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- Greetings citizens of the world, let us introduce of selves, we are Anonymous,
- When you have a government that operates without limits, who proclaims the right to arrest,
- torture and kill anyone any, anywhere, with no warrants,
- no trial, no due process'
- When you have a government that militarizes the police and grants the armed forces the power
- to operate with impunity within your own borders and beyond a government that views you,
- the people, as the enemy' and treats you as such...
- When you have a government that lies to you takes you into wars of aggression,
- toppling country after country, killing countless innocent civilians, and sending your sons and daughter
- When you have a government that operates without limits, who proclaims the right to arrest,
- torture and kill anyone any, anywhere, with no warrants, no trial, no due process'
- When you have a government that militarizes the police and grants the armed forces the power
- to operate with impunity within your own borders and beyond a government that views you,
- the people, as the enemy and treats you as such...
- When you have a government that lies to you takes you into wars of aggression,
- toppling country after country, killing countless innocent civilians, and sending your sons and daughters
- and your fathers and your brothers home in flag draped coffins, or disfigured and broken in mind and body?
- their lives destroyed in wars that serve only to line the pockets of a unelected cartel of
- bankers and corporations'
- When you have all of this right in front of you, so blatant, so clear, you shouldn't have to be convinced
- that both parties in this political puppet show are owned and operated by the same interests,
- and you shouldn't have to be convinced that these overrated corporate popularity contests that some call
- elections are distractions that will achieve nothing, and with this understood, you shouldn't have to be
- convinced that the system you are living under must be brought to a halt.
- These are obviously conclusions for those who have been paying attention, so we won't try to convince
- you here. This video focuses solely on how to bring that system to a halt. Think of it as an instruction
- manual for a revolution.
- There are those who will be taken aback when you start using the word revolution.
- Revolution, the act of revolting, and overturning the current power structure is an extreme measure,
- one that should be handled with extreme caution, and in most cases they should be avoided.
- Revolutions are dangerous in every sense of the word, and it is difficult if not impossible to predict their
- outcome, but there are times when allowing those in control to stay in control is even more dangerous.
- Right now the question you need to ask yourself is this:
- Are we at that point yet? Can the current system be reformed?
- Revolutions begin with a NO and they end with a YES.
- Revolutions begin when you say NO to those who claim to have power over you, and revolutions end when you
- accept a new status quo, a new normal, whether that new normal is an improvement or not.
- The causes of revolution are numerous in form, but there is one common root, and that's discontent.
- Discontent is the emotion that builds and builds under the surface, it is a storm which brews in
- the mind of the people, just waiting to be unleashed.
- The trouble is that it is much easier to unleash that storm than it is to get people in agreement as to
- what should come next. It's not easy to get people to see eye to eye regarding what needs to happen after
- the current system falls. So this is usually put off, or avoided altogether. This is a serious mistake.
- Without clear objectives, chaos usually sets in soon after the old regime falls, and then in the power
- vacuum that is created a tyrant rises to bring order. As a result the systems that follow revolutions
- are often just as totalitarian or more totalitarian than those that they replace.
- It should therefore be abundantly obvious that discontent is a not sufficient driving force for a revolution,
- that is if your goal is actually to leave a better world for your children and grandchildren. In order
- for an upheaval to have positive results it must be driven by a clear and realistic vision, a vision that
- accounts for the world and humans the way they actually are right now, not the way we wish they would be or
- hope that they might be, and it must differentiate between that which can and cannot be changed in the short term.
- There is nothing more dangerous that armed men with utopian dreams.
- So let's be realistic shall we? We the people are divided.
- We have divided ourselves into classes and subclasses, liberals, and conservatives, libertarians, anarchists,
- socialists, anarcho-socialists, minarchists, state based free market capitalists, anarcho-capitalists,
- Resource Based Economy advocates and more.
- There is absolutely no chance that any one of you is going to convince all of the others that
- your way is the right way, unless of course one of you rises to political power in the fray and enforces your
- beliefs by the barrel of a gun. This is the way it usually happens throughout history, and this is
- what we must avoid repeating.
- A movement is only successful if it starts with an idea that is strong enough to take root in the mind of the
- population and inspires and motivates people to spread it.
- It is possible for a diverse and divided people to form a coalition in times of great need and unify around an idea,
- but it only works if that idea that meets the following 3 requirements:
- 1. It must articulate a clear and defined common interest which will allow the people to work together.
- The necessity for unification, even if that unification is temporary, needs to be evident to all
- stakeholders and it must be accompanied by a sense of urgency which impels people to reach out to others
- in their community and spread the idea.
- 2. A clear vision of what you are working towards. What are you going to replace the current system with?
- Ironing out the fine details isn't actually productive. What's needed is a broad, and abstract vision
- based on principles.
- In human societies extreme and abrupt changes are usually destructive. All efforts must be made to retain
- social stability and this means steering clear of any sort of utopian phantasies. The time to rewire humanity
- is NOT during a period crisis. Historically such attempts usually end in tragedy.
- 3. A plan of action, and a clear understanding of the rules of engagement.
- We'll refer to these three elements collectively as the conscious revolution paradigm.You don't have to get mystical
- about it, it just means think before you act.Let's start with the common interest. Establishing our common interest
- is easy if you are informed and if the people around you aren't informed then your job is clear: inform them. Whether
- you consider yourself liberal or conservative or none of the above the bankers and corporations which hold the puppet
- strings of the state have placed us all on a path that leads to complete and total destruction. Our common interest
- is the world we are leaving our children.The clear vision of what we are working towards is much harder. Again there
- is nothing more dangerous that armed men with utopian dreams, and there's no greater symptom of utopianism than the
- illusion that we can convince the entire world to accept one monolithic belief system. Yet at the same time all great
- movements are driven by an idea, they are driven by a vision.How do we resolve this apparent contradiction? How do we
- find a common vision without falling for the naive phantasy that we can unify all world views?The answer is actually
- pretty simple, and that's a good thing, because only very simple ideas can be transmitted from person to person without
- breaking down.Our vision must start with the foundational understanding that there is not one single right way for humans
- to live on this planet, and that it is unacceptable to force others into any system without their consent, or to use
- violence or coercion to compel them to obey a set of rules that they never agreed to. That should be common sense,
- but it's really not for most people. Most people like to use government thugs to enforce their good intentions.
- They just don't like it when it comes home to roost and the gun is pointed in their face.When the system falls there is
- going to be no way to reconstitute it in its old shape and size without violence and coercion and even that probably wouldn't
- work. Therefore the only real, ethical option is to accept that humpty dumpty isn't going to be put back together again.When
- the United States falls it's not coming back. This may not be true for smaller countries who are socially and ideologically
- unified.When it's time to rebuild we don't need to figure out one system that everyone can fit under, rather we need to
- figure out an approach which facilitates multiple systems side by side.What would that look like?Imagine a network of small
- voluntarily formed communities bound together in loose federations that cooperate for mutual defense and trade as needed,
- with decision making taking place at the local level.It's a simple concept, one that has been applied many times throughout
- history. The most striking example however is the Iroquois Federation, which unified 6 tribes each with their own cultures
- and traditions. The Iroquois Federation existed before the arrival of Collombus and lasted until 1779 when they were conquered
- militarily by the U.S.. Many historians believe that the Iroquois Federation served as the original inspiration for the
- united states. The most striking difference being that the Iroquois Federation never had a central government. No one at the
- top had the power to force the member tribes to do anything whatsoever, and yet this system worked well. So clearly this
- is not a utopian phantasy. It is a viable option, and it's the only option that can be enacted on a voluntary basis.The final
- element of the conscious revolution paradigm is the the plan of action, the strategy and tactics, the short term and long
- term goals and the structure of the movement.First let's start with the top level strategy and move towards tactics.Some think
- of revolution in terms of bullets and bombs, but this is a misconception. Revolutions are about pulling the pillars of power out
- from underneath the state one by one until it falls.The state leans on three primary pillars of power:
- 1. Control of the group mind, ideas and beliefs
- 2. The control of money, finance and thereby human activity
- 3. The monopoly on violence, and the use intimidation to extract obedience by fear.
- There are three stages of revolution. They are sequential, and they correlate directly with the three pillars of power.
- The first is the ideological revolution. This is where we undermine the belief systems which support their control, this is
- where we systematically erode at their illusion of legitimacy, their aura of power. We expose these criminals for the scoundrels
- that they are and we inspire discontent among those who the state depends on for its functioning. If you're new to this,
- welcome to the party. It's already in full swing, and guess what we're winning. The powers that be have lost control of the
- dialogue, and they know it.The second phase is of the revolution is strategic non-compliance or more accurately defiance.
- This can take many forms, and multiple approaches can be used at the same time. The goal of strategic non-compliance is to
- interrupt the chain of obedience for as long as possible as many times as possible, to publicize that interruption on as large
- a scale as possible, to document the police and or military brutality that follows and to distribute that footage far and wide.
- The purpose of this is to damage the ruling party's image, because power is all about image. It's all smoke and mirrors.
- Once that image starts to break down this inspires others to disobey, monkey see, monkey do, and when this catches on and contagion
- sets in it becomes a force of nature, like a tidal wave. It's all about reaching critical mass.What's crucial to understand
- here is that revolutions are almost entirely psychological in nature.In this context building confidence is the most important element.
- Therefore it is better to do small successful operations and build up from there, than it is to start with large high stakes events.
- The third stage of revolution comes when the people have built the necessary momentum to take the monopoly on violence out of the
- hands of the current regime. In the best of circumstances such a transition can be relatively peaceful, but this is only possible
- when a significant portion of the police and military have taken the side of the people.The police and the military are the enforcement
- arm of the state, without them the powers that be have no power at all. Faltering governments almost always resort to brutal
- repression to attempt stay in power, but this is often a fatal error. Even one refusal to follow an immoral order can set off
- a chain reaction that destroys the illusion of authority they so carefully cultivate. Once that happens, it?s game over.
- In East Germany on November 7, 1989 the communist party ordered the military
- to put a stop to mass protests which had been growing through out that year.
- The commander of the army refused and ordered his men to stand down. This sent
- a clear message that the communist party was no longer in control. This
- realization spread rapidly through the population and communism fell.Now since
- this is such a crucial element in the equation it's not something that should
- be left up to chance. Every effort needs to be made right now reach out to the
- police and military, to help them wake up to what's going on and to let them
- know that the people will support them if they break the chain of command.Now
- that we've outlined the big picture let's look at two other key elements:
- leadership and organizational structure.
- Our current system relies on a hierarchical chain of command, a social pyramid
- which allows a small handful of individuals to control everyone else. In sociology
- this is referred to as vertical collectivism.If our long term vision is not
- compatible with such a structure, it would be foolish to build a resistance movement
- which copies it. The ends don't justify the means, the means will determine the end
- result.So if we want a decentralized, non-hierarchical federation of autonomous
- communities to replace the current system, the movement must be decentralized and
- non-hierarchal as well.This doesn't mean that there is no place for leadership. To
- the contrary leadership is essential. The distinction needs to be made between leaders
- and rulers. Leaders walk ahead of the crowd. Rulers place themselves above the crowd.
- What is needed is a vast network of leaders, independently motivated and capable of
- thinking for themselves working to organize groups both locally in the real world and
- online, unified not by obedience to a single leader, but unified by an idea.
- Now while this approach does present challenges logistically it has the advantage of
- making it virtually impossible to destroy the organization merely by getting rid of one
- or two leaders. A distributed organization structure is much more resilient.
- So where are these leaders?
- Well don't wait for them to appear. We need you to be one of those leaders yourself.
- If you don't know how to be a leader, learn. Dealing with crowds is a skill, one that
- you can refine through practice and study. Anyone who wants to learn the basic psychology
- of uprisings, and how to work with the public should study the following books intensely,
- reading them each several times, taking notes and reflecting on what they say.
- "The Crowd" and "The Psychology of Revolution" by Gustave Le Bon and "From Dictatorship
- to Democracy" by Gene Sharp. These books are all available online to read and download
- for free You'll find links to these books in the description of this video.
- Now a word of warning: These books contain politics, opinions and prejudices that I do not
- endorse. Like all books, they should be read with a critical mind questioning everything that
- is said. However they do offer a great deal of insight as to how to take power out of the
- hands of a tyrant.Leadership takes many forms and can mean many things depending on the
- situation, however, the primary job of leaders is to inspire people to take action, to organize
- people into groups so that they can be more effective than isolated individuals, and to train
- others to do the same.The final element needed to start your revolution is tactics.
- In the realm of violence the state has the definitive advantage and it would be foolish to
- engage them where they are strongest. Instead we should use tactics that engage them where
- they are weakest. Fortunately there is no shortage of non-violent tactics which have been
- proven effective in toppling dictatorships. Gene Sharp's book "From Dictatorship to Democracy"
- lists 198, but those are by no means the only ones that can be used.The tactics employed by each
- group will depend on the mission and the specific goals of the group. The military divides
- itself into Army, Airforce, Navy and Marines so that each can be specialized in the tactics of
- the terrain where they fight, likewise a non-violent movement should have specialized groups for
- specific issues. This is already developing.We have P.A.N.D.A. people against the N.D.A.A. which
- is a national organization that's been working to build resistance to the N.D.A.A. on the state
- and local levels and they've been having successes. What's most impressive is that the founder,
- Daniel Johnson started this organization when he was 17.Also there's the OathKeepers founded
- by Stewart Rhodes, which has been reaching out to the police and military, reminding them of
- their oath and preparing them psychologically to disobey when unconstitutional orders are handed
- down. The OathKeepers have taken a definitive stand against the N.D.A.A. and they are gaining
- traction within the ranks.Others are organizing social media teams to collect and spread
- information. Others organize street activism such as writing messages in chalk on sidewalks,
- or hanging up posters, or inserting small leaflets into books and magazines in the store.
- The possibilities are endless.Whether you start your own group, join an existing group,
- or act as an individual will depend on your disposition. No one can decide that for you.
- The most important thing is to take the first step and to start doing something, anything.
- Take action and break the inertia of passivity, this is how you take back your power, one millimeter at time.
- We are Anonymous,
- We are legion,
- We do not forgive,
- We do not forget,
- Expect Us!
- Unite as one divided by 0!
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