It’s secession or war.
Four days after the election, a woman calling herself OHMama posted “I Am Done” on The Burning Platform website. It was the site’s most read article of 2020. SLL and many other websites reposted it. It was raw, explosive anger and a profoundly moving lament; OHMama was clearly at the end of her rope. The closing paragraph packed a wallop.
I was raised to be a lady, and ladies don’t curse, but fuck these motherfuckers to hell and back for what they’ve done to me, and mine, and my country. All we Joe Blow Americans ever wanted was a little patch of land to raise a family, a job to pay the bills, and at least some illusion of freedom, and even that was too much for these human parasites. They want it all, mind, body and soul. Damn them. Damn them all.
OHMama gave voice to what’s beneath the surface for so many of us—abject disgust, barely contained fury, and dread of what’s to come. She claimed her own life to live it as she sees fit, and damn them, damn them all, who presume to rule us.
That anger surfaced in Washington on January 6. The protest and raid of the Capitol were illuminating in several ways. They defined the two sides: the government, its string-pullers, and its allies versus those who despise and oppose them.
The Saul Alinsky line was crossed, setting an important precedent. His acolytes insist their enemies live by their own rules while exempting themselves from any rules other than those that secure power. Playing by the rules when the opposition doesn’t is a guaranteed loser. Caring what they think of you is craven. Cowering when they call you hypocrites is unilateral surrender. Going forward, Alinsky’s acolytes may face an opposition that plays by the same rules they do—those necessary to secure power.
The Capitol raid scared the crap out of uniparty politicians, witness the hysterical overreaction. Given what they and their accomplices have done to Americans and people around the world, they should live in perpetual, mortal terror. Unfortunately, their cowardice outruns their brains. Instead of responding to the message they’ll shoot the messenger and clamp down harder.
Legacy media was filled with paeans to our “sacred” government and its “temples,” deploring the “sacrilege” of those who “desecrated” and “defiled” them. What absolute tripe! Washington is a Corruptocracy, a moral cesspool. Anything sacred would have been vandalized or torn down by the mobs allowed to run riot last year. They would have toppled the Washington Monument if they could have figured out how.
Americans who build businesses or pursue careers honestly producing goods and services for voluntary trade are engaging in activities far more sacred than anything that goes on in the capital. Millions of parents instill moral principles in their children, only to see those principles defiled daily by the government. Washington delenda est—if it were leveled and sown with salt America and the world would be better for it.
The corruptocrats’ ability to shore up the debt-riddled global financial and economic systems with ever more debt has astounded skeptics, among them SLL. The debt load is many times annual global production and debt service is sucking up that production like a tapeworm sucks up its victim’s meals. Every financial asset is a debt or equity claim, and virtually every income stream and real asset—factories, real estate, houses, warehouses, inventories, office buildings, malls, etc.—has been pledged or mortgaged, often several times over.
We saw the global daisy chain unravel in 2008 and 2009 and the system is daisy-chainier now. If you’re looking for canaries in the coal mine, watch the yields on sovereign debt. Once they really start to climb it’s game over. The devastation will be unprecedented and epic.
Collapse will decimate over-indebted, non-productive governments that have made promises they can’t keep to millions of their citizens. That may be part of a plan to destroy national governments and generate clamor for totalitarian global government. Yet, every tyranny confronts the question: who is going to host its predation and parasitism if the disobedient but productive (there is a correlation) have been imprisoned or executed? Slavery is notoriously unproductive.
Globo-government will be in the same position as the national governments it supersedes—bankrupt, bereft of resources, and unable to produce anything other than fiat debt instruments. Dispensing a steadily depreciating universal basic income will be problematic. Not that it will bother globo-government if billions of its wards die of poverty and starvation. The bigger concern will be securing the resources necessary for surveillance and suppression of the remaining enslaved.
Enfeebled or failed governments of any stripe engender both chaos and opportunity. Collapse and chaos will be huge blows to governments, the perpetual enemies of liberty, but could be a game changer for the liberty-minded, who are well-advised to wait for the bubble to burst.
Chaos will require preparation by those who want to capitalize on the opportunity. Many alternative media sites stress personal preparation and establishing local networks, and offer valuable strategies and advice. Readers are invited to list their favorites in the comments section. No one can prepare for every contingency, but if you haven’t prepared for the most obvious ones—grid down, lack of access to food and water, etc.—now is the time to do so.
If governments are the enemy and are destined to collapse, then the opposition should do everything possible to hasten that collapse. In the US, twenty-five million people, about a third of Trump’s voters, simultaneously withdrawing their financially intermediated assets would spread panic across our massively over-leveraged, inextricably interconnected globe. (For more, see Revolution in America, Robert Gore, SLL, January 7, 2015.)
There’s a powerful inducement for preemptive withdrawal: the front of the line is the best place to be during a bank run (other than not being in line at all). The bank run is inevitable, the question is whether or not you want to be its victim. This strategy is legal, effective, nonviolent, and hits governments where they are weakest—their insolvency and inability to produce.
Our opponents have clearly defined goal—absolute power—and they are absolutely committed to subjugating or eliminating anyone who stands in their way. Until recently most of those on our side didn’t even realize we were at war.
Before such a war goes kinetic (the modern term for old-fashioned war where people get killed) and in the hope that it doesn’t, we need a clearly defined goal and a strategy to achieve it. The goal is the fundamental right of every human: the liberty to peaceably live one’s own life and pursue one’s own happiness. The strategy is more complicated.
Peacefully splitting the US into two or more countries when it is so irretrievably and irreconcilably riven is almost breathtaking in its common sense. You go your way and we’ll go ours appeals to both logic and justice. What could be fairer than to give people a choice?
Our side should never stop advocating for a peaceful split and our own territory. This does not mean advocating for insurrection and revolution, which would imply replacing the current government with one of our own. Why would we want to take possession of a cesspool government and rule over so many who hate us? Secession and liberty, not insurrection and revolution, are the goals. Leave the present government to the corruptocrats, their minions, and their dependents.
Most productive people would opt for liberty. Absolute power would have to feed, subjugate, and terrorize masses of subsistence-level slaves. It would be counting on enslaving the productive without reckoning on what replacing incentives with fear and coercion would do to their willingness to produce or their desire to stay. The totalitarians cannot allow a free alternative to coexist just across the border. Unfortunately, peaceful secession is a remote possibility, which means contemplating the alternative.
The government’s many senseless wars have demonstrated the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare against forces superior in every conventional metric: manpower, firepower, and technology. Among tens of millions of potential secessionists, many of them well-armed, there are members or veterans of the military with counterinsurgency experience. They’ve gone to school on guerrillas and their tactics. They’ll likely provide secessionist military leadership once the totalitarians’ war (and they will start it) goes kinetic.
Modern, decentralized technologies and weaponry will be a key component of secessionist strength. The war will be won more with brains and creativity than troop strength or bravado. Teams that can design and assemble weaponized drones and robots, experts in artificial intelligence, remote-control munitions specialists, and computer hackers will be more important military assets than platoons of AR-15 toting commandos.
These technologies will be essential to counter the opposition’s surveillance capabilities, infrastructure, and command and control systems. Secessionists who ignore next-generation technologies, believe they won’t be deployed against them, or fail to realize their offensive potential will be fighting the last war…and they will lose. These technologies are relatively cheap compared to traditional superpower weaponry; their biggest expense is the brainpower they incorporate. It’s a safe bet that among 70 plus million Trump voters and otherwise disaffected that kind of brainpower can be found.
Don’t assume that those within the present power structure, or the emerging globalist one, won’t use every weapon in their arsenal to preserve their hold on power, even at the cost of their own and humanity’s extinction. While the police and military may refuse to fire on their own kin and countrymen, it’s impossible to overestimate the suicidal depravity of the so-called humans issuing their orders. Thus, while conventional armaments, remote technologies, committed secessionists, and guerrilla warfare will be important and essential when kinetic war breaks out, they won’t, in and of themselves, guarantee victory. Too much faith that they will could in fact lead to the opposite outcome.
Along with a straightforward assessment of the opposition’s weaknesses and strengths and a realistic strategy for capitalizing on the former and neutralizing the latter, it’s time to convert current rage into a full-scale political movement. That doesn’t mean the pound-your-head-against-the-wall strategy of trying to win rigged elections. It does mean informing, persuading, and recruiting—the nitty gritty of building a political movement. Much of that building will have to be underground as public dissidence is canceled, corrected, and punished. One of the Viet Cong’s key assets was its political arm, the National Liberation Front, to which they gave much of the credit for their success in the Vietnam war.
Most of the necessary technical brainpower will be found among the young. Right now, the average secessionist is over sixty, voted for Trump, owns plenty of firearms, and has vague notions of a mass movement of the like-minded either miraculously defeating the government or going out in a bolt-hole blaze of glory. That’s not a strategy, it’s a death wish.
It’s easier to carp about snowflakes and SJWs than it is to reach out and educate the open-minded among the young (yes, they are out there) to show them that they will be the primary victims of totalitarianism. The gray curtain is descending over their futures. They have to be inspired by the vision of something far better—their own freedom—if that gray curtain is not to become their gray shroud. You can do worse than give them copies of the Declaration of Independence, The Road to Serfdom, and Atlas Shrugged.
It’s not necessary to change the thinking of every member of Generations X, Y, and Z, or even a majority. What’s essential is to make connections and form alliances with some of the best, brightest, and bravest, to inspire their commitment to their own freedom and future. Start with your own children and grandchildren, and remember that listening is a big part of persuasion. To be understood one must first understand.
Nothing will be fair about the coming fight. It’s no use whining about the other side’s lack of principles, its lies, hypocrisy, unfairness, ruthlessness, and control of virtually every important institution. They’re evil totalitarians, what the hell do we expect? Their principle is absolute power and they’ll do whatever is necessary to acquire and keep it.
Ashli Babbitt’s death, if it is to mean anything at all, should be the cold slap of reality across the faces of those who haven’t grasped the nature of what we face. To ignore the risk that breaching an Imperial Sanctum would be met with violence was pure foolishness. The demonstrators who entered the Capitol could have been murdered en masse. Any expectation that their murderers would receive justice from the Corruptocracy would be delusional naiveté.
No more foolishness or naiveté. Any supposedly peaceful protest will be infiltrated by agent provocateurs bent on making trouble for our cause (including the protests being advertised for next week). The totalitarians will do what they do until they’re completely defeated. This is war, which calls for the unremitting exercise of cold, ruthless rationality. We will administer justice and show mercy when appropriate, but we will expect or receive neither from the other side.
Let’s get on with it.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
Let’s get on with it. Powerful, Bob.
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Thank you and let’s get on with it.
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Having read most (if not all of your work, including your novels), I want to say that this is your best essay yet. Your ideas are exactly what we patriots now need.
Personally, having over 35 years in the software engineering field, I would offer my skills and expertise to any such effort. I’m ready.
Let’s indeed get on with it.
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Thank you and thanks for volunteering. On such are movements built.
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Hi, I’m a devops guy and I’m contemplating for a while now to start developing a content sharing platform for homeschooling parents.
Type of educational content: articles, documents, presentations, images, url’s,..
Any such existing open-source projects to your knowledge?
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Check out khanacademy.org. Also, I believe Tom Woods and the Ron Paul institute have that kind of material. You might also want to look at Richard Maybury’s Uncle Eric series of books (richardmaybury.com).
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software engineering… I ask: how about building more media such as gab.com, using the tools they offer on their site? Effiicent communiations are going to be badly needed.
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Private communications trump efficient communications by a mile.
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Reblogged this on Starvin Larry.
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Excellent as usual, Robert. Have been waiting for part two. Linked as always @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Let’s hope it doesn’t go kinetic!!!
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I love the sentiment, but don’t think a break is feasible unless the federal government is bogged down in a foreign war that results in fighting on US soil, or the dollar collapses. Nevertheless, a great article.
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I’m willing to wait for collapse. I don’t think it’s that far away.
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same same for over a decade now. At present Uncle Schmuel keeps most of the world on the dollar by keeping most of the oil-producers on the dollar….at gunpoint. So, yeah, a lost war might do it. Unfortunately, Biden/(((Blinken))) are actually less likely to start one and lose than ZOG-tool Trump and Christian Zionist crazy Pompeo.
frankly, I expect the Jews to continue slowly boiling the White frog, and the white frog to keep voting….and voting….and voting…
until it’s dead. A white population stupid enough to take Zion Don seriously as a populist/nationalist or whatever for one minute, never mind June 2015 to date, is probably too stupid to survive.
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And you Haxo The Great are the one who will survive? What a putz!
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Few will survive the last 8 years that will commence this decade:
https://sumofthyword.com/2016/10/04/the-rapture-of-the-church-is-after-the-tribulation/
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+1000
Bravo.
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Thanks CA.
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Ditto CA. But for the love of all that defines wanting to be taken seriously, please bloggers ditch the (now tedious) cutesy red/blue maps that in no way depict how things are now, or will in the near future, function. Just stop.
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No, no mercy for them as they will show us none. A waste of time trying to show them the error of their ways. This is truly a struggle between the Children of Light and slaves to Darkness.
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I am a most fortunate revolutionary. I do not have to overthrow the current government. I can just wait for it to collapse. How’s that fiat dollar, the two TRILLION you plan to bribe the serfs with, working out for you Joe?
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Thank you, Robert. From this point on, it is all about watching and waiting. We will be full Weimar very soon. It is time for all of us who are aware to go gray, STFU, and get ready for the tribulation which is coming. Bleib ubrig.
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Well said Robert. If we don’t embrace and bring young people into the fold, we have no future. If this madness continues, they have no future and I’m hoping they see the writing on the wall vs. the shadows on the wall.
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I think many of us are motivated to try to provide a better future for future generations.
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Nicely done. It is nice to see an author put the blame where it is due instead of on some nebulous group typically referred to as “leftists.” The federal government and its foreign and domestic vassal states and private sector cronies are to blame for the downward spiral to socialism, destitution, and totalitarianism. After all, there can be no leftism or socialism without the coercion of the state. Furthermore, as stated by Hans Hermann Hoppe (another author that should be put into the hands of America’s youth), there can be no socialism without the state:
“…the socio-psychological foundations of socialism is identical to that of the foundations of a state, if there were no institution enforcing socialistic ideas of property, there would be no room for a state, as a state is nothing else than an institution built on taxation and unsolicited, noncontractual interference with the use that private people can make of their natural property. There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.” – Hoppe, “The Theory of Capitalism and Socialism”
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“The totalitarians will do what they do until they’re completely defeated. This is war, which calls for the unremitting exercise of cold, ruthless rationality. We will administer justice and show mercy when appropriate, but we will expect or receive neither from the other side.”
Robert, you have so comprehensively tied yourself up in knots, made of gross hypocrisy, willful ignorance, barbarism, and just unhinged nonsensical fabrications.
In short, what you’ve produced here, is just extreme and unhinged fear porn, that has no root in reality.
Oh, and the hypocrisy is off the charts.
What you’re trying to say here, is if we (“libertarians”) commit violence on the left, or anyone else who gets in our way, it’s for a good cause.
But if my (Robert Gore) perceptions of the left are committing the same crimes that we carry out, will scream about it.
Robert, I think in years to come, your blog will be very useful to sociologists, when they do an historical perspective on why white western culture collapsed.
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Thank you, John Q. Normybias.
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Ha, fear porn, he says! Must have soiled his diaper and needs a changing. You talk like you know something about history yet you fail to note the correlations between then and now as regards totalitarianism. Back to the books for you before the Man comes for your head with a blade!
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America leads. Pray you find the right path.
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Communism fell in the USSR and Eastern Europe when troops refused to follow orders to shoot their countrymen.
Armed AI-driven killer drones and robots will have no such moral compunctions.
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That’s correct, and neither will ours.
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Robotics/AI have a very weak spot — logistics. One should not attack the machine but the energy and tech sources that support the machine. Those supply chains are very thin indeed. Matt you are better versed in matters related to this, so I have to assume you have some thoughts in how to defeat them.
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Indeed lets get on with it.
But drop the pretense of a divided land. Its all or nothing. There is a rationale for that end game. Lets say the country split in three — west coast, middle america, northeast. When the socialist economies of the west and east start to crumble they will apply the tactic that all socialists use — blame the other, in this case middle america. Border wars will ensue that lead to full scale conflict.
Apply any political matrix you wish. But in the end, it comes down to all or nothing. The only thing in doubt is the time scale in which it occurs.
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‘Secession and liberty, not insurrection and revolution, are the goals.’
Amen and amen.
A lot of authors are putting out some of their best work in this crisis, thank you Robert!
And, I see no reason to cede entire states to the leftists. They get the Clinton Archipelago, Trad America gets Trumpland.
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In order to get the ball rolling on these discussions and possibly to help folks begin to network and organize we put together a non-profit website, please check it out, tell us what you think, thank you!
http://www.skomio.com
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Surpassing excellence as usual, Robert. It is good to see clarity in thinking hasn’t gone out of style. And spot on about fighting the last war in the present one being a loser. The youth must be trained and encouraged to use their techspertise in the new things of war, as they have grown up with that, and excel at it. Some old fashioned stuff remains, as always. Rome knew you had to put young men into the mud to take and hold it. But those who hold to the use of cavalry are both startled and killed by the tanks rolling towards them. Yet in Afghanistan, mules and horses are in common use in war there. It is always a blend that makes the best coffee.
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Thanks. Let’s get on with it.
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Five hundred years ago Estienne noted that those who desire liberty are few and those who desire slavery are many. He also noted it has always been so in history (he was looking back 1500 years to the Roman Empire) and might be so until the human race dies out. I have always strove to teach believing that free agency and its ability to express itself, the free market, were such good ideas if it were explained well people would naturally gravitate to it. It has not been my experience that this is true, most reject it out of fear of being responsible for themselves.
Liberty cannot be enforced. It must be chosen. If not it is destroyed upon using violence to make others comply, it automatically degenerates into slavery and tyranny.
Can those who would be free survive or even win against the immorality of slavery and control? Estienne may have be correct when he assumed that the best that can be hoped for is to live unobserved (by the slaves) and live by a moral credo and interact as much as possible with others of the same mindset.
If there were a place to live free others would flock to it, then try to change it to what they were comfortable with and what they had left behind.
It is time to separate as much as possible from the beast. The advent of computers and the capacity for the masters to track everyone everywhere will make this difficult. Perhaps we need software engineers who can create a place within the internet where we can disappear. Live undetected in parallel with the parasites and their masters. Pretend that we are one of them, when we are not. This is not how I wanted to live and I wanted to champion the cause of the morality of liberty. I feel we are trying to stop an avalanche that the people have chosen by standing in front of it. It might sound noble but it is fruitless. Can we be unnoticed in this brave new world?
When I see people in every country in the world, those who claim to be friends with America and those who claim to be enemies, behaving in exactly the same manner wearing the NAZI (masks) arm bands declaring fealty to the state I realize slavery has been chosen almost exclusively.
I no longer comb through the masses in search of those who would be taught and change. I seek those who are similar.
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Hi Chad, tried researching “Estienne” in DuckduckGo and had trouble with your reference of “500 years ago.” Can you provide a more direct reference to what you wrote? It is great and I would like to read more! Thanks!
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Logistics is everything. As is support personnel.
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Couldn’t find OHMama letter using Google. Tried it on Duckduckgo and it was the first item to come up. Just another day in Big Tech’s world of Animal Farm.
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The root of the problem are the voters themselves. They complain about politics, they have a negative approval of congress, yet congresspeople are almost always re-elected.
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