[Osborn F Enready]

Autolykos said:
The tragic thing, Osborn, is that those in the government really have no qualms about killing you (or me, or anyone else) if you stand in their way, as long as the majority continue to tacitly submit.

I say:
Oh, I most certainly agree. I believe their point has been being made quite clearly since before Ruby Ridge, and even moreso since Waco.

That is why I believe in the old adage...."practice makes perfect". As Cmdr. Marcinko would say, "the more thou bleedeth in training, the less thou bleedeth when the "merde hits the ventilliteure".

I take it as my responsibility to be able to arm myself with a chance, through knowledge and practical application practice. Luckily, in our previously free society, information has been readily available to enhance, and further our knowledge of everything from tactics to tools of the trade.

From the "Anarchists Cookbook" to the "U.S. Army Tactics and Training" official field manuals, people have the opprotunity to best educate themselves as they see fit. I understand the machine that is my biggest enemy, and I specialized my training in short circuiting that very machine, as well as protecting my and my loved ones well being through the use of superior tactics, and overwhelming force.

Rights are all we have, and I would be a fool not to use them to help me protect my loved ones, and the rights I so value. That is what the forefathers intended, and I would really love to chew the fat with George Washington about the advantages of the .308 vs. the .223, but alas, no time machine yet exists.

Regardless, it is our own duty individually to prepare ourselves for our battles we see as most likely, most threatening to come within our lives, or the lives of our children.

I am 90% prepared for emergency, the question is, are you?