Molon Labe! (33 page)

Although we are certainly correct to wail about the metastasization of the modern Police State, we are forgetting its crucial prerequisite: our prior abandonment of a countervailing culture. Laws can only advance into the previously occupied territory of culture. When culture shrinks, laws are soon passed to fill the vacuum.

The 2nd Amendment and your right to own and carry tools for self-defense is obviously the prime example here. One hundred years ago, it would have been wholly unthinkable to propose, much less pass, a bill restricting much less prohibiting outright the open carry of a personal handgun. Or the purchase of one. Or the shooting of verminous prairie dogs. Or the hunting of wild game. The shooting and hunting culture was far too deep and widespread.

By 2000, however, our culture had shrunk considerably, which of course invited its residual elimination by a vast network of laws. We had gradually acquiesced to the most outrageous of 'Simon Says' regulations and ridiculous restrictions. The gun industry pretzeled itself into every contortion demanded by Congress, to the ridiculous point of making pump-action AR15s and AK47s to avoid the 'assault weapons' ban on military-pattern semi-autos.

We barely caught on in time to have saved ourselves. In order to regain our lost ground, we organized more gun shows and transformed them into almost community-wide events, with games, competitions, prizes, celebrities, and delicious new foods. The .50 caliber shoots were an example.

We embarked on a serious drive to introduce youngsters to the fun of shooting. Culturally, we were soon to die off if we didn't. We "adopted" sons of single moms and took them regularly to the gun range or ranch for an afternoon of plinking. Then, after a few years, to their first deer hunt. In short, we made a conscious and calculated effort to transfer manhood to boys in the manner done for thousands of years. A grown male who had somehow not become a man is a sickening spectacle and makes eventually for an untenable society. We taught boys by the thousands how to shoot, how to box, how to hunt (and why), how to speak the truth firmly and without equivocation, how to recognize and properly court a decent young lady (assuming he could find one), how to stand up for his rights and dignity, and how to honor his own integrity above all things. This was only possible by getting the poor boys away from that infernal TV set, which will over time reduce mind and morals to mush precisely as it was designed to be.

We began to take back cultural ground, leaving the laws with less and less fertile soil in which to flourish. Truth and manliness once again began to be respected. All this, however, has only been the beginning of the beginning. We are still quite far from yet being out of the woods, but at least now we have some breathing room before the pressing of the grapes of wrath.

— James Wayne Preston,
Journals

Logan,Utah

January 2010

Frank Edwin Swan is a gun owner. Federal NICS records (that is, the ones which by law are to be destroyed after the purchaser's background check has been approved) show that Swan had purchased a Bushmaster AR15 and Beretta 92 in 1999. Thus, he is know to have only a .223 and 9mm. However, in 2003 Swan bought a thick green paperback book which changed his life. He sold his AR and Beretta at a large Salt Lake City gunshow and traded up to a Springfield Armory
^®
Squad Scout M1A
^TM
.308 battle rifle and a .45 Glock 21. These guns he legally bought from private sellers with cash, thus creating no NICS records at all.

The .308 is over twice as powerful as the .223, and can perforate much more cover. One round from a .308 will drop a man for good, whereas two to five rounds are required from a .223. Similarly, the .45ACP is a significantly better stopper than the 9mm, especially when using FMJ.

Swan's Glock 21 needed nothing but tritium night sights. Before retiring for the night, he always attached to the frame rail a powerful tactical white light. Over 70% of defensive gunfire happens at night, so being able to illuminate your threat was paramount. Legally, morally, and tactically you cannot shoot at anything you haven't first positively identified as a legitimate threat.

Because it was an American made rifle with no pistol grip, a post ban M1A could (under the 1994
"Crime Bill"
) have a flash suppressor. Swan replaced the stock part for a Smith Enterprise Vortex. Made of forged 8620 hardened steel (just like the M1 and M14), the Vortex was brutally strong and totally eliminated muzzle flash from the 18" barrel. Thus, Swan would not blind himself during a nighttime gunfight.

With a hunting 5 round magazine, his defensive M1A even doubled as a deer rifle if necessary. Finally, he mounted an Aimpoint CompM2 red dot sight, and a SureFire tactical light.

Next, Swan experimented with different surplus ammo until he found that Portuguese FMJ was the most accurate in his rifle. Sold by mail order in 1,000 round lots for only 15¢/round delivered, Swan bought several thousand rounds. He could not even begin to reload his own ammo for 15¢/round, especially for what his time was worth. His friends kidded him for buying so much, but Swan had learned from that big green book that
"ammo turns money into skill"
and that it was preferable to have 900 rounds of skill and 100rds of ammo, versus 1,000 rounds of ammo and no skill.

Possibly being in a gunfight means risking incoming fire, so Swan thought it prudent to buy a bulletproof vest. He learned to avoid any vest made of Zylon or Goldflex (which permanently degrade from humidity and light over time, and got several cops killed or injured before being recalled). Kevlar aramid was the only way to go. Level IIIA protection (which will stop nearly all handgun rounds) was the best balance between cost, protection, and wearability. He picked a US Armor IIIA with a Level IV (rifle protection) titanium shock plate.

The vest carrier was also important. For home defense, he chose a police tactical model which had a built in holster and several utility pouches. The garment hung on his bedpost by his nightstand. Also on the bedpost were a pair of Peltor electronic shooting muffs which amplified inaudible sounds but blocked out gunfire. Wearing his Peltors, Swan could clearly hear a whispered conversation in another part of the house. (He proved this with friends one evening, to their stunned amazement. They then all bought their own.)

His final item of apparel was a bedside pair of slip on boots.

If ever woken up in the middle of the night by something suspicious, Swan required less than fifteen seconds to put on his boots, vest, and ears to investigate matters. His M1A was under the bed if he ever needed it quickly.

Although his child support and alimony payments took much of Swan's income, he worked overtime for many months in order to afford training back in 2004 at the world renowned defensive shooting academies of Gunsite in Arizona and Thunder Ranch of Texas. The handgun and rifle courses cost nearly $1,000 each in tuition, not including travel, ammo, lodging, etc. Swan considered the money well spent the training invaluable. He felt confident that he could defend himself during a lethal emergency.

Unbeknownst to him, he would soon have his chance to find out.

Washington, D.C.
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building

January 2010

The Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigation Division gri maces at the mountain of folders on his walnut desk. Violent Census 2010 protests, attacks on Federal Reserve officials and buildings, and civil unrest.
It never ends!
Jerome Devereaux oversees all intrusive techniques, such as wiretaps, Magic Lantern insertions, "sneak and peek" warrants, long term undercover ops, stings, etc. He picks up two folders from the top of the stack.The proposed joint raids in Utah and Wyoming. He's been under tremendous pressure for over a year to produce an arrest in the Krassnyite phenomenon.

Finally, western agents are ready to search and question two suspects. They are both gun owners and members of 2nd Amendment groups. Both harbor anti government views.

Both had been to Denver near the time of the three abductions.

Devereaux knows that the probable cause is based only on weak circumstantial evidence, but the Bureau cannot continue to be accused of "doing nothing." Not when judges, congressmen, and VIPs are being kidnapped and murdered at the rate of two a month.

The AD signs off on the two raids as Active SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information). US Attorneys in Casper and Salt Lake City would strictly curtail dissemination of the case details.

Maybe we'll get a break.

Then the American people will see the Bureau taking action
.

Positive public perception is the FBI's greatest asset. The Bureau learned this most poignantly as it had been gradually lost during years of scandals of Ruby Ridge, Waco, Whitewater gate, Jewell gate, Foster gate, Laptop gate, Missing MP5s gate, 9/11 gate, Crime Lab gate, etc.

It all began with Ruby Ridge. Back in the mid 1990s, Director Louis Freeh personally deemed HRT SWAT sniper Lon Horiuchi's second shot (which struck Vicki Weaver in the face and killed her) as
"unconstitutional"
but did not censure him.

It would have greatly dampened HRT morale.

No, the FBI must stand by its own. If it didn't, who would?

Freeh put great pressure on the Justice Department to kill the manslaughter charge filed by the state of Idaho. It worked. The matter was moved to federal court against Idaho's wishes, where it died by judicial decree. Federal agents have
"sovereign immunity"
while enforcing federal law and cannot be held responsible by the states or the people.

All who were paying attention got the message.

The Republic is dead. The gloves are off.

2010 USA social news

Only a mass reconversion of Western women to an idea that they seem to have given up that the good life lies in bearing and raising children and sending them out into the world to continue the family and nation can prevent the Death of the West.

—Pat Buchanan,
The Death of the West
(2002), p.24

White America was dying out. Just to maintain current population levels, families must have 2.5 children. That means for every family with only 2, another must have 3. For every family with only one child, another must have 4. For each family with no children at all, other families must have 5.

The family unit the spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy, and violence will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated.

—Michael Swift, "Towards a Homoerotic Order,"
Gay Community News
, 7 November 1987

Great civilizations and animal standards of behavior coexist for short periods.

—Jenkin Lloyd Jones

California is steadily depopulating of white middle class. The Hispanics rejoice in "taking back" the state via their
Reconquista
. Given the increased crime, poverty, and taxes, many whites are glad to let them have it. One typical newspaper ad reads:

Will trade beautiful 4/3 in Orange County for mobile home or cabin on acreage in Rockies. Serious offers only, please.

The applicant has no takers.

Logan, Utah                      February 2010

4:28AM

FBI agents from Salt Lake City, Boise, and Pocatello have descended upon the sleepy neighborhood of Frank Edwin Swan. The FBI for weeks had surveilled the diesel mechanic, who lived alone since his divorce eight years ago. Intelligence showed that he awoke regularly at 0530 on weekdays. Accordingly, the FBI chose to execute the raid when he was most likely at the bottom of his longest and deepest REM cycle of delta sleep. Swan would be groggiest then. That meant 0430.

Salt Lake FBI SWAT "got the ticket" for the dynamic entry. They are "jocked out" and "on line" at Phase Line Yellow, the forward rallying point. They will not bother to knock.

"No knock" warrants were originally authorized by the Supreme Court only to: prevent the easy destruction of evidence, protect lives (
e.g.,
hostages), or prevent the escape of a dangerous suspect. Additionally, police are not required to knock/announce if the suspect already knows that the police are present.

None of these factors apply to Swan, but federal judges generally give the FBI whatever they request. Utah authorities were especially cooperative with the Government since the 2002 Winter Olympics. When the Salt Lake FBI SAC made the point that Swan was wanted for questioning in the abduction of three Denver men (one of them a sitting judge), the Federal District Court judge immediately approved a no knock search warrant.

The softly snoring Frank Swan is aware of none of this.

Eighty six yards away FBI SWAT commander Raymond Wilcox switches his encrypted Motorola headset radio to the channel used by the entry teams. "TOC to all units. You have compromise authority and permission to move to Green."

The SWAT operators begin to surround Swan's small home. Phase Line Green is their final position before dynamic entry. Team White will enter the front and Team Black the back. Simultaneously. (They don't call it "dynamic entry" for nothing.) Team Green will cover the left side and Team Red the right. These color codes for target buildings are standard SWAT jargon. The area is cordoned off for two blocks by over twenty FBI agents, sheriff's deputies, and police. Two ambulances are standing by. So many men and vehicles are bound to rile up the neighborhood dogs.