Theme: Agency

A steel machete if pointed, sharpened, even primitively on a grinding wheel, is a an exceptional relatively invisible weapon. With one in the left hand, inverted as a shield, and a second held point forward, it is very capable pair of weapons. Add a motorcycle helmet and some football pads, and you’re pretty dangerous hand-to-hand. Especially in formation. A row of spearmen behind using broomstick handles with butcher knives attached, and a bit of rope nailed on here and there for grip, and now it’s getting difficult to close on you. A row of men with molotovs behind and now you’ve got a retreat mechanism, or the ability to attack buildings. A set of runners who replenish the molotovs – throwing them is a skill, so use skilled throwers like skilled archers – and so use runners to keep them busy. None of this costs any real money.

I watched men making shields out of steel plate during the revolution. They set-up shop right inside one of the captured bulidings. They won’t stop a rifle bullet. But they force the government to use rifle bullets against you – and thus invalidate themselves.

You can however, buy shields that will, and it’s possible for a host of men to hide behind five of them if they hit the ground, and aren’t vulnerable from multiple sides.

The strategy is to use these men to attract police in force, to oppose them, and then to use rifles from a distance to take out the police in large numbers once they’re in the open.

Bait power, and kill it. Until there is no power left to bait. Or no power willing to take the bait. And once you have freedom of movement, you have won.

Soldiers return to barracks. politicians and police return to homes. In ukraine, men followed them home. You must only exhaust their willingness to fight. Most men will flee if they lost ten percent of their corps. Police are no different.

The goal is not to gain control. But to face the military to take control. It is in their interest at present to take control. They need only the opportunity and justification. So we must remove the option not to take control.