Mutual Assistance Groups: Building a Network, by Crusoe

It appears riot season is upon us, and the usual lefty bad actors are back at it again.  The strength of the Left (communist insurrectionists) are they are well organized and funded.  It has taken decades but their building of networks and working a solid information op strategy has turned them into a viable opponent.  Yes, they have pink hair and dress like a bunch of idiots, but their leadership cadre standing in the shadows is extremely capable and not to be underestimated.  We can learn from them.

I previously wrote an entire series on how to build and structure a mutual assistance group.  This article is about what to do next.  To fight their grassroot efforts and messaging you must create your own in your local area.  Too much time and energy are spent on world politics and trying to the read the globalist tea leaves.  Time is better spent facilitating the building of local groups and connecting like-minded people together.   Yes, it will require you to get off the internet and shake people’s hands.  Analog leadership is required in a digital world.

In the article Watching for Watchers (8 paragraphs down) are two key terms that every patriot needs to understand: cover for status (COS) and cover for action (COA).  COS is what am I doing, and COA is why am I doing this.  For example: if you belong to a hunting club and are spotted in a section of a forest that is considered off limits you have the COS of being in a hunting club and COA of looking for potential wildlife (you just got turned around).  In essence, you have a cover for interacting with those around you.  Use your imagination to scale accordingly.

Creating networks can be between preparedness groups via mutual aid like what the Lefties do or it could be as benign as being involved in church, politics, or even farming coops where you can meet and interact with people who may have the same mindset as you do but are not as far along the preparedness timeline.  If you take it, one step forward and take a leadership role you can easily influence by building organizational structure that can be leveraged in the future.  As an example, you join a local farming co-op that has a sizable membership.  Over the course of a couple meetings, you realize they have an outreach component that organizes food drives for local churches. You then suggest organizing the group by location within the county to increase efficiency and minimize waste.  By doing this you have created both a COS and COA, as well as have organized points of contacts within specific regions of your local area.  If something happens (manmade or natural) you have regional points of contacts that can feed you information, plus you have a reason to be operating within this area.

Building a network is the next logical step.  Most people do not want to be directly involved in much of anything, but through a networked centric approach you can leverage them as sensors in your community.  Getting involved in your community is always a positive action step and through the building of relationships your network will grow.  Take the time to shake hands, look them in the eye, and genuinely learn about who they are.  The pending global food shortage and default of the American dollar will put us all in the same boat.  Might as well know who you are rowing with.