At this point in time, it may or may not be clear to you whether or not the federal government has left the firearms-using minorities with any viable survival options. In any event, it might still be wise for you to obtain the necessary and appropriate information, should the day come when you too might recognize the need for a tactical capability to shield your community from what lies ahead of us all.
As for those who believe that day will soon be here, or that it is already here, or that it might have passed us by, the following capability components should be seen as essential building blocks that you will need to construct an effective and tactically viable community-based organization.
It has always been a commitment to provide Canadians with the appropriate kind of information they need, when they need it. Now, in view of the unnerving manifestations of political and sociological upheaval being stirred up by an incredibly irresponsible and destabilizing federal government, the following information is being made available to help you and your community survive the nightmare that has befallen our country.
The following information is not comprehensive and simply provides the background for future considerations. It is based on material in previous articles, as well as other considerations not possible to release in this forum at this time. These capability components are intended to steer you in the right direction, and to help you temper and channel the sharp emotions of these dreadful days towards a productive and peaceful goal, which is our common purpose. That goal being, to declare, to restore and to uphold the ancient and traditional equality, rights and freedoms of the free citizens of Canada, by action of the free citizens of Canada, according to the free and democratic will of the citizens of Canada.
The organizational capabilities that you need to develop will be influenced by your own limited resources at the outset, the considerable resources available to the opposition from the outset, and the state of training and collective knowledge and skills that are brought into your organization by the initial cadre. The pool of talent that you start out with is a critical factor. The quality and commitment of the starting line-up is of overriding importance. Numbers are of little importance. The process which you are about to initiate can only be described as an exercise in bootstrapping. Accordingly, the actual numbers that you start with at the front end are virtually immaterial to the outcome.
As your first task, you will have to develop a simple structure within the embryonic group that is capable to support the critical planning function. This initial planning capability will enable you to identify the aim and objectives for your group in light of the estimate of current and future restrictions to growth and size. Restrictions that you will find quite naturally imposed according to the availability and potential availability of the resources in your area. Your "plan to plan" will enable you to kick-start the planning cycle, beginning with the preparation of a strategic estimate for your group that caters to your own local situation.
In addition to the natural restrictions that you can't do much about, the aim and objectives that you develop will also be influenced by other restrictions that you might choose to impose on yourselves. For example, the limitation to operate only within the bounds of peaceful, non-violent, albeit results-oriented action, and a commitment to undertake only such operations and activities as would meet with the general approval and support of your community. If, that is, you are fortunate enough to live in a supportive community. The alternative being to set an objective to win over the community over the long haul.
Your planning capability over time quite naturally will grow with you to eventually include the capability to develop plans in other critical areas, specifically with regard to personnel plans, operational plans, and logistical plans (administration, finance, supply).
Covert Environment. One of the outcomes of your estimate almost certainly will be the need for you to develop your group from its inception as a covert organization. Over time as you enter the operational phase of your existence, of necessity you will have to begin operating in a more open manner in the community. Then, you will have the strength and confidence to do it. Now, you are at your weakest and most vulnerable. However, the techniques of anonymity with which you can cloak your organization should provide you with all the protection you need. At this point in time it is more important for you to avoid doing certain things than to do other certain things. For instance, you should not, and for a long time to come, give your organization any name. You should not be openly recruiting so early on. The objective is to avoid attention and not attract it. It is important for you not to move too quickly. Slow down. Take your time. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Learn, plan, build, and then act. Patience is a virtue.
Security. The initially covert character of your group is really an extension of the much broader considerations of security. It should not be necessary to say much about the need for security at this time, since this capability component will naturally be understood to play a critical role in the affairs of your organization. The requirement for both organizational and operational security needs to be addressed. You can begin right now by starting to develop amongst yourselves and between yourselves a culture of security, a culture of secrecy, a culture of anonymity.
So long as the rights of citizens are properly safeguarded by a democracy from the ravages of a majority voting bloc, democracy can survive quite well under virtually any circumstances, and despite the appearance of frictions from time to time. This is probably true even if the minorities find themselves in a chronic position of political under-representation. So long as the rights and equality of citizens are adequately protected, the minorities can make at least a tolerable life for themselves somewhere within the larger society
However, once the rights and equality of citizens are laid bare, once they have become badly infringed or destroyed, none of the minorities has any chance to maintain any kind of life any longer that is tolerable to them. One by one, they fall from the ledge, fingers stricken from above.
At which point the greater society might continue for a time and even, apparently, seem to do well. But only for those who have not been cast in the pit.
Over time the pit fills, it being much easier and cheaper to squash more fingers than to haul the wretches away. Eventually the pit is brimming and spills over, so that a maze of special laws and regulations becomes necessary to trap the wretches who jump out. Who must now be hauled away anyway, there being no room left in the pit. Laws that distinguish and differentiate each one according to his heritage, language, region and way of life. Laws that target with precision any minority or any region that might display the audacity to act up or to break out of the pit. Laws that mark the end of democracy. The overlords divide. The overlords rule.
At which point, the only recourse of the minorities or the regions is to re-define the basic democratic unit so that they are the majority within it; if only for the time it takes to re-establish the rights and equality of citizens within the larger society, according to terms set down by, and agreeable to, the minority partners.
So that now in Canada, since the leaders of provinces have shown themselves incapable and unwilling to take the necessary and declarative steps to re- affirm the rights and equality of citizens, or to reaffirm the rights and equality of even their own provinces (the misguided and irredeemable Constitution be damned), it now falls to the citizens themselves to re- define for themselves the new and basic democratic unit in society. The initial boundaries of which, will be defined by the membership of your own organization in which you will be your own majority.
In this light, the importance of democracy to you and your organization cannot be overstated. Democracy will hold you together. Democracy will bind you to the community. From democracy will flow the kind of powerful mandate that the leadership of your group will need to establish the legitimacy of their authority and discipline within the organization, that will be so necessary to sustain your group through good times and bad.
Communications. The ability to communicate is another critical capability component. Your communications policy and plans will have to account for various factors such as liaison of all kinds, links to the commercial trading world, networking to other organizations, internal and operational communications.
Your members and associates will always be your major assets, and initially they are likely to be the only ones. Your organization will have to be configured to screen and to select your personnel with consistency, care and caution. A major part of your initial planning will be to develop effective and secure personnel policies in regards to recruiting, selection, training and indoctrination.
Initially not a major factor, the requirement for good intelligence will grow along with you. Your good standing in the community and the links you maintain in the community will be vital to maintain the flow of accurate and timely information in your area of operations.
The operations that you undertake are yours to decide, but for the most part these can be anticipated in relation to the collection, servicing, distribution, trading and delivery of arms and ammunition, the provision of protective services for such operations, protection of the community from harassment by the authorities, as well as ancillary operations such as public education and the like. Your operational capabilities will come about from the convergence of all the other capabilities that you will be labouring to bring to maturity.
First of all, there is the logistic nature of most, if not all, of the likely operations in which you will become involved. Which is to say, your operations should largely be carried out in relation to the procurement, supply, storage, accounting and control functions. The eventual scope of the administrative policies, procedures and structures that you might have to develop in order to support the safe, secure and effective conduct of these operations, might come as somewhat of a surprise. But in any case, a considerable degree of guidance will be forthcoming in regards to the development of a comprehensive logistics capability for your group, including all aspects of the administration, finance, and supply functions.
It is sad to think that radical politicians of all stripes have succeeded in pushing Canadian society so hard, so fast and so far towards the breaking point, that now the country stands at the brink of disintegration day after day with barely a hope of pulling back.
To make matters worse, the federal government has now sparked this new and unexpected conflict, the conflict over citizens' rights, which must now be heaped high on top of everything else that is threatening to unhinge the nation. So great is their hatred of arms, their loathing of the firearms- using minorities, their contempt for our natural way of life, that they are blind and insensible to the prospect of even their own destruction. Which will surely be the natural consequence if they persist in seeking ours.
To give them credit, they knew. They knew that, because we are the kind of people we are, a day would come when we would stand to challenge them and their perverted vision for the future of us all. And having perceived the tide of history rising against them in 1994, they rushed to complete the dam to hold us back. A dam that now stands for them to protect and for us to breach.
Let there be no illusions. For having so perverted the law of the land that sets in place such a solid and permanent foundation for such an oppressive and privileged regime, an irreducible price has been raised to undo the damage. Someone will have to pay it.
How bad are things, really? Is this thing just badly in need of a reality check? If so, would someone kindly provide one that doesn't conflict with the facts? Then we could all just give up and come in from the cold, which is what our opponents expect us to do.
Although, the facts must surely be considered.
First, there is the complete and utter failure of the Canadian political system in 1995 to safeguard the rights of citizens or the democratic process to even the slightest degree. Not only during the evolution of C-68, but prior to C-68 and now embedded permanently in the laws of Canada as a consequence of passing C-68.
What has taken place, is that the spectacular and unparalleled display of parliamentary abdication that was witnessed as C-68 worked its way through Parliament, has succeeded in displacing and usurping the old democratic process. The abomination has become the standard. The precedent has become the practice. The template has been struck, for what will now pass as due process under the dictatorship of arms of the Prime Minister of Canada.
Consider that none of this was accidental. This was no mere aberration or fluke of history, but the culmination of 25 years of federal policy development to put in place the authority, the power and the system to effect the total civil disarmament of Canada under the rule of iron.
Now we see the criminal clique in Ottawa already starting to use the power of the dictator in other ways. No sooner have the firearms-using minorities been legally suppressed and for the most part criminalized, than the "Prime Minister Elected by Just a Few Quebeckers" has started dictating terms to the nation as to who shall have what new powers in the new Canada. It certainly won't be the people.
One would think that in a democracy at a time of national and constitutional crisis, the leader would support and encourage the people to call together a grand council or congress of the people, to discuss the terms of reconciliation and let the people decide. That would be a democracy.
In Canada, the dictator, a Quebecker, appoints a secret Cabinet committee, also headed by a Quebecker, to recommend actions to resolve the crisis. The secret committee reports in secret. The Prime Minister announces it will be done. Now we are going to witness the rubber-stamp Parliament approving it, and it will be a done deal.
Why? Because that is what the dictator decided, to give more powers to his own province Quebec. Never mind what the rest of the country wants. Never mind that his terms are opposed by the majority of grassroots Canadians, or that it's not really what Quebeckers want either. But they will take it. Its free. A gift from the dictator. The same dictator who came to power on a promise and with a mandate that he would specifically not engage in the game of appeasement with his home province.
But look at him now. "Delivering the goods" as he says. The collaborators, falling into line behind the strong man. To coax, to cajole, to threaten and ultimately to force the rest of us to accept the illegitimate and undemocratic process, and to make us live with the oppressive and inequitable result.
The strong man has reneged his mandate. He has destroyed his credibility. He has lost the moral authority to represent any but the Few Quebeckers who elected him. But none of that matters. He has C-68. He has the powers of a dictator. Now we know what he meant when he said after the Quebec referendum of 31 October 1995, "There will be no more referendum". He was not talking about the referenda he can't control, the ones in Quebec. He was talking about the ones he can control, the ones for all of Canada and all Canadians. The people will have no say. The people have no need to say. He is the dictator.
A warning. This is just the start of his run.
About the only thing the public not seen, is a widespread campaign of warrantless midnight knocks on the door; the break-ins, the searches, the seizures, the arrests. But these things are happening. Whether the public knows it or not, we have seen it. C-68 just makes it legal.
True, we have not yet seen the dictator play his hand to declare a state of emergency. But his mentor did, in 1970. How long will the next emergency last? The answer we already know. The emergency has already begun. The dictator does not need to declare it. Such powers he already has, permanently embedded in C-68.
Greatly facilitating the tyrant's ascent, has been the willing acceptance of the doctrine of privilege over the past 40 years by an increasing segment of Canada's social welfare society. The everyday realities of this doctrine have been so much a part of their lives for so long, that to them the legal ratification of a privileged and inequitable political system by the privileged elites themselves, seems not to have caused them any great concern.
But now, such easy acceptance of one's own bondage to the state is turning sour. The nation's wealth is squandered. Money to purchase the loyalty of the masses, gone. The privileged elites, desperate for power. Desperate for control. Desperate to preserve for themselves whatever they can from the crumbling house. What we are suffering now is the self-serving way they have gone about it.
Still the government keeps trying to portray the nature of the conflict surrounding C-68 as a simple battle over guns. This is grossly misleading. The issues which have been raised by the government's attack on the rights of citizens are profound and fundamental. Everything we hold dear is at stake. Our future. Our freedom. Our rights. Our equality. Our way of life. No amount of tut-tutting by the politicians or the media will do any good now. They think they have won. They think it is over. But it has only started. Our rights will not die. The right to arms will not go away. This thing will grow. And it will keep on growing until the citizens of this country see the cause of justice served in this country.
Paranoia?
However paranoid the truth might seem, it stands to reason that truth cannot be paranoid, nor paranoia the truth. So it becomes a question of fact. Which statements are true and factual, or false and deceiving? If you are convinced that only some part or parts of the audit trail are true, then Canada has indeed stepped across the threshold into some very troubling times.
Canadians are now going to witness the spectacle of the firearms community in this country dividing into the three camps of a pre-revolutionary society. Such is the natural and unavoidable outcome of any political system which, having run its full gamut, is no longer desirous of having anything to do with the grievances raised by the government's actions against the people.
During this confusing period, it will be very important for citizens in the firearms community not to be dismayed by these events, and to understand fully that the occurrence of such a thing is inevitable, that the timing for it at this particular moment is perfectly right, and that after it is over, our community will find itself in the best possible condition to carry out the demanding tasks that lay ahead.
In one camp, you will see the patriots consolidating the process of banding together to proclaim the self-declared rights of citizens, to carry on exercising those rights, and ultimately to defend them if necessary. Those unwilling to do so will fall into the category of the appeasers. Lastly, there will be a third faction of the collaborators, or worse.
The signs and numbers are already there to indicate that these factions will split into three more or less equal parts, also reflective of the classical early manifestations of revolutionary times.
Not that anyone is seeking revolution in Canada, at least not at this time, and not in anyone's camp that anyone seems to know of. In any case, the feet of a wise man should flee from revolution, unless it is clear to him that the latter circumstance will be better than the former, and the difference worth the price. But the wise man also prepares himself, either way.
Although, the warning signs are there, and point to a north country drawn along by forces unseen, powers no one seems able or willing to identify or to constrain. To compound it all, we have a cruel and vindictive government pushing in the same direction. What manner of conspiracy is this? Of fools, or fascists? Demagogues, or demons? Who or what, is in control?
This situation will not be helped in any way by our opponents. Their actions will be to exploit the divisions in our community with various threats, warnings, and propaganda. Their aim will be to maximize the camp of the collaborators, sway the camp of appeasers, and destroy the abode of patriots. In doing so, they will probably succeed in pushing this country further along the road that everyone wants to avoid.
As time passes, the fundamental contradiction that weakens the moral authority claimed by our opponents, will start to become more and more apparent if only to ourselves. In the end, these self-styled lovers of peace must themselves be prepared to take up arms if they want to forcibly rid us of ours.
Although, we should we not expect they are incapable of doing it. These hypocrites can work their way around any contradiction, even one so grand as this. They will get us the same way they get their meat, which is to hire bloody butchers to spare them the mess or any need to think about it.
In their efforts to wrest away our people to the government side, the government will certainly begin to play on the loyalties of Canadians; to coax, to threaten, to confuse and to divide. To patriots the answer should be clear enough.
Only a fool proclaims his loyalty to the state. For, when the state turns to betray the people, the fool must also betray the people. Or he must betray the state. Either way he becomes a traitor and a fool. But a patriot's loyalty is to the people, their country and their way of life. In defending these he is free to support the state in its benevolence and to oppose it in tyranny, steadfast in loyalty, betraying no one.
It is not only the firearms community that is going to divide along the lines of a pre-revolutionary society. The greater society in Canada shows signs that it too is on the verge of splitting. This is occurring for the simple reason that this is not a conflict just about guns, but about all the other grievances and tensions that are being steadily drawn or hoisted into the melee. To some extent or other, the firearms issue is the central issue because the government made it the central issue. And, for as long as it remains there, the firearms community will be the spark for many flames. So that, for as long as the government fiddles with firearms, Rome is going to burn.
In the meantime, the free citizens of Canada, having declared the rights of citizens with the intention to exercise those rights and to defend them if necessary, will continue to prove in light of the reality of these activities, that the rights of citizens and specifically the right to arms still exists in Canada as it has always existed, in spite anything the government might say or do.
The government, having declared that our rights do not exist, will continue to deny they exist, and will attempt to suppress us in the exercise of our rights insofar as they are able. Which unfortunately for them will only highlight the existence of our rights, contrary to their denials. So that the government sooner or later will realize that the only way for them to succeed is to press forward towards a general condition of civil disarmament as quickly as possible, which just happens to be their natural inclination anyway. On completion of which, they would at last be able to claim for the first time in a factual and credible manner, that the citizen's right to arms does not in fact exist in this country.
Essentially, that is what the future boils down to under the present regime. We will work to keep our guns and to use them. The regime will work to stop us and take them away. Whoever succeeds establishes the supremacy of their doctrine, and wins. Its very basic.
But that is the level at which this matter has always been dealt with by the government. It is also the only level at which the government has ever been able to muster any degree of public support. Thus, there is no political motivation for the government to raise the field of conflict to any higher plane than that of the gut-level politics where they are stuck now. The consequence being, that Canadians are saddled with whatever long- term liabilities might accrue from having such an emotive and deeply-rooted ideological conflict left to fester on its own in such a dangerous spot as it is now.
Which leaves three basic options for the firearms-using minorities. To simply give up and capitulate as our opponents so arrogantly expect. To carry on under the same discredited leadership and failed methods as before. Or to strike off in a new direction under new leadership, starting with that one step so vital to anything else you might decide to do. Which is, to exercise the democratic prerogative of free citizens everywhere to proclaim openly and publicly and individually and collectively the self- declared rights of citizens as you understand them to be.
As for those who declare, you will see, they will have their rights and keep them. As for those who do not declare, you will see, they will not have their rights, nor are they deserving. Look around you. Many citizens and organizations in Canada have already declared themselves for the rights of citizens, and for the right to arms, so that none of them will have to spend a single day or a single minute longer in a country without them.