some white male. Prove something to you? You are the dust under my feet. Be proud, you are powerful enough to be irritating. No one person can be everything to another, but it works both ways. Everyone, or just anyone, can not be a best friend, lover rather than sexual playmate, or mate to another person, nor to all other persons. The more husbands you have the less any one of them is a husband, the less you have a husband in fact. I do not care if some of you believe this sort of drivel. A few of you will even be happy with it. Just stop pushing false and stupid ideas on me. Conservatives can be rigid and even oppressive, Liberals are oppressive as well. They believe everyone should have the freedom be behave as the liberals think they should. You all liberals are like the hippies of the 65-75 "decade." All dressing the same way and spouting the same dogmas. You are all so appallingly square. I myself will not try just anything once. I learn from the mistakes of others. I like a little diversity. Big government "conservatives" are everywhere, but liberals are the royalty of regimentation and centralized rule. (And yes, killing babies is murder with one exception. If somebody is killing you by accident and with no ill intent at all but your only escape will kill the other it is justified. If you stand at the cliff and a person twice your size stumbles into you your choice may be fall with him or get out of the way and watch him fall alone. Most abortions should be banned, and many of those remaining should be induced births or caesarian sections, but not all depending on health. Birth control is a completely different issue. If God cared about the mindless lives of millions of sperm he would not have them die like flies no matter what we do. Silliness everywhere, my folk.) Speaking of homosexuality, it and polygamy and hedonism if practiced by too many would remove one of the foundations of what we are. As would too many vows of poverty, by the way. Shallow people have shallow relationships. Perhaps these people are so deep they can be with the one of the ten they are in love with without any loss of quality time? But, if all foolishness, stupidity and

perverseness was criminal our prisons would overflow even more obscenely than they do and totalitarianism would flourish (as the state flourishes anyway in its war against bigotry). {And poverty and drugs and smoking and guns and pollution and hate and houses and cars and selfishness and...} What is worse: a man who has sex with a man or a man who hurts his wife by cheating on her? Sexual orientation is something you are born with. Nature not nurture. Sure it is, it is your nature to behave as you do under the circumstances. Would all of you behave the same way under other conditions? Don't really care, you know, but love the fact that people are speaking for genetic predestination at the same time they think genetics have no rightful bearing on human affairs, with exceptions for treating their diseases and identifying and tracking right-wing terrorists. Do you really hate homosexuals? That is a bit extreme unless one is trying to corrupt your underage brother or rape you, or something. The thing is you can't justify violence outside of fighting criminals and invaders. I feel your pain. I have to restrain myself too, you know. I myself do not hate them but do find much of their public behavior and politics absurd. I do not like socialists, but usually can't justify smacking them which is very bad for my blood pressure. The world is full of irritating people. (Yes the Bible flatly states that homosexuality is a sin, and yes I have every right to say that just as I have the right to say the Bible contains many errors, and that I believe homosexuality is stupid.) So sue me, I am rigid and selfish. I do not share my stuff. I do not play well with others. It would be a mistake to go back to the norms of any particular period. Go back to the principles of liberty and freedom. Go back to the things that work, but not those which do not. You are not bad because you are a single parent, but two parent families usually work better. Hiring women is not wrong, but affirmative action is. Do resist the imposition of radical homosexual politics, but you yourself should not fight oppression by using force, including the police power, in ways that violate the principles of the Constitution. Lawful force used to resist criminal attacks on your rights are another matter. Enough of that. Digitization and networking are efficient when they are working and are applied to the right kind of quantifiable things. People think this will make crime and rebellion impossible and end error. Wrong. This is a bad time and growing worse for the freedom and privacy of the common man. It is easier to steal now than ever before if you have account information of another. If you have the access and information you need you can hide and misdirect now as in no other age. Any identification or authority that is cross-referenced and verified by the system is taken as correct. You can steal a government plate of the right kind and drive through a toll road system without any record being made, because VIPs don't want lowly highway tracking network operators having information on them. (Until the theft is reported and the plate canceled or flagged for tracking.) Doors having fingerprint or iris scan locks can be taken out or spoofed in many ways. Some can be fooled by fake eyes or fingers. There are three basic routes for electronic fakery. Your notebook can simulate the sensor after you tap into the local circuit and it sends the system an approved biometric image file, your notebook can simulate the system and along the appropriate path sends the signal to pop the locks, or you hack the systems software. Naturally direct and indirect attacks on locks, door or windows, walls and the like using electronic warfare or brute force are always possible and fun. Common criminals will be more easily tracked and will find it difficult to steal cash when there is none, but crime will soar, the black market will be huge, and fraudulent electronic currency transfers and the use of high value commodities as money will be rampant. Insiders ought to always take a copy of the manuals (down to the circuit diagram level) for any information or security systems they come into contact with, if it can be safely done and for contingency purposes. Skullduggery is alive and well in the 21st century. Governments, corporations, organized crime and hackers, rich people, employees and relations or blackmailers of employees of any of the above; all with connections can turn the electronic money and no-privacy state to their advantage. The ones harmed are, to an extent, common thugs, and most of

all the average working man and woman from which any or all of the aforementioned above groups want to steal money or freedom. Alarms and sensors are not weapons. They are a source of warnings and alerts. Like locks and walls they give you more time to respond. If there will be no practical response to the threat then they are at best a slight discouragement to passing fools who are tempted by easy pickings. Some systems are easy to shut down or get around. Just cut a wire or disconnect the power or telephones, or the cable or other data connections. Others are very difficult and require technical information about the specific system. It is possible to detect the operation of some with easily built tools. Motion detectors for example, by their emissions. With more sophistication you can nullify these using electronic warfare methods or physical absorption or deflection; ultrasound neutralized by blasting its own standard signal back at it. You can't do that? Note that while you may be able to crawl by because they have blind spots or have made allowance for pets, there is no way to move slowly enough to keep most motion detectors from sounding. Exception: some infrared systems. The point here is that in most cases speed and unconventional methods of entry, such as putting a truck through the wall, are best. The other point here is that when alarm mechanisms are connected to explosives and other weapons you have traps, set guns and mines; which do a much better job of disrupting, winnowing, slowing and announcing an attacker than alarms ever could. (State law forbids most traps. Laws forbid unlicensed explosives. Laws are not the Constitution, nor are they rules of justified warfare.) Again, the two primary weapons of the guerrillero are the rifle and explosives. Next come machine guns, grenades, rockets and missiles, and mortars. The most important skill is knowing the enemy. Where he is, what he can and will do and when and where he can be next. The single most important weapons skill is how to get and use explosives. To avoid too much like force on force, to operate outnumbered and to deal with structures, armored vehicles or violent mounted or unmounted assaults you must, must, have explosives. You absolutely require the skill to use them safely and effectively. Buy the blasting manuals, textbooks and military pubs and seriously study the detailed procedures. Some of you are in good position to acquire, or to make your own explosives. For the rest of you: Never make explosives unless you know exactly what you are doing, step by step, and why. Never mix sulfur and chlorate dry, for example. Be wary of potassium chlorate mixtures. Never mix chlorate and phosphorus. Never make large batches and never with poor ventilation. Never start without having all the proper tools at hand. Do not use some fool's handbook when you have not verified the steps given and do not understand the reasons for them. Some of these writers are idiots, and others want you to blow yourself up. Listen to them and some of your body parts will indeed go away... Many explosives are toxic if eaten or even if only in contact with the skin. Some produce dangerous fumes just lying there. If you are trapped in an enclosed space after an explosion the poisonous gases will kill you. With practice the smell left after a shell burst can identify the explosive used. High explosives are powerful explosives which cannot be set off with a fuse alone though some are more unstable than others and may explode when hot, kept in the wrong kind of container, dropped and the like. They need to be detonated with a blasting cap or detonator, and with some a booster charge also. This may depend on how well they are confined and how densely packed into a container, also how large the container is. Do not thump explosives into position, do not press explosives unless you know exactly what you are doing, and when using electrical blasting caps power lines and radios are not your friends. Most high explosives will burn violently when lit with match. It will interest some of you to know that there is no domestic manufacturer of TNT, except for Radford Arsenal, actually, the last domestic supplier. TNT has been replaced by HMX (high melting point explosive) in most munitions. Low explosives are capable of being set off with a match. They will explode if confined. Most will not explode if unconfined, will burn very violently, but this is not the case with some mixtures.

Flash powders can be very dangerous. Friction and static electricity are to be avoided. Some mixtures may explode upon mixing. Primary explosives are powerful and brisant (shattering effect of high velocity detonation) explosives which are sensitive to heat, impact, electricity and more. They are used in blasting caps. Very dangerous, make (experts only) and store in the correct containers and very small quantities. How small? The kind of explosives used in small arms primers are safe enough in such primers, and that is a very small dab indeed. They can be stored in the original packages without danger. Take one out and hold it between the fingers or near your eyes, then give it a sharp rap, hook a battery to it, get charged up and try to really spark it with static or hold a match to it; even that little cap will do you an injury. When reloading cartridges do wear safety glasses. Can't you be happy for your friend and admiring of his fine new car without envying him and wanting the particular car that is his? Can't you want a car like that without irritation aimed at your friend? Why not? Know your explosive! Understand its properties before you use it. Safety and handling? How does it react to damp, common chemicals, various metals? Storage? How close is dangerous close when this charge is used? Do not be afraid to buy textbooks on explosives and ammunition manufacture, safety procedures and blasting from mainstream bookstores. Study them and actually do the math. The same with mortar and machine gun gunnery, rifle marksmanship, and projectile design. You have no interest in a medical career, or one in blasting and demolitions? Don't let that keep you from taking professional courses in commercial blasting and in emergency medicine. You will get quality hands on training and could then get certified as an EMT or trauma nurse, or as an explosives tech, but you don't have to. If you are in college take some chemistry and energetic materials classes. Note that bomb sniffing dogs, when they are alert, and electronic sniffers will detect explosives even if they are in sealed packages. Both these methods are by no means perfect and there are false positives and failures to detect. However, explosives give off vapors, some much more than others. Think of it as similar to wrapping onions in cling wrap and still finding that other foods in refrigeration now taste like onion. Note also that plastic guns have metal barrels and will both set off metal detectors and show up in x rays, etc. They often get past certain types of imaging scans but only because of operator inattention or masking by other objects. Millimeter wave full-body scanners will be used at airports to make a model of your naked, through the clothes, body. Search wands will include both metal detectors and new microwave imagers. There is also testing of larger passive microwave scanners for airports. When will the mandatory standard cavity searches begin? To use even low-velocity explosives to take out a modern tank put in 4 bore holes, which can be angled in from the side or straight down. Each charge at the bottom of a hole will weigh 100 pounds and the hole filled with dirt. The charges can be around 5 feet apart and alternately 7 and 9 feet down. This will give you a 10 foot deep crater wide enough for the tank to drive into. Normally the dirt falling back into the hole might fill it halfway back up, but in this case most of this can come back town on the tank. A long bar crush switch in front of the trap and designed to allow light traffic by would be good. Note that if you had several hundred pounds of a powerful high-velocity explosive you might be able to blow a hole in the belly armor of the tank instead. Overkill is to be avoided. It is an inefficient use of resources and wasted resources can cost you the war. That being said war is not fully predictable and all military operations need built-in redundancy. Underkill is to be avoided like a plague. If in doubt make a bigger bang. After that, if things are not going well and you are unable to "kill every hostile there" I suggest you run away very fast, but not alone, abandoning your fellows to the enemy will soon leave you with no fellows. There is a damned big difference between a retreat and a rout. Tanks can get out of almost anything, as long as they don't throw a track and are not in swamp up to the deck or the like. They keep working at it until they have dragged in a lot of dirt and clawed their way out. This kind of cratering can cause damage to the crew and cost much time if nothing else.

Remember that an explosive can be triggered by any number of mechanical, pyrotechnic, electrical and electronic means. A basic level of electronic knowledge may be required but brain surgery it is not. Any sensor and switching method that can turn on the power will work. Just remember to start at the explosive and work back, to make damned sure the switch is open or the sensor untripped, and to put the battery or other power source into the circuit last and at the farthest point away from the charge. If you must test the setup, especially with an instrument inducing current, then use the blasting cap or a light bulb, not the explosives charges, and if near the caps cover them with sandbags. Only when the circuit tests out and the switch is open do you remove the battery and add the explosives before going back and inserting batteries again. Again anything from a laser pointer to a household motion detector can be used as a remote control. Use your imagination, although simple radio remote control can be jammed. If you do not know exactly how to do this, what you are doing and precisely why, do not do it. Do not roughly crush or tamp dynamite. Indeed just as a cloud of metallic material may set off fuzes using laser or radio proximity, and just as they can be otherwise spoofed, an electromagnetic pulse generator can be used to detonate magnetic influence mines and traps before you arrive. The herd has rejected me. Oh dear. I guess that makes me all rogue elephant and whatnot. Grenades: You like weapons because you are a man, and because a man without weapons is not free. What little boy, I ask you, does not love things that flash and bang? Rule number one with grenades: when the conditions of a fight allow for grenade use you use them in numbers, and you use them first! To get the most from weapons you need to use them in combination. You need to use them to compliment each other's effects, and to use them in mass and when their effects will be greatest. Surprise fire is the most effective fire. If somebody throws a grenade at you hit the dirt. Much of its effect is upwards and out from the ground. When someone nearby tosses the grenade right next to you you may want to fling it back first. Do not stand up and throw it with style. That takes far too long. Scoop it up and fling it underhand. Then hit the deck, feet toward it if possible. If your head is pointed in its direction lower your head to interpose the helmet. You cannot lie there with your eyes closed for very long since the enemy will take advantage. Sometimes it is best, rather than picking it up, to take a step or two and go to ground. You can continue to low crawl if you wish. At other times it is best to shoot the bomb thrower before taking cover. Do warn your fellows, but never jump on the grenade. You are supposed to kill for your country, not die for it. As a last resort against a nearby and imminent explosion try putting a frying pan or armored vest over it. Even a strategically located entrenching tool has been known to stop some of the fragments from shell bursts. You might get lucky. Note: these methods are by no means entirely safe. Nor are grenade sumps. Such sumps are merely much safer than jumping out of a fighting position in the face of heavy fire. In the absence of heavy fire on a position the best response to a live grenade in your position is to immediately throw yourself out of it. Rifle grenades are best used against enemy positions directly. Grenade launcher grenades and hand grenades are best for plunging fires. Every echelon of a fighting force needs kinetic weapons and explosive ones, precision and area weapons, direct and indirect; flat trajectory and plunging trajectory fires. The infantryman's primary kinetic and direct-fire weapon is his rifle. Albeit at close range only, his primary explosive and indirect (strictly speaking, indirect fire is fire directed by a forward observer or by map plot) fire weapon is the hand grenade. Grenades can be lobbed over walls, into trenches and fighting positions and into enclosed places. Not only over the wall or into the opening but also skipped along the ground under vehicles and bounced off angles to get around the corner. Point target and precision weapons are for taking down individual targets, and for suppressing

positions with distributed but accurate fires. Area fires are for harassment, suppression and neutralization, and for blowing or chewing up structures and fortifications; and most of all for putting the hurt on people foolish enough to mass in the open. Grenades are not very lethal but they are still very useful. Fragmentation grenades produce a large number of fragments. This produces numerous wounds in nearby personnel, and will penetrate wood frame house walls. Some fragments will pierce soft armor. The blast effects are greatly enhanced in small enclosed spaces, but blast and fragments can be deflected or absorbed by various materials so you should never assume that everyone in a room must have been neutralized. In a small room windows and ceiling tiles will be shattered, and flooring and wall panels will be peeled up. Prone soldiers are much less likely to be hit, but the blast, dust, debris and smoke greatly reduce enemy performance. Do not use live grenades until you have practiced enough with dummy or practice grenades to use grenades safely. Grenades are heavier than they look, and can in most cases not be thrown like baseballs. You will learn by experience how far you can throw them and how much effort it takes to drop them at any given range and to get them over barriers of various heights. If you do not do this you will end up with a grenade bounced back to you or rolling back at you. This is not fun, and will force you to either pick up and throw or to lunge away and go prone. Good luck to you. Grenades have delays of, usually 4, 4 , or 5 seconds. (Some grenades set up for boobytraps have no delay. Distraction devices may have very short delays.) You must know the model you are using, but should not trust it. Performance varies. If you release the spoon and wait before throwing, in order to get an airburst or to give the enemy no time to throw the grenade back, you should never wait more than two seconds. Any more delay is very dangerous. Do not cook off grenades with shorter than average fuses at all. Grasp the grenade firmly with the spoon pressed in with the web of the thumb. Left handed do the same with the grenade upside down and the pull ring handy. Any safety clip on the spoon must be removed before you pull the safety pin. Once the pin has been pulled by the nonthrowing hand you should not delay throwing. It is possible for the spoon to be released enough to fire the delay without you being aware. You may hear a pop and see smoke but don't depend on that, throw the grenade calmly but promptly after pin removal. The grenade should explode the designated time after the spoon flies off: take cover before the explosion occurs because even offensive (blast/non-fragment producing) grenades can propel pieces of the fuze mechanism over a long distance; several hundred meters. Do pay attention. People have been known to throw a grenade into a room, and then run inside themselves before the explosion. Shout frag out, or otherwise make certain your people do not get in the way, and then wait for the bang or bangs before moving. Does that remind you of the tribesman who thought he was supposed to throw the pin at the enemy, or the tribesmen who thought setting a rifle's rear sight to its maximum range position made the rifle shoot harder? Heads up, and keep the brain engaged at all times. A little tip. If you fling your arm violently back before flinging the grenade forward you may have it brush against your head or roll off your fingertips. Either way you may end up with a live grenade on the ground behind you, and that is not good. This is about throwing, not about how quickly you can get your hand back! There are many interesting ways to throw grenades. Lying on your back and throwing out over the feet, rising up from the prone, and throwing from the kneeling position. You can lie parallel to the enemy, on your back, rise on an elbow to throw and end up on your face, and then crawl away to the side. Try different positions with dummy grenades (which are legal even for thugs like us) or get a book on the subject. Throw or place smoke grenades on the ground and move away. They sometimes get very hot or spit and spatter, and a truly defective one may burst. Now if that smoke grenade is WP smoke (incendiary/smoke) throw it as hard as you can and take cover before it bursts.

Secure the grenades in pouches, don't hang them in unusual positions, and do not try to pull the pins with your teeth! Do not throw them at targets anywhere near their lethal bursting radius from you unless your cover is very good. This distance means the majority of exposed persons should receive at least one serious hit. Fragments will travel farther. Remember that a rapidly moving target may shoot you before your grenade goes off, or may be gone before it does. When less lethal devices or explosive devices are deployed your partner should back you up with a direct fire weapon. Use some care with these things. They can take a knock but the detonators are a little sensitive and the firing mechanisms are sometimes faulty. A grenade may or may not set of another explosive device even if lying on it, but a bullet that hits the grenade into the detonator may set it off, and white phosphorus grenades will ignite if penetrated. Some old WP grenades will burst if dropped on a hard surface. (It is often said WP burns under water, and cannot be put out. Wrong. Thermite and thermate incendiaries will burn under water. Cover them with sand or dirt. Explosive hand grenades will explode under water.) WP on the person must be wet down and removed lest it dry out and reignite. A large number of grenades carried on the body facing enemy fire may be a problem. Magazines full of ammunition are a protection rather than an explosive hazard. Other gear in the right position, shovels and packs, are helpful. If you have a machine shop and have or can make a decent explosive it is very easy to make a good hand grenade. If you have low explosives only, such as black powder or shotgun propellant, do not bother with steel and BBs. Cast iron is better because it will fragment to some extent while steel will simply burst open. Best performance from propellants requires a primer/blasting cap/detonator, but this is not very useful except with certain specific mixes or jelled smokeless powder. Some nails or something couldn't hurt. Your design must be reliable and safe. Do not set off your own charge of black powder with static electricity, or by screwing a threaded cap down over loose grains of powder. You will need some kind of igniter, as it is embarrassing trying to light a fuse in the middle of a firefight, and matches and glowing fuses do tend to light up your position in the dark. It is possible to use a battery powered electric igniter and a delay, but it must be well built. A switch that can be operated by mistake is bad. A grenade which operates without your knowledge and explodes without any warning is worse. Sidearm, any weapon worn on the person. Personal weapon, any weapon belonging to and usable by one man. Individual weapon, the standard individual soldier's weapon and operable by one man. Small arms, firearms and light weapons/crew served weapons up to .60 cal., plus grenades and shotguns. Personal defense weapon/PDW, any weapon worn or slung on the body for close personal defense purposes. Squad automatic weapon/SAW, a light machine gun or automatic rifle used at the squad level for fire support, but actually more often at the fireteam level. Infantry heavy weapon/crew served weapon, machine guns and infantry mortars or any other requiring two or more men to operate properly. These are light weapons only in comparison to artillery and armor. A general purpose machine gun (GPMG) is one designed to be used as a light machine gun with bipod, a medium machine gun on the tripod, and as a heavy/ sustained fire machine gun when utilizing barrel changes. It is not water cooled nor is it a heavy (large caliber) machine gun (HMG). Unit level/support/fire support weapons, a fireteam has infantrymen armed with rifles but also a SAW gunner and a grenadier (40mm M203, M320, or the like). Battalion level medium or heavy mortars may be the fire support weapons supporting the maneuver and attacks of the companies, sustained fire machine guns and light mortars at company level supporting the platoons, and so on. (Thump! A nice solid kick, and you can watch the 40mm grenade arc up and then sharply down to the ground. Boom. A puff of dirt and smoke. Even better than setting off claymores, in a way. M203. Much, much smaller blasts but you get to play around with it.) Do you have any shoulder-launched rockets or missiles (guided rockets)? No? Too bad. If you do have shoulder-launched rockets they are not likely to be the most advanced ones. Even if you captured them from the enemy most will be either LAW, light antiarmor weapons, or

bunker busters, some maybe of the incendiary or novel explosive types. Advanced rocket warheads are a threat to modern tanks. The lesser breeds do cumulative damage or hit an unusually vulnerable spot mostly by chance. This means you try to hit a tank with 6 or more rockets at the same time. Shoot from cover, and from above and from one side and from behind. Shooting from both sides is good only when you won't be shooting each other due to elevation or when cover is superior and gunners not directly lined up on each other. Better combine such attacks with snipers firing on exposed crew or sights, vision blocks and cameras; and with mines, smoke and distractions, and tank obstacles. Infantry come with tanks. If you get distracted or do not have security armed for them, especially machine guns, mortars and shrapnel mines you are toast just as surely as if the tanks got their guns aligned on you. Do you know how easy it is to distract people? If you hear a load bang at the back door where will you be looking when a gunman appears in the front door? Shoot at the enemy when he is looking the other way. Honestly, in a fist fight merely saying "what's 5 times 5" just before attacking can divert enough brain power to slow an opponent's response. The advanced ones are light antitank weapons. The more advanced use depleted uranium liners rather than copper, and contain 2 warheads per rocket. How accurate is your launcher? You need to know how close you need to be to the tanks to get hits, how close is so close you end up being wounded by you own rocket, and what blind spots and armor vulnerabilities the tank has. Many launchers have odd sights, so practice the use of them. Most have poor triggers as well. They may force you to use quite a lot of force and this means it is easy to pull the sights off target. When the rocket launches be prepared for a loud bang and hold the weapon steady as the balance shifts when the rocket moves down the tube. When it is gone the launcher goes lightweight on you. There is no real recoil, but many of the disposable or lightweight tube launchers are hot after this. If they have no separate pistol grips and forends you might want to put them down promptly. That said, not all recoilless weapons are totally recoilless, due to design constraints, and one with damaged venturi may actually recoil forward. Never fire a rocket from a room without knowing exactly what you are about. Many older official documents are defective, and you will be knocked about if you follow their guidelines. Tanks operating at speed from cover, hull down, to cover, and using unit bounding overwatch travel with the flow of the ground, terrain masking whenever possible. Use the path that water would use, which is great unless too much water is already using it. Tanks also use turret down and hide positions. I am too tired to be afraid. Do not do what the white Africans did. Some of them fought long and hard. That is more than we have yet done. They said they would never give in. Others saw the way the wind blew and got they and theirs out. That was a reasonable thing to do. But the remainder left behind lost heart. They did give in. The best they could do then was to try to hide in the more friendly of the local populations. They got nothing from the fight. No reconsolidation in a smaller territory whether literal or political. No power to bite back if molested. Do not yield, die if you must, before you have obtained something worthwhile to live with. Easy to say, not to do. At minimum they should all have been gotten out. The real secret to putting armored vehicles out of action: The best time to kill crew and destroy tanks is when the crew is outside the vehicle. The best way to disable a tank is to cut its supply of fuel and ammunition. The best way to disable a crew is to interdict its supply of air, water and food. To melt holes in armored vehicles (don't bother to try this on modern tank front or turret armor, bottom or top attack is best), if you can approach via blind spot or when crew is outside? One word: Thermate. Easy to make. Fun to use. But if you just pile a bunch of it on a surface you will get nothing. It must be properly contained in a proper munition. Mortars. First off something not to do with mortars. Do not throw the mortar off your pickup truck onto the concrete or blacktop and hastily point it in the general direction of a target area. You need a short period of accurate shooting at the maximum rate. You do not want to scatter a few rounds

over the countryside. You fire it on concrete and the setting in and re-aiming portion of the shoot will damage the sight if you leave it in place (even on dirt the sight should be removed between shooting the baseplate in shots), and the mortar will skid and bounce with each shot. If you are lucky it will overturn and break instead of crashing into you and breaking your bones. Speaking of the sight, keep optics and electronics in their cases when not in use. Never replace them in a case damp, more importantly never put them in a case which is wet inside. Close cases as soon as you have placed something inside or taken it out. Sealed in moisture will damage electronics and infiltrate and fog optical devices. Do not use damaged mortars or ammunition, and do not exceed the rapid and sustained rates of fire. Overheat a mortar enough and it will vent gases or burst on you. Do not use a warped or cracked tube again. Burn up a rifle or machine gun and it will seize up or fall apart. Something may burst, the muzzle may be shot off or the glowing barrel may droop and get shot through, but if you are careful where you place your body parts you are pretty safe. If you burst a mortar tube, use defective rocket launchers, or fire rockets without a backblast area or from too small a room things will go badly for you. Do not try to fire a mortar from your pickup truck, unless it is a very small one. There is a reason mortar carriers are in the APC class. When you use a lensatic compass to find a bearing to target in degrees recall that 17.8 mils (a mil is 3.375 MOA and 6400th approx. of a circle) is 1 degree (1/360th of a circle) and that you will be off by a degree or two. Plus the metal in some eyeglasses will throw you off further. Steel helmet? A minute of angle is 1.047 inches at 100 yards and 2.094 at 200, etc., and a mil is 1 yard at 1000 yards (or 1 meter at 1000m) and double that at 2000 and so on. A rev is 360 degrees, a revolution. There is also the gon (grad/grade) which is 100 gon for each 90 degrees. 1 degree is 3.6000e+3 seconds, 60 minutes, 17.778 mils, 1.1111 gon, 0.017453 radians, and 0.0027778 revs. 1 gon is 54 minutes (moa), 16 mils or 0.9 degrees. If you can't be accurate enough with your first solution you can fire one smoke round, adjust the mortar to negate the error and fire for effect. This may be too slow, and you must aim ahead of moving targets, but it is much faster than any slow and careful process of perfecting and fine tuning shell placement. The only time maximum precision and maximum continuous fire is more important than your speed into and out of action on exposed and fleeting targets is when the enemy is in positions they are unwilling to leave, you are able to stay in position yourself without being destroyed, and your weapons are powerful enough to be effective on any enemy fortifications. Therefore if you are not able to get hits quickly you must practice until you can. The Goy said to the Jew: You too invent and build, plant and harvest, organize and finance. You fight when you have to, but we are better at it. Stop your posturing, please. Thought criminal. Thought criminal! THOUGHT CRIMINAL! Horrid, frightful, ghastly little man. Violent thoughts. Not to worry, dear reader. The truly peaceful will send their myrmidons and will remove the thinkers of violence from the bounds of civil society. Have trust, and obey your betters, children of a lesser god. Light at the end of the tunnel, imperfect ones. Facilities and care and good drugs for you if you don't make the black suited hurt you. The future is bright for the accepting. The new world is being formed. Fuck it, I do not have a country anymore. The France of the far west, the northern Mexico. What district will you run for when the US breaks up into 3 major divisions? The north, south and southwest. Funny thing, people running from the wolves will be passing each other on the highways going in opposite directions. I have brain damage. If my neighbor says he is going to shoot me I start thinking of ways to take him down. Others, it seems, immediately wonder where to move. Me a bigot? But no. I don't care about your color, sex or creed if you come for what is mine. Equal opportunity unzipper. Up one side and down the other. Equal opportunity hater. Yes, run if you think it may do some good, and standing your ground will kill you; only if you plan to come back in a more effective way. It is better to be dead than to be submissive. Unregenerate white man!

Many people do not realize how small foot popper land mines are. One may look like a small ribbed plastic chew can. Very few know what they are looking at when they see unexploded bomblets (submunitions from airbursting cluster bombs) lying about. Some look like vaned balls that would fit in your hand. They are likely very unstable. If you don't know what it is stay well away. See the weird ones with ribbons spreading out from them? Stay well away! Also, dud artillery shells that have bounced may not be as inactive as they look. A defective RF proximity fuze might still respond to your approach by setting the shell off after all. Paranoia. No trust, barriers all the way. Paranoia may destroy you but what does feckless trust do? Good fences... Try to use tactics, the use of the tools at hand to gain an advantage over the enemy in a fight. Keep a specific goal in mind. Don't have one? Why are you there? What do you want to do to the enemy? Now step back and pick an outcome you can actually cause. Strategy? The arrangement of resources for the purpose of reaching your overarching goal, such as the replacement of criminal leaders. Operations? Moving forces to position them for a series of battles so you can win tactical fights and make use of those tactical victories to do unto your enemy what you need as a stepping stone to strategic victory. If you can think and operate faster than the other guy you have a chance. Remember who you are. Dear me, yes; do remember that you must serve in order to justify your rights. You gotta obey in order to deserve freedom. Rights must be balanced, give up your liberty in order to defend your freedom, moron. Regulate conflicting 'privilege' with proper oversight by committee. (True rights never conflict with the rights of others.) Wear a black dress if you can. You think you are worthy of freedom if you commit no crime. You think you will have freedom if you destroy the slavers. Child. No. Earn your freedoms every day by proving how obedient and responsible you are. You owe, yes so much to everybody. Especially to the authorities who make the world turn so properly. Pay your dues and one day you too may be elevated by us to freedom, prosperity and authority. Free like us to serve all mankind as we, the certified wise and sober, see fit. The regulatory state. How about putting everybody in prison and then only releasing those considered safe? Fuck the USA LLC! Long live the Bill of Rights! Long live the white race! (It is amusing that considering the well being of any group except white ones is a good thing.) If you can field only two types of soldier they should be snipers and demolition experts. Remember that you never should attack the enemy without local advantage, sufficient separation, and barriers to rapid pursuit. Also note that none of this will matter if you give them time to put up checkpoints, ambushes and blocking positions around you in the obvious places and you intend to extract through an obvious place. Ideally a sniper engages the enemy with at least 500 meters of barriers to movement between he and they, and with no enemy in sight more than 800 meters away if once located he could be fired upon with long-range weapons he has no hope of matching. Sniping from trees is good as people seldom look up, a large tree will stop bullets, and you have a good field of fire; but it is very bad because a large tree may stand out, once you are located even generally you will receive massive amounts of fire, and the only fast way down and away is to rappel or much more probably fall. Martial arts is an accurate but overused term. I don't like it, and find that Asian styles of it are still overemphasized, not as much as they used to be; but still overly hyped. The west has fought wars for a very long time. We too have learned a few things. Technically all military skills are martial. The most realistic of competition systems are not really martial. Most martial arts systems are primarily sports or religious systems. They have been fine tuned by champions and experts for the purpose of creating state of the art methods for working within the rules of the religion or competition. This makes them unrealistic in combat, though some are much better than others. Some of them are spiritual state of the thousands of years past art. Others are mixed arts developed for intense competition, but not for combat. There is a great deal of nonsense. A martial

art is a fighting art, and is indeed for fighting, not enlightenment or peacefulness. Anyone who says that equal force or the same weapons, or lack thereof, must be used against an attacker is an idiot. Anybody who says an unfair fight is illegal is an idiot. It is legal to injure an attacker, and to use all the force needed to stop the attack; but no more and you can't punish him afterward. I add at this point the fact that if you fight you will be detained and probably arrested. If you followed the law you should then be released, but idiots are everywhere and you will probably be convicted of something, and almost certainly if you clearly came out on top. If you are not going to truly master hand-to-hand combat, and most soldiers and police officers do not, you need to get really good at certain job related skills. A soldier needs to learn really brutal strikes and throws, and needs to use any tools or equipment that is at hand, as well as being willing to stomp the hell out of anyone who goes down. A police officer needs good locks, holds and take-downs, and good stick skills. Both need a good stance, and some defensive blocking and avoidance techniques. Never argue with the police, by the way. Total waste of air. Don't bother telling the police they can't do that. You and the police are alike. You both can do whatever you can get away with doing. Conversely police officers ought never to argue with citizens. If he is called to a scene or happens upon persons and does not know what is going on or if any crimes are in progress, or if anyone there is wanted by his agency, he should observe and if warranted ask questions. If nobody wants to talk to him he should back off or simply leave. (You are thinking none WANT to talk to you so you would get nothing done. Keep in mind, there is a right to remain silent.) If he does have legal grounds to cite or arrest anybody he should listen to what they say but should never argue with people. He should simply make the arrest, or whatever, after telling the subject what he is doing and why if conditions allow. Never even touch the handgun unless there is potentially serious threat offered; aim at a suspect if you have cause to shoot him, holding him at gunpoint if you find the need gone when you get on target, and until you find there is no serious threat at all. You have less lethal tools for lesser threats. Do not think this means you can wait until a hostile and unlawfully threatening person with a weapon draws on you before moving and drawing your own! And you may arrest at gunpoint a violent felon known to be armed when you are on solid legal ground for the arrest. But threatening people without legal authority, brandishing your firearm, baiting them, giving them unlawful orders, lying to them, or arguing with them makes you look like an ass and leads to escalation. Never point a weapon at anyone unless you are going to use if he does not rather quickly stop whatever he is doing. Note: Do not be surprised if a suspect ignores you completely even if you get him at gunpoint. Animals tend to respond to new and potentially dangerous situations by variations on the standard three responses. These are to run, to freeze in place (which can be helpful but only if you have not been noticed), and to attack or counterattack. One variation on freezing is to pretend the threat does not exist. This can relate to the subject thinking you will not shoot, or his hoping the problem will just go away, but it often does not involve conscious thought at all. If you hold an armed suspect at gunpoint and no "hold" occurs just shoot him if what he is continuing to do is life threatening. Otherwise arrest him by less lethal means or let him go. Huh. Ever heard of suicide by citizen? A blank look followed by consternation and near hysteria. You know what? Sometimes you tick off the wrong people. A halfway decent rifleman steps up and shoots four cops. You are not so superior, eh? Somebody blows up your convoy and all you can do is shoot up the general landscape. Damn. Evil, I tell you. Disrespect! You can't complain your way to domination. You can't be superior by way of smug. Put on your big girl panties and deal with it. You do not defeat the foe by being in harmony with the universe and your foe's energy, though you can use his uncontrolled momentum to aid in a trip or throw. This is not no-mind or magic. You make changes to your environment, and with each change you know of something to do and you do it. You know because you have practiced realistically and much, and because you visualize scenarios when you are idle. That last is rather like dry fire practice with your handgun. Do not break up a

training scenario to intersperse it with unrealistic activities. If you never allow an empty magazine to fall to the mat under stress you will at times take time out from the gunfight to safely store an empty mag in its pouch. (If you want to protect magazines from bumps practice over a mat. If you want to save the brass when shooting lay out a tarp to catch it. Don't worry about any of this during actual shootout phases of any firefight real or practice, and do such housekeeping in solid cover.) If you bow before attacking you may just do that in a real fight. Very bad thing. Useful techniques can be learned from almost any system, but your basic system should be based on boxing, wrestling and kick boxing plus stick fighting, with all sports rules and limitations removed. Some of the things most forbidden in the sports are the best to do. Throw in a dollop of heel of the palm strikes to bony structures instead of fist strikes; gouging and stomping, and throw out exaggerated stances (which do lower the center of gravity) that slow you down. If you use a stance which involves tensing muscles and making tight fists you slow yourself further. Relax muscles whenever possible, tighten them upon impact. Punch through the target, not up to it. Unneeded motions are to be avoided, but you should remain in motion and any thing left hanging out will be grabbed or broken off, including a foot left up in the air after a high kick. A guy can come in and take you down if you depend on strikes only. Certainly you ought to hit him as he closes if he gives you an opening for a solid shot, but move or throw him in order to use his momentum. Your leading knee must never be caught flatfooted with your weight on it. You should keep your stance bladed, and should slide step, slip, turn the torso and roll (yield under the blow, more like, never raise and expose the chin) the head under the blow, and use any useful part of the body to deflect or bind a strike to a vulnerable part of your body. This includes thighs, hips and shoulders. This includes your buttocks. In a real stand up solid blocks and roundhouse blows can break your forearm and hard fists to solid or bony parts of the body can break not only knuckles and hands but also wrists and can dislocate muscle. Looping strikes are used only to go around defenses, and while jabs and sharp knuckle punches to the head are good, use the heel of the palm for truly heavy blows to the mouth or skull. Balance, balance and balance! Lower the body and widen the stance when more stability is needed. Keep the elbows in. Keep your mouth shut. Do not jut out your manly chin. So called soft systems use deflection and redirection. If you rush the practitioner he will use your momentum against you, push or lean on him and he will take you down while pulling you in or giving way suddenly. He uses joint locks and pain compliance. He uses throws. Learn from this, but do not limit yourself to these methods. These methods work against the not very serious. Eventually a serious attacker will get through the defense and thrash the defender. Locks and pain compliance work only on people who will give in rather than accept pain and broken bones. Throws can be lethal depending on what he is bouncing you off of, and he may be able to choke you out or stun your circulatory system with a blow to the side of the neck, perhaps with fatal results. Most fights "degenerate" into some form of grappling or ground fighting. This is a good thing for those who are good at it and fighting one-on-one. Why does this happen? Look at professional boxing, which is not a combat art and is aimed at entertainment. How long do they pound on each other in most cases before a knockout occurs? Only powerful blows relative to the opponent's size, and blows to critical parts of the body work quickly. A strangle hold does work fast if you can get someone into it. How ever you got there, if you are on the ground or even if you are only in a clinch and your opponent has an associate handy your situation is critical. While you are held in place for only a short time he can punch or kick you in the back of the neck. Game over perhaps permanently. The Satanic nurses! Give me Libertines, or give me death! Eh. What was that all about? Brilliant. Just silly, what? Brain storms are splendid things, storm in a teacup. You do not lean on people. When you push them it is powerful and makes use of your weight, but balance is immediately recovered. Do not stand or move with the feet close together. When I say shoulder width apart I mean both from side to side and front to back. Bend the knees, especially the most forward one, if you need more stability but not so much that all the muscles end up tensed. You

do not telegraph blows. Start a strike first and then step or follow through. The light ones are fast and they snap back, the heavy ones use a turn of the body, hip and shoulder, your weight as you follow through, pushing up with your rearward foot, or a drop or drop step on the forward one, perhaps a step in as well; they do not hang around out there if only because some retraction is needed for your next blow. Regain balance at once. You will get a feel for timing as you make or find openings. Catch him as he shifts toward you for the most powerful blows. Do not let him lead you. Break his patterns. If you rush in you do not allow yourself uncontrolled momentum. When you look at photos of techniques the attacker often looks wide open. Well he may be, you ought not expose yourself more than you must, but it is a matter of time, distance and posture. Many sport, spirit and recreation methods would never work in a fight. The thing to do is to take advantage of openings when the other person is in no position to respond in time. All those competition oriented mount positions and clinches...so somebody has you in a clinch with his head properly tucked in. He can break your balance and is protected from any powerful blows you might have thrown. Rip his fucking ear of; God forbid you are so stupid you let him pin both arms to your sides. If you go down get up again. Know how to fall, how to lunge and roll. If you try to get up next to enemies you will find it impossible. They can push you when you are halfway up and can shove your knees in from behind. Fend them off with your feet, or attack whatever is within reach and take them down. If all else fails and you can't run go fetal and oh your exposed kidney. You may, or may not, be able to take down 1 attacker. It is possible, but much less likely, to take down two, and it will probably be the result of taking one down when the other is out of position or is not very enthusiastic about things. More hostiles than that and you are progressively more certain roadkill. Use a stick. Shoot them. If you hear shots in the distance you take cover and say, now, what is that about? When the bullets are punching through the walls into you living room you say, I can kill them, unless it turns out to be the neighbor kids using a poor backstop. I love it when somebody is trying to kill me instead of beat me up to some extent or other. Bliss, the certainty and purity of the absolute! No religion or mysticism here, just thought and feelings. A state of mind...unless I am possessed by Mars and don't know itOoohaahaha! Hard systems tend to rely on hard, straight on blocks and powerful blows. Blocks work well if in place in time and you are strong enough, but deflections are better and not being there when a blow arrives is better yet. Do not block strikes that are not going to hit you. Do not close your eyes, well if someone's finger is about to go in there it might not matter. Do not close your eyes, or merely flinch back, when a fist is coming at your head. You need to see in order to respond properly. As a rule avoid or deflect and counterattack. As a rule do not block attacks that will miss you, unneeded actions are wasted time. You may need to bind the relevant arm if you step in past the attack and counterattack. Hands close and near your face. This does not mean you can stand and always see a blow coming in time to avoid it. Sometimes you can, sometimes you simply did not stand still for a probable line of attack. Sometimes you simply get hit, perhaps with enough time to tighten a muscle, roll or yield with the blow, or to hop slightly so that you are pushed back as much as punched. Keep the elbows in! Spinning round may be something you have to do, at times, but having your back to an opponent is not good. Remember; step, shuffle, slide and skip with your center of gravity fairly low and feet generally shoulder width apart, but also that when both feet are off the ground too long your opponent can push, pull, spin and rotate you as he pleases. With a hand on your head he can push you anywhere or simply bounce it off of something. Slide. Skim. Within contact distance move the lead foot and follow up with the trail, or the reverse as conditions dictate, to avoid being hit with your ankles crossed. Ankles crossed and a push will put you down, you better be nimble. Note that if you depend on a system of strikes a good wrestler will rush you, avoid the power of your blows by closing, smother your blows. He will then take you down and smash and kick you into oblivion. The primary rule of unarmed combat is to use a tool whenever possible. Even monkeys use

tools! Do not be attacking broken-down old veterans. If they are too old to give you a good fight they will probably just kill you. Without tools you use anything handy under the circumstances. Anything which can deflect, redirect, slap, bind, hold, block, absorb, pull, tear, poke, puncture, scratch, stun, bruise, push off balance, trip, cover eyes or disrupt hearing, throw or break. Fingers alone or bunched, back, front or either side of hand, various knuckles, wrist, forearm, elbow, upper arm, shoulders, head, teeth, sides, back and waist, hips, thighs, knees, shins, ball of foot, heel, top of foot and etc. You do not have to make a fancy and fabulous snap kick to break a knee, just lift the foot and push his knee in with it. No fancy knee to the groin required, and he is watching for it. When in close protect your own groin with a thigh while you short punch him in the testicles, or simply grab them and twist. Look at your attacker. You need to know if he is inside of 5 or 6 feet, and when he is near enough to punch. You need to know what is in his hands and what he is doing with them, when he shifts his weight, where his feet are, and if he turns or rotates his shoulder. What is his reach? When he rotates his hip (turning his left side back and rotating the right arm forward both adds power to a right hand punch and adds reach, he ought also to push up on momentarily on the toes of his trailing foot), or takes a step? Where is he looking? But, do not get fixated, and do not stare at one point. Look at him in general and use your peripheral vision. Note: when talking it is seldom good to stare into his eyes, but if you never look at his face he will think he can take you. When you look away never drop your eyes. Look at his forehead or ear. Also some people know you are going to attack if you are looking them in the eye and then suddenly switch over to unfocused or general observation. Once attacked the talking is over. If you do not know your own reach when jabbing, shifting your weight behind a blow, or while stepping in you will be short, or tap him because you are at full extension at impact. If your timing is poor your blow will arrive as he is already moving out of reach. Never allow yourself to be sucker punched. Be aware. Do not stand close. If your opponent stands off and spars, maneuvers, and is not very good you can play it in a number of different ways. He may not be very serious. He may think blocking and punching is fighting, when he should be fighting a person and not having a blocking contest. If he is good you will have to change the fight to avoid his preferred distance and methods. If the guy comes in like a freight train he may leave himself open for one or more solid hits. He may be thrown, tripped, or simply pushed or pulled past you. If he is close and hammering you, or is grappling and using knees and elbows and head into your face it will be fast and furious. Everything in use including biting his head, breaking his pinky, pushing him off with a thumb in below the Adam's apple, tearing the earlobe, shoulder into chest and knuckle strike to the temple. You can use the hip to deliver blows, not just to get in low and break balance for a throw. Hook a foot and clothesline him. Grab a handful of skin and yank or twist. Never give up, keep thinking; if you need to escape grab him and run up and over him as if he were a ladder. If you see some guy take a swing at a woman walk briskly up behind him and place a foot sideways on the back of his knee, push in, then step on his calf and then with the other foot on his back or neck. Keep on walking. Yeehaw! If you are using a stick or flashlight you should use raps to the hands, joints, and blows to the muscles. If the guy is a problem you can ramp things up in terms of force and hit him in the ribs, basically anyplace but the head, neck, spine; but you may not want to break bones and joints. You should reserve powerful blows and jabs into the internal organs and blows to the head, neck, and spine to criminals who endanger your life and not just punk criminals who want to shove on you. The stick is a fine hand-to-hand combat weapon. It not only extends your reach, it is also faster than the hand if you put a little snap into the tip when you use it. But there is no need for offensive means, eh hopper in stubble? Don't be there or yield before all blows, and you cannot be harmed. Only things that resist breaking can be broken. Pah, if you think you can always yield before a strike by

withdrawing the threatened part faster than a fast blow with hand or even stick you are delusional. Just turn your body into smoke, that is the ticket, and hopefully you won't get blown away. You know, people are programmed in confrontations to feel good if you are uncomfortable, and to feel uncomfortable if they think you are cool and they ineffectual. If somebody has to feel bad it better be them and often the first to look foolish stays that way and the other never feels it at all. This does not mean they will like you, in most cases, although some will feel the need to admire or suck up to you, afterward. Do you like having enemies everywhere? Are the ones who change their tune trustworthy? Do not humiliate people when you don't have to, and if you brush off sycophants do not do it in an obvious or cruel way. If you give up your weapons you are a subject, not a full citizen. If you give up your arms to common criminals or tyrants you are at best a SERF. With multiple assailants you are justified in ramping up the force level much faster and higher. Sometimes with low-level threats or attempts at harassment no response at all, or simply honestly asking questions and speaking your mind is best, but never argue with serious threats or with idiots. At other times off topic and leading comments will put him/them off balance. Trying too hard to avoid a fight can start one. The best methods for talking someone down without looking like a punk or a weak victim can fail. You should avoid fights when you can, however, unless you can win and don't mind the backlash; or the situation is only going to get worse unless active steps are taken. Good luck. Also, while you should be able to ignore punks without feeling like shit, or speak without squeaking, you may not be able to. Any signal that you are not freaked will keep you feeling goodif all you do is exchange eyerolls with a friend as y'all keep right on walking. There is nothing wrong with stomping on someones neck, breaking arms and legs, in combat. When dealing with various kinds of fool you ought not use lethal and crippling methods unless you are in danger of being seriously stomped yourself. There is nothing wrong with biting unless your opponent is no threat or such goings on would bring in the bystanders. When dealing with such fools, I mention in passing, you need not let him lead your mind. If he says you are a coward you can walk; you can bring up a totally different subject: do not say I'm no coward or you are the coward; say are you going to attack me? If he does attack then try to kick his ass. If there is a pause say, no? and then walk. If his immediate response is to say he is going to kick your ass just tell him you have yet to see it. Hell, ask him if he is a member of skull and bones, if you feel like it! Also, it is proper and legal to attack him first if he threatens, steps in with clenched fists or cocks a fist, or anything of the like. You can punch him at once, if you wish, if he purposely blocks your movement or grabs onto you. This is an art, free form, not a science. Short of doing wrong, do anything you want. You will discover what can work and what will not. Have fun, brother! Most scuffling is rather stupid, luckily there is a class of women who find a bent nose or scars attractive. Cauliflower ears, flat noses, and permanently deformed brows are going to far, mind! Dude, be cool, none of this stuff is all that important! Most fights are marginally painful and your ego should not be all that tender. Fuck them if they can't take joke! Just be willing in preference to being a door mat. It is not a very good idea to break the orbital, flatten the nose or knock out the teeth of your average snotty classmate, but not so if a man attacks you on the street. Probably you will cut your hand on teeth, and using a fist for the others can break it; certainly if you can't make a proper fist (thumb tucked in on the outside, please, and don't miss and stub it, or strike with the knuckle of the little finger, eh). And if a thug is mopping the floor with you and a brother walks up and asks you if you could use a hand, say yes, thanks. If you live in an area where the the bash them and then put the steel-toed boot in crowd is king by no means hesitate at all and do use tools. Fuck them up badly, put them down now and hard. The steel toe makes an excellent striking implement, but bonus, it hinders the otherwise very effective stomping of their feet. They are such Nellies, they probably wear groin cups too. A stick may have no visible effect on the attacker when you strike the long muscles. If this

happens sharp raps to boney areas, not the head if possible, should work. Break bones or even joints if it becomes necessary. Brothers and sisters...there must be a lot of incest going on. Sorry. Dare I ask you not to play rap or wear baggy pants? And I really hate shorts. :) Short of giving up, this is what can stop you. You can be so strongly confined that you cannot function. This might require one very strong person holding you down, or a very heavy person lying on you. It might take a pile of people on you, or several people to each arm and leg. The use of handcuffs and leg restraints may do it. (You can easily pass cuffs under the feet to bring the hands to the front, and most handcuff keys work on any cuff.) Perhaps a neck loop running to cuffs and then down to ankle cuffs to hold you in a bent at the knees position will do it. You can be too physically exhausted to function. Crippling injuries to muscle and bone can stop you. You can be in shock, sick with pain, blind and deaf, unconscious or dead. It has been this way since Satan was a little girl (fuck me and call me Lucy she said.) Oops, that must be one of them racial memories, or maybe that collectively subconsciousness thing? Warning: Keeping a person under a weight can result in death. Gags and neck loops can result in death. Leaving a handcuffed person lying on his chest can result in death. Hanging a person by his arms can result in death. Use of Taser (Tom Swift electric rifle?) or stun gun against people with medical conditions may result in death. Excessive use of stun guns can result in death. Use of stun guns in an inflammable environment may result in fire and death. Use of chemical sprays against those with medical conditions may result in death. Excessive and continued exposure to chemical sprays may burn the skin, damage the eyes, and can result in death, and may sensitize the subject resulting in allergy. Pyrotechnic chemical devices may cause fires and death. Riot chemicals used in closed spaces can cause death. Heavy dusting with OC power can cause skin damage. Flash/bangs may start fires, and can kill if you are hit by the firing mechanism or are very near the explosion. Rubber bullets and other riot control projectiles fired at face or head, or from a dangerously close distance may result in death. Blows to the neck may result in death. Baton blows to the head, neck or spine may cause death. Powerful blows to the head, spine, and internal organs such as the kidney and heart may result in death. Blows to the groin may result in permanent disability. Suffocation or strangulation may result in death. Powerful blows to joints, and joint breaking techniques, may result in permanent disability. Breaks to the hip joint and large bones of the upper leg may result in death (bleeding or shock, a broken hip can bleed internally enough to kill). The use of knockout anesthetic chemicals may underdose, dose, or overdose and may result in death. Interrogation drugs may result in adverse reactions, may be given in excessive doses, and may result in death, and walking around the rim of a large bowl that remains stable because of the water inside until your spiritual development and practice allow you to do it with less and less water is garbage. Sonic and laser dazzler weapons cause dizziness, nausea, and sometimes worse. Distraction devices/stun grenades/flash bangs are not offensive/blast/concussion grenades. They have a very sharp report or reports and a very bright flash or flashes. If they land at your feet some body parts may be blown off, and nearby they can cause concussions to the brain. Shock waves through the brain leave damaged areas throughout. Disruption of the inner ear can result in dizziness and nausea. Most of the time they deafen and overload the eyes for about 5 seconds. Most hearing comes back and the eyes should only have spots before them for a limited time. If wearing protective gear you can operate very close to themdo not look at the device as it explodes. This should also indicate to you that there is no such thing as a nonlethal weapon. There are less-lethal weapons and lethal weapons. The use of a lethal weapon may not kill you. The use, especially misuse, of a less-lethal weapon may kill you. People seem to think defense sprays will put anyone down, and that a jolt from a stun gun will knock them out. Actually, a good shot to the face with Mace, and the like, may pain, disorient, suffocate and blind, or may not effect the person beyond discomfit and possible rage. If you are close to

the assailant and blind latch on and maul. It takes some time for the maximum effect to occur, so do any shooting while you have vision remaining. Later keep your eyes wide open and any blindness should end in a matter of seconds, less than a minute anyway. This will vary if a lot of liquid chemical is on you. If you start dripping mucus you may vomit. You can flush the eyes with water or milk, do not rub, or wipe the chemical back into the eyes. A jolt from the stun gun usually but not always hurts like a bitch and makes you go rigid and scream or grunt. You may thrash, but that happens mostly after you have collapsed. You may be disoriented, and will take a minute to get things fully under control again. If you do pass out somebody really ought to call the paramedics. Put on the protective mask. If your armor is not thick enough you can place a conductive layer under an outer layer and over a insulating layer. This works unless the Taser darts are able to physically penetrate both outer and middle layers, and up to a point even then. By the way, don't leave a canister of defense spray on the dash of your vehicle on a sunny day. If it gets hot enough it will burst, and you will be surprised at the damage the blast can do in a confined space. Never use less-lethal weapons alone against the enemy. Use them to add confusion and misdirection to the fight or to reduce civilian casualties, but in conjunction with lethal kinetic (area target, point target and precision) and explosive (unguided and guided; penetrating, blast, fragmentation and flame) weapons, area and point target; direct, plunging and indirect fire, of suitable type at every unit size and level. This is mostly a matter of weight and ammunition supply related to unit size and means of transport. There must be a balance of systems, though this balance needs to be adjusted to the situation. Use less-lethal devices in personal defense and when needed to make the arrest, and only to the degree needed and with armed backup. Against a police state use less-lethals only when you have a better chance at success using sticks and stones against riot control forces than you would have in a firefight. You need to move very fast in loose units which can converge and fight and then disperse rapidly. Loosely conform your movements to your leader's and be prepared to concentrate at any moment. Do rabbit if you have to in order to save your ass, but not to save yourself bruises. You must be more disciplined than the other side and expect losses. There is some utility in padding or conductive layers versus stun guns, shields versus rubber bullets and millimeter and microwaves, protective measures against sound, gas and flash and the like: your real protection is speed of maneuver (including dispersion and use of cover and terrain masking) and the weight of your half brick or bludgeon attacks. If the other side uses lethal weapons you are a fool to remain there with your stick. Remember that powerful slingshots shooting steel balls can cause fatal wounds to the head, just as police automatic OC pepperball guns have killed with hits into the unprotected eye. Always keep the goal in mind, nothing to gain means you ought not to be there. What are you trying to do? Attack isolated opposition. Disrupt their operation and break their formations. If possible, drive them out of the area. This weakens them and loosens their hold on the area, then expect escalation. Do use scouts and screening forces. Be prepared for the injured. Study the Roman legions. Also the mounted nomads. Disperse, move, shoot, communicate. Concentrate as much as the situation requires; ambushes are always good; then survive, evade, escape, disperse. If you allow yourself to be cut off and surrounded you are done. Recruit, select and train. Do not give people the plan weeks in advance. Call them in and tell them what is to be done, then do it at once. The opposition will have little time to prepare when your weaklings and spies give them the heads up. It is easiest to do all this if the organization as a whole is run as a legal political or charitable organization, with only a tiny inside group in the know. In the majority of cases the best way to handle an exposed traitor or spy is simply to expel him. You could give him false information. You could get radical about the whole thing. It is seldom worth it in the long run. Unless he got people killed.

Make no mistake. If you take action against the state you will be identified. Whisper campaigns asking like minded people to show up before an action, masked, and to operate in loose cooperation on the street can work. Some of those attending will be informers there to attempt to identify the others. Sometimes the informers are the ones to call the action to a place of arrest, and if the rumors of an assembly are out for too long before the action the authorities may be there ready to make arrests anyway. Basically unless there is so much going on that the state cannot act on all of it or the revolution is so strong certain whole areas are at least part of the time outside its control you must have alternate valid identities and homes and businesses/jobs or eventually informers, ID and transaction records, cameras and other sensors, or the more common road blocks and random stops are going to get you. How many people are truly prepared for this? Street action is a waste time in most cases. Don't end up in prison on bogus charges over a peaceful but annoying street action. The government is cracking down. If you intentionally damage property belonging to uninvolved parties, and are not agents of the state, I know why they do it; what in hell are you doing that for? Complaints to the Authorities are a waste of time unless the leadership is unaware of defects or facing too much resistance. They also prove you are a part of the subordinate classes. Peaceful protests only prove ineffective unless the treatment the protesters receive enrages people of much more influence. When they work they work second hand. Civil disobedience today is slapped down. If you are acting within your rights and/or resisting tyranny and you let people put their hands all over you, push you around, and detain you for 3 days without a valid charge being processed you are a slave requesting decent treatment from the master and willingly taking the abuse if they disagree. You have put on the uniform of the household servant. Why not just shut your mouth? You have already yielded everything else. Fleeing and eluding the police when the they are not following the law is no crime. So what, you think police, prosecutor or judge will agree with you? They do not follow their own rules and said rules often violate the principles of liberty. The time of due process is over. I say again; so what? What are you going to do about it? Serf. You fucking anarchists and so-called anarchists. Yeah you. Fighting to be fighting, or for reasons political you really don't like to admit too. It is more fun to focus on the hypocritical pigs you are apposing. You are all hot air and no fight. Can't take a bloody nose without wimping out. Honestly, we need to import some Asian or European rioters. Even the street gangs have lost their nerve. They never made a practice of fighting the police, and were not as well armed back in the day, but when the police showed up they ran for it and only a few were cut off and arrested. Now they are stopped on the street and handcuffed while the police ask questions, run names, take photographs and frisk them. They are released each time only after they have bowed properly before authority. Even the petty rebels have fallen from grace. Even our bedamned criminal class can no longer protect its turf. Alien organized crime has no more or less equal balance save the bankers and the government, and they all are along with the police, a big gang themselves, in and out of each other's pockets. Who runs the coke into your area, the Colombians? Weed? The Jamaicans. Who controls this place? The Russian (Jewish) mob. We can't even compete at street level vice. Heh. Organized crime has always had international connections, financing or direction, and it has always been centered around immigrant groups and corrupt politicians. Immigrants, until they become mainstream Americans if they ever do, are always isolated, hostile and resentful in large part and from odd cultural belief systems. They are very prone to crime and subversion. They are easy for wealthy and powerful manipulators to agitate. They often fall for communist propaganda or ethnic strongmen as well. We are not just afraid of dying, Christians, New Agers and thugs alike and all denials self-diversion, we are all terrified of a pother. Whom does officialdom dislike most, a criminal or a man who is disrespectful? A passel of enforcement types showed up at my home. I said, "You are bloody late! What do we pay you for, anyhow! Do you know how long I have been exercising my rights, and only now do you finally show up. Lazy is what I call it! My tax dollars at work." Oh wait, I don't think that happened. Is it just a few

bad apples, or is it general corruption? How can you tell? It is easy. Short an occasional scapegoat, does the organization protect bad apples from appropriate individual punishment? Yes. There it is. Embrace your true nature, America. Contact your representatives and ask for a federal law to make it a crime if you do not kneel, looking at the ground and holding up your electronic ID, whenever a government employee passes by. Why not? If there was such a law you would obey it, so stop whining and posturing. Just be yourselves. This is a great country, and I respect what the founders did. Nobody supports civil rights more than I! I love our constitution, but...you can't be rigid about its meaning. How can you have your freedoms if you are disrespectful of authority? How can you have progress(ives) without allowing the central government to do good (for the future of all mankind as a whole)? You must understand these things, hayseed, in an enlightened (illuminated) way! (Mmmmm, numnumm. Sacrifice yourself to us! Worship me! Worship the Light Bring... Whoa. Sorry, I got a bit overwrought.) When the shit hits the fan your first move, just as in combat, may be to move or defend yourself but next priority is to find your partner and base your maneuver on him. The senior partner locates his senior and orients on his movement and activity. This is the way pairs orient on the fire team leader's actions, and he on the platoon's, platoon on the company action, etc. P1, P2; pair one and pair two of a fireteam. Alpha team, Bravo, Charlie; fire teams in 2 or 3 team squads (AT, BT, CT). 1st Squad, etc. Another way is to use the name of each unit leader as the name of the unit and pairs are units too. The leader of the pair will normally be the one with the most experience, but can also be the one with the more agile mind and the most knowledge. Note that leaders, radio operators and snipers will be specifically targeted by the enemy. If you often operate without a partner, dress or are obviously equipped differently, or are seen pointing, shouting and signaling more than the others you will be selected for special attention. The common rifleman needs more gear than is usual anyway, load limitations notwithstanding. For example, a rifleman using iron sights should have a small pair of binoculars, and a compass, just as surely as an officer should. Really there should be 3 fire teams in a squad, and a squad level weapon with the command element would not be amiss. Each fireteam should be built around a primary weapon, such as a machine gun, grenade or rocket launcher, recoilless rifle, or sniper rifle. The other members of the team are first and foremost there to support the operation of the team weapon. This means bodyguarding, scouting, ammunition supply and providing access to all other support including food and water, communications, medical aid and maintenance. They are there to keep a continuous supply of ammunition and spares going to the gunner. This does not mean each man does not bear arms, and use them when possible. Each man will have personal and individual weapons including supplemental ones such as grenades, a few rifle grenades, knives and handguns, or disposable rounds like the 66mm rocket. In the future lightweight and handy single use launchers will include versions for bunker busting, flame, and fragmentation as well as antiarmor use. A similar round for fire and forget guided use against helicopters and low flying attack aircraft would be super. These things do not take the place of proper crew served weapons. They supplement and they add capability to the units down to the lowest levels. Men in the fireteam may carry PDWs including pistols, assault rifles, battle rifles, purpose-built automatic rifles (many machine-light automatic rifles are standard rifles but for being full auto firearms) and sharpshooting rifles. The mix depends on the purpose of the unit and the skills of its members. Another way to do this is to put a sniper, machinegunner, and shoulder launched rocket gunner in each team and keep the ambushes short and sweet. The right balance of technology and simplicity, specialization and redundancy are needed. Individual weapons and gear can and should be gotten on the time and expense of the user. Big ticket items and consumables used up rapidly in combat must be provided continuously by a supply line however crude. Do not allow the man who can afford the most expensive vehicles and weapons to command the unit. The best leader should do this. You can not win wars by stealing from the enemy or feeding from a low technology infrastructure alone. If you have no production base you must be able to buy from outside industry by bribe, black

market deals or smuggling. When another country offers support take it, but be wary. Do not let them turn you into a pawn. Think twice. Now this would be a jolly lovely job. The local police should have a special type of officers who would spend their time strolling around in pairs. They would be heavily armed, and equipped with electronics, optics and head to toe level IV+ body armor. What would these scary buggers do? Ignore minor issues, including citizens bearing arms; report more serious crimes and any need for a medical response, and shoot anybody they see criminally threatening others with potentially lethal force. Three shifts on duty two weeks of each month and training the other two. Oh my stars! What illegal and dangerous elitism! The police we have are criminal and dangerous, and any citizen has the right to shoot a hostage taker or "active shooter." No? Wimps. It would be the best job ever, though. Imagine this, if there was a commotion these flies would tend to drift in from all directions. Fly drawn to carrion, eh? Suppose police were dragging a suspect from his car and he pulled loose and ran at an officer with a knife. A special would shoot him. What if instead they got him down and cuffed, and then an officer started shouting threats and put a gun to the suspect's head? A special would shoot him! You would need some cold bastards for that job, able to wait until certain of the facts and then to engage with speed and precision. Most anarchists are just reverse racist communists, when they are not provocateuring for the police. Antifa thugs are communists. The skinheads are fools, not because they are willing to fight, but because they want a dictatorship. There are not very many skinheads in the US anyway. There are more in Europe, but even more antifa there. Antifa like to sweep through and kick the hell out of any people they meet who have buzz cuts, or whom they know to dislike immigration, or to actually be right wing. If you are mobbed by thugs do not scatter like quail. Do not try to defend yourself as if alone unless you are in fact alone. Run only when you have to and only if escape is plausible. Get back to back but not so close you can't fight without bouncing off each other. Use any and all weapons at hand and justified by the situation and beat or if badly outnumbered stab or shoot them down. Do not think you can have a discussion with a mob. Protect each other. If your group is large enough make a sort of hollow square and put a reserve and noncombatants inside. If all those facing outward can fight well open the rank so your fighters have 4 feet of space between each of them. This gives them room. Still help each other when possible, and those inside should help also when they see an opening. When someone goes down one or more persons from inside should step up and stand over him while others pull him into the square. If you must move it should be a steady and deliberate move of the entire square as a unit. Put your most steady man in front so the speed of the unit can be controlled. Actually, communists are shortcut socialists, they are all fucking flavors of socialist anarchist so-called individualism notwithstanding. Anarchists are "shortcut to utopia" communists. Various of the other leftists want to work their way to sharing and humanist perfection, but communists want more speed through revolution and dictatorship right after, and anarchists think you can skip dictatorship and reeducation by overthrowing all authority and going straight to mutual cooperation of the common people. Morons. Global elites: bankers, corporations; institutions and academics, etc.? Like communist party leaders they want to rule the world for the benefit of all, naturally, and the people will live in a socialist manner. A kind of international neonazi thing or global communism depending on mood and level of control is wanted. This is neofeudalism really. The feudalism of the middle ages was a form of socialism with everything belonging to the king and noble families holding territory on his behalf as long as they were useful and didn't turn the tables and own the king. Everybody knew his place and no evil free markets there. Very tightly controlled economy indeed, such as it was. But fascists and aristocrats are right wing! Sure, if nationalism is right and globalism is left? What would a global empire be? Truth is the left likes to call itself "for the people," and some systems have leaders that do not pretend to be. The vast majority do pretend, and leftist systems are among the pretenders as they are authoritarian or totalitarian and dictatorships end up being run by elites and for dictators. Still, democratic socialism is way keen. You get tyranny through a democratic

process, and while the functionaries always do very well, the top level of politicians visible to the public can be rotated in office so no one of them gets to enjoy the dictatorship for very long. Love it. But anarchists are for personal freedom! Sure, freedom from capitalism. Now if anarchists want to destroy the system and live without government why do they riot when student aid is cut? Most are socialists proper, or hired thugs. The real anarchists riot also, as an opportunity for destruction exists during the unrest. I was born in hell, so I'm gonna go to heaven. Yeah, that really works. I was born stupid, what is your excuse? Now we are equal! Relaxed. Perfect shooting position. I can feel it in the bones. In the zone, friend. When the reticule is just right where it needs to be I fire the shot without consciously pulling the trigger, just as an experienced duck hunter does when the lead is right. Follow through, see the puff of dust on bullet impact. If I had dry-fired the rifle thus a coin on the barrel would have stayed in place. Hell, it would not have moved. The bastard hit folds as if boneless. Pull slowly further back into cover and evade and escape. I am easily entertained. When the fighting is hand to hand close ranks, within limits. When you are being stoned open ranks unless you have shields, and noncombatants stand behind (or between) fighters willing to take hits due to limited mobility. Being stoned hurts like a bitch and can kill you, brother. Have your charge hold on to your belt at the rear and do not move in a manner which will expose him or her. Avoid the hits you can, otherwise use anything available to protect your head even if it is only your fists and arms held before your face. You are a brave one. When in combat maximum dispersion and use of terrain is called for subject to the need to cooperate and support each other. If you are alone run for an opening or to make one, or put your back to the wall and protect head, neck, ribs and groin. Blade your stance and protect your groin with a thigh, be careful of your lead knee, the artery in your upper thigh, and use elbow, forearm and the outside edge of the hand to protect ribs, neck and head. Do not expose the inside of your wrist. Why are you alone in this wonderful rainbow neighborhood? Really put the hurt on anybody who gives you an opening and good luck. Do not whine. Do not complain. Do not get hysterical and talk shit. This will only make the mob see the blood of a weak racist capitalist pig. Do not beg, and that includes begging the police. If they won't do their job whining is not going to help you. afterward, if there is an afterward, file official charges and civil suits if there is any point to it. Regarding communists and history; if you are in any kind of struggle political or otherwise and are so weak or foolish you must ally yourself with them to win you better hope you never fully do succeed because they always purge the likes of you after victory. Why do I continue to see anti-illegal immigration protesters (and you should be against the current legal immigration policy as well) trade comments with punks who move back and forth while working themselves up before rushing in to punch a head or grab a camera? Why do the protesters respond by rushing about and shouting? When threatened made a fucking wall and protect each other people! Cameras ought to be back outside of easy reach. Put the attacker down! Use OC spray. Put the plastic zip ties on the guy. Keep prisoners secure, but protect them from further injury. Turn them over to the police along with a list of witness names and telephone numbers. Do something useful! The police don't like it when you defend yourselves? Fuck them if they don't like the law. I say it, blows to the bridge of the nose kill by concussion, not nose bone splinters. You cannot drive a stiffened hand into the heart for manual removal: that works about as well as death by waves of the hand and practicing to make yourself lighter or heavier (practice can make your balance better, your weight better distributed, and your walk smoother, quieter and more sure on poor surfaces). The movies would have it that you grab a guy by the head and turn it sharply to the side. Neck broken like a twig. If you look you will notice that a person can turn his head that far. They also choke people to death in a shorter time than you can hold your breath. Strangulation is another matter, it cuts off the flow of blood to the brain while suffocation only cuts off the supply of new oxygen to the lungs. The Canadian unarmed combat system is not very good, the army system not much better. The

marines probably have the best. It is a fact that the average civilian hobbyist is better with rifle, pistol, knife, stick or his fists than is the average soldier. He gets more training and much more practice. Infantrymen are fit and aggressive: the stupid ones who are in many bar fights and the ones who see a lot of combat get pretty good. Even then, in so far as shooting is concerned, skills learned in combat have more to do with weapons handling and how to behave in a firefight than with accuracy. Yes, the military training and use of unarmed combat, knives, truncheons, bayonet and handgun is piss poor, and of even the shoulder-fired rocket not good. They do only a fair job training in riflery. They have other strengths. Look at it another way. Civilians are better at these things, but which civilians? Americans do not read or study anything not required by the employer. They train as a rule as the boss requires and so as to understand the sport they follow on television. What percentage of people are experts and enthusiasts of shooting and the fighting arts? If you are a black belt and so are the gifted 12 year olds in the dojo? How many Americans shoot more than once a year? The best are civilians, serious practitioners and hobbyists, but they are not many A soldier really ought to be training when he is not off duty, on holiday, or on actual operations. There should be a lot of live fire and war games should be free form with the unit's officers making the decisions. That said, the start conditions and technical training should be well planned out ahead of time, and the cost of blanks and live ammunition be damned.. Close quarters combat or battle involves using every possible method of defeating an enemy at close rangefrom hand-to-hand or room-to-room range to urban or forest fighting ranges. Hand-tohand combat takes place at bodily contact to lunging distances which is about 5 feet at most, but do not forget it takes only a couple of seconds to dash across a room. It can involve the use of lethal and lesslethal short-range weapons but includes unarmed combat. Do not use these methods unless you can't kill the enemy with the press of a button from miles away. Do not use these methods unless you have a local advantage at this level of combat, or have been unable to avoid attack. Do not be afraid to run away if escape is possible and sensible. You do not always have to be physically stronger than the enemy, but you have to be strong enough to do the required damage and must be able to position yourself to inflict it. The average woman can hurt a man but not put him down. It is not hard to get in some blows, even bloody a nose, and easy to get around a block by noodling the arms and grabbing or scratching. This is like a chain striking behind a shield by bending around it. Do not stop there, do some real damage or your efforts fail. And if you are too slow he will knock your block off. I think it is time for a nap. There are very advanced devices (electro-optical) which can be used to detect and track from miles away. There are even powerful handheld binoculars using stabilization technology which allow helicopter passengers to view people on the ground without vibration. Some of these sensors are equipped with lasers, and gyros and GPS or mil scale compasses and can find the range to and transmit the target's location to fire units automatically down to 10 digit grid location accuracy. Some of these devices will process images in the infrared spectrum, heat energy emitted or reflected, such as FLIR sensors used in aircraft. There are also thermal sights and imagers using emissions from objects in one of two (more depending on which scale you are using) other frequency bands. The small ones are handheld or mounted on small arms. These have the least range but usually can detect and image people as bright silhouettes at 300 meters or more. Others have much, much better range and image quality. They may be mounted on tripods. They may be first or second generation sights in armored vehicles, or in air or space vehicles. The ones in tanks can be used against other tanks at night out to at least 2000 meters. More than 4000 meters is common. Thermal systems are effected to an extent by bad weather, and are less effective during thermal crossover. This occurs roughly 1 hour after both sunrise and sunset. In fact, dusk and dawn are bad for nearly all night sensors. I am old. Old. I have seem the world. Everything. I know every cat door in Hell. Light intensification devices do not image heat as such, though they do display part of the

infrared spectrum. They amplify available light and display it rather like a black and white TV image. There are small handheld scopes, night vision goggles (one tube, or two tube; the latter giving a stereo image) and weapons sights (scopes) as well as low light TV and night cameras/IR cameras. These produce shades of green images and are effective at very close range only for small second generation scopes and out hundreds of yards on a bright night for good third generation scopes. All these devices narrow your field of view and produce images which can make identification difficult. It is hard to walk when you can't see in front of your feet. None of them allow you to see through most day sights, which is why you replace them with night sights meaning you can't see in the dark except when sighting in on something, or you use NVD goggles and IR lasers mounted on the rifle so you can see what you are pointed at. IR lasers are invisible to the unaided eye, as are IR signals, glow sticks and flares, but the laser spot is visible in the goggles. This last is a fairly short range proposition but is super accurate compared to trying to use day sights at night. Even the best thermal rifle sight is hard pressed to allow snipers to operate at fall range, however. The image from a second generation light intensification device is normally not as good as that of a third generation one but things are seen differently through them. The spectrum they amplify is not quite the same. Sometimes conditions are better for one, sometimes another. The older technology is more easily damaged by very bright lights and is more effected by glare, but can actually give better results in a city where it is fairly well lit at night. The newer devices are at their best out under good moon and starlight. None of them, except for passive thermal, and there are as yet no such goggles (save a few new short-range uncooled monoculars), work in truly dark places. IR weapon lights or IR flashlights, chemical light sticks or flares will light the place up. It is hard to see green chem lights with night vision goggles. You cannot see any chem light through thermal sights at all with the exception of ones designed to emit in just the correct IR band. IR flares may cause glare and do emit some visible light. Muzzle flashes, even using low flash propellants and flash hiders or suppressors are very visible at long ranges as are explosions using any passive thermal or light intensification device. All electro-optical sights can be effected to a degree by your own muzzle flash. Machine guns are just about the worst. Cameras can replace forward observation or listening posts and provide you with warning, and sometimes with enough information to counterattack into a flank, ambush, or target with artillery. Up close a thermal camera may crisply image a pistol holstered under even a leather jacket, by the way, as it will be colder than your body and will cool the jacket. Once inside a building, blow them up!, it is common to switch over to white lights and SWAT team tactics. Some of the things discussed herein work very well indeed, but operator inattention or error and equipment malfunctions occur. Laser guided bombs almost always hit within feet of the lased point, but sometimes the designator is wrongly directed, there are multiple laser reflections, there is heavy rain or an electronic breakdown leaves the bomb to miss by a mile. With small scopes you may simply have run out of batteries. Using goggles is a strain to the eyes, and can result in a total loss of situational awareness. Some people using them during a rough vehicle ride may get a headache and lose their sense of balance after only 30 minutes. Serious nausea is quite common. Also, some colors are more more visible than others, not that they are displayed in those colors, but the colored item or light is faded out or whatever. Red is seen well, but in green, yes? Green and blue are less visible. There are aircraft that can scan your home and map its heat patterns, in some cases including the temp of vented air, smoke or vapors. Radars that can locate objects in your house and x-ray devices inside of the frame of your car. Others that have a fair ability to detect a mine field or other buried objects from helicopter altitudes. Of course there are metal detectors, and newer versions that detect the influence of buried nonmetallic items. They are not always reliable, and can be fooledif only by burying lots of junk around important spots and at decoy locations as well. Some things can be buried

deep or under other things; dug in from the side for example. It is almost impossible to hide a facility, or its nature, from a fusion sensor or multiple sensor feeds processed and combined by computer. Unless you are hiding in plain sight by looking and acting like like everyone else. Even basic IR sensitive film can often be used to see the difference between dying or artificial camo and natural foliage. Microwaves can be used to power bugs having waveguide shapes in them but no electronic parts, to force you to run away unless you have shielding or cover due to the pain, to make you ill over time, and to destroy targets (maser). There are also communications systems (line of sight) and radars. Battlefield radars can detect vehicles unless masked by terrain for some miles and tell tanks from trucks. Detecting people is a more difficult business but can be done for thousands of meters if groups are in the open. Most battlefield radars are not for detecting stationary targets though. Seriously, whether done from the air or from the ground a steel helmet or a coffee can carried over the plain where there is nothing else to confuse and clutter the return makes for a signal as easy to track on the screen as a spotlight is easy to see at night. Even metal buttons, tabs and zippers are a bad idea, really. Velcro would be OK but for rapid wear, picking up debris and failing to work, and the noise made if you are forced to open a pocket while on night listening post duty, and the like. Some fairly rare laser, radar, and acoustic systems can locate and target snipers quickly. Some can even track the bullet, so pull back into cover without delay. Did you know the ADS microwave riot control device mounted on a Hummer can hit an individual at more than 800 meters and thus can be used to drive off snipers? There is also a handheld gun that mounts both a dazzler, and an IR laser that can cause pain through a jacket at closer ranges. Millimeter wave active sensors have a higher frequency and thus more resolution. There is a handheld imaging radar that can see you through the wall of your house if held up outside. It might be worth hanging aluminumized strips along your walls and stirring them up with fans. For what it is worth, it is possible for a computerized device of this type to detect your pulse and breathing in the movement of your chest. There are cameras operating passively at even higher frequencies (terahertz) that are not much good at any distance but use energy given off by the body to image it, and any packages, through most clothing. Defeat this by wearing plastic explosives in sheets conforming to the body; though range and zoom get better every day, and better signal processing can identify materials not actually shielded. Things just get better every day. Sound detection and triangulation systems can automatically locate snipers. IR sensor devices can locate and track bullets in the air and calculate the ballistic track back to the sniper's position. Counterbattery artillery radar of various types can do the same for rockets and mortar shells, or for artillery shells. It is wise to use the lowest trajectory workable when firing mortars against a target, and to fire from a position well back from where the mortar bombs will enter their line of sight. Terrain masking. If they detect it and soon enough, however, counter fire will be pretty accurate and if they are good, on the way after a minute or so. When the enemy does not have radar high angle fire is best. Airbust is for exposed troops, surface burst for troops with some cover, and delayed for bunkerssave in cases where they can be more easily collapsed by not using a delay. This happens if resistance is inadequate and the explosion too deep. Sound, vibration and magnetic field detectors, sure. Ultrasound, IR and microwave motion detectors. Mines with such as triggers, or with light sensors in case you uncover them. Explosive charges with IR laser detection or beam disruption sensors. You bet, and also tilt detection if you lift them. Along with the more usual touch, get too near or step on ribbons and tubes, and the trip or release, or step on or remove a weight from mechanical devices. Oh yeah. Sound weapons to injure you or merely make you nauseous. Yes, or to just blast your ears. There are parks in the US with posts protruding from the ground along the trails. They are networked and will detect a person walking by with a shovel. Also the metal in a rifle. There are usually cameras about as well. We are so fucking free.

Lasers can be used to find the range, and with GPS systems can precisely locate the target on a map. Did you know civilian GPS receivers are sent a more inaccurate fix, while government receivers provide a very accurate one? Lasers can be used to dazzle and blind, to injure the eyes (hardkill blind), to provide a target for guided munitions, and to damage optics and related electronics. They are part of certain line of sight communication systems, and can be bounced off windows and demodulated in order to eavesdrop. Of course your phones and Onstar can be activated and used against you, and a van down the block can use active systems to find out what channels you are listening to and a passive one to reconstruct whatever is on your computer screen, no lasers needed. Huh. You would need good electromagnetic shielding to avoid this. Not to worry, you are probably using unencrypted wireless networks and phones anyway. And your ISP is spying on unencrypted traffic also. Lasers can also be used to kill people and shoot mortar shells out of the sky, but are still very large and their generators are towed around by tractor trailer rigs, or carried in large cargo aircraft. There are ways of mapping with lasers (ladar), and methods of scanning for reflections from optics which then can be attacked with a more powerful laser, and God help you if you are looking through binoculars. Run of the mill video cams can act as a buffer between you and lasers. Low power, even eyesafe, lasers can blind a cam while actually lasing, and Red and IR LEDs around your hat brim may keep your face from being recorded (face recognition software works, not highly accurately, and covering the forehead and ears is important), but in situations like this a non-eyessafe or weapon class laser that would injure your eyes will probably damage your camera instead. It also allows you to see some of the IR activity out there, some lasers and remote controls. Hood the lens, use a tube in front of the lens, to limit the number of people who can see light glint off it. Never look directly into even an eyesafe laser, by the way. More powerful lasers should not be directed at reflective objects, especially at close range, or at least look away when you do it. Some things are cool. More powerful electromagnetic pulse devices to blow out your unshielded electronics, less powerful devices to shut down your car. Carbon fibers draped over power lines to short everything out. Weather modification, and worse. Behavior modification, including chemical and electromagnetic warfare against the brain. Methods of modifying the electromagnetic environment the like. Micro UAVs and scattered mines and sensors. Troops of the future networked into the system. You may not be able to listen in or meddle, but you sure can track and locally jam them. GPS is easily jammed locally. Some systems are not easy to jam because they are very powerful, operate over large areas, or use very clever modulation, coding and frequency hopping methods. Some use technologies making it almost impossible to even detect their operation even if on a fixed channel and trying every demodulation method you have ever heard of. Drug dogs, police attack dogs, guard dogs, dogs that hunt by sight and tracking dogs. Indeed. Drug dogs are not always reliable and can be trained to bark on a signal, nuff said. If you are attacked by a police dog either protect your throat and lie absolutely still, or kill the dog. Sometimes you can catch them in the air and turn them over, but they are very fast and dangling hands get nailed. If you have a hefty club you win, a knife and you get hurt, a gun is better if you can shoot. Blood hounds may not track the person you think they will. You can't take a guy's socks out of storage and expect them to track the correct person every time, When they do lock onto a scent they are hard to beat. You can use the standard running water drill by moving in a stream, smear your shoes and pants legs with a local plant or mud. Wash yourself in swamp water, and try to avoid contact with plants and the like as you walk. Use animal scent or scent neutralizing washes and sprays as hunters do. Pray for rain and high winds. Try to deaden their senses with pepper spray, ammonia or pepper. Spend some travel time up on high ground, traveling over a rooftop (come off the building into a dumpster and smear your feet with garbage), atop a wall or fence, in a sewer tunnel or moving through trees. Do not brush against weeds, brush and trees, but there are times when crushing plants and rubbing your feet and legs with them is helpful. Hide the remains of same. Some dogs are good at tracking by airborne scents alone if the trail is not too many hours old, or by the odor of all the plants you have bruised along the way. It is said that

there are times when dogs not yet on your trail can be avoided by carefully entering low ground and lying still and breathing into the grass below you. Stay at least 200m away from such dogs even if they are upwind of you. Probably best if you circle back at a good place to ambush and just kill them. If conditions remain good, humid but not rained out, temperate and still, a dog may pick up a trail 4 days old. dogs trained for the job are very good at finding traps. They can smell the trapper. They will see and may even hear the wind moving by a tripwire long before you see it. Dogs are even able most times to back away before tripping a wire they have touched. Your scent tends to hang around under the same conditions many chemical weapons do. So it is sad you can't hang out on high open ground taking in the sun and enjoying a stiff dry wind. Just add sunscreen, a lounge chair and fruity drinks. Think about what you are doing but there are times when sheer bloody mindedness works a treat. You will of course realize that when the insects go quiet, birds scold or more commonly take flight, and squirrels chatter some fool is making a disturbance. Maybe you. Dogs are even worse than people about looking up or down unless they actually see (not hear or smell, although some are used to treeing game and are harder to fool) the prey climb up but can hear and smell things you can't, and horses are quite good at avoiding camouflaged pits and the like. Did you ever use a cat as a sentinel? He usually won't alert you so you have to keep an eye on him. A cat can sit inside a window behind glass and detect things outdoors you cannot see, hear or smell. If you see him staring at a spot something is probably there, or is coming. I once watched a cat stare at the woods for 20 seconds before another cat walked into view. He may stare at a place or obviously be following something with his eyes, He may start twitching his tail. If he puffs up and growls he is feeling pretty safe where he is but really dislikes what he sees, or it is a strange male cat. If he takes off before you can even see anything be wary. Be honest. Know your enemies. If you cannot identify them and locate them closely enough to target them with a given weapon system you cannot fight them. They will tear you apart. Thermal sights cannot see through window glass, nor through opaque solid materials with the exception of some colored plastic sheeting. Night vision goggles can, of course, unless there is too much reflection off the glass or no light in the room. With the curtains open and various VCR displays blinking there is some light in the room. Naturally if it is lighter inside than out or you are backlit they don't need help seeing you and regular binoculars with largish objective lenses are better at night than the unaided eye, even more so if your eyes have not adjusted to the dark yet. If you stand against or very near something, or inside a very small space, which can be heated by your presence the resulting hot spot may be noticed. If you lie on the ground for some minutes an airborne sensor may detect the hotspot after you have left. Try overhead cover of any type, or get in a small hollow and stake up a blanket over a space blanket. The blanket keeps the thermal blanket from being a reflector for just about every other type of sensor, except radar. A faceted surface or the surface at a slant relative to the radar might help. Allow a space for airflow and do not remain in contact with the cover. Some handhelds at close range can detect hand and footprints on things you have touched but only for a second before they fade. But hell, a helicopter pilot with the right light can glance out the window and see the path you made walking through the center of a grassy field. You might try going underwater for a time. Being behind ice or in a snow cave is good. Radar, laser, light intensification scopes and goggles, and thermal sights are all degraded in varying amount by rain, snow, storms, dust, smoke, fires, and the like. Thermal sights still work reasonably well under most of these conditions, and radar as well. Light intensification is as likely to be degraded as normal vision. All can penetrate foliage to different degrees and depending on the type and density of same. There is no way to be on the move and invisible. Thermal sights can detect temperatures differing by 1 degree or less. But small shades of difference may go unnoticed by gunners and shooters. Military units can be equipped with commercial IR camo suits that are quite effective, as well as IR

camouflage paste for hands, neck and face including ears. There are camouflage pattern layers and coatings for military vehicles that mute them quite well with respect to the most threatening radars and thermal sights, and reasonably good camo nets that scatter radar energy as well as screening against other threats. You however have a problem. Going up versus ground radar you should stay as far from it as possible and use the ground to mask you from its line of sight. Stay as far back in foliage as you can, stay low if you can, move slowly if possible. Heavy rain and leaves moving in the wind is best. Keep rifle and steel helmet, plastic or ceramic is best, on the other side of your body and since Kevlar absorbs radar energy keep the rifle on the other side of your body armor. If you must attack wrap the rifle barrel in Kevlar sleeves and use the ground during the approach, crawl if you have to. Keep objects between you and the enemy as long as you can. To camouflage against thermal sights you can make a jacket, possibly pants as well. Use a camo pattern cloth jacket and line it with a thermal (space) blanket cut with camo pattern slits and a multiply vented plastic layer under that. The metalized Mylar may make you a radar magnet. This can be hot but wear Kevlar if you can. The idea is to vent heat while muting your emissions and most important of all to change your apparent shape. This leaves your face a great shining oval. Wear a knit Kevlar mask or drape cotton camo cloth over the face, but loosely if it can be done. An inner layer of foam plastic insulation might help, or make a thermal mask as you did your jacket. Your thighs and feet are a lesser , but real, problem. Camouflage your neck, ears and hands day or night. Also your face. Darken high points and use lighter colors on the low/shadowed points of the face. Do not be neat about it, irregular not neat and symmetrical. No shiny anything, including the boots. Camouflage the rifle in an irregular pattern, with a knit Kevlar sleeve wrapped around the barrel underneath, and camouflage any optics as well. Extend the tube of any optics to hood it, but no camo should ever interfere with the free function of rifle or scope. You might consider netting on the helmet that can be loosed at the front and draped over the scope when shooting prone from a concealed position. Steel helmets need help. Use Kevlar, and anything else you can think of. Break up outline and shape. No obvious squares and straight lines, and no obvious and regular curves; body, head or helmet silhouettes. Shoulders, face, throat, lower abdomen and thighs are often unarmored, and the thighs just as often improperly camouflaged. Products are available. Another good liner is carbon aerogel. Silica aerogel or even a liner of activated carbon can be of use, also fiberglass, but carbon absorbs moisture and aerogel even more so unless sealed in and aerogel must not remain in contact with the skin or skin damage may result. Warning, aerogel is easily crushed. Also remember that it is best that there is air flow and that your thermal self appear mottled and your outline disrupted so some inventively shaped pieces need to be individually sealed in plastic and fixed to the garment's lining. For radar, just for fun, look into 1 part in 6 rust powder to paint mixtures. The basic outer camouflage pattern? Multicam is a good general purpose camouflage. Digital ("Universal") ACU is good in some urban areas. British DPM (dispersed pattern, military) or woodland BDU is better in the appropriate forests than most. Olive drab or sage can be good, even matt or charcoal gray in some places; urban or snow and shadow for example. Snow camouflage usually needs a bit more than just pure white, but some patterns in another color on the otherwise white uniform is often better than gray. Khaki is a good desert color in many places but tends to reflect IR light, of course foliage is reflective as well so the problem lies in getting a match between you and the environment. So how useful is a few burning tires or gasoline pits? Not very unless the sensor is focused on or very nearly on them. What then? Red phosphorus (burning) and metalized glass fiber, graphite fiber or graphite ejected into a fuel smoke generator (heat induced oil fog) stream, water spray, pulverized dust carbon, brass, rubber, titanium dioxide (Titanium dioxide is a very fine white powder used in sunblock, as a pigment in paints, etc. Blocks millimeter wave, IR, and visual bands but may stay in the air in sufficient concentration for seconds only. At least it is not much of a fire/explosive hazard and

does not require a pyrotechnic filler in the grenade, though a dispersion method which may consist of a small explosive charge is required.), iron, terephthalic acid (used to manufacture polyester), aluminum, or fire extinguisher dry powder. Red or white phosphorus is not very effective as IR screening smoke (it is great but for cooling too rapidly), use it to heat and disperse suitable particles. There are some related issues with radar chaff systems, where wires or strips of metalized material is cut to 1/2 of the radar wavelength. (Thermal systems normally operate in the .7-4 micron, 4-6 micron or 8-15 micron bands. Muzzle flash and explosions are best detected in the short band but will be seen in all. Operating ground vehicles are best detected in the midwave and people in the longwave. Imaging relies not only on surface temperature but also on how reflective the target is of infrared energy from outside sources as well.) Remember also the carbon fiber bombs used to short out the Iraqi electrical system. Do not merely try to match the background in color, brightness and texture, or in thermal emissions; it is not possible to always fully do so. Also try to change the visual and thermal shapes of body and gear. Plastic trash bags and the like may be of some use, but only until you seriously overheat. Gillie suits. Snipers have long used camouflaged umbrellas. While it is not good to have a metal frame in your camouflage cover you can make a thermal shield and hold it between your body and the expected location of any airborne thermal sensor. Anything that will present a warmer or cooler surface temperature to more readily match the background even for a short time may help. Blankets, wet wool, whatever, but if you don't need to wear it stake it out with a good gap between you and it. Note that a thick pile of blankets has a very different temp on the top of the stack compared to the bottom, and may save you the worst effects of chemicals as well. That if you don't die of heat stroke or suffocation. This estimation business is dangerous, and doing the physics calculations needed to get it right may be impossible or far to slow. The best thing is to test the camo with your own thermal camera or sight. Hot humid air, rainfall or snowfallgood times to move when the enemy is using thermal sights. Storms can really mess up, at times, an array of communications, detect and target, and imaging systems. A row of explosions will momentarily block even radar. Ice fog, sandstorms or really heavy precipitation is great. At night black smoke is better than white, unless you are using flares or other types of illumination within, or are putting the enemy against a backdrop; black smoke better blocks thermal imagery than do standard white smokes anyway. Being able to use smoke to blind weapon sights, or to blind enemy you can't suppress/gain fire superiority over is important, even though the enemy may already have your position and obvious escape routes dialed in. Do not expect basic white smokes to have enough effect on thermal sights. Whenever possible, day or night, stay low and stay in shadow. If you enter a room it is not well if both your rifle muzzle and your own shadow lead you by some distance, only one is needed to alert the enemy. A light or window behind you can alert your enemy if he is behind a closed door but your shadow is visible in the crack under it. The rifle is your best bet, as it also gives the enemy a handle on you. Use camouflage except during any urban operations wherein camo consists of looking and acting like everybody else until the mask or hood is put on and the explosives or small arms come out. Masks and hoods restrict vision and can reduce hearing acuity. The helmet interferes with hearing. When the situation requires disguise or otherwise any of the above you have to balance the pros and cons of the situation. Then you engage, pass off or dump the gear, and act normal. Do not leave DNA behind. Burn the hood if you must, or use acid. (A common mistake is to wipe prints from the exterior of a gun, but to leave prints or a hair on interior parts during cleaning or on the magazine or ammunition. Hair, body fluids including saliva (if enough cells are in it), and skin cells contain DNA. Also sometimes marks are left by fingers in thin rubber gloves although no skin oils pass through so it is rare, and sometimes gloves are left behind with prints on them.) On covert operations try to leave nothing behind, including cartridge cases. Wounded who can be extracted need a preplanned assisted route to medical help. Shotguns leave behind no bullets with rifling marks. Do not get caught with a firearm from which the police have multiple recently fired bullets and cartridge cases. And you should leave behind

no firearms you bought retail under your own name, or with your credit card, or that have been run by the police when they detained you at a traffic stop. Wash the body and clothes thoroughly before you can be tested for gunpowder residue, even though those tests sometimes give false positives. When in doubt play dumb. Places near good ambush spots are dangerous. The ones where they can hit you both from a side and from the front or rear is bad. A curve in a stream or a curve in the road with nearby higher ground or thick forest. If they can hit you from above it is worse. Boundaries are dangerous. People are there. Traps are planted there. Treelines. Ridgelines. Rivers and sea shores. Ports. Where valley gives way to hills or town to country. Roads and fences. Entries are bad. The streets, the gate in the fence, the door, window, the pass or the neck of the valley. Elevators and stairways. Bike trails, foot paths, abandoned fighting positions and ditches, and turn arounds, even more so if you are known to use them or they are near a nice curve with enemy cover side and front plus that lovely open kill zone. Or nearing an enemy position. The on and exit ramps, and overpasses. Bad. Evil things. Prominent and eye catching places and objects also are bad. Crossroads. Tallest building or tree. Lone bush, tree or house. Odd things. Stay away! If you move along beach or river this is a obvious barrier to many types of attacker from the other side, but this kind of boundary is very dangerous if you can be trapped there. Have boats or other flotation means available. If you do move down a beach walk in the water, otherwise your tracks will be apparent to the most casual. Before the day of the long range aircraft and the satellite there were few or no naval battles out in the oceans. Ships could cross without sighting another ship. The danger came when you came within landfall, say within 25 miles of the beach. Leaving or entering a port was the worst. But walking around in the open is the nastiest thing of all. I mean, if you have the best sensors and weapons and are so far out in the middle of the great open that you are out of range all is good. How likely is that? Go through walls or roofs. Be in fortified buildings with basements, on hills or mountain but not at the obvious spots or lined up along the crest and backlit by the sky. A light behind you makes it much easier for others to see you unless it is so bright it is blinding. A sniper who can move until both the sun is at his back and the crosswind has become a headwind is lucky. Putting the wind behind you as well is better unless guard dogs are present. If you go lower, or flatter, than the other fellow you may be able to see him against the sky even on a dark night. Go underground. Cover the routes and choke points, and those obvious places with obstacles and by fire, but do not occupy them. When you move near boundaries stay as far back in cover and concealment as possible. Cross boundaries with care. Stay back in the trees when you can and if you need to see out move to a place as far into the wood as you can be while obtaining observation. When the howitzers or bombs go into action a treeline is no place to be. It is generally better to be even forward of the treeline rather than in it if you can disperse under bushes and into gully, ditch and depression than to be back there. Even tanks will chew you up worse there than they will in the open if you can dig deep and narrow holes with some overhead cover or concealment, and have dispersion in depth. If you stand there they will use surface or near-surface bursts. Lie down and they will use air bursts. Get into cover and they use surface and delayed fuzing bursts. A narrow trench may reduce 100% casualties to 30%. Overhead cover, such as a burster layer plus logs and plenty of dirt may result in 10% losses. It is also often said that 36 inches of packed dirt stops bullets, but only 18 is needed to stop most shell fragments. Sometimes the best thing to do is move rapidly away in cover and concealment. Sometimes the best you can do is to use even minimal variations in terrain, squat and sit on your heels, open your mouth, put chin on chest, and cover your head with your arms. Nevertheless, on average, mortar fires targeting you when you are prone will get half the hits on your group than if they had caught you upright. What in hell has happened to the American people? Shallow, narrow, ignorant, intolerant and rude. Yet they are also do and know nothing keep-your-voice-down cowards who wince at politically

incorrect slogans, wet their panties when the G-man shows up, and vomit at the sight of an injury. How have middle-aged men lived so long without toughening up? The general public in this country is in close contact with the inner childwhich child is a 9 year old princess easily shocked or frightened and subject to periods of supreme priss. You do not make your approach march deep in heavy jungle and overgrown forest, or in extremely steep terrain, because it is very slow going; perhaps a half mile per hour, and potentially dangerous. This even though you cannot be targeted at range and are unlikely to meet anybody anyway. You may want to rethink that under certain conditions, sometimes haste is a poor idea.. If you do make contact you better be loaded for bear and quick on the draw. They may be 20 meters or less away if quiet. You certainly cannot stroll over in the open fields and valleys unless you have fire superiority and a fast combined arms unit. Perhaps you are showing the flag, gunboat diplomacy styletrolling for hostiles by exposing yourself as a target? So you approach in the available cover and concealment. That is along treelines, or not to too deeply within the trees, and the like. If it is not an expected entry to their positions the cover need not be large. It can be a single drainage ditch, but you need backup if you have to withdraw under fire; and escape routes. Again, this means boundary conditions better than open exposure, but where contact is likely and booby traps are to be expected. Ware any paths or trails!, and stay out of small forest clearings. Look out for hidden bunkers and tunnels, and concealed high places. Did you know some spider holes and fighting positions are situated for you to walk past them to be shot in the side or back, and a close ambush can make reaction drills into a joke. Wiped out in a minute. Think of the terrain as the enemy sees it. On otherwise flat and open ground partial or full concealment or cover from direct fires may be had by lying in tufts of grass, in a very small depression or against a slight rise or bump in the surface. Where would or does the water go? This does not mean you enter and follow every ravine or gully you see. They are narrow, hard to get out of, and ambush from high ground on the flanks is lethal; so have flank guards up there where they can periodically observe the ground outside of your little depression, but without leaving concealment. Silhouetted against the sky is bad. From a distance rather large folds in the ground may be invisible to observers. Lying in the furrows in plowed fields or in vehicle ruts may be all that is needed. Learn to notice fine details of terrain. Hell. Even the computer printers put their serial numbers on every page, inside the letters themselves in a dot code. Do not register your printer by warranty card or credit sale. Many chain stores photograph or video every customer at checkout. This is in addition to other cameras throughout the facility. When you pay with credit, use a loyalty or membership card, or have your ID card swiped a record is kept and government databases are updated in many cases. If the item(s) have a serial number it is retained as well. Warranties collect your information also. Therefore, and for example, the serial off your computer printer can not only identify you but can lead directly to a photo of you buying the printer in addition to your name, address, telephone number, ID numbers, and such. When stalking you move silently, slowly and smoothly between positions. When not moving you are in cover. You do not move when there is no need to, and there are times when turning the head, even slowly, to look at something will draw fire. If possible look by moving the eyes only. Take advantage of anything that distracts the enemy. Move or shoot at that time, just as you would move when it rains or during strong gusts of wind when background movement and noise cover your sound and motion. Modern cavalry may mean donkey (mountain goat would be nice) in the mountains and horse in hill country if forested but not too overgrown or rugged, but for the most part it means mounted operations with tanks and armored carriers in open country. Even then speed and the full use of terrain features are used to reduce long range fire effects. Unarmored vehicles, horses and burros cannot be used in anything like a charge in the vast majority of cases and should not be exposed to effective fire at any range. A car motor and certain other components will stop a rifle bullet, the sloped windows are surprisingly resistant depending on the angle of impact, and pistols, some rifles, and shotguns are not

reliable penetrators of vehicle bodies. But. A 9mm pistol bullet will pass through a door panel, and a 7.62mm bullet in one side and out the other unless it hits something a little harder on the way. When a bullet hits a barrier that deforms but does not fragment it and then hits you with lower energy but with enough left to still go deep, well it just makes an even bigger hole than it would otherwise have done. Ricochets too sometimes do this. With cars the engine block is the best cover, along with frame, transmission, axles, drive shaft, differentials and wheels, but many rifle bullets are capable of damaging the motor enough to stop it and .50 caliber will punch holes into it. While other parts of a car may stop or deflect bullets and shot of some types 9mm will go through most door panels and it gets worse from there, and anything bigger than .50 will make immediate or, with a few more hits, short work of the engine as well. Some motorcycles, cars and trucks are very loud. Some are very quiet. Most armored vehicles are loud as well, and tracked ones have track noises to add to the clamor. Do not think this means you can listen for approaching trouble. You must keep a close eye on things. Some of the newer tanks may surprise you, much as you would be if you think all combat helicopters are as loud as they used to be. Some wheeled fighting vehicles can cruise up quietly and quickly enough that if you depended on noise to alert you your alert would come far to late to be of use. You need several planned routes of escape. If they are not obvious to the enemy they may even work for you. Having guides and medics at critical points along these routes may keep you from ambush and provide medical help and alternate transportation for the wounded. When all else fails breaking out in all directions and as individuals and small groups may allow a few of you to get away. Do not think you can make like the light cavalry and swamp enemy units with armed motorcycles and cars. There is a place for these, and for vans and trucks. Heavy trucks can be armored and can soak up a fair amount of small arms fire too. But thin skinned vehicles have very thin skins. Trucks are better used for hiding the get-away car. A private garage or shed is better. This sort of thing has been tried many times and works on a small scale and with surprise. After the surprise wears off you car will look like the tin can you used for target practice. If you are unable to leave the area and blend in somewhere in a timely fashion the obvious secondary roads out of the area will be patrolled by aircraft and the main ones will have road blocks. If you are not set up to get through the checkpoints you must not think staying in your vehicles and on the road is a worthy idea. Abandon the car, burn it to destroy hair and blood if you must, but it contains ID numbers all over and must not trace back to you. Leave the area in other vehicles and with good ID or on foot by the twisty path. Or fit in and hang out somewhere safe and leave after the furor dies down. The open street is not really your friend. If you will not heed my words and want to make raids in your car put in roll bars and good seat belts, use 5 automatic weapons in that thing, and drive like the wind on secondary roads having multiple connections (to avoid being trapped) as soon as the hit is in. Helmets and vests are always good, but all that ammunition and your gunners are going to weigh that car down. How good is your suspension? You could put in a bank of solenoid-fired MGs and have a short career as a fighter pilot in two dimensions I guess. For an even shorter run use a bank of shrapnel filled tubes wired electrically. What verve and elan. Once clear you need to change appearances and slow down to avoid attention. May you lose them, my friend, but I think not. You can't outrun a bullet, but may be able to reach cover before a missile arrives, and you can't outrun a helicopter with your car. Once spotted you are in trouble. High speed chases are mostly a waste of effort. If you crash you are going no place. If you run over someone else you are charged with manslaughter or worse, of course if the police choose to ram your vehicle during even a 55 MPH chase they will charge you with attempted vehicular homicide on the officer who crashed his cruiser into your car. (They also will charge you with burglary if you criminally trespass and steal while there by turning on an electric lamp for a minute.) Look at that. See all those soldiers standing around out there? Standing about in the open, what reason could there be for that? You do not stop in the open on a battlefield. You do not stop in the open

on a potential battlefield. You do not even enter an open area without need. You use every fold in the ground and every bit of concealment. You move slowly or on your belly if you do not want to be seen. You do not cluster up closer than you need to be. Move from cover to cover, and make full use of it. If under fire or already spotted you move if exposed, or you must. Move fast and low to the next cover. Do not stop in the open. Do not run directly at the enemy; jink, weave, or slant away. Get down within seconds, as soon as possible. If under effective fire move only if you have to because your position is going to be hammered to pieces. The enemy may maneuver into a position which hopelessly exposes you. If you are not fully covered you may have to move to avoid accurate fire, a sniper's perhaps, which can hit any exposed body part. Move under covering fire. If all else fails you may get to experience that last desperate tactic called the hare's jump. Suddenly roll away from your last known position, spring to your feet, and sprint wildly and erratically out of the area. Lucky you! A cluster of troopers milling around, a cluster fuck is what that is. You Southerners stop calling each other bitches and you Brits stop referring to each other as cunts: it is unseemly. And no wearing of sandals! The ends do justify the means, but not counting the negative ends is cheating. Conscription is immoral. It is a form of slavery. I know the argument: a free people must be responsible, worthy of freedom because they serve the nation and obey orders. A sufficient number of persons will not volunteer for tough duty and the nation, and freedom, must be defended. Bull shit! Serve the oligarchy, more like. If you want to fight but there are not enough people who agree with you, then consider your own motives. Any country which will not defend itself when attacked is probably a poor place and not worth defending. Never demand absolute loyalty and punishment for slackers and deserters. Fire slackers, wave goodbye to deserters. You need no reluctant fighters in a combat unit. Sometimes people who are poor performers in one job are good at another. You don't own those people. Some are simply unable to function as soldiers. Others are contemptible people. It is true. Why do you want them around? Reluctant fighters are not the sort of people you want backing you in a firefight. Poor leaders can do more harm than too few leaders. Unwilling fighters can be more harmful than having fewer fighters. Want to be a slaver? Pervert. Slavery harms the mind and bodies of the slaves. It perverts the minds of the slavers. Do not start down that slope, who knows where you will end up? Possibly where the US has done in the pastusing people as test animals for biological and chemical warfare projects, or mind control research. Ah, that higher purpose! Sacrifice! Let someone else die in our place. Deluded arrogant pricks. Mostly quite willing to volunteer others, less likely to conscript themselves. Sacrifice. Be a saint, give up everything in order to earn what you no longer want, or pray that a saint will suffer for you. Now you are worthy of salvation! A major mistake of governments fighting insurgencies is using discipline within their own troop units rather than telling the troops the truth about what they intend to do and why. They lie to the people as well, because perception works as well as truth while it lasts. This is an easy thing to fall into since troops are supposed to obey anyway and truth can be embarrassing. It tends to fail in the end with respect to the general public but may work with the police and military since they are given some power and privilege, and are faced with severe punishments in a very constrained living environment if they revolt. Some dogs will lick your boots if you shout at them. Is not pet ownership fine? War is when you and the other guy pour troops and equipment into the grinder and hope he runs out first. It is nice if your people are harder nuts and tend to grind more slowly. Otherwise just try to have more nuts. The winner is the guy with something left at the end. Hurray! What is sacrifice, anyway? It is when someone else pays the price for you, or when you give things to a god in hopes of getting a favor. It is sacrificing in hope of avoiding disaster or because you want to express your love for the god who does not even exist! Perverts. Do, or allow when you could stop, evil that good may come. People know things to be true. This is a feeling. They are right or wrong

based on the facts, but even when right they have seen enough and now feel the certainty of knowing. If you believe in the kind of god the God is love new age Christians do, or a similar secular doctrine, you have blinkers on. If you love those gods who torture, who cause parents to eat their children you have Stockholm Syndrome. A harsh parent in the sky, judgment, torture; would actually be comforting in a sick way. In theory he or it would care for at least some of the people. Spiritualism is a somewhat less harsh but even more unrealistic lie. Know what is the most scary thing? The truth. The truth is lonely because there is no high drama and no huge eternal secret. People do what they can in rather drab and small ways before they die and are forgotten. God made them eat their own children? I think not! My god would never do that, I mean, it says he did make them (all or some) do that, but it only appears to mean what it says. What it means is God had nothing to do with it and never intended them to do it but they did it of their own free wills. So there. We do if we can what makes life good, dignified, and enjoyable. The religious tend to do what they think prepares them for death. My mind is like an attic filled with cotton balls. It is not so good for thinking but is an excellent fire hazard. I am your teacher, child. Do not question me, and bring in some firewood before you go; so long as the stove was grandfathered in as installed before the ban, and the smoke is less than 50% opaque. Democracy is the only form of totalitarian dictatorship where even the dictator is not a free man, but no dictator ever was free to do quite everything he wished, and it is easily controlled by the prominent and influential as an ever shifting group. This is not to say that certain late Christian, as the overall history of the same goes, and Christianity descended concepts are inferior to the global norm. Who is this "we," white man? Do not sacrifice yourself and do not willingly accept the sacrifice of others. But fighting for what you believe in is no sacrifice. We do our best to kill to defend our rights, not die for them, though risk is unavoidable. Carrying your wounded brother is no sacrifice. Helping out where you can and defending those you love is no sacrifice. Human sacrifice is vile and voluntary human sacrifice is sick. No, not you, 'tis I who am the Walrus! You probably think you will go free not because you are good or faithful but because someone else took your punishment or prayed for you. Ach. Gods, like globalists, run things. Think so? Then they are poor managers. All God's little children are insane. So are Lucifer's. So are Marx and Hitler's. If the best and brightest are in charge then I will agree with the Greek who said the gods are mad. Free will means you can make decisions without the control and threats of punishment of others, particularly government. Both free will and fate in a more absolute sense do not exist, but you will behave according to your nature. Are you capable of hearing me? Of course, if people join the other side they become the enemy. I am not talking about enemy noncombatants. You don't target them even if they sympathize with or support the enemy. You do not kill every civilian you meet when on your way to an ambush, on the grounds that any one of them might report your location. Stupidity, again, is not a crime. Do not expand your job to near infinite difficulty. People are remarkably deluded. Have you ever seen a shrunken old man with his trousers pulled up to his armpits shuffling about shouting that he can take on any number of young whippersnappers because kids today are all weaklings? Do you not have sufficient enemies already? Do you think you can cleanse the world? You do attack military targets though civilian workers may work there. If the enemy uses human shields, and you need to hit them, you do shoot the enemy knowing some of the civilians will also be hit. Remember that their lives are as intrinsically valuable as your own; they are not, however, more valuable. It should go without saying that you do not use human shields, nor do you force others to disarm traps or lift mines; but does it need saying? Crimes are never justified, mitigated at times but never justified. No one is that special if you want a reasonably stable and fair society. Never use noncombatants as shields, or fire from among them to deter counterfire, but

do not think this means you can always avoid using buildings and operate only outside of towns and cities. Give civilians time to withdraw whenever you can. Let them use the deepest cover when you can't. Never, by the way, fall for the usual bullshit that you are a criminal for firing from a house thus justifying the other side in executing townies in retaliation, or for having blown up the entire town. They will do these things; avoid civilian losses as much as possible, but the enemies overweening disease of self righteousness is not your fault. If your own are found guilty of rape, murder or torture of noncombatants you should execute them. The same if they do those things to the enemy, but it is not as easy to prove murder. If you capture enemy war criminals and can prove the charges you should execute them as well. Long prison terms are good too, if you have a prison. Lacking long-term jail capacity take care not to use the death penalty for every bloody thing, and not to get too weird and wonderful with corporal punishments. The police official, politician, officer, and mob boss is a combatant even if he never fires a shot himself: if a person does the planning or gives the orders he is in the enemy chain of command. Shoot him just as you would a uniformed enemy soldier, on sight unless he is captured, incapacitated or is able to surrender in time. Yes this also applies to spies and scouts. If you can't capture them then shoot them. When someone is an enemy combatant or is criminally threatening your life you do not give them any time to screw around. You go about the business of killing them. When they are no longer a threat you stop shooting. At that point they are disarmed and\or surrendered, incapacitated or deadit does not matter which. Naturally surrender is rare in close quarter battle (CQB) because everything happens so quickly. Do not kill noncombatants! What kind of punk are you? But fighters, even if not military or police, are combatants, as are people whether military or civilian in the chain of command of any combatant military and paramilitary organizations. Also, civilians working for the above should not be targeted, but it is no war crime if some are killed when their workplaces must be attacked! It would be great if no killing was needed, and no murderous scum existed. Not killing when killing is right is a serious mistake. Killing when unjustified is bad. Killing the wrong people entirely is terrible. Remember that most car crashes occur when you are nearly home. People get careless when the end is in sight. If you are almost clear, or almost at the camp, do not head in like a horse to the barn. Take a deep breath and concentrate on the task at hand. Many ambushes are set up near the gate. We soldierly types do not steal. That sort of plundering is for the rabble. We seize the property of the enemy. Not personal effects. Not the property of noncombatants. Using property without permission is justified only during emergencies and to save life. Example: you break into an unoccupied dwelling and use the telephone to call an ambulance; you trespass on private property in order to engage the enemy during a firefight. That is the sort of thing. Who taught us our modern values? Who made us all into pacifists when it comes to resistance, and militarist supporters with regard to government authority? Why have we allowed untruths related to rights to justify violation both of good sense and of the law? The whole system is part of an ideological movement, and is the new world order. You know, the Russians used women as snipers and pilots. Israel used to have females in the combat arms, and has an experimental unit today. Canada has women in the infantry. The deadly sex, fatalistic and fierce in defense of their young. They learn to shoot more easily, not being so macho, and have finer motor skills. Likely to have better eyes. Safer drivers, they are. They bring good sense to the police force, rather than mere brawn. Live longer, they do; are more resistant to stress and to the cold. Why, they are just as capable as men. Except when they are better. A man is just a woman with a penis while a woman is a man with a vagina. Do tell! The average man has a lower IQ than the average woman (although, oddly, the highest tested IQs are men's, with a major exception). You do know that cultures are different but none better than another? Races differ only in skin color? If this country was swamped by a massive majority of Chinese, and they wanted to modify things to suit

themselves; so what? Treat people as individuals. Things would be even better due to diversity. All individuals would still have their rights as is recognized by the constitution, until the form of government is changed by the newcomers. Who are you to judge? The sexes are the same except for the women being better than men in many ways, and western civilization is the same, in every important way, except for being worse than the others. Would a majority of the majority be Chinese who oppose traditional American values? Whatever, we are not racists and will ignore problematical issues. Identify individuals who are enemies of freedom and destroy them, and like magic you also destroy the group made up of enemy, including the majority of the Chinese. Amazing! War is cool, we don't need no stinking border controls: let the world come in and things will sort themselves out. Average IQ: Jew 108, Chinese 105, white 100, Hispanic 87, black 85, black African 70, and Australian native 61. Usually 75% of your IQ related characteristics are inherited. Arab scores are on par with Hispanic for the most part. Eastern Europe and some Asian groups score in the 90s. Jews tend to dominate in theory and linguistics, Asians in the technical and mystical...discipline and order. Blacks dominate in boxing, football, basketball, and running. Whites dominate in mixed martial arts, hockey, and long-distance running. Genetics is a major factor; nutrition, exercise, socialization, literacy and education are also factors. Male and female, more accurately, IQ is nearly identical, but fewer woman have the lowest and highest IQs, and aptitudes are not directed at the same fields of study. Men really are more likely to be suited for engineering, for example, and this too is both genetic and environmental. This is not about race, it is about freedom. There is only one race, the human race. It is just that the races need to learn to get along, and those white people need to stand aside and let the other races have their time in the sun. Let the white race die. It is decadent. Our women should murder our children, his and hers, her choice in freedom. Let there be no future, and let die that which will die. The remainder should be bred out of existence; but genetics is only for other animals and not for people, there are breeds of sheep but not breeds of man, and let women give up family clannishness and genealogyit is racist pride. If you will not accept eugenics and tyrannical controls how can you believe in genetics? Lastly let us have no more science and no more truth. We can only be good if we are happy to tell the needed white lies (red lies?). Anyhow, none of us are ever wrong but good manners requires us to discuss things with people before we go on anyway, or use force. None of us ever has anything to learn from these discussions, naturally, and what is truth the man said. You have given them a chance to agree with you so whatever happens now is their own fault...but I babble, and race has nothing to do with us so get with the sickness. I have forgotten more than you ever learned, unfortunately I now know less than you do having forgotten everything. I ask you, why was the sick man of Asia sick? He had achieved too much spiritual perfection. What profundity in moribundity. Too much spirit and perfection is as destructive as any amount of slothful degeneracy as they are the same thing but you don't come back as a bug! Shheeeeeiiiite!! Caw, CAW! I do feel well today. How y'all doin'? Apparently communism and political correctness too are too perfect. If Russia keeps it up they will become both the sick man of Europe and have only 50% of their current ethnic population in about 35 years. California has nearly the lowest average IQ in the country, by the way, in company with states like Alabama. There is no danger of depopulation, however, except for of the whites. White and Black people are the same, the single exception being skin color. Ask any person of African descent. He will tell you it is not true. This is, however, because he is just as confused about race as you are! The gender issue is alike to this. The only difference is "plumbing!" Fairness may dictate, in fact, that every industry be 50% female. Since the women may not be physically capable of doing some jobs we should let them run things, while the men do the sweating and dying. In this way we can protect them from dying at a rate even higher than ours. We are saintly fellows. They swat us for holding the door open, yet we continue to serve. We want nothing out of this for ourselves; gentle soulssaints I say!

Most men do not make good soldiers. The unfit and old make even poorer light infantry. Most good light infantrymen are between 18 and 35 years old, but most people in that age group are not good light infantry. Your job is to fight effectively without wasting lives. To require the meeting of standards appropriate to the job, or as high as can be obtained in the required numbers. It is not your job to use up unqualified people due to shortages of manpower, to burn up service troops and specialists in other fields in infantry combat, or to waste away your reserves and training establishment. Also, leave the children alone. Do not use up your sources of production and do not destroy your own future. It is a mistake to avoidably misuse a persons skills and talents, especially when it makes him more likely to be killed. It is true that some woman are quite suited to any of these jobs: A small number indeed. Women are not better drivers. They tend to close their eyes and hope for the best when they have lost control of a vehicle. They are safer drivers because they don't take stupid chances. (Except when distracted.) While fewer of them commit suicide more of them attempt it. They certainly do not live longer under primitive conditions; look at the death rate among our pioneer woman. Women are the deadliest "species" followed by stories of native women, or Communist women, etc., abusing prisoners, of female poisoners and such. This is not soldiering or policing. Don't forget the few pirates, the woman gunners, pilots, Amazon legends, and female partisans. There is little evidence of combat capability here, with the possible exception of snipers. The female police officer sometimes brings sufficient strength and good sense to the job. Often instead they bring stridency or timidity, which is a magnet for assault. Woman do not have the potential endurance and speed of men. They do not have the load carrying ability. Ski jumping is very dangerous for themmuch more likely to break their necks. They suffer a much greater incidence of physical injury. The shooting? That fine motor control is lost as soon as they handle a bulky or heavy weapon. Recoil control can be a problem. They should use weapons they can handle deftly. Many shoot much and hit nothing in emergencies. Have you ever seen a group of women laden with gear and trying to run, crawl and climb? That gear looks to beat them to death. The helmet tips down over the eyes. Even an M16A1 is too clumsy a burden. A sad sight! Men are faster (about 10%), can march longer, (30 to 50 miles at 3 to 5 MPH with gear), and can carry a third more gear. Upper body strength is at least 25 percent greater but is often 50% or more. They are harder emotionally and, while they may handle frustration badly, they suffer less often from post traumatic stress disorder. Men have a better sense of direction, and can judge distance more accurately. On long marches it is common to alternate periods of fast walking and slow running, along with hourly rests of 15 minutes. Female endurance is roughly 66% of the physical endurance of males; even her grip, the strength of her grasp, is only about half that of a man's grip. Soldiering never was entirely about brute strength, and firearms were added to guile to make this more so, as was more modern technology. So the big dog is not any longer the largest strong man. It is the one best able to combine guts, skill, and an appropriate weapon. Sometimes that weapon is a machine, and there are always weapons behind the scenes if not front and center, and sometimes that tool is a twisty mind and a big mouth. Many jobs still require strength, however, and combat requires a mindset that fewer women possess. Some say a fit man can carry a load 55% of his own weight over long distances, a fit woman 40%; in any case do not carry a heavy pack into combat. Perhaps a total of 50 pounds at most and the lighter the better, subject to the need for mission essential gear. A fit person might make 100 miles in a day, but this is unencumbered. If you arrive without the tools with which to survive and fight you ought to just keep on running. Faster elements can maneuver around slower ones, using the slower as a base, but a unit of whatever broad category can in fact not travel faster than the slowest man or vehicle. While some elements may need to be faster to respond to alarms or situations and too much uniformity is foolish it is also the case that too much divergence in loads, human fitness or vehicle capability is foolish. The

slowest man either sets the pace, or is left behind and lost. If somebody is simply too slow for the unit type put him in a unit and position where he can perform. Soldiers may march on their stomachs. They also march on their boots. Quality and appropriateness of boots, and to varying degree, load bearing equipment and clothing is critical. Also, expect to use up to 5 times the small arms ammunition you planned on. What does all this mean? The Balkanization of the west. You are on your own, buddy; each alone or struggling for his own little subgroup among the fragments. Writers are pushing the use of "Sir" as a address for women. If this were to become common it would not be long before the term became associated with its object and would be replaced, and no I am not the one who thinks women need to be seen as more masculine. Consider Scotch and Scots, Oriental and Asian, Indian and Native American, and Colored, Negro, Black, Afro-American, African American and Black. Modern military fiction is full of female warriors. The average American is most likely a middle-aged white woman. Vaguely liberal, college educated, slightly overweight and divorced at least once, and making about 30,000 dollars a year in a job involving the service industry or a lot of paperwork and no violence or heavy lifting. (It also is full of authoritarianism, hero worship, unlikely perfection, martial law, & etc.) Pay it no mind. Martial law is supposed to be instigated in a constitutional manner. So are states of emergency and wars. It allows government to fight and round up rioters, paramilitary terrorists, invaders and armed revolutionaries against constitutional government. It does not allow federal troops to police the people, or the government to violate the rights, by disarming or otherwise, of the general public. Politically correct fiction and nothing else. What? Silly buggers! States rights and don't like the fed? How dare you! You local government, police, and military types swore an oath to defend the constitution. It is of no import that the oath is to constitutional principles and government, and not to any particular standing government, president or what-the-hell ever. Revolt against constitutional government is a crime. Secession is a crime. We do not have to follow the law, we are the government and opposition to us makes you an oath breaker! The truth is women are better than men except that they have been slacking off for thousands of years. They could have taken over and run things right but have been feeling rather lazy. Why is the golden age fetish so pervasive? African, matriarchal, classical pagan, Christian; and the noble savage lies down with the lion and the lamb. Pure nonsense, and before you rudely point the finger; no perfect age of loving patriarchy existed, though patriarchy was much more common than matriarchy and still is, and we do not think this country's founders were perfect either. Just smart and more wise than most, they was. If women are to be police and prison guards why not combat soldiers. Who cares. We know there are prisoners that will throw urine and feces at guards, and that some would happily beat a guard to death if they could. We know all kinds of disgusting things go on. We also know how most prisons are run, and that guards are twisted by a number of stressors. And what idiot decided to put female guards in male prisons and vice versa? Although female inmates may actually get better treatment with male guards than female, and no, I am not saying they need to get laid. Men are often harsh with other men, but women are hard on other women as well. Female guards are more likely to have sex with male prisoners than male guards with female ones, and homosexual/lesbian ("gay" and lesbian are both homosexual but dislike the scientific term) relationships have more violence than heterosexual ones do. Woman are in fact more likely to murder or physically abuse children than men are, and the most severely injured are usually small boys; just in case you think the ladies are all sweetness and light. However, the point major is that the prison culture will always be a bad one, but it is worse than it would otherwise be because of the corruption and police-state mentality at the top which is mostly the fault of men though the stupid framework within which the justice system is supposed to work has been feminized. Let authority do whatever it wants so we won't have to. Is it possible? Are women just slackers? Nope. It is a matter of the individual and the specific

job. But no! I do digress. It is not enough that women and men have equality and fairness, equal rights under constitution and law. They must have equal bloody-mindedness, strength and skill in every way. So, since they are just as able to defend themselves as you, why should you take any serious risks in their defense? Well, if the means are available, and you would really enjoy smashing the punks in question... Why not! If the means are not at hand, and you know you will lose but also know you can't get help in time? You can try to distract the attackers, or to get helpwho knows for certain you will fail? If you would rather die than yield the woman up to her attackers you will fight anyway. It is up to you. White knight disease. What some men will do to serve their egos! Notwithstanding any of the above, all women who are not criminals and have not been, nor should be, adjudicated mentally incompetent ought always to carry a handgun. If some thug seriously looks like he is going to pound on her, rape her, drag her into a van, cut her or shoot her then she should promptly shoot him. She should continue to shoot him until he runs away or is helpless and disarmed on the ground. But she might shoot someone unnecessarily! Someone might take her weapon and shoot her with it! Shit. Even I am not as sexist as all that. She is a child? No, she is not. If she fouls it up she will pay the price, whether legal or otherwise. She is an adult. For you this also means you treat anyone who is trying to kill you, and is managing to actually be a threat, the same. They are shooting at you, you shoot them without hesitation, man or woman. Yes, if a child; who should not be armed, is throwing hand grenades, you do the same for him. Do you feel sorry for people who have been drafted? So do I, but not to excess. They try to kill you in order to avoid imprisonment or death. They think they are of more value than you. Kill them in combat just as quickly as may be. Do not approach and do try to avoid the enemy if you are not willing to accept attack. Never, ever, keep or bear arms if you are not perfectly willing to use them when attacked or when most effectively appropriate. Doctrinaire types will excuse crimes against you if you are armed, under warlike conditions they will execute civilians caught in possession of weapons, and tyrants never admit to being wrong. You disagree? I will not argue. I suspect you of political correctness. Know what a fundamentalist is? Someone who actually believes and tries to live by a doctrine or dogma. There are good Muslims, Jews and old testament Christians because most people do not take their beliefs all that seriously and literally in practice. It causes resistance and interferes with business. The morality in the Talmud, Koran, and Old Testament is evil. Brutal dictatorships are evil. Serious fundamentalist Muslims, Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, Old Testament Christians, Communists and Fascists and other tyrant wannabes are evil. Fundamentalist New Testament Christians are more confused than evil, except for that women and slaves thing, and their arrogance is of the unduly humble passive aggressive variety. To say this is not so is to say it is wrong to believe that the group of all persons who have (in fact, not law) murdered, has members who have murdered nobody. All these true believers in evil doctrines promote and serve evil. That means you, also, Federals. Neocon\Neolib scum. Come now, we do not take religious writings too seriously or literally! Do we take political utopian writings literally? Religions are never at fault because they are focused on doing good for the most part, and only a few fools try to use religion as an excuse for their own stupidity. How fortunate. Well, how unfortunate, but religion is at fault. Evil doctrine exists in those writings. This will have an influence on the culture of the believers, and will put ideas into the heads of fools which they may or may not have otherwise had. These writings put into the heads of fools the ready-made excuses they want. If you tell somebody something that means in English that murdering children can be a good

thing but mean something else because you are using highly symbolic language do not be surprised if you are misunderstood, and the truth is many of the original writers flatly meant some of what they seem to have said; including evil parts and more or less literally, in fact! Do not argue with the politically correct. Never argue with the dogmatic busybody. Do not argue with Jews, my friend. It is like arguing with a donkey: nothing really sinks in; all you will get back is braying arrogance, misdirection and sophistry. Arguing with the politically correct is like arguing with religious and/or Zionist Jews, fundamentalist Christians or orthodox Muslims, or with hardcore Communists, Nazis; Environmentalists, or Vegans. They are full of dogma and feelings of superiority. The Mexican invasion. What percentage of the Mexican nation is here instead of there? How many decades has it been reported that there are still 12 million illegals here? Bah. The Muslim invasion: You do recall that before Europeans needed to be expelled from their colonies Asians and Muslims had to be booted out of the east and south of Europe over a period of many hundreds of years? Their domination of woman just proves they care! They love you so play music and be punished! Does this mean we should continue to occupy Iraq? Of course not. True words. Spiritual development is where it is at. Food is not nutritious for material reasons, but by prayer or because it is still alive and you absorb its life force. The life is in the blood, vampire. Materialism. Well, just try to be immaterial and live without material things. Take your pills, vegan. Otherwise you will be no better off than that red meat and a six-pack a day person, or do you too intend to become a breatharian? When they commit no crimes - ignore them. When they do - arrest them at once and lock them up; shoot them only when you have to. :-)8 Additionally, the Welsh never tried to get out of a deal, the Native First American Persons never expected gifts back in return for gifts; the Jewish people never tried to cheat on prices, Arabs never gave you anything you admired and then hated you if you accepted it. Africans and Arabs never snatched your woman if you let her out of your sight, and so on. Everyone is fundamentally the same and generally good, except for Caucasians of course. Remember too, there are no conspiracies, except for right wing white ones, and that antisemitism is an unreasoning hatred of Semites and Arabs are Semites; also there never were any slaves until whites began enslaving only nonwhite people. It's true! And these latter groups are not even uniform in their morality. Did you know that being considered a white devil is a very great compliment? People are never responsible for their own actions. They are molded by culture and environment, by society and human nature. They cannot be blamed for what they are. Just as belief in a conspiracy makes you a tinfoil hat wearing redneck unless the belief in question is about racist white conspirators, whites and conservatives are the only ones who actually are evil and responsible for it. This means they are the only people who transcend nature; the only ones who can truly be blamed for their choices. Also, since they are at the root of most, of perhaps the only true, evil, they have tremendous power. I may mock and say the riffraff do as they do because of their past mistreatment, and I respond to them because of my own: both groups as natural and predictable as water running down hill, in my heart I know that they are right; we whites are as powerful and important to events as Satan himself. Honestly. Hahaha. Criminals and tyrants behave according to their nature. It is on us to avoid anarchy by refusing to resist. No, it is our nature to shoot them. Kill without joy? Yeah, but really, if I survive and the bad guys do not; if my friends are safe, I am going to be quite happy about the outcome. Coolness counts when fighting, but so does passion, and a little joy isn't amiss. Hunting is a enjoyable pastime. I like almost everything about it, and hate nothing, but I won't kill a cougar or wolf except in self defense because they are pretty and smart. The forests and deserts, navigation and survival, stalking, tracking, and tactics are all good. A certain

amount of camping is OK until it gets boring. I love the proper and effective use of the rifle. I do not enjoy killing the animal, nor much enjoy butchering it either, but do like to improve and use the skills, and all of this is good training for more important things like serious survival or combat conditions. I would rather kill people than animals in most cases. What did that animal ever do to me? Some enemy are to be killed much as you kill a deer, but there are others who need to be stopped lest they continue with such vile behavior that defeating them makes a fellow very happy. No, they are not quite the same. I like steak but long pig is not my thing. You never want to over-hunt the game population, but hunting down all the enemy is a good thing. What the hell. Preaching to the choir. When there is freedom people have less to fight about, but there are always some who have to be restrained by threats and others who must be imprisoned or killed. Over time competing interests build up power and use it to the political advantage of their friends and to weaken their enemies. As authoritarianism grows there is a struggle between the ever growing number of hostile groups who fight back when harmed and fight for power within the system as it grows. There comes a time when everyone right and wrong hardens in hatred toward those who will not agree with them and violence begins to flower. They feel a very real threat from other politically active groups because the loser in any policy battle will have the power of the state turned against him and the losers will turn more and more to unsanctioned violence, or to covert violence. There is nothing to be gained by not fighting back. This will not limit the turmoil. It will simply allow others to eat you alive. Mutual contempt has set in. No one but constitutionalists will listen to the words in a book like this. They are often rural. Not often given to political ambitions and other types of empire building, they have little concentrated power. All they really have is firearms, the ability to grow crops, build and repair things, and their values. Good luck with that. Remember who you are. What about that Aztlan business, the retaking of territory once held by Spain or Mexico; or held by neither in some cases. There are many good people on the other side of the immigration issue. They feel sorry for Mexicans (something not all Mexicans appreciate), and consider it an issue of race and racismand only Whites ( since when is white capitalized?, probably since Black was) can be racist, of course. They think conservatives blame "Brown people" for all their problems. (Some of them, also, like having servants.) However, immigration is not an isolated issue. The Republic is dying, and some people are killing it by design. The Constitution says the Constitution and treaties are the supreme law; not treaties are the supreme law, and not regulations and presidential orders. Surprise, children. It is not actually legal to stop lawful activities by targeting said activities with color of law persecutions using, misusing; tax law, commerce regulation authority or treaties, nuisance statutes/ordinances or land use, planning or permit requirements, and etc.. Federal involvement without enumerated constitutional powers is greatly improper, but state level behavior of this sort is wrong, anybody using this method against a constitutional right egregiously so. Too, it is not legal to use rule making and bluster to authorize unlawful behavior. We have a President who believes in a "unitary" executive, the fuhrer principle. He rules by executive order and international agreements. If he lacks a power he signs an order giving himself that power. If he violates the Constitution then Congress passes a law (?) authorizing it, so long as someone pops over to discuss things with them occasionally. Our foreign policy is run by neocons, who are wannabe neofascist globalist empire builders. We have corrupt grasping dithering fools in Congress, and judges on the Supreme Court who think they can grow the "living Constitution" as they please. The president and vice president of the United States need to be tried for treason against constitutional government. (What need be said about Obama? That man of mystery, of sealed records and false social security number? He is a smug twit and liar, Bush all over again, but at a time when government grows,

the country falls, and freedom is lost at an ever more rapid pace.) Look at all the lovely anarchists, communists, socialists, "liberals," progressives, elitist Whites; ethnocentric Whites, Jews, Blacks, Browns... The globalists, international banks and corporations (with their subversive foundations). See the immigrants, who want a better life; or just want whatever they want, have been belittled in the past, and want what they want now. Also, they are more "native", er, surely? Observe their organizers and leaders: they want to demonize Americans, they want to overthrow the Republic in the Southwest, or the whole country would be jolly good if they could pull it off. Sometimes this lot even cooperate. They can sort it out among themselves after they win. They are agitating to identify and strengthen friends, and to confuse, weaken, and identify enemies especially intractable ones. Divide and conquer! (Why list political and ethnic enemies together? Because every ethnic group has its hostilities, and those who choose to play that game are welcome on the list. No, white Americans are not the worst "racists" of them all. So sorry. Read some history. Compare big city schools dominated by a minority or containing multiple large ethnic groups to rural ones where white is the majority and minorities tend to fit in quite well by comparison. Very hostile places, and not just to whites. Zionists, for example, detest multiculturalism at home but promote it in the western world.) Some of these people want a war (or police action equivalent), but they want to manage the process. They want to be prepared so they can defeat those intractable ones. Sometimes it is good to give an enemy what he wants, it may be wanted by both sides but for different reasons. There is no reason, however, to give it how and when he wants it. How can you deal with a problem in a sensible way if you refuse to recognize the problem and will not consider and understand it? Who is being divisive here, the ones who tell the truth, the ones who tell lies, or the ones who are politically correct in order to limit division when this divides them from their own natural political, national and ethnic allies? This when PC is a divide and conquer tactic of their enemies! We need to stop obeying unlawful orders. We need to stop following invalid laws. We all have different strengths and weaknesses, but resist where you can. You can ask your friends to vote the pigs out? Fine. You can harass turncoats in Congress? Fine. You can stand tall in the streets? That too is fine. No, no, you must obey the law no matter what it is. As long as it stands you must obey or you will cause conflict and a breaking down of society. OK. Try saying it this wayyou must pass only good laws no matter who you are. You must control your ambitions or you will cause conflict and society and the rule of law will break down. I AM the law. Good or bad, the law is whatever propaganda and the threat and use of force says it is. What is wonderful is how often mystery-soaked propagandists come to believe their own bullshit. We should have a National Burn a Mexican Flag Day. Why? Because it is a challenge, one I hope they will take up. If they choose not to bite we will lose ground in the "you are a racist" war. They call us racists anyway. So what? (The Mexican hordes yearning to be free fleeing the ethnic, political/economic and even racial upper classes back home in order to fight the American ruling class instead. They do this because our aristos are less tyrannical, making them easier to fight and causing them to leave more wealth in the general economy for working and welfare class Mexicans to compete for against the crackers, blacks, and other low-income citizens. Do not fear, my children. This will change as the US is finally globalized and equalized.) When there are many many idiots out there place yourself so that only the subset you want to kill has a line of fire to you. Then you engage them with minimum exposure, just a shoulder and half your face if possible, and with all Deliberate haste. When you shoot from concealment you stay back in it as far as you can. You are not as careful as you could be, but surely it is good enough? It is just sad to put yourself into what you think adequate

concealment only to have the first group of passersby immediately point you out to each other! How very vexing. You need to get your partner into appropriate gear and into a number of representative positions so you can observe from outside. Use binoculars and any sensors you have to determine just how effective concealment is, or is not. Use camouflage even in buildings. Slide up and slowly present the weapon. Look through the brush and expose as little of yourself to do this as is possible. Be aware of what is behind you as your camouflage needs to match. Look out for backlighting. After you shoot pull slowly back farther into cover when sniping. If you don't do this it is very important that your hands be well camouflaged and screened as you operate the bolt quietly and smoothly. If you use the thumb to move the bolt back slowly you can catch the empty case. When you shoot the enemy will hear. He will know your general direction, perhaps an approximation of your distance as well. He is not likely to have your exact position, but the longer you shoot the more likely it is that you will be located. If one shot makes multiple echoes from objects in different directions the enemy will go with the first, direct line, sound unless they arrive so closely together confusion results. If you are doing rapid fire pull back and aside as soon as you can. Wire, metallic mesh, and metal fencing material are sometimes used to tie camouflage in place, or as a form or support for artificial cover or field fortifications. These materials may have a different thermal signature. They may nullify or scatter electromagnetic energy, or they may reflect or conduct and emit it. It is often better to use wood or certain plastics, including woven mats, and to use string, twine, elastic bands, cord and rope instead of wire. Metal is a more serious secondary fragmentation source than wood, but thick steel-reinforced hardened concrete is always nice. Being around the corner is no protection when a fragmenting airburst munition passes the corner and explodes beside you. You must think of cover at and above your individual position, and sometimes below it. When you fortify a house make fighting positions inside. Include overhead cover and cover beneath as well if on upper floors. Place fire extinguishers and containers of water about and use braces to strengthen the walls and roof. Never trust unsupported old-style brick. Any shock will bury you in bricks. Medical supplies and skills are always important. So is food. Dig fighting holes in the floors of ground level rooms, use appliances and heavy tables to protect positions and escape routes from roof collapse. Dig escape trenches and tunnels. Mouse hole walls where needed. Inventory the place and note chemicals, fuels, electrical outlets and anything else you may be able to use in the fight, and tools and supplies at hand. Beware of exposed toxic, fire and explosive hazards. Fire (filter) hoods and oxygen masks are helpful if there is a fire (the hoods only last long enough for an escape) since chemical masks are of very limited use in heavy smoke. Kevlar and Nomex are fire resistant and make great gloves and masks. Do not remove armor and goggles just because you are indoors. If you have to shoot from a window stay as far back as you can. If you can shoot from an interior hallway, through a door or holes in a wall, the room and out the window you should do it. Loopholes in walls, floors and ceilings should be angled if you wish to deny easy access to frontal attackers. Camouflaged, in a supported firing position, and making maximum use of your local cover (including overhead cover) and wearing armor. What a pussy! Hah, you will die soon enough. And unless the building is very, very large and sturdy you need to bug out before the precision guided bombs arrive. You can always come back and utilize the rubble. Taking cover after the enemy has opened fire will be too late for many of you. Again, cover gives you some time. Wood is a much better concealment than cover, and may splinter. Hard stone is good, unless hit by cannon, but unless covered with something to absorb rock fragments you are likely to need that body armor. Buildings do offer protection from chemical attack. Not always enough. If chemicals are injected inside, though, the building is a trap and many agents will pool at the lowest levels. Keep your CBRE gear at hand in any case. Intercoms, field phones, or radio headsets are fab for coordinating the defense in buildings. Do not expect much range when using radio inside multistory concrete and steel structures though. Remoted antennas on each level can be placed, or direct wire run, but check out any existing phone

system in the building as it may be usable even if you must provide the power yourself. The enemy may also use the phone system in your building, as bugs. Computer video also can be picked up through nearby antennas or conductive materials and recreated on the other side's screens. It is funny how military fiction always forgets the basics. If you are in a hole or narrow trench a side hole to urinate in or a hole at one end that you throw some dirt in after each use as a toilet is better than nothing. Defecation at night should be avoided. Going forward of field positions for this purpose is suicidal. Crawling out of your position in the dark with the intention of walking to the rear and using a cat hole under a nice bush is very nearly as dangerous. Chemical toilet supplies are wonderful things if you must spent the critical two weeks after a nearby nuclear strike confined in your dugout. Did you ever notice that any section of trench not furnished with camouflaged overhead cover needs to have its floor camouflaged whenever practicable. It is best if it matches the surrounding ground. Trench and tunnel engineering is a good skill to have. Trenches must be as narrow as possible, and not straight if more than a few yards long. Any protective slit trenches off the main one, if without overhead cover and concealment must be very narrow indeed and at least armpit deep but deeper yet is better and firing steps can be provided if needed. This makes you a small target and even aircraft fire has a poor line to you unless coming down almost directly from overhead. Barely room to pass along is best here, and if things get really rough lie at the end with shoulders against a wall, knees up on chest, and forearms and hands protecting the face. It is easier if your feet are against a wall to hold you in position. Body armor, helmet and masks should be worn. Do NOT fire from such a trench if you have to rest your elbows at ground level, there is no suitable backdrop, and no clutter or other concealment at and before your position. We do not need to know such things. Federal law is superior to state laws. What constitution was that? Just obey, you can trust the nobility. All rulers have noble characters don'cha know? People who cannot make themselves better than you by effort and maximizing their own talents will make themselves better in comparison by making you worse, even if they have to forbid you education or information or straightforwardly steal your resources to do it. Whatever their ethnic background, patriots should fight to defend themselves, and each other, and for good government in a stable America. Not stagnant, but more stable. A people, and Americans are a people of Principle not race, that will not defend its own is pitiable. I believe America will fall when White America is fallen, not that all Americans must be White. If you are Asian, Hispanic, Black or anything else, and are truly American; I know you. Humane treatment for everyone, equal treatment under the law for all citizens of whatever ethnicity. And why should we accept you if, for whatever reason, you are not people of that basic principle? Diversity is good, but not to the point of detachment from the basic principles of honor, law and liberty. I do not care what kind of credentials some clerk gives you. You are an American by principle, or you are not. This particular polity came from a nation (people) and may die out without it, or even with it. It is flawed, but it is good. We do not care if there are Americans outside of this core group, but we will not tolerate inundation by those loyal to alien principles. We will fight. It is only the slave and the post-civilized man who will not fight. Now: There are evil doctrines political, economic, philosophical and religious; including those which are merely a part of a larger group of folk ways or traditions. You have to be able to multitask. Hostile groups exist outside of the direct grasp of the globalist pretenders, and new world order dupes and tools can be just as hostile as independent fools and criminals. Mexicans, Muslims and others are used by media propagandists. True. Many of them are happy to play their allotted role. The majority of them do not take active part but also do not speak out against this. Also true. It may surprise how many believe America will be brown soon. This thing is a reality then? I thought anyone worried about the browning of America was just a punk happy to blame somebody else for his own failures? It is a diversion, go worry about another globalist program, but not this one! Want some cheese with that whine, redneck? Yes please. Ha. It is true, America has failed to

defend itself from antagonist groups and movements. Only America is really at fault for anything. Uh huh, sho nuff. I thought I was ranting for the benefit of my blood pressure, but I am whining, eh? While I do find it amusing when people whine about other people's whining, I hear you. Americans have no right to complain. They only have the right to take whatever they have the power to take, or was that they have the obligation to yield to everyone else to atone for past privilege. I get those confused. Confusion. No doubt it is the result of all the propaganda. Do not be afraid to tell the truth. Call a spade a spade, oh wise gatekeepers. White people need just a little more solidarity. Ya think? Do not put ethnicity above truth and justice, or above American values, but more solidarity is definitely called for. Isn't that tribalism? Not really, but it may be too close to it for you. Ethnocentrism can be taken too far. It leads to unnecessary conflict and regional separatism. Anti-particularism can also be taken too far. Right now it is being used to fragment whites into an inert mass while surrounded by hostile ethnocentrists and into the hands of groups characterized more by dangerous ideology than ethnic solidarity. Are you offended yet? Hater! Again: there are many perfectly decent supporters of Communism, Fascism, Judaism, political correctness, Islam, Catholicism, Neopaganism, deep/green environmentalism, Neoconservatism, Liberalism and Old Testament Christianity, etc.; and yet there are many evil doctrines found within all of these credos. How is this possible when behavior based on a strict adherence to the rules of any of the above (keep in mind that Muslims have texts and law beyond the Koran, Hadith & Sharia Law, just as Orthodox Jews have Talmud, & etc. beyond Torah and Catholics Papal Bulls, and so on) would result in oppressive behavior anywhere it can be gotten away with? I will pound it into your head! Moderate supporters do not know the rules very well, or live someplace where they do not feel they must be radical or fundamentalist and have chosen not to be so. "Hey, I am a Satanist but I don't actually follow all those old rules, so I am not a selfish sort of fellow." Could even be true. Real men don't do self abasing shit like much of this, nor the humiliation and domination of others like this. Real men do human dignity and humane treatment of others, have an attachment to liberty; coupled with a will to fight tyrants and criminals. Do feel free to call me a bigot. While I am no kind of Christian, I am a nationalist, patriot, and believe western civilization is generally superior to the others. I will fight for my liberty and in no wise wish to be subsumed by alien political and legal cultures. But, hey, some of my best friends are strict Koran-following Muslims! I spit. (Oh, how rude.) Fuck you. And I smile when I say that. Whoa. Black Americans have a much higher crime rate than whites. That may be true, but it should not be said! "Whoops. Sorry, I don't want to go back to sensitivity training. I want my pension. Then keep your mouth shut, truth is no defense in a hate crimes trial! Most of the people best suited physically and mentally to be professional football players are black and male, though some good candidates will be white and should be hired. Does this mean you ought to take your recruitment campaign to the area of the wold most predominately white so as not to seem racist? Of course not, in fact you probably should institute affirmative action for the support and managing staff. However, if we are talking about something white people do best? Do not even discuss this issue, or those bigots who hate white people as such, as an ethnicity, will eat you alivegiven that you are too soft to defend yourself. You can't fight the Illuminated Ones because you are confronted by foot soldiers and don't want to shoot the drafted. You can't fight other threats (distractions) because they are not NWO. Yes it is better to attack the head. Take off the head and the body will follow; after some possibly dangerous thrashing about. But you do not always have a general in your sights. If you won't fight the dupes at street level when they attack you run or die. Sometimes you both run and die. If you are a teacher you know this. People push. Children take advantage of weakness. Teachers are assholes. They use this fact as an excuse for arrogant behavior. Thus we teach each other to obey or

to rebel, dominate or be dominated. Obedience to the state. We all know that education planners promote political correctness because they want to tear us down and not because they are minorities themselves. My children bow to nobody and to nothing. Fight the state. Perhaps a school's policy has nothing to do with state requirements? Then explain to them why they meet the definition of idiots, and when they will not reform let all sensible people take themselves and their own away. Promote their competition. School officials tend to do rather abusive, dare I say "unfair," things. They like odd rules and group punishments. The excuse is that you need to get used to the real world. So is it too much to ask that they teach children the difference between insults and assault, and the attacker and defender? Yes. The truth is that much of what they do would get them sued in the "real world." Should we not obey the authorities? Reminds me of the hardcore patriot who said: Well I know it is unconstitutional and that there is no law, but he disobeyed the police; so what did he think would happen to him? Disrespectful of authority, he was. Big bad Patriot will back you up, brother. As long as he need not disobey the state or say and do politically incorrect things. God forbid that we should offend anybody! Guess what? You are bloody well offending me! Perhaps I should have you fired from your job. Do you want to get along, as well as can be expected, with agents of the police state? Just let them fee, fine, detain, and humiliate you without complaint and with a submissive demeanor. Give them an inch and they will take a mile, but if you just give them the mile from the start they may get bored and go away for awhile. The thing is, police are trained to take charge of a situation immediately. When you disagree with them they want you off balance, rushed, and confused. They want you to have no situational awareness and to be reacting, not acting. When this happens the law means nothing until they feel confident of their authority, if they even know the law in the first place, and things can get out of control very quickly. So, according to Romans 13 the policeman is a minister of God and if he is thumping you it is because you are evil. Give tribute and honor to those it is due. Anyhow some folk are dangerous so the police may have to put a pistol to your head now and again for safety reasons. Call 911 or wait to be approached or waved on or over if you see police in action and have information or questions. Leave the area before calling if free to do so, as loitering to observe will get you charged with interfering. You have no right to observe your public servants and their job performance. You have no right to approach or speak to a police officer. You might be a threat to him, and he damned well is a threat to you. You are just lucky if he does not fast draw his sword and behead you at the end of that single stroke. Call 911, and then let the police do whatever they will. And do not annoy government boy. Then it is not you broke the law, and are arrested. It is you are sticking your nose in, so now what can I come up with to justify putting the hurt on you ass? People who play games with authority have mental problems. They made their choices. They deserve what they get. There is one crime higher than this, and it is not petty crimes like murder which only feed the system. It is competition. Break laws and get fed into the system. Scoff at the authorities and become the enemy. (Go in and ask for a complaint against an officer form if you don't like what they did and really want to be intimidated. The complaint will be ignored 80% of the time too!) Again, do keep in mind: You have rights except when conditions may cause you to actually make use of them. During emergencies when you may need your firearm your rights will be temporarily suspended. When the crimes you have been accused of are so many or so vile corners must be cut because you must be guilty to have been accused so. Somebody says you deal drugs or abuse kids? No proof at all? Just send out nuisance abatement and take the children while closing down your house. No trial needed. Move elsewhere, punk. OK. Maybe you do have some rights, speech, to bear arms and whatever, but if anybody at all complains you are obviously probably disturbing the peace/disorderly or something so you must be arrested.

It is my ( ;) ) honest belief that good manners are more important than freedom. If anybody fails to doff his cap as I pass he should have said cap nailed onto his head. Roofing nails. No cap present? Find him one and then nail it home. Ah, but I have not paid my dues. Have not puckered lipped my way up to such a position of authority. So, I will self employ and do the job myself! Who needs unfettered rights anyway? Well, people with the skills should be self employed anyway. What we need is a good amendment allowing lese majesty laws. License my computer printer, please! You need to be productive. More importantly, to meet standards. The ditch digger is less important than the floor manager at the sex toys factory, and he meets the dress code. He does as he is told, shows his subordination by his adherence to rules, and directs the labor of others. The world needs plastic women too. You know? Sitpissy Freedom Fighters. They are well trained; domesticated. With friends like this who needs enemies? Clotting jellyfish constitutional warriors! The neoamericans dominate. The mental conditioning and ignorance have prevailed. Conservatives and libertarians cannot discuss an issue without getting into an argument over whether even discussing it is not politically correct, though they will not admit to being PC. Conservatives today are socialists but won't admit to the term. Libertarians think having no borders is free trade, and that not letting the Mexicans in to help us vote on American issues is racist and anti-liberty. No established party I am aware of really supports constitutional principles and the rights recognized in the Bill of Rights. Period, end of story. Yep, I am a bill-of-rights fanboy. It is wrong to think in terms of groups. Do not judge the individual either. Rights and issues related to minority affairs must be done in group think, unless you have something negative to say. Never think in group terms about majority affairs unless you have something negative to say. Do you think some persons may want you tied up in knots and silent? If we cannot find and return to a balance of political liberty, individual freedom, law and solidarity that allows us maximum freedom combined with justice and the ability to defend ourselves we will become a more or less stable police state, or we will become the Balkans. There will be insurrections within the next twenty years but they may be failures. Fear signals weakness. Yielding to pressure draws opponents like rot draws flies. Defending unjust policies out of a fear of being seen to yield does also. And everyone seems to think everybody other than the more cranky Christians need special treatment. Sensitivity classes for Christians. Both Canada and England talking special tribunals or mediation for Muslims. Who are all you superior moral relativists? The most inhumane behavior is OK as long as a WASP did not do it. All belief systems are basically the same right? Allah is just another name for God, Jupiter, The Universe or Nature of Things. Ja? How dare you tell us religious freedom is unimportant? Where do you get off insisting that the religious are allowed to commit crimes such as assault (unless Christian); or is it that you pretend there is no evidence Muslim dogma promotes insult against freedom? Different laws for different groups (in mediation)? Most Muslims do not publicly support this and the usual elitists do so we should not talk about nor resist it. Yeah, New Testament Christians should not have to go to court over alleged crimes among themselves. Adjudicate privately under Church law! Don't disagree, it might make Christians look bad. Truth? You abhor truth. Someone might abuse it, might overreact to it. Arrogance! When you spin all the way around looking for close threats lower your center of gravity as you turn (progressive crouch) and bring in your elbows. Be smooth and not too fast, with your weapon shouldered or presented. When you turn around among friendlies always point the weapon directly up or at the ground, not at your feet, before rotating around it and bringing it back up. A good habit. Take your smug propaganda and shove it up your asses. I want America back, with even more principled government than we ever had before, but am not getting America back at all. I know it. Short of the globalists starting WW3 our most pressing problems are all related to the loss of freedom, and many of these issues involve ethnicity because of pressure group politics, block voting, and

political correctness. The social planners are making major societal changes and the destruction of old middle class and mostly white values is needed in order to do this. Oh my God! I mentioned ethnicity. I am being divisive and must so much enjoy being able to to blame all my problems on one issue and group! How collectivist of me. You mean the way you blame everything on white men? The impending takeover of the Southwest is a real problem, but so-called freedom fighters can't even discuss the problem because another culture cannot be harmful. That would be racist unless you are talking about white male cultural commonalities and norms. You all are as blind as bats, as ignorant as posts, and as smugly well trained as Pavlov's dogs. You stink of malice and corruption. We take no further responsibility for you. You are on your own, and good luck to you. How am I likely to be treated if I travel there? I cannot say. Why ever not? There may be a majority that would treat you well, or ill, and the minority opinions may be rare or suppressed by vigorous law enforcement...or not. But I must treat each individual fairly, and not generalize after the manner of the bigot. How very noble, and helpful, of you. This is not my government. This is not my culture. This people are close to not being my people any longer. It was fun while it lasted, eh? United nations, alien nationalities within our borders, neoamerica and neoamericans. Those of you who think American Christians in general want to hang unwed mothers or that the New Testament teaches the killing of such are truly effing bigots of the most vile. Nah. Whether everyone is pretty much the same or someone else has done worse we then are allowed to all admit to faults and then blow everything off. Take responsibility like a real politician, man. We must join with our Islamic brothers to fight the global government the way we joined with our Communist brothers to fight the Nazi! Some people whip women to death for failing to prove rape. Others execute convicted serial murderers. All the same. Kinda brutal. Do not tell some truths, in order to protect other truths? Political correctness too is a NWO program. We have to treat minority groups differently because there is risk of a loss of national unity if they are offended. You see, they might riot or something. Apparently different treatment under the law never offends the so-called majority so this is safe. The fact is that telling the truth makes people angry but does not destabilize a country as much as special treatment for some groups and not others. Yes, there are times when a dangerous group really hates the truth and reacts so badly that the country is threatened with balkanization. Yes, and this is when you are supposed to fight a war. Hey, some of my best friends are Orthodox Jews! They will hardly look directly at me, will not shake my hand, and will eat nowhere in my vicinity. They think I am a dog without a human soul. Other than that they are the best friends I ever had. People do have reasons for hating, and there is a difference between having a overall negative opinion of a group of people and wanting all of them brutalized. It is dangerous and foolish to want revenge on entire classes and ethnicities, particularly for crimes committed long ago and even more so when committed by ancestors. It is well, however, to be aware of potential threats. So. Why do I hate active and doctrinaire communists? Because they are a class of people all of whom still have criminal intent. Many radical Mexicans are Communists. Communists will tell you they are not so bad, and that they would fight the evil imperialist globalists. The Soviet Union was a state capitalist system, of a type. It was totalitarian. Today Communists like to blame Stalin, and reactionary wreckers, and the evil West for all "excesses." They think man can eventually be molded, the "Soviet Man," until he is fine and decent and shares equally with every other clone of his simpering perfect self. The Mexican ones like to speak of the new Bronze Race. To get there you first must murder opponents and set up a dictatorship of the people. Then you crack down hard on any difficult cases, people who just won't fit

inthey are vile, because they do not merely rebel against the state. They are class traitors, they take the very bread from the mouths of children. Perhaps they are racists. They are worse than murderers. Speaking of murder, Lenin was no saint, he once called prostitutes following the army parasites and ordered them shot. More terror is what we need. But this dictatorship is not a real one, oh no, because it is what you need. At last one fine day everyone will be changed, free of employers, and the state owned command economy will have limped along until it got all better. Finally, there will no longer be need of any government at all. It is just like heaven really. Is true! In heaven you can have whatever you want. But people have crippled imaginations. What should they want? So you must be perfected before you may be translated into heaven. Surprise, you all want the same set of things to be available there. The perfect conditions for perfect people! Phuut. Bull! Communism starts out as violence, oppression and totalitarian dictatorship. Then it dives right in and gets even worse. Why? I own property. I have some freedom on it. If I have any decency I share with others if they have an emergency and I the means to help. The US government comes along and regulates and taxes the hell out of me. Less freedom. My government is making deals with global groups and big corporations. It is a kind of internationalist version of fascism. Then the Nazis show up. They do not steal all your land, but they tell you what to do with it. Resist and they will kill you. They will also kill some other people they just don't like. They are not as totalitarian as the Communists, but they control and are the "de facto owners" of the land. Now here are the Communists. They take it all. The people own the land in common. This means the state owns the land. This means the high party officials control the the land: the de facto elite owns everything. And they probably have international handlers and bankers. Privately owned land is better cared for than most public land. Oh, that selfishness thing again! Not to mention that committee politics thing and general top-down slow and poorly organized planning thing. Never say so! In the US more than 1/3rd of the land is federal, illegally, and who knows how much land is owned or controlled by approved churches and other government bodies? This by ownership or investment, not just general regulation and officiousness. It is not as bad as Israel, where Jews must lease, not own, land. Where Arabs may not even lease it. Ask yourself, just how close to socialization are we, nevertheless. Imagine a lawnmower that belonged to everybody. It could only be used for approved projects, on a schedule. When people used it even refueling had to be done in an approved manner, a form filled out and the fuel gotten from the approved source. Before passing it on most would do little more than brush the grass off it. If it needed repair it would have to be turned in to a bureaucracy for maintenance, working on it yourself being forbidden. Red tape is the order of the day, and you thought dealing with Microsoft customer service was a pain. And do not be borrowing things. If a friend lends you a rototiller on its last legs and it breaks down when you are using it he will like as not suggest you misused it instead and demand you buy him a brand new one. Put in place a system of total surveillance and control and leaders will use it. It will eventually happen in America after the police state has been fully built and in place for awhile. The globalists will be as totalitarian as they can get away with being, so the solution is Communism? Gagging here, folks. Some of the reasons for WW1 were to weaken the Czar and European aristocratic conservatism, socialize the West and to bring in the League of Nations. Some of the reasons for WW2 were to build up Communism and create the United Nations. Never be selfish. No, no, no. Never do anything on your own. If a farmer likes peas and has a market for peas, even if he gives some of his peas to the poor, he is a selfish pig if he chooses to grow peas. He should find out his neighbor likes corn. Then his neighbor ought to grow peas and he corn so that they can dole out a fair share of each to everyone. Communism is an ineffectual economic system and requires force to conduct. Even if everyone did it voluntarily (never happens) and worked unselfishly it would restrict individual rights and be ineffectual as all planned economy non free-

market systems are. Totalitarian systems can build pyramids, palaces, dams or war machines whatever the planners focus the people on. They cannot build a more general prosperity, clear thinking or personal initiative. Of course our current nanny state can't do these things either. You teach your child he has to share his toys. Good enough. You can have no party without human interaction, no game without the players using the game pieces, and no friendship or business associations without cooperation. OK. But you are not teaching him to be unselfish. You are also teaching him that everybody else must allow him to use their things, and if they refuse they are selfish and need to be punished. Mix the truth and lies, and you spin, spin, spin. Communists are some of the best propagandists in the world. The Lie is a means which one is not only permitted to employ, but it is the most proven means in the Bolshevik struggle. Lenin. But don't try to kid a kidder. Communists should not try that crap here in America. When armed thugs come to our houses to steal our property for the collective we shoot them. Well, not really. We mostly just whine about it. Everybody in America has a right to have and speak his opinion, because things are worse for everyone long term when a government starts controlling what people can think and say. This right does not make that opinion a correct or honest one. Nor does it give the opinion holder the right to take my rights. Americans were not all that fond of state churches. The British thought Americans did not pay their share of taxes and (correctly) that the colonies cost them a lot of money. Americans were disloyal and arrogant so they should be taxed more, have major controls on their trade, and should have their liberties restricted and weapons seized. Our selfish, deist, dead racist angry white men founders thought shooting British soldiers a better idea. You punks can think what you will, but you have no right to steal my property, my life or my freedom in general. Fuck you! Freedom fighters in America. What a laugh. You can't outvote the elitists. You can't fight them because violence is wrong. You will not fight their programs because that would entail disobedience to the laws. Most of all you may not even talk publicly about their policies which involve ethnicity or religion because such bigotry is divisive and a diversion from the real issue. What is the real issue? You are outnumbered and you will not fight back. You think the real issue is resisting globalism? You think most people are basically on your side because they are learning the government is corrupt? Idiots. Most people say they are for freedom, and want clean government. You know, a government that gives them what they want using huge but efficient and corruption free federal programs while fighting bigotry and pollution. Aargh. The real issue is that you cannot resist the whole if you refuse to fight the parts. When you or any unit takes on a police force or army you are in a sense fighting that whole army, but in any given engagement you actually fight only that part of it that can participate at that time. You can't fight an enemy battalion if you will not look at and identify the individuals and subunits which make it up. If they send children against you lie down and die. If Minorities refuse to even see them as enemy. You really can oppose something even when a priest is involved. Even if poor people are involved. You really can! Harden up, man. You can be hardcore without becoming a murdering punk or wannabe slave owner. You just can't see it. You milktoast freedom fighters are pathetic, and are doomed. I will be honest with you. I hate Nazis. I hate Communists. But if I had been a German when either the Nazis or the Communists were going to come out on top, I would have winced and joined the Stahl Helm, and I would have killed as many Communist fighters as I could. I would have tried to get my family out first. Hell, perhaps myself as well. I might have fought both and died a glorious death rather than support either, but I really hate Communists. If I got stuck with the Nazis instead of Communists I would have been better off for it too, if not for the idiot Nazi militarism that always gets everyone's cities bombed into dust. Oh, well. Stupid bloody Nazis. I hate Nazis but would rather kiss one on the mouth than make a deal with a Communist. Get my drift? I am no Nazi. Fourteen words yes, 88 no. I believe in free markets, but not as the term is now used; free trade agreements with thousands of pages of regulation, public-private partnerships and

permits. You call me a Nazi and racist even after my earnest disclaimer? Yawn. Competition is healthy! Indeed. Unless criminal methods are used. But I ask you, is it healthy to help your enemy to compete with yourself? But if not for socialism who would give shoes to the children? Democracy is wonderful and true communism even better. We must give the people what they want and they will want what we teach them to want. They want unisex bathrooms and boys brought up like girls, global financial, governmental, environmental, and economic systems. They want population controls, partial birth abortion and mercy killing for the old, and they want a one world religion and a worldwide ban on guns. No more private weapons and no more private transportation, and an end to private education. We will all love one another. I fairly quiver in delight at the thought. Do you want to know a secret? If tomorrow a proper constitutional convention amended or a treaty correctly approved by the senate contradicted the principles of liberty suitable to a free people recognized as preexisting by the Bill of Rights it would not make tyranny legal nor the new constitution valid. You violate rights and the agreement is voided. The acts of the organs of democracy be damned. Anyone who acts to annul these principles whether secondhand through the use of law or authority enforced by police and military agencies or directly by using force himself deserves to be killed in the fighting or imprisoned for his crime against the people. Do you hear me? You socialists of whatever stripe need to know that trying to enforce your beliefs in a manner that ignores or cancels the rights of Americans is a death sentence just as surely as you yourselves are willing that criminals who resist your laws be killed if they resist arrest. It does not matter whether you change the laws to benefit yourselves. The principles remain. And we are better shots than you are. Now, old man, if you are not some kind of nazi you must be some type of libertarian. No? Man, I am not a principled libertarian. Extremists follow dogma wherever it leads and what can plainly be seen be damned. Shit fire and save matches! We believe in individualism and freedom, not in collectivism and coercion. Keeping people off any land not your personal own and using force to do it is a violation of other people's right to travel and to use their own property as they see fit. It is wrong to control immigration. War is bad. Force is bad, and collectivism is bad. Yup, within limits, small government is best. But, you know what?, voting on a law or for a representative is collective and the minority who voted no is coerced to accept. That is why our founders limited legislative law by constitutional principle (not that this is still in effect). Principled libertarians apparently do not mind the fact that their kind of politics would see them surrounded and subjected to Mexican political boss politics and government, African tribal politics or Islamic law; or whatever, depending on where they live. Our black fellow Americans have been here a long time. They are less African than some think, and they belong here. Mexican Americans belong as well, but Mexican Nationals trying to flood the US today are another issue. Was it Jefferson who said that the constitutional government of his day would not work for a less upright people? Let the world pour in and see how our already corrupt politics are altered by very different political cultures. We can learn much from the upstanding Mexican. Village medicine for example. Do you have a festering dog bite? Cut the dog's tail off. Now say the magic words and tie the tail to the wound. Fix you right up, eh gringo? Alien cultures. No person is illegal. People are not aliens. Alien was a term used for very different strangers long before space aliens became a fad subject. And some cultures are very alien indeed. No person is illegal, and no firearm is illegal: there is this thing, however, called illegal activity by a person and unlawful use of a firearm. Dogma! Manipulation. We are not listening my friend. Force us! My people have dominated your races, ethnicities and gender; your religious and cultural groups, at various times and in variable degree. You hate me. I am your enemy. I see you. I will like you if I find you likeable. If I do not like you I am a bigot. I do not care if you like me. You are my

enemy? I don't give a rat's ass. You think I am your friend? You don't know me! All my friends are long dead. You said the R word! Race, ethnicity, nationalism. I am allowing the enemy to divide us. Divide and conquer. Please. You do not know who the enemy is. We are already divided. I should do whatever it takes to join us, then? Sure, and if I make us all friendly, compatible and united there will no longer be any enemies left. But diversity is wonderful and the mutt is smarter and more hardy than the purebred? It is very possible to have too narrow a view, too small a pool of ideas, and too shallow a gene pool. Inbred dogs are defective. Diseases and nerves. But, this means throw out the best of ideas if they came from white groups? This means breed your large working dogs with toy poodles (lapdogs) and use the offspring to herd cattle? Destroy private rights and enterprise, and get rid of constitutional government; put white people (or white men?) in their rightful place because they and their ancestors have earned it. Hell, we need to dispose of the cattle anyway, to save the environment... There is no such thing as race, and we are all part of the human race, and about 99% genetically identical. Dude. We are all the same species, not the same race, and about 95% genetically identical to chimps; and chimps are not of our species. Citizenship for chimps now! You speciesist scum. Oh, sorry, I forgot we should kill retarded babies and put healthy puppies on the national health plan. Whoops, sorry. Domestic animals are as bad as people. Put wild animals on the health plan. Only fools think people are not animals, and only fools think insects and people should be treated the same or that any of this justifies people mistreating each other. Oh yeah, drop dead all you brain damaged neoamerican scum. The insane are running the asylum. Of course, many of you are just arrogant and racist punks. If I do like you then you will have trouble deciding if you should be pleased or insulted. If a serious effort was made to remove and keep out anyone found to be in the country illegally it would result in violence? Armed resistance or riots perhaps? Huh. You admit that the country is already unable to enforce its laws. There is not enough violence in America! I remember those perfect autumn days. Sunshine but with a cool breeze. Walking across the grassy plain, sleeves rolled up and the 34 on my shoulder. Taking in the vista of rolling terrain, small copses, scattered farms and small streams. My comrades in ragged single column, 5 and 10 meters apart. Just enough effort to keep the muscles loose and to work up a light sweat. The enemy ran more often than fought. We watched scattered artillery impacts, and the tanks maneuver and duel. Black smoke in the distance. At times we went to ground for a short time when things got a little hot, or deployed from the march and the cartridges would pour through the gun. The steel rain. This was before the bitter winter and the counter offensives. Those were the days. Being a winter patriot is not so pleasant. But, hey, you don't like us? A heap big lot? It does have an effect if your dislike is extreme enough. You tell us you are our enemy. I'll take your word for it, brother or sister. You want to be a fucking enemy of white dinosaurs like this old man? I do not care about that either. It is good to have real enemies. There is pain in it, but pride, and indeed fun also. Are you real enemies or mere braggarts? Fuck you Red or Nazi, globalist or other crime group; Nigger or Spic; Kike, Wog or whatever it is you are. Fuck you all. Muj, traitor against western civilization, or Gookyou choose to be the enemy and you are all the same to me. Conspire against our rights, plan or order armed repression, take up arms yourself. White boy can't dance, jump or run. He just make systems without Asian despotism. He just invent individualism, productivity, a more general prosperity and better war machines. You hurt my feelings! Take up arms, fucker! Those days are over! Don't like playing games, bro. Come get us. We weak now! Be the enemy combatant for real! Those groups who are all enemy will be dealt with as such, while those who are a base for the enemy will be combed for the enemy. (I will add at this point that military action is for armed bands and defended positions while investigative operations should use police style methods. Actionable intelligence is the key. You can't raid or

ambush something if you do not know what and where it is.) If you do not support your brothers in this you are no enemy of mine, but do not be surprised by some caution on my part. Don't like the language? Fuck you if you can't take a joke! The bullshit "balance" of the east, which in actuality is despotism. America itself was much more in balance than they until recently. You interfere with my rights by having rights. Fucking Mormons. (I am so sweet I make my teeth ache.) I do not say every American who does not support the Bill of Rights ought to be punished or exiled. I do say that if too many do not support it freedom will be lost. I do say Americans who are criminal should be stopped whether they are contract murderers or violators of constitutional rights. The person who says the Bill of Rights should be abolished is an idiot. What if a group of people organize support for and give campaign funds to a congressman who then starts a movement in government to pass a law annulling those rights under the usual pretense that law trumps rights. Congressmen vote for it, President signs it, and judges approve it. All involved are criminals, not just idiots but scum and traitors. Whatever, hipsters. The only freedom we need is the freedom to DO What is Right. You wanna do what's right. Doncha? Why be so selfish? Children need to be instilled with goodness. What makes you adults so special? You all from president to beggar should, should beat each other until all of you truly believe in doing what is right. Punishment does make you good. It never makes you rebel. What a weight off the mind now that you can feel worthy and forgiven. Morons. Oh yeah, please send me some UN troopies 'cause if you hang'em from trees they swing in the wind and the blue helmets make great targets (Hyperbole!). So mote it be, ya silly buggers. I will tear you apart in a blood mist and scatter you to the winds. When you kill me I will die killing you. You feel me, Holmes? I will kill you all, and I won't even let God sort you out! Lala la. You smell funny. I am not without the finer sensibilities you know. I just have little use for them. You are a pro, if you are one, because you think and because you have good habits and not so that you can get away with ignoring them now. I will say it all day if I have to. Keep grenades properly stored in secure pouches and not hanging on things. Handguns are the premiere close combat weapon unless you are up against people wearing heavy body armor and a fast handling military carbine on a breakaway assault sling, but they are dangerous for trainees because they can't seem to keep their fingers off the trigger and small weapons are very easy to turn on a friend by mistake. Just as you have to practice carrying a rifle all day, never putting it aside unless the job requires it and always remembering to have it within reach; as well as not walking off without it, while always keeping it on safe unless in the fight and your finger off the trigger unless shooting and just as you must always drop or raise the muzzle of a rifle when turning to a friend or seeing one passing by you must learn these habits and ingrain them in your mind with regard to the handling of pistols. Normally when you turn around the pistol should be vertical so it can rotate before being raised or lowered. This is not the case when turning along an enemy occupied area when the weapon should be up and tracking with your eyes. When you first walk off and forget your rifle it is very humiliating and you will not forget again. With the pistol it should be kept securely holstered until a need for it can be foreseen, but there is a trick to help with the finger on the trigger issue. Again, never allow the weapon to be pointed at any part of your body at any time, nor at any friendly persons or inhabited dwellings at any time. Grip a handgun properly high up on the grips and in the vee between thumb and fingers. Do not look at the weapon! Complete your grip with the trigger finger straight and outside the trigger guard. Do not look at the weapon. Just wait. After a time you will lose track of where your finger is relative to the trigger guard and trigger. You will try to locate the guard and trigger by feel and if you stand there long enough you may find that you have your finger on the trigger. When you realize this you will be as embarrassed as hell and much less likely to forget again. Fuck the goddess, by the way. The Goddess, what a piece of work, he is the true Mother of us

all. No children, this does not mean I do not understand and therefore wish to abuse silly new age types. There are some who do just as there are silly new age types who love to use the force of government against the likes of me. Delicate pearls of wisdom dripping from the dewy lips of the gods. Be honest. If America and Americans were truly and fully pacifistic the vultures would descend, and that would include half of Mexico walking over the border with corn knives and big plans for economic betterment. If America, or large parts of it, became a Mexican country; with a Mexican majority and a predominantly Mexican cultural and political ethos: would we have lost anything of value? Would the world? What language. It is wrong to dehumanize or demonize people. People are not demons, nobody is, and all people are human beings. If you are not able to shoot human beings to stop them as they war on you then you do not belong in this business. Dehumanization helps justify atrocities, but we certainly do not need it to justify shooting combatants. From the depths of hell I spit at you, says Esau. Can their elders not, incidentally, reign in those vapid and embarrassing few youngsters who think it noble to gather for the purpose of downing and stomping random brown-skinned pedestrians? (Profanity is a sign of low IQ and limited vocabulary. And woman should always be clothed, because nudity is less seductive and we want to encourage licentious behavior.) Race baiting is sad. Shooting random people is sick, but an enemy and a knife thrust through the eye socket is a lovely thing. Too bad it is such a difficult target when the head is moving. Just how common are outrages with ethnic roots? How often does the state tolerate such in the name of diversity? You and I need to join the outcry when there are crimes committed by whites for possibly ethnic reasons. Stupidity by other ethnicities are, no doubt, more rare and you and I should never fight any injustice this causes. Only a bigot would notice them. In the unlikely event that they become a major and systemic problem in the future you may then, perhaps, be able to take action without your innate racism being obvious to all. The police are going to have to decide just which side they are on. (No, I don't want them to look away when some idiot commits a crime against an immigrant.) This business of biased enforcement; you incite them by being here, you are a vigilante because you attacked them while they were beating that American, how dare you be armed because you are ready to defend yourself and this is the country of the Second Article of the Bill of Rights: That nonsense must end. "Don't blame me, if I disobey I'll lose my police pension" just won't cut it anymore. It's OK because you are only doing it for the money? (No, I am not saying the bloody stupid if you are not for us you are against us. If you obey certain kinds of order you are acting against us!) You craven fuckers! The next time you hear the snap, crackle, and pop of an active shooter inside a school you better shrug into that vest and RUN to the sound of the guns. Too much heat for you? Get out! The Feds are scum and the police leadership is retarded. It is impossible for a criminally insane person to enter a building and shoot 40 people. That is, in a civilized country. There people do not cluster up and wait to be shot. They jump out windows, fight back with fire axes and flagstaffs, and more to the point they shoot back. Sheep, very sadly, and the police wait outside for 4 hours before entry. If you are a survivor beware of hasty police trigger fingers. How many wounded victims die before the police get them medical care? If more than half the people shot with pistol or AK47 type nonexpanding bullets die expect to find that the shooter took care to finish his targets, or that police left them to bleed to death. It is almost always the latter. So, you think I am an accessory to the crime because I support gun rights. If there were no guns there could be no mass shootings. Huh. When people are killed because they obeyed all your laws and had no tool with which to defend themselves are you an accessory to their murders? You are trading lives for lives. They should at least have had a metal detector in each doorway. That way when the shooter began his murders an alarm would have been going off at the same time, unless he used a window. Be enlightened, the best way to take down a building full of people is to block exits and burn

the place down. Ban inflammable materials. Accelerants bad! Yep, all you need do to be safe is ban violence, tools, and know how; then put a "no weapons allowed" sign up. "Safe zones" are the preferred place for mass murders, fool! Armor and cover increases your chance of surviving the initial attack. Barriers are for slowing the enemy down. Alarms give you more time to take action. Cameras can be used to recon areas before you enter. Recorders provide evidence to police after you are dead, and police are for investigations and citations. If you are not prepared to take action none of these things benefit you at all. What about officer safety? What about good tactics? Just how bleeding hard is it to take down an active shooter, oh level 4 armored emergency response team members? But the shooting has stopped. It is no longer a active shooter situation. There is no need to rush things. Yeah, the shooter likely killed himself. Find out what is going on, even if you have to gain entry. How long do good tactics take? The shooter died after the initial gunfire, and you creep in hours later. Do not let the Feds interfere with your job. You are worthless, good only for door-smashing dawn raids on sleeping druggies whom you shoot if they twitch at the wrong time. How long are you going to let victims bleed? Your vehicle stolen by police because they say they saw your associate driving it when he stopped and talked to a prostitute. You can come to court and try to prove it was not there! Mexican style justice where people are jailed and charged room and board for their punishment. You never get out if you are unable to come up with the money. This is a return to the good old days, as is the asset seizure "drug war," of inquisition and tax farmer corruption caused by the fact that it destroys due process and it pays officials directly to lie in order to steal. Judges are not supposed to jail people for more than 6 months without trial on civil contempt charges (although there may be no statute on this, and the rule may vary by state), and yet we hear of those who have been jailed for a year and a half. We can't hold you for more than three days on "suspicion" so out you go. OK, you have been out, stop right there, you are under arrest on another suspicion of suspiciousness! Free men really ought to carry the sheathed ancestral sword in one hand everywhere they go. No, Sir pinhead, I mean an actual sword, you know, Great Great Great Grandfather's saber? In the scabbard a fine less lethal tool, out of it rather more lethal. Absurdly silly and very crazy huh? Funny how your ancestors would not have agreed with you, but hey they were primitive and would not accept tyrantsthey had the guts to fight when threatened. Things are much better now. Just stay away from the bad side of town and lock yourself in at night. Sure. You will likely be A OK. What behavior. I say wear the holstered handgun as well. Bring it, bring it on, come get it. Fancy boys do talk big, eh lads? Officer safety trumps all subjects rights. You may get a gun muzzle pressed against you head if police know you have a weapon. It is your fault if a cop breaks the law. You are like a battered wife. "I knew he had a temper on him, it's my own fault for making him angry." He may be having a bad day. Yeah? You must let the police do with, or to, you whatever they please. You can have your day in court if the legal system will have you and if you are alive. All orders are lawful orders. Don't think so? I love it when a cop says "You wanna humble yourself a bit, or do ya want me to shoot you? You whining douchebag! You wanna be alive, or dead right?" You are the one having responsibility for defusing things if they seem out of hand. Not the police. And never do legal things in a place where the police do not like them. That would be asking for it; your fault, not the hard working and stressed officer's fault you baited him with your presence. Still and all, blah blah, as we live in an oligarchy/mobocracy and you can't fight city hall keep in mind that resistance is futile, stupidity is its own reward and you have nobody to blame but yourself. The road to serfdom is already well traveled. We are no longer men. Stop pretending. Texas where the tough guys cannot legally wear a holstered pistol. Australia, outback hardcases abound, and a bowie knife is illegal. The right to self defense dead in Europe. Without a whimper yielded up. So stop pretending. At least I can fairly say that if you are rude to the authorities you will be beaten down for it. Try it. It may not happen the first time you do it, but it will happen. If

you let them humiliate you, jump you through some hoops, they may (or not) let you go with a pat on the head. Smile and say Sir a lot, and say "nothing Sir" when you are asked what the hell you are smiling at. It is dangerous to catch the attention of any authority. It is dangerous to be within weapons range of military on operations, critically so to approach to within a few hundred yards. It is more dangerous to be in the near vicinity of police than to the more average sorts of criminal. How many times must it be said? Never argue with armed thugs. There is seldom any good reason to even speak to them. Keep in mind that soldiers and police do not have an effing clue half the time, which can make them feel insecure. Further, one thing they do know is that they are the ones who are supposed to be in charge and their safety is job one. This means "civilians" who do not immediately obey without complaint are at best punks who in many cases really ought to be thumped if not shot. "We gonna go kinetic on their fool asses!" Rights come in second if at all. Police really do think of themselves as the wild animals in the forest in the sense that when encountered on the street anyone who sets them of is like a person who mishandles an animal that cannot be expected to make sensible decisions like a human can. They cannot be morally judged by civilians. If things go as well as they ever do, a citizen who thinks he is following the law, and is wrong, is told ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Plus he is a little bitch for complaining. If a cop thinks he is following the law, mistakenly, he says he made an error, out of ignorance but in good faith, and he is usually good as gold. I spit on your wisdom. I spit on your authority. I need no permission to travel unhindered and unendangered, as I do not unduly hinder or endanger others on my way, nor do I need your permission to ask people questions about my missing sister, to protect myself from criminal attack, to look for a suspected robber, to make a citizen's arrest when I witness a crime, or to protect a threatened acquaintance or his property; not even if he pays me something for it: you gormless fucking guild retards! Private police are illegal, private armies and paramilitary activities are illegal, keeping and bearing arms are illegal, and approved agencies are regulated and trained. But hay, the state may permit you private security! Have you seen the level of training for security officers in most jurisdictions? It is even worse than most police training. This is about turning the majority of officers into door men, about taking your cut, and about restricting "trade." Don't believe me? You think a "bad apple" either licensed or no can't be arrested? But you want things to be done right the first time! You mean like the way one agency at the scene of a drowning has to wait 20 fatal minutes for the approved rescue agency to come? The way police hold citizens who want to rescue a friend down as the friend dies? Again, the authorities restrain the public as a first priority, and only secondarily expend energy on crime and rescue. Maturity is learning which side your bread is buttered on. The police, the military leadership, and government functionaries are all very mature people. They are also peasants and thugs, and not aristos, for the most part. Peasants obey and fight whomever they are told to fight, aristocrats are ready to fight at the drop of a threat to themselves which threats they find insulting. Unarmed security is treated as doorman, delivery boy and fire alarm. Armed security is restricted to armored car and bank guard if possible. Bodyguarding is a shit job usually. Unarmed for pushing through fans and armed to make a very important type look good. Dress up but don't overshadow the boss, don't look stern but be alert. Carry my packages out to the car. If you drive the car you are not a bodyguard. Yes, a security minded "tactical driver" is a fine thing, but if there is only one guard present and he is chauffeuring where is the bodyguard? The police leadership is retarded, when it too is not also scum. Why mince words here? Most police have a strong sense of us against them. They have contempt for civilians in general, just as criminals tend to hate all police. They respect soldiers and each other. They respect people who do the job. Never tattle on anyone on the job, anyone wearing the shield. They feel entitled to a little corruption since their job is so tough and unrewarded. They hate politicians but they know where their authority and paychecks come from. Historically most military and police forces have obeyed orders,

and when they did not it was usually in order to join a party promising even more power. Most police will enforce tyranny. They will feel smug in the doing of it, and will feel contempt for civilians and deserters who whine about it. There are few things more hated by our cop brothers than a subject who complains, says he is innocent, andhorrorstalks about rights and constitution. Many of the guilty say they are innocent. So do most of the innocent. To them you are an undisciplined malcontent who should love it or leave it. Freedom is not a natural right, it is natural that it has to be earned. Freedom is earned by paying the dues (obeying). Most do not support gun control, but their major concern is for the rights of themselves and theirs. Make no mistake, you will be fighting many of the police. It will probably feel like all. Never ask for what you cannot take, never order what you cannot enforce. Never give warning once the fighting is already begun. Never cooperate with the enemy. Do not lose without having fought. Never yield without having been defeated, nor break before you have been tortured. They will sneer if you are soft, and right is whatever the regs say. They will respect toughness, but what does their opinion matter? When the lines have been crossed just blow them up and carry on the fight. Once war has been declared by the actions taken by any one combatant group, all else is force of arms. Talk is cheap and only actions win and lose wars, and talk can defuse wars only when both sides got into the fighting by mistake. This does not mean wars do not end with talks once one or both sides have been less than victorious for too long a time. The truth is that it is right that you should be free of tyrants, but freedom is not earned (actually, obtained and retained) by obedience and service; it is earned by spilling the blood of the tyrants and criminals. Do it the right way, commit no crimes, but be hard: the dues must indeed be paid. Code of silence. Thin blue line. Professional courtesy? Partially this is just human nature. Who does not like special treatment? While a person who has made the wrong enemies, or has the dime dropped on him for fall guy, gets treated as badly as any common citizen; government employees are normally given very different treatment than troublesome or suspected "civilians." There is another reason for this. If they were handled the same way the average person was the system would collapse. Some just can't be bothered about abuse if they don't have to feel it themselves. If the federal drug war and related takings of property was declared illegal, which it is, but corporations working with the feds continued to drag suspects in and to seize property on the grounds that they were able to get signatures on documents and to con people into going before "administrative corporate judges" and signing release forms would this make everything OK because of contract law? Bah! You really cannot afford to "snitch," you know that? You think the authorities need to be notified so they can do their jobs? What do you really learn from school on this subject, "You know what we think of tattle-tales in this school?" They just dislike the malicious toadies who actually enjoy making trouble. Not. What do your classmates think? Friend, authorities, among other things both good and bad, are rank conscious, insecure and lazy. They do not want the work. They do not want the criticism that comes with too many problems reported or poorly handled. You really ought to go away. They want to avoid problems and advance by seniority if nothing else arises. You can profit from reporting problems in special circumstances such as when downgrading a rival, but generally only when reporting criminals completely outside of your class and with the support of your social equals. If you are under a threat you become a pain if you keep calling for help. You become the problem. Either you are exaggerating the problem or you are a magnet for trouble. Learn to fit in, get along with people even if you think they are thugs, you troublemaker; or move. Perhaps you would fit in better among your own kind? However, the police do use professional snitches who are willing to finger just about anyone the police wish, and coerced ones as well. This is often another result of police sloth and corruption. It may pay you to cooperate, both in cash or drugs and in forgiveness of your own crimes, until the police burn you or other criminals drop a dime on you. Such is life. Just a small lesson for you. "Authorities" are not there to protect you. They are there to make a living and to maintain a system in return for that support for themselves and theirs. Sometimes,

incidentally, that involves protection for you, but not often and only to a point. Reporting crimes works best as a tool for use in court. If you end up shooting someone after a series of threats, assaults and break-ins a paper trail showing you asked for help can come in handy. If you are young and pretty, but male, and you get off the bus only to have a local perv physically grab onto you? Do punch him in the nose, but expect the police to tell you to get lost or be arrested for battery. Very common in San Fran. You may even do some jail time for defending yourself. Who loves ya, baby? Well, mostly your mamma, child. Usually. The common people must become as children were of old. Seen but not heard. Speaking when spoken to. Please and yes Sir. Polite, cheerful and obedient; and may I be excused? Do your chores, be helpful, and do smile. Do not take the last or largest sweet. Idle hands are the Devil's playground. Spare the rod and spoil the child. Eat whatever is placed on your plate. A child unable to learn may try harder if spanked. The best cure for an unhappy or sullen child is punishmentsoon enough she will at least pretend to be happy to serve; tidy and clean, and grateful for all that you have done for her. It is not true that free men go armed. It is not true that free citizens are the aristocratic class in America. Watch that attitude, boy! While at work or school America's children are treated like little prisoners, but they run wild the rest of the time. Oh, for the days when any passing adult was free to paddle rude and lazy guttersnipes! Eh, not really. The police attitude toward the public is a milder version of the attitude of soldiers in elite units. People may think hardcore training is there for the purpose of hardening the trainee while weeding out those who are not capable of being smart and disciplined fighters able to endure the hardships of warfare while fighting for freedom. Nah. They do not want people who will fight back when abused. Most of the hardships of training are arbitrary bullshit and complaining is the greatest sin short of threatening an officer. Trainees are left to work out their own pecking order, unless it gets totally out of hand, and infractions are punished on a whole unit basis so that the trainees themselves will punish troublemakers. These are people who will take abuse. People who can be beaten down. Once they learn their place and have been passed out of training they identify with the ingroup and sneer at outsiders who have not endured what they have. And why should the police not pepper spray or Taser a mouthy punk when the police officer himself had to go through it in training? The officers have sergeants as a buffer, and the ruling class the officers. Each level in the system has lost its freedom, other than the ruling class, but each level has its own privileges. At the bottom the soldier can feel superior to civilians and hardcore, can work for awards and for NCO stripes, and can drink, whore, and occasionally fire weapons during training every six months or so. And, finally, there are times when he is turned on an enemy and can shoot up things and feel the rush; working off his frustrations. This is not to say infantrymen do not require great physical and mental stamina. I forgot again. This is the new army. They have a strange new cheer that starts quietly and builds in volume. They do it at the drop of an officer's cap. Did you know even the ancient Romans said any perceived problem usually resulted in another mostly pointless reorganization? Soldiers still are selfless defenders of freedom who put duty and the chain of command above their own, and other people's, constitutional rights. Now, however, they trade their lives for others while remaining clean and dignified on the battlefield, and while refraining from smoking in government vehicles. They no longer drink or fuck in theater, swear or gesture, or gripe about anything as they display the required religious, sexual and racial sensitivity. Fucking A right! You better believe it, you cowardly towelheaded bastards! The artillery, I mean fires both lethal and nonlethal; in the unit of action, are they combat or combat support, oops, I mean operating or generating; you know, whatever, they spend their time doing patrols anyway. Life support operating systems in a netcentric battlespacebleeding post battle warfare. Y'all do not have machine gun or heavy ATGM (antitank guided missile) specialists, but you do have internment/relocation specialists: you are going to bleeding save the world by keeping it in a protected village, a camp. Truth! The army is being destroyed as a full spectrum combat organization.

The US is losing it. We have always been subject to program boondoggles but now we are unable to manage our own systems. Third world performance looms, folks. Outcome based education as if it was not always outcome based. Community policing. Effects based warfare. As if naming it for what it has always been makes the current protocols work properly. We were at the point of being as good as WWII Germany at combined arms operations and building weapons systems that worked and now we are throwing it away to focus on a new way of fighting police actions. We have never been very good at that, and always institutionally forget what we have learned in the past. The M16 is a hardware example. Consider the Stryker armored vehicle. It gets stuck offroad, tires are constantly replaced, electronics overheat, the armored gun version is dangerous to it own crew. Many items in and out of the Stryker were not modified to work together. The computers are a joke. The remote controlled weapon turret can not hit targets when the vehicle is moving and can not target anything at night when it is raining. Also, it rotates so slowly it can not respond to threats. We would be better off with a man manually operating a nightsight equipped machine gun in an armored cupola he rotates around with the gun by hand! The camera at the rear is partially blocked by the anti-RPG cage! Mickey Mouse programs galore, and the programs take forever and do not work properly with each other. Then the maintenance programs (sustainment operating systems!) can not supply quality replacement parts. To you reconquistas: Our attitude toward the likes of you? Perhaps a little explanation is in order. Do you have any idea with whom you are dealing? I recently read an article on some bloody web page or other. It seems that it would be a very bad thing if Americans had counter-demonstrated on April 10. A terrible idea too for any American to burn a Mexican flag. Why? It might incite an immigrant or twenty into a regrettable and violent action. The current theory is this this: you propitiate radicals and "pressure/special interest" groups, and then avoid "unnecessary" violence by telling the more civilized to stop being bigots; to suck it up, and not to "incite" any violence. A country is only as good as its people. We common and boring Americans "incite" theft by driving expensive cars or leaving them unlocked. We incite crime by being in the wrong place in our own country. We incite violence by resisting robbery or by simply being armed when the crimes occur. You think force is not yet in play? Stick your neck out. Get noticed. Then explain to the hostile crowd, or to corporate security, police or soldiers that no force is in play. See whether you have either to yield to or fight rather belligerent and forceful people. You can not stop violence by being nonviolent or unarmed if someone wants to be violent. It is still violence if you huddle on the ground while they kick you. There is force involved when you are put into the cruiser. Do you think there is no force involved when an armed robber decides not to shoot you if you give him the money? Do not die, or kill and die, for truth and peace. Live for them. If you use violence first the enemy will win. Endure and teach. It is unfortunate that the practical effect of this, when the use of force is in play, is the same as if you ran away and hid under a rock. Also, it is not always possible to hide. Did you die for something after all? Take the long view, the path of enlightenment! Peace will come when everybody has been taught to be good. Not all pacifists are cowards. Die for life, do not kill for death, or something like that. Dying for peace, if you stand up for it, takes courage. Fighters are cowards because they fear death and punishment so much they are willing to kill to protect themselves. Perhaps they are just perverts who like blood. Pacifists are cowards because they fear fighting more than death? No, no, right is right. Dying is cool but killing is wrong because killing is always wrong. Too bad we have to allow them to hurt themselves by killing us. We are selfish and do not kill them to protect them from sin? Come on, fighting too often fails to end the activities of the brutal. It takes two to tango and two or more sides to fight a war. It only takes one to pillage and rape. Be disarmed, damn it! Trusted citizenship: trust us because we can not trust you until you are fully controlled. Remember to always give our police and military the benefit of all doubt, however; they are our boys and girls.

Are they not pretty? But make them pay for any gear they lose when they are hit. Stupidity is good and contradiction is king. Promise and threaten, cajole and confuse. Bribe and stir up the faithful, but try them too because hardship is worthy of pride. Confuse and threaten the unreliable masses as frustration and confusion lead to weakness and inaction. Separate out resisters and punish them, make examples, but humiliate before you kill since no martyrs are needed. Those you cannot con into soldiering or jingoism should be conned into pacifism, if not that then rendered inactive by blatant and unpunished contradiction and lies. You can't fight city hall, noob. The hardcore remnant can be destroyed as absurdly and brutally as possible. Make clowns and pitiful fools of them. They have no cohesion and most of their fellows will swear at their troublemaking or laugh when the hammer falls. Domination games, pecking orders, economic and sexual politics. Yeehah! Put on the power suits men. Let us get a glimpse of your underwear as you click down the halls, women. And if you are too weak to be a power, then suck up to the most powerful group that will have you and feel safe and proud of your master. REGIMENT ME! REGULATE ME! I heart me some Global Governance. ALL HAIL THE NWO! (Can I have a government job, please?) All government is socialism, including its police and military; which is why sensible people keep their government as small as possible, and all socialism is creeping absent explosive growth caused by and leading to further massive failures...and the "great intellects" of monolithic systematization (power and greed) are never too shy for intentional crisis creation when stupidity does not provide justifying disaster at the required rate. Large scale socialism is authoritarian or totalitarian and is the faith of would be tyrants and of the fearful. Fueled by crisis it plays into the hands of the powerful and corrupt or those wishing to become such. During the monopoly days of the early robber barons already there was an interplay between government and the barons to make it possible. A more totalitarian version of this puts the players inside government and party, and in the black markets, but is much the same in effect save that the monopolies are even stronger. Remember, the true goal of monopoly is not a booming general economy. It is a bigger share of power, control and property for the monopolists. Never use violence first. Never be organized for it. That is what they want. They can pin the blame on you. Protests are usually a waste of time and riots more so. True. So if somebody wants to dominate you the only way to avoid domination is to not resist. Yeah right. If you fight and people suffer and you get slaughtered you lose and they do you more harm then you did to them. If you do not resist they do whatever they want to you. If you use passive resistance they do whatever they want to you but cannot control everyone at all times so some goals are not met and they use terror and make examples. You think they care if uncooperative people hurt the economy? They want power and a bigger share. Do they care if their own system, bureaucracy, shrinks the overall economy? They don't care if your share shrinks. They don't care if the overall economy shrinks. In primitive Oriental societies or in the European dark ages the Raja did not care that the average person slaved for scraps and died young. He still had a palace, food and drink, jewels and women. His soldiers and overseers did not care either. They got authority and a bigger share than most. The middle path has the same flaw as resistance by force, and to an even greater degree. Passive resistance only works if a system collapses due to a very great number of people joining you in being jailed, beaten or killed for disobedience. Christians are amazing cowards. The religious say there are no atheists in the foxholes. Everybody knows unbelievers are cowards who will break down and pray for help when endangered. It do happen. And the folks who get religion promptly put away all that crude soldier behavior. Right. War destroys faith as often as it creates faith. It leaves men brutal as often as peace loving. The truth is that Christians who think they will go directly to heaven if killed by the evildoer have no excuse whatever for avoiding a just fight. Anybody who has some care for his fellows and is not a criminal wants to help. What about the turn the other cheek variety? They will not fight because they are cowardsthey fear losing eternal life if they disobey the pacifist "law." Too bad for others, especially

if they have no eternal life to lose; not being true believers. It is not selfishness, it is obedience to God! Bah! No fear in love and peace that is beyond understanding my big white ass. Most people take up a religion in the hope of saving themselves. Period and the end. The majority of Christians will no more take the time or risk to provide personal emergency assistance than will members of any other major group. The peaceniks among them will not defend others at all. I feel sorry for those supernatural beings. They suffer over us so, unlike human beings who never suffer. They have to listen to the constant praise songs they have demanded, and put up with such sorry followers they have chosen for themselves. Poor babies. And don't wear a cross, you might offend a Jew or Muslim with your foul presence! (May their honored persons be fucked.) Police and military personnel are just like Jesus, but not in a sacrilegious way. Homer. It was even better when we were drafting soldiers, because then they were our human sacrifices to the gods of safety. How dare you criticize our protectors! How dare you oppose the policies implemented by them! They die for you, ungrateful whelp!, and the high government officials are our Our Father, who art on Earth. If soldiers are underpaid, if the treatment of our suffering servants is sometimes abusive, well, Jesus was scourged before they hung him on the tree. An even better sacrifice. Fucking two year olds. (Actually, the average officer never fires his handgun outside of training, and that might consist of 60 to 95 rounds fired at annual requalification. Never has a shootout in his lifetime. Lumberjacks and fishermen live a more dangerous life than the police. The police job is very stressful, and is boring, but not very risky. Most police and military men live to retire.) The sword itself often incites a man to fight. So says the other Homer. So do large muscles, clenched fists, and baseball bats; as does small stature both because of the tendency to abuse the weak and of the small to overreact to threats. So does anything that irritates, angers, frightens, or excites. Also anything that you want, or don't want. Whatever. Those police today are so special; bellow and whine so I can't tell if you want to be revered or just pitied. Even a cat may look at a king. Not full in the face, however, and if it stares too long it will go hard on it. Rubbish! Oh? Rubbish I say. Look at the peasants who must stop by the police at an intersection. They are often afraid to speak or wave, and they are fearful of taking pictures anywhere near one. They stare straight ahead, but fear not looking about normally while also fearing looking at the officer. They try to seem innocent and relaxed while tense and as stiff as a board. If the police follow them down the street they are afraid to continue in case nervousness should cause a traffic error, and afraid to pull off and stop for fear of seeming to attempt to evade. I say if you are clearly being followed but do not fear for your life you should park your car in a legal manner, lock it before they pull in to check on your suspiciousness, and sit on the hood of your vehicle until they tire of asking questions you won't answer and either arrest you or go away. People do not fear the police because the people are criminal. They fear because they are not very brave and the police are often stupid or malicious. If you tick them off or catch their interest you may be able to beat the charge, but you can't avoid the ride. So the high court says safety checkpoints are unconstitutional but minor violations and needed. The Supremes have sung! The government interest always overrides rights. No problem, they will never go further than they think they should. But ask the government what it has been up to and they lie, lie, lie; because they have privacy rights. Unfortunately, all nine of our cameras malfunctioned during that incident. You look nervous, chief! What do you all have to hide boys? Heh. I have it, on good authority, that not all Americans are falling for this. If you feel love for the monsters you are a pervert. If you hate your loving wife you are a pervert. Love, love fucking love. A hell of a lot of Jews were murdered during WWII. Not systematically in gas chambers and not a nice round 6 million. Many others were murdered also. So what? Does this fact make any of those murders less horrid? Look at the little girls waiting to be shot and dumped in a hole. Does your fucking blood boil? Are you a human being and a man? Try that shit in my neighborhood. But tell me, did those Jews get killed because they did not love the Nazis enough?

If they had been sweet and unthreatening the Nazis would have been unable to carry on. Yes? Fucking retarded gits. Morons, you have fallen for the leftist and religious demagogues. They want you disarmed 'cause you are their sheep to shear. Spiritual movements are to varied degree communitarian. Socialist. Both the Nazis and communists are socialist. We need heroes who build, who make peace. You are correct. Not my job, man. I am a soldier. I break stuff. Gasp! Peace and love have avoided war, if felt by the right people. Love not violence has never won a war. While most wars end badly, freedom and justice are worth fighting for. If you are scum turn yourself in now. You won't though, so we will take you eventually. If you are a man let nobody take your weapons. Sure, if you are dealing with reasonable people making understandable mistakes you can go along and sort it out later. If they are thugs go into defense mode. If they are constitution breakers it is killing time. See that old man walking down the street? Tweed jacket with leather elbow pads and a subdued blue diamond shoulder patch? Silver skull and bones ring on his finger? Yup. That's me! Probably has a pistol and several other weapons under there. Get him! Open carry or concealed carry? Open carry is bad because it attracts attention and because an attacker will make you his primary target if he chooses to attack even though you are armed. (If I am walking with my family I want to be any criminal attacker's first target.) Concealed carry is bad because a criminal might mistake you for prey and attack you when he would have passed you by otherwise. You can "take an attacker by surprise" only if you are present but his focus is on another, or on something else. Once somebody has you covered, at gunpoint, you better run as you draw, and your chances are slightly worse if you carry concealed. You are almost certainly going to be shot at before you are able to shoot, unless the other side is distracted. Movement and/or armor is important. Lucky for us most thugs are poor shots, and most police and soldiers train seldom. The more difficult you can make accurate shooting, even if it makes things harder for you as well, the better for the more skilled. Look, if the other guy is only half the shooter you are but the conditions of the fight are such that both of you will be able to easily hit the other you are equal. The more difficult you make it for him to hit you, by shooting on the move perhaps, the more difficult it is for you to shoot accurately as well; but difficult conditions favor the more skilled. So train yourself. Surprise is golden, shooting first can be critical, but getting hits is what really counts. Without his getting hits on you if possible. You know? Never fight back if they already have the drop on you. Really? Your chances may be poor, but consider this; on historical average half of the prisoners of war never came back. While most people taken in by police survive, in whatever condition, your environment may vary; and when some random thug takes you away the likelihood of ever being seen again is very small. If someone suddenly jabs a gun into your back he is going to kill you immediately, or he is going to kill you later, or in some cases not at all. Often you will have no idea which it is going to be. Most times your best bet is to turn sharply sideways while using your elbow to sweep his weapon aside. Grab on if you can. Draw a tool if possible. Attack, best do it with a knife or pistol. Sometimes you should have dodged and run, dropped to the ground while drawing your handgun, or frozen in place and obeyed orders. Too bad, sucks to be you. Risky isn't it, being at gunpoint? Do try to avoid that condition. Many dislike open carry, the Constitution, et al. What if criminals started carrying openly too? As I see it you should not exercise any rights lest irritated persons rescind them. Eh? Eh? Just do what the thugs, the ones not in uniform, do. Just carry whatever you want in an undetected manner, attack from the shadows, and be in the wind. What do I care if they ban something. Carefully not doing something lest it be banned is the same in practice as something banned. (Semper tyrannis, Bubba. We don't need no stinking "Sic.") The mere exercise of any right can not be a crime. Nor can it create reasonable suspicion for a stop, or probable cause for a search or arrest. Speech alone is not enough, you must exhibit behavior that is alarming or threatening. Having a holstered pistol or slung rifle is not enough, you must behave

in a way that endangers or threatens without legal cause, and; self defense is no crime. Never willingly enter a place where they trust you so little and you trust them so much that you must let them take your weapons leaving them with both their and your arms. Here is the thing about clubs and bars. Unlike other free fire no defense, I mean gun free zones, bars are not the kind of places crazy people will invade for nefarious purposes. You got nothing to worry about. Also, drugged and drunk folks do not lose their inhibitions and sometimes attack each other, or if they do they can do little damage if they see no weapons signs or get strip searched coming in. Doesn't matter how big and mean they are. You yourself should never handle firearms when trashed, and any alcohol is too much. Besides, designated drivers can't also be designated armed security because any such person would shoot any drunken fool who threw a punch at a friend, unless his drunken ex-girlfriend had already snatched his pistol from its level 3 retention holster, of course. Solly cholly, the defender is the instigator of all the negative attention he receives. Stop resisting, stop resisting! Let everybody be disarmed. Let martial arts be banned. Police need to use violence no more than anybody else. They too should defuse criminals by running away, by taking blocking positions when other victims are present, by accepting injury in order to place coals of fire on the perp's heads, and by using their words. Whatever. It is The 21st Century in the fucking United States of America, Inc. Dirty buildings. Cracked sidewalks. The power goes out in every wind storm, and the tap water won't actually kill you. Probably. Least said, soonest mended. Least learned, the less forgotten. Haste makes waste so never do today what can be put off until tomorrow. If you can avoid antagonizing the general public, you should avoid antagonizing the general public. In any given situation the cure selected can be worse than the disease. However, there is no need to have the general public on your side in order to win. Probably having 10% of the population as fighters, active supporters and passive supporters would be enough, unless the general public is in active opposition. Do you ever only fight when you know for certain you will win? Tactically you should never fight an impossible engagement if it can be avoided, but only fools think they always know if a war will go as well as wars ever do. You can't win a war if all you do is hide. Heroic measures, pain and the indignity of struggle? If doctors in the past all had the attitude many have today, triage, they still would be drugging or allowing to bleed out casualties with perforated bowels. After all, they would only die of infection within a few days anyway. Now surgeons save most of these people (if still alive when they reach the hospital). Often there is nothing you can do but if you stop trying, and stop learning, nothing can ever be improved. There is a key difference between practical and realistic, and the passive and resigned. We try. If a thing is impossible we work around it. If it can be done if done differently we learn. When something is vital to us we may try unto death. If every single person in a nation knew the government was corrupt it would not matter if nobody did a damned thing about it. Y'all survivalists are punks, bubba. No joke. You think you can stock up and hang out in your hide until everybody else is wiped out and you can emerge to build your clan system. At worst you believe you will shoot a few feral strays and bury them in the backwoods, or lose pursuers in the wilderness. What is much more likely is that eventually someone organized and numerous will finally decide to take notice. If they are friendly they will have done your fighting for you. If the other kind too bad for you. Now, it is better to be a live instead of dead punk. If it is a matter of staying under the radar while getting through shortages and disruptions more power to you. You are not under any moral law demanding you sacrifice yourself, but once again when good people do nothing who is it who prevails? Now this: You geniuses might want to consider this: you are inciting a response from the American

people. Oh, you want to incite a response so you can make examples? So do we. Resistance is futile, you say. Constitutional government is over. Give up your arms, accept the end of outdated concepts of liberty and American culture. Latinos will be the majority, nothing can be done, you Nazi or Nazi dupe you! (Without immigrants US population is already at zero growth.) All empires come to an end, gabacho, give in gracefully. (As if patriots want a empire, but we already have stolen the continent, eh?) We did not steal Texas, there was a rebellion against a tyrant. He wanted to disarm the locals, for example, and many of the rebels were Hispanics. Some of the other areas were stolen, though we should not believe all were civilized save for white people. There were treaties, often broken and often by both parties to any particular one. All peoples have bad behavior in their history. Some more than others, obviously. We destroyed the First Nations, for example. Many of them tried to destroy, torture, etc., us right back but we were better at it. This happened in the past. If you want to hammer the various American ethnicities into your own new empire you may try. Every place on the earth has been occupied by different peoples at various times. To use this to justify violence today is evil. To use it to justify taking peoples rights is wrong. Propaganda alone will not be enough, and of course not Mexico nor any one tribe ever controlled all the claimed territory. But while might does not make right, it does make power for conquest. If the majority of peoples and tribes join you? If the unholy white is outnumbered too greatly by the hostile? We shall see the outcome. All things do end, and while I do not welcome war I will enjoy the final struggle. If you do create a Bronze continent I wish your common people well, and your leaders and fighters great destruction. Your system will be vastly inferior to the best that America and Europe have done and been; I will laugh now as I may well be dead then. Blah, blah blah. I don't really give a fuck. I will defend my freedom, my people, and my land. The noble savage was in harmony with nature. He burned it, and killed and ate it, but he prayed when he did this and it sacrificed itself for him. It did kill him with diseases. But everything is OK because, as it turns out, everything is natural. The thing I have trouble understanding is the pervasive fighting over territory, livestock, women or just plain sacrifices and slaves and "coup counting." It seems that in many cases natural harmony requires knowing your tribe as the humans and everybody else as enemy. The Mexican native history lies rather south of here, so you can imagine how human they thought the northern tribes were. The average white was more civilized than the average Indian, but the treatment the white polity as a whole delivered to the native population was extremely brutal. There is no question of that. If you want my people dead or gone, I want you dead, imprisoned or gone. Words no longer mean anything when reason is rejected with contempt and force is in play. Blood and iron, fuckers. I will go anywhere I please in my country. Get out of my face, and that includes you cop. I will yank your cute little mustache off. Ja, ja, ja ,ja. Go on about your communist, socialist, corporatist, anarchist, racial or law and order utopias. The whole premise of limited government is to allow for maximum freedom because it limits conflict and allows for personal interests, innovation and human dignity. When that is not enough, and you must violate the constitution? This is America, joy boy. When you break the highest law in the land; what does that make you? Dead, perhaps? Nah. This is France, but I am thinking I may be insulting the French with the comparison. An amusing aspect of socialism is the way it engenders calloused and selfish individualism in many people. Since a fully developed system leaves most individuals powerless to effect the system in a meaningful way, and leaves them little control of their own lives, most of them spend work free time not devoted to planned recreation activities, mandated volunteer work or indoctrination sessions out drinking, having sex (and abortions), and competing for black market goods. They are very self absorbed and not likely to help anyone else or give up any partying time. This attitude, along with the generally poor results of social and socialist planning causes complaints. To wit, there is too much individualism and the solution is more government. Hah. Don't fall for this. Instead join the cut-throat struggle to reach a position of authority (greater servitude to the

people) and you may be allowed a car when others must use public transportation. You may even be able to take over a part of the black market and dispose of your enemies. Free at last! I'm just yankin' yer chain. The true purposes of government are three. Employ as many do goobers uh gooders, confidence men, busy bodies, naive well-meaners, nosy parkers, natural joiners, control freaks, brown nosers, doctrine fanatics, charity cases, organized psychopaths, gold brickers, and thuggish enforcers as possible. Lock up and indoctrinate as many children, trouble makers and mental cases as possible. Fund all this by charging people a fee for the doing of everything they are allowed to do (and a fine for everything they are not). But sometimes they just like to totally fuck everything up so they can buy up the real property for pennies on the dollar. Da, Tovarich. Pravda. There is going to be murder, rape, torture, imprisonment; there will be starvation and disease, riot and economic collapse. There will be war, and some level of combat in the US. We will not take part in the riots, rapes, torture and murders, but societal breakdowns came with increases in the things I listed, and we will be blamed for them. It will never be any fault of yours, fucking liars and thieves of rights, it is always the fault of any who resist. The last days of the Roman empire, you all think like indolent, arrogant, decadent Senators. You are going to drown in your own blood. Fuck you. My honor is not my loyalty. Honor has many parts, and loyalty is one part, as are blood and soil. Courage, justice, mercy and honesty are among them. Vindictiveness, cowardice and credulity, and inaction are not. Do not say honor, duty, country because it seems to imply duties and patriotism outside and above, or on an equal level with, honor. Patriotism, but not jingoism, is a part of honor. Rightful duties are also. Say honor. Patriotism taken to the point of thinking the country and the government is your daddy is foolishness. Passions ought never to override truths. Do not be the kind of person people laugh at. When you show up people should not say, Oh hell, one of those idiots. Call the police. They can be dangerous. They should say, It's one of those. They won't do you any harm if you leave them be. No! Don't call the police, those guys are dangerous. You are what you are, not what you act like or say you are. Sometimes you can make yourself into a thing. Posturing will not do it. Remember who you are. If I had my way a bunch of like-minded people would appear on the streets next 4th of July. They would wear pistols and armor, and would carry slung rifles. A blue diamond patch on every sleeve. They would go about their daily routine, would quit any employer who complained, and would shun all anti-2nd amendment businesses. If threatened they would engage and would be supported by all others within call. Huh, if I had my way people would behave and none of this shit would be needed. Whatever, Utopiaman. Chaos, eh? When all else fails battle euphoria is enough. Nonsense. Let us sacrifice our children on the alter of historical guilt! La Raza. Why, the La Raza (The Race) social "democracy" might not even be so very bad, eh? I mean nothing is worth fighting for (unless you are a "minority") and losing is bad! Choose your sides, sweethearts. The time for talking is OVER. Do you think you can keep doing this forever? You really think you can take over without a fight? Do you know what English soldiers are? Anglo-Saxons? Teutons? Normans? Vikings? Germans? Do you think you can put your finger in our faces forever? (Yes you do, which is why the talking is over.) Do you really understand what American soldiers are? Latino shills say a sleeping giant is waking. There is another sleeping giant. It may be the "silent majority" of Americans; or it may be only a minority now, but it is still a giant. Do not wake us up, you moronic fools! Or, do. There is pleasure in wading into the goblin hordes. (Oh Mother Mary save us, that is is dehumanizing language!) Keep up the pressure, keep pushing. Some of us will fight for this country. Some of us will fight for America. Do you know how Americans fight? Do you know any history at all? Americans, usually, don't blow up the noncombatants; shoot the wounded, or torture the captives. (There have been, and currently are, sad exceptions.) Americans do fight hard, they fight

smart (or dirty), and they have no mercy in battle. War is not a game, although some of us enjoy it. If you are one who thinks white men should all be killed and the women enslaved you better keep it in your head as an idea, not something you plan and prepare for. Conspiracy to commit genocide. You will end up either dead in combat or tried and hanged for the criminal you are. If anybody will take up arms for tyranny they better kill us first, because they will be killed unless they are able to surrender very quickly. Mexican radicals and mobs can do no more than riot and engage in low level terrorism and guerrilla warfare. You have an advantage against these guys if you are a veteran. You are a better shot and better in a firefight. You also have a weakness. You may be better in hand to hand but when they suddenly attack you at close range, in numbers and with knife or pistol you are dead unless you have acquired skill the the handgun and baton and a hair trigger. Be surprised or slow to react and die. Guerrilla warfare will be fairly easy for them in the southwest of the country and very difficult in the north. Explosive devices are always a possibility. Global and federal forces can use this turmoil to their advantage; and are a serious threat. Get your hands off of me, fuckers. If you touch my weapons you die. Last time I heard Europeans were about eight percent of the population of the world ( or is it 12%, the trend is down either way). We are outnumbered! 12 to1, 7 to 1, or getting closer to 19 to 1? Caucasians are a minority race. Scary. That never kept us from ruling most of the planet in the past. It may in future, so be it. Ah, but this time the western nations do not have most of the wealth and power. This time whites are among the confused and relatively unproductive. We will not live in dishonor. Death before dishonor, kill or be killed, Semper Fidelis. He can who thinks he can. (That last is a lie, but it sounds good.) Again, we do believe in gun control; kill the enemy and take his guns. You withdraw in order to draw the enemy in. You withdraw because you are losing a battle, and you can better fight at another place and time. You run, run away to escape a battle when the enemy has your number and you want to live to fight another day. When you give up on the entire war it should be because you should not have been fighting it in the first place, or because an honorable peace is offered and the future is something you can live with. Do not think I suggest we should give up the immigration battle. I am not saying, either, that we should give up the war for the future of our country. Absolutely not! We are not going to win this battle. We are not going to win the war. The way to end racism is to flood white countries with immigrants while restricting white emigration to places they do not belong. The way to protect religious freedom is to control religious behavior and offensive speech, and the way to end religious conflict is to stamp out any dissenters from the spiritual ideal. The other side is smarter than we are. They are organized. They have the machinery of finance; business, media and government. They control these things in many localities, nearly all states (perhaps all), and at the federal and international levels. They are the oligarchs; globalists. Things are coming to a head. Many of those things were planned, or planned for, as well as human ability allows. Followers of global power building or the one world dream have focused on their goals for hundreds of years. It is an institutionalized endeavor, and institutions can last a long time. Does it surprise you that Harvard still exists? There are families that have regularly supplied agents to this ideology for more than a century. Who is this reactionary old man? He should get involved, work within the system. Buck up, old man, don't be such a radical! The old man is a nobody. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, we can not all be important and famous. Some of us would not want to famous if we could. He wants to join any effective movement. The old man does not think there are any. Organize the people then, old man! He has no people skills, friends. There is no system in which to work. The Soviet Union used to hold elections. The party chose

several candidates for the various positions and committees; the people voted for the "lesser of two evils." We have a two party system here. They are linked at the top, and they both offer us several party chosen candidates for each position. There is not a dime's worth of difference between them? Yes, there is; just about a dime's worth. The voters still have some influence. Pressure is still effective at times. We have a draw, currently, in congress with regard to the immigration bill. Feeling the pressure from both sides, our fearless leaders got scared and ran home to think it over. Did you see the immigration rights protests of 2006? The other side did an excellent job putting those demonstrations together. Mass demonstrations in perhaps 100 places, almost entirely peaceful. The Mexican flag flap was a mistake, quickly fixed and mostly covered by the media. Tightly controlled, flags and t-shirts laid on, funded by many; including the likes of the Ford Foundation. We should telephone La Raza with our congratulations! Those who saw the CBS news know what I mean when I say: a masterpiece of propaganda! They said Americans want a guest worker program, forgot to add that they want troops on our border. (Time Magazine poll.) I greatly admire the Minutemen, though there seems to be some corruption there. They are probably already subverted. They stood up, and are taking some real heat on the front lines, but they are not going win this one for us. They brought it to a head, a good thing; but that is all. There are always going to be criminals in any group. The trick is to maintain your own ideals even when scum associate themselves with you, and to refuse to tolerate corruption. If crime is excused or ignored the group as a whole becomes corrupt. If this happens it is time to get out of that group, and to oppose it. Not always its declared goals, if they are just ones, but the corruption of that group. Things have changed very greatly, but things are still not that bad. While the US is perhaps as corrupt as it has ever been this is still a good place to live. Yes. But. There are trends, people. Maybe our next election will produce a group of decent and sensible public servants, not someone like Hilary Rodham in an anti-Bush backlash? I think not. It could get a little better. Yes. Those trends, friends, move two steps forward toward a police state and globalism for every step back. We will get an amnesty program by another name. They want to legalize all under an automatic provisional residency card program. (This mad old man is not a resident, he is a Citizen!) Past taxes forgiven. Criminal backgrounds no concern. You can not trust congress. If they pass a peace bill, expect a war; a privacy bill, expect a new database on you. We will get border controls. They will be mostly unenforced. Perhaps even a wall, walls are useless unless there is someone overwatching them. Americans have political parties, coworkers, immediate family and a few friends. They are scattered in groups of ones, fours and tens. The media tells them they are the only ones who think as they do. If the majority they still think themselves in the minority. We have no organization. The crime rate notwithstanding, we are too law abiding. Imagine a tyranny which made it legal to disobey its laws! Individualism does not mean you allow robbery, that you let individuals sell arms to a nation you are in a declared war with, or that you let an individual set immigration policy by importing his own foreign guest workers. It does not mean individuals do not have family, friends, and voluntary cooperation among themselves. When an individual or group directly interferes in constitutional activities individual autonomy ends. How can this supposedly support a need for socialism on the one side, or justify anarchy on the other? Naturally we must recognize The Nazi in the conservative, constitutionalist, conservative libertarian and classical liberal, yes, although we are hard pressed to provide good evidence of just what in American tradition the national socialists are trying to conserve. A national (or international for that matter) dictatorship is more recent than traditional in this country. Individualism is superior to collectivism, but to my knowledge no government or society has ever been able to resist a organized assault of group social and financial pressure, corruption and legal and political manipulation, and threats and applications of force unless that society can respond with immediate and effective counter force. This is not, or need not be, a return to barbarism. Cooperate

with one another or hang separately. There shall be no cruelty, no robbery and no polygamy. No slavery, damn you all to hell! There shall be no narrow intolerance. There shall be no meekness; there shall be family and communityyou will know who your friends are, and who your enemies are, and you will have courage in the face of the enemy or you will be destroyed. Brutal, yes. This is the art of war: avoid unneeded wars, and destroy the enemy where he is most easily destroyed. Nobody without principle, no man unable to love and to bond with one worthy woman; no man who cannot make and keep good friends, educate his children and recognize his people is any thing other than a cripple. Americans have lost their women. We have not treated them well, better than (probably) anywhere else, but not very well. We have lost our children. We have turned them over to the enemy. Our women do not know who they are. They think Azad is their brother and Wu their husband. They think the world is their family and thus have no true family at all. Women, weep for your country. Weep for your people. (Cry little sister. Lost Boys is it? More like lost Americans.) How can any of you consider yourself decent men and say you will not kill and die to protect our mothers and wives, our sisters and daughters? You will not see one another. You will not help each other, nor will you risk taking a bullet for those less able or unable to defend themselves. You say you don't believe in violence, or that you are opposed to racism or against nationalism. Well, violence believes in you, eunuch. On the other hand, a man needs a feminist (who tend to be sexist, racist, neopagan, and socialist) like a man needs a thumbtack in the butt. It is time to pull back and defend your own people. Atlas shrugged, baby. Are you planning to take part when the revolution comes? It already took place, in the '90s, and is already over. What happens when you have a revolution and nobody comes? There are very, very many angry people. This is a resource for demagogues. It will be resourced by swine, and recall that we are all human resources, rather than by a new American revolution. Never be afraid to fight, but never allow your emotions to manipulate you into the hands of the users. Education is for the benefit of the student. It is not for advantage to society, government or corporation. Remember children that arguing and complaining are of value only if you find them recreational. So do not bother to argue with me. But no, say the collectivists (corporate, national, and international), you must be given only what you earn by your political correctness. If you are unable to succeed it is your own fault. You failed to meet the demands of the environment even if part of that environment is the likes of us pushing you off your path and taking your gains. It is true that people, that person under those conditions, are always all they can be at that time. They fail to realize we are part of their environment too and they deserve to fail if we shove them of the path instead. :smile: Then again, they know. They do want us dead, or in prison, or in an asylum. Do not let them control our institutions and laws to the point where they use us against ourselves. Oh, yeah. They already do! If there were to be violence in the Southwest, or war with Mexico, the government would use the emergency as an excuse to expand its powers. We would try to deflect the excuses, but that has not worked in the past, would it work in the future? During the Second World War many unconstitutional things were done with not a peep from the courts. Afterward the courts jumped in and removed many of them, but by no means all. Two steps forward and one step back. The army wants to recruit illegals, police forces also. Mexicans are great supporters of constitutional and limited government, yes? Crisis whether natural or manufactured is the instrument and excuse for all parties whether socialist or national socialist, this includes both nanny staters and the corporate partners. Is all this martial law planning coincidence? Yes, Virginia, there is no Santa. No Virginia, there is such a thing as coincidence. You can go to the minimart at the same time as Loser the stickup man

with no direct causal relationship whatsoever. When, however, they are very convenient for somebody, or threatening, investigate. Such coincidence is often not. Come to think of it, open the borders completely. When thoroughly surrounded by hostile people and subjected to attack then there will be a fight. What a day that will be! Dear me, I am a bleeding heart. Ahem. Promoting violence. I will be subjecting the women and children to danger! Boys and girls, you keep the dependents out of danger as much as you can. If you try to protect them too much you are a good and humble fellow, are enslaved, and your family is left totally unprotected after all. I forgot. Fearful people do harm to others and the others must respond with an act of good so the cycle of violence will be ended. Strangers are not wrong, they just have other truths. This with the exception of right wingers, racists and other bigots, and Nazis (and Republicans). They need to be reeducated, or SWAT teamed sometimes. Send in the world but no Western Europeans please. We will be the better for it, and will learn so much! I want peace and gun control. Never mind my Che Guevara poster and AK47 held high flag. I do not want a national ID card. (The Real ID is a national ID.) I do not want a border fence. I want strong but constitutional enforcement. A road 90 miles north of the border is not the border, border patrol. The constitution does not apply here, that so? You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be used against you, and attitude is against the law. Answer all my questions or I will pull you from your vehicle and detain you until you decide to cooperate with your abuser, and anyway, refusing to waive your rights is grounds for suspicion. Hunt down illegals you police and immigration enforcement types. Do not violate our rights to do it. But that makes our job so hard! Babies. When you come across an illegal send him home. Do not catch and release. When you catch an employer breaking the law charge him with a crime, instead of fining his corporation. There are too many fines. They become a cost of doing business because government likes money and not justice. When government fines itself (the taxpayer) it is just too funny. Put military training grounds along the border and let recruits practice digging in and rifle marksmanship there. I did see me some border patrol. With the accents and whatnot I thought it was the Mexican border patrol, but I guess not. At least it is, still, Mexican-American at least. Right? Never kneel to tyranny, Americans. Never bow down. The laws and regulations are like the Bible, they have absolutely nothing to do with The Constitution, and anybody with the power to get away with it can cherry pick prophets and verses to justify whatever he wants. Still, as I said, things are not that bad yet. The pessimistic old man can not see the future! Ah, but he can see the trends. He sees a central government and regional districts. He does not see a federal government. He sees government schools, government land, and authorities. He does not see public schools, public lands, public servants (we need no bleeding servants, but they do work for us and not the reverse) or peace officers. He sees give up your rights to save the planet. He does not see give up the planet to save our rights. Hah. Kill the enemy, reduce the population. (Western countries already have declining populations, save for immigrants. You should have two children if at least one is a boy, otherwise have three. We do not need to be out of balance like China where there are far too few women, nor like Russia with its rapidly shrinking population.) If 1/3 of your population is middle aged then at least 1/3 better be young. Why? When you retire your money, gold, or investment property is not going to feed you if there are no workers from which to buy. You better store everything you are going to need ahead of time, eh? Mexican immigration will save you? Damn, brother, they are a drain not a source of surplus. Half pay no taxes, and they use social services at a higher rate. Anyway, what makes you think they want to pay for your old age? Fight back, fight back, and the third time fight back! Congress is not supposed to lead us (you Senators are congressmen too, stuck up bastards, as the congress has two houses and you are in one). The courts are not supposed to lead us. Stick to your

proper jobs, upstarts! Mr. President. Fool? Oh, we need strong leadership! You are not to lead the people, y'all tinpot royalty. You are an elected representative whose job consists of administering the people's executive branch of federal and constitutional government. What people? The American people, oh nationalistic one. (The Pres: First among equals, otherwise known as some animals are more equal than others.) (When schools, publishers and libraries begin to ban or censor books like 1984 you will know that our own government is so bad it no longer wants to see any comparisons.) And now we have three houses of congress, with two of the three acting as second and third presidents with regard to fiscal legislation...veto power only. Suicide of legislative power by giving it all away to our dear leader and to the new politburo? Well, they keep their benefits. Sellouts. They will strut until the ship has actually sunk away beneath them, and would not leave unless pushed out at sword point. Everywhere and always the weak have obeyed the strong or taken the consequences. Always. Some strong men are fairly humane, most are not. All are tyrants save those few who only give orders to criminals, and I mean criminals not rule and regulation breakers. If your master can't remain more powerful than you by increasing his abilities, he will do it by weakening your own. There are more good men among the weak than the strong, sadly mostly because there are so many more weak than strong, but it is not true that it is better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven. It is better to be free in hell than to serve in heaven, and better yet to be free in heaven, oh disaffected one. Be as strong as you can be, and ally yourself with good men. Nothing better than this exists. Study war no more? You can't prepare for peace if you prepare for war! Peace, peace, and there was no peace. If you want peace prepare for war, and you can not avoid them all. Study war, Americans. Cowboys do not cut out some beeves by charging the herd, brothers; they separate out and isolate a number they can easily handle. They don't trade head butts with the bulls, either. Are you smarter than the bovine mind? Who are the worst criminals in the world? Who the worst in the US? Those who willfully violate the highest law are the greatest criminals. The highest law of the land is the Bill of Rights. What do you do with major felony suspects? What if they resist arrest with armed force? Any witting and active participant in the taking of rights is a criminal, any of them taking up arms against us is the enemy. Do any of you really know what the underlying science behind the latest environmental fad is? Does solar output or planetary tilt and orbital variation have a major effect on climate or is automobile pollution the tipping point factor leading us to hell? Scientific speculation and mathematical modeling. It don't matter none, just trust the United Nations. They have always been right in the past. What is behind the newest peaceful transition to utopia fad? Who cares? Follow the leader, mice. I always do say we never should have used antibiotics and now disease organisms are becoming immune and it is not as if they would have been immune to no use of antibiotics. Same thing with pumping oil from beneath the earth, when you pump you can run out eventually, so we should have left it down there. We are never truly out of resources until we have run out of ideas. FEMA camps, brothers, continuity of government policy by presidential order rather than constitutional succession. The diehards will fight. They will lose. Most constitutionalists are phonies. Constitutionalists are overwhelmingly, very vastly outnumbered. Our next form of government will not be the constitutional republic. Are you an old dog who refuses to learn new tricks? Unless you die of old age first, it depends on the timing, they are going to kill you. Keep your heads up and your asses covered. If you don't fit in they will come for you. You may simply not look like a worm crawling on its belly. Perhaps you will refuse to be a rat bastard. Infantrymen live in the dirt, in the cracks and crevices, but not mewling and eyes shut. When you die let it be because they have come in and have put their heads into your noose in order to do it. Take some of them with you. It is a public service, a last act of good will towards men.

Block, disrupt, confuse, jam, channel, trap, blow up, shoot down, burn, choke, poison, and tear limb from limb. We old timers will die rather than be dominated. Don't be too pleased by this, we will ride many of your screaming souls down into hell. Figure of speech, sweety. If you do meet a hostile spirit snatch it up and ring it out like a wet dish cloth. Just attitude, friend! The American patriot will, in general and when the crisis is upon him, fight only if he thinks surrender will end in death. This is because resistance is likely to be fatal to him. Again, there will be some combat for a number of reasons. Two of these are sudden and violent assaults by thugs, and the fact that contact between hostile groups always makes for error and often hasty shooting by one side or the other. You still here? Glutton for punishment? Every good American has a clean .30-06 and a saber over the mantle. Never sell your land, your weapon or your armor. (Nor your wife, children or dog. Heh.) Never sell out. Information, allies, silver, gold, weapons, ammunition, medical supplies, stored food and water or manual pump and filters, cigarettes and alcohol. Funny how we are always being warned not to annoy others for fear of triggering a violent outbreak. We warn you now: push us too far and be guilty of sparking a violent backlash. Not to brag, bubi, but once we get started we have bigger and more sustained outbreaks than most. Hell, the only thing white trash will come together for is a good fight. Hehehe! Okay, now that nut job old man is really going too far! Can you see the old man's corpse being dragged out of his "barricaded" home? Did the old man fail to obey the new gun ban? Did he fail to surrender quickly enough when they burst into his house? He should not have resisted. Foolish old man! We could end this nonsense by driving the scum out of government. There might still be time if the American people stood up and put decent people into office; refused to accept corrupt elections and corrupt politicians. There never seems to be a we. I do not expect it to happen. Most Americans are cowards. We are a nation of cowards. Sometimes it seems all the brave among are are either recruited by the globalists or into local street gangs. If you are an aggressive type expect to be diverted, expect to be separated from the common American. You will be a criminal enforcing orders at home or abroad, or shearing the sheep in some other way. You can also be of use feeding the corrections industry. Do not forget to always blame the victim for getting himself into trouble! Only those who feel they have nothing left to lose resist. They burn in the pyres of Order. Their brothers pass by, eyes averted, and hiss quietly to themselves like frightened savages avoiding taboo. Some people just can't be sensible. They can't live with it. No matter how hard they try, when they see the utterly vile thing they are enraged. They run out and fight. They die. Each one of them is worth 100 of you! Still, although Americans have joined the ranks of the Que Dogs and White Mice, WWII was a major watershed, they will fight when operating under authority and in large organizations. It is likely that the young men who volunteer for combat jobs today are more ready to kill and more lethal than ever before. An Israeli named DHS devil is going to get me, lions and tigers... This may be a bad one, people. Worse than the second world war, unless we just let them take us away. Then it may be worse than China. While whatever happens internally goes on, outside enemies will try to take full advantage. Stupid bastards to let it come to this. It is a serious mistake to use violence when it is not needed. It is an equally serious mistake to not use it when it is needed. As the the man says, you know who you are, violence only works when you use it. The golden rule. Violence is golden. Did you ever get tired? Just kill them all, however and whenever you can get away with it. Let their own actions mark them. When you can't kill then injure, or harm or cost or annoy. Steal their mail,

cancel their utilities or pour paint remover on their cars. Insult them on the street. Nah, the mad old man is just grumpy. You curmudgeon, you. The elites use crisis to justify policy and make gains. During the second world war the intensity of the conflict justified a massive draft, rationing and the takeover of industry. Just about everyone supported this with fervor, and you could get arrested or more commonly beat up by your neighbors if you were in outspoken disagreement. When the elites truly fear sufficient opposition to unseat them what will they do? They have a massive security system in place but if too many people fight back this security screen will fail. Will they use the military to fight a huge civil war? Maybe. Much more probable is an intentional effort to dig the country or world into such a massive crisis that the people will feel there to be no other options to universal service and regimentation. But how can we lose? We outnumber them by a huge amount. Uh. No we don't. Most Americans are so risk adverse as to be rather funny. We are a small minority within a minority. How many American men are of fighting age? What percentage of them are willing to take risks, and for which side? How many women are both able and willing to help? Sorry, old man, it doesn't look that good. A world war (unless we truly must fight for our survival) or a national draft is a triggering event. A roundup of dissidents into the camps is a triggering event. A regional or national firearms confiscation is a triggering event. Open and unopposed violence against a community by criminal gangs or by foreigners is a triggering event. Forced eviction from the rural areas is a triggering event. A ban on unauthorized travel, and a ban on unauthorized purchases are triggering events. Lone wolf? (Wolves are pack animals, lone wolves are few to none in nature, and the packs fight each other.) Want to be part of a movement wherein many may die, but if most continue for ten or twenty years will win in the end? All that is really needed is for you and those who are like you to periodically, but not too predictably in terms of timing and place, get a single hit anywhere on an enemy soldier's body or to destroy any valuable enemy ability or material before escaping. No escape means no guerrilla campaign. No actual campaign means you lose. The US army is not good at counterinsurgency. ("The paradox of counter-guerrilla warfare is that if you increase your security you weaken it." Oh, how mysterious not to mention bloody cute! All this means is if you try to increase security by doing things that piss too many people off you will face more danger rather than less. Beanie wearers, ye gads! I meant to do that. Didn't hurt. I can do it by myself!) We do not care what you say anymore. We are not interested in your sophistry. We few wait for an event creating an obvious opportunity to fight. When we know a happening will galvanize constitutionalists nation wide we will come out to play knowing the others who are like us will be doing the same. This will be our time. My rant is almost over. Back to sleep until some stupid bastards come for me, tired old dinosaur that I am. You do not like the way I put these things? Did I mention fuck you yet? Peace is important. In order of importance; freedom, justice, security, prosperity and peace. I may be wrong about some of this. That would be nothing new. It would be nice if I was. Wrong about most of it? Never! It is fun to feel superior (don't wallow in it!), but wrong to feel so if you are just as bad. When you commit crimes, as the scum do, any feelings of superiority on your part are a sign of mental aberration. Do not run from the wolves. If too many of you are too afraid of dying and run from the wolves all in your group will be subjected to the chase. There are circumstances where not wanting to die will kill you. But I warn you again. Do not trust anybody too far, and most people not at all. Keep your plans, possessions and activities to yourself! Some of your grandchildren would turn you in, your sister will report you. Do you trust your brother-in-law? Is your wife really on board? Put another way, keep your fucking mouth shut!

Do not be an abuser! Do not commit crimes. Do not impose anything beyond basic controls on criminal behavior. Not regulations, jury trials for people suspected of reckless or intentional harm to others who are neither criminals being stopped nor the enemy. Criminals who are being stopped are stopped by violence before any trial, but not by reckless or excessive violence, and the enemy is simply defeated. The enemy is those who impose upon us, who are outside of the control of the justice system (because of corruption or of their scale of operations) and who will use force if resisted. Americans have lost all moral courage. Kill the enemy? Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!... Hooooaah! Ooooraah! War hammer. Sword and shield. Be hard, you squish when poked. The time for talk is OVER! KILL THE FUCKING ENEMY, AMERICANS! (Hey, you think this guy wants us to kill the enemy?) Live free or die! Ragnark is coming. DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER. LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC! What ever am I saying here? You must do what is right and what is legal. Never kill government agents on sight! Kill only criminals in self defense or when there is no mechanism for redress of grievances. Then and only then, do kill government enforcers on sight! Hahaha. Heh. Children, children: but forget all this. You do not want to be a fighter. Hush. Go back to sleep. Fighters are wannabes. Sad, really. People who take action are real only in books, including history books, and in movies; the worse things get the more heroic the TV heroes will be. Live through Hollywood. Only weak and phony men think they themselves are fighters. So much for passing our culture on to the next generation. What if our children are threatened? Can we hide or protect them? If one child dies in the crossfire the rebellion is not worth it. Reward the terrorists. Make threats pay, shut up children, and give all troublemakers over for execution. Anybody who says he will use force should be given whatever he wants. We are a people ripe for the plucking. We are a nation no longer. We, in fact, are the pussy (soft soft) polyglot in a global territory. Accept, do not whine. The sadly fragmented mind is too disorganized to continue. The fanciful end state of anarchy is a pipe dream, good drugs dude, and its earlier phases a spot painful, but even if the living off the land thing is a hard, short life; I find myself thinking of just walking the countryside and stopping when I will to camp, hunt or fish. When disease, malnutrition, the results of unavoidable exposure or that bullet the refusing to yield to arrest for trespass on public land got me brings me down I can sit at the base of a tree overlooking the valley and just watch until it all fades. I do love a good plan, but how many can you have and still carry them out, my friends? Nothing in this book should be understood to be an attack on Authority. It is mere entertainment. Freedom of speech. Security in person and in home. Right to be armed. Right to defend oneself from excessive force. Right to make money without FedGov controls. There is little freedom in the world, and most that remains is on your own land. No: you have the right to remain silent, to travel to work and the stores, and to pay your taxes. Authority has the de facto right to regulate business and property use, and the right to regulate personal behavior in the public interest. The Bill of Rights means FedGov never should do anything unless it thinks it is a reasonable restriction in the interest of a government concern; so you should never actually DO anything written is this book. Don't be childish, be realistic, be socialized. Change is good and cowards fight change. Fighters are egoists, contaminated by attitude as are teens with green hair. See a head shrinker; they have a wonderful track record of successes. We are too old, fat and stupid to be trusted with weapons anyway. Quit whining. The authorities are your friends. Be respectful. Keep your papers on your person at all times. Know your place, lowest of the low, white Anglo-Saxon male. The authorities follow the law. Just ask them, they will tell you. Then they will ask you why you are asking such an impertinent

question and will run your ID for priors. You have the right to die, the state will even pay for it (assisted suicide laws, but if you did not kill yourself it was not suicide). You are at liberty to do anything the government says you can do and to do anything they tell you to do. You have the right to ask for some happy pills. Learn to be a balanced person. Don't be negative. You live in a Europeanstyle socialist democratic state. It is smart to have national ID cards, travel controls and permissions to work. It is smart to reduce your own freedom. You want to fight financial corruption and to have sensible immigration controls, don't you? Fight the terrorists. They want to take your freedom so embrace the top-down social planners. Welcome the change agents, children. Things are tough? Wow, just imagine how much worse things would be if the neofeudal oligarchs were not in charge! Learn to do everything with and through the central government. Learn to compete with the other pressure groups for that government access and approval. Good boy! One day when the population has been reduced you, or some of your children, will be able to experience heaven on earth. You will be groundskeepers on the great, beautiful and green estates, and will have your own assigned dear little cottage or fine airy space in a environmentally friendly barracks. Handicapped babies will be gently helped on in cheerfully decorated rooms and the elderly and mortally ill will be allowed to pass on, in a circle of friends and holding mementos, with the help of painless drugs. Sweet, oh sweet the placid apathy! No. It won't really happen. Your lunatic would-be masters will severely damage the earth long before that further lunacy could ever happen. If decent Americans of all ethnic backgrounds cannot work together the US is dismembered. Are there no core American values more important than ethnicity, economic class and gender? Apparently not. Most large corporations are anti-freedom and government-partnership (international cartel fascism) organizations. Large unions are anti-freedom, and connected to communism and the mob. Ask God to help you cheerfully accept what cannot be changed. This is not about you. So. Real men do as they are told, they have the discipline to do this. They can take it. Real men know that only moral weaklings fight back. This is because resistance, not tyranny, is what causes conflict. Anger is bad and real men do not express it. Conflict harms the passersby and the friends and families just as much as it harms the fighters. Selfish and shallow fighters! Be a real man, give in now! (Ah. Gender biased language! And, feminists don't think all men evil, only all men yet to make the effort to become pro-feminist men. So it goes.) Reminder, goslings: No violence, violence is a sin against society, and the somewhat feminized gods. Only professionals, programed people who use only necessary force against the mentally ill and unruly, use violence with the proper coolness and love. Do not break the rules and regulations! I know what I am talking about. I do! It is not a perverted love, I swear! Yield to the state. It is your mummy. Rights come with responsibilities. Pay for your freedom with obedience. Give up your liberty so that freedom can be defended. Massive cowardice. Give up and do anything if your terror of terrorists may be partly assuaged. Why do any of you care what once was, or what should be? Go back to your lives, you are going to live the life you will live. Police yourselves so that the state won't have to. Leave things to the people who are of the proper class, and can actually make things happen. Hush, go back to sleep. Ah... Sorry, gotta go. My Mommy is calling me... She worries, you know. Huh! Don't be afraid, baybee. Most of all, no matter how ignorant and even traitorous they may be, protect our women and children from both the criminal within and the invader from without. Care for your children no matter what. Protect anyone from criminal attack if you reasonably can, but do not ally yourself with dogs for short-term advantage. You will get fleas. Ally yourself with people, no matter how different otherwise, who are honorable. Women get no freebies here, again, they are adults and if they support the enemy they are not your friends (most are not combatants, however).

Cooperate with one another. Wife and country, scotch and cigar; gun and dog, good books and a good truck; hey, maybe some metal: there are still some brothers alive in America. J & b scotch. A decent beer is good too, but not Miller Lite... Donkey piss. Force Majeure. The end.

Warning. Do NOT DO anything in this book! This is NOT the land of the Second Amendment! This is democratic France, you have the right to READ most books. You are no freeman or aristocrat. You can own certain weapons. You may NOT carry or use weapons! With the exception of those with government approval. You will not survive defiant behavior. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Go crazy, ya nutty buggers. No, steady lads. HahahaHaaHaaaaHAHhaha! Do what thou wilt. Do whatsoever thou wilt and harm none. The only true freedom is obedience to the law. One leader, one people. Kill the rich. Kill them all and God will know his own. Let them eat cake (she never really said that). Suffer not a witch to live. Thou shalt not kill. One shot one kill. Reach out and touch someone. Be a man among men. If it feels good do it. Eat the poor. Love the one you are with. Rise up and kill your attacker. War is peace. Love is selfishness. God's representative on earth. Ignorance is strength. Joy through service. From each according to his ability. Know your place. Reeducation camps for the parasite. Love is all. Burn baby burn. Babblefish. I cordially invite you to Gehenna, my broken children. Fuck you all. Swift and terrible sword. 7.62! 7.92!! .50!!! You sanctimonious and superstitious grubbers after power and wealth. You enemies of freedom. You destroyers of liberty whether for your own benefit, or for the benefit of the classes of people you love above the others. Swine honest or dishonest. Swine religious; or atheistic followers of nature, historical inevitability, or fate. Swine evil or swine of the Greater Good. I have only deepest contempt for you. Do you care? Neither do I. In the end the naked steel will decide. Can we please go to the bayonet before I die of old age? Aaaarrggh! God damned motherfucking sons of bitches, I keeel you, bleeding arsehole bastids; gonna rip off an arm and stuff it, swamp water suckers...!! Raaahhrrrr!!! You vitamin deprived canines! :heeheehee: Old people are so sweet and childish. Never a harsh word in their lives and the women never even had sex or a bad attitude. Their hobbling gait is so cute. Thank you ever so much for your attention. I am tired now. Where is my pudding?

o o OO o o o o 0 o oooooOooooo o 0 o o o o O O O O I curse you, With a curse I curse you, May your stones rot; Your eyes in your head. In the name Enlicht-Thissadon, I curse my enemies. Selai! ( ;-)8

A joint production of The Society for the Preservation of Principled Government, and of The Soldier, LLC; also known as Blue Diamond and as The Silver Skull Society. Established 1948 and 2001. (Warning. Fake organizations. The author needed an ego boost.) [Disclaimer: The Soldier is in no way associated with Blue Diamond Society, a gay and lesbian group, nor with Soldier Magazine or the Skull & Bones fraternity. Nor is the silver skull ring and blue diamond patch symbolic of any other organization, group, agency or business.] This is not enough, nor good enough. I'm just a stupid grunt. There are many smarter and better educated than I. So get off your asses. This is an effort to get some original material out on this subject. Those of you who can produce deeper and more accurate information, or material I have not covered at all, get to writing. Please do! Feel free to associate yourselves with the above organizations if it would amuse. Respectful greetings to the Patriots out there. Also, and no dirty jokes now, to those liberty and law respecting Military, Police, Security, Constitutionalist Militia and Armed Citizens out there, whatever your religion, sex or race: I love you guys. All the best. Uncover, and remember the fallen.

o there you have it. I don't care very much anymore, I just needed to blow off some frustration as stupidity tends to annoy. I don't care to live in your brave new world. Raving and complaining at an end. Rant over. When there is no cohesion you are weak. The globalist ideology is a worldwide movement and infects people more than they realize. It has many enemies but is strongly embedded in all institutions of note. Whatever. If you are weak you will pay the price. Stiff upper lip, ducklings. I will see you in the funny papers. It has been very therapeutic. Ciao!

Don't just read it! Study it, and to the extent possible and safe, practice it. Do the humanity a service. Kill at least one bad guy before you die.

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