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« Reply #150 on: December 21, 2019, 01:19:53 PM »



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« Reply #154 on: December 23, 2019, 06:35:57 AM »

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Re: We the Unorganized Militia
« Reply #158 on: December 31, 2019, 01:25:52 PM »








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13 yr old boy saves 8 yr old sister from 17 yr old with sling shot
« Reply #171 on: May 13, 2023, 10:26:46 AM »
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12079021/Boy-13-saves-sister-17-year-old-tried-abduct-beat-woods.html

I can't find it (help GM?) but somewhere here I think there is a post about a 13 year old drag queen. Helluva contrast
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« Reply #172 on: October 25, 2023, 07:42:23 AM »

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The Unorganized Militia making mail boxes blue again.
« Reply #173 on: January 11, 2024, 09:25:25 AM »
Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman
A Postal Service clerk said it could take months to repaint a vandalized mailbox.
By Bert Stratton
Jan. 10, 2024 5:54 pm ET




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A repainted mailbox in Lakewood, Ohio. PHOTO: BERT STRATTON
Lakewood, Ohio.

I wanted to repaint a graffiti-tagged U.S. Postal Service mailbox. It sits in front of an apartment building my family has owned since 1965 in Lakewood, Ohio. I wanted to make it blue again. That simple. This would be like an art project, but it wouldn’t be cool or edgy. Just the opposite. Call it “Keeping Up the Neighborhood.”

I had hoped the Postal Service would do the job, but I had no such luck. A clerk at the neighborhood branch told me in 2021 that it would take “months, not weeks” to clean the box. He said the Postal Service had only one person in northeastern Ohio dedicated to the task.

When 2022 came around and the graffiti was still on the mailbox, I wrote the mayor. She wrote back: “Our building department has documented the vandalism on this mailbox. Please let your tenant know that we share in his frustration; however, we are prohibited from removing graffiti from mailboxes because they are property of the United States Postal Service. We will reach out to USPS again to convey the need to fix this problem without delay.”

Months passed, and I wrote the mayor again: “One of my tenants is really annoyed with this situation and wants to buy blue paint. On the other hand, he doesn’t want to go to Leavenworth prison. Hah! Anything you folks can do?” (The so-called “tenant” was actually me, the landlord.)

The mayor said no, and I couldn’t hold it against her. The feds had her in a no-win situation. I knew she was anti-graffiti; the city occasionally cites me and other landlords for graffiti on our buildings, and we’ve dealt with it, using wire brushes, graffiti remover and elbow grease.

Last year I bought a can of Rust-Oleum deep-blue spray paint at Home Depot. I asked one of my employees to do the hit job—a repaint of the mailbox—and he said no way. So I did it myself. I worked at midday but made sure nobody was walking by while I painted.

My shade of blue was slightly off—I should have used navy—but it was close enough. I didn’t win an art prize, yet here we are in 2024 with a clean blue box. I have the spray-paint can in my car in case the graffiti-artist strikes again. “Keeping Up the Neighborhood” is a work in progress.

Mr. Stratton is author of the blog Klezmer Guy: Real Music & Real Estate

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« Reply #175 on: January 12, 2024, 03:12:54 PM »

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Re: We the Unorganized Militia
« Reply #176 on: January 12, 2024, 04:04:58 PM »
Thread Nazi here.

This thread is not a bad choice BBG, but this one would have been better.

https://firehydrantoffreedom.com/index.php?topic=95.msg404#msg404

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Re: We the Unorganized Militia
« Reply #177 on: January 12, 2024, 05:33:51 PM »
Thread Nazi here.

This thread is not a bad choice BBG, but this one would have been better.

https://firehydrantoffreedom.com/index.php?topic=95.msg404#msg404

Alrighty then.

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Re: We the Unorganized Militia
« Reply #178 on: January 13, 2024, 06:17:31 AM »
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Feds bust Tennessee man
« Reply #180 on: February 08, 2024, 04:51:54 AM »
Tennessee man who was working with militias planned to act as a sniper and attack Southern border, feds say
Paul Faye was arrested Monday after he allegedly sold an undercover agent working with the FBI an unregistered suppressor for an AK-47, according to federal court records.
Read in NBC News: https://apple.news/AM6mfhQMpTRGUhhPxOKZDhA


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Re: We the Unorganized Militia
« Reply #181 on: March 15, 2024, 08:02:11 AM »



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The discussion in question arose in the context of a conversation about Apo Ramiro's Kabaroan system when I mentioned that it was a distinctive system in that the problem it looked to solve was of a village looking to defend its crops when a band of bandits arrived to steal the crops.  (think of the Samurai movie - The Seven Samurai" and the Western homage to it "The Magnificent Seven")

"Further to our discussion and for potential reference, here are some questions regarding the village defense concept in the context of collective resistance.

- What triggered mobilization for a village?

- To what extent did or could villages mutually support one another?

- To what extent did the government sanction collective defense or see it as a threat?

- Did better prepared villages deter attacks?

- What was the early warning system?

- How did villages leverage terrain and/or employ defensive obstacles (such as but not limited to fences, dogs, man traps, gates, moats, camouflage, deception, etc)?

- Was there a chain of command or was defensive action initiative based?

- What kind of deception did they employ if at all?

- Was the strategy primarily one of deterring, delaying, or destroying intruders?

- What was the origin of village defense?

- Were weapons generally improvised or deliberate?

- How could a village measure success?

- How did defensive action differ at night versus during daylight or during different seasons?

- What was the greatest challenge to mobilization?

- Who was most often more violent, the villagers or the intruders?

- What was clean up like?

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