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Posted on August 23, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Subversion and the Stages of Collapse

The American empire is collapsing. Depending on how you look at it this is a good thing or a bad thing. Many say America and think of what the founding fathers started in 1776. While they ignore the reality of America today. In this mind set the collapse is bad.

My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon, together with all your affluence and freedoms, unless you start defending yourselves.

I hope you have noticed on your color televisions that there is in fact war going on right now all over this planet. This war has many faces, but it’s all the same, it’s war. Some call it “national liberation “, some title it “class struggle” or “political terrorism”. Others call it “anti-colonialism” or “struggle for majority rule”. Some even come up with such fancy names as “war of patriotic forces” or “peace movement”

The driving force of this war. has very little to do with natural aspirations of people for better lives and greater freedoms. If at all, these aspirations are being used and taken advantage of by the manipulators and progenitors of the war. The real driving force of this war of aggression is IDEOLOGY something you cannot eat, wear or store for a “rainy day”.

An integral part of this war of ideology is IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION the process of changing the perception of reality in the minds of millions of peoples all over the world.

~Yuri Bezmenov 1984

Others see what America has become and see the collapse as good. As a chance to pull the country back to the ideals of freedom it started out with. In this mind set the collapse still may not be great but the possible outcome may be better. Optimism in the dark times I guess, but how did it get to this point?

Some will say its the natural course of empires which is true, most don’t last this long as it is. Others will say it’s getting destroyed. This could also be true the natural cycle of things sure can get helped along.

The “help.” The art of tricking the masses into doing things to hurt themselves and making them believe it is good for them. Is called subversion. This is not a new trick but is as ancient as mankind itself.

In 1984, in the form of a letter addressed to the American people. Yuri wrote a booklet under a pseudonym that talked about Soviet subversion. Subversion that was then under way against the United States. He was former KGB who defected to the United States. He wrote it from the perspective of the USSR vs the United States as that is what he knew.

Now if you read enough history you’ll see the subversion of the United States has been going on long before that.

The subversion started, for all intents and purposes, the moment independence was declared. Some wanted freedom and others wanted to be king them selves or the new equivalent. However many more, only wanted it to fail.

Though without doubt the subversion started as early as 1794. That is when George Washington was convinced by Alexander Hamilton to disregard the founding values and laws, and use the United States military against the citizens. Some refer to this the first civil war but is know as the whiskey rebellion.

Hamilton created legal definitions and precedents at this time that were never challenged. Definitions that undermined the founding documents. Precedents that started the slide down the slope into what the country has become today. Though that is only the earliest I have found. This subversion has continued through out America’s history and still continues today. Though the groups behind it may have changed, or have they?

Who is doing the subverting?

There are many theories and suspects depending on who you talk to. Most come down to a group or groups working together who yearn for totalitarianism. This is the shadowy heart of many movements over the decades.

Yuri blamed The USSR and Communism as that was the world view of the time and that was his first hand experience. As we know the USSR is no longer, how ever Communism does still remain. Though today like it was back then, communism is only the front ideology to push the masses. The group or groups behind want little more than power and control. That is their ideology all the rest is different flavoring for the masses.

I refer to this group by the term coined by Jack Donovan as the Empire of Nothing. He describes it as a collection of self interested and self perpetuating groups. This group includes banking institutions, the military, governments, unions, special interests groups, the entertainment industry, corporations, the media, and so on.

While this definition is accurate. I believe there is more cooperation, intent, and subtle steering of the Empire and its actions. This group and its individual parts do have their own goals. However they all benefit from an increase in centralized control and power.

The founding of the original United States, it’s values and then ideology flew in the face of all of that. I say the original founding because if you look around today the United States is no where near what the founding fathers had envisioned. It could be argued that it in fact has already been subverted.

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Posted on May 17, 2024May 15, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Is there anything left to fight for?

There is lots of talk these days that we need to fight. Most people saying that we need to fight can’t usually even tell you what we need to fight for beyond maybe parroting what ever the last thing they heard on their brainwashing of choice was. You hear it from everywhere and everyone for one reason or another. “Fight to save the country” “fight to save democracy” “Fight to save freedom” “fight for your country” “fight to tear it down” “fight for this” “fight for that” If you ask them to elaborate, or present alternative evidence or even an alternative view point, you will get a blank stare, at best, but looking around I don’t see much worth fighting for anymore.

The country? What is the country? Is it the land? The land has been here long before we were here and will be here long after were gone. Is it the people? Which people cause there is not one group of people to call Americans anymore, identity politics saw to that. It doesn’t matter what your views are for any topic, politically or otherwise, but about half of the people today want you dead or in camps, and if you don’t subscribe to either side they both are against you.

How about society? The society of rampant materialism, where nothing is made to last so that you have to constantly be buying something. Where families no longer talk because they worship different celebrities or political figures. Where the health and reproductive potential of children are being irreparably changed or destroyed before they are old enough to understand whats happening. Where people have become so disconnected and divided that no one knows each other or cares about each other. A society of constant hostility and no sense of belonging. Food that is slowly poisoning you, medicine that makes you sicker than the sickness your trying to fix. Where naturally occurring plants are illegal, but artificial poisons are legally pumped into the water. Where your told that the only way to succeed is to pile on debt at a college for a degree that won’t help you just so that you can get out get in more debt to buy a house so that you are forced to work your life away until you maybe get 10 years of retirement “freedom” before you’re put in a facility because you are deemed nothing but a burden? A facility where statistically they are to be abused or neglected for the last years of their lives. Do you look around right now and think to your self yeah this perfect, I feel free! we need to fight to keep this going?

Shepherds, Sheep, and the Empire

Most of this is in reference to the sheep, not the shepherds. The shepherds are the celebrities, the CEOs, politicians, marketing departments and so on. They are the Empire’s talking heads and are all pandering to and trying to manipulate the sheep for their own gains, especially when they call to fight against or for something. They are not dumb and know exactly what they are doing.

The sheep are the people hearing the call. The ones that you know who come at you in conversation and parrot what their chosen shepherds are saying. That’s why when you question them they get taken back and usually get angry. Even if you ask them something as simple as why. They cant figure out why cause they never thought about it. They just took the call at face value and are angry that you are not doing the same.

They don’t take a moment to think about what they are being told to fight or fight for or if it actually serves them, their tribe or hell even their city or country they supposedly ‘“belong.” They at large don’t know what they are doing, and that is who this article is ultimately referring to, because the Empire is going to keep doing it’s thing with the shepherds screaming from the hill tops, but the sheep are who you have to ultimately deal with In your life.

They are the foot soldiers for the shepherds all be it unwittingly usually. You can try to change them but your not likely to succeed at least not in the short term. Now people love to blame the government for everyone’s problems but the problem is The Empire, The Empire of Nothing is everywhere, the government is only one of the tools within its system. One tentacle on the octopus that is the Empire.

Fat, lazy, dependent, consumers that are just smart enough to work the machines and not ask questions until AI or automation can take over the job completely is all The Empire needs or wants. The alternative means competition if not directly as a competing company then just from the point that less people need their products, services and “solutions.” They don’t want strong, self reliant thinkers, because then they will sell less “solutions” when people can fix things for them selves. This applies to all industries. If they can fix a car they don’t need to buy a new one. If they can fix their own health then why do they need pharmaceutical companies. Its all competition in sense and the Empire doesn’t like competition.

It’s a culture problem

What ever your culture allows to happen will happen. If your culture is weak it will allow it self to be pushed around. If it tolerates laziness you will get laziness. If it rewards strength you will get strength. If your culture is strong and others weak yours will typically prevail. The Empire manipulates this situation to its own end usually financial reward and or control for its self and its higher ups. People won’t want to hear this because it is not going to be a quick fix but it is the problem that we ultimately have and the Empire exploits it.

The Empire only can do what the people allow, people mistake this power with the ability to vote. While voting is supposed to play a role in the government proceedings, the weight the peoples vote carries cannot out weigh the money that the Empire throws around after someone is elected. Voting takes no effect directly on the empire. This is where the old saying “vote with your wallet” become applicable. This will at least more directly effect the Empire. This power more directly stems from what the people and its culture will allow but you have to participate, If you don’t like something stop buying it or supporting it and support the alternative.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter who is in control of “the system” if the culture is opposed to it. You cannot force opposing views on a culture and you cannot change a culture by force, eventually it will fight back or go under ground. However culture naturally adopts and changes over time and that can be manipulated and the people themselves manipulated to change the culture. You have to be aware of this in order to not let it happen to you. You have to allow some change because somethings shouldn’t continue, but you shouldn’t let the good get changed and thrown out with the bad.

Through a desire for a utopian world that should be, rather than living in the world that actually is, along side a desire to be 100 percent safe, at the expense of everything else, cultural manipulation has nudged the culture to drift away from freedom and toward tyranny. It has the strong being demonized and the weak to being put on a pedestal. Through cultural manipulation wedges have been driven between every group, belief, race, and every other demographic on the list. It has shifted importance from facts and to emotions. People are encouraged to sleep walk through life and their inconsistency in their values has allowed for the culture to be manipulated against them. Allowing hypocrisy and rampant weakness to take over. That weakness has allowed everything else we now face. Many of the problems we face today could have been handled by a strong culture and a strong people simply saying no in the beginning.

Can it be saved or should we let it burn?

I am not going to lie, I am burnt out on the fighting, the division, and all the sheep that play right into it.

Just about everything people scream to fight to save is part of what is enslaving or killing them. The shepherds scream fight to save the system and the sheep repeat it thinking its right. They are fighting to stay in the status quo because people don’t like change even If the status quo is killing them. It comes out of convenience and ease and unwillingness to do the hard right instead of the easy wrong. Maybe saving the Empire of Nothing is not whats best for people.

The only thing I see worth fighting for is freedom and liberty, to bad most people don’t understand what that is anymore. They will shout freedom as they pass more laws. Most people say they want freedom but they don’t want others to have it too. They want to be free to live how they want but don’t want others to live how they want to live. They want their way to be right and for everyone to have to live their way. They say they want freedom but really they want tyranny that they agree with.

But hey maybe the culture can be turned around and we can regain what we have lost and therefor fix the system. Though I am not optimistic. The system was built to operate exactly how it has which has gotten us to this very moment. More likely we will have to rebuild like the phoenix from the ashes of the previous culture. The division is too great at this point, no groups seem wiling to live and let live. Everyone wants to control the other side. Its already collapsing all around us, maybe its already fallen and just everyone hasn’t caught on to the fact yet. Maybe that is whats better in the long run.

Maybe the Empire needs to burn, through fire the forest is rejuvenated. This is the most artificial and mentally, physically, and spiritually unhealthy environments ever created. There is no solidifying culture anymore and in all honestly with the population so big and with the wide spread geographical differences there can’t and shouldn’t be. Humans were never meant to live in populations this big. cities this big are simply feed lots for human tax cattle.

Wolves don’t need shepherds

Many regenerative farmers and perma-culturists like to bring up that if every one changed their grass lawns over to food producing plants, there would be no food crisis. We wouldn’t need near as much industrial/commercial farming of food that is in most cases making us sick. This is what decentralization can do.

Now imagine if you pooled your resources, with your family, friends, or tribe and bought a couple of acres together. If done correctly you could likely produce all the food you need or at least the majority of it. You would no doubt be healthier for it if nothing else. Financially you would be in a better place because its a lot easier to cover bills for one property with 12 people contributing than just 2 or 1 as it is in most cases. Not to mention the homeschooling and other opportunities it would provide.

Sometimes modern problems require ancient solutions, we need to get smaller and decentralize in just about every sense in order to simply survive these days not to mention to take back your power from the Empire of Nothing. We need to bring back our tribes. Stop worrying about the world, or the country, your state or even your city as it most likely is still too big. Most if not all of this worry is used as a way to manipulate and control you. Worry about your family, and friends and your tribe.

Build your tribe and cultivate your own culture of strength, independence, and understanding of rights and what freedom actually is. Become a tribe of wolves, be fit willing and able to defend yourself because no one else is coming to save you. Put your energy into that instead of fighting for something that doesn’t benefit you or your tribe any way. If you feel you must fight fight for true liberty and freedom which usually is not what others are calling freedom. Wolves can take care of them selves, that’s why they don’t need shepherds.

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Posted on May 10, 2024April 29, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Barbarian Networking

Your network is your tribe, and networking is how you grow that tribe.

The word networking has gained a bad name over the years that stems out of networking events where people show up and throw business cards at each other and/or try to sell to each other. Neither of that is what networking is. Networking is essentially just relationship building. This seems weird for many as building relationships has always been a secondary or unintentional consequences of other activities such as work and school. You go to work you get relationships with your coworkers. You go to school, you get “friends.”

Networking just takes an intentional approach to building and maintaining relationships in your life. For many this is natural but for just as many it is not. Whether they are more introverted or shy (not the same thing), or they are just a busy person, they need to take a more intentional view at it to make sure it gets done.

This relationship building is one of the corner stones that HUMINT (Human Intelligence) operations are built on. whether it’s an intel operative in a foreign country or a patrol officer working his own city. One of the first things they do is start developing relationships. These relationships allow them to keep a finger on the pulse of the area they are working. For a homesteader this could be meeting and becoming friends with other people at the farmers market so they can trade produce, or other products but whether it’s for business, intelligence, or your personal life, if you want to be successful at anything you need to be deliberate in your actions.

Pretty simple in theory

Build relationships right? Most of us can do this naturally if all the conditions are right or the situations are forced on us like work or school but for most, when they set out to do it deliberately, if they ever do, it tends to not work out as well.

This is because most people don’t fully understand the patterns and behaviors that are established in our instincts when it comes to building relationships Or they try to build relationships with the wrong people.

Like so many things it starts with research and planning. Map it out if you have to and start there, write down the people you know, how many of them do you consider friends, and how many family, Then You need to know what your goals are for your network, which of these people line up with that goal, have a similar goal themselves, or might be able to help you out in some way?

If your goal is just to expand your personal network this makes that easy as the only requirement may be they share at least one interest or view point or maybe you have more requirements for your personal network, but that would be the bare minimum.

If it’s for business what are your business goals, who can help you achieve them and if you don’t know the people who can help you, who do you know that knows those people?

Now if its simply for friendship and personal networks, What are your interests, who do you know that shares those interests. If you don’t already know anyone that is similarly minded to you or shares interests, where are some places those type of people frequent(Where do you frequent is a good place to start.) or where could they frequent? Are their stores for your interests, or clubs, or businesses offering services to your interests in your area? Think gyms, martial arts schools, hobby related stores and so on.

Now whether your trying to expand your business network or make friends go into it trying to make friends. Even if your goals are business related. Start from the mind set of starting a personal relationship, the business can/will come later. Just have a conversation. It might seem like dating and in a lot of ways it is which is what makes it feel weird or some people but building relationships takes the same things whether its romantic, or plutonic.

A network is not a digital asset

Now that is not to say that the same principles and tactics don’t apply, or can’t be used on social media, because they can and you can always use social media to find local groups or individuals but it should not stop there.

You could have the max number of friends on social media and still not have a network. Social media facilitates communication, but it is not the network it self. You still need to have coffee with people, meet up in person, take interest in their lives beyond just what you need or want out of them, otherwise you are just a user.

Many of the problems people face today can be traced back to disconnection and that is facilitated by social media and online pseudo relationships, get back to meeting and hanging out with people in person. You cant hug someone thought he internet. You cant pull them off the ledge through facebook. Human beings need in person contact.

Barbarian Networks

You are likely to have multiple networks, at the minimum you will probably have a work network and personal network, regardless most networks no matter how they are categorized by you are going to consist of three kinds of people.

The inner circle

Your most trusted friends, your long term and vetted contacts. People that will look out for you and you them. Your kindred spirits and those with common goals. This is where your brothers, those you consider family, and at least some of your tribe will be, this might be your whole tribe if it is small. They go here because your inner circle needs to be guarded and exclusive. Only the best of the best that you have vetted, and trust with that which is most important to you. These relationships need to take priority.

The outer circle

Your friends, relatives, acquaintances and other short term contacts are here these are those you have partially vetted and given strategic positions in your network. They may be business partners, friends, and relatives. Some of your tribe will likely fall here such as wives of brothers or kids of brothers, relationships like that. These are the people that you have recently met, maybe they are not the type of person you are looking for or you just don’t know them well enough or haven’t vetted them completely enough to bring them into your inner circle.

You wont spend as much time or effort maintaining the relationship with these contacts but they are good to keep in some contact with as you never know when you might have a need they can help you with, vice versa, or how they could wind up as a long term contact someday.

Outsiders

Everyone that you don’t know or know minimally. There is obviously no relationship to maintain here but you should always be looking for people who fit your goals, tribe, potential friends what ever your network goals may be. People today are far to disconnected from each other and that needs to change.

Don’t forget to branch out

Don’t stick to just your industry or circle. If you are a programmer, make sure your network consists of more than other programmers. You never know when you might be able to help someone by knowing someone else in another industry.

A sales guy could have a potential sale walking out the door that mentions they are hungry. Maybe he refers them to a local restaurant thats hard to get into where he knows the hostess and tells them to mention his name and she will get them in. He didn’t make the meal but the client will remember he facilitated it if he comes back later to make the purchase. If he didn’t know the hostess and only knows sales guys he wouldn’t be able to do that.

Super Connectors

You should always be on the look out for and strive to have at least one super connector in your network. Especially when you’re growing a business network. Super connectors are people that either intentionally or as a side effect of their situation (profession or socially) are connected to a large number of individuals in a variety of bubbles (industry or location), professions, or social circumstances.

A prime example that can be both personal or business related is a bar tender, if the bar is an “industry” bar. You may have heard someone talk about thats a cop bar, or fire fighter bar or lawyer bar and so on. Bartenders have to be social for their job, and they meet a lot of people both on the customer side and the vender, service, business side. You never know who they could introduce you to if you need them to.

Another example could be an instructor at a course for one of your interests. They spend their whole days with people related to your interests or profession and can probably introduce you or at least point you in the right direction of people who you might want or need to meet.

Mindset shift

The best mindset shift you can make for intentional networking is adopting a mind set of generosity. An easy way to look at this is anytime someone does something for your find something you can do for them. Whether thats a thank you gift, or doing them a favor in return.

The next step is to start helping people with no expectation of reward. Do the favors first and keep in contact. More than likely it will come back around to you in someway later on. You help someone on the side of the road and turns out they are the hiring manager at a company you applied for. Events like that happen every day. Could be as small as letting someone bum a cigarette or recommending a product or person to someone you met on the subway.

At a minimum if you meet someone, and don’t get their info but you are likely to see them again at least remember their name so you can strike up a conversation when you see them again.

Environment is key

Join clubs, go to specialty venues, conferences related to your interests, goals, or industry. If you looking for farmers go to the farmers market not the grocery store. If your looking for high end clients don’t go to McDonalds, this is even more important for business.

Bottom line

What is your networking goal? Where will those people hang out? Now go there and Strike up a conversation. If there is events or classes that are applicable go there first as it will be easier to meet people under those situations. Then if you meet someone set up another meet up or something and just try to stay in contact and maintain a relationship. Now I will say that it sounds easy on paper, but the reason i say go to classes or events more so then just going to stores is that if you go to a store built around your hobby or where the people like you go, they are less likely to able to take time to just talk they are probably busy and have other errands to run. People going to events plan to be there for a longer time frame and are more in the proper mind set.

A side note for employees and job seekers

This all still applies to you. You are not hired by a company, you are being hired by a person. If the person doesn’t like you your not getting hired. All opportunity flows through people, being able to network as an employee is just as important as it is for business owners.

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Posted on May 3, 2024April 22, 2024 by barbarianadmin

We need to become wolves again

Wolves are all around us. The Military (and Intelligence agencies), Law Enforcement, Cartels (and other criminals) and large private organizations are all fighting each other as well as preying on the civilian population. This is the game that they all play and everyone is a part of it whether they want to be or not and the stakes are high and are getting higher. Civilization or what people see as civilized society, is just a facade and its collapsing. We will soon be in a place where we have to watch over our own communities and not rely on third parties for that task. If you don’t have warriors around you, your not gonna make it through.

We must become once again a warrior race, something many of us haven’t in generations. And why can’t you? Because you never went to basic training? Nobody gave you a badge or a uniform? That is very much beside the point.

~ Clay Martin @wayofftheres

The majority of the world are sheep. The NPCs, the random characters from the city streets of GTA, the civilians who don’t even know the game is being played often times just out side their perceived world. The ones that don’t know the house down the street is drug house or that they just walked into a mob bar and disrespected the hostess. They either don’t under stand how dangerous the real world is because of their sheltering within “civilization” or they willfully ignore the game entirely. They outsource to and rely on a third party for their protection and security. Most of which have no intention of protecting them when the shit really hits the fan. The sheep will always be targeted, oftentimes victimized, and sometimes caught up in the crossfire as collateral damage resulting in their remaining time in the game much more difficult, or ending it entirely.

“Military, cops, cartels and prepared citizens are all in the game and if you are not you are the target”

~Ed Calderone @manifestoradiopodcast

Many of us have all been consumed by social media, tv, video games or one of the other forms of bread and circus for far to long and that needs to change. Many need to wake up to the fact that no one is coming to save you. If the police force was going to save you which is debatable at this point, See our article HERE, they are not going to now. Their staffing is in the toilet and the good ones are gone or leaving.

There are civilians that understand the game is being played and conduct them selves as such, by preparing the best they know how. Whether or not they are actively playing, they know the game is being played, they have evaluated their situation and judged what level of threat they face and understand that the could be thrust into the game at any moment. Though they typically focus too heavily on buying things when what they really need to do is….

Becoming wolves again

You have to be a sheepdog Ed watch out for the flock….Sheepdogs get eaten where I am from, you want to be a coyote or a wolf.

~Ed Calderone

While coyotes are sly like the fox, seen as the tricksters, and they will survive, they are never honored by warriors but are more respectable than most other metaphors, though they will never be top of the food chain. So what does that leave?…….. Wolves

Why not bears, tigers, lions or any of the many animals often associated with warriors? While some of them have warrior qualities, most of them still perform in the circus. Few of them have tribes or pack, and most of them have qualities that are left unexamined.

Bears are brutes but they are primarily scavengers and loners. All big cats except the lions are loners and are more likely to run than fight. Lions have a pride but the males sit around waiting for the females to do the hunting. Thats why the lioness is popular metaphor for female warriors.

Men with a taste or talent for violence who want to be “good guys” often refer to themselves as sheepdogs, sheepdogs have a deep love for and fights to protect sheep defined as as healthy productive citizens with no capacity for violence. From the wolves who have a capacity for violence but no empathy for their fellow citizens. What is a sheepdog if not a domesticated wolf who as the result of his breeding training and conditioning does exactly what he is told. A sheep dog is a pet a sheepdog has a master his master owns him. The sheepdogs master is not the sheep. His master uses the sheepdog to control the sheep. Who are his assets with which he hill do as he pleases. One wonders if theses so called sheepdogs will ever wake up screaming knowing they aided in the slaughter of their charges or if they will simply block it out and move on barking the wolves are coming perhaps then a sheepdog isn’t such a noble thing to be after all.

~Jack Donovan @ph2t3r

That brings us back to the wolves

Why insult yourself or your tribe by associating them with domesticated pets. Why fight like a sheep dog when you can fight like a wolf. Men need to become the wolves of their tribes again. Our tribes need to raise wolf pups again, because the other wolves are all circling and moving in for the kill.

The empire likes to show wolves as evil, dangerous, violent, typically the villain characters of children’s stories targeting the weak and defenseless. However while wolves were feared they were also revered by the northern tribes.

You don’t see wolves performing in the circus. Wolves are the kings of the north. Wolves protect their own even from other wolves. They live in a pack, work in a pack and hunt as a pack. Up and hunting year round they don’t take a season long nap. They take care of their own including their elders. Being fierce predators no matter the sex there is not an animal in their kingdom that they cannot take down.

The men of tribes have always passed down the warrior skills to their sons. This is the natural way of things. Every man is a warrior for the tribe even though it was not their primary profession.

Professional armies are a more modern invention that sprouts up as people grow soft from the convince of civilization and grow farther and farther from having to survive on their own.

Becoming a wolf will be a journey, take it one step at a time, you just have to prioritize it. Get fit, take classes, learn the skills a little bit at a time in between your other responsibilities. We cover a wide range of info in our paid section Barbarian Tradecraft that will get you started and help guide you to the right topics, information, and experts to search out and learn from.

The longer you wait the more you will have to learn on the fly and the less likely you will be to succeed. Then start teaching your children. Sons and daughters. While they have rarely been the primary warriors there has always been shield maidens and female warriors throughout history. Your wife and daughters should know how to defend them selves and protect their families just as much as the fathers and sons, even if ideally it would be a last resort for them.

Will you become a wolf

There are groups out there that want no other end than your extermination or enslavement. The age old battle of good and evil is making its way back into the foreground for everyone and which side is which is not clear for most people. The facade of civilization is collapsing, and the realities of the world are making their way back into everyones lives. Those who do not want to become prey will need to become wolves. The first step is step is simple decide not to be the victim and become the wolf if you don’t…..

You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.

~Alejandro – Sicario

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Posted on April 19, 2024April 12, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Becoming a barbarian

Looking back I have been a barbarian from birth, at least in part. Up until my parents divorce I was home schooled and lived rurally, after that I had to start my journey through the system from the second grade on but I never truly fit it, though I was good at blending in. Never the outcast but never the popular kid, I was never big on having a bunch of sub par friends and the things that were important to the kids around me were never important to me. Now I realize that those of us that were in this position in school were naturally though unconsciously fighting the programming.

I didn’t care about dances, or school politics, events, or grades. What I wanted to learn was either dismissed as false, not taught in schools to begin with, or was systematically being removed from the curriculum. Zero tolerance for fighting was being rolled out and you were no longer allowed to defend your self. Cell phones were just becoming smart at the end of my high school career and people were still able to be social in person with out some digital interface. Things you sometimes don’t pay attention to or understand when your in them but click all at once later in life when your looking back on it. It was the pivot point for the education system the tail end of what could be considered a normal educational experience, at least compared to now.

Becoming a barbarian

This continued after high school, While everyone prioritized drinking and partying, or SATs and college, depending on the person, I prioritized fitness, and practical education. I went straight to EMT school and joined a fire department as a volunteer while I was getting a tattoo removed that was to low on my arm so that I could join the military. The rules kept changing and I ultimately just stayed at the fire department and went for law enforcement when I became the right age.

While I was at the Fire department the majority of the other guys at least cared about fitness but they were all still overly obsessed with sports and other trappings of the system that I couldn’t care less about. So just like high school I was never fully in the group. Just like school I always had a couple people I could call friends at any one time that did have some similar interests. Even then I knew a lot of people and could get along with most groups, but I was never really a part of any of them.

This was unique position to be in. Many feel comfortable talking to you or around you and forget to mind their tongue. They will talk shit or gossip like they would normally but you get to see all sides. A will talk to C behind B’s back and then talk shit about C to D. You get a front row seat to how fake and disloyal 99 percent of the population is. This is hard lesson learned at a young age but a valuable one as you get older.

Loyalty is a very rare commodity

This continued through my adult life and while most people would call that a loss, I do not. It is why it was made blatantly obvious to me that the “brotherhood” at my fire department was a bull shit. The same lesson and learned the same way that learned at the police department as well. Though the police department was worse. The fire department at least showed up with lip service when some one died or was killed. At the police department, there was a line of duty death shortly before I arrived. One detective was trying to do something nice for the kids that he left behind and the other officers couldn’t be bothered to help out with either their time or some money.

Most people classify people as friends that have no business being called that. They do this out of a superficial desire/need to be liked and included. I am not saying that I don’t have that need too though I am not going to change who I am at my core just to be part of some group. I would rather be on my own than around fake people.

Moving on

Once I Turned 21 I left the fire department, and never heard from any of them again. I went to police academy and got my biggest taste of pseudo brotherhood I had experienced. The whole class clicked and meshed extremely fast and it was a great year. I then graduated and moved across the country for a job. Never to hear from most of them again despite reaching out. Hence pseudo brotherhood, though there was two that did keep in touch and one I have mentioned before who is still in law enforcement. The other Like me is not. They are two of the few people I call friends.

My time in law enforcement was short

It was rough start from the jump, I showed up day one and no one that needed to know knew I was coming. They had no gear for me not training officer for me nothing. They didn’t know what version of the computer system I would end up using so I had to learn two of everything in a shortened amount of time. Before even getting assigned to a trainer.

My first field training officer was on the way out, over weight, sloppy, hadn’t upgraded his uniform in 10 years, of course I didn’t even have one yet at this point. He slept in the passenger seat more nights then he was awake and I ultimately didn’t learn anything. Then came phase two where I was supposed to know everything and didn’t as well as some of my academy training not meshing with the new department mainly arrest control (handcuffing techniques) yet no one was willing to teach me how their department Wanted it.

It was around this stage that my health problems cropped up and I was forced to resign. Though that would be a saving grace later. After the department tv shows, and multiple scandals hitting the department, I was glad to have dodged the bullet.

Healthcare

The end of my short law enforcement carrier was the mark of the beginning of learning about the health care system. I was told I had an auto immune disease that was causing issues that needed surgery. So I had the initial surgery, and then was told I needed to go to a specialist to fix auto immune issue before they could do the second surgery. The specialist told me I needed to have the second surgery before I could Fix the Immune issue.

This last 18 months back and forth when the second surgery was supposed to have been done no more than 3 months later. After which time I found my Functional MD who changed my diet for 6 months reversed the actual issue which was not the issue the hospitals said I had.

I went to a new hospital to get the second surgery done and their testing showed that I had none of the issues the original hospital said that I did. In fact I later learned the original hospital gave test prep advice that made the situation appear worse then It was on testing results. This was the point that I swore off the medical system, at least in respect to general health and minor illness/ injury. Major trauma is the only thing that the medical system seems to do well.

Then came 2019

We all know what happened then, This was a defining time where I was thrown into becoming a barbarian. I was out cast by most of my so called family. Though I cannot look at it completely in a bad light. I showed who my true family was, I know understand the rest were only relatives. I found many of the “light bulb moment” books and individuals that have been game changers for me. This time shaped my current views of law enforcement, and did not help my views of the medical system. It revitalized my interest in homesteading and entrepreneurship out of a feeling of need and not just desire and It brought me back more fully to spirituality.

Though I currently find my self in a kind of purgatory. Stuck in progress waiting for things out side of my control to fall into place. My plans and path for the future are more refined and and inline then I think they have ever been. This is where you find this writing, at the calm before the storm. Hopefully you will come along for the ride and learn with me as we go.

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Posted on April 5, 2024March 27, 2024 by barbarianadmin

Barbarians and law enforcement :So what cops only deal with criminals

Based on some of the examples I have shown through this series of ordinary people that that either did very little wrong or nothing, and still had their lives at best turned upside down, by law enforcement if not out right destroyed. You shouldn’t even be making this argument at this point. However lets forget even that those cases for a moment.

What if tomorrow you are a criminal?

According to lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate, author of Three Felonies a Day. There is so many laws just at the federal level that you, as an average American citizen commit three felonies a day. But lets say you are not average and you some how know the federal, state and municipal laws and regulations so well that you never make a mistake.

What if your city state or the federal government tomorrow decides that you are a criminal. Thats how passing new laws works. One day something is legal and the next its not. Something you do everyday that is legal could now not be.

They could instill a curfew, outlaw 100% of abortions, ban homeschooling, enforce federal marijuana laws, how about ownership of non electric vehicles, California already has done it with small engines. Maybe they ban alcohol again, Who knows it really could be anything and it doesn’t matter how trivial.

Don’t think its possible the government can label who ever they want a criminal with a stroke of the pen? Then why is that the favorite argument that both sides likes to use when the other tries to pass a law that they don’t agree with.

Now even worse, what if they are innocent and treated this way?

How many people in the news lately have you seen where the victims are ones getting arrested. Homeowners calling the police on squatters who then get arrested themselves. Store owners defending them selves or trying to stop shop lifters. People defending them selves against home invasions. They more and more wind up sitting in the cells next to the criminals who attacked them, if the criminals who attack them even have to stay in jail.

Then everyone always blames the legislator or the Government as a whole and they always jump right over the cops even though by definition are part of the government.

So ask your self would the legislators or government be able to do any of this with out their merry band of enforcers? Why do they not have any responsibility if they enforce things that unlawful, or unconstitutional? Why do they never have to answer to the citizens that they supposedly serve?

Now what about crimes where there are no victims?

Like Seat belt laws, If you break it who does it hurt? No one, other than yourself IF you get in an accident. (Personal responsibility) The only possible worthwhile justification I can see would be for passengers under 16/18/21 years old. What ever your jurisdiction considers an adult/legal driver such as children.

Helmet laws……Read seat belt laws

Tint Laws (Or really any vehicle modification law) What person dies because you darken your cars windows, are people dropping dead on the side walk as you pass by with tinted windows? How about lifts? Bigger tires? Body kits? How about fuel system chips? Air intakes? All are illegal in one jurisdiction or another and none them effect anyone. Not even the driver of the car so they cant even justify the for your own good argument.

The justification for any victimless crime is that it prevents something else from happening. Speed limits stop accidents, prostitution laws stop drug use and other crimes and so forth. but if that were the case then, cops would be unnecessary at this point no?

Prostitution is illegal in most jurisdictions so there must be no prostitution right? No one speeds or modifies their car? Surly everyone must drive with a seat belt right? Or is it possible that they knew a large portion of a population would continue the behaviors even though they are illegal and figured they could make money off it? punishment by fine = legal for fee as most victimless crimes are, but don’t think you might not get killed over it none the less.

Most victimless crimes stem from either misguided thoughts that they will stop the behavior or some other allegedly connected behavior, from one group trying to impose their world views on the rest of the population, or from the simple goal of fund generation (extortion).

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Posted on April 1, 2024March 27, 2024 by barbarianadmin

A barbarian’s issues with law enforcement : No longer innocent until proven guilty

People still believe that you are innocent until proven guilty. As it its written that might be the case, but with the court of public opinion and never changing data bases, that is no longer the case. Just the act of getting arrested and in many jurisdictions you are guilty for ever.

While not specifically a problem with cops they do not take this into account when they take any action towards a citizen such as an arrest. If you have a legitimate defense you may make it out of your initial appearance with a dismissal but the damage may have already been done. Just another example of the lack of responsibility and caring for the citizens that they supposedly serve.

Simply getting arrested even if not charged can and will ruin your life. At the time of your arrest police PR teams and media will blanket the airwaves with everything the first day and nothing you can release after that will ever take it back in order to undo for what they did.

Even if your case is dismissed early on and there is no charge or sentence on your record the arrest will always stay there. Even if you take it all the way to court and get an acquittal with record expunging the arrest will often stay on your record which will still cause many problems.

The Eddie Gallagher case is a great example of what damage can be done to your reputation simply by an arrest and a less than clean justice system. Though it did take place in the military justice system, the damage to his reputation and his families as well was far from contained to military life.

They enforce the law no mater what is is and follow orders even if it is not the law

They enforce the law no matter what it is, the will shrug off any question to the constitutionality of the law they are enforcing because their is no responsibility on their part, and will fallow the orders given to them because their paycheck depends on it. “Take it up with your legislator” will often be their response.

For instance much of what you are seeing at the southern border is being allowed by federal law enforcement just following orders. Much of the “bad cops” you saw during covid, tazing mothers in parks for not wearing masks and the like was all being done following orders. Even though there was no law on the books and only a decision by the mayor of the cities. This takes them out of even the role of law enforcement where at least some process was taken to passing the rules they enforce and into the realm of a tyrants gun thug.

“I have a family i got bills” is an often used justification as if no one else has bills or family. I wonder how their family would feel if they knew what they were doing in their name? When they enforce a law that infringes on rights, or follows an order to arrest people for going to church, or watching their kids soccer game with out a mask on, or surfing in the ocean alone?

Cops have long been just another gang, some even joke about it. Their uniform is their colors, the only difference is they are sanctioned by the government. They might swear an oath to the constitution but when it comes down to it they enforce what ever law is on the books and pass the buck with a bullshit justification, ” my job is to enforce the law not interpret it, if you don’t like take up with your representatives.” But if the legislature passes laws that are unjust and or unconstitutional, and the cops aren’t deciding if enforcing those laws is breaking their oath then who is?

The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, were just following orders In Germany during WW2. They were the first ones to execute jewish people under hitlers regime.

See where just following orders can get you?

Check out this article for more information. https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/reserve-police-battalion-101

You cannot resist or you will be injured or killed

Both the citizens and cops alike love to throw out “just comply and you wont get hurt”. How many times have you seen that in the comments section of social media where the cops kill someone. Even in ones where the crime would never warrant the death penalty. Even when the person follows the commands the cop gives them and they still get Killed. How about when the cops go to the wrong house and kick the door in in the middle of the night. Should homeowner’s just comply with all home invasions on the off chance that its the cops kicking in your door?

Now does “do what we say and you wont get hurt” really sound like something that someone who supposed to be helping your community should be saying? No, that is something that hostage takers say when they are holding you at gun point. Are citizens hostages now?

Unfortunately many would argue yes, and have made some good points.

Cops target people unrelated to a suspects actions

Asset forfeiture is used in a variety of ways based on your jurisdiction, ranging from anti drug operations and seizing vehicles and properties used in the commission of those crimes or as a punishment for DUI where they seize and auction off the drivers vehicle if they are found to be driving under the influence. In some jurisdictions this is done without any hearings or representation to fight it.

Where this gets worse is when the cops target people unrelated to the crime, but connected to their suspect in an attempt to stick it to the suspect. Should cops target and confiscate the home of the mother of a drug dealer because a bill was paid for by said drug dealer? Does this stick it to the drug dealer? Does this improve the image of law enforcement in the public’s eyes? Or just ruin peoples life who are just trying to survive.

Asset forfeiture, while it may have been designed for a good purpose, (debatable) its puts the incentive on police departments to confiscate first and ask questions later,. Often selling off or transferring the property before the person can make any sort of legal defense.

For example this Utah veteran not only had his life savings taken, even after the cop said that nothing the veteran was doing was illegal and never being charged with a crime, They took his money, gave it to the DEA in return for a percentage of the cash, and left him and his kids in the desert With no money. https://reason.com/2021/12/01/watch-nevada-highway-patrol-officers-seize-a-veterans-life-savings-through-asset-forfeiture/

Cops have the “authority” to and will kill you to enforce any law

Or order they are given, no matter how small. If you don’t think so let me ask you this, what happens if you refuse to submit to them? At what point do the cops walk away and say “what they did is not that bad.” They don’t. Even if the crime is victimless.

They are allowed to raise their force to match and exceed yours until you submit or cant resist any more. This is called the use of force continuum, and it is how all the kinds of use of force are categorized and ranked in legal arguments and for use by law enforcement.

Any of these issues alone is bad but put al together is a catastrophe that makes cops look more like enforcers for a criminal organization than they do public servants. They can arrest you, with only questionable evidence to do so. They can ignore any alibi or defense that you may have even if those defenses are written into the laws as Justifiable defenses. This alone leaves a permanent record. Depending on the alleged crime, they can then possibly seize your assets and property, with no court proceedings, even if you are released with no charges, or you are found innocent later, you assets may be gone or you have to fight an additional court battle to have your property returned.

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Posted on March 29, 2024March 26, 2024 by barbarianadmin

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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Posted on March 25, 2024March 22, 2024 by barbarianadmin

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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Posted on March 22, 2024 by barbarianadmin

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.