Wokeness

Every year, teachers begin their school year a week or two before students. This time is used to cover new policies, goals, and other changes to education from the previous school year. 

Last year, we were told that black students were being suspended at twice the rate of other demographics. They told us that this is because we as teachers are inherently racist. 
This year, I am guess they are going to double down. Here is an announcement from one Florida school board that all teachers will be required to attend a racial sensitivity class where they will learn, “If a Black kid comes to class and stands up, and is animated waving his arms while discussing an uncomfortable subject, that does not mean he is a threat to the class. He just wants his voice heard.”
Of course, I always thought that a student standing up in the middle of class and talking out of turn to be a disruption, but I guess that is because I am a racist. 
Four years ago, they demanded that we teach students about the “gay and lesbian lifestyle” and even gave us a pamphlet that they wanted us to follow. 
I am guessing that this is going to be a statewide, if not nationwide, thing. This is going to continue to be used to get rid of people who are not reliable Communists. 

Roots of the insurgency, part 2: The insurgency

This is part 2 of a 3 part series. The first part can be found here.

Now that there are consequences for not giving in to the Communist aims and goals, false confessions proliferate, along with apologies and recantations for showing even the slightest hint of a politically incorrect viewpoint.

Now the violence can begin. This is when the Insurgency begins. We are seeing this today.

Almost every group out there protesting, whether it be Antifa, BLM, La Raza, and others are Communist. It is my belief that, since we are seeing armed and organized militia marching in the streets unopposed by the police, that we are well into phase 2.

Lest you think that, as officials claimed, this was a ‘peaceful protest’ look at this video, beginning with the 7:15 mark and ask yourself what it would have been called if any organization of armed white people had been talking to black motorists in the same manner.

The Insurgents are following the same playbook that every demagogue has used for more than a century. Even thought the insurgency is the violent part of a communist revolution, it depends on the political and propaganda portion in order to be successful. In other words, the insurgency can’t begin until there is sufficient public support to prevent the government from simply arresting the insurgents as soon as they are identified.

For reference, here are the three phases to any Insurgency:

Phase I (pre-hostility or incipient phase) corresponds to infrastructure development plus initial recruiting, organizing, training, and equipping of combat elements.
During this phase, insurgents may engage the government in open political
confrontations like public demonstrations, labor strikes, and boycotts. Insurgents often establish secure base areas for military command elements and guerrilla operations during this phase. Political-ideological cadres focus on indoctrination of civilians and armed revolutionaries.
Phase II (guerrilla warfare phase) is the first level of armed violence. Irregular forces engage in sabotage, interdiction of communication and logistics links, assassination, and selective attacks against government forces. Insurgents expand their secure base areas and, where possible, link them to form strategic enclaves of political autonomy.
Phase III (conventional confrontation phase) marks the transition from guerrilla actions to operations incorporating the tactics, techniques, and procedures of conventional fire and maneuver.

New York Autonomous Zone

My son is still in New York. Since he doesn’t have to work until his flight out in the morning, he decided to take a stroll and see what was going on. Since most of New York is still shut down on penalty of arrest, there aren’t many businesses or activities available. One of the few things they let you do is set up a camp to protest, because COVID doesn’t infect protesters or something.

So my son set out for the protest zone and took some pictures. Here they are.

BLM supports man who stabbed 9 year old

Two months ago, police were called to the scene of a stabbing. When they got there, they found a 9 year old girl with facial fractures and multiple stab wounds. Other callers sent police to a nearby park, where they found a man covered in blood, who was acting erratically and armed with a bloody knife. When they attempted to talk with him, he charged the officers, who shot and killed him. 

The entire shooting was captured on multiple cell phone videos. 
There was an immediate outcry, claiming that the man who was shot- Jayshaun Hodge- was not the person who stabbed the girl. Now there is a protest group called “Justice for Jashaun” who are demanding that the police be punished.
This weekend, there was a protest where protesters blocked roadways with vehicles and human chains. They were also throwing smoke bombs into the road in an attempt to mask the roadblock from drivers. They appear to WANT to be hit by cars, so that they can generate sympathy for their cause once they get injured. 
They ignore the fact that it didn’t matter if Jayshaun was guilty of the stabbing or not. What mattered was that he charged the officers with a weapon in his hand. 
Of course, that isn’t the point. The point is that they get to destabilize the government even more. 

Roots of the insurgency, part 1

It appears that the BLM/Antifa brigades are almost exactly following Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” which in itself followed Lenin’s “Stages of a Revolution,” which was also a modification of Mao’s own theories on Communist revolutions. It’s all just a matter of conjuring up illusions and mass delusions, no matter the brand of totalitarianism. Lenin was a fiery orator of propaganda, as was Adolph Hitler.

Lenin created a class war, Hitler a race war. Either way, the divide-and-conquer of wannabe dictators is pretty much the same, no matter what differences each might claim about the other. The propaganda content varies, but not their divide-and-conquer methods. Attitudes of supremacy come in different flavors and colors, but all rest on the basic premise of “othering.” human naturally are tribal, so using this basic feature of human psychology means that playing the “we” versus “they” plan is quite effective at setting oneself up to be the new leader.

As Saul Alinsky taught, the goal of all such radicals is to seize power by fueling resentment and hatred among people through various forms of “consciousness”—particularly class and race consciousness. That’s what identity politics is all about. Once their organizations breed enough ill will, the “masses”—made up of mostly individuals who feel slighted in some way—can be baited and mobilized to do the bidding of power elites, all while claiming to want justice and equality.

A communist insurgency requires a certain amount of groundwork before it can begin. Once the groundwork has been laid and propaganda absorbed by enough people, agitation can proliferate. As Lenin made clear, agitation and propaganda go together and are absolutely essential to communist revolutions. The laying of this groundwork of propaganda can take decades.

Agitation can involve protests, parades, marches, and demonstrations. It also involves organized shout-downs of legislators and a hundred other means of trying to affect public policy by influencing public opinion.

About 100 years ago, the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci introduced his theory of “cultural hegemony,” which cast cultural institutions as the enemy, claiming they were used to maintain power: Some people aren’t more successful because they work harder. No, they are more successful because the game is rigged against them. This was the basis behind Hitler’s scapegoating of the Jews, the Communist blaming of the Bourgeois.

Radicals of the 1960s, such as Saul Alinsky, picked up on this theme, noting that “the system” (i.e., American freedom) could only be destroyed from within once radical operatives had control over society’s institutions. The deep state is one example that’s been building through decades of bureaucratic bloat, with operatives embedded throughout the government, including in the military and intelligence agencies.

The mediating institutions have been relentlessly attacked. Those are the institutions that protect the individual from encroachment by the state, particularly the family, the church, and all voluntary and civic associations. We can see and feel especially how the family has been eroded today. All of these institutions have been deeply affected by statist forces, rendering them more vulnerable than ever to total absorption by the mass state, a prerequisite for communism. Once everything is provided by the state, there is little opposition once the state is subverted. People would rather maintain their standard of living than oppose the state and risk losing that standard. This is one reason why police “follow” orders that are antithetical to freedom- they don’t want to risk losing their pension.

Once the stage is set, the communists enforce conformity. This is the stage in which you are told to conform and convert—or else. We see small shop owners threatened with financial ruin if they don’t come out and support the communists. We see Maoist-style “struggle sessions”—otherwise known as sessions of criticism and self-criticism—as college students are forced to admit to white privilege simply because they had happy childhoods. Businesses must swear allegiance to BLM or be destroyed. Anyone who engages in even a hint of counter-revolutionary thought is destroyed.

Once this has all been accomplished, the stage has been set for the beginnings of armed revolution. The Insurgency begins.

News you can use: Twist rate and bullet weight

One of the things that is overlooked by people who have begun buying into the AR-15 is buying the proper ammo for the twist rate of your barrel. Ar-15 barrels that are chambered for 5.56mm come in various lengths and twist rates, with the most common being 1:6, 1:7, 1:8, and 1:9.

Like throwing a football, the rifling of a barrel causes the bullet to spin around its long axis in order to stabilize it in flight. This rate is called “twist rate.” Twist rate is the number of inches the bullet travels in order to complete a full rotation and is expressed as a ratio.  In other words, a 1:8 twist rate will cause the bullet to spin once every 8 inches of travel. A 55 grain bullet leaving the barrel at 3,240 feet per second will be spinning at nearly 300,000 rpm.

Since muzzle velocity is a function of pressure, which in itself is related to bullet weight, the weight of the bullet dictates which twist rate is appropriate for each bullet. The twist rates on all but one of my AR-15s is 1:7, even though 1:9 is the more popular barrel. The fast twist rate favors slower (in other words, heavier) bullets. The ideal twist rates for bullets is:

Weight: 40-Grain               Twist Rate: 1:12 to 1:9
Weight: 55-Grain               Twist Rate: 1:9 or 1:8
Weight: 62-Grain               Twist Rate: 1:8 or 1:7
Weight: 77-Grain               Twist Rate: 1:7 or 1:8
Weight: 80-Grain               Twist Rate: 1:7

Note that the 1:7 twist is best for 62 grains and higher. This is the reason why I favor the Lake City Green Tip, which is a 62 grain bullet.

If I had a barrel with a 1:9 twist rate, then a better choice would be the 55 grain bullet. This bullet is faster and works better with a longer twist rate.

Why did I pick that particular twist rate? Lighter bullets do better at ranges under 100 yards. The heavier bullet is better for accuracy at ranges over 100 yards. Honestly, I would have chosen a 1:8 twist, but I couldn’t find one at the time.

At ranges under 100 yards, the lighter and faster 55 grain bullet is better at defeating body armor.
At ranges over 100 yards, the heavier 62 grain bullet is now travelling at the same velocity as the lighter one, meaning that it has more energy at longer range, and being steel, more penetrating ability.

Hope this helps.

Flaunting your insurgency

Grandmaster J of the NFAC (Not Fucking Around Coalition) claims that the USA needs to give Texas to black people as reparations so they can create their own nation. They claim there is no negotiating, and they are not “going to bring signs to a gunfight.”

Here is the NFAC entering Stone Mountain, Georgia trying to provoke a fight with white militia groups. I can’t see military training at work here. What military group marches into combat all bunched up and in formation like that?

The only reason that this remained peaceful was that the whites in the area that were being threatened with violence didn’t respond. I don’t think that will remain the case indefinitely. We are a 2 way mag dump away from entering phase three of the insurgency. At this point, the insurgency is daring government forces to respond. The longer that this goes on with no response, the worse it will be later.