I think any aspiring American patriot should study up on asymetrical warfare and give 'em hell. I don't think every action is right for every man,
and I myself would never advocate violence except in defense of self or another, however people have been threatened, and people have been murdered,
and everyone must do everything in their power to protect themselves and their families.
I love the law, I absolutely do. It's a wonderful invention of man (see my posts in the recent thread about a law in Honolulu about eating dogs and
cats), but it has become completely unwieldy. There are so many redundant laws, more lawyers in school every year than lawyers practicing (think
about that for a sec.), so many loopholes, too much corruption, too much graft, corporate favoritism and a whole host of other problems.
In short, the Justice system is broken, and more Unjust than Just. Anyone trying to navigate the legal system in its current manifestation would be
well advised to tread carefully, there are sharks in them there waters. If we can fix the courts and the code, we can then use it to prosecute the
criminals who hijacked the government. Hell, label them enemy combatants and we won't have to let them out until every last one of their crazy laws
has been erased.
Their enforcement hinges on beat cops, federal law enforcement employees, and national guard troops, alongside private mercenaries. I think the
important thing to remember that to use force does not always involve violence. Sometimes force can be more subtley brought to bear to even greater
effect.
Remember when President Bush started talking about invading Iran? Russia and China both moved a signifigant number of nuclear capable, Sunburn ready
fighter jets to the front lines, to their respective air force bases in Kyrgyzstan and Kashi, and Putin said this at the speech christening the new
presence, "..we aim to strengthen the security of this region, whose stability is an increasingly significant factor.." He also said Russia would
continue to act as "a deterrent for terrorists and extremists of ALL kinds" That Putin really has a way with words, BTW, the emphasis was his, not
mine. President Bush said, the next day, on national television, he was confident a diplomatic solution could be found.
Threats are more effective than violence, because they expend less energy on the part of the attacker. Threat mechanisms are used by animals in the
wild to avoid confrontation, with either a real or manufactured display of ability (the cobra's hood, the dogs rolled back lips, etc.). So it is
with us humans. It's much more effective than a bite, because it saves both parties the damage of a fight.
Remember the electrical grid fiasco on the east coast? The electrical grid fiasco in Australia? That small plane that crashed into Ariel Sharons
private apartment on Clinton street in Hollywood?
Those events sent a very clear message to the powers that be, and they ignored those messages
for the most part, or rather, downplayed them and continued to wriggle in their chosen direction like the worms they are.
I personally don't think killing 'Temporary' Bush, or Ashcroft, or Rumsfeld, or Wolfowitz, or Rove, or any others, will do anything to stop the
machine. The machine, the grinder, keeps turning as long as the Their hand is on the crank. The key is to render the machine inoperable, and then go
after the hand when it moves to fix the machine.
With proper counter inteligence, which is us, now, and everyone else on the net collecting cold hard data, asymetrical warfare becomes possible, and
highly effective. Find out what your enemy wants you to do and do the opposite. The enemy in this case has plans for almost every contingency, so
it's a bit like tip-toe through the landmines trying to come up with a workable defense/counter attack.
The weakness of traditional politicians was public opinion. This administration has side-stepped accountability by over-representing their
proponents, and refusing to acknowledge, or marginalizing, their opponents. Most of the country realizes some aspect of what's going wrong, very few
people know the real extent of the problem. Even if they did, they can't get close enough to the president to talk to him or ask him the tough
questions (he seems insulated even from his own stupidity).
The international community might be willing to help us reclaim our independence, the same way they helped us the first time around, against the
English. I don't think it's their responsibility, but some people might ask for and be willing to accept their help. I'm sure they will be
gracious enough to leave when the job is done, though I doubt many Americans would believe the goodwill until they saw it. It would be difficult to
coordinate actions between local and imported resistance, because of language barriers and engendered mistrust.
The main thing they want, is for everyone to fear them. The truth is, their capabilities to supress dissent are stretched thin, and they don't have
enough jail space for all of us. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the government hijackers are looking around, nervous as hell, like
plantation owners surrounded by angry 'property.'
The other thing we have on our side is youth! Those guys are freakin' old! Most of them were alive and scheming when JFK was killed, so they're
only a decade or two from pushing up daisies (assuming they don't have age retardant therapy perfected).
Chances are their greed and myopia will take their lives before any patriots have a chance to slip a round in the breech. Imagine this, they go in
for the experimental treatments, and it starts mutating their genes, growing and metastasizing out of control. They die a horribly painful death and
we all learn a valuable lesson about balance.
The universe is on my side
I have no fear
My God is with me
My God is me
If we would dump our inhibitions, we could just wish them out of existence. If we all concentrate real hard...
I'm working on that angle, because none of the others are perfect. Basically, I gave up on any sort of movement, because they all seem to have
inherent weaknesses. I make sure not to do what They want me to do, and so in theory I am winning the war. I don't shop at their stores, I don't
buy their products, I don't subscribe to their magazines or their newspapers, I won't trust them with my health or my childrens education. Deny
them the access to injure you, and you have made their lives very difficult.
This is (like usual from you) a big topic, and worthy of a good deal more discussion. I think many people have given up thinking of solutions, and
that's surrender plain and simple. Better to acknowledge your enemies strength and use it as motivation and inspiration, rather than allow it to
terrorize and subjugate you. (That's what they want, so don't allow them the satisfaction)
War does not always involve traditional weapons. No lives need be lost (no more than have already). In the case of our beloved oppressors, I think
their main weakness is their hubris, it seems to consume them. That sort of weakness can be deadly, when exploited by a crafty opponent.
