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Guest Post: How To Become An American Extremist In Style!

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Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market

How To Become An American Extremist In Style!

For most of us in America today, childhood was a time of vast and unassailable dreams.  What we could become, what the world could become, was limited only by the strength of spirit setting aloft our ideas, and this strength, as all young people instinctively know, is infinite.  While the possibilities of the future seemed boundless, few of us, including myself, ever considered “political extremism” as a viable lifestyle decision.  Astronaut?  Maybe.  Filmmaker?  Sure.  Enemy Belligerent?  Not so much…

While each of us is ultimately a product of our own decisions and internal choices, even beyond the influences of our environment, the cultural atmosphere of our age certainly determines the manner in which we are able to express our individual character.  The brilliant and talented are sometimes cast into roles of poverty and obscurity.  The obscene and devious often ascend to positions of righteous reverence.  Good men are often painted as villains for centuries, while evil men are regarded as saints for just as long.  The point is, the times in which we live rarely express in an honest way who we really are, unless, of course, we take hold of them tight, and cut out a new path for history to travel…

Those men and women who drive forward without fear or doubt to assert control over their destinies, and force their era to reflect their principles, rather than their principles becoming a side-note to their era, whether honorable or dishonorable, are invariably considered “extreme”.  Most human beings waft about with the tides of time as passengers; spectators watching events unfold from the sidelines.  Those who swim against the currents, or who attempt to change their flow altogether, are usually rare and confounding to the masses.  Therefore, that which the masses consider extremism is often merely that which they consider far outside what they have grown accustomed.

Frankly, history has proven over and over again that the majority is usually wrong about most things.  Groups and collectives do not create, or discover, or advance humanity.  Only individuals are capable of this.  All great concepts begin as seeds within independent people, and then spread like wildfire as they educate others.  A society that strives for artificial normality and collectivist harmonization is a society on the verge of chaos and death.  Only free hearts and minds give man hope of survival.

In my view, that which is extreme is NOT that which violates the boundaries of “normal” society, but which violates the boundaries of inherent truth, and conscience.  In an honest society, an extremist is someone who denies the universal foundations of existence, and tries to play demigod in a fantasy world of moral relativism and rationalized criminality.  A disjointed freak of nature that seeks to impose his twisted will upon others.  Unfortunately, the honest definition of extremism is not the most popular amongst the frothing elitists that reside over the functions of our political structure today.

Life is a bummer like that…

So instead, why not embrace the label that the establishment is so keen to pigeonhole us with, and make it our own?  I have found that the less I care about the critical eye of others, the more free I am to change things for the better.  Certainly, by any standard of our current national leadership and by the throngs that support it, I am an extremist.  Luckily, this does not concern me.  It is not important to be accepted by the mainstream, it is only important to remain objectively correct in one’s position.  In the grand scheme of the world, to be a thorn in the side of so-called “proper society” is a sure fire path to a life without regret.  America was founded by undesirables, and built by non-conformists.  We are a nation whose blood is thick with defiance and outright knock-out revolutionary badass anti-authoritarian hostility.  We cut kings down to size.

At least, we used to…

In modern America, it’s not nice or pleasant or practical to approach political problems with the attitude of a radical.  That puts people off.  And there’s nothing worse than having people not like you, right?  Better to play the game and hope that a better world will simply materialize out of the ether.  Don’t rock the boat, especially when you’re in it…

For those of us in the Liberty Movement, this passive approach just doesn’t satiate our ravenous hunger for the bizarre.  And by “bizarre”, I mean honest.  Our time here is short, and usually ugly, and filled with people and circumstances and disasters and biases and abhorrences and painful moments and sometimes smells that we would much rather not deal with.  The least we can ask for is a little truth.  If I have to be confronted with crusted wheezing gas-bloated nightmare figures like John McCain or Joseph Lieberman, men who would label me a terrorist if they could, then I should be allowed the satisfaction of a concrete fact or two before I am shipped of to the nearest Halliburton run military sanctioned prison facility for re-education and naked dog-piling (which these men seem to particularly enjoy). 

The truth is the first and greatest sin in the dark pestilent pit of any active tyranny.  I recommend it highly.  Seek the truth, and ye shall be fined…or jailed.  This is the first step towards a glorious career as an American extremist, and living such a lifestyle can be fun and exciting, if one follows these simple guidelines:

1)  Make A Ruckus

Identify the imperative issues of the day that most people don’t want to be confronted with……..and then talk about them constantly.  But don’t just talk about them; talk about them intelligently and with an informative stance.  That really drives the willfully ignorant crazy.  Make your position and the facts behind it visible in the mainstream, through writing, videos, protest, graffiti, bumper stickers, tatts, whatever…

The establishment’s first line of defense is not necessarily to suppress the truth, but to keep it on the fringe of society, out of sight of the average citizen.  Your job is to shove the truth in people’s faces, so that they are forced to at least acknowledge that it exists, even if they don’t want to accept it.

2)  Laugh At Petty Authority

Most authority in our modern world is, really, only petty authority.  True authority is fostered by a sense of respect that is earned through leadership by example.  The greatest authorities are those who teach, not those who command, and political governance is null and void if that governance was attained through subversion and lies. 

Of course, this view is a proven fast track to the nearest solitary confinement cell, but hey, living such a rock ‘n roll flavored "extreme" existence is not without risks…

Extremists recognize that a dishonest politician is only a conman in a nice suit, and nothing more.  They recognize that a law enforcement official that has no regard for Constitutional liberties, or for human decency, is just a gun toting goon in a badge and costume, and is not due any more respect than a common criminal.  They see alphabet agencies as extensions of a system that no longer holds any principles beyond sustaining its own wretched existence, and rightly look down upon those who would sell out to such cancerous bureaucracies for a paycheck and some undeserved prestige.  They laugh at such people, because in the grand scheme of things, these “great pillars” of our nation are, in fact, tragically ridiculous.

3)  Refuse To Be Pegged With Arbitrary Labels

I once entered into a debate with a long time Democrat over the painfully farcical presidency of Barack Obama.  After discovering that I held the same exact views on George W. Bush, he became frustrated and nearly infuriated, because he could not place me into a preconceived political box.  He complained that my stance could not be readily categorized, and this interfered with his ability to argue with me. 

I replied…. “Good!  That’s exactly the way it should be!”

Extremism itself is an arbitrary label, whose definition is shifted by those in power to fit any person or group that happens to get in their way at any particular time.  However, to take this label and make it ours, we definitely can’t allow ourselves to be affiliated with hollow and meaningless political parties like the Democrats or the GOP, not to mention all the prefabricated and shallow philosophical platforms they engender.  Every problem and situation should be approached as new, and should be dealt with using social and legal methods that WORK, as opposed to those that happen to follow a particular party line.  There should be, at bottom, as many political viewpoints as there are individuals, not only two homogenized standards that we are forced to choose from in the hopes that one will be “less destructive” than the other.

4)  Prepare For Life Without Window Shopping

A surefire way to become an extremist today is to suggest preparation for any kind of disaster.  For the average American, there is no such thing as a tomorrow without Happy Meals and Nikes.  To suggest the possibility is akin to dancing naked on the freeway with a Gadsden Flag.  Despite the fact that in countries across the planet setting aside goods for survival is as common as mowing the lawn here in the U.S., many in America can’t fathom adopting such habits.  This is because many still believe that the system will protect them from harm no matter what happens.  The “extremist” thinks differently.

He realizes that there have been too many instances in the past when government was not helpful to those in the midst of catastrophe, and in some cases, was even the cause of greater harm.  He seeks to remove his dependence on this system, and procure the insurance necessary to help himself if the need ever arises.

The Federal Government has seen fit to identify the mere act of prepping as a sign of possible extremism, so, let’s get “extreme”, shall we?  I would rather be extreme and alive, than a non-threatening and law abiding corpse.

5)  Build A Terrifying Gun Collection

If the contents of your house doesn’t scare the living hell out of your yuppie next door neighbor, then you aren’t an extremist yet.  Time to pay off the layaway on that 50. Cal! 

Firearms ownership is a widespread American pastime, and is growing by the month.  However, there seems to be a misconception that this pastime is about our “sportsman’s heritage”, or self defense against local crime.  Nope.  That’s not why the extremist stockpiles an arsenal (an arsenal is defined as however many guns you happen to have when the ATF shows up at your doorstep).  He owns scary guns to defend against rogue governments and the rise of the totalitarian dynamic.  Freaky, I know…

Forget all this sportsman nonsense!  We own weapons to dissuade oligarchy from getting comfortable on our couches!  Our concern is not the wildlife…

6)  Question The Accepted Reality Of Everything

You can’t be an extremist if you believe everything you hear from the TV.  Actually, you can’t be an extremist if you believe ANYTHING you hear on the TV.  An extremist takes absolutely no stock in what the mainstream media says without further investigation, and would rather be caught dead than caught parroting talking points from cable news broadcasts.

Is a certain philosophical or political position suddenly considered “common knowledge”?  Be suspicious.  Is a particular methodology or debate point appearing in every journalistic outlet at the same exact time with the same exact one sided narrative?  Time to pull out the B.S. detector.  Is a politician opening his mouth and talking?  Have a shovel handy…

The extremist’s job is not necessarily to be contradictory just for the sake of contrariness.  It is, though, his job to be critical, discerning, and discriminating against that which doesn’t hold up to the light of candid examination.  While there is always room for a certain amount of “interpretation”, ultimately, if a circumstance rings false, it must be exposed.  Period. 

Even if that exposure is harmful to the state of our country or our culture in the short term, deceit left unchecked in the long term is the single greatest destroyer of entire civilizations, and is absolutely unacceptable, especially to the extremist…

I think it is clear that extremists in an environment of despotism are in most cases people who refuse to abandon that which makes humanity whole.  We are, indeed, dangerous, but only to those who would do liberty harm.  A life of conformity is a life wasted, and a life of slavery is no life at all.  Whatever we may be called today, what we leave behind is ultimately what defines us.  Labels are irrelevant.  If I am an “extremist” because I refuse to participate in the delusion that is America in the new millennium, then so be it.  I am more than happy to join the long list of insurrectionaries who inhabit this nation today and who have been the legitimate makers of the world for generations.  Everything in history revolves not around governments, but rule-breakers.  They alone decide whether humanity will live tight in the fist of the authoritarian machine, or live free in the wilds of unbridled independence.

 

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

 

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Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:49 | 2238173 Manthong
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Video of Janet Napolitano visiting a patriot's home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcsLaSBWG9k

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:07 | 2238242 Dr. Engali
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I'd love to have one of those big old elephant guns.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:28 | 2238413 DoChenRollingBearing
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Me too.  But they costs thousands for the right ones...

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:57 | 2238549 SgtSchultz
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Holland & Holland 'Royal Deluxe' Double Rifle

Calibre: .500/465
Price: £ 134100.00

http://www.hollandandholland.com/gun_single.php?i=244&l=london&v=&c=

 

 

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:02 | 2238653 Cistercian
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I love the big doubles.A 50 cal barrett is cheaper, more accurate, and more powerful.

  But not nearly as cool.The 600 nitro express double is something to hold.....as a young man, I met a very old African hunter.I was honored to hold his big double.He was a small man, and readily rolled with the recoil of these epic guns.His house was a PETA nightmare...he had every species as a trophy.The polar bear rug was the coolest.He said the polar bear almost got him and his guide.He nuked it with a 460 wby magnum at 6 yards.It was snowing, and he saw it's nose.The guide thanked him for saving his life!

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:53 | 2238805 joe6px
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A high end beautiful American made alternative:

http://www.kimberamerica.com/rifles/specialty/caprivi

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:49 | 2238533 SgtSchultz
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Looks like Janet dropped some weight and had a face lift for the scene (probably to more easily get through the wall opening).

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:49 | 2237979 williambanzai7
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Welcome to Zero Hedge Town USA!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:15 | 2238055 Yen Cross
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Now we're talking!  It's gonna be a long night!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:17 | 2238061 JohnnyBriefcase
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There's no place I'd rather spend it.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:49 | 2237980 SgtSchultz
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Down with petty authority!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:42 | 2238145 Eric L. Prentis
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Here is to the quintessential personification of “petty authority,” Deputy Barney Fife, played by Don Knotts, in the Andy Griffith Show. Does not get any funnier or less respectful than that.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:54 | 2238176 SgtSchultz
Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:50 | 2238177 CrockettAlmanac.com
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"The first rule is: obey all rules. Secondly, do not write on the walls as it takes a lot of work to erase writing off of walls."

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtsvsLFYYSg

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:51 | 2237983 Common_Cents22
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Doomsday Preppers!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:52 | 2237986 Thomas Jefferson
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Reeducation camps you bitchez!  You recalcitrant bastards.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:11 | 2238039 a growing concern
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+1 for "recalcitrant"

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:18 | 2238066 Cheesy Bastard
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+1 for "bastards"

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:22 | 2238082 Thomas Jefferson
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+1 for Extremist.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:11 | 2238394 TheFourthStooge-ing
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You calcified dastards!

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:27 | 2238096 reTARD
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You mean bastardz. But after reeducation you will be correct in using "bastards" and "bitches" LOL.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:54 | 2237991 Svener
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Enough fruit cake already!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:52 | 2238184 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Ain't nobody forcin' it on ya.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:57 | 2237998 death_to_fed_tyranny
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I believe the CONSTITUTION is worth fighting for. I must be an extremist like Thomas Jefferson was. My name is  death_to_fed_tyranny. It has been ten years since my last conformist couch potato thought. Ahhh. Feels better. Let me add. FUCK OFF BEN BERNANKE!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:55 | 2238201 Yes_Questions
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My name is Yes_Questions and I am an Extremist.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 20:58 | 2238002 Dr. Engali
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He's a natural born world shaker.

~ Dragline on Cool Hand Luke~

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:22 | 2238080 Cheesy Bastard
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Boss: Sorry, Luke. I'm just doing my job. You gotta appreciate that.

 Luke: Nah - calling it your job don't make it right, Boss.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:01 | 2238008 Roadracer86
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If the contents of your house doesn’t scare the living hell out of your yuppie next door neighbor, then you aren’t an extremist yet. Time to pay off the layaway on that 50. Cal!

Lol, I'm working on it; almost got her paid off. 

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:34 | 2238116 Yes_Questions
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Russian or Asian?

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:35 | 2238123 a growing concern
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.338 Lapua can be got a hell of a lot cheaper (Savage makes a good lookin' one for not too much), and more accurate past 1500 yards than a 50 cal.  Just sayin'.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:31 | 2238418 DoChenRollingBearing
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+ .338 Lapua.  It's Chris Kyle's favorite rifle ("American Sniper". new book just out).

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:11 | 2239352 Uncle Remus
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DCRB - read the book and maybe it is just me, but Hathcock is still the gold standard when it comes to trade craft. Nonetheless, Kyle put the hurt on some bad guys from a long way off.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 01:17 | 2238581 trav7777
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yes; the lapua is an AP round...50 is more for materiel.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:20 | 2238707 Cistercian
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The 50 is better.The 338 works at crazy chamber pressures....and has much less ME to work with.
But to be honest, just give me an MG-42 and I am set.
Of course, I want 3 spare barrels and a belt loader as well as 15k rounds.1500 RPM of superior 8mm performance..HA HA!

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:27 | 2239399 Uncle Remus
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I lean towards heavy barrel .308 for "varmint" work at the longer distances out to about 900 yds, a .223 out to about 500 yds. and 7.62x39 for misc. sewer roaches and rats in the general vicinity, 12-gauge for infestations.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 16:16 | 2241009 TheFourthStooge-ing
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That's a good strategy - the right tool for the right job.

I would also add that the .308 is also good for dispatching varmints which think that the tree they're behind provides some sort of protection.

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:01 | 2238009 disabledvet
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You're making this FAR too complex...i mean "who wants to learn how to read" in the first place? Here...try this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VSYmGSJtCA&feature=player_detailpage

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:03 | 2238017 Dr. Gonzo
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My first reaction to the picture was my heart soared and I felt good and smiled. Not sure what this says about me. 
Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:14 | 2238264 centerline
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Nice to see you around CP.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:04 | 2238021 Timmay
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7.62mm will knock shit down. Remember that.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:17 | 2238057 cgbspender
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10-4 man, that shit is no joke.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:30 | 2238302 lakecity55
Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:10 | 2238034 t_kAyk
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i am jack's freedom, and i will overcome

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:13 | 2238046 Seer
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For quite some time I'd been mailing letters/bills using US postage stamps with the flag upside down.  No idea if anyone noticed...

One person I ran across said that he'd do everything he could to make the System struggle.  He'd get pulled over and he'd sit there taking paper after paper out of his glove-box as he "searched" for his car's registration.

No need to fight the empire, all you have to do is not "jump to it."  Slow wheels carrying more and more weight will eventually grind to a halt.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:17 | 2238064 gwar5
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Write "End the Fed" on your FRNs and pay cash for everything

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:58 | 2238214 CitizenPete
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in US dollar coins.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:19 | 2238275 centerline
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Those new dollar coins sound pretty good.  Nice way to hedge (in one particular manner) and keep "cash" on hand.  I have been pretty lazy lately... meaning to get to a bank and pick up some.

On another note, I heard the other day that there are some serious restrictions put down now about cashing in gov bonds.  Maximum amounts and time frames for doing so without going outside the banks and dealing directly with the Treasury, etc.  Nothing sounds more fucked up than that.  Time to cash those puppies in.  That's the sound of the casino doors being chained shut from the other side.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 01:57 | 2238647 CitizenPete
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Only sovereign US money are coins -- FED must buy them from the US Treasury at full face value.  The Mint is discontinuing the Dollar coins due to lack of circulation (they are not kept out in circulation -- they are all coming back and sitting at the FED Banks.)  A shame - nobody understands that it is sovereign US money - not issued by the FED. 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:21 | 2238076 BliptoP3
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- never get a tax refund, always owe the government, mail it in on April 15th.

- Lie to pollsters.

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:28 | 2238095 akak
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Refuse to use credit cards.

Do no financial transactions of any kind online.

Use cash whenever possible.

Make them mail you the bill.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:42 | 2238147 HamyWanger
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- Buy ammonium nitrate, aluminium powder, gasoline, several blenders, and a pick-up truck.

Because THAT's the next step, isn't it? Once you "opt out" of society, it usually ends like this. 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:51 | 2238179 cosmictrainwreck
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you're losing your edge, Hamy

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:58 | 2238210 CitizenPete
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Sounds like he already lost his f'n mind. 

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:48 | 2238508 Manthong
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Um... I strongly advocate against using ammonium nitrate with gasoline.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:51 | 2238180 Clay Hill
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Don't forget the granulated chlorine and ball bearings!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:16 | 2238406 TheFourthStooge-ing
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...and the iron-on frosting!

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:55 | 2238200 dexter_morgan
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- "He complained that my stance could not be readily categorized, and this interfered with his ability to argue with me. "

LOL - maybe he was talkin about Hamy there?

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:05 | 2238238 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Government is not synonymous with society. Government destroys society.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:26 | 2238287 lakecity55
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Where's that can of Troll Away?

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:35 | 2238317 akak
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Unfortunately, we exhausted its contents on JohnnyBravo and Methman.

"Only $5 to dig from the ground"

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:06 | 2238382 SetagayaKid
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Once you decide that society is a threat to you (usually it isn't of course, more like a too-handy excuse for one's own failings), that's how it often ends.  Maybe not with a bang (Oklahoma City), but with a whimper (suicide).  And having a super gun collection is a nice hobby, until you get the freakin' cock-eyed notion that you and some weekend-"trained" buddies are going to hold off well organized (and overwhelming) power with it.  No one can change anyone else.  But we can change ourselves.  When *that* idea takes root, then everything will change.  Until then, plus ca change ...

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:24 | 2238405 akak
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.

And having a super gun collection is a nice hobby, until you get the freakin' cock-eyed notion that you and some weekend-"trained" buddies are going to hold off well organized (and overwhelming) power with it. 

You mean, kind of like that "cock-eyed notion" that some illiterate Vietnamese peasants in their rice paddies could hold off the most sophisticated and best-financed military in the world?  Or like the "cock-eyed notion" that some cave-dwelling Afghan peasants could hold off the military forces of the Russian, British AND American empires?  Or the "cock-eyed notion" that some ragtag colonists could not just hold off, but win against, the strongest military force in the world in the latter part of the 18th century?  Those kind of cockeyed notions?

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 01:20 | 2238588 trav7777
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we killed those people by the fuckin truckload and stacked them like firewood.

Please, you be the first to rush out with your 30-06 and go git sum

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:07 | 2238626 HamyWanger
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Indeed. What lacked in Vietnam was not the firepower, it was the political will to carpet bomb the shit of the country, topple the Viet Cong leadership and install televisions in all Vietnamese households to announce coming "free" elections observed by the UN. 

We did not lost. We left because some powers in DC considered the job was done. For what did we start this war in the first place I don't know. But anyone who thinks two yellow aborigines in dense jungle represent a threat to the war machine of a highly industrialized country is a moron. 

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:46 | 2238787 SetagayaKid
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We did not lost. We left because some powers in DC considered the job was done. For what did we start this war in the first place I don't know. But anyone who thinks two yellow aborigines in dense jungle represent a threat to the war machine of a highly industrialized country is a moron.

Hamy, you are right. Fear more often than not causes people to make bad decisions. The domino theory was a fear.  So is the fear that the US is becoming a "socialist" country, or that an Obama reelection would be "the end of the US as we know it."  Certainly the idea that Obama, who signed legislation allowing guns in national parks, is out to take away guns, is absurd.  It's nearly the definition of hyperventilation.  The fear that, because one's side loses at the ballot box, the system is rigged, is another fear.  But before deciding to take up arms, one had better be very certain of one's ground.  Given the diametrically opposed election results of 2008 and 2010, it's a difficult argument to make.  Reasonable people are going to tell the revolutionaries to take a hike.  And without the support of reasonable people, the revolutionaries will either take that hike, or become extinct.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:31 | 2239412 Uncle Remus
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Define reasonable.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:33 | 2238668 SetagayaKid
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Faulty comparisons, akak.  The VC had Cambodia, Laos *and* North Vietnam as safe havens (the US would bomb the latter, and some of the former, but would not invade, certainly not in any large enough attempt to finally chase the enemy forever from the field).  And for materiel, the Russian ships anchored in Haiphong were off limits to US aircraft.  The US wouldn't go there.  It's a matter of will of course (Federal forces *will* go after rebels inside the continental US without mercy -- see Whiskey Rebellion and Civil War as examples of that). And they will bring unholy firepower with them.  If Canada decides to support the rebels, maybe they have a chance.  I seriously laugh at their chances.  The taliban have Pakistan of course (for sanctuary, R&R and materiel), where we only send a few robot planes.  Do you have any doubt that the US could push Afghanistan to an extinction fear if it had the will to do so?  It doesn't, of course, but this is the way that wars are won, other than the obvious alternative, which is one side simply exits the conflict.  As for the Continental Army, it would probably have ultimately lost were it not for the British deeming other problems (continental Europe) more important, and, in the decisive battle, the French navy.  Easy to forget that kind of stuff, I know.  We are talking about US citizen versus US government.  The costliest war in US history was of that nature, and the rebels lost.  This in a time when weaponry on both sides was *more or less equal*.  It's so unequal now as to make modern day rebels with assault rifles nothing more than an historical speedbump.  They lack numbers; they lack; weapons; they lack unity, organization, command and control, and much more.  They would be chased from the field or killed upon it.  And rather quickly.

 

Add:  In the end, what I'm saying is there is no comparison to your examles, really.  No group of assult-rifle-toting rebels is going to hold territory very long in the US against federal forces.  They will be routed, quickly, and with the media encouraging the bystanders to applaud.  I will admit that, maybe, someday, it might get bad enough to get 35 or 40 percent involvement in a rebellion, which would be about the minimum requirement.  Today?  Ya got 5 percent max, and that is doubtful.  Willing to take up arms?  Probably less than 1/10th of 1 percent.  We are talking massacre.  Over, done with, finished.  That's a cock-eyed endeavor, for sure.  It's a dream.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 04:05 | 2238892 AnAnonymous
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Dont forget the different mettle.

It matters most. Even with rear bases available, US citizens would not match the mettle.

US citizens who stockpile guns will not use it on much better armed people.

They will use it on unarmed people, much less armed people, no matter who they are, including fellow US citizens.

The mettle, the mettle is the primary factor here.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:38 | 2238430 goldfish1
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we can change ourselves.  When *that* idea takes root, then everything will change.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:54 | 2238539 cameldojo
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Closet extremist?

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 04:06 | 2238894 AnAnonymous
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US citizen nature is eternal.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 14:43 | 2240444 akak
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Not nearly as eternal as chinese citizenism trolling.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:13 | 2238467 Dapper Dan
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Hammy, I see something and will say something!

http://www.dhs.gov/files/reportincidents/see-something-say-something.shtm

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:26 | 2238489 Bansters-in-my-...
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Hey Hammy It would be cool to mix a drink up of the concoction yo describe and make you do a couple 6 0z glass full and then pin you up at the shooting range.

Cheers.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 01:55 | 2238641 thedrickster
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You forgot the most important step, march into your local FBI field office and ask for help.

So long as you appear to be half retarded and patsy'able, you will have the all the assitance required to pull it off. Except of course for the actual blasting cap but I'm sure there is a workaround (see Underwear Boy and his "impossibly defective" bomb).

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:54 | 2238194 CH1
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Do no financial transactions of any kind online.

No, no, no....

Start using Bitcoin, and Voucher-Safe, and Open Transactions.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:01 | 2239490 AndTheRest
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I cherish my high credit rating.  And soon enough I'll be running up all of my credit cards and refusing to pay.

 

And there are tons of ways to do "financial transactions online" without being tracked.  Bitcoins, pre-paid credit cards purchased with cash, stolen credit cards, foreign "paypal" like websites, etc.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 01:51 | 2238636 CitizenPete
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Don't pay taxes.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:56 | 2238202 CitizenPete
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That last time I was pulled over (for driving late at night and I was probably drinking, but was not) -- yes not making this up  -- I told the state tropper all about 9/11.  Building 7, and the analysis of the materials and steel, all the mock ups, the Pentagon flight paths and structural damage, possible motives, etc, etc. etc.   I kept the son of a bith there for 1 hour and a half -- twice I was asked to get out of his car and put one foot out then continued with the story.  He was begging me to leave his car.  The dispatch called him at least 3 times to check on him.   

Turn that wheel slowly ... grind on, bitchez...

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:09 | 2238249 CrockettAlmanac.com
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I usually have no patience with truthers but that was a great story.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:51 | 2238352 Yen Cross
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Are you the Red flag? I tell the Truth. I understand finance!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:14 | 2238396 CrockettAlmanac.com
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I don't follow. It happens more and more all the time.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:54 | 2238444 Yen Cross
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C/A That wasn't my down arrow. You have been busy lately? Understandable.

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:23 | 2238285 lakecity55
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Ha! So, I'm not the only one. Started the stamp thing long ago.

It's also fun to write little quotes on fiat notes!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:13 | 2238048 gwar5
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How to become an American Extremist:  Ask for a Constitutional rule-of- law government and fiscal responsibility.

 

IRS Oversteps Its Authority – Targets Tea Party » Political Realities

 

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:22 | 2238058 Yen Cross
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I was thinking the long Lead approach?

  Profile that!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:30 | 2238108 Bansters-in-my-...
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Soveriegn men and Freeman.....

Here here.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:34 | 2238119 Seasmoke
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Wise Foods has the best long term food storage system.....its a must

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:36 | 2238127 dexter_morgan
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Hey, look at my home state! Only one in the nation...............sons of bitches

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcbpqluCnrY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:44 | 2238151 The Gooch
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Hard to not log in for this one. Funny how it required a "security" check to "share" on farcebook. I'm taking my chances by "sharing". I must be an extremist.

I'm also a contender for "round-up" (not the Monsanto variety) because of my many "extremist rants".

Sharing is caring.

long lead and Aldi, the "Stock up store!"

See you's in the line-up. Great Gig in The Sky- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBabMxnFQsQ

 

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:47 | 2238157 Yes_Questions
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On item 1. Make your position and the facts behind it visible in the mainstream, through writing, videos, protest, graffiti, bumper stickers, tatts, whatever..Hang a framed printout of the "Jump You Fuckers" pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoller/2907411559/ in your office/cube.

 

That and a framed pic of Hannibal Lecter will get the job done at work.

 

And +1 on scaring the neighbors, though it can be hard in Colorado: everyone is armed..

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:45 | 2238159 Eric L. Prentis
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An extremist’s first priority should be to get to the bottom of the 9/11 tragedy!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:49 | 2238169 Yes_Questions
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And all US False Flags for that matter.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:53 | 2238360 CitizenPete
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...and Israel Zionists selling nukes to the South Africans http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons.

...and now having the gall to point their finger at the Persians, a country with a huge  Jewish population, a Constitution that insures a Jewish seat in government, and an ancient history of Cyrus who freed the Jews and repatriated the Israelite so they could return and rebuild the temple.  This ancient history was documented in the religious texts of the Torah -- the old Testament -- and later the story confirmed on the Cyrus Cylinder over 2000 years(?) older (only with the Persian God given the credit instead of Jehovah).  The cylinder, loaned from the British Museum, is still revered in Iran today.

The President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, criticizes the Zionists and Zionism (I believe are decedents of Ashkenazim - Europeans - not from Palestine and not from Middle East Israeli tribes) , he does not bash Jews or the Israelis or the many Semitic tribes, throughout MENA.  But the average American has nary a clue about this historical and modern day perspective - just fucking Christians controlled by the government with bullshit.  Organized religions corrupt and control -- always have -- always will -- only the high priests are at Fox and in the Washington MIC.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:20 | 2238479 Yes_Questions
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And and at who's directive would Ahmadinejad publicly hold such views?

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:01 | 2238212 dexter_morgan
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What about the precursor - Oklahoma City Federal building? Good old local channel 4 was doing a good job covering it.....until NY Times bought the station and fired everyone. Oh well, people can't handle the truth apparently........

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:39 | 2238329 thedrickster
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Just don't get Trentadue'd

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:55 | 2238354 dexter_morgan
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or Yeakey'd........

 

http://tytruth.com/

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:08 | 2238387 prole
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Or Tillmaned......

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:42 | 2238437 goldfish1
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Or Wellstoned.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:31 | 2238497 Calmyourself
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Wellstoned:  Come in a poor wrestling coach /professor die a few years later a multimillionaire..  Wellstoned...

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:42 | 2238338 The Gooch
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No. An "extremist's" first priority should be to look out for an "extremist's" immediate family, neighbors, friends and last(ly) country.

Sincerely, Erik (with a 'k') L.

Godpseed!

p.s. We already did! The plane/luggage/bodies vaporized! 

WTC 7 did not happen! It's not even in the report! Duh!

The Penta/Octagon "plane" (read missile) parts vaporized too!  Like a fatal blow from Chuck Norris.

Just like amendments 1 - ...

Dust in the wind.

We're not in Kansas anymore.

 

 

 

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:41 | 2238435 goldfish1
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911 is pretty clear cut to those who pay attention. Can't convince the sheep when they're plugged into the tv.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:48 | 2238163 CitizenPete
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"For the average American, there is no such thing as a tomorrow without Happy Meals and Nikes.  To suggest the possibility is akin to dancing naked on the freeway with a Gadsden Flag."   Laughed so hard, I thought I was going to cough a bone out of my nose.


This is a great piece.  One of the very best truths I have read in a long time, and I agree and have already abided by every definition of the same.  Brandon Smith I salute you for taking what many know and feel in ours hearts and putting it to greatest prose!  


... for Jefferson and Paul too.  I am an Extremist. 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:19 | 2238171 lakecity55
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I saw a very brave American the other day. Brazenly, right out where everyone could see it, right on his car's bumper, were a  "Ron Paul 2012" and an "End The Fed"  bumper stickers! I cringed in fear at the traffic light when 3 carloads of TSA  Viper agents pulled up, cut him off, and hauled him away holding on to his "junk."

The poor guy even had a pocket copy of that evil document, the US Constitution! As soon as they saw that, they went ballistic. He was stripped, right in front of all the commuters, for a cavity search.

Had they finally caught Emmanuel Goldstein?

Oh, the horror! The horror!

In time, many will come to realise they love O'Blowme, peace be upon him!

Time to Go Galt! Keep Stackin' and always be packin'

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:52 | 2238187 dexter_morgan
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- " He complained that my stance could not be readily categorized, and this interfered with his ability to argue with me. "

Canned talking points bitchez!!!!!

Can nobody think for themselves these days?

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:18 | 2238272 CrockettAlmanac.com
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"I am not programed to respond in that area."

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMegqgGORY

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:40 | 2238331 disabledvet
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"read the script." that's the job of those who tell you how to think. that and "we're going to close your newspaper now. you can thank Apple Computer later. Now go phuck yourself."

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 05:11 | 2238944 newengland
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dexter..

Keep taking the blue pill or the red pill, and enjoying your Big Brother.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 21:53 | 2238191 besnook
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when truth becomes terrorism the extremist is a terrorist.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:00 | 2238199 Yen Cross
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 Get over the " false Flags", and " conspiracy theories people. It's SHEER lack of intelligence, and desire.

  People kill guns! Guns don't kill people.      Time to " Rise & Shine" Amerika! Balancing a " Check Book" if you can afford one is really easy!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:02 | 2238228 t_kAyk
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i do believe it's time for everyone to become aware of the 'strawman'

 

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/strawmanillusion02apr10.shtml

 

i know there are plenty here who are aware of this, but it's worth repeating for those who are clueless

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:08 | 2238245 BlankfeinDiamond
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In the words of a true American extremist, "The structure is set you'll never change it with a ballot pull"

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:21 | 2238282 CrockettAlmanac.com
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But pulling the lever for Ron Paul creates just the kind of consternation amongst the clueless which the author of this article advocates.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:11 | 2238246 BlankfeinDiamond
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Or, "The ballot's dead so a bullet's what I get"

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:18 | 2238474 Money 4 Nothing
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Look at it this way, even without an election, "We The People" still get to vote.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:13 | 2238262 q99x2
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Great article.

Glad someone is going first. I tend to choose my death less consciously.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:26 | 2238269 Yen Cross
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  Easy gents. I'm on your side. We have a " SHORT" , trading session ahead. You guys in London get a fair nights sleep!

  Let's respect thy fellow trader. Thank You kindly.

  Looking at the charts, the F/X system is just flushing the charts. MAcD and RSi are diverging on the long parabolic sar lines. The volume is low but substancial. Money is moving " QUIETLY"!

  There is a HUGE barrier option at 82 usd/jpy, not quite sure the actual expire. before 10 a.m. N.Y. usually.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 04:43 | 2238920 newengland
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Yen...

This thread  is now infested with political whores who leech off everyone. Your comment is interesting to trader, investors and ordinary folk. It is of no interest to the government whores.

Goodnight, and best wishes to you and yours.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:31 | 2238307 death_to_fed_tyranny
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Is it just me and zerohegders that are sick and tired of the status quo? To buy cheap chinese junk that does not last? To go to the market and see the containers shrinking yet the prices rise? To fill up the tank week after week and see more money drained from my sweat equity? To listen to the LIES of the Governent? To hear the MSM reiterate those LIES? To remember when civics was taught and the Constitution was embraced for the living breathing document that reiterated the GOD GIVEN RIGHTS that mankind ALREADY HAS? To be able to travel throughout the country without some blue shirted Stormtrooper with a 10th grade education feeling up me and my wifes junk for security. I AM NOT AFRAID! LIBERTY IS ALL! GO GALT! AND I PRAY FOR ALL, THAT A TIME WILL COME, WHEN I CAN SHUT MY MOUTH AND ENJOY THE DAY KNOWING, THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE REPUBLIC, IS FREE FROM ALL OF THIS! END THE FED! END THE TYRANNY! AND JON CORZINE SHOULD BE IN JAIL!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:47 | 2238345 Yen Cross
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 The Yens last gasp! Kampo and MoF did the right thing. They are going after China and Korea. This isn't about market share.

  It's about canabalizing market share! Look at JGB's and medium term yields!

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 22:57 | 2238364 Yen Cross
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One Question Tyler. If I may? Why is the Australian dollar FLAT, relative to other commodity currencies.  Sweden, Norway, Brazil, India, China, Small sovereigns?

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:07 | 2238388 Money 4 Nothing
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I signed up for the Military right after 9/11. Reason why? because recruiting levels were down. I was 33 years old and felt a sense of Patriotism to my Country that was just attacked.

Come to find out 3 years later, it was all bullshit.

I was working for FEMA at the time, with blinders on. What ever the Govt. said, I blindly believed.

Blinders are off now thanks to a few Sergeants and my Command Sergeant Major.

It's all a dream, now I am labled enemy Combatant because I believe in Liberty and the Constitution..

Now, I decided to give "them" an excuse to label me an extremist, Support your local 16's. I now live outside the bounderies of mans law because our govt. turned their back on us Patriots.

God Bless!

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:55 | 2238544 oldman
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@money4nothing

Thanks, money

That is hard duty---hard way to learn---stay with us---we will support you---if there is any way we can

you went out to fight the government that you were fighting for----what a hole to fall into!

I don't know what else to say----it is all bullshit---all of it------------good luck to you     om

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 04:39 | 2238915 newengland
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oldman,

Bullshit.

Nothing hardy duty or hard way that serves the government slave masters. The house slave is no different than the field slave.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 06:59 | 2239007 Colonial Intent
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Why is it always people like you who never served who think they are fit to command.

Money 4 nothing did something for what he thought was a cause greater than himself, learned a lesson and is trying to educate others, you appear to have decided that you are the only moral authority on life because only you know the secrets of the illuminati.

 

I'd fuck you in the ass repeatedly just for the fun of hearing your muffled screams as my black boyfriend sticks his cock down your throat.

Hugs n kisses:-)

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 08:21 | 2239091 prole
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You're a beauty, you know that?

Fri, 03/23/2012 - 06:02 | 2239107 Colonial Intent
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.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 04:36 | 2238912 newengland
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Money...

As easy as you believe the government is as easy as you turn against it.

You are a shill of anything that profits you.

You worked for FEMA, therefore you were a government tool, not a military man. You sicken me, with your propaganda.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 19:46 | 2241799 Money 4 Nothing
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Sorry you feel that way, but your membership time clocked in shows your true lack of experience with any topics I may have posted about, so who is the shill and dis information campaign member now?

Good Day.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:10 | 2238390 singsing
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

We need the words of poets and singers like never before.  Instead we get Beiber and Rhianna.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 04:32 | 2238909 newengland
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singsing,

Bullshit. The West sends record numbers to war in 'peacetime'.

The troubadors ought to entertain the troops rather than snivel at home as slaves to their political masters and banksers.

Your lot are useless debt slaves, political slaves and horrible cheats while better men and women die for your right to be so.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 07:12 | 2239017 memyselfiu
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"21st Century Living"

[Matt:]
You know, today I was asked only one question
One question all day
Do you know what that was?
"Do you want this supersized?"
Come to think of it, I'd like the whole fucking world supersized

Supersize guns
Supersize planes
Supersize satellites
Think about how many more channels you could get with supersized satellites

Supersize sales
How do you supersize a sale?
How about we supersize 3rd World debt relief?

Supersize love
Supersize honesty
Supersize government
Come to think of it
Actually, nah, let's not supersize the government

Supersize death
Can I have a supersized death?
I'd like to supersize a death with a Coke

You know what we need?
Some back-up singers, hook up like a little jingle

["It's all right, it's sooner or later" repeated in background]

Kinda like that
Supersize the song
Really, if we supersize the record, we'll sell more records, it's a supersized record
That is, after all, our ambition

[chorus:]
Fake lighting flashes over the skyline
A deer in your headlights
So gun it, gun it, gun it, gun it, gun it
We're singing songs about 21st century living
If hate's in your heart, man
You'll take what you're given

[Matt:]
Ambition, ambition's a tricky thing
It's like riding a unicycle on a dental floss tightrope over a wilderness of razor blades
Ambition can backfire
Ambition means more
Ambition means faster
Ambition means better

I wonder if you can sup—
Can you supersize ambition?
Does that make you ambitious if you supersize ambition?
Around here, our ambition hurts more than it helps
Around here our ambition throws an non-perishable item in a donation bin at Christmas
And it pats itself on the fucking back because it thinks it's done something decent

["It's all right, it's sooner or later" repeated in background]

Yeah, we're supersizing ambition
Make no mistake about it
Our ambition will televise the revolution
And it'll sell more fucking commercial spots than the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the World Series, and the Tragedy Du Jour
combined
We're supersizing
We're supersizing the record
'Cause we're ambitious

[chorus]

If hate's in your heart, man
You'll take what your given

"While We Were Hunting Rabbits"

Buy in it'll shut you up
Try it, it should shut you up
We've brought someone in to shut you up
It's a life's work

While we were hunting rabbits
I came upon a clear
The sky its stars like fortune drilled me
Until now I was a soldier
Until now I dealt in fear
These years of cloak and dagger
Have left us disappeared

And I dance and I sing
And I'm a monkey in a long line

Buy in it'll shut you up
Try it, it should shut you up
We've brought someone in to shut you up
And it's getting to be light work

While we were hunting rabbits
I came upon a clear
The sky its stars like fortune filled me
Until now I was a soldier
Until now I dealt in fear
These years of cloak and dagger
Have left us disappeared

And I dance and I sing
And I'm a monkey in a long line of kings
And we dance and we sing
And we're all monkeys in a long line

I'm just a boat on the ocean
And I'm just a ship lost at sea

 

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:03 | 2239492 AndTheRest
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"How about we supersize 3rd World debt relief?"

 

Or cut them off from the benevolence of 1st world whites and let the 3rd world subhuman mud people starve to death by the billions.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:18 | 2238391 Ima anal sphincter
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Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRYdVlGXNQ

 

 Time for the sheep to wake up.

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:14 | 2238401 Yen Cross
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Now we bid the bottom side to close the door. Her comes the squeeze! ETF style! Small door large cattle.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:18 | 2238407 Yen Cross
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 The bid gets hit with an offer just above. Sell signal. This one is PBoC. They chewed through the orders.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:23 | 2238408 msjimmied
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I used to rail against gun ownership, but after the revelations of the last 5 years, I'd say let people buy daisy cutters and heat seeking misslies. I don't want to see my people with stones against tanks.

To the NRA folks, read this line

"Forget all this sportsman nonsense!  We own weapons to dissuade oligarchy from getting comfortable on our couches!  Our concern is not the wildlife…"

Stop pussyfooting around, say what you mean. I don't have a problem with that line at all, and I'm a bleeding heart.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:32 | 2238416 akak
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I live in the state with the highest per-capita gun ownership in the USA, and I can tell you that home break-ins are vanishingly rare here outside of the one large urban center (and rather infrequent even there) for precisely that reason.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 02:27 | 2238724 Sandmann
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If they all have a gun no need to steal one !

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:23 | 2238409 Atomizer
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I have learned from the Central Planners.. How can one be an extremist if your only pointing reference to their plans..LOL

 

Primus - Too Many Puppies

Georgia Guidestones

 

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:25 | 2238411 oldman
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Dear author,

I'm sorry that this cheap trick of yours was published. You are not addressing idiots or nine year-olds. Please find space at Reader's Digest or Look Magazine or the Saturday Evening Post. Who are you and where do you peddle this crap?

Free exprerssion is not to be abused with such claptrap in my opinion----Tyler pay more attention, please, to what ZH uses as filler.

Please, just stay with us as one of us---we are all leaders---we are all followers----we need no mommies or daddies to tell us what you told us above-----please come back with better----the door is open to sincerity----------------

WE are kicking ass and making a change in the US without some stupid Boy Scout manual to tell us how.

 

Example below:

"In modern America, it’s not nice or pleasant or practical to approach political problems with the attitude of a radical.  That puts people off.  And there’s nothing worse than having people not like you, right?  Better to play the game and hope that a better world will simply materialize out of the ether.  Don’t rock the boat, especially when you’re in it…"

NOT JUST IN MODERN AMERICA, dear author-----

This has been true always, and there are more 'radicals' today than ever before in the u s, and a much higher percentage of the population is actively criticizing the authorities than ever before. Look at how many articulate protests are made on this site every day. This has never been true during the 70 years of my life. Also pay attention, please, to how many times on many controversial items the greens and reds are many and nearly evenly opposed. I cannot ever remember this being true on serious issues. I have never in my life found as much support for radical comments and opinions as I have to this oldman's madness as I have during my brief sojourn here. I live in self-exile because I could never find anyone to support the same statements I write here-------not any ONE!

This is the beginning of a loooooong war---maybe, a hundred years or so. It is a war that is being fought against ourselves and, possibly, might bring us back to where we never were, though, the common mythology preaches other.

  All we have to do is survive long enough to win                 om

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 08:39 | 2239001 Colonial Intent
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Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:08 | 2239504 AndTheRest
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The struggle between tyrannical socialst central planning and liberal free markets has been going on over a century thus far.  So this is not the beginning...unless you mean the beginning of the end.  The U.S. is undoubtedly a fascist totalitarian regime today.  There are no "first world" countries that are free.  It is questionable whether even any second world countries know the kind of freedom that our great grand fathers knew.

 

Never forget that.  This struggle is about socialist central planners and the totalitarianism that such systems invariably produce, and freedom.  The current state of the financial secotr and the economy at large are merely symptoms of the terminal disease known as socialism.

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:36 | 2238414 TheObsoleteMan
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I was speaking to some people at a flea market the other day {complete strangers} about the republican field of candidates. Two were Romney supporters and one was undecided. I began to state my case why I believed Ron Paul was the ONLY candidate who would make any real differance. Immediately one of the Romney supporters said:"Oh you belong to that CULT," and laughed. The others all joined in. This is what it has come to. The usual way in which you will be marginalized, is to question your sanity. "He wants to legalize drugs!", He will take away MY Social Security" or my favorite: "He is an isolationist". For the most part, people have become either labotomized by the idiot box, or they have too great a stake in the current system, their children and grandchildren be damned. I saw on my local news a couple of weeks ago a story about a man on trial for murder. They showed a clip of film footage from his trial. He was refusing his court appointed attorney, stating:"Your all from the New World Order", he then spat on his public defender. I am not going to debate this man's state of mental health, but why show this on the evening news? They proceeded to call him an "extremeist" and "conspiracy theorist". Trying to paint us all with a broad brush you think?

Thu, 03/08/2012 - 23:58 | 2238451 HD
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Anytime people don't conform to the social norm they are isolated and demonized - often not much rational thought goes into it.  Anytime you don't think or behave the way the majority feels is appropriate - there is a cost.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 00:30 | 2238496 Yen Cross
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  We both have high self esteem " HD". On a lighter note. Japan is the proxy for the United States in Asia. I have been following flow charts for the last 60 days. That cheap OiS ( short term lending), is BoJ.

  I caught something earlier over the wires about KAMPO and the( JGB takeup) , being on the soft side. We know all about the savings rates in Japan.   FWIW

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:11 | 2239509 AndTheRest
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The majority of Americans are imbecile sheep that neither desire nor deserve liberty.  It's a lost cause brother.  My solution is to leave the country to its inevitable continued decline.

 

An analogy I read somewhere, probably here, stated that America is like a retarded giant, dying a sudden and unexpected death - flailing around and tearing apart everything as it goes down.

 

Apt, I think.

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