The Libertarian Survivalist

Pretty funny stuff!

A retired policeman is thrown out of a town hall meeting for asking a question of his representative. As Yakov Smirnov used to say “What a country!”. Be careful what you wish for, you “progressive” liberals!

I saw with amazement the incredible size of the Washington DC Tea Party crowd – rumored to be over a million people strong. Here’s an interesting sign that should frighten the bejeezus out of the liberal crowd. ) As Boston’s Gun Bible posited – how can an unarmed majority ever truly disarm an armed minority? ))

I came across a great story written up by a guy as part of a site celebrating and restoring old military vehicles. He drove his M35A2 deuce-and-a-half from Texas to New Orleans to see what he could do to help and to visit a friend. Here is his story: http://lonestar-mvpa.org/events/2005/05_Katrina.htm

Excellent analysis is found here. As Boston T. Party illustrates so magnificently in his Gun Bible, it is impossible to disarm us all without a civil war breaking out, since if only 1 in 10 American gunowners will be outraged enough to resist and hide their weapons, that still leaves 700,000 weapons in the hands of a VERY determined and pissed populace – something that must give ulcers to the anti-gun lobby and the thugs who will be charged with actually going out and trying to collect these guns! I don’t envy them…WWII, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Iraq are excellent examples of what a very small but determined group can accomplish. Not to mention that us ‘gun nuts’ are a little better equipped and trained than the Afghani peasant hefting his bolt-action Enfield or AK against Russian soldiers. )) Molon Labe, indeed! )))

Actually, the way the Gun Bible posits it, is an anti-gun nut telling a patriot that his guns should be banned and confiscated, to which the answer is: who will take them from me? The unarmed majority? The vastly outnumbered army of thugs? Kinda puts it into a different perspective there! ))

Don’t forget to read Unintended Consequences, BTW, to see one possible outcome of repressions committed against patriotic Americans.

A study in Killology

This is a great book written by a retired US Army Lt. Colonel who has done extensive research into the psychology of the person who is put into a situation where he is expected or is forced to kill a fellow human being. With the exception of the approximately 2% of the population that he says may be classified as violent psychopaths, to whom killing presents little moral problem, human beings have a very strong aversion to killing their fellow humans. A great example of this is the very low firing rates of soldiers in WWII and previously. During WWII, soldiers on the front lines, carrying loaded weapons and seeing an enemy in front of them, only fired at this enemy in 15%-20% of the cases. This is an incredibly low percentage, and is a huge force-reducer – figure that only 1 in 5 men will fire at the enemy and your unit strength has been effectively reduced by 80%. Interestingly, the German army of WWII had a far higher firing rate – ostensibly due to the excellent job of brainwashing by the SS of all Werhmacht troops – indoctrinating them into the belief that they are the master race, and thus their enemies are subhuman. To the US serviceman, it was more difficult seeing the German soldier as a subhuman – there was little to physicall distinguish them. It was a little different in the Pacific, as there were physical differences between ‘us’ and ‘them’. The propaganda posters depicting Japanese soldiers as animal-like brutes were all aimed at increasing the firing rates by increasing the moral distance between the serviceman and his enemy. After the WWII research, and using new conditioning drills, the Army managed to increase the firing rate in Vietnam to about 95%. This is a huge improvement, but as we discover in the book – there is a big price to pay for this.

Firing rates in Vietnam were increased dramatically by conditioning the soldiers in basic training to fire from foxholes at human-like targets that appeared suddenly in their shooting lanes, essentially automating the response of the soldier and overriding his natural aversion to killing. A conditioned response is an automated one, unlike that of the WWII serviceman, trainied to shoot at bullseye targets at the range, who was then forced to fire at enemies as the result of a reasoned response. The problem with this is that using reason means facing the aversion to killing the enemy, and that’s where the low firing rates of WWII originated.

So, conditioned response as the tool for improving firing rates of soldiers worked wonders in the military. That’s a good thing – unit effectiveness is improved, but what’s the downside? The downside is that the same technology used to condition soldiers to fire at human targets at the range is now being used to condition children to bypass any moral questioning of firing a weapon at a human being. Most readers will agree that sometimes the act of shooting a fellow human being is necessary, but children lack the critical faculty required to distinguish when this is so. Kids playing first-person shooter games, viewing their virtual hands on the screen, holding a firearm, aiming at human figures jumping out of shadows, are really being conditioned to shoot at human targets with little thought, much as the US Army has conditioned soldiers to do so. The difference is that in the Army, shooting is tightly regulated and orders are issued and followed, with soldiers punished for firing their weapons without orders, while the 14-year-old who has been conditioned to take aim at a human being and pull the trigger has no such safety catch. We are witnessing a generation of kids growing up on such games, and we allow this to continue at our own peril. Sure, I played Half-Life, Counterstrike, myself with great pleasure, but as an adult I can separate reality from fiction. Such may not be the case in a teenager. I am all for training kids to shoot safely and accurately – the difference is that they shouldn’t be conditioned to fire at human beings with little more than a conditioned response, bypassing any moral objections found in the average adult.

JPOX stands for “Joint Protection Organization and eXchange” – a seemingly nebulous phrase that includes all things that will mean more to us as we head toward a distinctly distopian future, aided by the current administration in the White House. We do not work to better this administration (a herculean and pointless task) – we work to better ourselves and prepare for the troubles ahead by learning skills, reading great works of relevant literature and history, and prepping our stores of bullets, beans, and band-aids. We will also create a forum for people capable of helping those weaker and lesser prepared to defend themselves.

Unintended Consequences by John Ross - a must-read fictional novel!

Few books make the case for a need for cleansing of some sort in our society. Fewer still sound rational and completely grounded, not leaving one to wonder if the writer ever wore an aluminum foil hat. This is one of the few of the few books that I can recommend wholeheartedly – if you can read this book all the way through and not begin to think of yourself as at least a partial libertarian, I just don’t know what to say! This book describes the process by which the core American values of a social group – the ‘gun nuts’, or members of the gun culture who are at the forefront of defending our way of life, have been alienated and marginalized by the federal government, a government that has time and again ignored the Constitution and the explicit desire of our founding fathers to keep this nation free. From the NFA, to GCA, to the AWB…these are acts that have ‘Unintended Consequences’ for the feds and their minions. You’ll have to read the book for all the details, and I know you won’t be sorry!