Friday, September 12, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
From one "aging, government-hating propagandist" to another. Mark Potok gets L.U.C.C.K.Y. An Open Letter to the Soviet Preposterous Lie Center.
An Open Letter to Mark Potok and his collectivist calumniating co-conspirators at SPLC.
Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not shocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that happened, not as being for the destruction but for the correction of our nation. For it is a token of great goodness when sinners are not suffered to go in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished. -- 2 Maccabees, Chapter 6, Verses 12 & 13.
To my fellow "aging, government-hating propagandist":
I noted with some amusement your description of me in the latest example of fund-raising appeal slash collectivist historical revisionism entitled "WAR IN THE WEST: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right," as an "aging, government-hating propagandist." (1) Wikipedia defines the term as:
Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause or position. Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. Propaganda can be used as a form of ideological or commercial warfare.
Now let's examine that bit of name-calling for a second. "Aging?" Well, I'll give you that. I'm 62 and I've been fighting you lying collectivist sonsabitches at SPLC for about twenty years now, so, yeah, I'm aging, but then so are you. So let's just stipulate for the record that we're both aging.
As for "propagandist," well, I guess it takes one to know one and you sure as hell fit that description. I mean, considering that SPLC has been a symbiotic familiar of the militarized federal police establishment since the 90s (even to the point of lying for them, and excusing the inexcusable, in the Good O' Boys Roundup scandal, where white ATF agents sold "nigger hunting licenses" and put on skits in black-face entitled "Birth of the Black Race" by pulling a black baby doll out of a watermelon -- a scandal exposed by the Alabama militia) well, I think that when you get up in the morning and look in the mirror there is certainly a propagandist staring back at you, so let's call that a professional opinion. (2)
But as for "government-hating," I suppose that depends on how you define government. I am not "anti-government" if you mean the government of the Founders. I believe in small government, safe government, a government of checks and balances that protects the rule of law and lives within it. I believe in a government that serves the people, not the other way around as you seem to. Indeed, your actions over the years seem to indicate that by the Founders' definition, YOU are the government hater, not I. But if you mean I hate the kind of "government" that gives us things like Waco, Fast & Furious and the NSA and IRS scandals, then yes, I hate that kind of government just as much as you seem to hate the government of the Founders. So consider the rest of this letter as being from one aging, government-hating propagandist to another.
Of course, I don't have the entire national police establishment mouthing my words like some sort of gigantic, armed but mindless sock puppet as you do. That makes you a far more dangerous character than me. (3)
And what are you doing with that power? Why urging the government to use its armed might to attack your political opponents, of course, as your War In The West screed makes clear.
Your lies, omissions and conflations in that "report" are many and egregious, none more so than portraying the Millers as supporters of the Bundys, when we now know (see "'This shit is going to get innocent people killed.' Mark Potok's Deadly Sock Puppet: How the Department of Homeland Security dances to SPLC's tune" cited above) that the Miller's were Las Vegas Police Department informers who demonstrated an unusual interest in the Occupy Wall Street movement when they were in Indiana (an odd turn for supposed "right-wing fanatics"), two facts unmentioned in your "intelligence report." Of course in order to prime the police to physically attack your political enemies (that would be us) you first gin up the fear level by making much of these two methamphetamine-fueled cop killers interest in the Bundys and their use of the Gadsden flag. As you well know, but failed to mention, I am the guy who was responsible for turning away the Millers from the Bundy security operation. They had no connection to the Bundys, but it is in your propagandist's interest to link them, so you do. A better circumstantial case could be made that the Millers were police snitches in Indiana before they were police snitches in Nevada. (As my friend Bob Wright observes, "Once a snitch always a snitch.") But mentioning that would interfere with your lying narrative, wouldn't it?
One further point. The militias did not rally to the Bundys because they necessarily agreed with their point of view on the legality of BLM regulation. Indeed, many of us did not embrace their interpretation of the facts -- nor did we particularly care. What we DID embrace was the iron-clad lesson learned from Waco: that no one deserves to die at the hands of the militarized federal police, no matter how they are demonized and marginalized by those, including yourselves, who seek to justify the use of unchecked federal power against them. There will be no more free Wacos, as I wrote Eric Holder some years ago. Which is why I write you today.
I sense from the name-calling and heightened use of loaded language in War In The West that you view this latest screed of yours as simply more of the same sort of bullshit written to motivate potential donors that SPLC has been writing since the 90s -- that "Brown Scare" of the "Narrative of 1996" that Professor Robert Churchill criticized you for in his recent book, To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face. But surely even you must realize that you are now operating in an unexplored and unprecedentedly dangerous environment. You may think, besotted with your new sock-puppet master power, that such lying propaganda now fully embraced by the government comes with some sort of magical protection -- the same sort of free pass you have been getting since the 90s. If so, you're living in an imaginary psychological green zone. Of course those of us who are your political enemies don't have those illusions. We have known all along the very real dangers of opposing the leviathan that you now seek to provoke into attacking us.
I have had on my desk for some time a cautionary object that I use as a paperweight. I call this object LUCCKY. Here is a picture of him:
LUCCKY is an acronym. It stands for the "Law of Unintended Consequences Can Kill You." I use it as a reminder that civil wars -- one of which you seem to be eagerly soliciting at the moment -- can rage out of control. After re-reading War In The West I was prompted to recall a quote from an excellent history of the last domestic conflagration, Bushwhackers by William B. Trotter, an account of the civil war in the North Carolina mountains:
When the war broke out, therefore, there was already a long-standing tradition of personal dispensation of justice. One Union soldier stationed at a refugee camp in the northeastern tip of Alabama, where hundreds of civilians from the Appalachians came looking for food and shelter after being burned or starved out of their homes by Confederate guerrillas, remembered how the womenfolk inculcated a thirst for vengeance in their children: "I heard them repeat over and over to their children the names of men which they were never to forget, and whom they were to kill when they had sufficient strength to hold a rifle."
As I tried to explain to Senator Harry Reid in my Patriot's Day speech at the Bundy Ranch, civil wars haven't gotten any more civil in the intervening century and a half since Aunt Jenny Brooks made a soap dish out of the skull of the Confederate Home Guard who killed her husband and oldest son.
So it strikes me, after reading The War In The West, that you probably need LUCCKY more than I do. I will be forwarding him to you as soon as I raise the postage, along with a copy of this letter. And I urge you to please be a little more circumspect about your lying propaganda. You never can tell where those lies might take you.
Sincerely,
Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
(1) "WAR IN THE WEST: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right"
http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/downloads/publication/war_in_the_west_report.pdf
(2) Informer on Racist Gathering by Agents Was Ex-Police Officer With Ax to Grind, New York Times, 27 August 1995.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/us/informer-on-racist-gathering-by-agents-was-ex-police-officer-with-ax-to-grind.html
(3) "This shit is going to get innocent people killed." Mark Potok's Deadly Sock Puppet: How the Department of Homeland Security dances to SPLC's tune.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2014/08/this-shit-is-going-to-get-innocent.html
Praxis: Repacking 5.56 NATO reloads in military packaging -- bandoleers and stripper clips.
GI in Vietnam carrying extra ammunition in 7 pocket bandoleer.
Long-time readers will recall that I'm a big fan of having your ammunition combat packed and ready to go. Some friends are currently reloading a mess of 5.56 NATO and I thought I would give a quick tutorial on how to duplicate USGI military packaging.
There are two types of surplus bandoleers available, the Vietnam standard 7 pocket type shown above and the current 4-pocket bandoleer. The 7-pocket holds two ten-round stripper clips per pocket for a total of 140 rounds per. The 4-pocket holds three ten-round strippers per pocket for a total of 120 rounds per bandoleer. Once the ammo in each bandoleer is loaded into magazines, the loaded magazines can be reinserted into the bandoleer. In Vietnam that meant the twenty round standard magazine. The current 4-pocket bandoleer will hold four thirty round magazines once the string is pulled out of the bottom of the bando.
Current issue 4-pocket bandoleer.
The magazines are loaded by placing a stripper clip guide on the back of the magazine and inserting the stripper clip as below:
You will want to put at least one stripper clip guide in each bandoleer. The guides look like this:
The thing to remember when storing ammunition for later use is that you may be handing it out -- in a hurry -- to others who need it. In this the bandoleer system is designed from long experience to perfection. Break open the crate, pop open the can, grab one bandoleer (or two) and hand it out to the rifleman and so on down the line. A bandoleer can be slung, tossed, stuffed in a butt pack as a reserve, all with a minimum of trouble.
The 7-pocket bandoleer.
Something else to keep in mind when repacking ammo for future use in uncertain situations: keep the reloads clean of oily fingerprints that might lead to corrosion and reduce your forensic signature at the same time -- Use rubber gloves to load the ammo and fill the stripper clips. Remember, as I said, you can never predict where and when and in what situation it might be used, or how long it will be stored before hand.
Filling the stripper clips also allows you one last visual inspection of the rounds. As you refill the strippers, pay particular attention to the primer seating. There might be a crushed or reversed primer that made it past your production checks. Also inspect the stripper clip itself. If there is any rist or corrosion on it, discard it and use another. The same goes for the little retention tits at the ends of the brass tension strip. If they are missing, discard it and get another. Make sure that the ammo slides freely onto the clip and up the channel. If it is tough to load or the clip is obviously dented or bound, discard it. Remember that whoever uses it will likely need it in a hurry and won't have time to screw around. Nor will he or she want to be dropping loose rounds like Hansel and Gretel's bread crumbs.
4-pocket bandoleer repack kit, showing the removable string which opens up the pockets to accept loaded 30-round magazines.
You can buy bandoleer repack kits in both 4-pocket and 7-pocket flavors, but you can often find the bandoleers and the stripper clips in bulk for even cheaper. What generally is lacking is the cardboard sleeves that keep the ammo from rattling in the bando. Sleeves can be improvised by merely foraging in range trash cans for empty ammunition cartons of suitable size and then trimming off one end with a sharp carton knife, as in the picture below.
Improvised packing sleeve next to a standard GI cardboard sleeve.
Once you have six 7-pocket bandoleers reloaded, it is time to repack a USGI standard M2A1 "fifty cal" ammunition can. Fold the bandoleer up, one section on the next, and wrap the carry strap around the package you create. Take it and arrange your first layer with four of them in the bottom of the can like so:
Then take the last two and place them on top thusly:
Make sure that there are no straps or cloth corners of the bandoleers to interfere with the closing and sealing of the lid. Dog down the lid and clearly mark the can on at least one side and the top with what sort of ammunition is within. A plain black magic marker is perfectly fine as long as it is visible. Indicate the caliber, the type of projectile and number of rounds. I add some notation about the packaging within as well, with "B/SC" standing for "bandoleers & stripper clips" or "BXD" standing for "boxed." Yes, bandoleers are perfectly suitable for carrying boxed ammunition as well, even if you have no stripper clips or are using the bando to carry other types of ammunition. For example, the 7-pocket bandoleer makes an excellent carrier for 5 round 12 Gauge boxes of slugs or buckshot. And, of course, you can carry small twenty round boxes of 5.56 NATO in each pocket. The 4-pocket bandoleers can accommodate the small 40 round boxes of 5.56. I also use either type of bandoleer to carry 7.62x39 ammunition on SKS stripper clips, again using improvised sleeves to keep them from rattling.
The key utilities of bandoleers and stripper clips are, as I said, speed, ease and surety of reloading magazines, carrying the magazines themselves once loaded, and expedited distribution of ammunition when you need to put it into somebody's hands in a hell of a hurry. That is worth the extra hassle and expense.
Expend the time and effort now, when you can afford it, against the day when you won't want to be wasting either because you're out of time and the evil bad guys are at the door.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Florida. Isn't that where they use the Stars and Stripes for a drop cloth?
More demonization of the Gadsden flag. Mark Potok is probably feeling pretty pleased with himself right about now. The ‘Shocking’ Action a Small Business Owner Said a Florida City Is Demanding He Take: ‘This Is a Shock. Honestly, I Feel Like This Is Russia’
Obama-appointed black-robed cover-up abettor plays along on the delay game. I guess she's postponing it until after the civil war.
Roland Freisler, State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice and President of the People's Court. He was killed in an Allied bombing raid before he could be hanged at Nuremberg.
Judge splits difference in Holder contempt suit.
David Codrea comments:
We'll need to see who the victors are, because this is one for the history books.It's an obscene shame, because the story should have been bigger than Watergate. It should have resulted in prison sentences, and convicts being induced to name higher-ups. But thanks to the media running interference and a controlled/compromised opposition, about the most appropriate reaction for the present would be to chant.Not that it will do the people still being killed any good...
I don't expect to be around to see it, but if these bastards are able to get their way as seems likely, someone, someday in the future, will be walking down the bullet-scarred, paper-strewn hallways of Main Justice -- now under new management -- tasked with finding the files and conducting the necessary interrogations that will be used in the war crimes trials. David is right. We'll see who writes the history books.
I guess he didn't get the memo on Flag Day.
But flags are symbols. They are shorthand for who you are and what you represent. And what you love. -- Flags, Both True and False. My speech at Belchertown MA upon the occasion of Flag Day, 14 June 2014.
Mayor wants apology after city flag used as drop cloth
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