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You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be put. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children? to live in fear and be a slave. O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep, and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? To dill the land of the free, the home of the free. This is the evening intelligence report, I'm R. Kornky. And I'm Don Butcher. Behind the lines in occupied territories, Central, Compton, Indiana, FreedomTalkRadio.com, we're on AMF and Microstations, CB, Bay Station, and Ultra. Technologies, even Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, to include both the 3rd, but turning back to side of the Rockies, sweep across the plains over the Mississippi and land in the Smokies, slash the Blue Reef. Where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, in the mob, Bell Grammar Consortium, bring us now is getting into the dusky. Well, that's interesting, Mark. I'm about as the crow flies or as they line the, put the lines around the globe, about 120, I'm guessing, estimating maybe 110 miles west of you. And it's just to the point, like it looks like sunset there, it's just to the point, like I could still use iron sights here outside. Is it that dark there? I was just curious about that. Again, curiosity on the 18th day of September, the year of our Lord, 2014. It was a beautiful day. It was a little chillier than it could be. The weatherman said it was supposed to be warm today. He tells me it's going to be warm tomorrow. Well, I'll tell you what. My indoor cat has One mama, the old cat mark, has a tail that any raccoon would be proud of. Them cats just wrap them tails around themselves when it gets cold. That's another indicator there. But again, we're trying to forte our future by looking at cats' tails today, the 18th of September, 2014. These are only natural indicators. These are only natural signs, you guys. If you pay attention to your surroundings, they add up over time, don't they? That's how they work the farmer's almanac, Mark. You've talked about that. I've got two subjects I want to touch on, Mark, and I apologize for the afternoon. These are what one might call general information. They're not the most current thing about, did you hear about this, or did you know about that, or, man, did you see what happened there? It isn't about that at all, but these are things you're going to find useful. No, I want you to think back when you were a child. I have to frame this up a bit. When you were a youngster, remember the oldest grandparent you can remember. Maybe it was your father's father. Maybe when you were real young but still cognizant enough right now to remember it, maybe you remember your father's or your mother's mother or father. Even farther a generation, their grandfather. Maybe you do. Now, I want you to ponder on that for a moment. Now I'm going to ask this question. Do you remember what they look like? Sure, Don. I know what my right down to the right that curly little hair out of the his left eyebrow and he never did cut that hair. All of those little things. But you know what people say and you hear it all the time. People's images fade over time. You try to remember what this person looked like or that your best friend in high school you haven't seen since three weeks after you graduated. How long has it been three times the time you were alive since you were in high school? Think about this, because there are different ways to do this. We're going to do this with the comic book version, but when you try to remember someone's face, there are higher forms to describe this. Again, we're going to do this with the comic book version. There are exceptions to every rule, and let's run this one right now. If you wanted to draw Dick Tracy, or Lonnie Anderson's head, you could start with a rectangular box. If you wanted to be either one of them on Halloween, you could start with a rectangular box. Some people just have heads that appear to be like cinder blocks. They're just the square jawed type and it's just parallel up the sides. Now, that's the basic shape. We've talked about basic shapes before, haven't we? Shape, color, and motion. Looking at that square jawed, flat top, You know, all of that and one of those eyeballs starts twitching or that cheek underneath. You know something is getting ready to boil over, don't you? That's motion, isn't it? Now let's go back over to that. Again, that's the exception to every rule. When you look at people's faces, man or woman, this was first described to me and I won't go there, but this was first described. Man or woman? When you look at people's faces, let's do this in the cartoon way because this is an easy way to remember it. It's like ABC when you're young. Human beings faces look like horses, or human beings faces look like birds, or human beings faces look like muffins, with the occasional cinder block. Now, there might come a point where you look at someone one time or you look at someone twice because you don't want to look the third time because you don't want to be suspicious. And these might sound like sneaky things, but you know, there might come a time in the world where if you are not cautious and you are not sneaky and you are just a little bit too obvious, you might not see that sunset or that sunrise, depending on the time of the day where those hands are on the clock. But this goes back over to the little girl, the dinky little girl with the tattoo on her wrist. And now she's 88 years old and she's pointing at this guy who's 102 and she's saying, I remember him from Auschwitz. He was the guide. He kicked my dog and he took my crayons. And all of that stuff long ago. Again, some images are burned into your mind. You read that in spy novels and family things. I never forget that face or whatever, love stories or whatnot. But it might come a point where you have to look at someone once and look over there to the wall, the corner, the train, the attic, the gun on the table, and look whatever the surroundings are and look back up at them for more than an instant, less than a moment. A moment in this instant, I'll use that in the proper round there, being by definition about 20 seconds. Again, more than an instant, less than a moment, just so you don't arouse suspicion. One way, and we've talked about this, about not looking directly at something, you can study someone's face if you're looking at the person that's sitting, if you're looking, so to speak, down the table. I use this as reference. You don't have to be at the table. But you're looking down the table. You're at one end of the table. The table is like six people deep, and there's another person at the other end of the table. You can look at the person at the end of the table's face and study the face on either side. Can't you? They're in your field of view, and you don't look like you're looking directly at them. But now we're getting over into the sneaky stuff here. I want to burn the memory thing in here. Because you look at a person, you choose that. This is one of the biggest things. Once you remember the shape of the face when it's looking right at you or the profile of the face when it's a clean 90 degrees, once you remember that it's easy to fill in, did he have a beard? What was his nose like? The other dinky little things come when you have the basic chalkboard, so to speak, that memory of the shape. It's easy to pick up the crayon, the chalk, and fill in the blanks. It is not necessarily easy, but it is an easier path to get there. If you want to remember people's faces, he had a horse face, he had a muffin face, he had a bird face, she had a horse face, she had a muffin face, she had a bird face. And oh, by the way, the one way back there, I ain't never seen a cinder block like that in my life. You don't want to hit him in the jaw with your fist. You know what I mean? But now once you remember that shape, and this is key, this goes over to you might see someone once or twice or three times flashing, marching through, this, that or the other thing at the other end of a gun for an instant. God knows the situation and I don't, you know, no matter what comes up. But if you want to remember a face, first you have to remember the shape. And then when you remember the shape, while you're studying it, all of the other things fill in for you and it makes it a lot easier to remember that face, even if you can't put a name to it. I wanted to do that, Mark. If you'd like to elaborate on that subject, I'll be quiet for a moment. There is something else I'd like to build. You guys, we talk about shape, we talk about color, we talk about motion. I can use all of these things to spring into the next. What kind of shape is your sheriff in? What kind of shape is the relationship with your sheriff in? What color are his uniforms? How fast does he respond? There's shape, and there's color, and there's motion. All right in there, isn't there? I know I use that as a big snowball rolling downhill just to get to this valley where we're going to sit down and have this little talk. Mark, you've tried to point this out over the years, but you guys, this, I'm going to mix a number of things that have been brought up on this hour over the last few years. And we're going to involve the sheriff with this in the bottom line. Because you know, hmm, we've talked about brigands. and we've talked about the neutral sheriff when it comes to G. Are you for the federal government? Are you for states rights? Are you for your county? What are you for, Mr. Sheriff, no matter what color your uniform? Now we've kind of eliminated the color there, haven't we? But when you figure this out, sometimes you can figure it out obliquely by talking to other people that talk to him because sometimes you just can't get that close. But you know other people that do. They're just as friendly, they're your friendly as they just talk to the sheriff because they got to or because they can and have to. When you find a sheriff that says, I'm here to support the Constitution and you believe it, and he has proved that, and I am here to look over my county, which is, he's kind of the captain of the ship when it comes to the county. We know that. We know about posse comatotuses. You guys can talk for the rest of the hour about it. That's basically the federal government that can't use military equipment against American citizens or turn the military more proper against American citizens. This is where it has happened both of the aforementioned. Going back to that, now let's talk about motion because what has your sheriff shown you? Let's talk about Hutari because while the Hutari people were happy to work with the sheriff, the only person I heard, and I'm not sticking a feather in my cap, but the only person I heard talking about the counting people How many respond? They're counting how long it takes. We've talked about concentric circles. When you think about circles of friends, a concentric circle by the way is like the bull's eye, the center circle in the target, and all of the rings around it that are just bigger and bigger. Now you think of that like you in the center. I know every man. If the universe is bound, every man can say he lives at the center of the universe. If you think of that center, that target as you and your closest friends as the first ring and your next closest friends and you see how sometimes those are friends of your inner friends, right? How it stacks out until you've got people out there that you know Because he knows him and there are seven things of Kevin Bacon and all of that. But that's the example of trying to get into or draw information from someone when you can't get close to them. You might know what his face looks like. I'll drag that first little bit of information into this subject matter here. How fast does your sheriff respond? What does he respond to? What has he shown you? Now we've covered motion. But let's take this to the other side. Kaboom! The hand basket thing. The fan and the feces and all of that. Now, what are you going to do about that guy that just walked up and shot that wounded man? He's on your side. Like I told you, we're going to mix items that have come into this hour over a good long time. What are you going to do about that private, that corporal, that guy who calls himself a sergeant or a lieutenant who just walks over to that guy and maybe he's shot and maybe he's, you know, you're pretty certain it's low in the lung and man, if that lobe doesn't get infected and everything, he can probably live through it. He won't take a deep, deep breath for the rest of his life, but he can probably live through it if we can keep him clean. And this guy walks over and puts one in his brain pan. Now let's do it like this because if you walk over and shoot him, somebody is going to, that guy no doubt, you guys over time, somebody saved somebody's life and somebody did this for that, and somebody counted on that man before and over time you just made an enemy when you killed him. And you just might wake up with his friend's bayonet at your throat. Only it's the last cold thing you feel. But now, there are four ways. And right there is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it is, if it It is an existing and a civil form of government. Right there is the jail. Right there beyond that is, well, I don't know if I would commit that man to the federal court system, but if he was a wise sheriff he might have more than even one jail. You understand that, right? If he was a wise sheriff he might not never even tell them federales, them blood suckers. who he's got in his jail. But then again, they try to put people everywhere. The, you know, the guy standing there, watching everything, but knows nothing, but he thinks he knows everything, and he's going to report back to Moscow because that's his job. So again, it might be hard to put somebody in a jail and keep them out of federal custody. But when you, you know, One of the things that made me think on this subject, over the past weekend a friend of mine loaned me a two-disc series titled Vietnam. I watched it over the weekend. In that series is the motion picture. It's recorded into history in motion picture. That's not just a still frame that you saw if you've been around long enough or you've gone through other people's libraries or archives. It's not just a picture on the cover of life or look. I think it was Life magazine of the South Vietnamese general raising his pistol while separating that of that North Vietnamese infiltrator's mind from his thoughts right there in front of the motion picture camera. When that picture hit the front page of America, that was one of the turning points of the war. That really was because a lot of people saw that and said, this is what we do over there. We just shoot unarmed men. The back story on that is that infiltrator, that sapper, had just basically killed a whole bunch of wives and children of South Vietnamese non-commissioned officers in their barracks, particularly in their house. going non-combatants like that. Now maybe that would warrant just walk right up and again there's no trial. I'm your judge and jury and kaboom and now you're a sack of potatoes on the floor. I understand that. But when we still have, again if we got that friendly sheriff, it might be good just to move this man over into the judicial system if it can be. Now we've talked about creating courts, haven't we? That's another thing that we've addressed on this hour many, many times. This isn't something we've just talked about once. But now here's an instance where we're going to need it, ain't it? Sometimes I strive to practice proper English. But here is an example where you would like to take this man. Here's another drag from another thought. There's a country in Europe that has two governments inside one border. Governments have had shadow governments. operating right alongside them. We have pointed this out over the years, haven't we Mark? We have beat that drum, haven't we? But again, let's go over to that, he just shot that man that just shot that wounded man. That guy just shot that wounded man. Now, how about taking him before your sheriff and how about taking him before your justice of the peace or your magistrate? Because you know what? We can say, well, we would take him before a court. We would take him before 8. But you know what? You won't find a whole lot of time for that. Many times you'll be saying, well, it's 99 percent nothing and 2 percent terror. But many times that other 99 percent nothing is you're moving. You're just trying to put food on the table. You're just trying to keep things. You're just trying to figure out what is going to happen next. But when you can hand over a situation like that to a legitimate legal system, I'm not talking about me because I'm not the person that's going to walk up to that wounded man. And now here's the mix between, do we need a sheriff? Even if the sheriff in your county is stink rotten, lousy, smells like a skunk and has F.E.D. tattooed on his forehead. Well, you have a counterpart for him, don't you, ready to step into his place at a moment's notice, don't you? The closer we get to this, the more this is going to be necessary. Mark, I've eaten up the first half hour, sir. I yield to you, sir. Well, this gets into several categories. Quartermaster, supply and support is something we've always taught. The subcategory is actually the quartermaster judge advocates any of the military tribunal activities that are appropriate to the military. The most common mistake made is people are, you know, everybody gets so immersed in and properly argues at multi-court or the military tribunal court and Then they turned around and they started talking about molasses and they completely decided the fact that, well, one of the few places where those cert management are the militias, like the military, dealing with a problem that probably has to be handled within the structure of the institution there because there are other situations. Somebody thinking they can rape Kill Pillage and burn, okay, someplace. It is actually a legitimate original job is to deal with cert side the, the operational parameters of it happened within the area activity civilians fear and there's where again uh... while a judge advocate general officer the jagwood perhaps would carry depending upon again final solution to the militia common-law issues are applied there but that means that people who make decisions on what is going to interrupt the spirit of this you guys come from what did washington do Washington had to put people on fire. What did Washington do when he relinquished his, when he not surrendered, what's the word I'm looking for? When he retired from his command, what did he do in front of Congress? The power of the civilian government. If we are not able to, this is what we fight for. If we don't drag it along with us, we've got no excuse. If we don't support it along the way, God knows what will be there at the end. We'll have to fight them then too. That's my point. Thank you Mark. I didn't mean to interrupt you but you guys, this government is supposed to stand on a tripod and it is falling over to the point that it's not even a monopod. It's a crumbling bunch of former structure. But we need to recognize that and carry it along with us as we move forward. Because if we don't, it's what do we end up with? Mark, you've asked that question many times. This is the point. What type of government? And Mark, I dragged this in from so many times. This is a culmination, you guys. This is like the rolling snowball in the intelligence report that has brought about this very discussion today. If we ignore parts of it, who's to say what we have when we look around and say, damn, there ain't one of them zombies left. And I didn't mean it. I'm sorry to interrupt you Mark. Well no, that's the whole point. One of the things about the, these are the three in the morning conversations guys. You were going through, and I've listened to all the debates and arguments on these subjects. The wee hours of the morning with people virtually across the, the people who are actually looking at, okay we're going to fight a war. About this, how do we do this? And that's where again, when I bring up Milliprens, it's like we're quartermaster. And immediately there's all of this defensive, well we got it guys. The one place where it was supposed to be used is the place because of all of the gouging that's taking place. But in a military operation in the field, the military takes over the creation of, through military script, a promissory note. The reason the quartermaster was so critical, because the man had to be fair, the objective was to be fair. Not to gouge, preferential, but to be fair. Fair, digits, shekels, the measuring instrument for the future, upon, you know, payment upon request by the person who had surrendered the property. Now, the same is true in getting into the whole idea of JEG. You are going to have, you have standards that you're going to establish. We do not have, and I don't care, we say, well there's the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it's for the Corporate Imperial Army. That UCMJ does not apply, and for all practical purposes cannot apply to the militia. It is for the regulars. The UCMJ was established for the regulars. Now, some would argue then that all of a sudden the militia falls under that too. Well, see the problem with that is that, well, which militia? Are we talking about the activated militia or the active militia that we call the regular army? Are we talking about the respective states militias? And are we talking about, or are we talking about the militia at large, which is the general population? Because all are covered under the many different guidelines and all the spaghetti noodles that they've strung together to intentionally create confusion. Well, for the militia, there are very different guidelines based upon the creation of each of the respective state institutions. For Gregor, there were recommendations to set a standard, and that's kind of like when we get back to the whole thing about, you know, during the American War for Independence Lafayette becoming the inspector. Also, it was Thomas Jefferson. The matter was, we had militia before the American War for Independence. The guidelines that were established, basically what they did was they were mobilized over into and subservient to the regulars. That was if they were mobilized with the regulars though. This is where we talk about a whole, like everything else on this planet, we have lost the working knowledge of how things functioned. And in reality, the states established, usually there would be a Council of War or there would be a militia or state defense committee, there are a number of different titles depending on the state and the era, and they would establish the norms to include punishments, you know, specifically management control, which demand, specific actions, following orders, etc. requirements for the individuals of the specific ranks. The, again, pluses and minuses, dues and limitations. And then there would be the punishment. Punishment processes were, of course, still discretionary between the commander and, or if it was upon the type of militia, it could be a tribunal of all NCOs and even enlisted men. In some cases it was expected that the enlisted men would actually have to be listening or reviewing the action. In some cases, they used the old Greek method where in fact the whole formation participated. Wide range of activities. However, typically the militia commander was making the decision. He was put into the position of judge. And it was fairly short order in which action was taken. There would be a quick convention of the officers, nor the NCOs. There would be a presentment of the charge, and then there could be summary execution. The militia with the regular forces. Now with the militia, depending upon how that militia was organized, the word desertion might not really apply. Kind of like what you saw with the Patriot where it's like he said, well, you're all volunteers here and you may come and go as you please, but while you're here, you'll follow my orders. Remember that line? That's exactly what he said. But what he did is he spelled out the SOP for management. And because of that, failure to follow orders, that they, you know, he could apply martial law. that's because they're in a marshal formation. Marshall slash middle... Washington, bringing up Washington during the war. Washington had to discipline his men many times because there were problems that did transpire. And he did bring men before the firing squad, although for the number that he brought forward he only shot a few. But he would bring people before they would have a court martial, they would identify the charges. But more than a few times he had the men brought right up to the firing squad, had the firing squad line up, and then he intervened and explained, now don't do it again. There's a real interesting writing, Mark, in title. If you just remember, George Washington on the prop of the militia. It's George Washington on the front. It's really interesting to read. I'm reading it right now. It pretty much describes exactly what you just said. You had a problem with him. You've got to remember that's all we had. That's all we were. Even today, it still was a better choice because what do we have with regular forces? There are a number of issues that we've always, we're traditionally, until such time as the individuals who were pushing for us for Empire. So they really got charged. We kept the military to a minimum intentionally. The militias made up the bulwark and the forces that would be called upon. They would be employed as needed. But you know, see here's the thing that the militia didn't go to sleep. That's one of the most common mistakes. Well you guys just go your horns in the plowshares. No, wrong. Just reverse. Next. He says if he would have had a normal army, he wouldn't have had to retreat a bunch of times. I have a bad argument too, based on number, okay if he had a quote unquote regular army, his forces wouldn't have been much bigger than they were. So the problem is, the argument is back and forth there. I mean because militia forces, there's two factors here. Militia forces were also called back to their respective states. Even regular units were called back because of politics. The regular force, Congress, or individuals who were Todies would demand something and all of the blue there were orders given through the civilian government and whole formations were completely disbanded, changed, and reconfigured. Exactly. You wanted to stay in all the time and that didn't happen. You always had different men. And that gets back to the whole issue then too of how do you motivate your soldiers, how do you motivate your men. Now one of the problems was not so much that the men wouldn't stay but it's why they wouldn't stay. If you're standing there, I mean read the campaign for instance of Benedict Arnold going up into Lake Champlain, going up to Canada. Now here we are with a fielded arm. of tens of thousands of men and the clothes literally were rotting off their backs. They were eating their shoes. They were, you know, because they were moccasins. But they were boiling their clothes, okay, boiling their shoes to make food. Yet they, and everybody promised supplies, but they did not appear. Well, I'm motivated. What does that do for the motivation of your army? How can you piss and moan? And I'm not talking about just Washington. I'm talking about the overall campaign problem. the carpetbaggers and the scallywags and the rip-off artists. Over and over again, pilfered resources, promised material, and did not present it even though they had it. This gets back to the quarter bastard issue. Again, we were calling quarter bastard, but in reality, quarter bastard. But it wasn't the fault of the military component. It was the scallywags that always gravitate to profiteering positions. Now, what cleaned up part of that was shooting some of those people. That was just flat out like I've said many times. And not just during the American Civil War, but going back to the American War for Independence and even through the War of 1812. Well, Jackson was halfway what they hear. The scallywags, the leeches sucked down to Jackson's supply train and started stealing everything. He was halfway to New Orleans with an army that was supposed to not only fight in New Orleans, they weren't planning on fighting in New Orleans originally, His mission was to go down and secure the Gulf Coast and identify the landing point for the British. Where they were going to be, what were their intentions, where were they going to fight? Halfway there, nothing showed up. Nothing. No supply trains, no material, no clothes, no medical, nothing, no ammunition. And he basically wrote back and he said, you know, if stuff doesn't show up here, I'm going to camp here for so many days. If the supply train does not show up, I'm going to turn my army around and we're headed home." They somehow seemed to think that he was joking. What's interesting is when the supply trains didn't show up, the wagon trains guys, he turned around his entire army and they headed back to Tennessee. Well, guess what? They didn't realize what he did until he was almost home. And he goes, well, if I ain't got no food and my boys ain't got anything to fight with, I'm sure as hell not taking them all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. By the way, who was in charge of this? And nobody liked when he asked that question, because, well, remember, Andrew Jackson was notorious for being, shall we say, a scrapper. And no matter what age he was, he'd be willing to knife you or shoot you. So all of a sudden, just at the last minute, they discovered all the material and supplies, and all of a sudden the food showed up, and all of a sudden the other material showed up, and the clothes and everything that they were missing. But it just happened to have been slipped sideways by somebody. One of those, oh look what I found. Yeah, the bells and wagons full. See, and that happened with Washington. It's not all mismanagement, but it is also the fog of the battlefield. There was a lot of money that was, it cost a fortune. One soldier for five month service in Washington's day got paid $150. That's what he got, it says here in his article. And this is his own words that he's writing. Well, you had to feed him and the problem was that he would never properly close. The winter gear never caught up with him during the summer gear. The summer gear never caught up when it was supposed to and the winter gear never got to where it needed to be either. He had to pay the men going in and he had to pay the men going out. He says here in his article that was a real big problem. The monies that were needed to fight the swar are normally out of Ohio. He says he had a real big problem keeping the stores up and all the accoutrements and all the consumption of provision. All that really was a big problem because of the cost of everything he says here. The first problem is again the money, but the second is also the quality of the goods. Literally some of the equipment just fell apart. And it fell apart not because of just regular wear and tear. It was because of the quality on the part of the product. That was part of the scallywag, you know, doing their dirty deed to us. And producing shoddy product or providing something that had the look. And by the way, Washington's writings that you're reading there, along with the works done by such men as Jackson, were the reason that the Inspector General's Office and these massive government regulations for how things are made in the Army, it's why they have 500 page regulations for how to make the food. No, but seriously, you aren't alike because you're dealing with snake oil, Jewish mafia. They were literally, if you didn't spell out exactly what you were supposed to have, They would figure out how to slide sideways. In other words, that's why there are such meticulous guidelines for cutting a boot and meticulous guidelines for cutting in construction of a shoe. You know, a low quarter, just a dress shoe. Battle dress utility blouse. It was because of the characters that were scurrilous swine that ripped us off over and over again. And they're trying to do it right now. In fact, they do it right now. In the modern age it's no different. Like I said, Kevlar helmets. I bought a chunk of the not complete Kevlar helmets that were done right here in the state of Michigan. The company, the characters were skimping on the layers of Kevlar. Now, were they good helmets? Well, they were still Kevlar helmets. They just didn't have. They were missing like four or five layers of Kevlar because that was money. But what the Inspector General did is they came into the, what happened is probably an employee said, hey, our boys are getting screwed. So the Inspector General is what they would do is come in and they grab a helmet, go over to a band saw and cut it in half right there. Randomly just pick a helmet up, go over and cut it in half. Well, they got caught right in the middle of the process of putting the things together and they stopped the factory right there. They confiscated everything and the machinery that made the helmets. Then they charged the characters, of course, plus they fined them, but they charged them criminally. The helmets, the remains, had to go through DOD auction. We got a big chunk of those. They were complete helmets. Not only were they painted, most of them were painted with their first coat of paint, but didn't have the final paint on them, so we had to finish painting them. But they're still Kevlar helmets. Here's the problem. You don't know how many of those got out amongst the troops. and the problems of the militia, again, is the name of the article. He's pissed off, man. It's only about seven paragraphs. He's pissed off. I'm sure you probably already read it, but there's smaller guys out there that haven't yet to read it. He's pissed off, and he's saying all the problems. He's pissed off. Okay, you've never watched the 1776? Ever watched the movie 1776? Wait, Dad, even better. Go and read George Washington's letters to the Continental Conference. Yeah, that's what there's a taste of. Can you read the letters that he wrote? If it's seven paragraphs long, what somebody did is they took a selective letter from one of his writings to the Congress. There isn't a letter that he wrote that doesn't make you feel like, my God, we're going to step away from defeat. Well, that was part of his purpose, was to try and put a fire under their arse. But if you watch the book, it's a musical and comical in some ways. It's 1776. It's cool because every so often you have this courier come in, and he's obviously from the front, and he's bought the latest missive from George Washington. And they're reading it. And part of it was the gloom of what was going on on the battlefield. Oh my God, we're going to die any minute, the British will have us. It's reading the missives that came in from Washington. His complaints about what was going on. We have not received food. We have not received munitions. Where are our cannon? Why do we not have boots? Why do we not have socks? Why do we never get down the list? The militia does not have standardized uniforms. You have not provided the requirements for the standardized uniforms. A lot of his complaints about the militia were the complaints about the Continental Congress not doing their job. They had already set the standards, something we started out with here. They had established a standard. The standards were established, but nobody fulfilled the obligation, they did not fulfill their obligation to maintain those standards. Even something as simple as rank and insignia. For instance, Washington solution, this is really interesting, you have color for the branches, right guys? Washington's command staff, the Caucade and their embroidery, The color that he chose was pink. There he goes. And it was available, it was cheap, and he could get it. Even though he was pissed off, but he still kicked off, he kicked out a house house that says here, we're going to the house, Clayton's house, and Cornwallis' house. And part of it through those retreats, though, see, that's one of the things to remember. Yeah, a lot of times you'd want to fight But in reality, most of what Washington did, or for that matter any general in any of those periods of war, and even today, it comes down to being able to march faster or move better than your enemy. Most all of the actions that lead up to any of the battles that eventually take place were a series of marches, of retreats, or or counter thrust, in other words, you're trying to move around the aggressor and then gain a distance advantage against him, a terrain advantage. How about Marmos? Yeah, exactly. All of the major actions that we are, are you typically familiar with? Are situations where by accident or intent, the march put them where they needed to be. And it was all militia. All those things I just read off, how Apogorni, Clinton and Colonel Wallace, they now have pure militia. Even though he bitches about it, the militia's what won everything, and most shit did it all. Right, the militia did the lion's share and the regular army is the one that had the pretty uniforms. Think about it. A lot of the times the militia came in even barefoot. Now they came in barefoot because a lot of times they were at a roundabout way. You gotta remember that, even in the one song, you know, we played that several times about the, you know, Green Mountain Boys. They came in skinny and went out fat. They got the goodies from the bad guys. That's why they benefited from the action. But the thing again is, also with militia, not just during the American War for Independence, just like the regular army, some were good, some were bad. And we say bad, we're not saying they were horrifically just abysmal on the battlefield. Let's perform better than others. Regular army units are the same way. I mean, we've had American Army units who were virtually squashed and overrun. Let's think about General George Armstrong Custer's decision. Wow, look at all those Indians. You know what I mean? Think about it. I was kind of like that Valley of Death bone. Because originally that's what he did. Remember, Custer charged into the camp, went down the hill, and then the rest of the story is him trying to retreat back up the hill. And when we say here we're talking a big long ridge. Remember guys, if you ever do get out to the Custer Battlefield you can walk. They've got paved walkways. So you can look right along the whole ridge and understand it was the hottest day of the year. He charged just like half a league, half a league, half a league onward. Well he did the same thing. Then on the way back up, what he did is something that he was kind of notorious for, like many cavalry commanders. They would drop off a squadron as a picket. Well, the problem is, if you know the battlefield, as for instance, I think the Grey Horse, they all died to a man in a little draw in front of this wave of Indians. Literally, they were just in a little bit of a draw, like a depression. And when they found their remains, literally the unit was in formation dead on the ground except for where they'd been chopped up and torn to pieces and tortured to death. But the horses were killed with the men and they literally was like they'd been slapped sideways. Now think about that. Such forces and so many men that literally everybody just fired and the whole group were dead. And that's one ag- you know, again, I gotta remember the guys that are retreating got to see that. Oh look, they're all smut! They're all dead! We don't keep moving, we will be too. And that's how they made their way back up the ridge with the squadron here or squadron there dropping off and trying to fight a skirmish line to buy time so they could gain the high ground. See? But they went down first and then they lost half of it on the way up. You know what amazes me, Mark? It's not a lot. No one... One side wears one uniform and the other side wears another uniform. Those days are over. I wonder what changed all that? No more uniform. It's military wears your uniform, but everybody else is a scumbag. No, no, the problem is economics. Everybody is poor. In the beginning of any war, you are typically fighting with the leftovers from the last and depending upon how poor and small your force is or how old it is, you are going to have a mix of uniforms. I will give you the best example of that. Take a look at Gods and Generals. There is the excellent video there. There is the piece where Stonewall Jackson has organized the militia because it was ordered by the And because Abraham Lincoln ordered them to organize three regiments, and we have done so, but we will not follow his orders. If you pay attention at the B, that's the beginning of the war, look at those men's uniforms. That was a very accurate depiction. Some of those militia units were still wearing the tricorn hat and the traditional colonial uniform that they had worn since the American Revolution. Take a look at that. There's an excerpt of that on YouTube you can watch. You get the short version where you watch just that piece. When you watch it, look at all the different uniforms. There's the standard uniform from the Mexican-American War in there, my whole unit, and several others dress similarly, and then there's others that are more in line, what do you expect, with the capy or whatever, but it's a mix. Now, six months later, Pretty much all those men were in the same grade. But at that point, the decision and the processes to create that uniformity did not exist. And it's like, well, like what Rome said, you go fight with what you got, kids. My squirrel gun and the uniform I wore back in, you know, 43, will do me just fine. But once we get it going... Yeah, we'll work it out. Don't worry, Grandpa's pisspot and the rest of the gear I got will make me a soldier for the time being and we'll upgrade as we can. Before we go... That's how all these wars have been fought. We are at the top. We gotta go. Don, you're number for the night vision, please. Before we go, something else to stress, you know, that myth about everybody being in the same uniform in combat throughout history is a myth. You cannot go to one battlefield and find a uniform uniform for most of the troops including the Romans which everybody goes to the Romans for that if you take a look at their different Legion each Legion had a different uniform. Yeah, and I mean configuration. That's why all people good-looking go all year with the six and of course well, but sometimes that might be a good thing sometimes that might be a bad thing Thank you. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. It's a matter of where you throw the dart in history in any action, and then you have to be more... you have to be... go deeper into that period. We are at the top. Thank you for listening, guys. Again, Don, your number for night vision, and close us, please. Hey, uh... goggles are gun sights. Green screens are thermal. My number is 2317968458. 2 3 1 7 9 6 8 4 Thank you Mark God bless you, bless America. But we try to reconnect.