Molon Labe! (72 page)

"You may be right, sir. No news is certainly good news."

Washington, D.C.

May 2019

Congress passes the
Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act
which requires all
"assault weapons"
(which had supposedly been
NFA
registered under the
Dangerous Weapons Act
of 2007) to be turned in for a $500 compensation. Owners have 90 days to comply, or face a mandatory 10-year prison term with all of their firearms confiscated.

The Government immediately authorizes a study to help recognize in advance Americans likely to resist the
SSNA
. The study analyzes the psychological profiles of those who helped the Jews during the Holocaust. It finds that they shared three characteristics:

1)   Had a spirit of adventure

2)   Intensely identified with a parent of high moral standard

3)   Did
not
identify closely with social groups (non-team player)

All FBI field agents are given an abridged copy of the study to better target possibly dissident gun owners.

There is much mewling about the harsh terms of the
SSNA
, but since far too many gun owners had foolishly registered their battle carbines and rifles (or lived in states without private sale transactions, which made ownership transparent to the databases), little could be done. There was no local sanctuary, no place to go, nowhere to hide.

Except in Wyoming.

Wyoming

Summer 2019

Several million gun owners take their summer vacation in the Cowboy State to sell their soon banned rifles, like London children relocated to the countryside during the Blitz. Huge purchasing depots are set up off the Interstates just inside the Wyoming borders at Evanston, Cheyenne, Sundance, and Ranchester. Sellers are encouraged to also bring any related cases, shooting gear, magazines, accessories, ammo, and reloading equipment.

I-25 south of Cheyenne is backed up for twelve miles. The Colorado State Patrol and the ATF erected a northbound lane checkpoint to ensnare front range Denverites eager to offload their rifles before the ban. A similar checkpoint is operated by the UHP and ATF on I-80 outside of Salt Lake City. Nebraska wanted checkpoints, but didn't have the resources.

Idaho, Montana, and South Dakota do not demean themselves with such checkpoints.

The smart travelers know to put their locked cased guns in the
trunk
, refuse to answer questions or consent to vehicular searches, and arrive via secondary routes. These folks make it to Wyoming. Other travelers do not. They are charged with illegal gun trafficking and have their firearms confiscated (as well as their cars under civil forfeiture laws).

Once in Wyoming, there is a final hurdle to clear. Because federal law prohibits the interstate private sale of guns, these out-of-staters are asked to sign a statement that they are
"present in Wyoming with the intention of making a home here."
Under USC Title 18 provisions, this gives them Wyoming residency with respect to the federal gun laws regulating transfers.

For all, the trip is arduous. They have to pack up their prized possessions, make it through a law enforcement gauntlet, and then muster up the final will to actually make the sale. As they bitterly sell their HK91s and FALs and M14s — as they weepingly relinquish the WW2 and Korea M1 Garands of their deceased warrior fathers — they are consoled by the assurance that these cherished instruments of war, sacrifice, and liberty will never end up in a federal smelter or hydraulic press.

Most take cash, but many accept
OroCorp
account credits in, hoping to someday return for good. Nearly 60,000 stay behind — political refugees happily living armed in tents, campers, and RVs — all vowing to sell their homes back in "Occupied Territory."

Cheyenne, Wyoming

August 2019

"Governor, that report you asked for is ready. The one on the forced urbanization of the rural West."

Preston smiles tiredly. "Oh, right. Thanks. I can't say I've been looking forward to reading this, but we must stay informed of our antagonists' intentions."

"RURAL CLEANSING"

[Do the]
"Wild Earth" and the "Wildlands Project" advocate the end of industrial civilization? Most assuredly. Everything civilized must go!

— John Davis, Editor of
Wild Earth
, 1992

Isn't it the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

— Maurice Strong, interview with Jim Johnston for the
British Columbia Report
, 18 May 1992, Vol.3/#37/p.22

(The liberal cultural revolution)
is not willing to live and let live... Cheyenne, Wyoming, can tolerate the existence of New York City and Los Angeles, but L.A. and New York City can't abide knowing that, out there on the steppes and in the mountains of the Great American Desert, the other America is leading an existence that fits its own particular circumstances, customs, and preferences.

— Chilton Williamson, Jr., "Democracy and the Art of Handloading,"
Chronicles
, Feb 2001

rural cleansing
— to remove farm and ranch land from production by spurious ecological or environmental decree

Endangered Species Act (ESA)
— legislation which protects plants and animals over human beings

toad throwing
— using the US Dept. of Fish & Wildlife to harass a neighbor by sneaking an "Endangered Species" critter onto his property

God Squad
— the Endangered Species Committee, a panel of seven cabinet-level officials convened to weigh the economic and social costs against risks of extinction, with override power of ESA provisions

After two generations of a largely successful war on the American people, the US Government (USG) is now targeting the last holdouts: rural citizens. Having won the battles of economics, finance, politics, travel, privacy, communication, and education, the two final hills for the USG to conquer are the family farm and the country ranch.

Where else is an American beyond daily police control? Where else is an American outside the 24 hour surveillance of omniscient databanks and ubiquitous cameras? Where else is an American generally free to do whatever he pleases? Where else can an American achieve physical self-sufficiency in food, shelter, and energy, and thus slough off the inherent bondage of the modern interdependent society? Where else can an American easily avoid the mindless pablum of television? Where else can an American raise his family as he sees fit, thus transmitting generational software (
i.e.,
values, morals, work ethic, etc.) in spite of government and media programming efforts?

There's nothing like the opportunity for children when they're being raised, learning to be around cattle and do chores, to be around wood and land and iron at a young age, learning to work. That's probably the biggest reason that we stay in the ranching business.

That's why I want my grandkids around. ...It's pretty hard for a government agent to pull the wool over someone's eyes that's ever had to deal with fire and rain and wind and snow and all the other elements. My kids started working right at my side fighting fires, moving cattle at 11 or 12 years old....

You don't just feed cows or chickens; you have to feed 'em right or they don't produce, and that's a discipline that's learned, that's what they learn very young. Not like a bunch of bureaucrats who live in an imaginary, abstract world. We have to live in the real world. If we don't adhere to and work with nature, we get cold pretty danged fast. Someone who works for the government because they've got a degree might get away with ignoring the truth, but anyone in the ranching business, we haven't been here for four generations because we ignored the truth and didn't work with nature.

— from
The Ballad of Carl Drega
(2002), p. 169

The rural American, especially those on their own family farm and ranch, is the USG's final, and most threatening, enemy. The city folk have long since been co-opted, and even the libertarian holdouts are implicitly at government's mercy due to the fragility of urban life. Cut off electricity, food, or water for any extended period and Ayn Rand herself would have quickly caved from her 6th floor 34th Street Manhattan apartment.

The country folk, however, have yet to be conquered. They are the most threatening. What other Americans can thumb their nose at government and urban socialism and say,
"No thanks! We don't
need
you!"
Those outside of the tax/welfare circuitry are enemies to socialism because they have no vested interest in the redistribution/regulatory scheme. An urban "black marketeer" is bad enough in the eyes of government, but those engaged in the
rural
underground (
i.e.,
free) economy are many times more of a threat because of their lifestyle's self-sufficiency and privacy.

Since it is not cost-effective to monitor rural Americans individually, and since it cannot be done collectively, the solution is to urbanize them. From farm to public housing, from ranch to brick tenement, the USG must herd these mustangs off their land and into the city corrals where all broken horses belong. Obviously, they will not go willingly or quietly. So, the USG must "yank the rug out from under them." The "rug" is the land itself. This actually began during the early 1960s:

In 1962, the Committee for Economic Development comprised approximately seventy-five of the nation's most powerful corporate executives. They represented not only the food industry but also oil and gas, insurance, investment and retail industries. Almost all groups that stood to gain from
[farm]
consolidation were represented on that committee. Their report
("An Adaptive Program for Agriculture")
outlined a plan to eliminate farmers and farms. It was detailed and well thought out.

...
[A]
s early as 1964, congressmen were being told by industry giants like Pillsbury, Swift, General Foods, and Campbell Soup that the biggest problem in agriculture was too many farmers.

— Joel Dyer,
Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma Is Only the Beginning

Noting that farm children who went off to college rarely returned to the family farm, programs were instituted to send farm kids to college. As expected, they did not return. After a generation, a handful of agro-conglomerates had generally driven America's small farmers off their land by paying them less for their produce than the cost of growing it, thus throwing farmers into the welcoming clutches of bankers. Once mortgages had been assumed, foreclosures were only a matter of time given the artificial boom/bust cycles of the Federal Reserve. The Department of Agriculture helpfully supplied its Form A0109 farmland census data to the corporate raiders.

In 2019 you can count on
one hand
the number of multinational companies who control the world's grain supply. Three companies control over 80% of America's beef-packing market. Less than ten corporations control nearly all of our packaged food. The desired consolidation of America's farms into "agribusiness" had been achieved. It's been done only once before in history: during Stalin's reign with the 1930s "dekulakization" of independent small farmers and agricultural collectivization.

Farmers have gone from a majority to a minority to a curiosity. Since 1991, their leading cause of violent death is no longer accidents, but suicide.

By the 1980s, however, a mini-revolution in food and farming was flourishing: organic fruits, vegetables, and meats. In the nation's latest population migration, people were forsaking the madness of the cities and seeking small acreages of paradise in the country — especially in the West. By the late 1990s, the land rights movement (comprised of ranchers, farmers, and other rural folk) had become a major thorn in the globalists' hide.

What we're seeing in 2019 is a multi-pronged attack using the Endangered Species Act, the UN's "Rewilding" and "Biosphere Reserves" and "World Heritage" and "anti-desertification" programs, etc. You'll notice that the federal land grab under environmental pretense is a
western
phenomenon, perpetrated by Eastern Socialists. These are people who shriek at our mining, logging, hunting, fishing, and cattle grazing, yet who have long ago covered their own states with asphalt and concrete. What hypocrisy!

One possible legal defense

We must challenge the
jurisdiction
of these land regulations. The two relevant clauses in the Constitution are:

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever,...over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;...

— Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution