To further our discussion of the world of surveillance and counter measures, we need to establish some standard terminology. Different practitioners around the country and around the world maintain their own definitions for different bits of the business but, for the sake of consistency here, let us use the following: Intelligence - useful informat...
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Across the span of recorded history more humans have died of disease, and especially epidemic and pandemic disease, than any other single cause, war included. We've recently seen the damage done worldwide not by a respiratory virus, but by the misguided response of governments. COVID will no more go away than will the ineffectual meddling of co-opt...
In Part 2 of this series, we proposed a recommitment to the concept of State rights and State sovereignty as delineated in the U.S. Constitution, and especially in its Tenth Amendment. Here we will explore one powerful option that would support that goal. One way available to States generally, and to Wyoming in particular, to reduce dependence on t...
Bottom line up front, it is the aggressor that determines when a fight is over, not the defender. When the aggressor stops fighting either by choice or involuntarily, the defender can stop defending. You cannot count upon your power of persuasion convincing someone who has already decided to kill you to give up, you must make him. Whether it is pol...
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse – Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death – are a powerful, evocative image out of the Book of Revelations. While the image is chillingly applicable to the present day, our arguments in this series are not theological but practical and historical in their basis. We need to understand their underlying causes while we s...
A little while ago we saw a black flag with a skull on it, boldly proclaiming that: "Your liberties aren't dying, they are being killed by people with names and addresses" Not incorrect even if it is a little sinister. We would never advocate tracking down such enemies for the purpose of anything illegal. On the other hand, though, the lunat...
There are some stark prospects facing us in 2022, accelerated by the war in Ukraine, but they have been on the horizon for some time. We may find a way to avert them, but they will not be banished, and will be back soon enough. We need to understand the fundamentals to have a chance of mitigating their inevitable impact, and in the worst case, to p...
Self-reliance is the foundation for action at every level, in the crisis we face. It would be good to have a realistic, actionable plan and preparations for every contingency that we and our families may encounter. But as Will Rogers said, "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future." We can't anticipate all eventualities, or prepar...
What Can Be Done (Part 2): States' Rights Under the Constitution and Court Precedent Part 1 of this series discussed the unlikelihood of addressing the current crisis through electoral means at the federal level. Instead, we need to turn to one of the fundamental concepts of the Founding Fathers: federalism. The United States was formed as a union ...
As of this writing in early May 2022, seldom does a week pass without news of yet another federal rule, regulation, program, action, or decision challenging our freedoms – in violation of the Constitutional separation of powers and the 10th Amendment's explicit limitation on the power of the federal government. How, within the law, to resist this a...
