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Good story and absolutely factual. I keep spare comms gear in ammo cans, always keep spare fuel, and keep anything not in use unplugged. Historically, we are overdue for a CME in our direction.

Also Campbell Clan here and wear something with our Tartan daily.

I think you just coined a new phrase! "Doing a Kyle"

It's a great idea, and I have seen it work but be aware that it will face hurdles. Someone will always try to take over what you build so I offer a few suggestions: 1- Form a board of 3 or 5 members to make the decisions, Don't let it rest on one person 2- Do not base any aspect of it on anything military, no title or tactics etc. 3- Have as many of the group as possible take the free training courses at https://training.fema.gov/is/crslist.aspx I suggest ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-700, and ICS-800 to start. One can view the catalog for other courses such as Hurricane Prepa

Yeah, well, getting it to the jury is the big stumbling block with that. In theory, you're absolutely right. In practice not so much. If it were that easy imminent domain wouldn't exist and the gun laws would be equalized across all states. Also, precedent is not law, which many times leaves it to a single judges interpretation. What really kills we the taxpayer is in fact the many precedents that are used to decide case law at the lower levels of the court system. I fully agree that it isn't right, but know by experience that it exists as a legal shortcut to keep the courts moving. And anytim

I have, and while there are many similarities, too many, I'm not sure it fits exactly. Stuck in my mind is the George Soros interview where he said he wanted to destroy America, and I think that rather than a regime change, that may be what we are looking at here. To me, I see more of a repeat of Hitlers rise to power (substitute "Antifa" for "Brownshirts") and fully believe the Democrats are running Joe Biden to intentionally lose the election. I think their aim is to hopefully win a majority in the Senate, keep their majority in the House, then find something to actually force Trump out of

Even if Kyle walks, I look for legislation coming from this. They ain't standing by and letting these riots happen for no reason and this may be just what they are looking for to set new legal precedent.

We aren't doing anything because we have worked hard to have something in life, and have families we care about to think of. My country is worth fighting for, losing my freedom and all I have worked for to beat the shit out of some snowflake isn't. There may very well be a bigger fight coming. Also a side thought: They are letting them do this for a reason, although I don't know what it is. Let's not lose sight of the fact that the cops are just watching them do these things and doing nothing to stop them.

Is anyone looking past all of this bullshit to see what the end result is intended to be? These clowns are just another pawn being played. Like someone stated, they are trying to get an armed response from all of us redneck gun totin' militia types, and it just isn't working. Anyone stupid enough to venture out in all black full battle rattle in 100 degree heat isn't military, isn't well trained, and isn't much of a threat. We gotta look past the antics and figure out the real end-game, which I fear ties in with the upcoming presidential election.

You still live in Hoffman Estates?

Bleak, you need to open your mind and read something truthful. You have MBR and myself, both engineers, trying to explain to you the simple truth. Yes, any RF field in any band can cause problems to humans at high exposure levels. I have been around transmitting antennas that made me fell like ants were crawling all over me, and walked in front of dishes that made me feel like I was having a hot flash. The danger is very real to those of us who work on this stuff, but not to the general public. There is nothing proven about damage to humans from 5G because it just does not happen unless you ha

First, they get a nod for actually showing up and attempting to make a presence known. They did it all wrong however. There was no unity. no plan, and no point. We can't go out in homemade battle rattle and faded cammys. They solidified the public opinion of militias as a bunch of gun totin' rednecks. I personally cringed at the guy in the stretched out tee shirt and shorts carrying a rifle and asking "You gotta cold beer?" That was pure gold....FOR THE OTHER SIDE!

To be fair, I will revisit the links you posted: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/ It says at the top of the article "Observations/Opinion. I pulled this from the text: "Since 5G is a new technology, there is no research on health effects, so we are “flying blind” to quote a U.S. senator." Hardly what I would call more than conjecture to fill a magazine page. https://principia-scientific.org/petition-26000-scientists-oppose-5g-roll-out/ Whomever wrote this article knows ver

Cite evidence.

What radio service do plan to operate on at 2500 watts? What radio service do you wish to operated encryption on?

I've giggled at a lot of this. It's about enabling more data transmission over radio waves. Period. The higher the frequency, the more bandwidth there is available. There have been tests in population dense areas well into the 60 ghz range. And....if RF exposure caused COVID-19 I would have it already. I work on 2.5 and 5.8 ghz systems frequently, and much higher stuff once in a while. The problem is that I can push 5.8 gig 50 miles point-to-point at 60 meg, but I have a system I work on that operates on 54 gig at 500 meg but won't do much over two miles. Exposure limits are never exceeded by

Time to start ramping it down for the election. It should all go away the first week of November.

The radio you have is better than the one you don't. There seems to be a lot of opinion out there, some good some bad. Anything you use that didn't come in a blister pack is good. Use what you can afford until you can afford better.

So, if I were a 21 year Marine vet with 5 overseas deployments, 4 in combat zones, I would start out as an M1 and have to work my way up through the certification levels? It would seem we're trying to organize the unorganized militia. Quals are for military and police, not average citizens who wish to defend our constitution. I see it as a good way to steer Joe working class in a different direction. I realize there are a bunch of gung-ho personalities here, but the unorganized militia isn't about central leadership and PT tests. I would also want to see the leadership pass a

Declaring war? Hard to declare war on someone you can't find and that has no base of operations. Kinda like the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on Isis? All failures. Anon Cyb, take a breath and look at the situation. The Antifa and BLM folks are doing what they do on national television and NOT being prosecuted. There are bigger pieces at play here, and so far none of us has been foolish enough to jump in. If we attack them, rest assured we will be the ones arrested. Better to make plans for area denial and shut them down. A box of roman candles fired horizontally, som

This is a question of morals. If you believe in it, defend it. Subversion and lies are for the weak and those who would betray their own to further their own agenda.

As many of you may know, I have returned to the Militia Movement after walking away in the late '90s. What I have seen since my return isn't very encouraging. I spent ten years in a NC Militia group that has long since gone away, but I'd like to make some comparisons in the hopes it would help us out today. Training and communication were the big differences. We met the second Saturday every month, it just wasn't even thought about, we just did it. We brought weapons and sent rounds down range. We had mock battles with paintball. We discussed scenarios and tactics while standing

WTF? 90% white. Blacks don't even believe the bullshit.

I gave up scanners after doing a ride-along two years ago. I saw first hand how anything juicy goes over the cell phone and not on the air. The Sgt. I rode with took every call that night over his cell phone, plus chit-chatted with his officers over it. May just be a thing in my AO, but made me realize how much I wasn't hearing on the scanner.