Skull-Stomping Sacred Cows: Reality Isn’t Nice. It’s a 2×4 to the Teeth.Sam Culper posted a comment on FB recently, in light of the protests-turned-riots in Berkeley, and elsewhere, asking, "What happens when the black bloc ("anarchists") get AR’s?" A legit question, all things considered, and one deserving of serious consideration, which we’ll get to in a moment. The problem that arose, which I, in turn, confronted in a FB post on the MG FB page, was that the responses to Sam’s questions were retarded. Seriously. The comments read like the locker room bragging of a bunch of 13 year olds, after PE class, about the hot dates they’d had last Friday night.
Seriously....these ranged from "Open season on liberals!" type macho posturing, to "they’re just a bunch of cowards who can’t do shit in a stand-up fight!"
Here’s the reality. I am going to share my response to the commentary, from Facebook, then I’m going to discuss some harsh truths that are the 900-pound guerrilla in the room (see what I did there?).
"So, I saw this come across my FB feed today, from Sam. I’m going to address it, because there’s a whole bunch of fucking stupid in the comments. Since I’m reasonably certain some of those commenters are also subscribers here, it will probably be wasted effort, but I’m willing to give it a shot....
Comment on Sam’s page: ’Battlefield pickup: Plan for it. Make sure your people know how to clear them, get them into duffle bags, and into your supply channels to be re-issued as necessary. You may keep ammo as needed to replace expenditures, but the rest goes to the S4 for caching and resupply.’
My response: While technically about the closest thing to a legitimate response I saw, this is ridiculously optimistic. In all of the classes I’ve taught, over the last half-decade plus of teaching through the MG blog,including the auxiliary and support classes, nobody—NOBODY—has even come close to having anything near an organizational footprint that this answer would matter too...except the Left.
Comment on Sam’s page: ’This is what I have been chatting with some friends about for a few months. Particularly the myopic ones who don’t understand that the hapless morons will eventually be armed and given some level of training to escalate their own surge. Arming these ppl is not the next move, but it’s not far off.’
My response: Dunning-Kruger much? "Hapless morons?" These "hapless morons" are off their fucking couches, engaging in the physical violence that the Right yammered about for the last eight years, without doing fuck all. I’m not condoning it, and certainly not supporting it, but intellectual dishonesty about skill at organization, and willingness to engage in violent direct-action is going to get a whole fuckton of "prepared militias" killed dead...and there ain’t no fucking restart to this game.
Comment on Sam’s page: ’They maybe (sic) psychologically conditioning the left for kinetic operations, but it takes years to build capability and capacity. They maybe (sic) ten years out if they started today.’
My response: Bullshit. They could go hardcore tomorrow, and be effective, at least for some time. They’ve got organizational infrastructure in place. They’ve got leadership cadre and numbers. They’ve got the will to get violent, right now. What they don’t have is their puppet masters handing them guns and ammo...yet. Sam’s right. It’s an ugly potential that is probably not far off. Ten years? You’re fucking dreaming.
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| I’m afraid that the Black Bloc-ers have had guns and training for years — probably decades. See here for our collection of articles on the John Brown Gun Club, a.k.a. Redneck Revolt, which bills itself as Antifa’s armed wing and has 40 or so chapters across the United States. And they are just one of the American Black Bloc groups that have been arming and training for The Revolution. Then there are those who join our military to learn tactics and strategy, or even, like Spenser Rapone, go through our military academies. |