Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [h--u--e] at [NETSYS.COM] (Hudson Luce)
Subject: Weapons Caching, Revised. Part 2/7
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 06:05:01 GMT

"This whole country began with resistance to gun control." 
1. Introduction: 
	The American Revolution began on the morning of April 19, 1775, 
when British troops marched on the road to Lexington and Concord,
Massachusetts, to seize the weapons and ammunition of the
colonists.The colonists, much to the surprise of the British,
fought back. The results of this action, fought at Concord
Bridge, were the "shot heard 'round the world" against the
tyranny of King George III, and the eventual independence of
the United States. 

	The social contract which created the legal foundations
for our Republic is called the Constitution of the United
States. Appended to it is a Bill of Rights, which enumerates a list of
some of the more important examples of our inalienable and
inherent rights. These rights can not be "taken away", nor can
these amendments be repealed without breaking the social
contract that the Constitution embodies. 

	It looks like the people who want to preserve their Second 
Amendment rights are losing out to those who would wish to 
destroy and nullify our ability to freely exercise our inalienable 
Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The Brady Bill, which 
mandates a waiting period of five days for the purchase of handguns 
has now passed, thanks to the combined efforts of Bob Dole and
George Mitchell, who gave their assent to a unanimous consent
decree in order to pass it. According to Dole, "All of us are
happy to have this issue behind us, after a long, long, hard
fight, Jim Brady has won." (NY Times, 25 Nov 1993, p1). The
Crime Bill, which outlaws manufacture, transfer, and
possession of certain semiautomatic weapons and all magazines
capable of containing more than 10 rounds has passed the
Senate. 

	More restrictive measures, such as the law providing
for the confiscation of all handguns in the possession of
civilians, are being actively considered. The time may soon
come when all currently law-abiding gunowners will have to
make an agonizing decision: Either turn over your guns to the
friendly policemen standing on your front doorstep with their
guns drawn in case you might decide to make a foolish move, or
resist and die in a blaze of gunfire. Or worse yet, be held
against the floor, guns pointed at the heads of you, your wife
and your children, while police ransack your house, ripping
open furniture, destroying walls, ceilings and floors,
searching for concealed weapons. If any are found, they will cause
you to lose your house and possessions in a civil asset
forfeiture action, and will be used as evidence in a trial to
send you to prison for a long stretch. You might get them to
make a deal, though. They will offer you your freedom if you
will inform on your friends. These methods have been
fine-tuned for the past 10 years in the War on Drugs; now, it
is time to use them against those who would wish to preserve
their Second Amendment rights: 

	"A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security 
	of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, 
	shall not be infringed."
	
	There are many who idly boast to their friends at work that
the police will never get their guns, or who have bumper
stickers saying "They'll get my guns when they pry them from
my cold, dead hands." These are empty words, without force;
these people, when confronted with a SWAT team on their front
doorstep, will surrender immediately, as they have been taught
to do, by the schools at first, and then by the "news" media.

	The first clause of the Second Amendment speaks of a
"well-regulated militia". Look around you, at the various
people you see at gun shows; look at the people in your gun
clubs: Are these people part of a "well-regulated militia" ?
Are they well-drilled in small-unit tactics and the use of
expedient methods, in the use and care of military weapons,
as any militia should be? Are you part of a local militia such
as the Swiss have in their cantons, and do you train for two
weeks each year, from the time you are 16 until you are 60?
Have you learned about communications nets and emergency
medicine, tactics and strategy, and the other things needed to
become "well-regulated"? 

	The majority of us have become fat, dumb, and lazy, depending 
on the courts to interpret the Constitution for us, on the Congress 
to feed us and supply all of our needs, and on the various standing 
armies (such as your local, state, and federal police agencies) to 
enforce the plethora of laws, rules, and regulations written by 
Congress and the bureaucracy. If the Second Amendment is so 
infringed upon by various administrative laws and regulations so 
as to have utterly no meaning, it is the fault of those of you who
have been too lazy and complacent to act on your
Constitutionally- mandated duty to form a "well-regulated
militia". 

	It has been suggested that it might be a good idea to develop 
a kit which could be used to circumvent  attempts at weapons 
confiscation, and to prepare for a massive campaign of civil 
disobedience to such unconstitutional, and therefore invalid, laws. 
We have developed such a kit from commonly obtainable materials, 
and present here instructions for its construction and use. 

Note: If at this point you are seriously considering burying your 
weapons, consider this: You aren't burying them so that one fine, 
crisp, cool fall day, you can dig them up and go hunting for deer. 
You aren't burying them so that you can go to the range and shoot 
at paper targets, or metallic silhouettes. You are burying them
so that you can resist, by force of arms if necessary, a
government that has turned tyrannical, that offers you nothing
but the shackles of slavery. You are burying them so you can
turn into a member of the "well-regulated" unorganized
militia, sworn to uphold the Constitution. When you dig up
those weapons you have buried, you will be in violation of a
whole raft of laws, your home and assets will most likely be
forfeited to the State. If caught, you may be prosecuted and
jailed, if lucky; if not, you may be executed on the spot by a
Weapons Confiscation Unit. 

	You should not expect to be able to go home after a hard days' 
"hunting", since home most probably will be incinerated and 
bulldozed into the ground; if you are lucky, Federal agents may 
just decide that they want to own your possessions, and seize your 
house and property and live in it, or turn it into some instant cash, 
by selling it to the highest bidder at an auction in the front yard.
If you get hurt, don't expect to be able to call an ambulance to get to 
a hospital, or get any sort of medical care. Also, forget about
going to a grocery store and spending a couple of hours
shopping for food. Food will be what you can get, when you can
get it.

	If you really want to freeze like the Continental Army
did at Valley Forge, dying of cold and starvation, having no
shoes but rags, and having very little hope of ever seeing
"the good life" again, then you should consider what this
course of action entails. Most people cannot use a map and
compass, much less cross rough terrain swiftly on foot. Most
people do not know how to set up secure communications nets.
Very few people outside of the military know how to do
anything with explosives, or treat any medical emergency more
severe than a cut or bruise. Even fewer people know small-unit
tactics or how to gather and process intelligence. Command,
Control, Communications, and Intelligence are a mystery to
most people, and this includes most people who would be
burying their weapons. On top of all of this, you must set up
an organization, perhaps modeled on that adopted by the French
Resistance during the Second World War, of cells of no more
than five people, which know only what they need to know. Read
the history of that organization (FFI), and then consider if
you really want to go through with this course of action. 

	For now, there IS an alternative. You can become active, truly
ACTIVE, in a local organization. This means that you go door
to door, talking to all of your family, friends and neighbors;
you deluge your legislators with letters and phone calls on
the Second Amendment issues that affect you; you VOTE for
those who support your ability to freely exercise your Second
Amendment and other Constitutional rights, you give money and
your unstinting efforts to their campaigns, and you work hard
to get your family, friends and neighbors to vote for them.
There is a list of such organizations in the last part of this Series, 
along with a list of computer bulletin board systems which you 
can use to communicate with other like-minded people and get the 
news on current events. 

	It is far preferable to use the democratic process to work 
to secure the rights for which our forefathers gave their lives, 
at Bunker Hill, at Valley Forge, and all the other blood-soaked 
battlefields in the American Revolution, than to have to suffer 
the sort of privation and starvation that they suffered, facing the 
possibility of death by enemy fire or by hanging, as rebellion was, 
and still is, a treasonable offence punishable by death. 

	If there is still the least ray of hope that you, with many 
millions of others, can work peacefully to influence the course of 
events so that our government, instituted to secure our unalienable 
rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, can veer from
the road to tyranny back to the way of Freedom, then go 
immediately to the last article in the Series. Contact and join those 
organizations, and become ACTIVE in them. Only if you think that 
there is no other way to proceed, if you have lost all hope of 
reforming our current system of government and bringing it back in
conformance with the Constitution, then read on.
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