I just got done writing this for someone else, but it deserves a proper thread. There are a few thousand or so guys probably like you or I, that want to serve or participate in something greater because they correctly see it is necessary. Most of these guys are 1. young, 2. have zero resources except they're own willingness 3. are atomized and disconnected. People like the feds attempt to exploit people, especially young men, to justify their budgets and this is enough to scare most people into not even trying *legal* routes, let alone anything else. So from your point of view, your job isn't to be the follower. Your job is to build the network. Because without it, all those guys who **could** be great volunteers, instead either 1. end up entrapped in the false fronts the *federal government* builds, 2. those guys turn to despair and resort to more radical ends and giving the enemy media the ammo to turn the middle (which is necessary to win any struggle) against all of us. 3. the federal government annihilates america and turns it into a socialist hellscape one illegal law at a time, with no means for any of us citizens to change it, influence it, stop it, or voice our displeasure without censor or retaliation against the public as the federal government already does. Imagine everything you don't like, imagine all the horrible shit the federal government has propagated against us, the american citizens, only ten times worse, thats whats coming. They plan on turning america into a prison and police state, if not in name, then in practice. I'm not shitting you when I say, without an ounce of hyperbole, that it's going to resemble east germany or chinas surveillance state every way shape and form in terms of policies and practices. Thats whats coming. And all the guys like you and I? They're not waiting for a *leader*, they're waiting for **leaders**, plural. Nothing can be done without 1. organization, 2. money, 3. secure communications, 4. training, 5. shelter networks or bases of operation, 6. populist support, 7. intelligence, 8. logistics, 9. and operations, 10. recruitment and public relations, and so much more. And shit I'm not even talking illegalities, I'm just talking about how you structure *any* organization. Thats **all** on us, because we're the only ones that realize what it takes. This isn't just for 'guys like us' out there, hoping for hope. It's for your average american citizen too, and citizens in other western nations. It's for the father who has to decide between staying home to protect his kids against the thousands of murderous rapists the neoliberal government releases daily, or going to work, and leaving his family unprotected because gun laws enforced by mindless police officers strip ordinary americans of their right to arm their kids and wife. Its about protecting the single mother from the rapist who tries to grab her on her way from the diner she works at, who only was able to attack her because the state, which stole her vote and brainwashed her with state propaganda, said she didn't need a gun. It's about protecting the poor son of a bitch working minimum wage from having state goons arrest him over memes and try to rail road his ass because the FBI are an actual criminal organization. It's even about protecting the FBI agent and police who have kids and family of their own, who will one day grow up and be entrapped in this system too. It's about protecting the veteran from red flag laws being used by his neurotic ex into getting him swatted/killed by an overreaching and violent police system specifically designed by public policy to alienate the public. it's about protecting people who answer their door with a gun from being killed by unmarked cops who fail to identity themselves. And protecting the cop who shoots a criminal from being lynched and his home being burned down by hatemobs. It's about protecting the young man who shoots attackers in arsonist mobs, paid for by big tech, while defending himself from people trying to kill him. Why? because the local police force had their pensions stolen and its the only job in town for them and were told to stand down by local politicians who got in on fraud that federal agencies intentionally fail to stop. It's about protecting our military from subversion campaigns designed to destroy the populace's will to fight in order to subvert said military. It's about protecting the right of religion, so easily taken away, by figures who burn down churches, which the police fail to catch, only to have the churchs fined into oblivion and arrested for violating tyrannical state mandates designed to bankrupt small businesses. It's about protecting everyone from an out of control government thats declared war against it's own people because we live in a two tier justice system. One where government officials are 'answerable' but never face consequences. One where a small group of senators, congressmen, and DOD officials can get us into a war that kills millions of foreigners, creating tens of thousands of new terrorists out for innocent american blood, all so they can benefit from stock increases and campaign donations by raytheon and boeing. It's about justice against politicians who get off scot free, while they pass laws that allow opiods to flood our country, destroying tens of thousands of families and lives, while the executives get fucking jail in a summercamp with tennis. It's about the senator who gets caught selling our military secrets to foreign powers and federal law enforcement decides not to investigate or send him to a proper prison, but gives him the martha stewart treatment, while patriots like snowden wallow and die in obscurity. It's about justice, and national security, and the american way of life being preserved at all costs, against corrupt motherfuckers in office running rampant while transforming our nation into a fucking ghetto of subversive smarmy unelected or fraudulently elected bureaucrat wielding guns and pushing around and talking down to millions of americans put out of house and home by their fuckings scams and graft. It's about all of us versus all of *them*.