You guys would of had to been there to hear the entire rational with the Restore the Constitution folks co-opting the OWS and other movements. I don't think GAP and I can tell you or explain everything that was talked about.
Also, when a friend of mine went down to OWS in Atlanta with an AK, and told the OWS people that he didn't agree with a lot of what they said, but they had the right to say it, and that he'd defend them in any way if the LEO's tried to come down there and take them, and that is why the ATL mayor called it off. Anyway, it made all those useful idiots type think, hmm, this guy was willing to come down here and risk his life, so that we could continue to protest, what's up with that? It got them thinking about personal freedoms.
A lot of what was talked about was prepping topics, basically. Medical, sales, food, homeschooling, education, economic freedom, economic survival, personal freedom, personal survival, liberty, strategy, and basically bringing more people into the fold of self-sufficiency. Also, befriending some of these 'dependent types" trying to help them out, teach them how to fish, so to speak, so helping them start their own company, or just teaching them how to grow their own crops for food, make them more self-sufficient, so they don't have to lean on the government for food or housing.
The man in the corporate job, is just a big as slave as any of us. He is bound to that job for the livelihood of his family, and his livelihood. The welfare crowd is basically a slave to the government for their livelihood as well. Both are slaves, none are self-sufficient. Without the corporation or without the government, they couldn't survive on their own. Neither are going to be there when SHTF or WROL.
If it weren't for Tom Baugh,
http://www.starvingthemonkeys.com/AboutTomBaugh.html wrote a book called
Starve The Monkeys, BUY IT AND READ IT. I would have balked and laughed at the idea of trying to bring the OWS into our fold, and also, using them for what they are useful for, and throwing away all the bad BS that they preach. He perfectly explained how we could use these useful idiots for our gain. Not to mention, they have perfected being irritants to the powers that be. They get people to work together, like block intersections, then when the LEO's show up, they just disperse immediately, and evaporate like mist, to go meet at a new location, and do it all over again. They tie up LEO's for days doing this crap. They are spending their resources doing that crap, instead of out writing speeding tickets and harassing normal everyday citizens with writing them fines or arresting them for simple malum prohibitum crimes.
If you cannot see how using people like that, could be useful to FreeFor, then I don't know if I can help you or not. Everyone is useful. You may not bring these people INTO YOUR TRIBE, but you can certainly direct them into a group, where you can use them for the FreeFor gain. Even the hot head, ready to start the shooting militia guy, can be used. You don't want him in your tribe, but you can direct him into a group, where a person like that may be useful at some point in time in the future.
The whole point is that you need to use the useful idiots for YOUR GAIN, and then try to bring people over to our side, that can be brought over, and if you can't use them for anything, then just toss them aside, and forget about them. Only use the people that can be used for something. Become smart, cunning. Use the useful idiots you can use, and bring the ones that can be brought over to our side if its possible. Also, if someone is willing to work, willing to learn how to start their own company or grow their own food, teach them how to do it.
Each person must do this individually, and it cannot be even a group effort, even though its being taught to a group. You have to teach the teacher first, before you try to go out there and teach other people on how to grow food or how to start and keep a business going.
Anyway, if Tom Baugh is at a PatCon near you, try to make it, sit down, and listen to what he has to say. It makes perfect sense to me. The guy is smart, he's cunning, and I believe he has a strategy to win. Also, everyone of us has our own strong points and our own weak points. Everyone won't be able to sell somebody on an idea, but you have other strengths that FreeFor can use. Basically, try and get together with your local FreeFor, organize, and see which of your skills can be put to good use at either hypothesizing, or actually just teaching your FreeFor brothers and sisters a certain skill. Also, once you get started learning something, you can probably learn more on your own through reading and then going out and doing.
I hope that I made sense when I tried to explain all this to you guys.
A LOT of stuff was talked about from 8AM til 8PM in one day, without a whole lot of breaks all day long.
