Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: More along the lines of what you can be doing now instead of merely gnashing teeth in frustration.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Praxis: More along the lines of what you can be doing now instead of merely gnashing teeth in frustration.

From a reader:

Mike,

Hope all is well and you're feeling good.

Passing thoughts ...tetanus shots, vaccinations, medical supplies and communications gear. Field conditions will create opportunity for accidents and injury. There will be plenty of close contact, no need to spread virus. Attention to sanitation is a concern. Also, that "organize" suggestion is paramount NOW. Folks need to make contact with like minded patriots and figure out a communications process and procedure and sort out communications equipment. Especially those who will be distant or in remote locations.

May be prudent to download and print some satellite maps or acquire topographic maps and brush up on compass skills.

I have no doubt that .gov will seize or shut down ALL communications not on their frequencies. They'll also be tracing communications back to geographic locations.

Good time to be out "surveying" geography and testing load bearing gear and physical limits. Probably not good to be seen in neighborhoods with gear ...unless of course the whole neighborhood in on board. Doubtful.

Also time to sort out collaborators. They may be useful for those who are adept at manipulation but to me, they're a waste of resources.

You've already covered a lot of this in praxis notes but a gentle reminder may be useful at this juncture.

God Bless. Stay safe and stay well.

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Anonymous said...: The reader who posted this makes some very good points. I would highlight the need to be very attentive to hygiene issues.

Historically speaking, more folks die during wartime from infection, disease and other related maladies than from bullets.

Getting up to date on vaccinations including Hepatitis would be a good thing to do.

Just a thought.

KPN3%; January 11, 2013 at 1:59 PM
Ed said...: The pediatric death toll from flu this season (18 so far) will soon exceed the 20 pediatric deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtowne, Connecticut. How many deaths will be from lack of immunization? There are only enough doses manufactured to immunize one out of three in the U.S., yet our government officials are obsessed about gun control. To say that they have misplaced priorities would be kind. Stop being kind to them, and demand that they focus on things that really matter, like immunization for all.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/10/flu-nation-sick-elderly-flu-deaths-workplace/1823425/; January 11, 2013 at 7:26 PM
Anonymous said...: In the threatening civil war comment is going to be the sine qua non. If the SHTF truely occurs all accustomed coms are going to be shut down or so heavily "snooped" as to be useless. But history has provided endless examples of how this can be bypassed ! >Jeff; January 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM
AJ said...: Sound advice. If the SHTF, and it's looking more and more like it will every day, guns will only be a small part of the equation.; January 11, 2013 at 8:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike, I did a search for 'sipsey street irregulars praxis boots' and did not get any hits.

If the Spirit moves you, could you please do a praxis on boots for various climes?

thx and God bless.; January 12, 2013 at 12:24 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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