From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ The author, a former Army Special Forces Vietnam veteran, Los Angeles Police SWAT Team Officer, is an NRA police firearms, pistol, rifle and shotgun instructor for the United States Marksmanship Academy (Post Office Box 30126, Phoenix, Arizona 85046; 602-220-0750). He spent nine years as a Green Beret and saw extensive combat duty with the Special Forces Project Delta in Vietnam and counter-insurgency operations in Central America. Later with the LAPD he served as a patrol officer, undercover subversive intelligence operative and SWAT team officer. He has instructed military and police organizations in self defense, weapons and tactics in the U.S., Central America and Asia. The following essay summarizes his thoughts and beliefs on the current attempts in this country to disarm the American citizenry - The Editors. NO QUARTER By James R. Jarrett "Do not kid yourselves about what is at stake" "It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war." - V.I. Lenin The above quote by one of the most brutal architects of human misery applies to ANY concession of liberty. The present attack on our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms is being waged in the form of concessions. Any retreat is part of a fatal process. In our suicidal search for a "kinder gentler nation" we are sacrificing our birthright of liberty. It is time that we recognize that we are at war. There can be NO COMPROMISE on the issue of weapons. The presence of weapons in the hands of the sovereign citizen is the ONLY hope of leaving some pathetic legacy of freedom to posterity. Any person, government official or agency that advocates the disarming of this nation is guilty of treason. The penalty for treason is death. Presently, the law of the government protects traitors and the enemies of freedom in this country while the principles of justice, human dignity and liberty languish in the darkness of apathy. How will we tell our children that freedom died because we did not have the courage to keep our weapons? Like jackals, the cowards, the weak and the timid in their quest for power, are harassing and isolating us. Each of us will someday face the choice ... fight or surrender. We cannot even run because America was the last refuge. Do not kid yourselves about what is at stake. Your career, your property, your material wealth, your status among family and friends, your freedom from incarceration and even your life are at risk if you are unwilling to defend yourself from this crime perpetrated upon us by a malignant government. The principles of honor, mantic nonsense. Keep in mind that those principles created the greatest nation in the history of the world. We owe no apology for that success. We won the greatest economic, political and military conflicts in history and in so doing bought the lives and relative liberty of those who now attack us from within and without. Our right to own and carry weapons is at the heart of that success. Contrast, if you will, the subjugation of the Hungarians and the victory of the Afghans in the face of Soviet might. If you speak of rights, of the principles of the Constitution, of the legitimacy of national and cultural continuity and dominance, of the sovereignty of our physical borders ... you, like me, will be labeled a fanatic, an extremist, a radical and even a terrorist. Your phone will be tapped, and your name will be listed in the files of intelligence and enforcement agencies from the local police to other state and federal agencies. Most Americans naively believe because we cast ballots and participate in other illusory trappings of a free people we enjoy liberty. Get arrested and see what happens. You will have a record for life whether you are guilty or innocent. The instances of police brutality and unjustified shootings are increasing as the courts hold that the police have no obligation to protect the citizen. Judges exercise judicial tyranny by creating law rather than interpreting it as specified by the United States Constitution. Citizens in Arizona are being arrested for failure to surrender identification. "Show me your papers" cannot be too far away. The same officials, politicians, social activists, and lobotomized voters who have advocated and established the policies of open territorial borders, the abandonment of our allies, the waste of Asia, the socialist vomit being fed our children in the public schools, corrupt politicians, abusive police and government officials, distorted media reporting, the rape of our land, the poisoning of our water and air, the strangulation of free enterprise by megabusiness, the insanity of affirmative action and the arrest and prosecution of citizens for self-defense are the same rabble who will take your rights, confiscate your weapons and castrate your spirit. If you are happy with Monday Night Football, aerobics classes, an evening of wine and cheese at The Pointe, Club Med vacations, or any of the other trinkets afforded fat, complacent and willing whores then depart from us in peace at this time. Continue to lick the boots of your masters and perform the other duties of a prostitute. But know that you are an enemy of those who count freedom above comfort. We who love liberty more than security sear the chains of subjugation. Take our weapons and we will take your life. Take warning, the line has been drawn. If blood is to be shed, let it begin here. Should the flames of violence consume us, history will mark for future generations the courage and passing of free men. If the Almighty grants an undeserving people mercy once again before the light flickers into darkness, free men and women will take their weapons in hand, place the point of the sword against the throat of the enemy and no quarter shall be given. END This article appeared in the American Survival Guide, March 1990 Vol. 12 Number 3, and was typed in this document verbatim. ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan site by the archive maintainer. All files are ZIP archives for fast download. 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