It was ill conceived and carried out from start to finish. Glen and I have taken this position from the beginning. Nothing about this op is rooted in anything other than a whim. Whims don't win win wars. They don'y even win battles. They get people imprisoned or deaded. OPs have to be planned. From beginning to end. Even id end is an ex-fil. and good Lawd almighty who ever thought od putting all the leadership into one un-escorted convoy? Unless it was an inside agent.
Truth. Outta rep. Just because I think the entire Op was ill conceived and counterproductive from head to toe doesn't mean I don't sympathize with them, or that I'm not angry over this clear and obvious murder.
This looks like a straight cold blooded murder to me:
I am incensed at the bloodthirsty Governor and police who forced this to a violent conclusion when that was totally unnecessary.
I am outraged at all the "good little citizens" around America who have been calling for their blood from the very beginning. Some of the same people calling for their blood almost certainly participated in "Occupy" protests, damned hypocrites.
I am less angry (but still angry) at the subset of the supporters of this Op who seem to think and openly accuse anyone who does not support THIS SPECIFIC OP of cowardice, when that's straight up bullshit. I'll go and lay down my life THIS VERY MINUTE if I think it will have a significantly positive outcome. If I can look at something and KNOW from the start that it won't do any good,
but that it can only make things worse, then why FFS would I go off and die to promote an op that I know can only make things worse?
I am 100% all for an active militia in the US. I was 100% in favor of the Bundy Ranch op. I was 100% in favor of the Sugar Pine Mine op. I said from the start that this one was a bad idea and that it would only make things worse. Lo and behold all the good will the militias had garnered defending the Bundy Ranch is now spent, and we are worse off today than we were before that time. It. Did. Not. Help. It made things worse. I was hated by the Republicans in NC for telling them truth that they did not want to hear, and I have been hated by supporters of this Op for telling truth that people did not want to hear. Fine. I learned long ago that it was my lot in life to be right when all the world is wrong, and thus to be hated for having been right. I'm used to it by now.
There is someone else who falls into that same category, and that is Ron Paul. As you would expect, the negative effects of the Cassandra syndrome are significantly diminished on RPFs as compared to elsewhere, but there are still a few of you boiling mad that anyone dares to think this was a bad idea. It's time to come to terms with the idea that one can be boiling mad at the feds and the local police for what they did here, that one can be 100% in favor of real armed militia ops, and still recognize that
this specific op was a bad idea right from the jump.
If you still can't process that concept, fine. I don't need people around me who are allergic to truth.
It is a horrific tragedy that LaVoy was murdered by the feds in cold blood. And murdered in cold blood he was. Nothing but sadness has come out of this event, and dozens of hard-core Patriots who we will need in the future when it comes to take the right stand will now be locked away in prison when that day comes. A key component to tactical and strategic victory is to have the realism necessary to recognize when an operation does not work, and to learn to avoid the same mistakes in the future. In that light, some good things HAVE come out of this op in the form of lessons learned:
1) In any operation, once in the AO plan to stay there for the duration. No matter how much the feds promise safe passage in and out of the area, it is a lie, they are setting you up.
2) Never, never, never put all of your entire leadership into the same boat. If whatever situation requires the leadership to travel, they must be dispersed amongst as many transports as possible with as much separation between them as possible, and if possible, each of them taking completely different routes.
3) Public opinion is at least as important if not more important than tactical advantage. This is 4GW now, we no longer live in a 3GW world. Local overwhelming support is even more critical.
4) OPSEC must not be neglected. A big part of the reason this ended badly was because members were caught on camera saying things that should never have been broadcast. Absolutely use cameras and absolutely use live feeds -- these are critical for public and local support -- but keep identities off camera as much as possible, and for heaven's sake never ever discuss anything strategic, tactical, or involving readiness in front of one.
5) The leadership of any given Op
must come from militias local to the situation who are invested in the issue and in the community. If the local militias do not want the Op, then don't do it. Live to fight another day.
