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The Ferguson Conundrum Solved By Community Security
Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Many times in the past I have discussed the concept of what I call the “non-participation principle,” but often people misinterpret what “non-participation” really entails. Such a strategy does not mean an individual activist or group simply refuses to support the system by not using Federal Reserve notes, or not paying taxes, or not buying Monsanto-generated frankenfoods. That kind of thing is all well and good, but ultimately, non-participation means TAKING away power from the corrupt political and financial elite. Sometimes, this is done through force of arms — but not always in the way some might believe.
One-dimensional tactics are often more dangerous to the activist group fighting for freedom than they are for the power oligarchy, and I see them promoted all the time. How often have you heard some idiot (or paid provocateur) rambling about a march on Washington, D.C., to “arrest the criminals” (the criminals in D.C. are middlemen as replaceable as lawnmower parts, not that a blind march into the mouth of the beast would accomplish anything anyway). What about the insane and historically ill conceived option of military coup? What about random violence against random targets, forsaking the very principles by which our movement sustains itself? Even if a movement “wins” in such a way, it still loses after becoming the monster it sought to destroy.
How about the opposite end of the spectrum? People call on the liberty movement to buy useless, ethereal bitcoins, or chant slogans on street corners in docility while being doused with pepper spray. Activists regurgitate the “reach, teach, and inspire” mantra without acknowledging that concrete action and legitimate risk are often the MOST inspiring paths that can be undertaken. What about those people who actually argue that we need to “reason” with the psychopaths running our infrastructure and show them the error of their ways (which is much like trying to debate with a shark on why you are not as tasty as you appear)?
All of these tactics culminate in a zero-point game of make-believe revolution. They not only accomplish nothing, they actually distract the movement from pursuing more tangible and effective methods.
The non-participation principle could be summed up as follows:
Provide for yourself and others the necessities that the corrupt system cannot or will not. Remove your consent for the system to provide necessities for you when it suits them. Eventually, the elites of the system will have only one of two options: admit that you no longer need them and leave you in peace or try to physically stop you from taking care of yourself. If the system tries to stop you, it must expose itself as inherently despotic in the process and lose public support. In either case, you win.
It is vital that movement activists understand that our nation and perhaps the world have become targets of fourth-generation warfare leading to artificial division, conflict and very real self-destruction. If we are to respond, it must be with fourth-generation revolution. The methodology of the non-participation principle has been applied with great success in certain parts of the world, but most recently in Ferguson, Missouri, by the constitutional organization Oath Keepers and its Community Preparedness Team (CPT) program.
With very little initial press going in, Oath Keepers has broken through the mainstream barrier once again by using its CPT strategy in Ferguson, sending trained veterans and former police officers who have sworn to uphold constitutional liberties to defend properties under threat of arson by looters, rioters and suspected federal provocateurs. All members were volunteers and were present at the behest of business owners.
While supporting the right of Americans to peacefully protest, it has become clear that elements outside of Ferguson are attempting to exploit the legitimate frustrations of the community there and wield the citizens as a weapon to further their own agendas. Ferguson has been used to promote false racial division and conflict, the deployment of militarized police to attack protesters while allowing looters to move unchecked, and the socialist concept that property is evil and that business owners (even small-business owners) are all contributors to state violence and are, thereby, culpable targets for reprisal.
A friend of mine recently fell into a debate with a man claiming that the Oath Keeper response was unacceptable because they are “all racist.” Of course, when one realizes that Oath Keepers was defending businesses owned by black and Chinese, as well as white, locals, the racism argument disintegrates. Ultimately, the critic relented, but ended his diatribe with these words: “Some things just need to burn.”
This appears to be a common theme among agitators in Ferguson, who desperately want “bloodshed” so that a chain of reactionary violence will erupt, as outlined in this Breitbart article.
And there you have it. Members of the socialist cult don’t hate Oath Keepers because they think the organization is a bastion of racism; they hate Oath Keepers because the highly trained group won’t let innocent people and their businesses burn to the ground. They hate Oath Keepers because they want chaos as cover to further their ideology, and Oath Keepers provided security where the police and federal government would not.
This, of course, not only angered socialist/communist provocateurs on the ground in Ferguson, but also elements of the government.
While many local police and citizens seem to be thankful for the Oath Keeper presence, government response teams had other ideas. Oath Keepers on site reported suspicious activity at a nearby residence in which a team of three men appeared to be setting up a sniper position after exiting a silver suburban. At the same time, state police units had set up on a nearby roof and were aiming sniper rifles in their direction. Luckily, the team leader, Sam Andrews, had worked with the local police department before and maintained a friendly relationship with them. His call to police had an immediate response, and whatever the teams of men were planning had been thwarted by the appearance of official witnesses.
Immediately following what I suspect to be a bungled false flag attempt, Andrews was approached by a county officer who told him that business owners had complained and wanted the defense group to leave. This was found to be a lie, and the officer admitted that his chief was being pressured by the feds to get Oath Keepers out of the area.
After failing on multiple occasions to run off Oath Keepers, the St. Louis County police chief is now attempting to use a statute requiring security personnel to be licensed by the state. The statute, however, clearly applies only to PAID security personnel, not volunteers. So Oath Keepers is back again and refusing to comply with the order to disperse.
Other groups providing security, including a group of black volunteers defending a white-owned gas station out of respect for their former employer, have not been harassed by police.
Why are the state and federal governments so intent on getting rid of Oath Keeper volunteers whose only “crime” is to defend innocent people from harm? It’s probably because Oath Keepers is taking the concept of non-participation nationwide.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes states:
They want to create a false paradigm… They are presenting a false choice between lawlessness, looting, arson, assault, murder on the one side, unrestrained or a hyper-militarized police state on the other… They are failing to do the intelligent thing and protect businesses without trampling on rights.
All four businesses protected by Oath Keepers remain untouched by fire, including Natalie’s Cakes and More, a beauty supply store, a dentist’s office and a Chinese restaurant, even though all of them had been directly threatened at the beginning of the riots. Natalie’s Cakes and More had not only received threats of arson, but had also been damaged by looters before the arrival of Oath Keepers. Now, her business stands intact.
My regular readers are well aware that I have been involved in the formation and training of my local Montana CPT. I believe it is one of the best models of the non-participation principle in action today, combining elements of security and defense, emergency medical training, engineering for vital resources (farming, water, construction, etc.), as well as communication — everything that a community needs to protect itself or rebuild in the wake of disaster. The Ferguson event proves beyond a doubt that the CPT concept is effective and necessary.
The governor of Missouri, the federal government and some elements of the local police were either unable to come to the aid of citizens of Ferguson or they were unwilling. It is my belief that many buildings in Ferguson were simply allowed to burn in order to help perpetuate tensions and provide another rationale in the minds of Americans for militarization of law enforcement. If the system cannot or will not protect you, then you and your community will have to provide security for yourselves.
By extension, if the citizenry suffers extreme levels of conflict with city, state or federal-run law enforcement organizations, then they should be providing for the safety of their own community. If the police and the people cannot get along, then REMOVE the police from the picture entirely and create your own neighborhood watches and mutual aid groups. No city-paid police officer is going to care more about the safety of a neighborhood than the residents who live there and the businesses that survive there. And no violent criminal is going to be able to function for long in a neighborhood that is trained and armed to defend itself.
The best option, the only option when faced with a conundrum like Ferguson, is for residents to kick government out of the picture completely. Whatever problems might be encountered during such a transition would be a happy trade over the constant crisis wrought by political “mismanagement” or manipulation. In the end, corrupt government will never go away unless we stop handing our responsibilities over to them — and this includes security. We must stop trying to change the system by following the rules that perpetually benefit the system. If we are ever going to get rid of elitist control, we have to step outside the false paradigm and play our own game by our own rules.
You can learn more about Oath Keepers here.
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"ended his diatribe with these words: “Some things just need to burn.”"
I agree. His soul, in hell.
so when do we start shooting cops? why dont you all just get over yourselves you are not going to war in a fight with the domestic force as well as the foreign troops stationed here you are not going to be road warrior and rambo's lovechild reincarnated through the flesh of the matrix neo...frogs in the pot the whole lot of ya you will be boiled till eaten that is all
Great work! Forward this article to everyone you know.
Wow....what an outpouring. Ghetto isn't about race. It is about culture...expectations of what is and what should be.
No family units. No personal responsibility. Woe-is-me-ism. And it is fueled by a sense of "rights" to this existence.
Support it with food and shelter.
You harvest what you sow. You generally receive less than you expect. If you do not set standards amd proper expectations you achieve NOTHING.
White ghettos, black ghettos....same problem. Quit funding their sorry asses. Establish standards. Demand accountabiltiy. Accept NO EXCUSES.
Tough love/???? You achieve if you exert effort....all effort is not successful, but learning from the misses and correcting course is what real achievenent requires.
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Americans are uniquely susceptible to the use of race, culture and gender divides as a distraction from basic economic issues. Everything we hear said about Black Ghetto culture today was said about the Irish in the 1880s. One of my grandfathers initially joined a Protestant Men's Group around 1920 because they were going to protect America from Catholocism, but then he found out the Ku Klux Klan really hated black people so he quit in disgust. Lynching Papists he probably would have been fine with, however.
I hear a lot of talk about how the Mexicans shouldn't be doing what most of our ancestors did, which was to go to where the jobs and money were, legalities be damned. It's fairly obvious what happened to blue-collar wages once women joined the workforce en masse.
Now we're hearing all about cops killing black people in the ghetto, and voices wondering why nobody wants to talk about all the black people killed by black people in the ghetto, with the assumption that it's their degenerate culture to blame and it might be a bio-genetic issue.
It's always the underclass whose behavior disgusts us. In Europe it's the Turks and various other Muslims. Or in England, all the same Muslims plus Poles. Today in the US the Catholics, Italians and Irish don't disgust us, because now they're as much the Middle Class (what's left of it) as the rest of us Anglo-Saxon Protestant types.
What really disgusts and alarms us is the culture of poverty. Poverty is of course a whole lot more than a lack of money. That can be fixed. Poverty is what you have when you don't have faith or a stake in the system. When you have to make short-term decisions with disastrous long-term implications. I grew up very poor in financial terms, but I wouldn't call it "poverty." We all had lots of close personal examples of how to make it in society, and all of us kids (a large family) who grew up on welfare are succesful in careers and have paid back what welfare we received in our taxes many times over. But when you're really in poverty, you can't get to a job because your car doesn't work because you can't afford to fix it properly and it all gets worse from there. When you're on welfare you can't take a job because that reduces the amount of your benefit without making it any more possible to pay all your bills and get your car fixed and live in a decent place so you just scam what you can to get by for the next couple of days. When you get arrested for any reason, usually related to your marginal existence in the first place, you can't pay the fine, or if you do you can't pay your rent, so then you add more administrative offenses, and eventually get some real jail time for the equivalent of a parking ticket. You have kids because you don't understand why not, and you can't raise them yourself because you can barely take care of yourself. Society dangles all these promises in front of you if you just follow the rules and do what you're supposed to do, but that's as realy as a fairy tale to most people actually in poverty.
All these same attributes can be found in Herbert Asbury's "The Gangs of New York," which was published in the 1920s and concerns grotesque poverty and misbehavior in New York City from about 1820 to about 1920. And it's mostly the Irish, though some Italians and Chinese were involved too. What it really is is poverrty.
But we have a cultural mythology of a classless society with advancement based on merit. So it's very easy to pit the nearly-impoverished against the truly impoverished. And the best way to do that is to use visible markers, like skin color, or unfamiiliar cultural traits, like being Muslim etc.
The Elites get all kinds of leverage from these diversions. Meanwhile, they're doing the looting that really matters, while the rest of us bicker among ourselves. If there's ever a serious threat that the "little people" (not leprechauns) start taking care of their own security and basic needs without the intervention of the mercenaries of the Elites, then we'll see some true ugliness in America. The Elites never surrender their dominant position without having exhausted every possible tactic, and there's nothing they won't destroy to keep what they've got.
Only market anarchy/voluntarism is logically consistent and morally valid. The only way out is to abolish the state, privileges for those in 7 if or completely.
Hmmm... Gangs of New York comes to mind in that scenario. We don't want our public services setting fire to use the trucks, or inciting riots to quell them. They must be on stipend rather than commission. The stipend would likely be per capita served as opposed to fires put out or arrests made, to prevent the foregoing. Thus, everyone using them would be taxed to pay and... we're back where we started.
I believe government has a legitimate role in keeping people from killing us and protecting our stuff. We must be ever vigilent that they don't get to keep our stuff (asset forfeiture), and that WE decide how much we're willing to pay (in aggregate) for such services. Because we're as a whole not smart enough to pay on time (in aggregate), however, then we shall be taxed to provide these services and... we're back where we started.
"have become targets of fourth-generation warfare leading to artificial division"
No, the division is quite real it is the "diversity is our greatest strength" mantra that is a hypnotic tool of the System.
If one buys into the "diversity" myth peddled by the mind-molders of the tribe then you will end in defeat, a defeat so total, so utter that there is NO recovery from it.
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"Of all the many fallacies of our times, the greatest is that all races are equal. This is the fallacy upon which most of our disasters of policy and faults of argument are based. It is also the fallacy underlying the political philosophy of the United Nations Organisation. That it should so far have prevailed, that we can have been persuaded literally that black is white and white is black, is proof not only of the extensive propagation of a great untruth but of an equally systematic discouragement of the truth itself."
White man, think again! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965
Where do our systems actually come from? Who creates them.
- I notice that our US Military runs not very differently from the Catholic Church
- Our Military Traditions Come From Europe
- Modern Society arises from out of Serfdom & Manorialism with King & Church at the Top
- Kings & Churches and before them Priests & Clerics learned Propaganda & how to control people
- Animal Husbandry probably taught Clerics & Leaders how to control people also(late Add)
But today John Perkins & Melissa Rossi and others seem to think Europe has created Chaos in Africa for 500 years to gain cheap resources. Like teaching bad farming systems or farming technology... distributing weapons & arms... encouraging Revolution & Militias... Making deals with various factions to pit them against each other.
- For at least 500 Years Africa has been seen as a Source of Resources and Riches to Exploit
- Machiavelli, Charles the Great and Sun Szu certainly would pit powers against themselves in Africa
Somebody call the police. Arrest the police.
oath keepers in principle can work, a matter of fact it is working in every big cities urban areas, and spreading.
go to an ms-13 hang-out and try burning it down, they took an oath to kill you, and they would.
if you kill a gang member in self defense, and they kill you according to oath, and thats not news.
have your child killed while going to, or coming from school, while gang members are fullfiling their oath, then when the vast majority of the non-oath taking citizens are questioned they didn't see a thing.
the bad oath-keepers, (terrorize, oppress, and suppress), millions of big city citizens, (90%), but when good oath-keepers want to help the, (90%), their profiling, abusing the bad-oath keepers civil-rights, which makes msm news until a better senario to divide americans whether it be by race, creed, or sex appears.
everyone knows the oath-keepers have to start, and organize from where their needed first.
until the lawful, peaceful 90% of the inner-cities citizens, (organize), elect some one who will truly represent them, the outside oath-keepers, which there is, and always have been plenty, can't help them systemically which they truely need.
americas big cities are a microcosism of what their, (marxist, socialist, communist, elite throught americas govt.), are working towards for the whole of america.
I just saw an MS-13 Spray Painted in my small City some where. Probably was a bath room or port-a-jon. You don't want these guys around.
Maybe it is part of Obama's Broken Windows policy. Violence & Crime are an Economic Stimulus.
- Open Windows & Open Border Policy
- Look at the Money they Spent with no benefits on the War on Drugs... then consider
- The Money they spend on DHS & Federalizing and Militarizing the Domestic Police Force... then
- Consider maybe the War on Terror is a kind of Economic Stimulus Program which just happens to have lots of Corporate Subsidies in it
The most powerful weapon the American people have is Rejection.
The system of fraud and theft that has been built up upon the backs of the American people is dependent upon our backs. Withdraw our backs, and the whole scheme collapses. This is our greatest weapon.
Stop Paying--Put it into food, and precious metals, etc. They stole whatever "debt money" they loaned you in the first place (fractional reserve banking) and soon you won't be able to pay them anyways, so Stop Paying.
Stop Obeying--If they are in violation of the Constitution then they are not legitimate anyways, so Stop Obeying their unlawful dictates.
Stop Playing--Stop being a tool for them to use, mock, and call "stupid." Stop Playing.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying, Stop Obeying, Stop Playing.
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
An American, not US subject.
As this late 1950’s Kingston Trio song indicates, things have not changed much in the world:
They're rioting in Africa
They're starving in Spain
There's hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don't like anybody very much
But we can be tranquil and thankful
And proud for man's been endowed
With a mushroom shaped cloud
And we know for certain that
Some lovely day someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away
They're rioting in Africa
There's strife in Iran
What nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man
The oath keepers are not going to be the solution. Sorry.
First thing the oaths they took have not been honored. Who has been violating all of our rights? When we look at the monopoly of force its oath takers doing it. Like I said. I dont give a shit what they do in thier free time. The thing that matters is what they do on duty. Dance around it all you want. They swore an oath to X and are paid to uphold X. Until they do the fucking job we paid them to do in an honorable fashion? Please stop with the we are the good guys BS. Do the jobs you were paid to do the right way. If the oath takers had done it right we would not be in this mess in the first place.
Thruout history most of the worst things ever done were done by oath takers. It pains me greatly to have to say it. But its true.
"The oath keepers are not going to be the solution. Sorry."
Their oath is for us, the American people.
It helps us sort the treasonous tools from the American people.
Darren Wilson, Ian Birk, Daniel Pantaleo, Manuel Ramos, Jay Patrick Cicinelli, Joseph Wolfe...are treasonous criminals, and oath violators.
An American, not US subject.
Politics is one, Human emotions are another reason.
In Government everything is politics except the fact that individuals are in debt, very motivated to keep the job, get bonus money, get promotions, and network to build a Clique of power.
Greed for Travel & Travel Mileage money, Envy, Distrust, Different Values, Prejudices, Stereo Types, ... and Aloha Males/Females coming down on weaker employees like in Police Forces... We could be creating Fascism in our Police Stations without knowing it. Clearly in the Past there have been sense that the system is broke, tenured employees are a problem as some are unskilled, unmotivated, out of shape, have drinking problems, have social problems, are uneducated, don't have proper experience... Government Jobs have schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia, I tell ya. And in Washington DC you have to add "Play Acting for Cameras"
Even Sexual Politics is a problem, some people have Traditional, married-family, values... and others don't.
So how to create Less Strife??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc&list=PLPuG6FFqKAl_xatUW6YtfR...
How many Oathkeepers in that video?
How about a Self Regulating Association to perform GAO Functions for USA?
- Probably would men legal experts, auditors, government experienced people, military experienced people, Accounting Specialists, Financial Specialist, Tax Experts
- Sounds like needs too much organization to get off the ground?
- My Premise is the Federal Government is Creating Terrorism, Diluting Culture, Suppressing wages, Destroying the Middle Class
- Look at Foreign Wars, Invasions, Droning, Rendition, Rendition to Foreign Prisons, Dirty Wars, Covert Wars on Sovereign Democracies... But look at Open Borders, Free Trade that can't be Audited... Look at Militarized Domestic Police Forces... Looks at Patriot Act & NDAA which illegally curtail US Constitutional Civil & Individual Rights
- Look at the Effect of high Incarceration Rates, Incarceration of Non_violent Offenders, Prisons for Profit, Judges Taking Kick Backs for Imprisoning Teens,... look at how once people go to prison they are disenfranchised/can't get many Jobs/Can't get Apartments/Can't get Welfare/and are forced to be dependent on family & friends or become a Criminal that Steals or Kidnaps
- Look at the Failure of the War on Drugs (Prohibition) which makes Drugs Profitable for Criminals and makes citizens into dishonest criminal users
USA is a Non-Dynamic System of Systems that can not learn, can not plan ahead, can not review it's own programs for Cost & Benefits... and USA will die from the Weight of it's Budgets and Failed Policies. Is GAO Dead? Does CBO still have Value? Are their any Government Statistics that actually serve Main Street?
Yep it starts with everyone being held accountable to the same standard. How its done does not matter, just so long as it gets done.
The President can moan all he wants about police being too heavy handed towards blacks and minorities, but he shares a great deal of the responsibility. Over the last six years while Obama has been in office the unrelentless trend to add a military component to police forces across the nation has continued to ramp up.
Many people see this as the governments way to extend control and power over the masses in case of a civil uprising in the future. More and more we see those paid with our tax dollars driving aggressive macho vehicles and strutting around in black uniforms with a swagger of intimidation.The article below delves deeper into this ugly trend and the issue of who holds this power.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/12/police-violence-goes-beyond-black-and.html