Sipsey Street Irregulars: Going Postal (Clandestinely)

Friday, December 19, 2008

Going Postal (Clandestinely)

Folks,

The very real possibility that us law-abiding folks will soon be pushed into behavior that the new administration will make criminal has caused some Three Percenters to consider, at least as an intellectual exercise, how we may improvise, adapt and overcome the difficulties posed thereby.

Below I present some thought recently presented to me by a fellow thoroughly briefed on the workings of the United States Postal Service. For your edification and amusement only, of course.

Here ya go . . .

I have been trying to give some forethought (I know, I am awfully late coming to the party) on keeping communications anonymous (from the ah-thoritays, anyway). I am a postal employee, and some coworkers and I were discussing (purely on a theoretical basis you understand) ways to get a PO box without revealing out your true home address.

To rent a box you need two forms of ID. The list of acceptable ID includes a passport and lease. Your passport does not have an address on it and dead cheap legal software (or even freeware) will allow you to print up an official looking lease with whatever address you want on it.

Another option if you are actually moving is to rent a box by showing your passport and your old DL with your old address on it. Tell the clerk that you are in the process of moving (staying with friends, in a residence inn, whatever) and once you get your local address you will come in to update your information. 99.9% of clerks will happily process your application and never give it another thought. For the 0.1% who are anal-retentive enough to follow up, a simple fake lease with a local address on it will suffice.

Couple this ghost box with cheap flash memory cards and a decent steganography program along with some pre-arranged parameters (for example: the first number mentioned in the accompanying letter is the picture number to decode, the first letter of the first word of the first five sentences is the key) and you have yourself a moderately secure comm-net.

Naturally this is all purely an intellectual enterprise and I would never actually reccomend that anyone violate any federal, state or local laws, bureaucratic regulations or edicts.

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"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Going Postal (Clandestinely)

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