MIAC Report Commentary: Terrorists Practice Fear, Revolutionaries Practice Love
Sunday, March 15th, 2009By Kevin L. Kobe
DISCLAIMER: The following is My individual interpretation of the controversy surrounding the recent MIAC Report. It in no way is meant to express the views of others within the movement or Liberty Restoration Project. In recent days, Officer Holz has repeatedly said that people are overreacting. I would like to offer the following critiques as my testimonial to the danger of propaganda disguised as police informational reports.
The Missouri Information Analysis Center’s February 20, 2009 strategic report titled “The Modern Militia Movement” is a blatantly poor attempt to divide the loving people of Missouri against each other. My response is that a true criminal cares not about constitutional law. A true Terrorist cares nothing of peace. All across America people ask for equal rights and protections under the law, and one by one various groups of persons have been singled out for their differences. The true Constitutional liberty movement sees no race, gender, or political affiliation. Yet, according to the MIAC/MHP those who speak freedom the loudest are the ones who need their freedoms taken.
This report is nothing more than a propaganda tool meant to drive police to view the Militia and Constitutional Government Advocates as enemies of the state. While I am not speaking for others who would call their selves Patriots, I do have a straight forward view on the opinions expressed by members of the movement. I felt the need to take a common sense examination of this document from a Patriotic perspective.
The first myth I would like to address is that this movement is Anti-Government or Anti-Police. And specifically the portion under the heading – Implications for Law Enforcement: “You are the Enemy.” While there is a minority of persons who do walk a fine line in their rhetoric and actions, and there are cases where people take things too far, I would argue that there is almost no demographic within society where extremists, criminals, thieves, and killers do not exist. On the contrary, I argue that many within our movement are not Anti-Government or Anti-Police, but instead are Anti-Tyranny, and even those with the most extreme perspectives on these issues do not act out of blind hatred for government, but out of shock at the actions of those in power. Instead, most Patriots would love to network with Police Officers, National Guard, and members of the Armed Forces. We would like to educate you on the constitutional fundamentals of the country and aid you in your duties while educating you on how to perform your functions in a manor that adheres to your constitutional oaths and does not infringe on the unalienable rights of the people in the communities in which you serve. A Police Officer, Government Official, or Military Person who acts out of love and protection for the things that they love is a patriot’s best friend.
Even in most cases where violence is discussed, the point of view is usually one of mutually assured destruction. Never fire unless fired upon and only in self defense do you aim a weapon at a person. It was John F. Kennedy who said “When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable.” If someone is afraid of the possibility of Patriots acting out of fear, the best approach would be to not incite fear and always attempt a peaceful resolution first. Essentially, I view this document as a memo saying “Look these people are afraid of government! Be afraid of them!”
Where does the fear end and the cooperation and love begin? I would certainly hope that the first step is education. One problem I see with this document is that it makes claims that are spun to incite a certain type of response.
For example, the examples given of terror-type activity by the militia movement is laden with “were plotting” and “were planning.” I’m not attempting to trivialize possible threats to the safety of human lives here, but unless the planning phase begins being put into action, such as the other examples given of actual explosives, then the threat is not realized, and therefore no violent action is truly being put into production.
Other examples given describe the persons as being “arrested” or “charged” for weapons or violence. Not once is the word “Convicted” used. I have not researched all of the cases given, and I’m sure most have been convicted of some crime, however, recent use of the words “Arrested” and “Charged” have been propagandized to assume guilt. We live in a nation where anyone who has seen the TV show “Cops” knows, people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The next thing I’d like to address is not what this document says, but what it does not say. It lists several “motivators,” with very little connection to why a Patriot would fear such things, often using the term “Conspiracy theory” with little background on these issues to determine if any information is relevant enough to warrant legitimate fear of these issues.
Two of these are the Ammunition Accountability Act and the implantable microchip. Both are identification tracking devices used to assign an object and number to a person. The implantable microchip exists, you can find this information easily on the Internet by searching for “Verichip.” After the Real ID act passed into law, we see a government that seems to be striving for digital and bio-metric identification and the databases in which to store this information. When these databases are used for every-day activity, one can see a scenario where that type of information becomes increasingly valuable, which means both a more appealing prize for criminals to attempt to obtain, and a possibility to simply “turn off” someone’s ability to function in a society controlled by account numbers and databases.
The other instances where concerns are blamed on “Theories” The New World Order, The North American Union, and Universal Service are incorrectly attributed to this movement in this document. Again, a little research reveals that it is not the patriot movement coining these terms and predicting these events. A google news search for “New World Order” nets thousands of mainstream news sources. As far as a Global Conspiracy goes, one can do a google search for “David Rockafeller, Zbignew Brzezinski, and Henry Kissinger” examine who they associate with, think tanks they are part of, and you decide if you believe they are advocating global decisions to supersede the US Constitutional government sovereignty.
A youtube search for “Rahm Emanuel Service” will get you the video where he describes every person’s duty to serve in order to pay the country back for citizenship. A youtube search for former Mexican President “Vincente Fox Union” will display videos where he doesn’t simply describe a NAU, he says it WILL happen.
When patriots discuss these things, they do not simply make them up as a boogeyman to fear. They do so because these world leaders have discussed these concerns publicly, and when pressed for more information about these subjects, government has either denied, hidden, or changed the talking points of these concerns.
When something happens, and a person has seen it, and officials deny it ever happened and call the person a crazy conspiracy theorist, how do you expect those people to act? When a person is distrustful of government, it is not always out of hate and fear. Sometimes there is legitimate concern upon realization that so much of what has made this country great and strong for over two centuries by those who we have entrusted to preserve, protect, and defend those institutions.
Finally, I would like to address this view of the Militia as militant right wing terrorists. The spirit of the militia is every able bodied person being prepared to help their community in times of war on the homeland or crisis. Every able bodied person, from your militant right winger to your local shop owner with a small pistol, to the average young lady who learns martial arts to defend herself in the parking lot at night.
True militia, true constitutionalism goes beyond group activities, goes beyond race, beyond gender, beyond sexual preference, beyond political belief or affiliation. Please see through this divisive hate speech document and understand why the Ron Paul revolution logo highlighted “L-O-V-E” in revolution, because a revolution can only be based on love. Real change can not happen from the barrel of a gun, but from education of the peaceful ways of life and guidance through the hard times. This goes for both Police and Militia. Embrace freedom and love as your guidance and you will never have to fear these “us & them” perceptions like what MIAC have tried to sell here. The only terrorists involved here are those who would tell cops to fear us and spread fear and divisiveness knowing that such public documents would also work to make patriots fear cops pitting both against each other. I beg that anyone involved would not alter their behavior based upon a document so obviously based on lies and allusions to guilt by association.
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