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A Barbarian’s Issues with Law Enforcement: No duty to protect or serve the citizens

When a cop fails or decides not to stop an incident, or protect a citizen he is often held as a bad cop, how ever he has no such obligation legally, or in his job description so he is simply doing his job.

The courts have ruled on multiple occasions that government personnel including cops have no legal duty or requirement to protect or rescue citizens. Warren v. District of Columbia, was a case heard in 1981 in the D.C. Court of Appeals that held that police have a general “public duty,” but that “no specific legal duty exists” except when there is a special relationship between an officer and an individual, such as a person in custody.

The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled that police have no specific obligation to protect. In the DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services case in 1989. SCOTUS ruled that a social services department had no duty to protect a young boy from his abusive father.

In the 2005 Castle Rock v. Gonzales case, a woman sued the police for failing to protect her from her husband after he violated a restraining order and abducted and killed their three children. Justices ruled the police had duty to do so.

And in a case that most probably remember from recent times. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that police could not be held liable for failing to protect students in the 2018 shooting that claimed 17 lives when deputies decided not to make entry into the school during an active shooter Incident at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Even more recently was the incident in Uvaldi Texas where not only did no cop make entry after receiving orders to stand down, they arrested parents who attempted to do so, and the one cop who did try to make entry, though its questionable if he would have even tried if his wife was not inside. The incident was ultimately ended we are told by a federal agent who disobeyed orders and went in.

This lack of duty, legal requirement, or incentives to protect the citizenry could be multiplied by not policing the areas they live in as they may have reduced or no loyalty to the community they work in. Going hand in hand with this lack of duty,

They have no obligation to check your alibi before arresting you

“use it as your defense” is the common excuse. Even and especially when the cops are so absurdly in the wrong that you cannot believe it. Such as a blind man getting arrested for carrying a concealed weapon…..His cane. > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/10/florida-police-arrest-legally-blind-man-cane-gun Not only did they not listen to his alibi even though they had his cane in possession, they doubled down on their wrong doing once the sergeant showed up and went thorough with his arrest.

Cops are trained to lie

Law enforcement can legally lie to you about the evidence they have against you. They can say they have witnesses when they don’t, they can say they have physical evidence when they don’t, They can tell you a search warrant is coming soon when it isn’t and they don’t have enough evidence to get a search warrant in the first place, all in an attempt to get you to confess or give up your rights to allow them to do whatever they want.

This is why innocent people confess to things that they didn’t do because they are scared of what could happen to them.

Nothing is off the record, but they might tell you that it is. Or that they are looking for someone else and just need you to tell them what happened so they can get on with looking for the other person.

Have you ever seen a police interview where the cop says, “we have no evidence you did the crime but we know you did it so confess”? No? Me either, they will always act as if they have mountains of evidence and that the trial is all but won and you better confess to get leniency. Now to a normal person that would be considered a lie.

A gray area, according to some people. is in report writing. There are keywords and phrases that are taught and used in report writing to justify situations, responses, and outcomes. Whether they are actually true or not. The most famous of which is “through my training and experience.” That little phrase can let you stop just about anyone you want In most jurisdictions. And even if it can’t then you can just wait until they do something minor like a traffic violation and use it as an excuse to stop them, or what they call a pretext stop.

Another famous one is “I feared for my life.” and while typically used in situations where it is true, by both civilians and cops, it is also been used to justify lethal force in situations that do not warrant it. One main one that has become a running joke online is the killing of dogs.

I second guess loading my dogs up in my vehicle every time I do it because of because of how chicken shit cops tend to be when it comes to dogs. I fear having my dog in the car and getting pulled over for even something minor. I don’t want them tazed and running out into traffic or getting killed trying to protect me because a power hungry officer tries to rough me up, because as we will cover in part 6 you are no longer innocent until proven guilty.

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A barbarian’s issues with law enforcement : SYSTEM DESIGN

This is the bread and butter, where the rubber meats the road. These are the issues with law enforcement that most people don’t see until they are pointed out to them, if they are not brainwashed enough to ignore them. The issues that cause real problems for the citizens as a whole. So lets get started.

Everyone on the states side is on the same side

Cops, prosecutors, judge, and public defenders all work for the same organization. This means the cop arresting you the prosecutor charging you and the judge that over sees the trial all answer to the same organization. In addition if you cannot afford a private attorney, your defender will also be a person who works for the same organization. As well your private attorney is governed by the bar association who ultimately is also under government regulation.

So how can you trust them to do anything but cover their own people when something wrong happens. If for no other reason than they need to maintain working relationships with the different sections of the organization, so they don’t want to prosecute cops or cops don’t want to arrest prosecutors, or judges throw out cases for them etc. When everyone works for the same organization there is not only a monopoly, but there is an unavoidable bias that the citizens have to take on faith wont be acted on.

Cops get special treatment

Laws are often written with exceptions for law enforcement. Special laws are also passed specifically for cops. If a law bans certain items such as knives or certain firearms, cops are always exempt. If they kill someones dog its not a crime and only civil issue. If someone kills a police dog its killing a police officer. If a cop roughs up someone even if they are not arrested its not an assault but if you shove or fight fight back against a cop its not only assault its assaulting a police officer, and if they kill someone “accidentally” its only an accident and again only a civil issue.

Cops always say they they are people too and want to remind everyone that they are individuals, but then have all these benefits and protections built up for them and given authority that citizens don’t have.

Cops getting hanged for doing the right thing

Now in defense of cops for a moment, The very few that are good, and do the right thing by the citizens, will usually get hung out to dry. Especially if it goes against an order even if the order was illegal or immoral. Greg Anderson is a prime example of this from recent history.

All the while the cops that allow them selves to get used to harass the citizens, are rewarded. This is because cops job is no longer to keep the peace but to enforce the law and follow orders. So when a kid has a lemonade stand, thats an unlicensed business That needs to be shut down. See link > https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/asa-baker-lemonade-stand-shut-down-police-permit-b2145610.html People will typically call this a bad cop.

And when you see the opposite in the same situation > https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-called-kids-lemonade-stand-sweetest-reaction/story?id=65265878 you get the “these are good cops.” When in reality they most likely went against the law in their jurisdiction by doing nothing even though this the right thing to do. Depending on their command staff or city council they could have been fired for that.

Incentives and operational priorities are skewed

Setting aside the constitutionality question of DUI check points and check points in general which is questionable according to some lawyers. Many states, local jurisdictions, and the feds have programs for law enforcement where they get bonuses for DUI arrests. More arrests = more money, so there is an incentive for them to potentially fabricate DUI arrests, especially when “Under the influence” in many states is not a set blood alcohol level but the officers opinion on your driving ability.

Which in terms of arresting impaired drivers is necessary, due to other substances that impair driving. This is why you can be given DUI for things other than alcohol. Here is one example of a cop allegedly intentionally arresting someone who is not DUI at a DUI checkpoint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1NitQ5QNA

In a jurisdiction without dash cam or body cameras this is all the easier to pull off, but as many will attests body cameras have an uncanny ability to turn off when the cops do something questionable.

Outside of the cops realm, improper incentives also apply to the prosecutors whose entire performance is dependent on their successful prosecution count regardless of whether they are innocent or not. They have no incentive to drop charges if evidence comes out that the defendant is innocent as long as they still think they can win or get them to plead guilty.

No responsibility personally or departmentally

Starting at the department level there is very little if any responsibility for any of their actions whether necessary, intentional, accidental or otherwise. For instance, This incident in Colorado that started from a shoplifting call And ended with an uninvolved family without a home and no one to pay for the damages. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/30/swat-team-destroyed-greenwood-village-familys-home-police-dont-have-to-pay-for-damages/

The Homeowners insurer, did eventually pay the family a partial payment of $345,000 for the damage to the house was not close to enough to cover all the costs associated with the demolition, property losses or even the appraised cost of the $580,000 home.

The police also caused roughly $70k in damages to the neighbors house as well and offered $2,000 dollars in compensation when the homeowners insurer refused to pay anything. Sure seems like serving the public right? Over a shoplifting charge the police will do almost 3/4s of a million dollars in damages to unrelated peoples homes, to bring the person to “justice” and then leave the homeowners on the hook for the damages they caused. Of course the pendulum seems to have swung the other way on this one in most places and now they don’t arrest anyone for shoplifting period.

Now should the criminal be liable for damages too? Sure, but fiscally that will never payout in most cases. Unfortunately if a civil case is ever won in any situation involving cops its always the taxpayers ultimately footing the bill. So the cops never feel anything repercussions.

Personally

Now on the individual level, for the most cops are given the benefit of the doubt from the courts and a good amount of the public, when it comes to bad or flat out wrong decisions and I do get it. They do make split second decisions and that cannot be judged with 20/20 hindsight all the time, but there is plenty of examples just listed already where decisions they have made were not hard to see that they were wrong.

However even if they do, rarely will they be charged sentenced or fired even if they did commit wrong doing or criminal activity, often allowing them to resign and go to a different departments. This stops any questions from being raised about that individuals cases and whether they need to be reopened or questioned allowing the other records to stay in tact, when depending on the situation those cases should be reopened and looked at again if the officer is doing something wrong.

Look everybody makes mistakes I get hat but when cops make mistakes or commit wrong doing it usually results in tragedy rarely with any repercussions, no restitution, not even a demotion, or docked pay.

Take a look at just a hand full of incidents where SWAT teams raided the wrong house.

https://reason.com/2021/06/14/michigan-police-no-knock-raid-wrong-address-dunigan-colston-held-at-gunpoint/

https://www.foxnews.com/story/minneapolis-swat-team-raids-wrong-house

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-mayor-orders-probe-woman-alleges-police-raided-wrong-house-injure-rcna134062

This one the person was killed.

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-dotson-familys-furious-police-assassination-wrong-house-1796281

Check out

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/who-pays-the-price-for-botched-swat-team-raids-we-do

For further reading on this subject specifically.

Whether they were acting on bad info from a detective or they unknowingly went to the wrong house, Either way they are either lazy and not doing their own recon or confirmation, or they are flat out don’t care and are negligent. But if your going to do a no knock or any warrant service and shoot anyone who shoots at you or fights back you better be damn sure you are at the right house, and that you are not being intentionally or negligently mislead by who ever is requesting you do the warrant service.

Restitution

So they are doing something wrong? Take it up with the judge is always their response.

So what do you do? You take them to court.

You sue them, and if you win? guess what you paid for it.

The individual cops who make the mistake rarely ever feel any judgement laid down because the department or city/county/state foots the bill thanks to qualified immunity for the officer themselves. So lets say they destroy someones life and even their courts cant justify it and you win a settlement. Where do the departments get their money? Taxes. So they just took the money that was forcibly taken from you and gave it back in a settlement. Their budget doesn’t change, The officers are not personally responsible, and the machine keeps on rolling.

While there is reason for qualified immunity, though I do not fully agree with them as the judge could ultimately throw out cases that were frivolous or hand no standing but they give a blanket immunity instead. So is there any incentive for them to dO right by the citizens? Not really and Part 5 will cover wHat makes this even worse.

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A Barbarians Issues with Law Enforcement: MISCONDUCT VS DESIGN

The problems with cops and law enforcement fall into two categories, misconduct and system design. Many people will see these problems and think they are bugs in the system when in realty a lot of them are actually features of the system’s design. They are just how the system is built to work.

Many people do not see these issues because they have never actually interacted with law enforcement, never actually given any of it much thought or worse refuse to look at these problems, I hope to change that part below.

Most people when they think of problems in/with law enforcement they think of misconduct. Excessive force, wrongful death or corruption to name a few, and while some incidents can be debated, by the letter of the law these incidents are actually fairly rare.

Now it can be argued that it’s because the government writes itself and cops legal exceptions and special privileges to prevent the legal infraction from happening in the firstplace and some make the argument its because most cops are good.

Problems of misconduct (SOMETIMES)

Excessive force/wrongful death

While this does happen, and more often than we want to think, true incidents of it are rarely covered by the media. The incidents covered by the media typically are cases that are justified force or that leave out extenuating circumstances that contributed to the death and are used to sow discontent when the cops are eventually acquitted in quart. The ones that are actually bad are swept under the rug in order to protect the department when ever possible.

This incident for example while the officer was fired did not receive weeks long coverage like others have in the past and in my opinion is is far worse than many use of force cases that have received non stop coverage. As well this incident raises the question of working extra duty in uniform but then acting as a cop which we cover later. https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/video-shows-arizona-cop-fatally-shooting-man-in-wheelchair/ Many will argue the “just follow orders and you wont get hurt” argument but we will touch on that later as well, but in short, what if you can’t?

Such as in Minneapolis during the riots, The police department special units were conducting bean bag round driveways on any one that was out after a certain hour. While they were supposed to be only targeting rioters, they targeted anyone on the street. What if you work nights, or need to protect your home or business when they are not? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minneapolis-police-hunting-activists-body-cam-footage_n_615f4c56e4b02bd79fbccaf8

Side jobs, extra duty and moon lighting

In most jurisdictions and most departments they allow extra duty. Jobs that cops can take when they are not on shift for extra pay such as, security at sporting events, and personal protection details. Now for quick clarification, moon lighting I unauthorized side jobs and most departments have policies against this.

Now extra duty is typically put on as shifts by the police department and paid for by them such as major sporting events and conventions which makes sense because while they are private events by law, they are large public gatherings which makes them targets for attacks as well as other crime, though you do not want to pull people off normal shifts to cover them.

However in some instances the department is taking money from a company or organization to cover paying the officers to do that shift. They often have no requirement to NOT wear their uniform and often times request that they do and they often are acting as cops. Essentially the police department is selling enhanced police service to certain organizations or companies that can afford it. This is where these extra duty shifts become a problem. Like the Arizona case above,

Should departments be able to sell policing services to paying companies, or should the cops have to be in Walmart uniform and not act as police if they are working a security shift? Or should the whole practice of Extra duty for out side companies be discontinued?

Corruption

I list this here because corruption like you see in the movies is exceedingly rare. However cops just following orders that contribute to other peoples corruption is another story. I cannot find it now but there was a case of a mayor using the police department to clear out neighborhoods so that his real-estate buddies could buy up the houses. While the cops did not benefit from this they were at best party to it by their “i am just following orders” attitude and at worst willing participants. When I find the case Ill edit it here.

Genuine problems of misconduct

Lack of knowledge of the law

Watch enough incidents with cops and you will see many that don’t know the laws they are enforcing, and some that even just make things up as they go because they can say “its the law” and most people will fall in line. This particular cases started that way, but ends horribly.

This Disabled Veteran accused of panhandling, a victimless crime, and resulted in his service dog getting killed. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-service-dog-tasered-died-arrest-police/

The disabled homeless veteran had his service dog killed by a car after it was unnecessarily tazed by a cop. The arrest went forceful when a cop would not accept the veterans government issued veterans ID. The dog then gets concerned and agitated (not aggressive) because his handler is freaking out as the dog is trained to do and then attempts to calm his handler down.

Now every state that I have trained and worked in says government issued ID, which VA would count as accepted identification, as well, cops can take a Name and Date of birth or social security number and check ID thoguh their PC or dispatch, as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FO_LN-mJHI

SIDE NOTE: 30 minutes in you will see the dogs behavior. If that behavior is threatening to you you should not be a cop. 5 minutes into your first day as a cop you are issued at least three fire arms, body armor, and a host of less lethal weapons because you are supposed to be going up against the worst criminals in your jurisdiction, if a dog scares you to the point that you cannot tell the difference between an aggressive dog and a scared or concerned dog, don’t be a cop.

This incident resulted in no firings to my knowledge and in fact accusations of harassment and coverup by the department against the Veteran. Also no nationwide coverage.

Criminal behavior/history or bad hiring

Law enforcement departments often have a reputation of bad hiring practices, and ignoring criminal behavior of its employees. This is also made worse when cops are allowed to resign instead of charges being filed because they can then go to a different department and get hired again because they have no criminal record, lazy background investigators at the new department or some departments only hire these people, because they no one with other options wants to work at their departments.

In this case a Colorado officer tazes an old man for complying with the order that he gave him. According to the old man he was tazed upwards of 60 times. https://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-man-shocked-taser-files-federal-lawsuit-las/story?id=99022329 The officer had a record of not only previous incidents but criminal behavior.

According to court documents, the officer who was in a command position at the department, was subject to a domestic abuse case in June 2006. A case was filed against the officer that resulted in a temporary restraining order. In the state of Colorado restraining orders take away your right to own a firearm. Which means that he was no longer eligible to work as police officer. In addition

The officer also was subject to at least three misdemeanor cases, according to court documents, that range from harassment-obscene language/gesture and disorderly conduct-offensive gesture charges to disorderly conduct-fighting in public and menacing charges. All of these charges were dismissed.

According to court documents, the officer was also subject to a criminal case filed in 1997 where he was charged with the Class 5 felony of menacing use of a deadly weapon. Although that charge was dropped, the same 1997 case charged the offcier with disorderly conduct displaying a weapon, where the defendant entered a guilty plea.

In 1998, the officer was subject to another misdemeanor case for harassment in public, according to court documents, where he was found guilty after a court trial after pleading not guilty. He was sentenced to unsupervised probation

Should this person have been a cop to start with let alone continuing to be?

Part 4 of this series we begin down the road of the “problems” that are actually built into the system. This is where the disconnect happens in most peoples brains and where many of the good cop vs bad cop arguments come out of.

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A Barbarian’s Issues with Law Enforcement: Some Understanding

The general public has many misconceptions about law enforcement that are not problems in them selves though they could lead to or exacerbate other problems.

Lack of training

I went through a year long 40hour a week academy. I can tell you that its not a problem of minimum hours of training its the content of the training. I would say that 50% or more of the time i spent in academy was spent on things that don’t matter, and they were stretched out much longer than necessary. While things that do matter and would make cops better were left to the way side. A topic that could be covered in an hour, required 8. This left us sitting on our hands or stuck in lectures that are unnecessarily long taking away time from training that should have had more time dedicated. Or training that is typically reserved for the department inservice trainings is left out of academy completely.

In the age of woke and pronouns this will only get worse. More time will be spent on DEI than on differentiating from medical incidents and driving under the influence. Trainings involving autism and other disabilities. More training time will be taken away from learning the law, and rights more so than it already is, though this might be by design……

I will say that my academy did cover law very well for the state i was in at the time, but I also know that it is not the case in all academies and that time is often taken away from learning the law for other topics. Law class ran almost the entire time of the academy and covered statue law and constitutional law and case law. Though case law only covered those that benefited the cops or threatened them not that benefited the public.

My academy spent a good amount of time on report writing but what that means is that were were trained the formatting and the “buzzwords” to use to cover our asses and the departments ass regardless if the report was 100% accurate to what happens by using those buzzwords. “Through my training and experience” Is a popular one. Time was however taken away from things such as negotiation/crisis intervention (talking down suicidal people).

Dark Humor

People need to understand this because it is not just law enforcement. Anyone that spends the majority of their time in stressful or tragic circumstances will develop a dark sense of humor in order to process it or they will not make it out alive. This applies to cops, soldiers, firefighters, social workers, and Drs. They may be there for the worst day of your life, but this is only the 3rd worst day of a life they have been in today. They may still have 12 more hours of worst days before starting it again tomorrow. You get to process and deal with this day, they have to shake it off move on and go back to work.

Misconceptions that could be problems

Racism

This is not systemic as most would have you believe. Not at the country level or most organizations. They think this because there is info going around that law enforcement started with slave catchers when in reality law enforcement traditions goes back to Europe before the US was even a thing. Racism however can be a problem on an individual level just like in any other profession or industry. The problem is when departments or other officers will cover for bad officers in order to try and avoid looking like Its a department problem, inadvertently creating the department problem they were trying to avoid.

Cops not policing their own areas – This is another popular one that people like to complain about. Cops living in one city and policing another. I get why this happens, and it happens in fire departments too. People don’t want to deal with seeing people they know, shot, killed, robbed, committing suicide, and so on.

There is however an argument to be made that by doing so they do not have any ties to the community and therefore have no incentive to do right by the community.

Thinking everyone is armed

This comes up constantly, and when said out loud it sounds fine. “Cops shouldn’t act like everyone is armed” but you have to when your in a job where you might have to go up against an armed felon even if that likely hood is low.

This is the real world people hurt other people, and in reality its not just cops that should think about other people being armed. Especially when people are getting assaulted for no reason on the streets. Everyone needs to think about it and prepare themselves because one day it might be you in that confrontation.

I would argue that the over reaction comes from people being afraid of weapons and not people holding them. These are the cops you see drawing down on someone who says they have a concealed weapons permit, or a hunter who has a rifle slung. They equate weapon and death instead of looking at the entire situation. This fear is also where you see cops so amped up that they give an order and then shoot the person for complying with the order. This is proven time and time again every time a citizen goes into a police training trying to prove this wrong and ends up “shooting” an unarmed person.

We have now come to the end of limits for my benefit of the doubt and understanding when it comes to law enforcement. Part 3 will start to cover actual misconduct in law enforcement as well as the misunderstanding by the public in the design of the system.

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Barbarian’s issues with law enforcement: An Introduction

My issues with law enforcement are not your typical defund the police activists problems with police, though some might overlap. If nothing else I hope this serves as a realty check for those looking at getting into the profession so that they know what they are signing up for.

Most commentators on law enforcement have had no interaction with or knowledge of police work. Whether they are on the “cops are good and there are only a few bad apples side.” – The people who believe the system works and trust it blindly because they have never had an interaction with it, or work inside it – or they are the people who are running training companies of one kind or another, K9, firearms, etc and they only deal with the “good cops” who by their definition are those that seek out training on their own time.

The same goes for those that blindly talk shit about cops as well. They either have had to many encounters with law enforcement or they sit on the side lines thinking that all violence is wrong and live in the world they think should be and not the one that is. They talk just as much shit about citizens defending themselves as they do about cops.

This is not what I am doing.

Some Background

I grew up in a law enforcement family. I wanted to be part of law enforcement through my entire childhood and young adult life. That was a dream that I in fact accomplished, and then regretted almost immediately. Though a regret that I did not really understand until a few years later as well as the blessing that was me having to leave that dream behind.

Shortly after I made it on to a department I had to resign due to some health issues. A resignation of a dream that I had for the better part of two decades. That resignation became a blessing over the next couple of years, because of events at both that specific department, which I learned was just some in a long list of prior events as well as events on the national level. The years following completely changed my point of view on law enforcement as a whole. Where they used to get the benefit of the doubt now was a complete lack of trust. I used to defend them in debates and now I only defend the individuals I know personally if they deserve it.

Intentions VS Results

I do not want this to be a complete bashing of law enforcement personnel as I do believe that at least some of them do get into the profession with good intentions of protecting their community and helping people. However they could do the same thing by getting a concealed carry permit and going about their every day lives. Looking back I got into it for those reasons, as well looking for some action fighting the bad guys.

I was also looking for a brotherhood. A brotherhood that i was depending on to rebuild my social and support network after moving thousands of miles for the job and ultimately a brotherhood that I did not find and that after talking to many in the profession I now know no longer exists.

Now as we know intentions don’t matter, results do and the road to hell is paved with good intentions. What you think your going to be doing and what you actually will be doing are not always the same thing especially in law enforcement and I like most people learned this the hard way. Only a small percentage actually get to chase the bad guys and handle the true threats to the community, the majority don’t. the majority do more of what looks like harassment than serving the community. This is not entirely their fault but the fault of the justice system as a whole but they are by definition the enforcers for that system.

Strong moral men and families make safe communities, regardless of law enforcement’s existence, and like the founding fathers understood, you also need to protect your community from the state, you cannot do that if you are the enforcer for it.

I don’t know if the profession was always this way or only recently but I know that what people have been saying about law enforcement for decades if it was not true the whole time is becoming true now. That being said I do understand why certain things happen in law enforcement that the general public does not understand, which I will cover in more depth.

I am going to harp on one last point here before we get started. It applies here but is not limited to this topic alone.

Follow Nothing and No One Blindly

If you don’t know them or the incident personally, don’t die on that hill. Doesn’t matter if its cops, celebrities, brands, influencers, or religious institutions. If you don’t have personal experience with it or them never jump in with them 100%

There is only five current or former law enforcement officers that I truly respect, and trust were good when they did the job. I know all but one of them personally and thats the point. One is my father who worked for two different departments and ran an academy. His career culminated in retirement from a gaming regulation agency in the western united states.

One is my step father who retired from two different departments, in two different states. over the course of his life and career he worked special investigations full time swat and air support devision as a pilot.

one is a fellow academy graduate from my class who at the time of this writing had taken over as deputy chief in a sheriffs department in the western united states.

One is my field training officer from the department i was at who i assume is still there or possibly retiring soon I would hope if he hasn’t already. This officer worked as a k9 officer while i was there and was the only officer i have ever seen argue with a person on the call over not infringing on someones rights.

Now the last one is the only one that I don’t know personally, but would not hesitate to meet him. Greg Anderson who chucked his career over doing the right thing during the Pandemic when he released a video calling on his fellow officers at his department and others across the country to make sure that they were doing the right thing, not infringing on the rights of the citizens when following orders. As you can imagine this was not welcomed by the politicians and his superiors and resulted in him loosing his job when he refused to take the video down.

What is Law Enforcement?

Its right there in the name, Law Enforcement. How ever their is a disconnect between what the public thinks that means and their job definition and what they actually do. People have one of two images of law enforcement in their heads, on the side that defends them, they see them as police officers or peace officers. There to protect them and solve their problems, but there is a reason their official title was changed to law enforcement officer.

Then there is the side that has either had run ins with them or that can be objective enough to see them clearly, that they are their to enforce the laws, what ever that law may be, or how right or wrong the law is. This disconnect is why you have the good cop and bad cop arguments, more so then because of dirty cops because that is actually exceedingly rare, at least in the prospective of corruption.

Law enforcement is historically a tool of tyrants, they respond to violence but only that which is unsanctioned by the state. They mainly bring violence upon those who do not comply or obey the regime in charge. They do some things that are good and some of their actions could be seen as good deeds, but a good does not undo a wrong.

I started this article with the intent for it to be one article but consisted of so much that it grew into a multipart series so stay tuned for more to come.

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Nomad Barbarians

Historically most tribes started out nomadic because they followed their main food source around by the seasons. This was a necessity. Now a days it is not a necessity in the survival sense to be a nomad but it is becoming more and more so in an economic sense.

This is how you might survive the criminal life, but this is also how you survive In the current economic environment. You have to be flexible, and able to pivot and move when opportunities present themselves. Now that doesn’t mean have no attachments, don’t get pets or don’t have relationships but it does mean be strategic about it.

“The things you own end up owning you”

~Tyler Durden

The more shit that you own and the more financial burdens you saddle your self with, the more stuck you will be. If you go out and buy a $800k home you will not be able to up and move if your dream job shows up in another city. There is a reason that people like Grant Cardone recommend not buying a house, but exclusively renting, when you are trying to build your self up. Say you get an offer for your dream job but its two states over. If your stuck in a mortgage for an $800k house, you might not be able to take the job and risk getting stuck with that house if you cant sell it for anything other than a loss.

Digital Nomads

Now lots of people choose the fully nomadic life these days, also called being a digital nomad. The increase in technology in recent years has allowed people to work from anywhere making it possible for people to maintain a steady income and move around the world where ever they might want to go, even if they don’t own their own business.

If that doesn’t sound like it’s for you, don’t worry you don’t have to do that to be successful but you can take some lessons from it regardless. Setting your life or business up even partially as a digital nomad has its benefits. Its teaches you minimalism, how leverages automation to name a couple.

Minimalism

in short teaches you to evaluate whats really important. Both in life and when it comes to personal possessions. Most people not only buy way to much house than they need, since most people less time in their house than they do any where else. But they also fill it with way more stuff than they need. There is a reason that public storage facilities are one of the largest growing industries, at least in the United States.

If you stay within your means, and stick to the necessities, at least most of the time, you will free up more capital for your business pursuits, or investments in order to free your self faster than you would otherwise. This allows you to be lite weight and mobile which allows you to seize opportunities that others cannot.

Leverage Automation

Digital nomads are great at leveraging automation and 3rd party services to facilitate and scale their businesses. This is something that is a necessity for them due to the nomadic nature. However you can use these same techniques to simply streamline and lower the over head of your business. For instance print on demand services for anything from shirts and other merch to full Length books. Or if you want a better turn around time, there are warehouse services that allow you to store your products and they handle the shipping.

You can also hire free lance accountants artists and just about any other service you could possibly need. Working from the other side of this equation and free lancing in a skill that you posses can also be a very lucrative opportunity for you whether you are a nomad or not.

Life is Probabilistic

Nothing in life is certain for better or for worse every event has a certain probability for different outcomes. Every action you take or circumstance that you are in either improves or detracts from the likely hood of those outcomes. This is how you have to evaluate life and your goals. For example…

If your goal is to get rich, and you currently are not rich and you take no actions toward that goal, the likely hood of it happening are practically zero. You can’t completely rule out the chance a billionaire will drop out of thin air and offer to give you his fortune, but that is not the smart money bet. Even if you are a beautiful women, unless you bring other things to the table the chance of that is still practically zero.

Now from this starting point, you can evaluate what options will better your chances of achieving that goal. Does going out drinking every night give you a better chance of becoming rich? How about finding a mentor in business or getting into an entrepreneur class with someone who is already successful? Does only working your 9-5 increase or decrease your chances? How about starting a side hustle as a freelancer while you work that same 9-5?

This way of thinking can and should be applied to your evaluation process of any goal you have whether its financial or business related or romantic or personal goals. The more nomadic you are able to be, the better your probability of being able to seize opportunities. Even if you do not actively move around currently.

Conclusion

You should never rule out any source of information that you can learn from. It may not always apply to your situation but you never know when your situation will change or how you might still be able to apply that information to your current situation to better yourself. Digital nomads are no different. They can offer a breadth of knowledge from business, and automation, to travel tricks and minimalism. Don’t write that off just because you don’t want to live over seas. The same knowledge that could let you run a successful business in the US from a hotel in Dubai can just as easily let you run a business from a rural off grid farm in Montana. If that’s your tribes plan.

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Dogs – Barbarians and their wolves

Dogs are not only truly loyal, dogs are devoted and love unconditionally, three traits that men seldom receive, at least in adulthood. This loyalty and devotion, is in my opinion why so many veterans returning home to a society that no longer accepts them, with no brotherhood or loyalty and very few in person connections of any kind, find solace in the heart of a dog.

Why are dogs mans best friend? They fill a hole in many a man’s heart.

These days unless your lucky enough to have found yourself as part of a brotherhood, you have beat the odds and built your own, or you found yourself a good wife, A dog very well may be the most loyal living thing that you have in your life. Even if you have, experiencing the unique bond between you and a dog is a quintessential human experience. One just as important as the experience of having a brotherhood. This experience is heightened even more so with a working dog. A partner that shares a purpose with you, both driving toward the same goal. Raised to an even higher degree with a protection dog. For those that have the knowledge and temperament to work with one there is nothing like the experience of bonding with another predator.

That bond can also give you insights into other people around you. Your dog will be able to size up a person and their intentions 100x faster than you can. Trust them. If they are normally well trained and well behaved and they all of a sudden start acting out or being standoffish with a certain person or even aggressive toward them, trust that instinct. That is a person that you should probably be careful around or avoid entirely.

The level of experiences that dogs offer, represent almost a form of spirituality for some people. They offer/require structure, a source of strength, someone to talk to when there is no one, all things that religious and spiritual people have but that those that have been driven away from spirituality might be lacking.

How do you hold up your end in a relationship like that?

Just like you should a human relationship of that caliber. Make sure that you return the favor. Reward that love, that devotion, and that loyalty in kind. Protect them, take care of them, treat them like a brother, like one of your family because thats how they see you. Don’t abandon them, don’t drop them at a shelter when they get old, or inconvenient. Thats not loyalty, and certainly not devotion.

Most old dogs that go to a shelter end up getting euthanized, remember that. Most people don’t go to a shelter looking for an old dog so they will get past over time and time again. All the while wondering what they did wrong to end up there. You are basically killing your dog, in body and in spirit by leaving them there, if you wouldn’t put them down yourself, don’t send them to a shelter when they are old. While there are no kill shelters around they do fill up and often transfer dogs to other facilities that may or may not be kill shelters.

This also happens to younger dogs as shelters get more and more over populated. So if you are not willing to keep and care for that family member then don’t get one from the start. Many people say you wouldn’t abandon your kids so don’t abandon your dogs, but if you take a cursory glance at the internet I am not convinced most people these days wouldn’t abandon their children too if they got to inconvenient so don’t do either unless your going to see it through.

Now when it is your dogs time to go, don’t leave them to face it alone. Grow a pair and stand there with them, no man wants to die alone and scared and neither do or should your dog. They are already going to be stressed being in a strange cold environment the least you could do to repay all they have given you is to stay with them at the end. This is called responsibilities, don’t shrug them off just be cause you can that doesn’t make you a man. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Man up, there is little that is harder to go through than to see the look of confusion, pain, and panic on

the face of your friend when there time has come. It doesn’t matter if its too soon from tragedy or after a long happy life. You have spent a life time building a bond, earning their trust and now they look to you for help and you cant help them. But that doesn’t mean you walk away.

So barbarian you still want your wolf?

Don’t get a dog based only on looks or what breed is popular at the time. That just says your making a status purchase, not looking for a companion. Research breeds, their personality and common traits as well as what they were used for and make sure that they fit in with your lifestyle, family, or needs. If you are looking for a hunting dog you don’t want a chihuahua. If you live in a small apartment a giant breed or high energy breed is not going to work out well. This simple act alone can head off many of the problems listed above.

Once you’ve done that you can start looking for breeders if you are looking for a specific breed. I do, only recommend breeders for people who are looking for a specific breed for a specific working purpose. Protection dogs, hunting dogs, and so on. If you do not have that specific need and are looking for a companion for you or your family, then go to a shelter. In addition don’t shut your self off to adult dogs as well don’t go looking for a puppy only. Not only could it make the learning curve and transition easier for you adult dogs need homes to. They may take a little more time to bond to you after going through what ever landed them there, but when they do it will be bond stronger than any other, If you put in the time.

All that being said, the dog you need or that you are meant to have is the dog that you are going to get. Whether you evaluate a litter and carefully select one, pick one blindly or go to a shelter and let the dog choose you, you will get the one that is meant for you. The dog that you need is usually to teach you a lesson of some kind, usually to teach you patience or how to be loyal.

Care and keeping of your wolf

Nutrition

It is just as important for dogs as it is for you, if you are not willing to put the effort into learning what dogs need then again don’t get one. Most kibble is horrible for dogs If you just buy kibble because its cheap and throw it down in front of your dog. You will either end up having a dog with a shorter life span or one ripe with heath issues just like a human who eats nothing but processed foods. Now there are some much better kibbles out there than others but you have to find them. Little hint, they will not be at the grocery store, and most likely not at any big chain pet stores. I recommend a book called forever dog that explains this topic in depth as well as raw feeding, and the process to finding a good kibble or choosing between kibble and raw.

My family started feeding our dogs a raw diet 8 years ago, and have never seen anything make such a big difference in a dogs quality of life. We currently have dogs on both a raw diet and kibble diet, and some that eat both kibble and raw meat. You will likely get push back from most veterinarians because their entire education was at schools funded by pet food companies like most human medical schools are funded by pharmaceutical companies. Do your own research on how to do it safely for you and correctly for the dog if you go down that road.

Research and understand what a healthy dog looks like. It is called their body condition and there is an easy 9 point scale https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/body-condition-scores to understand what is healthy and what is not. Another helpful tip most dogs today are at unhealthy weights so don’t look to what you see around you as normal, and use it as your guide, unless you belong to a dog club that has healthy dogs. Fat people have fat dogs, if for no other reason than to make them selves feel better about their own bad life decisions. So make sure both you and your dogs are healthy and you’ll both live longer happier lives.

Purpose

Finally your dog needs a purpose in life just like you do. Especially so if you get any working breed dog. If you got a working dog for that purpose then its purpose will be fulfilled most likely as you got them for that reason. The more you can give them that purpose or jobs inline with their breed instincts the better off they will be. Hunting dogs will need to hunt, herding dogs nee to herd, breeds like Belgian Malinoise will need to herd or do protection work, or scent work as well as run 5-10 miles a day, live stock dogs need something to protect, huskies need to be able to run, you get the point.

Conclusion

Barbarians need their wolves, just like they need their tribes. But getting a dog is not something to be taken lightly. It takes time and responsibility, and you have to be the kind of person the dog deserves. People don’t like the comparison that dogs are like children but they are in way more ways than people want to admit. So if you are not going to put in the effort just like anything else that should be done right don’t do it at all. The only thing that irritates me more than seeing unfit unhealthy untrained dogs being dragged around by or dragging around their fat owners is dogs being abused, and allowing your dog to get over weight and unhealthy and not letting him live a life in line with his instincts is just another form of abuse, only a more accepted one by most of society.

Recommended Reading

Advice From a Dog Man – Basic philosophy on dog training/raising

I Belive What My Dog Says – Quotes on dogs, training, and life

Team Dog – Basic dog training

Forever Dog – Dog nutrition and health

Online Schools

https://k9academy.us/

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Barbarian Spirituality

I was raised Lutheran but it never felt right for me. I rarely went to church unless back east with my grandparents but even then it felt like it was just missing something for me. Like many society and the system pushed me into a state cynicism toward Christianity specifically but spirituality as whole. This went on for years until recently when I felt a pull back to spirituality. Though not back to the Lutheran church.

Now. The Empire today likes to push you towards no religion or spirituality if it can. This is because it makes it easier to assimilate into the system as one of its cogs, if your not going to grind gears with the other drones over religion. Second only to that it wants you into one the typical religions that doesn’t offer any disruptions to their systems while it deteriorates them into just another marketing demographic to make money off of. Just look at the mega churches these days for an example.

Now if you look in the liberty community or masculinity sphere of social media today your going to get the impression that in order to be a man you need to be christian. But that is not the case, there is no one set path to spirituality, and no one means you are a man and other that you are not. No one knows if one religion is right or wrong until you die. No one can know for sure any other way.

I am not going to go into my specific religion/spiritual practice because really it doesn’t matter its a personal choice and preference. However I do believe every man needs a spiritual practice of some kind in his life. It can give a man someone to talk to when there is no one else, it can give a man confidence, or just some needed reassurance in a very dark and turbulent world.

Now that does not necessarily mean a man needs religion. Those things are two different concepts In my opinion, they do relate to one another, but you can be spiritual without being religious. Religion implies dogmas and a set structure that you must adhere to. Now there is nothing wrong with that, some men need that structure in their life. Its the same reason that some men thrive in environments like the military, university, or prison for that matter. But that also makes you vulnerable to deception and control From those who form and hand down that structure. And lets be fair that is exactly what religions have been for through out time. For good and for bad, they have been control systems, and many evils have been done through the centuries in the name of one religion or the other.

You also need to remember that all regions were made by man. Men had to physically write or transcribe the holy books no matter what the source material came from, and in many cases man edited the holy books. For instance the King James Bible that many people keep as THE Bible. Is called the King James Bible because it is the Bible that King James AUTHORIZED for the peasants to own and read. Now does this mean that he removed or changed info or section of it? no, but It is a red flag that he may have and many religions scholars who have compared the King James to older versions have testified to that fact.

This does not mean that what these holy books teach and talk about is wrong or inaccurate, but the religion it self and the books were made by a human being that is capable of fault and/or corruption, and therefor is a something you need to consider. You only need to look at modern religions themself as proof of that. How many forms of christianity are their? It has changed and split multiple times over the centuries as culture changes and today barely resembles anything I remember it as in my childhood.

What does this all mean?

Find and follow the religion or practice that speaks to you. You will often feel pulled to one or another or one may present it self at the moment you truly need it. Some will require more of you than others and some will make you sacrifice more than others, mentally, spiritually and sometimes physically. If you have no idea where to start, then start with your culture and heritage, but remember to keep an open mind toward other faiths as well.

  • Has your culture historically followed one practice or another?
  • How about your family/bloodline specifically?
  • What are faiths of people you know?  It can sometimes help to know people in the faith when you enter it. Start there and see what it turns up.

You want to make sure that your values and code if you have already developed them match or at least mesh with your spiritualities values, or vice versa if you have your spiritual values and are working on your code. Other wise you will always be conflicted and it will hinder you ability to make decisions, and move forward.

If family is important to you then your spiritual practice should emphasis family or at least not hinder it. If your trying to build wealth then your religion shouldn’t always be telling you that money is evil as a couple examples. This could simply be difference between churches of the same faith as well as difference between faiths.

Keep in mind your spiritual practice is meant to better yourself, protect you, bring you a more full life. Not take anything from someone else, so remember these principles when your evaluating spiritual paths or even just deciding between churches or sects, If they go against these principles or require that you violate them against someone else, than you should consider another option.

1 – All people are created equal.

2- All people have individual rights.

3 – All interactions between people should be voluntary

No one has the right….

1 – To harm you.

2- To threaten you,

3- To steal from you.

4- To violate your rights

Nothing says that you cannot give up any of these rights that follow in order to adhere to the faiths code or be part of the organization if you want to but the organization should not call on you to force others to make the same decisions. All should be voluntary.

Everyone has…

1 – The right to liberty – We can do what we want, as long as we do not

violate the rights of others.

2 – The right to self-defense – We can defend ourselves, our property,

and our individual rights,

3- The right to own and carry weapons – So we have the ability to

defend ourselves, our property, and our rights.

4- The right to self-ownership – We own ourselves. No one can claim

even partial ownership over you without violating your rights,

5- The right to free speech – We can communicate our opinions and

ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.

6- The right to privacy – No one has the right to violate our privacy.

Any law that violates our rights is null and void. Anyone that violates

our rights is a criminal.

As a final note

Always trust your gut if something feels off to you. It could be small it could be big but if something feels wrong then it probably is And you may want to keep some distance. True cults and extremest groups are dangerous and you don’t want to get tied up with them or what they bring with them.

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Barbarians in Business and career

Just about every piece of career, business  and financial advice that you have been given is either wrong or meant for times of more economic stability. The days of being able to support your family on a single income working for someone else are long sense past. Beyond that working for someone else as your sole form of income makes you incredibly vulnerable. It also practically guarantees you will never be able to get your self to a level of freedom where you can enjoy life. So what are you to do? Bend the knee and reserve your self to a below average life? No you be come a barbarian. Step out of the Empires systems and learn to make money for your self.

You’re nothing but a pawn and will remain a pawn until you play

~Mr. Freeman

Many of you reading this already understand that money is not the end goal, freedom is the end goal, money is the tool Used to achieve it. So for those that know that already this will not be news but for those that don’t you also need to understand that you have been lied to and programed for most of your life to think about money in a way that will keep you from achieving much success in acquiring it. So under this, money or wealth it self is not evil though how it is used can be. Money tends to act like a being, it tends to go where it is appreciated and loved and avoids those who misuse, mistreat and generally despise it. So value it, treat it well, and be thankful for it.

Law of abundance

The law of abundance applies to money just like it does anything else. The way money is viewed by the majority of the population is from a place of scarcity. That there is not enough to go around and that it is not acquirable. This is hard to overcome understandably for some when you are living paycheck to paycheck or worse, but if you don’t stop thinking that there is not enough money out there or that you will never be able to get any of it you will make that true. You need to stop thinking about how you have no money, and start thinking “there is so much money out there how do I get some.”

Start small, you have to crawl before you can walk

You need to learn about finances because you were not taught it in school. You need to learn about budgets, taxes,banking, business and so on. No you don’t need to go to college for any of this. College business knowledge is out of date at best or intentionally misleading at worst.

Now this part is where you learn about where and how you have to play the Empire and its governments games. No matter what you will have to interact with the Empire with certain points in life and this is one of them or increase your chances of going to prison.

  • Personal finances And Tax laws. Without a working knowledge of personal finances and tax laws before you get going your gonna run right into a wall. Its not going to be fun….at least not for most people but too bad. Welcome to doing stuff that is not fun in order to better your life. Learn about budgets, business banking, credit, interest rates, inflation, and the tax code. Many will just say hire a tax person or a financial manager and if you have money already thats an option but if your starting from scratch it is not. Also most people think tax person and go down to H&R block. But those are not tax people they are computer monkeys trained to punch numbers into a tax system. They are not paid enough to learn the tax code and know how to keep as much money in your own pocket as you legally can. No one is going to care more about your money and your taxes then yourself. So learn at least the basics so that you can at least check your tax persons work Until you have enough money to hire a good one

 

  • Understand opportunity cost. Learn what it is and always factor it in your decision making. In brief opportunity cost is where you have to calculate the cost of paying for something vs doing it yourself. For instance, lets say its lunch time and you need to eat. I takes you an hour to make a healthy meal for your self. Now lets say you make $60 dollars an hour doing what ever it is you do. If it cost less to buy meal prepped meals or have something delivered than it is better financial decision to pay for the meal and work for the hour it takes to get there. You then come out on top. Where as if you cooked your meal you would loose out on the $60 in income. Now in this instance you have to factor quality and healthiness of the food. Cause if all you can have delivered is fast food or cricket paste and you can make an organic grass fed steak, your probably better off cooking cause it may cost you $60 in lost money but it could make you have less chance of having to live in the medical system in your later years getting treatments for any number of things. Opportunity cost applies to any task in a business. Pay roll, packing, shipping, manufacturing etc. At some point it will be cheaper to pay someone to do it than it will be for you to do it your self. However at first get used to wearing many hats.

Research, Evaluate and Plan

Start by researching side hustles and current high in demand skills and see where the rabbit hole takes you. Take note of anything that resonates with you along the way. Side hustles that fit your personality, or skills that you already have, stuff like that.

Once you have done your research and started your foundation of knowledge you need to start evaluating. Use these to get you started.

  • What skills do you have? Are any of them marketable?
  • Do you have any hobbies? Can any of them be monetized?
  • What is your financial status? Whats your income and expenses?
  • Can you expenses be reduced? Do you have money saved?

Once you’ve done a good evaluation, you can start laying out your plan. start with what skills you have that are marketable that you could do freelance or what side hustles you would want to try. Don’t worry about narrowing it down to one, some may not work out or you might not find it as enjoyable than you thought. Once you have a game plan don’t tell anyone. Unless its a mentor that is helping you out, or a member of your family (by the Modern Barbarian definition). You have to be careful who you tell because at best most people wont understand your ambition or your goals and dreams and at worst they will discourage you or actively try and sabotage you. Even and in most case more likely you relatives.

Don’t feel guilty about blowing off clubs or parties to work on your goals, take care of your future self before Giving into your current self or acquaintances Your real friends and family will encourage you not try to drag you back down.

Now for a not strictly business related aspect but important to your financial future none the less. Marry well. This doesn’t mean marry rich, or even marry successful. It does mean find a spouse who understands you, has similar values, and is supportive. Someone who understand finances and that you are trying to sacrifice now for a better future. Some one who brings you peace and not more chaos. It is hard save money and build a business if your spouse wants to go out to dinner every night, or is constantly buying stuff. Now also make sure that you also return the favor When ever you can. This will make the long hours and tired days all the more bearable. If you cant find that right now don’t worry about it. Remember abundance, there is always another girl You will find the right one eventually.

Your Network

Your network is your net worth, A group of 5 disciplined men will out perform 100 undisciplined ones.

Now even those that don’t see networking as above, don’t know how to do it effectively. They think its going to a conference and throwing business cards at people or accumulating friends on linked in or facebook. But networks are not measured by their size but their quality and their connections. You have to actually make connections, spend time with people get to know each other. Business relationships are no different than any other relationships. This is where the true benefit of ivy league… we will call it “education” lies. Its not in the teachers or the knowledge because all the knowledge is out there in books and online As well as better more up to date information. No the true benefit and it could be argued the only benefit is the people that you gain access to.

The average person does not understand networking So trying to network with the average person will yield no results. First off those who don’t understand network or take the time or put in the effort to network say things like “He only got the job because he knows someone.” Well thats the point. It is a safer bet for anyone to do business/ hire someone that they know and have experience with than it is to gamble and someone they don’t no matter what their resume looks like. If they know the person and know that they will do the job then its higher reward to lower risk than hiring someone they don’t know who might do the job.

This is common sense and how the world works. Only recently has building human relations ships that benefit both parties become a bad thing.

Stop being lazy and bitching about it and start putting in the work and doing it.

Multiple stream of incomes

The more streams you have the better off you will be because if one fails then you have backups.

Start with what you have, your current skills or hobbies that you can monetize or free lance, you should know this from your planing phase.

If you already have some money you can look at buying or investing in already running businesses or business with some start up costs Like vending machines or ATMs stuff like that.

If you are starting from scratch and have no skills you can do what I did to start and am still doing, flipping. You can start at home with extra and unused items that can also help you adopt a more minimization or intentional life style by shedding the extra “weight”. It also allows you to work on skills that will help you every where else. Writing the ads and postings requires – sales techniques and copy writing, Making the sale may require negotiation skills etc.

Once you run out of stuff around the house you can cruise the free sections of craigslist or facebook looking for stuff that has value. Some people even turn flipping into their full time job by starting free junk collection companies. They collect the “junk” or stuff that people want gone and refurbish it and sell it.

You can flip to build capital for other ventures or simply while work on learning other skills that you can do freelance. I starting flipping to build capital to start day trading But that is not a skill for most people as a tarting point it takes a lot of time discipline and emotional control and ability to take risk. If you are not that person yet or at the level you can take some risk don’t start down that path.

Investing, asset accumulation

Once you have multiple income streams or your finances have improved in general you can start looking at investing long term, and in addition larger money generating assets Such as turn key business like car washes and laundry mats or real estate rentals etc.

Everyone is starting to see what inflation is doing so Once you start generating enough income you also want to look at hedge against inflation. These are assets that don’t typically loose value. The main stay for this through out history has been precious metals. Gold and silver being the obvious and most easily done. Bitcoin and crypto currencies are also entering into this realm but that is not my area of expertise. I wouldn’t personally hold them as inflation hedges but i have seen them work great for others in investing and trading But i have no personal experience in that matter. For precious metals you have to decide if you want to personally hold physical metals or certificates for metals on deposit. They have their pros and cons as does everything but in short. Deposited gold, or gold on trading exchanges lets you benefit from the gold but not have to secure it your self. While holding it physically means it is actually yours And you control it however you cannot hold/own physical gold in a retirement account from what i understand it has to be kept a gold depository for regulatory reasons.

Now If you have a decent paying job and it fulfills you and you enjoy it, then you are lucky most don’t have that. Nothing says that you have to leave that job to do any of this. In fact you probably shouldn’t. As long as you don’t want to jump off a bridge every time you go to work then why give up another stream of income. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t develop other businesses, assets, and investments on the side. Because one day you might get laid off, or they may make you try to do something you don’t want to do, or try to make you compromise your principles for the job. When this happens you want to be able to say Fuck You! and be able to walk away. If you don’t have anything else built than you cant do this. See this clip from the gambler for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamC7-Pt8N0

The career path

I would argue the time of careers is over and done with. The time where you can enter at the bottom and work your way up and be groomed for the top doesn’t happen anymore out side of family businesses. But if you want to go the employee route or need to in the short term here is some things that can help you as well as benefit you in your side ventures as well.

General skills

  • Learn project management, Everything is a project. This another skill that has a lot of information on the internet and when you have the spare change Consider investing in certification, this is a wildly applicable skill that any employer will benefit from.
  • Learn to compartmentalize, even at a job you love some things wont be fun, work is work some times but you have to be able to do it. Don’t let your shit work day effect your time with you family keep it separate at least until an appropriate time you can decompress and talk with the spouse or have a drink with the boys what ever your process may be.
  • Learn to set boundaries with your employer, Generally speaking unless your working for a small business or a family run business, they probably don’t see you as anything more than a number. If you not in an on call job like an ER nurse or Fire department, don’t work when your not on the clock. Salary pay has some gray area here but if its not specifically mentions in the job requirements do your best not to work unless you are at work. 1 you will work your self to death or to your death bed and wonder where your life went, and 2 you devalue your worth when you do. For instance
  • Your paid 100k year. Thats 1900 a week before taxes, and for a 40hr week that is 48 dollars an hour. But if you are constantly working an extra 2 hours a week at home, even if its just checking email, not only is that 2 hours away from your family or working on your own goals that translates to an extra 10 hours a week which drops your hourly rate to 38 dollars and hour. Your doing 25% more work for the same amount of pay.
  • This is the part people find hard when they are trying to climb the ladder. You want to do more to show initiative but many managers and bosses will take advantage of that so make sure you are making progress and if you are not walk away.
  • If you want to climb the ladder, do your best not to get trapped in specialist roles like legal, or HR. It will limit your promotional abilities to a certain level. Hard to go past Head of HR if all you can do is HR. Get as much varied experience as you can even if you are necessarily getting paid for it. You never know what you’ll need to get promoted one day or if your love of what your doing now will one day run out And you want to change things up. It will stuck starting from scratch if you didn’t branch out earlier.
  • Gain international experience, depending on what you want to do this may not be available or necessary but if the option presents it self and you have the ability jump on it.
  • If your job doesn’t offer the ability to branch out at all or gain additional experience you may consider looking for new jobs or volunteering with other organizations.

General warnings

  • Job titles are a trap, those titles or jobs that they represent may mean nothing in 10 years or even two. Experience is more important, “Launching an e-commerce store” or managing a team of 30 employees is vastly more impressive than “Head CD Technician”
    • Don’t sacrifice your mental and physical health for a job.

      This means more than “do not be fat, but it also means that too. People who are overweight are paid less than those who aren’t… As for a wider definition of health, the evidence that regular physical activity improves mental and emotional performance is overwhelming. Additionally, Americans make up only 5 percent of the planets population but consume more than half of all pharmaceuticals. This rises to 80 percent when it comes to prescription painkillers. Be healthy so you do not need to be stoned at work. That alone will leapfrog you over most of the competition.
      ~Gordon White

  • Don’t complain about your boss to anyone, and don’t participate in office politics but understand what is going on. Don’t burn bridges unnecessarily by gossiping with everyone stay neutral until you have no other choice. If you want to complain about people, or If you need to talk about them, do it to your spouse or a therapist.

Conclusion – Finding balance

As you probably noticed some of the advice somewhat contradicts it self and thats because that is life. You have to figure out your priorities and what is important. Are you young and have no family? You can put in the extra hours If you want. Do you want to climb the ladder at a job instead of going your own thats fine then you have to play the game. Do you want to build your own empire? Then your gonna have to put in the extra hours and work, this might mean you miss out on some family events once in a while, at least at first. This is why the Empires pushes for you to waist your younger years partying And plunging your self into student debt. It wastes your younger years, when you have the energy, opportunity, and the ability to put in those extra hours, gain that experience and build the foundations for those empires. Before you do have families, and other responsibilities that you then have to juggle.

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Beneficial Violence and Warrior Culture

It’s hard to put into words the almost sacredness of violence. I often felt out of place growing up in a society that did not have a warrior culture. Most societies these days not only disregard both but actively try to suppress it within its people.

Violence

A lot of people like to think they are “non-violent” or claim to “abhor” violence, and violence is viewed negatively by the general population, but like many things violence is simply a tool. It can be used for good reason or for bad ones.

The more self-righteous individuals like to think they have risen above the violent cultures of their ancestors, while spouting “violence isn’t the answer” or “violence doesn’t solve anything.” They’re wrong, While violence may not be “THE” only answer for some situations it sure is AN answer in all situations. Is it the best or most advisable? Not always but it is always a possible answer and violence does solve a lot of problems, just not always in the most desirable or legal or ethical way.

Many fail to differentiate between justified and unjustified violence all the while everyone of them relies on violence, every day they just outsource it to a third party, typically the government but also some private organizations. See you have to understand that a rule or law not backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion.

“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick them up can do whatever he wants. Peace can only be maintained without violence so long as everyone sticks to the bargain, and to maintain peace every single person in every successive generation — even after war is long forgotten — must continue to agree to remain peaceful. Forever and ever. No delinquent or upstart may ever ask, “Or Else What?,” because in a truly non-violent society, the best available answer is “Or else we won’t think you’re a very nice person and we’re not going to share with you.” Our troublemaker is free to reply, “I don’t care. I’ll take what I want.” Violence is the final answer to the question, “Or else what?”.”

~Jack Donovan

States and governments rely on men ready to do violence upon any who break their rules. Every regulation, law or legal requirement have penalties if broken or ignored. Escalating until they are abided by or ultimately resulting In seizure of property, imprisonment or death. All carried out by armed personnel who are willing to commit violence on the governments behalf.

Anytime that someone stands up demanding a new law, or harsher punishment they are requesting the state exorcise violence on behalf of a cause that they agree with. Even its for drunk driving, or owning a certain breed of dog or new laws to save the trees. They are demanding the state force you to live how they think you should and ultimate take your property or kill you if you don’t bend the knee and agree to it.

People can only believe they live in a non–violent society, because they are lazy. They don’t want to have to think about their own safety or are to weak and don’t want to change that in order to protect themselves so they beg the state to do it for them. In turn giving up much of their own power from their day to day lives. The Empire’s society relies on proxy violence by their states personnel to the extent that the average person can stumble through life without having to realize or think about the threats around them or how dangerous the real world is. When a threat presents itself or at that rate even an inconvenience or disagreement presents self the average person simply calls a number and an armed individual shows up ready to do violence to sort out the situation.

“Few civilians really take the time to think that what we are essentially doing is paying an armed band protection money to come and do orderly violence on our behalf.”

~Jack Donovan

Weak vs Peaceful

It is only when something happens and calls to the state the for help go unanswered that people begin to realize what the real world looks like and by then its to late. Certain people will loot because they can, and kill because they can and think they’ll get away with it. Dealing with these people and being able to protect yourself then becomes a real concern though by then its to late.

“You should be a monster, everyone says that you should be harmless, virtuous, you shouldn’t do anyone any harm you should sheath your competitive instinct, you don’t want to be too aggressive, you don’t want to be to assertive, you want to take a back seat, and all of that, its like NO. WRONG. You should be an absolute monster and then you should learn how to control it.”

~Jordan Peterson

If you cannot commit acts of violence then you are not peaceful you are weak and you are harmless. When you can both commit violence acts upon other people both mentally and physically but choose not to then and only then are you actually peaceful. This means having the mental strength and your ego in check to the point that you can understand when violence is required and when it is not, when you need to take care of business and when you need to walk away. If you do not have that ability then you are simply at the whim and mercy of those who can.

The benefits of violence

I break violence down into two definitions…

Combat which is life and death. The rapist coming after you in the dark, the armed robber coming into your store a gang committing a home invasion or war. Then there is fighting, which is not life and death. This is fighting sports such as boxing, BJJ, MMA. Physical confrontation with your friends or the boys, brothers fighting etcetera. This is where may of the benefits of violence will show them selves and this is also the violence that is heavily suppressed by the Empire much to the detriment of society, while war specifically Is not suppressed enough.

Fighting is suppressed and punished because the Empire has convinced it citizens that the situations that fall under combat grow out of fighting when that could not be farther from the truth. If more people were exposed to fighting and non life or death violence they would be better men. Fighting can solve problems between brothers and bring them closer together through a shared catharsis. I have had a physical fight of some kind with all of the few friends and brothers I have to this day. Fighting also fosters personal growth. You learn self control and you gain self confidence thats seeps out into all aspects of your life. You learn that violence is as much a law of life as fire is hot, or rocks are hard.

Warrior culture

Growing up with fighting, and beneficial violence is what I look at as warrior culture. Warrior culture used to be a part of life much like brotherhood, those two often have gone hand in hand throughout history. Boys were raised fighting and training and once they became adults took their spot amongst their fathers and brothers as protectors of the clan or tribe. This was a responsibility of all men of the tribe and not just a select few. We don’t have this any more, it has gone away as that responsibility has been ignored, resulting in the world we see around us today.

Now when I say warrior culture many of you will probably start thinking about military or law enforcement. Now while they do have a warrior culture, thats not what I am talking about. Those professions grew out of what I am talking about as populations grew and villages grew to towns and towns to cities etcetera. but these organizations as a whole no longer serve or protect the people, despite that being what we are told. This will be covered in depth in a coming article.

The Empire suppresses warrior culture and promotes victim culture. They reward going on social media and crying about how you were assaulted and punish those who stand up and fight back against their assaulter. Even if ultimately found justified their name and life will have been drug through the mud for 12-18 months or more by the Empires media wing that it wont matter in many ways.

Conclusion

Violence will all ways be with us, in good forms and bad you cannot legislate it away, you can only embrace it and learn to live with it, and like anything else take its benefits and defend against the rest. Learn to use it to protect your self and your tribe from those that would seek to do you harm.

Beneficial violence and warrior culture is only going to come from the tribe level. There and only there you can teach the younger generations how not to be a victim, and recognize threats and true enemies whether they come from over seas or across the street. They will not be taught that any where else, and if you don’t teach them, they will fall victim to the Empire’s propaganda of who their “enemy” is. There is no question as to why the Empire suppresses warrior culture. Warrior cultures raise physically fit, confident, self controlled men. All of which goes against what the Empire wants which is self indulgent, unfit, un healthy, mega consumers.

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