Republished from the Firearms Lawyer/Federal Way Mirror

This year, the day after Thanksgiving saw Americans finally getting back to the business Americans love: Shopping!

FBI statistics show that a new record was set during that one Friday for background check requests from gun buyers. There were 129,166 requests to the NICS. That was a third more than the previous all-time record of 97,848 on Black Friday 2008. On Black Friday last year, there were 87,061 requests.

Some of the buyers believe that stockpiling guns is a better way to prepare for hard times than gold. Nevertheless, many of those shopping for guns at several gun stores in the Federal Way area were almost certainly women purchasing guns for their own protection.

Federal Way’s local Armed Defense Training Association has been in contact with an instructor named Jennie at Rivendell Sales and Consulting in Kent. Jennie teaches women how to shoot. She owns and operates a store that markets to women who shoot.

I asked her what ladies need to know when they first decide to buy a gun. The first consideration, she stated, is not to let someone at a gun shop — or a well-meaning significant other — sell you a small gun that “you shoot once, it hurts and you put it away.”

Jennie said a woman needs her own gun that fits. “I have seen too many ladies with a gun that does not fit their hand, one that is too large a caliber for a beginner, or they are told at some gun shop that the itty-bitty gun is just the one for them. The gun that does not fit you right just goes unused and sits on a shelf.”

Jennie encourages her students to consciously make the decision to defend their own life. “If you are killed or severely injured, how will your family function without you?”

Of course, hardly anyone ever actually states that his or her own life is not worth defending. But, despite all the philosophical and political arguments, take the steps to get trained and actually get a gun into your hands. This demonstrates that you are prepared to fight back.

Jennie demystifies the “danger” of guns. She told me, “I have seen many ladies not even sure they want to touch a gun. Her students learn quickly that a gun does not go off by itself. Once a woman realizes that she can effectively and safely operate the efficient little safety device, fear goes away and smiles start to appear.”

However, too many women take a beginner class and think that they are ready to go out on the street and deal with all the legal, physical and emotional things that go with armed self-defense.

“In order to carry for self-defense, you have to make the commitment to train and practice,” Jennie explains. “Training generally teaches you a skill and how to practice that skill; practice needs to continue on a regular basis.” Jennie recommends competition to test skills, keep skills sharp and make training interesting and fun.

“The holster that fits a slim man will usually not work for a curvy lady.” Men behind the gun counter, who have absolutely no idea what a lady needs for shooting gear, are the reason why Jennie became an instructor and opened her gun shop. Apparently, in the world of women’s self-defense, most of the old wives’ tales are perpetuated by men.

Republished With Permission of Federal Way Mirror

Last spring, my wife and I finally got to visit our nation’s capital. I wasn’t sure how I expected to feel in D.C. because I have become so pessimistic about the direction our government is going.

I was full of profound thanksgiving for what our forefathers created, however, upon seeing the war memorials, the monuments and the classical grace and simplicity of the architecture.

It is not unusual for school children to travel to Washington, D.C. Various schools in Federal Way offer trips. Kids with families that can afford $2,000 can go and visit museums, the Capitol Building and even visit the White House in many cases. Sequoyah Middle School, for example, has such a trip planned for June 2012. There are some “Dream” scholarships available, but right now, all the kids that are signed up at Sequoyah are white.

The trouble is that kids from “underserved” families may not even apply because they feel like they would never be able to afford such a trip. A history teacher at Sequoyah said that the kids need about $4,000 more in order for five of those underserved kids to experience the pride that we felt walking around in Washington, D.C.

Imagine what it means to be a student from a family that is working hard to make ends meet — and meeting the President or the First Lady. Or imagine visiting the new Martin Luther King Memorial and Colonial Williamsburg. It is not an impossible dream, but there are certain steps that you need to take.

If you are a Sequoyah student from a family that is in need of assistance, start by writing an essay about why you want to visit D.C.

There will be interviews at Sequoyah at 3 p.m. Dec. 9. The committee conducting interviews will be looking to see how you will comport yourself. Remember, you might meet the First Lady.

Self-confidence is important. I once read a magazine article that explained how kids from high-achieving families will claim to be able to accomplish certain things even if they have little knowledge or experience in that field. But the committee is just looking for the kind of confidence that says, “I will be a positive representative for my school and Federal Way.” Be ready to tell the committee what interests you about the trip, what you want to see and what the trip will mean to you.

If Federal Way service clubs take note of the effort being made to help these kids, there may be additional help so that more than five kids can go. Funds are scarce, but this is the kind of project that can grow into a permanent benefit for students in all the schools. There will also be opportunities for the kids to participate in car washes and other fundraising.

Participation in fundraising events will help meet the requirement that each student that gets a scholarship contribute at least part of the cost. Send checks c/o Beth Parsons, 831 S. 373rd Place, Federal Way, WA 98003; make the checks out to “Sequoyah to D.C. Fund 2012.”

If I were planning the trip, we would all make a side trip to the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va., but some of you would probably prefer the trips already planned to Ford’s Theater or the Smithsonian Museums. Let’s make sure every student gets an opportunity to experience our nation’s great heritage.

Have you stumbled across any extraterrestrial reptilian white-majick warlocks yet? Grey Dracos, perhaps?

Some people thrive on conspiracy theories, while other people reject the idea that conspiracies can explain historical events. The very nature of conspiracies when they do exist usually makes it difficult to provide solid documentation for historians.

The very nature of conspiracy theories is such that historically the widespread belief in conspiracies has destabilized societies in ways that can be very well documented.

For instance, the German High Command promulgated false documents, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, purporting to be a Jewish conspiracy and utilized the documents to create paranoia in Czarist Russia and other countries. Hitler’s beliefs in a Zionist conspiracy helped to bring about the subversion of Germany’s Weimar Republic and in many quarters of Europe and the Middle East, the Protocols are still accepted at face-value as historical fact.

Another popular conspiracy theory has to do with the Illuminati. The fact that the group existed as a secret society in Germany is well documented. Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law (Catholic Church law), infiltrated various Masonic lodges across Continental Europe with cell groups that operated much like modern counter-intelligence networks.

Ingolstadt University, a Jesuit institution, provided a base of operations and the network recruited by appealing to a variety of beliefs, including Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, necromancy, social reform and various occultist practices that were attracting freethinkers in Europe. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were familiar with the Illuminati and its methods. Additonally, Frederick the Great, an accomplished Freemason and master of intelligence and counter-intelligence, was quite adept at using the networks of secret societies that infested Europe in the 1700s as strategic tools to further Prussian geo-political interests.

The relevance of the Illuminati to modern political discourse owes to the allegation that the followers of Professor Weishaupt subsequently went into the publishing business, thus, promoting socialism and revolution in France and other countries. The story continues that the various factions of radicalism and occultist secret societies were ready to be knit together by an ideology that would transcend all the various threads of occult speculation, utopianism, anarchism and social reform.

In 1848, Karl Marx made his announcement that the “spectre of International Socialism” was already haunting Europe and striking fear into the hearts of Europe’s kings and aristocracy. “Das Kapital” itself is a hugely successful conspiracy theory.

Engels financed Marx’s research- research that provided an overarching rationale for forging an instrument of worldwide terror out of the assortment of strange and conflicting beliefs that constituted the earlier Internationales.

But there is a modern New Age twist that seems to position the 200 year old Illuminati boogeyman to appear as a social phenomenon that is just beginning to be recognized at this time. Please do not just turn me off because you are sick of hearing about conspiracies of the left and the right. The emerging New Age doctrine makes the Illuminati 10,000 years old. To make things stranger, the teaching purports to have a basis in the Biblical account of Genesis before the flood:

“Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”

Genesis 6: 1-4

According to the New Age interpretation of the Bible, however, the Illuminati were extra-terrestrial Nephilim that eventually inhabited ancient Babylon- and the creatures are still interbreeding, thus producing offspring- including the family of President Bush! They are allegedly manipulating politics and preparing our world for a new Babylonian tyranny, operated on an intergalactic scale and with headquarters in underground fortresses beneath major American cities. If you think this is far-fetched, just start surfing the internet- it gets more far-fetched!

David Icke, a self-professed New Age warlock and former BBC journalist, has pictures of the “reptilians” and will explain that George Bush and his co-conspirators engineered the destruction of the WTC and other terrorist attacks in order to create an Illuminati signature announcing the reptilian New World Order.

Just as in the series X-Files, there are apparently good reptilians and bad ones, with some extra-terrestrials exhorting humanity to eschew weapons of mass destruction and to learn to get along, while others are ready to turn earth into a giant slave farm in order to feed the master reptile race during its travels across space.

Some so-called Luciferians go one step further and posit that the reptilians are a sinister race of manipulators that fostered organized religion and ancient Judaism for the purpose of mind control and conformity. Thus, the God of Christianity and Judaism (and presumably Islam) is nothing more than a myth to deprive humans of our individuality. Such deceptions often contain an Anti-Semitic tendency that is also hostile to orthodox Christianity!

Fabian Socialism attracted some of the most notable social thinkers of England in the early 1900s, and conducted much of the early research pertaining to Progressive economics, trade unionism, feminism and social reformation. Eventually H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Webb and other influential intellectuals were drawn into the movement. The social framework these individuals envisioned has shaped England and the rest of the modern world. It is surprising to discover that the whole intellectual edifice of Fabianism intially developed as a result of working people gathering together for spiritualist seances in a house that was supposedly haunted. They eventually began receiving messages about economics and other matters that attracted the cadre of celebrated thinkers that transformed much of England and the rest of the world.

John Maynard Keynes, known a proponent of free markets and capitalism and apparently not one of the recognized Fabians, realized that centralizing banking functions and manipulating the value of national currencies would accelerate economic growth- at least for the shoer term.

As the Western world embraced Keynesian economics, governmental power grew and the private sector became more dependent on government programs. Modern statism is an ideology flying under many colors. Nevertheless, various forms of socialism provide the underpinnings for most modern states.

The reason that there is so little discussion of these matters today is because the Fabian program (gradually transforming society by instituting small changes in the laws of a nation and moving towards global government in increments) has become so familiar that we just shrug our shoulders and pass it off as more liberal-progressivism.

Fabian was a Roman general that used tactical deception in order to keep his enemies unaware that they were being enveloped.

Incidentally, during the Twenties & Thirties, many so-called progressives were as enthusiastic about Hitler and Mussolini’s experiments with socialism as they were about the International brand of socialism pioneered by Marx & Engels and that seemed to represent a promising future for Soviet Russia. See Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg. Isn’t it possible that New Age enthusiasts are quietly influencing U.S. politics in a similar manner today?

America has now become riddled with schemes presented as economic stimuli and “progressive” changes in the laws; i.e., just a small change here and a small change there. Keyesian economics- expanding the money supply to increase the government’s share of financial resources and deplete the value of money- has now created massive deficits that were unimaginable for Americans one year ago.

Madame Blavatsky was a Russian aristocrat living in Paris in the 1800s and her Theosphical Society was an eclectic combination of Hinduism wrapped around an arguably potent political agenda; i.e., “hidden masters” were moving through human society and inculcating the planet with higher wisdom by means of clairvoyant and direct communication via selected individuals. Theosophists still claim that these “Masters” are in touch with Devas, angelic extra-terrestrials that guide human institutions and culture by telepathy and other hidden influences.

Southern California and parts of Arizona (the whole Left-coast) have long been riddled with such cults that look to extra-errestrial “hidden masters” for inspiration and guidance.

Aldous Huxley, another intellectual from a family of England’s most notable intellectuals, used his novels as platforms to propagate “brave new worlds” where children would be cared for by the tribe rather than by nuclear families and legal systems would meld into a unified primitivism where government could be much less defined (and supposedly more nurturing and organic) because populations would be pacified (enlightened) by drug induced euphoria and Eastern mystical experiences.

In the Fifties and Sixties, Huxley and the CIA were experimenting with LSD. Aldous’ uncle, Julian Huxley, was busy promulgating a social agenda that sounded vaguely like the utopian, mushroom-eating societies favored by his nephew, Aldous. Julian’s counter-intelligence propaganda apparatus was headquartered at UNESCO, where he was head of the UN religious mission. In “Religion Without Revelation”, Julian Huxley identified the sense of the numinous (feelings of awe and religiosity) and announced that a universal world religion needed to incorporate such profound feelings by making numinosity available to everyone without the need to look to higher authority; i.e., Biblical revelation.

So what is the point?- you may well be asking. Is there something subversive about trying to conjure up religion that has roots in the Vedic system that is thousands of years old? Why shouldn’t people go to Sedona and experience shamanism while drawing power from ancient vortexes or pay thousands of dollars for spiritual and financial advice from Ramtha, an ancient warrior-demon channeled by a former housewife in Yelm, Washington? After all, she advises thousands of people, including Hollywood types, that pay thousands of dollars for seminars on relationships, finance, careers and economics.

Witchcraft (which has always been connected with the use of pharmaceuticals) and New Age religion has its roots in the same soil. The drugs, rebellion and lawlessness of the Sixties are the fruit of a secular-humanist agenda that was blue-printed by Julian Huxley under the auspices of the United Nations.

Aldous Huxley, along with Timothy Leary and other products of CIA research programs, were the Pied Pipers that lead a whole generation into a quagmire of left-wing paranoia and New Age confusion (see the book “Acid Dreams” for a psychedelicized history of how the U.S. conducted covert operations that fomented much of the craziness of the Sixties). Many people refuse to treat such issues seriously because, quite frankly, it sounds loony to discuss allegations of reptilian inter-breeding and secret societies that have their roots in Eighteenth Century Europe.

David Icke is, nevertheless, a man with a substantial following (Google reptilians) if you think I am exaggerating) and arguably poses a threat to our nation’s national security if enough people believe his audacious fables. And his New Age followers have money.

Are such conspiracy theories a threat to society? The only threat I see at this point is that Icke (or others that follow his worldview- of which there are many) may bring scorn to the followers of Christ by making it seem as if these New Age theories are actually Christian teaching; i.e., creating the appearance that Christians are fostering views that are hostile to virtually every legitimate social and religious institution (this is one of the tecniques that counter-intelligence agents use to subvert the opposition). Some of the organizations that are alleged to be Illuminati agencies include, but are not limited to, the U.S. government (especially the CIA, of course), Billy Graham’s organization and the Catholic, Baptist and Mormon Churches- all Illuminati operations, according to Icke).

In the Book of Romans, the Apostle Paul instructs Christians to be good citizens and to honor governmental power and authority.

Although we have not received any information that indicates that a significant number of New Age adherents are preparing to use armed force, there is a subtle anti-Semitic influence to Icke’s theology that deserves close inspection. The fact that he worked for the BBC may explain his tendency to vilify Israel and the Jews- but he may be a professional provocateur.

The name Lyndon LaRouche somehow came to mind when I started researching these matters. Nevertheless, I have tried to find a link and have not been able to find a connection between the Icke operation and that of LaRouche.

LaRouche is most active in the Midwest and promotes a wide variety of bizarre conspiracy theories by means of a variety of fronts. The LaRouche organization makes credible claims to have at one time established substantial inroads into high levels of the Reagan Administration to the extent of sharing intelligence with the U.S. government. There is no doubt that LaRouche (and probably Icke) have extensive intelligence networks and extremely well-informed followers (albeit deluded). The LaRouche ideology is difficult to nail down but dangerous and laden with religious overtones, nevertheless. He started out as a professor at Columbia and was also affiliated with the radical SDS there (remember those lovable Weatherman “students” that blew up buildings while on their way to becoming law professors and public relations mavins, ala Bernadette Dohrn and Bill Ayers)?

Anyone that has read “The DaVinci Code” (yes, I know it is fiction), has already been introduced to the teachings of several secret societies that go by various names and coverings.

The following link is an example of a website that seems to be rooted in occult practices and beliefs similar to those referenced herein:

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The “Merovingian Bloodline” is an esoteric doctrine and network of secret societies that have a pedigree purporting to relate back to a time before Charlemagne, during the time when King Dagobert II and his descendants were attempting to perpetuate the succession of the royal bloodline to the Frankish throne by claiming a genetic connection to Christ via Mary Magdalene.

Much of the supposed factual basis for these claims comes from material constituting various branches of Satanism, UFO “studies” and New Age religious teaching. There may still be powerful political and ancient family interests in Europe that are preparing to lay the groundwork for similar claims in order to reinforce and augment the claims of some future European strongman.

It seems unlikely that a European Union leader would directly make a claim to be descended from Christ. Insinuating a connection to an extra-terrestrial race is not that different than the European monarchies’ historical tradition of claiming quasi-divine status. Whatever developments may occur in Continental Europe,“The DaVinci Code” (and the “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail”, retitled “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” in the United States) have already created a predisposition in the popular imagination toward deception that neatly dovetails with the growing legions of UFO believers promulgating their own conspiracy theories; i.e., theories about the U.S. Government’s alleged cover-up of extra-terrestrial activities. “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” is a based on a pseudo-historical hoax. Written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, the supposed facts actually mine a wide vein of deceptions pertaining to the “Priory of Sion” in France that have been part and parcel of the European darkside for centuries.

All this sounds like the X-Files. But, as usual, I am hoping to get feedback so that I can better understand whether David Icke is a master conspirator in his own right or just a kook that is getting famous and probably generating big bucks from his own private money vortex. I predict that we will hear more and more of such matters as time goes on. There are already talk shows that discuss the reptilians and countless websites, too. If nothing else, be aware that New Age religion has a potent political aspect to it that has not even been recognized by the mass media. We could conclude that reptilian internet farms promise to be one of Planet Earth’s major growth industries!

Many New Age followers believe that a Messianic Avatar will soon make his/her appearance to initiate the Age of Aquarius and set up a government along the same Utopian principles articulated in Aldous Huxley’s novels. This Messianic-figure, sometimes referred to as “Matreiya” is already being promoted under the auspices of a UN-sponsored world religion that is a syntheisis of world religious traditions emphasising humanity and human values at the expense of traditional orthodoxy. Many traditional churches are now presenting the Gospel in a manner that avoids the “divisive” aspects of orthodoxy (Orthodoxy is non-inclusive because of orthodoxy’s claim that Christ is the exclusive path to God)). Such mainline churches present Christ as a unifier even though the Lord himself taught that the Gospel would divide families and result in conflict.

The emphasis of such teaching is on feelings and occasionally supernatural manifestations of the “spiritual” that may lead to Spiritualist practices in our churches.

It is fair to conclude that the unwritten subscript of the coming 2008 election is really about whether we will continue to be governed by traditional concepts of rights and duties, checks and balances and the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution- or a New World Order managed by the coming Messianic leader that will perform miracles and legitimize unprecedented authority over the governments of the world by claiming ties to divine power or authority originating from a humanistic supernatural vision of human destiny.

Once you understand the underlying spiritual issues, all the weirdness starts to make sense. And if it all seems harmless, remember that the Third Reich was ushered in during just such a time as this. A Spiritualist in England named Chamberlin was receiving messages by means of trances and automatic writing that articulated a new human race to be created by eugenics (genetic engineering). The U.S. had Margaret Sanger (a secularist, not a Spiritualist) but an influential thinker who successfully advocated forced sterilization for poor blacks and other groups of “defectives“); Sanger was a forerunner to the racial theorists of the Third Reich- in fact, the Nazis quoted Sanger profusely. Planned Parenthood has its roots in Sanger’s theories and that is why even crushing the head of a baby during birth (partial-birth abortion) is a procedure for which Pro-Death activists will fight vigorously.

Hitler himself was looked on as a New Age Avatar by Germany’s numerous followers of esoteric doctrines. The goal was to turn Germany and all of Europe back to the primitive values of paganism and nature-worship. See the book “Morning of the Magicians", a source book for occultist conspiracy theories that has some historical value even though written by occultists. According to the authors, Hitler’s fascination with the occult was like a glue that held the whole deception of Nazi Germany together.

We should shun anything that has to do with such deceptions and be very careful about subscribing to conspiracy theories. Nevertheless, the Scripture instructs us to expose the works of darkness and to be vigilant because the devil is constantly seeking to deceive the very elect.

I am a member of the United States Practical Shooting Association. I also shoot in some IDPA matches and I am a member of the International Defensive Pistol Association and look forward to shooting in 3-gun competitions where I can develop shotgun, pistol and tactical rifle skills.

I heard about the Tactical Rifle Match in Custer, Washington and decided that this might be the place to start shooting multiple targets on the move with a rifle at close quarters; i.e.; IPSC style. Custer is on I-5 at Exit 270- about 12 miles south of the Canadian Border.

I had heard about the Jungle Run and drove up there with my Service Match AR-15 to get some experience. Most of my rifle shooting has been from a standing or prone position, often at 600 yards. My rifle has a synthetic military A2 stock and a 20 inch match barrel with 1:8 twist to handle heavier 80 grain .223 rounds that are ideal for the greater distances involved in service match competitions.

About a week before the match, I went up to West Coast Armory in the Bellevue Factoria area for one of their Friday night tactical rifle matches. I wanted to see how my little ACOG-style AR-332 Burris Prism Sight works in Close Quarters Combat (CQ. My Burris sight has fixed 3-power magnification- ideal for targets that are out at 100 or even 300 yards! A target at 5 yards just fills up the whole range of vision and it becomes difficult to know whether you are aimed at the center of the target.

Nevertheless, I decided to use the Burris sight during the match at the Custer Range because it seemed to be effective on many of the targets at West Coast- about 15 yards away in most instances.

I also went up to Custer the week before the rifle match and shot a USPSA pistol match at which I had the good fortune to meet David Howlett, the Founder of the United States Tactical Rifle Association. Dave also sponsors the SWAT Rodeos for law enforcement and started the tactical rifle matches at Custer. Dave states at his USTACRA website that:

It all started in the Pacific Northwest. Over the last 9 years I spent my time designing and running Tactical Rifle matches here at our home club, Custer Sportsmen’s Club in Custer Washington, I developed the best ways of designing and building shooting stage’s that test the operators’ ability to shoot fast and accurately, while requiring a blend of indexing, transitioning and footwork.

Fully testing the shooter’s ability to think, shoot, and react within a complex array of shooting zones.

But what really got my attention is when David told me that twelve years ago the Lord prompted him through the Holy Spirit to start learning how to shoot.

With no law enforcement experience or military background and virtually little or no interest in guns at that time, Dave has since become a leader in the Northwest when it comes to conducting training, competition and leadership for shooters at a number of different levels of skill, including the elite tactical forces that participate in SWAT Rodeos.

You can see Howlett’s skills shooting the POF Predator or when he tests the AR LOKI weapon systems rifle. He tested the PWS long stroke gas piston DC-10 and has other videos of himself demonstrating the STRAC Tech FAST System and the FAST System 3 AR magazine holder with the PWS DC-10. See Howlett demos.

Needless to say, I did not shoot like the competitors in the above linked videos. Most of the courses of fire had considerably over thirty rounds. David gave me some extra thirty-round mags to use and I carried them in a holder on my belt that I acquired at Federal Way Discount Guns the week before the match.

I quickly realized that putting a lighter stock on my rifle with a red-dot sight was not going to be all I needed to get in and out of the narrow hallways, windows and other obstacles- like tables that force the shooter to get down on the ground and shoot from a prone or nearly prone position. So I went to Rainier Arms in Auburn and asked Aristotle what it would take to convert my service match rifle into a tactical rifle.

There is no cost effective way to rebuild my rifle but Rainier Arms has a new proprietary tactical rifle that brings together many of the ideal components I need at a surprisingly low price. The Rainier Urban Combat rifle (RUC) is lightweight and the first 100 will come equipped with a Geiselle 2-stage trigger.

I got the opportunity to shoot many of the courses that are featured in the linked videos including the one where we leap out of a parked car and engage targets. The Jungle Run included some targets that were out at about 100 yards and I nailed all three of those targets due to the fact that a table was available for a good bench rest- and my Burris sight with the “unique Ballistic CQ reticle.”

Talking to David has convinced me that any time and money that we invest in preparing for the tough times ahead is worth the price. As you make the sacrifices that it takes to become skilled in the use of arms, you will meet some of your finest neighbors from all walks of life. The folks that shoot USPSA, IDPA and 3-gun matches include law enforcement, top “civilian” shooters.

Most of these folks will take time to help someone that really wants to learn and include LEOs and veterans returned from the war on terror like Jarret, a Marine helicopter pilot that I also met at a USPSA match at Custer. He and Dave Howlett work for Next Level Training in Ferndale, Washington. The CEO at Next Level is Mike Hughes from last season on Top Shot. Incidentally, I keep hearing rumors that one of our Federal Way cops will be featured on the next season of Top Shot starting next spring.

Everywhere I go, I meet Christians with a similar experience- the Lord talks to us. As we read and ponder, many of us- including many pastors- are getting the same message to get out and get trained with both spiritual and physical weapons.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. Proverbs 22:3

Republished with permission; Firearms Lawyer, Federal Way Mirror

I practically learned to read from the pages of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and the Flash! I have been a life long avid reader. After having studied all kinds of history, great literature and other weighty subjects, I am still fascinated by the idea of Batman stopping criminals by sheer wits, athleticism and clever technology.

Imagine standing outside a Federal Way nightclub when a big guy runs out the door, rips off his shirt in the middle of the street and gives every indication that he is about to violently assault a bystander.

Would you try to be a hero and help the innocent bystander?

A new breed of real life superheroes is rapidly becoming mainstream. The Seattle area’s own masked hero, Phoenix Jones (aka Benjamin Fodor), recently came to the aid of patrons outside a Seattle nightclub. He was just kind of hovering nearby, then landed in the middle of a confrontation very similar to the scenario described above.

The superhero, wearing a brightly shining muscle suit, shot pepper spray at the aggressor — then flew off to stop a fight that was allegedly in progress. Seattle police arrested the real life superhero, which resulted in Fodor removing his mask and thus disclosing his secret identity. At the time of writing this report, he had not been charged.

Some of these superheroes wear capes and even bulletproof vests. It seems to just be a matter of time before the avengers will arm themselves with weapons more deadly than pepper spray. After all, the last Batman movie that I saw showed Batman surrendering to modern times with firepower that equaled that of a special forces unit.

The problem is that mixing guns with masks really gets some law enforcement officers upset. Right now, the only law enforcement officers that get to wear the fabulous black Baklava headgear in public are SWAT team members.

This could change if other officers start moonlighting as superheroes. But the volunteer Batman-types will need a governing body — a Justice League of America, perhaps — to ensure that high superhero standards are maintained.

Edward Stinson, a writer from Boca Raton, Fla., who advises real-life superheroes, tells aspiring superheroes: “You’re no longer in the shadows. You’re in a new era. … Build trust. Set standards. Make the real-life superheroes work to earn that title and take some kind of oath.”

The website www.reallifesuperheroes.org lists 660 members around the world. The site even lists superheroes in England, and many do other charity work.

Come on, Federal Way service clubs. Every club should be sponsoring at least one superhero.

A whole network of masked vigilantes has appeared in Seattle over the past year. According to the Tacoma News Tribune, some heroes advocate for a non-profit association of heroes to conduct fundraising and outreach — and tactical superhero training.

Masked volunteers first appeared in the 1970s in places like San Diego and now include folks from all walks of life. In Federal Way, there’s a superhero dubbed SkyMan who focuses his efforts on aiding the homeless.

Any young entrepreneur you meet, however, may someday become a real life Batman. It doesn’t take billions of dollars to patrol the night in the name of truth and justice, unless you want to have a fully equipped secret cave under your mansion — or you are the Department of Homeland Security.

The Seattle Black Panther Party, founded in 1968, was an armed defense group that holds a controversial record in modern American history. The Seattle Black Panthers was the first BPP chapter formed outside California. The Black Panthers based its armed defense for the black community on an understanding of the U.S. Constitution that sometimes led to violent encounters with law enforcement.

The Seattle Panthers avoided the shootouts with police that were often associated with Panthers who also were known for providing lunches to school kids and other worthwhile community service.

On one occasion, several Black Panthers grabbed their guns and drove to Rainier Beach. The Panthers walked into Seattle’s Rainier Beach High School with their weapons and told the principal that he needed to start protecting Black students from being harassed or the Panthers would return. The police arrived but the Panthers left with no further problems.

In 1967, thirty Oakland Black Panthers, concerned that the California state legislature was about to outlaw the public display of guns, had appeared in full paramilitary regalia in front of the capital building- all fully armed! The fact that they were arrested for conspiracy to disturb the peace did not deter the Seattle Panthers.

After the incident at the Rainier Beach High, Seattle Mayor, J.D. Braman pushed to have a gun law passed that would put restrictions upon firearms in the city. In February, 1969, legislators in Olympia were also passing a new law that would make it a gross misdemeanor to exhibit firearms or other weapons in a manner manifesting intent to intimidate others. The Panthers stood on the capitol steps with rifles and shotguns to protest the pending gun legislation. Washington State Patrol officers just told the Panthers to put the guns away. The Panthers complied and no arrests resulted because no laws had been broken.

Some legislators and citizens reacted by proclaiming that the Panthers had demonstrated “open and active anarchy and rebellion.” Governor Evans promoted restraint during the incident and rebuked Lieutenant Governor Cherberg for calling in the state patrol during the Governor’s absence. The Bellevue High School even invited the Panthers to come to a Civics class where the Panthers were able to explain their philosophy of self-defense to the students.

The law enacted at that time by the Washington State Legislature- still in effect- prohibits display of a weapon in “a manner, under circumstances, and at a time and place that either manifests an intent to intimidate another or that warrants alarm for the safety of other persons.”

The legislature apparently included the language pertaining to display that “warrants alarm for the safety of other persons” in order to discourage further displays of armed force at the state capitol. Lawyers have challenged that language for being vague and arbitrary. In the 1994 case of STATE V. SPENCER, the Washington courts upheld a conviction under RCW 9.41.270 when a man with an AK-47 slung over his shoulder and a loaded magazine walked through a residential area just North of Federal Way with his head down avoiding eye contact.

Like the quotation that came out of one famous U.S. Supreme Court obscenity case- the justices knew obscenity when they saw it- judges in Washington state seemed to know display warranting alarm when they saw it and held that Spencer had unlawfully displayed his weapon.

But every time there is a new attempt to ban certain firearms, some gun advocates come openly armed to the Capitol Building in Olympia. The Washington State Patrol still acknowledges the citizens’ First Amendment and Second Amendment rights and refuses to harass armed citizens sitting and standing in the hearing rooms and corridors of our state legislature. Maybe we can thank the Black Panthers for paving the way!

Social networking media such as Twitter are being used for all kinds of things. The recent phenomenon of flash mobs is now being utilized to organize protests, robbing and looting in neighborhoods and to foment chaos. Activists in the San Francisco Bay Area spent much of the summer organizing flash mob protests at BART Tunnels.

The activists claim that these are First Amendment activities designed to protest an officer involved shooting but the strategy seemed to be to disrupt BART operations during rush hours. The next phase in the leftist strategy to spread chaos in America is to “occupy Wall Street”, an ongoing operation to protest against bankers and other symbols of America’s corporate financial power.

The Days of Rage, planned for September 17, seemed to fizzle with very little of the publicity that the protestors sought in the national media. There is no visible leadership because the events are directed in social cyberspace. Seattle was targeted by a small group of protestors that marched through the city streets.

The flash mobs in Seattle took place at the same time as protests planned for Wall Street, Los Angeles and San Francisco! BART transit authorities have been dealing with flash mob protesters in the Bay Area all summer long. Every time the police arrive at one BART station, the flash mobs are already on their way to a new location to disrupt rush hour commuters at another station. The protestors’ stated objective- protesting an officer involved shooting by BART transit police- is identical to the events that sparked riots in London.

The Leaderless Resistance Model

The protestors are consciously trying to emulate what has occurred in Egypt and the process of looking for inspiration to revolutions in other parts of the world is not a coincidence. September 17th was planned by the “leaderless” resistance as a worldwide protest against banks, corporations and capitalism.

The protestors in New York City are now being arrested and in some cases law enforcement is deploying use of force. Despite their claims to be nonviolent followers of Martin Luther and Gandhi, police “violence” is exactly what the activists have been eagerly anticipating.

Mainstream Media Spin or Police Misconduct?

After weeks of a virtual media blackout on nationwide efforts by the Days of Rage activists to obtain coverage, Occupy Wall Street is finally getting traction with the Mainstream Media. The New York Times featured an article on September 27, 2011 that raises issues as to whether the police overreacted by using pepper spray to restrain and arrest some of the demonstrators. According to the Times article, the NYPD and federal government have been anticipating that the protests in New York City might lead to the kind of violence, arsons and looting that broke out in England.

The fact that social media can be used to foment anarchy raises the issue of whether it can also be used by law enforcement and communities to prevent the violence and looting that recently occurred in London and other cities in England.

The pattern by which such protests become opportunities for violence and looting- remember London and the WTO riots in Seattle- has law enforcement trying to understand how to utilize social media to prevent violence. Back in the good old days of the Sixties, when radical protests were planned and executed from bars and college dormitories- and not in cyberspace- the police would speak to the activists or use informants to understand what was happening. The transit authorities turned off cell service in Bay Area BART tunnels but drew the wrath of the ACLU and other civil libertarians. Listening to the activists via social media is probably a better alternative than simply turning off the technology that enables social networking.

An online hacking group called Anonymous is promoting the attacks against the BART system and also promotes Days of Rage-Occupy Wall Street protests. Another group behind the protests, called Adbusters, allegedlly receives funding from Soros-backed organizations.

Along with Constitutional issues, turning off cell service hampers the rest of us from dealing with emergencies that may potentially occur in the midst of a chaotic situation. One way to prevent flash mob political protests is to use social media as a means for law enforcement and the public to communicate before, during and after a crisis- but our cell phones need to work during the crises!

Stephen Lerner, one of the organizers of the Days of Rage “leaderless resistance” allegedly started his career as a leftist organizer with SDS back in the days when the City of Chicago experienced pitched battles between Chicago cops and supposedly peaceful SDS Weathermen in the streets. That was 1969. Now we see SEIU and the offspring of groups like ACORN, along with Michael Moore, Code Pink people and the usual gaggle of entertainment personalities.

They are all calling for a real Tahrir Square revolution in the streets of America. It seems relevant to note that 24 Coptic Christians were killed in October when they protested against fundamentalists burning thier churches with impunity in Egypt.

Another group active in organizing and guiding Occupy Wall Street, along with the Tides Foundation also Soros-funded, is the Working Family Party.

There is now reason to believe that these new darlings of the mainstream media plan to “occupy” the homes of greedy capitalists. But apparently they will only protest in front of the homes of certain bankers that are associated with the Republican side of things. The Occupiers claim to be opposed to the right-left paradigm, so we will see whether they ever say anything about George Soros!

He got his start in offshore banking, hedge funds, etc. Now he allegedly makes billions by selling currency short after he manipulates national governments into degarding their national currencies. Hmmmm….

In Oakland, the “peaceful protesters” have vandalized businesses, invaded banks and held up traffic at the Port of Oakland, bringing the nation’s fifth largest port to a standstill!

Meanwhile, right here in Washington State, we saw Longshoremen claiming police brutality at the Port of Longview despite Union members who violated court orders, destroyed property and allegedly imprisoned security guards at the Port.

Almost the next week, the Tacoma Teachers Association called an illegal strike, violated court orders and got most of what they asked for, including an agreement that both Tacoma schools and the teachers’ union talk nicely about each other:

“All sides “will refrain from publicly criticizing the leadership of the other party with respect to the parties, the negotiation of the CBA (collective bargaining agreement) or any event materially related to the negotiation of the CBA.”

The Nation is now suggesting that one way for unemployed, desperate young adults to rid society of unjust student loan debt (as well as other forms of “predatory” government sponsored lending) is to get engaged by manning the barricades in New York City and occupying Wall Street!

In Seattle and other areas they are occupying foreclosed homes that sit empty and during the evening of November 29th over 500 LAPD officers swept through the Occupy encampment outside the LA City Hall.

The same day in Olympia, Washington, protestors shouted down legislators in the Capitol Building, attacking and injuring several officers that tried to manage the situation.

Police Used Social Media During London’s Days of Rage

During the London riots that spread to other English towns and cities, the police utilized Twitter and other social media to follow up on rumors and prevent the rampant speculation that occurs when whole neighborhoods are being burned to the ground and homes and shops are invaded by gangs of thugs.

Those that followed certain LEOs received accurate assessments of what was occurring. Social media reassured people and dispelled rumors, according to Mark Payne, a Superintendent with the West Midlands Police. National TV channels were publishing banner headlines right from his tweets. The Superintendant states that he gained 5000 extra followers within 24 hours after the riots started. Payne provided the following advice that might be helpful to FWPD:

1) Use Social Media – Adopt much wider use of social media in police work and become adept at using it. Thinking about social media the day before an event doesn’t work. You need to understand what you are doing and develop a follower base so people start to trust your voice on a daily basis and turn to you for information in a crisis.

2) Be brave – you will make mistakes when you use social media, and once they are out there you can’t retract them easily. Nevertheless, the benefits of using social media outweigh the potential pitfalls.

3) Reach out to current users – one of the benefits of social media is that there are already lots of networks in Federal Way just waiting to talk to law enforcement.

4) Be an individual –monitor twitter feeds and answer questions in order to interact with the public in a manner that is consistent with established principles of community policing. Encourage individual officers to engage through social media. This allows local folks to follow a local cop, asking questions and talking to him or her about neighborhood issues. Twitter and other social media can add a personal dimension to a local officer that used to be more common when officers always walked their daily beats in the same part of town.

See Social Media, Police & Riots.

One Federal Way officer that patrols my neighborhood also lives nearby. He has not yet engaged me on Twitter but he stops and chats with me while I am getting my mail and I stop and converse with him when I see him. That kind of interaction is not always possible but knowing each other and being known in your community could become a critical factor in maintaining order when natural- or social forces- interrupt our normal world.

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Al Qaeda has successfully recruited Americans and American born Al Qaeda members are calling on recruits who were also born in the U.S. to attack their fellow Americans with automatic weapons. The successful attacks that killed 164 residents of Mumbai and wounded 300 with AK-47s and hand grenades have become a model for future jihad. One terrorist, Adam Gadahn, released an Al Qaeda video in which he stated that automatic weapons can be easily obtained at gun shows.

This misconception- the widespread belief that gun shows offer highly restricted full auto firearms for sale (illegal for most people to even possess)- has been repeated many times in the news media. I am a member of the Washington Arms Collectors and will attest that there are no machine guns for sale at WAC gun shows. WAC regulates its gun shows much more strictly than the BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS & EXPLOSIVES regulates its operations.

The BATFE recently pressured private gun dealers to participate in illegal sales of thousands of pistols and other weapons to “straw purchasers”, actually FBI informants using U.S. taxpayers’ money to purchase the weapons which included semi-automatic rifles mistakenly labeled by the media as assault rifles. The justification for the FAST & FURIOUS program was that the illegal guns could be tracked in order to identify illegal arms dealers. The informants were selling the guns to the cartels in Mexico and the BATFE lost track of the guns.

The weapons were used to kill at least one U.S. border agent and an unknown number of Mexican citizens. The U.S. government admits that mistakes were made but there has been very little explanation as to how the federal government expected to track the guns in the first place. The Mexican government is outraged and so are the American people. Now the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, is being subpoenaed to testify before Congress as to what he knew and when.

Even as two Congressional committees were trying to get straight answers from the BATFE (and Eric Holder’s Department of Justice), a group of American converts to Islam were busy buying guns that had been rendered inoperable from a government informant in SeaTac, Washington- just North of Federal Way. The guns were to be used in launching an attack on the Military Entrance Processing Station in Seattle.

On June 1, 2009, another jihad attack by an American convert killed one soldier and seriously wounded another at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas. Carlos aka “Muhammad” Bledsoe was never charged with any federal crimes and the case was handled in the Arkansas courts as a simple case of murder. The soldier’s death was classified as non-combat related and the fact that this attack even occurred is virtually unknown to most of us.

The Fort Hood shooter killed 13 people (12 soldiers) and wounded 29 in 2009. Recently the authorities have stopped another member of our armed forces from carrying out another such attack at Fort Hood.

Al Qaeda’s efforts to radicalize individuals right here in the U.S. without any direct communication or contact between Al Qaeda and its American disciples has now been very well documented.

Every time there is an attack, the authorities launch new probes into how someone failed to connect the dots. Such a probe is now being commenced in Norway to answer questions about what took the police so long to arrive at a youth camp where a rightwing ideologue hunted and killed school children because their parents were members of Norway’s ruling political party.

The terrorist commenced his attack on the youth camp by killing an unarmed, uniformed police officer. Anders Breivik claimed to be connected with networks of cell groups around Europe and expected to someday be elevated to heroic status in Europe.

All these misguided individuals, including possibly the United States Attorney General, share a certain stance when it comes to personal morality. Once the discussion shifts to a new order of morality based on abstract considerations- like defending a religion or an ideology- the time has come to sound a strong alarm!

Apparently quite a few agents at the BATFE were objecting vehemently to the federal government’s OPERATION FAST & FURIOUS (which spanned several agencies) but higher-ups in the federal government surrendered their sense of right and wrong to a cause that transcended personal moral considerations- a cause that very well may have involved creating statistics in order to justify banning so-called assault rifles.

Stop and think about all the unexpected places that threats can materialize. Government agencies are prone to blind spots that prevent them from identifying actual threats and responding on time. There are not enough resources in the world to identify every group that might pose a potential threat. People that maintain a true moral compass are the first and last line of defense against violence and political agendas based on expediency and misguided value systems.

Terror at Beslan by John Giduck discusses the terrorist attack on Russian school children. The author is a security professional with extensive law enforcement background and the book contains law enforcement related analysis related to the difficulties of handling a hostage situation (or multiple coordinated situations) where the hostage-takers have already determined that they want to cause maximum harm to children.

One very important point that is easy to overlook is how volunteers, many of whom were armed Russian civilians, made the job in Beslan more difficult for the professionals. One role that armed citizens like our local ADTA members can provide- in the event that terrorists ever get hold of a school- is to encourage parents and others at the scene to cooperate with the police. We should also be prepared to conduct surveillance of the environment outside the areas of police control.

The vicinity around the school, including the parents and media people that gather near the school, will almost certainly contain observers working with the terrorists inside the school. Additionally secondary attacks are often planned against first responders. The police will have their own surveillance detection in the area but they can’t see everything.

A few years ago, I attended a class on surveillance detection that was provided jointly by state, local and federal governments at Federal Way City Hall. Just being alert, calm and cooperative with the police helps a great deal. The anxiety and clamor from the public at large can add to the chaos of such a tragedy during rapidly changing situations!

Hopefully, if anything ever happens here, our local ADTA members will have enough credibility with law enforcement and the whole community that we can play a role by just telling anxious parents and other Federal Way residents why we all need to be cooperative, calm and vigilant.

Getting to know your local police so that they know you understand the dynamics of such a situation is important. The professionals need to understand that we are part of the solution and not potential problems like some of the volunteers at Beslan that kept shooting into the school from behind the police lines inadvertently killing some first responders!

Give us feedback as to whether a class based on the book about Beslan and how to deal with such an event if it happens here will be well received by our members. Meanwhile, order the book and ask for it at local ranges. I am convinced the U.S. will experience the kind of attacks experienced in Mumbai and Beslan.

Initially, the armed citizen may be the best chance of throwing the plans of the terrorists out of whack. One armed citizen stands little chance of surviving or even stopping the initial attack but, like the author says, there are worst fates than dying violently.

We need training based on realistic scenarios in order to train like we will fight if we knew our kids were going to be tortured and killed!

This is a very serious subject and it’s a very unpleasant one. But we cannot hide our heads in the sand or deny the evidence coming from the interrogation rooms and terrorist training sites on the web. It’s a matter of when, not if. This is one of the reasons we carry weapons. Think of the good an “amateur” can do, stumbling on to a terror plot and stopping those that would create chaos and horror and grief. Each one of us has the ability to throw such plans into disarray. Stranger things have happened. People need to be alert these days and the time to decide to use deadly force in defense of others is now, not when the need arises. By then, it will be too late.”

The words above are from a retired member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that knows something about gunfights. I am not sure where he is getting his information; however, he gets feeds from many of the top law enforcement intelligence gathering services.

I encourage you to send an e-mail to me at knapp.m@comcast.net. Also check out Israel’s answer to school violence.

Schools and school buses are probably under surveillance by terrorists and being “pinged” in order to guage reactions and identify security measures.

Beslan was the event in Russia that is a model and was probably a dress rehearsal for the rape, slaughter and torture of young school children (no Todd Beamer’s this time unless an armed rescuer just arrives somehow, Rambo style). When the responders and concerned parents gather there will be booby traps and/or snipers. Keep in mind that every time some mindless shooter goes into a school like in the Virginia Tech shooting or several that have occcured in just the last week, the media analysis acts as intelligence that is picked up by professional Al Qaeda agents and their affiliates. These operatives are able to study every aspect of the reaction time, vulnerabilities, follow up, etc. You have to realize they are taking notes and making plans.

Every anti-gun idealogue that refuses to acknowlege the need for armed security forces in our schools is acting in a fashion that is tantamount to that of an accomplice.

Almost every attack has been in a “gun-free” zone. Thus, the murderer knows that it is unlikely any of his or her victims will be armed. At the present time, the Washington Administrative Code, promulgated by unelected bureaucrats, prohibits weapons on campus in Washington. It is questionable whether the WAC regulations have any legal effect since they conflict with Washington State’s firearms preemption law that prohibits any local municipal gun laws that further restrict concealed carry beyond the restrictions in the RCWs.

That is why some liberal lawyers and anti-gunners in Olympia want to get a new law passed to “clarify” the situation. No one wants to be a test case and you could get dismissed from your state university for carrying so each student in a state college or university has to make an informed decision as to whether to exercise his or her right to carry on campus with a valid carry license pursuant to our state laws.

It is your life and your education that is at stake. There is no right to carry at a high school or elementary school with or without a license to carry, at this time. But write to your representatives and demand that something be done rather than listening to the anti-gun lobby chant that “common sense regulation and appropriate restrictions on weapons will solve the problem.”

The restrictions only restrict law- abiding people and not criminals, psychopaths and terrorists. If a single person would gun down a defenseless person, that same person will pay no attention to a law restricting guns.

In fact, the gun-free status of the institution or facility makes it a target for the psychopathic killer.

When I heard about the terrorists’ plans for attacks on schools, I went back to carrying a 1911 in .45 ACP with two extra high capacity clips instead of my five shot .38 snubby (sometimes I carried the snubby and the big semi-automatic in .45 cal). Now I have a Sig P238 for backup and I traded my 1911 with a 4″ barrel for the same weapon with 5″ barrel to improve accuracy.

The individuals that need to be the first line of defense, however, are the students, instructors and staff with either concealed carry permits or specialized training possibly with a new kind of license indicating some advanced tactical training for the situations anticipated herein. It is not possible to hire enough armed guards to guard a large high school or college campus. Most of the security guards that do provide a presence at such places are unarmed security guards, however.

Remember, the reason for such slaughter is not because the terrorists expect us to cave in. Al Qaeda does not really care much about our foreign policy toward Israel and the West Bank either. They want you to get so mad that some of you start murdering innocent American Muslim people. This will alienate the moderate Muslims within and outside of America pushing them into the Islamicist camp.

True Followers of Christ will not engage in murdering innocent people but many Americans may be carried away with the concept of imprisoning Arabic people in the same way as Japanese were interned during WW II. Even a declaration of martial law could follow the holocaust that the Al Qaeda franchise is planning.

The same “liberals” that already want to restrict our gun rights and disarm honest people because of the crimes committed by psychopaths and criminals may be holding the reins of power if and when the country faces the chaos of a WMD or some other disaster. The jihadist believes that in a few generations a Caliphate will arise to force you to submit (that is what Islam means- submission) to its religious laws.

Many of the U.S. authorities are presently so eager to accomodate (and are intimidated by CAIR and threats of legal action and Islamicist violence) that Christianity is being denigrated while Islam is celebrated in the name of diversity. There are many examples but sufficient to state for now that these are the first steps toward submission.

Arming yourself legally (with a concealed carry permit in a majority of states) is not vigilante action. It is a lawful precaution for self-defense. Reasonable men and women obey the laws. The “Islamofascists” count on some Americans, maybe even the government, to react to the slaughter and/or abuse of innocent Muslim people. This will work as a recruiting tool for jihad (remember the Japanese internment under FDR and Earl Warren during WW II). Keep an eye on school buses and warn public officials and your neighbors. Self-defense and defense of others when attacked is not vigilantiism.

Make sure you recognize your school bus drivers and ask your local school district to provide for some staff to become trained and certified to carry weapons. It will take a change in the laws of most states, including Washington State, but we need to take precautions similar to the Israeli schools and schools in other countries like Thailand where the staff is armed and ready for jihad. Meanwhile get your permit and learn how to shoot.

It takes time to get ready and, even if you do not make the choice to get armed at this time, now is the time you can be observant and you should call 911 when things seem the least bit suspicious. Around the U.S., remote control planes have been observed cruising over bridges and other infrastructure and there is reason to believe that videos are being transmitted by means of remote control helicopters and planes(they show up on You Tube). Any supicious activity involving facilities or infrastructure being observed and/or filmed should be reported. Remember that there are already terrorist training sessions online that focus on elementary schools, School buses are also probable targets.

No person knows the future but the intentions of our enemies have been clearly announced and our government is telling us the enemy is here already. Why do so many deny that this is so? There is gang intelligence suggesting that weapons transfers involving Middle Eastern operatives are occuring near the Mexican border. Denial is a basic psychological mechanism. The fact that money is changing hands indicates that gangs from South of the border are involved in joint operations to insert jihadists into the U.S.

The fact that many people do not want to believe these things does not mean it is not happening. A few jihadists with AK-47s can paralyze this country if they have a plan and are willing to die like they have done in Beslan and many other places. A few Americans with some pistols can stop them if we are trained and mentally prepared.

See also The Muslim Way of Death.