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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Praxis: A discussion of dogs as force multiplier.

Dogs of War: Why the Navy SEALs would use Dogs as a Force Multiplier

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Anonymous said...: Dogs truly are among man's best friends, and they're perfect recruits; being willing, totally trainable and uninterested in politics. I have seen trained war-dogs work in ways that beggar belief. They do need a dedicated trainer and operator, but can indeed multiply force.; May 18, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Mark Matis said...: For Anonymous at 6:56 PM:
Just remember that dogs are not political, and if trained by the Bad Guys can and will be used by them against Constitutionalists.

And if YOU try to train a dog in "police tactics", rest assured you will be arrested if the Bad Guys find out...; May 19, 2011 at 6:46 AM
Anonymous said...: "And if YOU try to train a dog in "police tactics", rest assured you will be arrested if the Bad Guys find out..."

Interesting term: "Bad guys". It reminds me that the term "narc" is used by the DEA and others to refer to drug users/traffickers and in tern is used by the self same drug users/traffickers to refer to the DEA.

Ultimately history is written by the victors and "Bad Guys" will be applied by them to the side that lost.; May 19, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Anonymous said...: I have a goat trained in police tactics --- it craps and pisses on everything. pah Rrrump pah... zing :); May 19, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Loren said...: To note, a dog wouldn't need absolutely everything listed to be useful to a militia party. Being able to alert and track is reasonable for a lot of breeds. I'd imagine Mark's "police tactics" mostly involves biting techniques and such. Tracking, moving, alerting are too similar to sporting uses to attract a whole lot of attention, you mileage may vary.

I was planning on teaching my dog some of this general use stuff.; May 21, 2011 at 8:11 PM

"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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