I won't though, because the CPX is working exactly as intended, IMO. All of that "discussion" it has generated is right on. Good data.
It's quite instructive, IMO, and the "conversation" illustrates exactly why we're screwed, from the inability to read through it, to the assumptions, to the just general nastiness and venom that has arisen.
I'd would venture to say that CPX Foxtrot has reached the right audience, both in FreeFor and elsewhere, and that it has stirred exactly the right pots. The next one will be better, I bet. That's the purpose of exercises, training, and such.
Or maybe we can just sit back and utter imprecations and half threats and buy more useless GI castoff junk to reassure ourselves that we're "doing something".
Then I was going to launch into a flame war over this idiocy.
*expletive*
*Spits*
We all have pasts.
Get over it.
After spending the night working chest and triceps, helping out an eight year old with grammar, being "snow-snaked" by my kids upon arrival at home from work, being enthralled by the iridescent beauty of my wife's face and hair in the sun, finishing a birthday cake (that was late, and a disaster, btw), explaining to my boys (and showing them) the operation of a black powder revolver, I sat down to check emails, comments, and the blogosphere before finishing two of my college papers.
Then I realized something.
There's not enough time for this crap.
Not enough at all.
So, in short, I could care less about whether half the "community" thinks CPX Foxtrot is a waste. I could care less about Kerodin's real, past, and in the open conviction, or about the former life of former communists who -by admission- committed violent felonies against American citizens while cheering the advance of Marxism and the victory of people who killed -and were killed by- my kin.
- Kerodin is my friend. I stand by him fully. Full stop. End of discussion.
- Mike was at one point instrumental in bringing me to where I am today, for good or bad. End of story.
- I support CPX Foxtrot 110%, and will push and support the next one (when/if it is released) as well. Period.
That's where I stand. I just don't have time for this stuff.
My society is falling apart, and I will be soon giving this broken mess to my children.
My nation is falling apart, and soon it will belong, in all of its fallen glory, to my children.
Right now, forces are pressing for a war that may end up engulfing my children.
This world, every day, grows into a more dangerous place into which my precious and tiny wife must venture.
Every force in this world is desperately trying to destroy my family, my ability to provide for them, trying to take our liberties, render obsolete our values, control our futures, re-order our world.
I tell you what, rightfreakingnow.
I'm a father and a man, and I intend to fight it.
Maybe my obsession with PT and disciplining my body is in vain.
Maybe my obsession with weapons training is for naught.
Maybe my insistence on scanning for physical, emotional, and spiritual threats to my family at all times borders on paranoia.
Maybe my constant learning, thinking, and reasoning around freedom, liberty, security, culture, and nation is for nothing.
Maybe all of this is in vain.
All right then. It's in vain.
Get up. Back in the fight.
Nonetheless.
I will go down fighting. Spiritually, physically, whatever.
I will not, as far as I am able, shame my wife. My boys will not see their father silenced or beaten without a struggle. I will not teach my daughters, through my example, to look for a husband and a man to provide for them who will bow to his enemies.
I must live for my family. I intend on being worthy of them.
We all die. I intend to deserve it.
So will my sons and daughters.
Forever.
I promise.
So, yeah, I don't have time to wade into the latest melee(s) swinging.
Neither should you, unless it's just for fun...
It's 11:30, and I have a few hours of work left tonight. Goodnight.
Winter is coming.
Resist.
Forward.
ReplyDeleteResist.
Kerodin
III
K-
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
You know where I stand.
AP
Perfectly said and Amen on all counts.
ReplyDeleteWhoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself much mistaken. They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about "
-- General Hugh Percy, on the actions of April 19th, 1775
Resist.
Damn, Toaster beat me to the punch.
ReplyDeleteYour ability to cut through the crap is in my opinion one of your greatest gifts to the community.
ReplyDeleteAP & Jim -
ReplyDeleteJust so we're clear my morphing comments where meant as a general word of caution, and made in the light of if the topics or comments made in those topics.
That all groups, whether formed under duress or voluntarily, share the same underlying flaws.
We must remember Liberty is never won it is maintained.
AP
ReplyDeleteThanks for saying what many of us feel and are going through.
Rich
Well said brother sheepdog.
ReplyDeleteI just wish it would start
before I am too long in the fang
to once more move toward the sound
of the battle.
Roger that..
ReplyDeleteGrenadier1
FU****G A! Period.
ReplyDeleteI could spend the rest of the day going on about this, but as you mentioned, it would just be unproductive. It is quite evident which of the two in question continually feeds fuel into the fire. End of story.
ReplyDeleteconvicted felons are not to be trusted
An asinine statement. First of all, he may have not been guilty, whatever. My best friend down here had a felony in 1970, so I guess I shouldn't trust him? He still can't 'legally' own a firearm, by the way speaking of the sublime to the ridiculous.
Kerodin will simply lead us straight into a Saint-Just style French Revolution
Must be reading a different blog than I do. Posted.
Amen, AP. There are bigger threats than each other we need to concern ourselves with. There are more important things to be done than having petty arguements.
ReplyDelete"Every force in this world is desperately trying to destroy my family, my ability to provide for them, trying to take our liberties, render obsolete our values, control our futures, re-order our world"
ReplyDeleteThere it is..
in plain old American english.. Our common cause and the justification to press on regardless..
Been a long time since I read/heard such practical clarity. Our enemies have been at it for too long unopposed and they assume too much.
Yank lll
Kerodin is my friend. I stand by him fully.
ReplyDeleteThat's only reciprocated because you have a blog people pay attention to. Don't kid yourself.
Anonymous-
ReplyDeleteKerodin is my friend. I stand by him fully.
That's only reciprocated because you have a blog people pay attention to. Don't kid yourself.
That's an interesting assumption.
We spoke quite often before I ever considered starting a blog.
;-)
From a former Marine. OOHRAH!!!
ReplyDeletePraying for peace. Preparing for war.
ReplyDeleteFrom the comments at WRSA relevant thread:
ReplyDeletesofa | February 29, 2012 at 08:40 | Reply
And the 800 pound ‘snake eater’ in the room that some are trying to ignore: There are folks who are espousing genocide and the scorched earth murder of women and children.
Calling it a pissing contest is to ignore Mike’s original point, while hoping no one notices.
Those espousing genocide are enemies of civilization. Truly.
And so are his friends.
Civilization will fight animals and degenerates even more vigorously than tyrants. So choose friends wisely.
sofa | February 29, 2012 at 09:38 | Reply
Alinksy Rules: Make it personal, so reason is displaced by vitriol. Then the abrasive can overcome reason.
Notice their methods.
How about discussing the merit of Mike’s point about ‘snakeaters’ who espouse genocide and murder of women and children?
Or is everyone turning a blind eye?
Choose reason or vitriol.
It’s yet another choice that has consequences.
oughtsix | February 29, 2012 at 10:42 | Reply
+ 10 for Mike, and thank you, sofa.
Liberty, as the Founders stressed repeatedly, is for a MORAL people only.
Forget that and all is truly lost.
While I take a different approach than many to the "moral" component of war, I still arrive at the conclusion that intentionally killing innocent women and children is both "wrong" and counter-productive in that it is an inefficient waste of time/resources, and would serve to energize the enemy, thus making the desired end -victory- less possible. (I think that was a run-on sentence.)
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the fact that killing women and children is counter-intuitive and anti-nature for non-defective men.
I think that talks focused on topics such as FreeFor engaging in "countervalue" ops are nearing the realm of fantasy anyway, as "FreeFor" doesn't seem likely to do anything even as "socially unacceptable" as engaging the enemy where he is right now. Where are "FreeFor" counter demonstration to "Occupy"? I hardly think FreeFor is about to engage women and children, as well as other government collaborators, when it won't even dare to physically engage a blatant foe such as Occupy.
And, incidentally, the vitriol has flown in both directions.
None of the moral concerns brought up here were in play when Mike first went after Kerodin.
Through his unwarranted and early attacks on Kerodin, he has sacrificed his ability to effectively counter the faults in Kerodin's arguments.
AP