Yesterday, as I was walking in the woods, I was talking to my tree friends and all the living things around me. I always let them know that I am a friend and apologize for the fact that they groan because of the sin of human beings. After a moment or two they rejoice "hey, it's our pal who gets it". Sometimes I hear their voices echo in my heart and when I look around me my vision changes and I see things that are always there but, people are blind to. These created beings shimmer with joy, their colors pop and a vibration of living energy from them hits me and I sense that we are all together serving the same purpose to bring glory to God. As I bade them farewell I noticed a dead locust tree and I felt sad that it had died and could no longer praise the Lord. Then something happened, the tree started to buz with life and the little shimmer became intense but, not frighteningly so, instead I was drawn to it and laid my hand on it and I realized the tree was brimming with life from moss, to insects to microbes. It wasn't just a dead tree standing there lifeless, it was a habitat for millions of new creatures. Although it's time had come and gone, it still served a purpose and in each creature that inhabited the tree, there was the life of the tree. I realized we humans are frail, hapless, vain and foolish creatures living in a world filled with the sinless perfection of nature deluded by hubris into thinking that we are the most important of all Gods creation. We are nothing but trouble, we destroy everything we touch, like Tacitus quoted a Scottish Chieftain speaking of the Romans (it could be said of America) "they make a desert and call it peace". America's founders based the Constitution on the Classical period. Look at the architecture of DC. (That's a whole other post) Bummer, I done went and "rurnt" it. Oh boy...I can hardly wait to get my job done and go dwell in my Father's tent.

I was thinking of the threat made by radicals to target flyover country. If I were one this is what I would do. 
To begin with, I have no formal training in asymmetrical warfare apart from knowing what the word means. 
Property attack 
1. Select targets. People or infrastructure. 
2. Location: close to a main highway near a county line. Recon the target using different vehicles and different people (male and female pairs, they attract less attention) at different times of the day. 
3. [Imaginary target- Charlotte people's weekend home just down the road from me] Using a older SUV and dressed in a post office shirt so it would look like an express delivery, plant bomb with a delay, leave and drive into the adjacent county dump the SUV, change vehicles and scat.(there are places around here where you could roll a vehicle off the road and it might not be found for years).
4. Time of day: right around rush hour.
Infrastructure attack: same as above. The phone company uses contractors and all you need is a white truck with a magnetic logo. The phone exchange in this area gets worked on regularly, nobody would pay attention. 
Attack on a human target: same thing recon and figure out the time to strike. 
 If I have no training and can figure it out, I imagine the bad guys can do the same.
Without a rat this would be hard to prevent,  the problem for them arises, is that after the attack, we country boys will be on high alert.
Defense: I did a lot fo hiking in the wilderness with my Daddy when I was a kid. He taught me how to look at terrain and told me that I was good at it. I have every foot of this holler imprinted in my brain because everytime I go walk, I study it; defensive positions, bug out routes and places to set up ambush, etc.
To get country people to stand up and fight would take these kind of attacks but, when they do it's sayonara Antifa.
As long as this stuff stays in cities, they don't care.
A Democrat sweep in November might do it or if Trump wins and the radicals go to war. 
This is the kind of dumb stuff that pops into my head: "if someone opens fire on you right here, what we gonna do"..."jump into that depression, pop of a couple of rounds and scoot over there and work my way up that way and flank them" I don't know if it's a gift or I'm still 12 years old playing GI's vs Nazis.

It seems we're in the early stages of a Cultural Revolution. Glen Beck had an episode that you may or may not be able to access on YouTube by the time you read this, I confess I don't come here as often as I once did there's no one to bounce my smart assedness off of so...Anyway, GB does a decent job of describing our current political societal situation as far as he goes which, is probably far enough. It's called "The Marxist Mob, The Most Dangerous Cult in America" Adam Corolla injects some humor which makes GB's blind Nationalism bearable. I'm sorry Glen but, there is no national solution and the longer you cling to that the longer you stay frustrated. To an extent, I have more in common with the anarchists in the CHAZ but, they are now CHOP and that is the problem with anarchists; they can unite only briefly before breaking up. There is a different form of Anarchism for each anarchist and, in general I unite with the Anarcho-Capitalists but, I have issues with their non aggression policy as does every other A-C in terms of when is force justified. My policy is when faced with a threat: first of all try and extricate myself from the situation and second, if that's not possible eliminate the threat with whatever force is necessary. As unworkable as A-C is,  it is the closest I come to a political philosophy that fits with my notion of Liberty in a world which will never live under Biblical Law because it allows for a community to live under Biblical Law should they so desire. Well, that went way longer than I intended and now I have to go back to the beginning and see what I actually started with...da dda da da...mmm...okay. time for a new paragraph. 
All this revolution going on has absolutely zero effect in the area in which I live. No one here is even remotely anything like these crazies currently tearing up American cities and as long as they stay there, I really don't care. We already police ourselves and every home has firearms because it would take law enforcement a long time to get here and we understand making a 911 call about an intruder only makes sense after you've already dealt with the problem. And, that is the big difference between city folk and country folk; they need protection and we protect ourselves. It is a completely different mindset and while I certainly sympathize with people in or near high crime urban areas, it beats the hell out of me why the decent people don't clean up their own streets. The Black Panthers were performing a very much needed purpose in California cities until they blew it and Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford Act, in my opinion by far the worst thing RR ever did. What the Black Panthers did by going into the California Capitol open carrying was exactly the reason why we have a 2nd Amendment, it scared the shit out of elected officials. Every politician in every level of government should have in the back of their mind "will this cause law abiding citizens to come in here armed and angry". Yet, they have no fear but, people are waking up and now is a great time to remind people of what our Constitution established, a Federal Republic where the majority of powers are reserved to the States. It's that dreadful 14th Amendment and atrociously incompetent education in civics. 
 I will continue to hammer decolonization as I call it, decentralization is the more common term but, I believe decolonization is more accurate as the Federal Government has been colonizing the States since the fall of the Confederacy. The South was under military occupation, was pillaged and forced to accept the Yankee system. 
I want to see my people freed from the yolk of Government and freed from the tyranny of progressivism. If blue States and blue cities want Socialism they can have it. I can think of no conceivable way that these Commies can succeed any more than the Nationalists can in uniting the USA behind one or the other of these ideologies, they are incompatible. I hope that the final outcome of this conflict is separation. I also hope to convince my Nationalist friends to give up the idiocy of One America. As I previously mentioned it took a bloody war that, cost millions of lives during the years 1861 and 1877 to establish the One America that certain people enjoyed at the expense of others. The North got mind bogglingly wealthy by suppressing the South and keeping it that way for 100 years. If reparations are owed to any segment of Americans it is Southerners of all races. Remember the Great Emancipator's solution for African Americans was to forcibly remove them from the United States, he said it more than once. Free States meant free of Blacks. The Yankee was never a friend to the black man. The black man was a political tool used to bludgeon the South before the war and to punish Confederates after the war and because blacks had been loyal to their States during the conflict. Slavery was not a nice thing, it was paternalistic but, no Southerner saw them as less than human in the way Yankees did. Their labor was a valued commodity and they were respected in their persons especially as they became older, they were Aunts and Uncles and yes, there was genuine familial love between slave and master. There was a hell of a lot more carrot than there was stick. Read "Time on the Cross" and "Roll Jordan Roll" written by serious academics who intensively researched primary sources before, they are cancelled and thrown into the fire. They way the problem of emancipation was dealt with in America was a disaster that led us to the terrible situation we face today. If the North had accepted it's culpability and worked on a program of gradual compensated emancipation and education to prepare slaves for their lives as free people one million black lives could have been saved and the horrors of war and reconstruction would have been avoided and the history of race relations in America would have been much different. All the violence we see today from Antifa and BLM is a direct result of those events. Rant completed

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This is cross-posted from my personal blog.

This is ambiguous for a reason. Those of you who hold the proper awareness and bias would be able to understand the details.

The moving images we’re seeing seeing didn’t come out of nowhere. All the opposing sides were previously hedged away from each other by geography and a veneer of civility, which began to slowly erode some time ago. Western society can sometimes be good at separating the things that need to be kept apart, but whether that situation is morally, or at least materially, beneficial depends on the context and our personal lenses. The fruit of Enlightenment-inspired social experiments, with its failures compounded as they were kicked down the road, eventually removed those barriers and smashed everything together like floodwaters in all directions. That fruit turns into poison and is barfed up. It’s never pretty, and it can force a lot of otherwise innocent folks into the aftermath. That’s what you get with cult tactics. Don’t mistake a cult as something other than a cult, with its attendant ways of capturing a following, because of its size. Murray Rothbard famously said the nation-state is just a large-scale mob; so it is with the mind-virus emerging from the mish-mash of philosophical traditions modern America had inherited. Any culture that places precedence on the human intellect as the primary method for understanding the world has to eventually vomit that poisoned fruit up, and it’s not limited to one side of the conflict, no matter how much closer to a “correct” solution one side’s view is from another’s. God, in His longsuffering, entertains people’s delusions for a measured length of time for whatever reasons only known to Him, before He finally gives hands them over to the demons. What we’re witnessing now is the beginning of the violent snap back to the reality of creation.

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I've had questions about this, so it seemed like this was the place to address them.

Ref: 1 John 4:1-3 -- The Apostle references that the Messiah has indeed come and He was Jesus. Anyone who doesn't confess that is a manifestation of the Spirit of Antichrist. In his day, who was most likely to deny that Jesus was the Messiah? Jews, of course. So it stands to reason that the demon of Antichrist is mostly deployed among Jews, though there are lots of Gentile allies who play along.

The final and ultimate manifestation of the Spirit of Antichrist is going to have a Jewish identity. Whether it be single person or a group, it's going to be Jewish, and certainly Zionist. Not all Jews will go along with stuff like that, but virtually every Zionist is pursuing an anti-Christian agenda. Until we see the Zionists rise to global power, we can breathe easy that we aren't in the Last Days. Even if they do rise to power, it may not be their last go-round, so let's just relax. Jesus said even He didn't know when He was coming back. Let us be found faithful to our calling and convictions.

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Not really but, today would be nice. I saw that Village Hardware of Blowing Rock is looking for help. I went up there and jabbered a spell with the owner and took home an application which, I will fill out and return tomorrow. For a guy like me, to actually work in a hardware store is a dream job. I love the hardware store. I could be an asset for them, I pray that they see that.

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