State of Disunion – Besieged on All Sides: Outline for My Portion of Tonight’s Webinar

 

I hope you can join us.

Oath Keepers will be hosting a webinar tonight on “The Florida School Shooting and How to Counter Renewed Efforts to Disarm Us.” I’ll be joining author Matt Bracken and Stewart Rhodes tonight at 9 Eastern.

These are the topics I intend to cover, presented here to give those undecided on participating an idea of information to be shared, and to keep things organized so that webinar attendees can follow along:

Opening remarks.

Media:

• Full court press to attack RKBA and scream for citizen disarmament (DSM)


• Calls to Repeal 2^nd Amendment (NY Times/Rolling Stone)


• Gun bans


• Licensing


• CNN anti “good guy with a gun” propaganda


• Negative spin on everything (FL gun show)


• Even “conservative media” offering concessions


• Social media squeeze-out

Politics:

• Democrats predictable


• Republican turncoats: Kasich, Rubio, Rice, and more, even Trump


• Midterms: Self-fulfilling prophecy?


• Expect more gun edicts


• Battleground -The states


• Likely “laws” and a word about the courts


• Compliance/Enforcement

NRA:

• Avatar for all gun owners – politicians and public treat as monolith


• Green light on bump stocks, “FixNICS” and mental health blanket dragnets


• Companies dropping partnerships


• Calls for censorship by gungrab groups

Police:

• The Only Ones


• School resource officer and multiple Broward County deputies


• Multiple warning and police interactions


• FBI dropped the ball (again)


• Unholy alliance between Broward schools and police


• Scott Israel

The Children’s Crusade:

• The Women’s March Alliance


• Emma and David


• Wild in the Streets

There will be a “Next One.”

The ultimate deterrent.

• The one “gun law” that would make a difference


• The big lie objecting “teachers” tell

What can you do?

• You are a leader


• Learn the truth


• Be force multipliers


• We will not disarm

I hope you can join us. Since this is my first time taking a role in one of these things and since I’m not the event organizer, I’m not sure how many attendees the system can accomodate, but if it’s possible to max it out, let’s do so.

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David Codrea’s opinions are his own. See “Who speaks for Oath Keepers?”

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Spreading ‘Lies of Omission’ Can Be a Good Thing

T.L. Davis (L) shares ideas (and some beer) around my fire pit.

“David – I’m in the locale. Would you like me to stop by with a rough cut of the film?” T.L. Davis emailed me yesterday afternoon.

He was passing through Ohio on his way westward after wrapping up some last-minute items with Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt in Virginia. Larry is one of the interview subjects featured in the 12 Rounds Production documentary “Lies of Omission,” a film intended to broach and explore what the media and political establishment suppress and pass on to Millenials “unique perspectives on American Freedom … and … demonstrate the value of America and what is worth saving.”

T.L. was on a tight schedule to make the film’s pre-release work-in-progress screening Saturday in Cañon City, Colorado. I texted him a directions link and he got to my place around 5:00 p.m. He took a few more establishment shots for possible inclusion in the final cut and we loaded his disc in the DVD player. I gotta say, although you can dismiss my opinion as subjective if you like (because it kind of is), I really enjoyed it, and not just because I’m in it.

Also part of the documentary are former SEAL and “bleeding edge” novelist Matt Bracken of Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy fame, “freedomista” author Claire Wolfe, liberty writer Kit Perez of the Patrick Henry Society, Order of the White Rose and Liberty Nation, and my departed friend and colleague, citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh.

The film was moderated and directed by T.L.’s daughter Sammi Lee Davis, a recent film school graduate and budding professional. The intent is to pass on a liberty message to people of her generation, and as such, she was the catalyst for ensuing conversations. It’s also evident that it’s a labor of love, and a testament of the type of bond a father can have with his daughter.

Naturally, with the people involved, the discussion heavily involved Second Amendment principles, but in the context of being a means of protecting all freedoms. There’s also history, personal anecdotes, philsophical discussions, the importance of the Constitution, the unfolding totalitarian threats the target audience will face. And what you’ll get are real responses from the interviewees. No one was given questions in advance.

We had all been filmed separately over the course of many months as T.L. and Sammi Lee traveled to where we each live — they’d actually visited with Vanderboegh in Alabama almost a year before they made it up north to see me. T.L.tells me they have much more footage of Mike that can be part of a separate project — hours of conversation with the guy that won’t fit into the current documentary, but will certainly be a legacy resource I’m expecting to hear more about.

As an aside, having Mike in my living room on the big screen almost made me forget he’s gone, and made watching all the more poignant when the reality of his passing would creep in unbidden and inescapable.

With the documentary watched and discussed (it turns out most of my suggestions had already been incorporated in a later edit), we went to dinner at a local restaurant and then came back to enjoy the first fire of the season in my backyard fire pit. We were joined by my oldest son, 26, his girlfriend, 23, and my youngest son, 22. They’re exactly the audience T.L. finds critical for passing the film’s messages on to, and among the age group most heavily influenced by ANTIFA subversion. They and T.L. hit it right off and were engaged and interested, and he told me later how much he enjoyed the almost nonstop exchange of agreeable ideas about freedom and perspectives on the conditions we face. I also got a call from Armed American Radio host and friend Mark Walters, and that gave me a chance to introduce him to T.L. over the phone.

The conversation and the fire lasted ’til 1:00 a.m., at which point I put T.L. up in the guest room and set the coffeemaker up for morning. He rousted me four hours later so we could say goodbye and he could get back on the road to make the screening in time.

As I said earlier, I’m biased, but I factor that in to my endorsement of this project and how much I enjoyed seeing the near-finished product. There are some trailers that have been released that will give you a taste of what T.L.and Sammi have created, but just a taste. After seeing the rough cut, I want more and can’t wait to see the final.

You can find out more about this project(and help out with the financing!) at:

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‘Progressives’ Fantasizing about Civil War like Children Playing with Fire

Have those cavalierly proposing such scenarios as the appropriate response to Donald Trump considered all the likely factors?

“Chicago ‘scholar’ claims militias would be ‘toast’ if resisting military coup,” I posted last month. A “progressive journalist” was enamored of a “progressive academic,” both presuming the military is as predominantly subversive as they are. It would not only help them depose President Trump, the delusion goes, but would do all their dirty work for them.

And as for the fate of us “bitter clingers” and “deplorables”? They did their best to convince their echo chamber we’d be made short and effortless work of.

This presupposes those who support and defend the Constitution are the enemy. And the whole fantasy seems painfully unaware of the myriad factors that would rise to the surface and compete for dominance once disincentives against them were weakened or removed.

“I stumbled across this 9 minute blog cast from 2016, I think it’s dead-bang on,” “Enemies” trilogy author and former SEAL team member Matt Bracken advised in an email linking to “Former Red Team Planner For The Federal Government Talks about Civil War Scenarios.”

Bracken’s brief endorsement means a lot in terms of credibility. Simply put, he’s more qualified to offer such an assessment than many, certainly more so than the eggheads calling for toast.

While no one has a crystal ball, the video Matt shared offers as possible an array of potentialities as any, and is consistent with much of the speculation we’ve discussed over the years in terms of foreign enemy opportunism, infrastructure vulnerability, what fractured military and government departments/agencies are likely to be doing (especially when factoring in Oath Keepers and other loyal Americans who would not obey treasonous orders), and what roles an armed citizenry might play. Let’s take a few moments and watch it [Warning: there is some occasional off-color/NSFW language peppered throughout]:

What do you think? Do you disagree with any of this? Is there anything you’d add?

How much thought have you put into such possibilities? And how much preparation?

More than coupthirsty “progressives,” who are all for a military dictatorship providing they are in no way inconvenienced and emerge after the smoke clears, take over the reins of power, and rule like the Philosopher Kings they presume themselves to be?

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