Playing The Government’s Game: When It Comes To Violence, We All Lose
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
- John Lennon
Yes, the government is corrupt.
Yes, the system is broken. By broken, I mean it’s “dysfunctional, gridlocked, and, in general, incapable of doing what needs to be done.”
Yes, the government is out of control and overreaching on almost every front.
Yes, the government’s excesses—pork barrel spending, endless wars, etc.—are pushing the nation to a breaking point.
Yes, many Americans are afraid. Who wouldn’t be afraid of an increasingly violent and oppressive federal government?
Yes, the citizenry has little protection against standing armies (domestic and military), invasive surveillance, marauding SWAT teams, an overwhelming government arsenal of assault vehicles and firepower, and a barrage of laws that criminalize everything from vegetable gardens to lemonade stands.
Yes, in the eyes of the American surveillance state, “we the people” are little more than suspects and criminals to be monitored, policed, prosecuted and imprisoned. As former law professor John Baker, who has studied the growing problem of overcriminalization, noted, “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime.”
Yes, the United States of America is not the democracy that is purports to be, but rather an oligarchy ruled by a wealthy corporate elite.
Yes, politics is a sham. Average Americans have largely lost all of the conventional markers of influencing government, whether through elections, petition, or protest, have no way to impact their government, no way to be heard, and no assurance that their concerns are truly being represented.
Yes, the Obama administration’s efforts to identify, target and punish “domestic extremists” through the use of surveillance, corporate spies, global police and the Strong Cities network sends a troubling message to all Americans that any opposition to the government—no matter how benign—will be viewed with suspicion and will likely be treated with hostility.
Yes, we have reached a tipping point. The freedoms we once enjoyed are increasingly being eroded: speech, assembly, association, privacy, etc.
Yes, something needs to be done about the government’s long train of abuses, power grabs, erosion of private property, and overt acts of tyranny.
Yes, many Americans, increasingly dissatisfied with the government and its heavy-handed tactics, are tired of being used and abused and are ready to say “enough is enough.”
No, violence is not the answer.
A handful of armed protesters are not going to fix what’s broken in the government by forcing a showdown with government agents. In fact, this kind of scenario plays right into the government’s hands by provoking a violent confrontation that allows government officials to sanctimoniously justify their use of surveillance, military weaponry and tactics, and laws criminalizing guns and hate speech in order to target anyone who even vaguely resembles an “anti-government extremist.”
Take the latest spectacle in Oregon, for example.
Armed activists led by brothers Ryan and Ammon Bundy have occupied a federal wildlife refuge. The Bundys (infamous for their 2014 standoff with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing rights on federal land in Nevada) are protesting the government’s prosecution of two ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, who have been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly setting back fires on government-owned land in Oregon. (Mind you, the government owns more than half the land in Oregon.)
Few conflicts are ever black and white, and this situation involving the Bundys, the Hammonds and the BLM is no exception. Yet the issue is not whether the Hammonds are arsonists as the government claims, or whether the Bundys are anti-government extremists as the government claims, or even whether ranchers should have their access to government-owned lands regulated as the BLM claims.
No, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the larger question at play here is who owns—or controls—the government: is it “we the people” or private corporations?
Are American citizens shareholders of the government’s vast repositories, or are we merely serfs and tenant farmers in bondage to corporate overlords? Do we have a say in how the government is run, or are we merely on the receiving end of the government’s dictates? What recourse do we have if we don’t approve of the government’s actions?
Almost every struggle between the citizenry and the government is, at its core, about whether we are masters or slaves in this constantly evolving relationship with the government.
- Do parents have a right to allow their children to play outside alone, or must they abide by the government’s dictates about how to raise their families?
- Do homeowners have a right to manage their private property as they see fit, whether it’s with solar panels, vegetable gardens or rain barrels, or must they first seek the permission of the government?
- Do activists have a right to freely associate with one another, assemble in public, and voice their opinions publicly or privately, or must they be constrained by what the government and its corporate partners deem to be appropriate?
- Do residents of a community have to obey whatever a police officer says, lawful or not, or do Americans have a right to resist an unlawful order without getting shot or arrested?
It doesn’t matter what the issue is - whether it’s a rancher standing his ground over grazing rights, a minister jailed for holding a Bible study in his own home, or a community outraged over police shootings of unarmed citizens - these are the building blocks of a political powder keg.
Much like the heated protests that arose after the police shootings in Ferguson and Baltimore, there’s a subtext to the Oregon incident that must not be ignored, and it is simply this: America is a pressure cooker with no steam valve, and things are about to blow.
This is what happens when a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing their discontent.
As psychologist Erich Fromm recognized in his insightful book, On Civil Disobedience: “If a man can only obey and not disobey, he is a slave; if he can only disobey and not obey, he is a rebel (not a revolutionary). He acts out of anger, disappointment, resentment, yet not in the name of a conviction or a principle.”
Let me say it again: an armed occupation of a government property only plays right into the government’s hands and increases its power over the citizenry. Yet it speaks to a growing tension over how to bring about meaningful change when dealing with a government that refuses to listen to its citizens.
This is what happens when people get desperate, when citizens lose hope, and when lawful, nonviolent alternatives appear pointless.
Whether the parties involved are blameless or not, whether they’re using the wrong tactics or not, whether their agendas are selfless or not, this is the face of a nation undergoing a nervous breakdown on all fronts.
Now all that remains is a spark, and it need not be a very big one, to set the whole powder keg aflame.
The government has been anticipating and preparing for such an explosion for years. For example, in 2008, a U.S. Army War College report warned that the military must be prepared for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order”—all related to dissent and protests over America’s economic and political disarray. Consequently, predicted the report, the “widespread civil violence would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.”
In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.
Incredibly, both reports use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably.
That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” These reports indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—can be labeled an extremist. Under such a definition, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams—all of whom protested and passionately spoke out against government practices with which they disagreed—would be prime targets.
Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Obama has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if you’re seen as an extremist. Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the UN’s Strong Cities Network with its globalized police forces, the National Security Agency’s far-reaching surveillance networks, and fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies.
Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that will identify and track you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers being deployed in cities across the country, which will be attempting to “predict” crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs.
Hopefully you’re getting the picture, which is how easy it is for the government to identify, label and target individuals as “extremist.”
All that we have been subjected to in recent years—living under the shadow of NSA spying; motorists strip searched and anally probed on the side of the road; innocent Americans spied upon while going about their daily business in schools and stores; homeowners having their doors kicked in by militarized SWAT teams serving routine warrants—illustrates how the government deals with people it views as potential “extremists”: with heavy-handed tactics designed to intimidate the populace into submission and discourage anyone from stepping out of line or challenging the status quo.
What we’re grappling with is a double standard in what the government metes out to the citizenry, and how the citizenry is supposed to treat the government.
SWAT teams can crash through our doors without impunity, but if we dare to defend ourselves against unknown government assailants, we’ll be shot or jailed.
Government agents can confiscate our homes, impound our cars and seize our bank accounts on the slightest suspicion of wrongdoing, but we’ll face jail time and fines for refusing to pay taxes in support of government programs with which we might disagree.
Government spies can listen in on our phone calls, read our emails and text messages, track our movements, photograph our license plates, and even enter our biometric information into DNA databases, but those who dare to film potential police misconduct will likely get roughed up by the police, arrested, and charged with violating various and sundry crimes.
This phenomenon is what philosopher Abraham Kaplan referred to as the law of the instrument, which essentially says that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In the scenario that has been playing out in recent years, we the citizenry have become the nails to be hammered by the government’s battalion of laws and law enforcers: its police officers, technicians, bureaucrats, spies, snitches, inspectors, accountants, etc.
This is exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution feared: that laws and law enforcers would be used as tools by a despotic government to wage war against the citizenry.
That is exactly what we are witnessing today: a war against the American citizenry.
Is it any wonder then that Americans are starting to resist?
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That's all good until they come to your door with guns saying you can't raise your own meat you have to buy it from china.
in china, most of them dont get to eat any actual muscle tissue - one of the most popular things you'll find is "pig fat" I forget what they call it, but its basically fried up pork bellies just a bit differently prepared than bacon. actual meat.... much more rare, much more expensive, most of the little people cant afford much of it.
soon coming to a theater near you...
our government is a really shitty neighbor
The kind of neighbor that will borrow your lawn mower at gunpoint.
And then run over your foot with it and call it "non-lethal force".
Non-lethal self defense and your fault for attacking his mower with your foot.
A neighbor called Frankenstein.
People need to listen to these two podcasts. Seriously. Use your brains and not your hearts. Emotional thinking will get you screwed when it comes to Oregon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_LH0qOn0fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ3WOoncyCY
Really? I'm supposed to spend an hour listening to some random person who in the first of two videos has "Recorded on 1-3-2016" on the screen and the speaker starts out by saying I'm Alex Somebody, it is July 3rd.
How about a synopsis of why we should pay any attention to your recommondataions, Frankie.
Was curious as to why all the downvotes, so I checked out the link...Have another downvote.
I don't know how much longer we will make it before it gets violent. I think a good portion of the US just spent the last of their grocery money on Obama Care, there are a hundred million out of the workforce, they are passing gun legislation by Kings decree and we have generals talking about detaining people who are not down the WWIII program. They have also passed laws that allow any American with the sniffles to be detained after the Ebola debacle. This is all happening in the context of authorities trying to engineer conflict.
If people allow themselves to be drafted into WWIII not only will they not come back but the country will be disarmed while they are gone and maybe much worse than that. The problem isn't the people wanting violence because they don't. They are the ones that have put a condom on there big ugly pecker and I think we all know that they wouldn't be doing so if they were not planning on using it.
People should not engage anything or be reactive right now but at some point it will be coming to us, unfortunately.
I wouldn't worry too much about the gun legislation. We have 3-D printing with aluminum now. Gun control will only result in millions of ghost guns out there. And the tech will only get better, even if it has to go underground.
Fear is the mindkiller.
Don't be afraid.
Don't do something out of fear when it's not required. Live your life in as sustainable fashion as you can, become a real person, live well, be non-violent, cultivate good ideas, shun violence and wait.
Violence and anarchy are spreading, seemingly everywhere. It is a worldwide issue. People have been desensitized to violence. Just look at this, unthinkable before the violence bug spread:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2b11fea5f8f141cea203536f1e48c93a/cologne-...
That's not people being desensitized to violence, it's their governments deliberately inflicting savages upon them.
Here's a quote for you, guess where it's from (without Googling it first!):
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
+1
I would say inflicting turd-worlders upon us.
Aw come on.....The only real earth shaking that can occur is when the social security checks, and EBT cards quit purchasing.....
Remember the Walmart panic buying that occurred when the EBT cards had some electronic hiccups?.....
They were stealing everything in sight....LMAO!....
Imagine if government checks starting bouncing.......It would go down in history as the moochers rebellion.....
The moocher class (the poor ones I mean) are not a significant threat. They want their Obama phones because they are stupid and lazy. That won't change when the payments stop. They'll be the first to line up to be "taken care of" by FEMA.
In the final accounting, all "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." -Mao
Which is why I insist on keeping mine, thanks.
<-- You can hear cabals, banksters, corporates, US govt , US politicians
on the National Geographic Channel:
'We are incredible
we are unique
..
We are powerful
We are powerful
We are poweful'
----
And you (commoners)
are losers
These cabals have grabbed all power
and the US treasury (FED)
Have all the money
politicians are in their pockets
of mafiosi
Just another guy very talented at pointing out the problem but offering no solution while trashing those who are "doing" something.
First of all, the last person I would quote on this topic would be the idiot John Lennon. If you disagree with my opinion of him, don't bother responding for there will be much on which we disagree . How about quoting a founding father on the subject? Oh, no, we wouldn't want to do that because that would blow away the whole point of this article.
There are many maxims in life that I have learned to be absolute. One of them goes like this, "What you get it with, is what you keep it with." It may be bad English but it is the truth. It took violence to gain true liberty and freedom in this country we hold dear, and it will take violence to keep the freedoms we have left. The freedoms we have lost are because we have let things go "to keep the peace", and the more we give, the more tyranny and evil will take and will never stop until it is told "No!". It is not about winning, it is about principle and freedom. We like to brag about those who gave their lives for our freedom and liberty, and then morons like this come out and make an argument on keeping freedom by not fighting for it. The man is either a bafoon, coward or both. Bottom line: If we ever expect to be free or ever hope to take back the freedoms we have lost, it will be by taking them, and force is the only thing a thug or bully understands. Not sure about when, where, and how but if it ever happens it will be violent. Everything they force on us is with the business end of a gun. That is the only thing they understand.
Study Theory E and Theory O. Get back to the global community. Did these teacher cunts reveal this for testing purposes or just ask for a pay raise?
Theory E – Theory O - Human Viewpoint
I agree with you completely.
There's plenty more vets that swore an oath to the Constitution (not to the shitskin in chief) than there are .gov drones. The vets are better trained too....
The drones better tone it down and soon or else they're going to start hearing "lock and load" being repeated across the country...
I know more than a few and they're ALL pissed off at this fraud and charade of a commie .gov we have.
Just an observation.
I swore to protect the Constitution, not the government. From all enemies, including the government.
It is a great burden off my mind that I did not drag a soul or two out of "heaven" to have children...
Good luck world.
Yes, I worry about my children, but no matter how bad things get there are always a few survivors. Life goes on.
Always look at the big picture. labour vs tories or republican vs democrat. Same shit, different governmet laws working in collusion.
The ABCs Of Anarchism
Not only is a credible threat of overwhelming lethal force effective in forcing our master class to do the right thing---if only to save their own pale, hairy skins---it's the only thing that ever does.
Look at it this way. The only thing that convinced the banksters and communists to rein in their Arab proxies and no longer contest the Jewish people's right to exist and to live in peace in Israel was a credible threat by Israel to reduce the financial capitals of Europe to radioactive rubble if they did not.
The real problem is that Israel is the exception. In no other country do civilized people who wish only to be left in peace to govern themselves and enjoy the fruits of their own labor have effective control of the weapons of mass destruction needed to ensure that attempting to enslave or exterminate them would be far more costly than it could ever be worth to evildoers. The WMD's are controlled by a few thousand rich people answerable and loyal only to themselves.
And if you think Hillary Clinton wouldn't nuke Little Rock at the first hint that the South might rise again, you must be new here.
http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain
I highly recommend reading this article. It presents a brief but fairly well-balanced recounting of the acrimonious debate over land enclosure that rocked England for five hundred years.
The main point I take from it is that the only rights any man has are the rights he is willing to defend with force. "When it comes to violence, we all lose" -- only a slave would ever say that.
Torunaga: "There are no 'mitigating circumstances' when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord."
Anjin San: "Unless you win." -- Shogun, James Clavell
It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, describes what could happen here if the SHTF. Although it was written and published in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the American people have not changed that much since then and I could easily see events unfolding as they do in this novel. I highly recommend this book.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here
violence has always procven to be an effective deterrent to .gov overreach. ask ghandi. nonviolence was used to exagerate the oppression by the rulers. violence ultimately kicked them out.
unfortunately violence won't work in the usa. .gov has won. the bottom half of the class is way too big and way too dumb to support any revolution in the usa. the usa .gov will destroy the nation as it wants to do and someone like putin will put them away, hopefully for good.
Once you revisit the past, the can see the future.
This pretty much sums it up.
http://thecivillibertarian.blogspot.com/2016/01/build-lots-of-prisons-for-we-shall-all.html
Good News: People see this for what it is.
Bad news: The babylonian media and all the evil trouble makers are using this for the gun confiscation agenda that will never, ever succeed.
The false flag formula:http://www.hangthebankers.com/the-false-flag-formula/
If feds slaughter patriot occupiers in Oregon, it will unleash an armed revolution across America… Civil War may be near:http://patriotrising.com/2016/01/04/if-feds-slaughter-patriot-occupiers-...
Why get violent when the negroes are so much better at it? Let them keep government forces occupied, and they can absorb the casualties - they literally voted for this outcome (if not knowingly).
I seriously doubt the government is anywhere near as worried about "extremists" as they are about what happens if the negroes throw off the yoke. Mindless savages who care nothing for their own lives or the lives of others are damned difficult and expensive to keep under control. If they get loose and wreck the cities, well - guess where all the government people live? Not out in the countryside, that's for sure.
DC is over 50% black still, and they sit right next to PG County which is 2/3rds black. Add them up and you've got nearly a million negroes. Add in the rest of the DC metro area and you're easily talking another half-million or more added to that figure.
Now, what do you think the feds are going to be worried about when they can no longer sustain what we all know is unsustainable... you and me, talking about Patrick Henry and the Constitution and the rule of law and shit, or the million-and-a-half negroes still stewing over two centuries of grievances (real or imagined), who live virtually on top of them?
Visualization of DC racial geography, red/orange are negro areas, blue is white, green is Asian (mostly assimilated Oriental/Pacific types), and yellow is Hispanic. Our would-be masters are largely wealthy white people (easily identified targets for negro rioters) and large numbers of them work right smack in the center of this map, and oh yeah - the roads are hell on a great day, and the mass transit system is notoriously unreliable at its best.
http://proximityone.com/diversity/diversity_dc3.jpg
"The Virtues of a Disorganized Resistance
by Stephen DeVoy
Break Your Chains:
American opposition movements have always focused on the notion of organization. It has always been their goal to organize the people. Their hope has been to wield the collective power of the disaffected, downtrodden, and exploited as a single unit against the concentrated power of the ruling class. While their hope has been noble, their methods have been foolish. Organized resistance has many drawbacks. These drawbacks have seldom been discussed by the opposition. We believe that the only effective resistance is a completely disorganized, decentralized, and leaderless opposition.
While, on the face of it, this claim may impress you as absurd. Of course it seems absurd! It is counterintuitive. Never the less, it is the ONLY method of resistance that will work within American society. We will explain why organized resistance has never worked in the United States. In addition, we will promulgate a new formula for effective resistance.
Why has organized resistance failed in the United States?
There are many reasons for the failure of organized resistance. The two primary causes of failure are intimately connected to the culture of the United States and the political system laid down by our nation's founding fathers.
The Cultural Cause
Americans, culturally, are anarchists. Few Americans realize this.
Most Americans have a false understanding of the term "anarchism." However, upon
examining the beliefs of your average American, you will find that most Americans:
do not trust leaders, do not trust government, wish to be left alone, value their
privacy, think of themselves as independent from society, do not believe that
there is a systemic solution to their problems, believe that others should be
free to do what they choose, provided they do so in private and do not harm others
While it is undeniable that political culture in the United States often speaks
to the opposite of the above list, it is also undeniable that most Americans
register as neither Democrat or Republican and most Americans do not vote.
Thus, despite the political culture, most Americans choose not to participate in
it. This is not only due to their belief that the American political system is
hopeless, but also is due to the cultural clash between the wider culture and the
political culture.
Any attempt to organize large numbers of Americans into a single political
movement will fail. Any attempt to create an organization led by a strong group
of leaders will fail. Americans reject submersion into the collective. In a sense,
Americans are anti-collectivists.
The Political Cause
American political culture is not ideological. Politicians attempt to draw
ideological distinctions between the two major parties, but these distinctions
are a matter of splitting hairs. The only significant difference between the two
political parties is the degree of compassion represented by the rhetoric of the
two parties. Compassion is not a political concept. Compassion is an attitude.
Thus, the two parties differ, primarily, in attitude and not ideology.
Despite this, there remain two political parties. One is prompted to ask "why?"
If each party is basically the same, with respect to ideology, why do they not
merge into one party? The answer to this question is best found in viewing each
political party according to its true nature. American political parties are, for
all intents and purposes, organized crime units. American political parties have
more in common with the Mafia than they have with their counterparts in more
democratic societies. Like Mafia, each political party competes for control of
territory in order to maximize the benefit to their business constituency. Like
Mafia, the political parties attempt to mold the system to maintain their positions
and access to resources. Like Mafia, the political parties force the average
citizen to pay "protection" under the threat of violence (taxes). Like Mafia
each political party uses the "protection" money collected for its own advantage.
By defining our political system in terms of the "majority" and the "opposition,"
our Constitution enshrines this two mafia system into law. Each Mafia passes laws
to exclude new comers from the game while focusing the rest of its energy in
destroying the other Mafia.
Thus, any resistance movement that chooses to become an organization is in
competition with these Mafiosi. The deck is stacked and the power of the state,
wielded by these organized crime units known as the Democratic and Republican
parties, will waste the time and resources of any newcomer. A newcomer can only
succeed by rejecting the political system, draining its resources, and undermining
the rule of the state.
How is disorganized resistance superior?
In some societies, dissidents become heroes. In American society dissidents are
systematically slandered, libeled, harassed, and villainized. If they become
successful, they are murdered (e.g. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X). In the American
experience, movements that look to leaders are decapitated. Leaders are a
liability, not an asset. Organizations can be (and are) infiltrated. Organizations
can be taxed. Organizations have legal responsibility. Organizations have membership
lists and lists are wonderful tools for the oppressor. Organizations take on a
life of their own. They struggle to exist and their continued existence takes
priority over their mission. Organizations attract opportunists, power mongers,
and attention seekers. Organizations tend to exploit their rank and file for the
benefit of their inner circle. Disorganizations share none of these defects.
Bureaucracy cannot comprehend disorganization. Disorganization is invisible.
The asymmetry of the relationship between organization and disorganization favors
disorganization. Organization depends upon planning. Planning requires predictability.
Disorganization cannot be predicted. This leaves organization at a disadvantage.
Organization requires a supply chain. Supply chains can be disrupted.
Disorganization depends only upon the resources of its members. Supply chains that
do not exist cannot be eliminated.
Disorganized movements rely upon swarming. Swarms are difficult to defend against.
If you cut a swarm in half, you have two swarms. If you eliminate one of the
resulting swarms, you still have a swarm. Disorganization breeds. Organization
grows. The many and dispersed are a more difficult target than the large and
concentrated.
Organizations takes their steps by design. If the design is flawed, the
organization fails. Disorganization relies not upon design but upon evolution.
The motivating notions of disorganization are memes. Memes evolve and memes
compete. This process improves the motivating notions of disorganization. This
process produces multiple courses of action. While some may fail, others are
likely to succeed. Taken as a whole, disorganization is more likely to succeed.
The important thing to remember is that it is easier to destroy than to create
that which is designed. Thus, the cost to those who lose the manifestation of
their design outweighs by leaps and bounds the cost it takes to destroy it.
That which evolves is cheap and when an effort is created to destroy the evolved
entity, it merely mutates and evolves again, adjusting to the new conditions.
As a process that fosters evolution, a movement based on disorganization will
continue to survive, evolve, and expand without cost. The resource constraints
placed upon the designed (e.g. government and corporate) and those absent from
the evolved (a decentralized and disorganized opposition movement), favor the later.
The limits of disorganization
We do not propose a complete absence of organization. Instead we propose a
disorganization of units. Units can be as small as a single individual, or as
complex as cell of individuals working together. Cells may be internally organized,
but they should not be statically organized cell to cell. The movement should
have no commander. It should have no central committee or governing body. No global
plans should be made. The modus operandi of each unit should be to think globally
and act locally. Ideas, strategies, and tactics should float freely and compete
as memes within the medium of the collective conscious.
Conclusions
We need to construct a disorganized movement. You need not apply to join.
In fact, it might be better if you did not contact anyone except those with whom
you wish to form a unit. Your ideas, strategies, tactics, and lessons learned
should be spread anonymously or by word of mouth. When you act, should you decide
to act in resistance, attribute your actions to "the Resistance." The growing
din of disorganized disruption will be felt as an earthquake. There will be
trembles. There will be pre-shocks. The tension will mount and, in time, there
will be an earthquake. When that earthquake strikes, the organized edifice of
the oppressor will fall like a house of cards."
watching the public reaction to the events unfolding in Oregon is sadly no surprise and exactly what I expected. the MSM and the sheeple, mall zombie public at large have turned this into a racial, white privilege, white terrorist, evil scourge of the world white male gun nut frenzy exactly as expected.
even though this whole issue has nothing to do with race whatsoever. but this is the way decades of PC social engineering and indoctrination have programmed them to NOT think about pretty much everything. so much so that many out there in pleb land are ok with and in fact calling for the feds to outright murder these guys.
some have gone so far as to offer the difference in law enforcement response between this and Ferguson as proof of how racist, evil and white privileged our system is. of course this is where the Orwellian short memory syndrome kicks in because these people seem to have conveniently forgotten that whole neighborhoods where destroyed by riots, looting and burning in Ferguson. while the only victim in Oregon thus far has been one closed down park building.
hardly the same thing.
but I have no doubt these people will get there wish and soon enough as the feds have arrived in force and ready to go to war with there own people just as they have been trained to do. and when that happens the public will applaud ( much like congress did after the DC police killed that dangerous single mother out of state driver with her baby in the back seat) and breath a sigh of relief knowing that there are a few less domestic extremists around to threaten them.
so no revolution, no spark, just cheers all around for a job well done.
I said it before this country has the biggest case of Amsterdam syndrome since nazi Germany, I mean we are literally the North Korea of the western hemisphere except with star wars, xbox live, walmart and more nukes.
it really doesn't even matter if you agree in part, whole or not at all with what there guys in Oregon are doing, the painful truth is they are all about to die for nothing. I know how pessimistic saying that is, but it's the truth. that America, the America they believe in, the America that many of us on ZH believe in, that America is dead and gone.
and it's never coming back. it's not. because the vast majority of people don't want it back, .gov does and will continue to do what ever the hell they want and it will never spark a popular, united revolt. we the people are to divided, to drugged, to cowed, to lazy, to morally and spiritually bankrupt, to distracted, to programmed, to sick and to afraid to ever rise up against DC in any kind of way the PTB's would have to worry about.
I wake up everyday feeling like I just don't belong in the country of my birth and everyday I am reminded of how alien, hostile, poisoned, corrupt and absurd the US has become. at this point it just doesn't matter how many well meaning patriots are willing to put it all on the line to restore the vision of the founding fathers as that vision is no longer valued or even understood by the vast majority of the American people. they or we are now the extreme minority and far to few to right the ship. the social engineers, the architects of this brave new world have done their work extremely well.
the sad irony is the only real chance for a re-set now lies not in the hands of the patriots or revolutionaries or domestic extremists. take up arms against Washington now and your death will be applauded by your countrymen and that is a war you can not win. instead any hope lies a thousand miles away in the hands of those with the true capability to destroy the monolithic cancer that is Washington DC. specifically I mean Moscow and then maybe, out of the ashes those who survive can start again and build something better.
The reason race is a factor here is not the protest itself but the government response.
When the Cylons have taken your planet, it may be wise to leave.
Do we have to buy your book Cochise to find the answers to .gov tyranny?
Lennon was misquoted, he actually said, 'give peace a chance but should that fail KILL with impunity '.
Ammon Bundy runs a Phoenix-based company called Valet Fleet Services LLC, which specializes in repairing and maintaining fleets of semitrucks throughout Arizona. On April 15, 2010—Tax Day, as it happens—Bundy's business borrowed $530,000 through a Small Business Administration loan guarantee program. The available public record does not indicate what the loan was used for or whether it was repaid. The SBA website notes that this loan guarantee was issued under a program "to aid small businesses which are unable to obtain financing in the private credit marketplace." The government estimated that this subsidy could cost taxpayers $22,419. Bundy did not respond to an email request for comment about the SBA loan.
By that logic, shouldn't the simple act of taking the standard deduction on his Form 1040 require him to sit down and shut up? After all, that too "costs" the taxpayers money.
Easiest way to overthrow the Government is to Laugh them Off the Planet...
how many people have to sit down in the middle of the highways, and how many drivers have to not drive over them, to bring the government to it's knees... if we can't organize a pacifist revolution. we deserve what we get.. Me I favor a great big ( Unarmed ) IRS form burning party.. every April 15th. make it a national holliday
"...The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor....”
"..Easiest way to overthrow the Government is to Laugh them Off the Planet..."
I was never a Lennon fan but he got that right. ZH should set up an ant-political comedy club. A running joke. I mean, that's really what pollies are, an on-going f*** joke... There's plenty to laugh at, to ridicule. And the best part is they take themsleves so SERIOUSLY!! FFS!
Bring them down with ridicule.
What about an on-going comedy post that hovers on page 1? Has to be funny/sacastic/sardonic/cutting so (say) any less than 20/30/40/100? upvotes is deleted. Just the real cutting stuff remains? Your humour/sarcasm judged by your fellow ZH'ers. Plenty of dry-wit, acid typing fingers on this site. Could be fun....
I've been struggling with a title for this new post that will quickly attain cult-like status and world-wide attention.
Wait!
I've got it!
"Lies All Lies"
Flooding the IRS with fake tax data is easy enough. Probably wise not to use your own name.