tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post6967011187453159139..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: The fictional attack on the Michigan fusion center. Critiques of the chapter "Wolverines."Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-81758584305027812982010-09-23T14:49:26.025-05:002010-09-23T14:49:26.025-05:00Good idea to know your enemy - by name and general...Good idea to know your enemy - by name and general location. Leviathan is not one big beast, it is a million tiny ones.<br /><br /><i>There are professors in the Michigan higher education system who have made big bucks teaching the finer points to what have become ... political secret policemen working in an increasingly Orwellian Department of Pre-Crime.... The quotes I put in the mouth of the fictional professor, for example, were actually said by a real professor and, if you can figure out who he is, you may find them on variuous web sites.</i><br /><br />All of the quotes from the chapter can be found at the following site:<br /><br />http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/carter.pdf <br /><br />"The absence of evidence is not the absence of a threat" Page 4<br /><br />"What is more important, protecting an American community from a terrorist attack or protecting individual civil rights?" Page 9<br /><br />"Sometimes the 'legal way' may not seem like the 'right way.'" Page 9<br /><br />"The most fundamental principle of ethical behavior is 'Do No Harm' but one of the problems is the definition of 'harm" and "it is often based on one's perspective and personal philosophy of what is important." Page 9<br /><br />Isn't the Internet a great tool?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-76652447946644440492010-09-22T23:00:30.801-05:002010-09-22T23:00:30.801-05:00It's not about destroying the data, it's a...It's not about destroying the data, it's about destroying the attitudes of tyranny. Peaceful means are best, but other options can never be taken off the table as the simple possibility of other than peaceful means to eradicate tyranny may well keep things peaceful. Capisce?<br /><br />Bob KattAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-4209324952157433282010-09-22T21:27:49.737-05:002010-09-22T21:27:49.737-05:00Here is another story idea.
Get five million like...Here is another story idea.<br /><br />Get five million like-minded folk to promise to (a) stop paying taxes, (b) stop voting and respecting government, and (c) not get on boxcars to prison. Five million is too many to digest militarily if they have more self-esteem and will to live than the German Jews did.<br /><br />Then it doesn't matter what voters do in November. Not the newly un-illegal voters, the Muslim voters, the federal reserve, the New York Times editorial page, the United Nations, or anybody else. Five million is too many to digest militarily.<br /><br />Statists everywhere, which includes most of the fundamentalist Christians who want a Christian theocracy, will do the Exorcist head spinning spitting pea soup thing at this existential challenge to their moral authority. So what. Five million is too many to digest militarily. Turn off the TV talking heads and go grill some hamburgers over Korans, the good life has started. Now that the ball and chain of government has been rejected, the entire middle class will find the industrial revolution has been a dazzling success. Any normal person willing to work can make themselves independently wealthy inside a decade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-41009450239860430182010-09-22T21:27:14.374-05:002010-09-22T21:27:14.374-05:00Just take off the head... eyes rolling.
Seriously,...Just take off the head... eyes rolling.<br />Seriously, go after the management and you are way ahead. Officers are targeted on the battlefield, well...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-39305529253096538172010-09-22T18:42:04.840-05:002010-09-22T18:42:04.840-05:00One nitpick,...No drives,personnel or backups wer...One nitpick,...No drives,personnel or backups were seized (not copied no time for that)militia cannot exist without signals division.<br />You passed up the equivalent of<br />WW II grabbing an enigma off a scuttled U-boat.<br /><br />Fusion<br /><br />verification<br />Minsest (mindset?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-60503929965760683922010-09-22T17:55:17.316-05:002010-09-22T17:55:17.316-05:00Mike,
Opening for critique and posting about it w...Mike,<br /><br />Opening for critique and posting about it will sharpen the chapter, but will drain you from being creative. <br /><br />I loved this chapter.<br /><br />One nit in your response......what war have we WON lately. WON as in TOTAL RECOGNIZED THEY SIGNED IT TO GET IT OVER, VICTORY??<br /><br />I am sick of draws and pulling out.<br /><br />Just my .02<br /><br />EDSG<br />www.everydaysurvivalguy.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-78755435385823124722010-09-22T13:24:02.314-05:002010-09-22T13:24:02.314-05:00Consider the following list as ordered from least ...Consider the following list as ordered from least to most effective in achieving liberty:<br /><br />1. The Judean suicide squad. 2. Nonviolent protesters allowing themselves to be beaten and crippled. Bhuddist monks setting themselves on fire. 3. American ghetto blacks rioting and burning down their own homes and businesses. 4. Union cannon fodder facing Confederate cannon fodder in lines, while Southern planters and Northern industrialists made bets on the outcome from safety. Hurrah for the poor white boys who fight our rich man's war! 5. Fusion center cannon fodder with college degrees facing threeper cannon fodder with college degrees in squads in a fictional raid on an office building to control intel, while the same Socialist bankers and industrialists who support both sides make bets on the outcome from safety. Jeff Davis says to wipe it, but Google'll buy we're told. We'll compromise our principles, IF THEY PAY IN GOLD! 6. Toothless law-abiding MLK civil rights marches. Toothless law-abiding threeper armed demonstrations. 7. Everything Britain did in India, and everything America is doing in the Middle East. 8. The American colonials preferentially targeting the British officers. 9. The American colonials burning down the well-known Tories' houses, which was easy, rather than fighting the Tories' armies, which was dangerous. 10. Gun blogs. 11. Wikileaks. 12. Lysander Spooner showing people that the core idea of government is evil. 13. An anonymous web. 14. An anonymous blog. 15. An anonymous ebay. 16. An anonymous bank and credit card payment system. 17. A million people deciding government is bogus, and resolve to never pay taxes to anything ever again. And now we won't repay our loans from all those Chinese banks!<br /><br />Does this give you some story-writing ideas?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-72421965489071518532010-09-22T12:21:38.464-05:002010-09-22T12:21:38.464-05:00Thank you for taking my criticism seriously.
Some...Thank you for taking my criticism seriously.<br /><br />Some collateral damage is unavoidable in wartime. One example of collateral damage is the bullets that must have gone into occupied buildings at Lexington and Concord. It is "wartime" to whatever extent that theft victims don't have the ability to put an accused thief on trial in front of a jury of his victims' peers.<br /><br />There are very strong incentives for rebels to set themselves up as a new government, with a monopoly on defense, and conscription and taxation and paper money and a military industrial complex and oops, now they are the American replacements for British aristocrats with their new constitution, or the Confederacy. Orwell wrote in the book inside 1984 that the normal progress of history is for a portion of the middle class to displace an upper class which has lost control, becoming the new upper class, nothing otherwise changing.<br /><br />Yes, replacements for the capabilities the rebels destroy will be stolen at gunpoint by organized criminals. Liberty forces can keep their hands clean by focusing on ruining the tax collection capability. The Whisky rebellion stripped away the lies. If you fight against the tax collectors, you are for liberty. If you fight for the tax collectors, then you want to be the new aristocrats. Liberty takes supplies from the tax collectors, which strengthens liberty's position twice. Aristocrats take supplies from the tax payers, which strengthens the aristocrats' position twice. Which side are you on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-14483454715781707072010-09-22T12:11:47.648-05:002010-09-22T12:11:47.648-05:00On an entertainment level I adored the Wolverines ...On an entertainment level I adored the Wolverines chapter as well as the entire Absolved series. However it's dangerous for us to assume in a real life situation that you could get a hold of vintage armor vehicles, zodiac boats, or happen to know people who "somehow" socked away train cars full of vintage firepower or, worse, an entire shipload of M14 rifles and recoilless rifles barely escaped from a defeated Taiwan(refer to previous chapters of Absolved...)<br /><br />No what is likely if we depend on such luck is that we will lose. Because to win we need to be able to make our own war material. Weapons, munitions and make them better than the enemy's. That means having designs that can be built clandestinally yet be battlefield effective. We have to do this in the most effective police state in history, with a largely hostile, ignorant populace behind them.<br /><br />You win wars by gaining ground and killing the enemy. For us that means winning hearts and minds. For us to do that, words and yes, videos, are not enough though there's always a place for propaganda. We have to show people they're NOT free. We have to show them what living in a truly Free society really is. We need a demonstrator town.<br /><br />That means marshalling our meager resources and replicating what the GI's of Athens TN in 1946 did-politically... and then not drop the ball afterward like they did post election(Athens TN is now as corrupt as before the 46 election). No, we don't have that luxury; we have reform, broadcast our results as long as communications are open and expand as aggressively as possible. <br /><br />The rest will follow.J. Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804199859716308843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-54870400783998445342010-09-22T11:20:50.448-05:002010-09-22T11:20:50.448-05:00DD,
Your comments reminded me of a term I hadn...DD,<br /><br />Your comments reminded me of a term I hadn't thought of in years. A 'self-licking ice-cream cone'. The tyranny enforcement machine would be turned into an entropic white elephant!<br /><br />I can't stop smiling!CorbinKalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190860109045068350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-52429134669522385992010-09-22T11:05:03.639-05:002010-09-22T11:05:03.639-05:00As far as computer things I don't really under...As far as computer things I don't really understand. Read this - http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/327178<br /><br />I can see the 4GW end.Grumpyunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494777446194872126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-5759587657620689882010-09-22T08:03:10.805-05:002010-09-22T08:03:10.805-05:00While I will not be reading your novel, I believe ...While I will not be reading your novel, I believe I read that Colonel John Glover commandeered Durham boats so that Washington's army could cross the Delaware and crush the Hessians at Trenton. I'm not sure if the boats were returned afterward or not. Regardless, no boats = no victory at Trenton.<br /><br />Personally, I think you damage your own mind and with it your chances of success in such a torturous dilemma over mere property. You have a few absolute moral lines that you will not cross (e.g. killing innocent non-combatants), and <b>everything else must be given over to military necessity.</b> This is not a game, and victory is by no means assured. It's a fool who does not seize every conceivable advantage.<br /><br />The cost of defeat will be paid for decades, and sons will pay for the sins of their fathers.<br /><br /><i>PTSD comes from not understanding the nature of war.</i><br /><br />I tend to agree. It is my opinion that the modern phenomenon of PTSD is brought on not so much by the nature of war itself, but by a government's attitude toward the wars it wages and the strategies and tactics that naturally flow from this attitude. To whit, hugely restrictive rules of engagement, no tolerance for initiative on the part of junior officers and NCO's, over-humanizing the enemy, and in some cases failing to differentiate between allies and enemies (think tribal politics in Afghanistan) or simply refusing to identify an enemy as such play a major role in forming PTSD within an unprepared mind. PTSD is a mostly foreign concept to armies that believe in themselves, their mission, and their methods.Witchwoodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-88989257163434351232010-09-22T07:54:14.315-05:002010-09-22T07:54:14.315-05:00I think Dedicated Dad hits a lot of interesting ta...I think Dedicated Dad hits a lot of interesting targets here...<br />especially the re-vetting of even the maids! I hear that cleaning crews are notoriously easy to recruit for such things, even going as far as installing venemous spiders in sensitive places :o)Little Sally Sunshinehttp://opfor.govnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-15722179566362749992010-09-22T04:26:49.369-05:002010-09-22T04:26:49.369-05:00I agree with anon @5:57, to imagine that data back...I agree with anon @5:57, to imagine that data backup and redundancy works as advertised is risible when you consider the empirical evidence.<br /><br />As for the military surplus vehicle, isn't it effectively the case in USA that you don't really own military surplus unless it is classified as scrap and, in theory, they can ask for it back at any time?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.govliquidation.com/terms.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.govliquidation.com/terms.html</a><br /><br />How can the Government sell something it doesn't actually own in the first place...Johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671875907666342941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-35088392804598081172010-09-22T04:21:11.157-05:002010-09-22T04:21:11.157-05:00"What do you do when you want to deny a bridg...<i>"What do you do when you want to deny a bridge to an advancing enemy? You only blow it PARTWAY up. Enough so the enemy cannot use the damaged remains, but not so much that you help his reconstruction efforts by utterly destroying it. You leave enough useless wreckage that he has to waste time and effort and resources clearing it before starting the rebuilding."</i><br /><br />Another analogy would be comparing the cleanup of Hurricane Andrew to that of Hurricane Katrina. Easier to rebuild when the storm left nothing but an empty concrete slab, than when it's left a soggy, moldy mess that you can't even tear down without gutting & doing mold remediation first.Cybrluditehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02222195374935367060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-71389932992816093392010-09-21T22:45:51.082-05:002010-09-21T22:45:51.082-05:00As someone who works with this kind of thing, the ...As someone who works with this kind of thing, the EMP as described would be underpowered and non-isotropic. It would not generated sufficient B-field to erase magnetic media beyond a meter or so given its described size and the limitations of present carbon foam supercapacitors.<br /><br />An explosive flux compression device would have been better, but would have generated a signifcant conventional blast.<br /><br />Introducing a computer virus or man in the middle attack via well publicized backdoors in the Cisco routers, then hosing down the place with methylmercaptan or another thiol compound would have had the same effect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-54034229566980987892010-09-21T22:42:52.312-05:002010-09-21T22:42:52.312-05:00I just got done reading "Predator." Wow...I just got done reading "Predator." Wow, what a story. I couldn't stop reading it. I was gripping my laptop so hard that my hand cramped up form the tension and suspense. You really know how to write, Mike. Its my favorite story so far. <br /><br />I've got to admit, this needs to be made into a movie or a mini-series. Its just riveting. I can't help but pull for the good guys. After all, one day that is going to be us.EJR914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-64561358259347427302010-09-21T22:07:41.889-05:002010-09-21T22:07:41.889-05:00http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/business/15piase...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/business/15piasecki.html?_r=1Jenskonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-66054809394204016982010-09-21T21:06:10.525-05:002010-09-21T21:06:10.525-05:00Mike,
No negativity was intended - I hope none w...Mike, <br /><br />No negativity was intended - I hope none was perceived.<br /><br />Like PB, it was "techno-geekery" - that, and an irresistible opportunity to share some knowledge from my primary sphere of influence.<br /><br />Also, I've gotta tell you -- I'm pretty proud that I caught the "psy-ops value" aspect as well -- and you should be too. See, I'd never have thought in such terms prior to finding your blog - and the fact that I now do is both directly and indirectly the result of your efforts.<br /><br />And I'm just one in an innumerable list of people so enriched by our acquaintance with you. I'm sure the others appreciate it as I do!<br /><br />All that said, I decided to brainstorm on this a bit.<br /><br />The question is a difficult one: <br /><br />How could one - theoretically, of course, and only discussed in the context better, more accurate "faction" - accomplish the goals of neutralizing the opfor's databases and seriously lowering their morale?<br /><br />I've been gnawing on this all evening, and I can't really see any way that destruction of a physical plant - or even all of them - could do it.<br /><br />Whether attempted with fire, water, electricity, magnetism, explosives or even good, old-fashioned brute human force, you'd never get past data archiving, distributed networks and cloud-computing. You'd tie 'em up for a while, but they'd soon be back online in a much more hardened facility, making it infinitely more difficult to try again.<br /><br />That doesn't mean it couldn't be done, if one considers the old adage about the "pen" and the "sword."<br /><br />What if we could "write" the solution, instead? <br /><br />If a Mr. Piasecki existed, his best use would be to subtly corrupt the data -- peppering it with confusing, inaccurate, and utterly false entries.<br /><br />The results could be rather severe, and (for the Restoration folk) entertaining as all hell.<br /><br />Imagine:<br /><br />* Raids -- complete with the usual dog-shooting, kitten-stomping, child-terrorizing (or even -killing) flash-bang tossing shock-and-awe tactics by real jackboots -- conducted on the homes of friends and family members of powerful people within the opfor agency and the tyrannical .gov<br /><br />* Perhaps even the homes of some actual opfor agents being raided by other agencies/installations in the all-too-common-TODAY "wrong address" fiascos.<br /><br />* A number of Opfor agents falsely identified as moles, resulting in total breakdown of trust -- nobody in the op-for could be SURE what color hat any other person was REALLY wearing.<br /><br />* untold amounts of money and man-hours spent on surveillance of utterly clueless, 100% innocent - even collaborating - citizens, and fellow agents -- not to mention politicians, bureaucrats and other 2-legged vermin.<br /><br />I could go on, but I'm sure you get the idea.<br /><br />The goal would be not to attempt to destroy the database by making it cease to exist, but by turning into such a Charlie-Foxtrot of a spaghetti-pile that it could never be sorted out, and would need to be scrapped and redone pretty much from scratch.<br /><br />Sorta like - oh... the NFRTR and others - like the no-fly-list - are right now!<br /><br />Even better, making it look like every single agent in the opfor had a hand in creating the bad data would be trivial for someone with the requisite skills and system rights - necessitating a 100% re-vetting of all personnel from the Secretary of DHS to the newest maid or janitor!<br /><br />IMAGINE the chaos!<br /><br />If I were writing such a story, that's sure how I'd try to do it...<br /><br />Only for Faction-of course...<br /><br />DDDedicated_Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375339835638311982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-53321639306385080992010-09-21T20:43:57.999-05:002010-09-21T20:43:57.999-05:00The only thing that strained my suspension of disb...The only thing that strained my suspension of disbelief was the EMP taking out CDs.<br /><br />A CD not in a drive should be impervious to EMP if I understand the science of both correctly.<br /><br />As someone who has been involved in several exercises of a hot site backups like Dedicated Dad mentioned I know that even the best ones are a royal PITA to bring on line and a data center strike like you have written about would be a huge blow even with the best backus.Scott Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-35405847029824985792010-09-21T19:57:41.358-05:002010-09-21T19:57:41.358-05:00Having worked in government data centers, I can sa...Having worked in government data centers, I can say that .gov is good at spending millions of dollars on redundant storage system that, 1) are rarely as robust as advertised, and 2) almost never tested. <br /><br />It doesn't matter how expensive or fancy a backup system is, if the backups aren't checked then you can just about guaranty that they are no good. Just google chase bank computer failure, to see how a little glitch in their backups and database failure shut them down for almost a week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-69645688436427399492010-09-21T19:41:26.870-05:002010-09-21T19:41:26.870-05:00my only criticism is I wouldn't have used a Bu...my only criticism is I wouldn't have used a Buffalo...maybe a LARC, alvis stalwart, or a "duck tours" DUKW. <br /><br />the "duck tours" vehicle could have been used to get in close as a "party boat" all lit up, everyone having a good time, (and concealing the zodiacs right up until it hit the riverbank going full force. the confusion between disaster/accident and intentional ram would have slowed the OODA loop of the gaurds even more.<br /><br />but that's more towards style than substance.Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18113393195056382332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-38554367474115412912010-09-21T18:59:25.349-05:002010-09-21T18:59:25.349-05:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQj8GGHNxU&fea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQj8GGHNxU&feature=related<br /><br />To save ya'll some time here's the link to the best video to be made to <br />"40-1"<br /><br />And no, I'm not Polish, just an admirer of courage.Xenophonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-68010272699540117792010-09-21T18:41:05.403-05:002010-09-21T18:41:05.403-05:00What Kyle Bennett stated is correct. As those who ...What Kyle Bennett stated is correct. As those who have actually engaged in small unit firefights know, if you lose, it is generally final. During WWII we set loose the best and most efficient killers on our enemies. But when they came home, they raised families, built industries, taught schools, and we're all the better for them. One has best prepare one's mind to see horrors and maybe to engage in them to survive. PTSD comes from not understanding the nature of war. As we contemplate the unthinkable, we need to review the YouTube videos of strikes on our enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq. We would be on the receiving end of them. How would we fight then? How many would fight for more than one day? Freedom would have a cost like 1,000 Cold Harbors. Would we still want it? Wolverines is a good piece, Mike. Maybe your hero could be bolstered by a little music from the Swedish band, Sabaton. Google Sabaton and then watch the YouTubes done to their song, "40-1".Xenophonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-2635999911141324072010-09-21T18:26:38.531-05:002010-09-21T18:26:38.531-05:00I hate to be a nag, but when is the book coming ou...I hate to be a nag, but when is the book coming out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com