Dicks Doctrine – Part 3

You might not have said large operations, but what you are talking about and describing are large scale operations. And what we commonly call “common sense” is very much a real thing, although not everyone seems to have it.
Your response to the question about how to hold the buildings doesn’t really answer the question. Just expecting the whole community to show up and surround a building is relying on something that you can’t control. And how many of those people are going to stick around and support your group when a government entity comes to challenge you? Short of you having your own paramilitary force, which you have already said you don’t, you’re not going to hold that very public location for long. Your broadcast ability is going to be shut down or jammed before you can turn your head. There is a reason guerilla forces don’t go in and try to control large exposed public buildings. You should spend some time reading books written about the IRA, the Chechens, and the Balkan conflicts.
If you are assuming your home and family are facing no immediate threat while you are conducting any kind of operation, you have already set yourself up for failure. They are going to be an immediate target as soon as word goes out about what you are doing.
So you are saying that you haven’t done anything because you can’t find more than a few bubbas to work with- that is exactly why you ought to go back and listen to the videos again, you didn’t catch the message. I wasn’t asking about all of those other groups you mention, I was asking why YOU haven’t done it because you imply that you have a plausible plan for doing so. From your answer you do not. You say that you encourage prior planning, but from the scenario you describe, your plan is to rely on a lot of things happening more or less spontaneously, rather than planning for them.
In regards to the comment Dick left for you- I won’t presume to speak for him, that’s not my place, but I will say that your description of taking control of buildings and holding on to them sounds exactly like encouragement of “ill-advised acts of violence against fellow Americans” as one can’t accomplish that goal without some level violence. Some, if not all, of the folks caught up in that violence would most definitely be your fellow community members. Publicly committing said violence is also probably the one of the fastest ways to alienate a large portion of your community who might otherwise have supported you.
That defensive mindset you speak of- even if one goes on the offense, you still better have defense in your plans too, because your family and friends aren’t sitting safely at home on another continent. Those that mean to do you harm will be sitting right beyond your doorstep, waiting for you to take some poorly planned action that is beyond your capabilities, and that poorly planned action is going to have some very serious consequences- that is why it is absolutely critical that we ALL do an ice cold honest assessment of what our capabilities are, AND work to constantly improve on them where possible.
Speaking for myself- I KNOW what I can and cannot do. I am not a vet, not an “operator” and I don’t have a company of trained guys beside of me. I am a high school teacher and small scale farmer, with a limited amount of very basic training. Does that mean that I can’t affect change in my area? Most definitely not- I can probably affect changes that an “operator” may not be able to. It doesn’t even mean that if things were to go all 1776 that I wouldn’t be right in the thick of it. It does mean that I need to plan to apply my skills where they are going to do the most good, which probably isn’t going to be assaulting an entrenched enemy position.