"We still live in a $15 trillion economy, after all. Who, with any wealth and in their right mind, would support a violent plan that, regardless of outcome, would endanger the value of their money and investments? "
And in under 10 years the vast majority will no longer have money nor investments.
The ability for the regime to decimate a domestic insurgency of terrorists of three or five or even ten percent of the population is quite strong. You will experience the unlimited, boundless power of the regime; without the limitations of transoceanic supply lines, language and culture barriers, and, most importantly, laws.
Um, no. Sure, they could hit houses with drones.. you think there won't be collateral damage? They really count bring their full force to bear - and they have maybe 2.5 million people to use in defense.. and they will have to guard multiple targets. The three percent will number 9 million and have to hit only a fraction of those targets. Simply leaving a heavy brown paper bag on the street will burn their assets and resources as they call out the bomb squad. They can't really handle a bunch of quasi-trained guerrilla towel heads in the middle east effectively and there they can sit behind beachheads. There are no beach heads here. Their children attend school with our children.
You will turn America into an Iraq or Afghanistan, and Americans will tire of their quality of life being disrupted.
only it will have already been - in order to justify the imposition of martial law (if that is indeed where this is headed) they will false flag the violence if they can't get for real. Race riots, ISIS or homegrown- its irrelevant. Americans lives will be disrupted.
I’ve written at great lengths about the need for popular support for both your cause and your actions. So perhaps the first metric of a good plan is whether your own people will support you. Movements that don’t gain the support of 15 to 25 per cent of the population, regionally if not nationwide, generally result in failure.
Huh? where is that figure from? Our 1st revolution had no more than 12% supporting it. And the sheeple will beleive whatever the media tell them, and they will lie about it if required. Its not going to matter. You can't win that battle. Don't waste time trying..
Going to lunch.. more to follow as I digest.
Okay - onward..
Because when parents are having problems buying stuff for their kids or affording fuel to drive to work or are experiencing rolling brownouts from cyber attacks, their best option isn’t five years from now when the conflict is settled; it’s five weeks from now after they’ve turned in everyone they know.
80+% of the population just wants to stay the hell out of the way of history.
They will do without if they sense there is risk, and there will be risk - turning in your conservative neighbors and becoming known as a quisling. Turning in your conservative neighbor won't get your kids new shoes, nor will it get the cable back on.
Truly a very small number of us. And when we’re gone, that’s it. If what we’re building is a small army, then it can’t be easily replaced. We are a non-renewable resource because the train-up time is too long and the learning curve too steep. That’s another reason why the pursuit of violent means of securing our Liberty shouldn’t be our first choice.
As we examine the behemoth we’re dealing with, the condition of the regime, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that it’s losing legitimacy. More and more people are ‘waking up’ to the poor state of fiscal and monetary policy, lawlessness and new age liberalism.
Which is why the terrorism of such groups would be focused on leaving heavy brown packages on sidewalks, downing power and utility lines, etc, and not say, blowing up buses of schoolchildren. Sure its "terrorism" to destroy a pipeline, take out a bridge, sabotage locomotives and shut down substations-- but to people who depend on the government, it makes them look all manner of incompetent when they A) can't catch the people who did it without a dragnet roundup of "conservatives" B) can't repair the damage quickly. Such dragnets would of course highlight the fascist nature of the government and no one- not even liberals- would be able to claim that "its a free country" anymore, driving more support for the freedom movement, not killing it.
"The more you tighten your grip Tuck, the more star systems will slip through your fingers"-Princess Leia
This guy is also missing the geographic nature of the battle - it is rural vs City. Public opinion can run against the "terrorists" in the city , and probably will- given they are cesspools of liberal idiocy, but really as things break down, will they blame the minority riots, expanding gang violence and race wars on "terrorists" as well?
Even if the patriots do nothing, the Cities will die.
"This city is afraid of me...I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No." They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say." - Rorschach"
Your rural neighbors won't be turning you in - because they will also be afraid of the Feds showing up to confiscate everything they have during the "emergency" Ultimately the cities require the hinterlands, not the other way around ( not that the libtard city folk understand that relationship..) So yeah, public opinion only matters where there is a Public.
So the plan is simply this: we have to bide our time, community organize, train, network, build support at the local and state levels. There will be a day when the regime is in free fall. Days when there are bank holidays, when there are furloughed workers, when Americans are trying to replace their accumulated wealth of dollars with something else, when this nation is teetering on collapse, then we will have our opportunity. Many of us see it: America is failing by design. When it fails, we need a solution because the regime certainly has plans. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel and we don’t have to spend lots of energy on replacing our leaders in DC. They will cease to exist because they will be irrelevant to us. The solution is a pre-existing state, groups of counties or regions that are pro-Liberty, and we need to begin the work of empowering our leaders, both elected and unelected, to sever the ties.
Tending my own garden till I can't has been my plan all along. But, at some point, they will force someone to shoot back, just as the British forced those in Concord to shoot. There wasn't a vote. There wasn't a decision made to resist. One can even argue the shot was taken by mistake- because that group of militia saw smoke and believed the British had torched the town ( they hadn't) However, once it was done, 3-12 % agreed it was time... and the rest - the rest didn't matter - the pent up anger of a few boiled over and took us to 1776. This has been the question all along - will those in power try to use military force - gun confiscation, FEMA Camps, and SWAT teams to try and purge the nation of freedom lovers, or will they just slink off of island retreats when the music stops. No one knows.
You can count on 80+% of the people to just stay out of the way and keep their heads down. A guerrilla war would not be nearly as lopsided as he supposes, and the value of public opinion is far,far over rated in an environment where political decisions are made at the ends of rifles and these smaller communities of like minded individuals already exist. . He isn't wrong that we need to use this time to prepare, organize and get ready for when the enemy's power wanes, and be ready to defend ourselves if he decides to strike before then. But it doesn't exactly take a genius to see that either.
If the free state movement had chosen Wyoming, instead of NH, I think they would have met with far greater success.
Someone should write a book about that