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On Firearms Common Sense: Part I: Ammunition

On Firearms Common Sense:

Part I: Ammunition

By

R.J. Godlewski

© May 1, 2013, All Rights Reserved

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.”

George Washington

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            The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution exists for solely one reason; to keep government – local, state, and federal – honest. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church implies within paragraph #2243, “armed resistance to oppression by political authority” rests as legitimate as long as 1. There is certain, grave, and prolonged violation of fundamental rights; 2. All other means of redress have been exhausted; 3. Such resistance will not provoke worse disorders; 4. There is a well-founded hope of success; and 5. It is impossible reasonably to foresee any better solution. What the Catholic Church teaches, therefore, is that there probably remains a 1-in-a-1,000,000 chance that you may have to fight against oppressive government. What the Progressive Left, however, by endorsing gun control legislation, teaches is that there is zero reason for you to protect yourself against “oppression by political authority”. Again, placing gun control in the hands of governmental authority – legitimate or otherwise – remains akin to placing the combination to the bank vault in the hands of a career thief.

 When our founding fathers (yes, Virginia, they were men back then, so please get over it…) established the Second Amendment, they announced to future generations that individual citizens were inherently more trustworthy than anyone in public office was. In fact, if you consider the entirety of the Constitution, public authority must have grave reasons to distrust you but you can distrust the federal government as you please. In other words, the government works for “We the People” despite the preference for our elected officials to immerse themselves within elitism. What this means, is that – God forbid – should our government go the route of Reign of Terror France, Nazi Germany, or Stalinist Russia, we Americans bear the grave duty of exercising lethal force against such tyranny. It represents common sense in the eyes of Liberty.

The Progressive Left, unfortunately, as diabolical as they act, seeks to convince you that common sense remains irrational. Consider the above photograph. From the left rests cartridges of 5.56x45mm, 6.8 SPC, 7.62x39mm, 7.62x51mm, 7.62x54R, 8mm Mauser, .45 ACP, and .500 S&W Magnum. For comparison, the 5.56mm represents the round used within most M-16 or AR-15 variants. The 7.62x51mm (.308 Winchester caliber) signifies leaving the “assault rifle” rounds and represents the standard NATO cartridge for battle rifles as well as the most popular deer hunting caliber. The 7.62x54R (rimmed) and 8mm Mauser rounds represent cartridges employed within bolt-action rifles of which mine hail from 1943 and ~1953 respectively. The .45 ACP serves my “carry” handgun, capable of carrying 12+1 such rounds and as for the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum, well, my 5-round revolver serves for hunting such things as grizzly bears up close and personal like.

As you can plainly see, the least powerful rounds belong to those firearms that the Left wishes to declare illegal and the most powerful rounds belong to those firearms that the Progressives – at their most considerate selves – want to restrict you to owning. The .500 S&W will take down anything alive on the planet and the 8mm Mauser will plow through large trees. The fear – as optimized by Progressive Leftist hysterics – is that the smaller rounds permit you to carry more ammunition via those “horrible” 20- and 30- round magazines. However, a little common sense – if somewhat gruesome analogy – suggests that the Left is quite mistaken in their slandering of innocent, inanimate objects. If an 8mm Mauser or .500 S&W bullet, say, can bore through 18 inches of pine, then how much more so could such bullets tear through human flesh? If, gasp, such bullets can pierce five human bodies before losing energy, then, conceivably, the five rounds that the Left would be gracious enough to permit you to own, could still maim and injure upwards of twenty-five individuals before you would have to “reload”.

Of course, this analogy remains ridiculous to say the least. The Boston bombers did more harm to humanity with pressure cookers and hobby electronics than any shooter has committed within the United States. Furthermore, the 9/11 hijackers killed more American civilians with four passenger aircraft than Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy did with complete national militaries. Yet, the Left could not permit you to understand this. Why? Could it be that the Progressives bear more in common with Islamic jihadists, National Socialists, and Communists than they do with “Joe Six Pack” next door? Of course. All tyrants desire to take control of your lives and the very first step remains to rid you of the right – and capability – of picking them off should they violate the five conditions outlined above. And, folks, the first step in this remains to sway you into thinking that their minimalist firearms restrictions remain “common sense” in application. There remains nothing sensible about placing your life into the hands of another – especially anyone who believes that bureaucracy represents intelligence.

Next: Part II: Firearms

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant and the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team. He is currently a graduate student of military studies, asymmetrical warfare at American Military University working on his thesis regarding “Targeting Narco-submarine Networks through Deep Penetration, Autonomous Maritime Irregular Warfare Units operating within a Hunter-Killer Role.” He recently completed his graduate certificate in security management and holds a B.A. in intelligence studies, terrorism studies concentration, minor degree in area studies, Middle East as well as an undergraduate certificate in explosive ordnance disposal. He is the author of Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer.

 

On Real War

On Real War

By

R.J. Godlewski

© April 24, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

“I’ve seen nice middle-class kids go through shock training. These nice young people experience that total immersion, then emerge to slit throats with ease, enthusiasm, and great expertise. They have become warriors.” MANUAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER by Paul Balor (Paladin Press, 1988), Page 84

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Total immersion, “shock training” is what separates warriors from soldiers. A form of ‘real world’ training that has not existed within the Western world since the beginning of the industrial age. It may, however, represent what the terrorists who perpetrated the Boston marathon bombing experienced, especially that involving Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. While the media and the public exhaled over the thought of yet other “boy next doors” turning violent, I did not bat an eyelash. Warriors emerge from a literal overnight transformation that shatters their civility and conditions their entire life for the struggle. Even the greatest American “warrior” generally compartmentalizes his life; able to rear a family, attends church, and even appears as a consultant upon the evening news. To compound matters, our warriors rarely enter the field of combat without a vast array of technical support from a highly networked sphere of modern communications, hierarchical orders, and, more often than not, close air support as needed. In the reality of war, America fields soldiers. Little more.

Most of this problem remains our fault. America simply does not desire to turn cold-blooded killing machines lose on the planet, unable to extract them from their “kill or be killed” mentality. Unfortunately, this also means that we cannot understand others, such as the Boston bombers, who can kill without the slightest remorse. The FBI, within its criminal filings against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suggested that the terrorist and his brother did not look in the direction of the explosions, as had the thousands of other individuals in attendance. They suggested that this illustrates the pair’s expectation of events. I noticed something even more disturbing. The terrorists did not even flinch. All soldiers flinch whenever an explosion happens, no matter their experience and training. Even practiced gun owners do so despite, perhaps, having had fired thousands of rounds throughout their life. It represents a basic human reaction. I suspect, for instance, that I could take my Smith & Wesson 500 Magnum^® revolver to any gun range tomorrow and cause everyone to flinch, even if only momentarily.

The Nonsense of Innocence

By R.J. Godlewski

© April 20, 2013, All Rights Reserved

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If the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington did not irreparably alter American society forever, then the April 15, 2013 attack in Boston certainly did. Or should have. Americans, despite several early conflicts and a brutal civil war, have always fashioned themselves as a patriotic people fighting wars continuously “other there…” Sadly, those belligerents “other there” are now here, amongst us, and plotting for our destruction. They appear normal, even friendly, but beneath their outward presence lurks an absolute evil that turns onetime babysitters into baby killers.

Today, many – if not most – Americans are coming to terms with Islamic radicalism exhibited within Chechnya and surrounding regions as if a relatively modern phenomenon. Sadly, such conflicts have raged within the Caucuses since at least the early 19^th century. The region “took a more formidable development when Moslem fanaticism, awakened by the sectarian professors of Mirditism, embodied itself in Schamyl, the soldier priest, who gave to these rival races religious unity…”[1]  Yossef Bodansky, writing in the first decade of the 21^st century, would characterize this as “Chechenization…the profound transformation of a predominantly Muslim society from its traditional, largely pre-Islamic structure to one dominated by Islamist-Jihadist elements that historically have been alien to that society.”[2] Nor can we leave this prospect with Chechnya, for the jihadists declared the willingness to “write several bloody chapters in the new history, even if [they] have to destroy everything on Earth in the process”.[3]

            Such a war has now thrust itself upon American shores and our great republic will never be the same. For years, I have done my best to awaken the American people to the realities of this war, even predating the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.[4]My book, Mini-Manual of the Independent Counterterrorist, has now reached a second edition and can be purchased for less than the cost of a McDonald’s lunch. Yet, the implications remain extraordinary. The great citizens of this nation must assume personal responsibility for protecting our communities. I cannot help but wonder what would have happened on last Monday if “someone” had noticed a backpack being dropped next to several children. The reason that America does not represent a police state is because “We the People” have declared to the world that we are sufficiently responsible enough to protect ourselves.

            Instead, America has trended towards a country where many expect the government to solve all our problems from educating our children through creating jobs and finally apprehending terrorists. A nation of ~316,668,567[5]individuals expects to remain adequately protected by a measly 800,000 federal, state, and municipal law enforcement personnel. That is at least 395 Americans for every police officer in the country to serve. Just two individuals – one of which represented a naturalized citizen – killed a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What would have happened had dozens of armed and trained Americans been able to lend immediate aid to the officer? We shall never know because a recalcitrant electorate has permitted a progressive government to forestall this possibility.

            The new “Boston massacre” occurred simply because evil exists. There are people amongst us today – perhaps even right next to you at this particular moment – that care less about innocent human life than you care about the weeds growing in your driveway. They will murder innocent children, maim others, and then go entertain themselves as if merely returning home from the office on a Friday afternoon. They do not exist because the police have not stopped them. They exist because you have not stopped them. Innocence, in the 21^st century with at least a century’s worth of Islamic jihadist history against the rest of the world, remains utter nonsense. Freedom bears a price and liberty demands vigilance. Otherwise, we simply remain sheep fattened for the slaughter.

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant and the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team. He is currently a graduate student of military studies, asymmetrical warfare at American Military University working on his thesis regarding “Targeting Narco-submarine Networks through Deep Penetration, Autonomous Maritime Irregular Warfare Units operating within a Hunter-Killer Role.” He recently completed his graduate certificate in security management and holds a B.A. in intelligence/terrorism studies, minor degree in Middle East area studies, as well as an undergraduate certificate in explosive ordnance disposal. He is the author of Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer.

Notes

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[1] Alfred Rambaud, The History of Russia: From the Earliest Times to 1877: Volume II  trans. Leonora B. Lang (New York: John B. Alden, 1886), 237.

[2] Yossef Bodansky, Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda’s Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 2-3.

[3] Ibid., 33.

[4] My second not-for-profit effort, the Civilian Counter-Terrorism Institute, was incorporated in Oklahoma in March 1995, just three weeks prior to the bombing.

[5] According to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

 

The Eternal Philosophy of the Bomb

By

R.J. Godlewski

April 16, 2013, All Rights Reserved

“And anyone who is affected by this bomb will be killed due to entering fire inside bones. And in a short time he will be killed.” Discussion of improvised napalm bombs, THE [al Qaeda] EXPLOSIVES COURSE by Abu Khabbab al Misri, Page 96.

 

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The absolute evil of improvised explosive devices (IED) rests with their ability to assume any shape, form, or composition. That is, if you can hold it, sit upon it, use it, or stand near to it, can represent an explosive device. Such a weapon can materialize as a tractor-trailer rig or as a small stuffed teddy bear, depending upon the ingenuity and raw evil of the designer. The actual explosive employed within the IED may range from military and commercial grade chemicals to being fashioned from concentrated hydrogen peroxide bleach and acetone paint solvent (producing triacetone triperoxide, C₉H₁₈O₆, or TATP). Shrapnel, in the form of environmental or intentional design, can travel outwards from the blast at 10,000+ feet per second (fps). In comparison, the 5.56mm (.223 caliber) round of the infamous AR-15 or M-16 rifle exits the barrel at, perhaps, 3000 fps. In short, one singular IED event, such as that which happened yesterday in Boston, could do far more damage than all of the “assault weapons” sold within the United States have. And the United States legislature remains incapable of outlawing pressure cookers, cleansing bleach, paint solvents, and nylon backpacks.

 

The “Philosophy of the Bomb” has, unfortunately, existed long before socialists published the doctrinal work during the early part of the 20^th century. In fact, military bombs designed for maiming and terrifying came into existence almost as soon as the ancient Chinese invented gunpowder. Improvised, or “homemade”, explosives will certainly be around for as long as individuals, say, realize that certain varieties of chocolate pudding mix can be fashioned into a crude explosive mixture. In fact, understanding the propensity of some people to manufacture illicit narcotics such as methamphetamines, it comes somewhat as a shock that more individuals are not fabricating equally deadly chemicals such as TATP, which can resemble crack cocaine in dry form (incidentally, TATP reacts violently with drug field test kits).

Old school proverbists have thus had it wrong; there are more things certain in life than merely death and taxes. Two of which remain evil minds and weapons. We cannot legislate evil out of existence anymore than we can ban all weapons. Inasmuch as the first cave dweller discovered that a simple rock was sufficiently powerful enough to crack the skull of his neighbor, someone will turn even the most innocuous item into a deadly article simply because he or she can. Evil can turn commercial airliners into guided missiles, household cleansers into explosives, and firearms into force multipliers. What evil cannot do, however, is defeat the human spirit – if we only devote ourselves to doing good. Whoever caused the destruction in Boston yesterday remains dwarfed by those individuals that flooded into harm’s way to lend aid to otherwise complete strangers. Now, that represents powerful improvisation….and God Bless them all, let us pray for the dead, and injured. The perpetrator(s) can – and will – go to hell.

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant and the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team. He is currently a graduate student of military studies, asymmetrical warfare at American Military University working on his thesis regarding “Targeting Narco-submarine Networks through Deep Penetration, Autonomous Maritime Irregular Warfare Units operating within a Hunter-Killer Role.” He recently completed his graduate certificate in security management and holds a B.A. in intelligence/terrorism studies, minor degree in Middle East area studies, as well as an undergraduate certificate in explosive ordnance disposal. He is the author of Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer.

The Struggle of Wolves

By R.J. Godlewski

© March 12, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

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            Earlier this morning on the news, I heard a discussion regarding the existential threat offered by Islamic terrorists and its apparent contradiction with the demise of al-Qaeda. From my perspective, I believe that a wolf by any other name remains as unpredictable and as unforgiving as any other beast. That is, the threat from Islamists remains as valid whether the group involved holds allegiance to Osama bin Laden, Jalaluddin Haqqani, the clerics of Iran, or some, as of yet unidentified, leader. The threat, therefore, comes not by way of any particular individual or group, but from the intolerance offered by an ideology that seeks to force its way upon the global stage. This represents, perhaps, the most important aspect of the challenge; few worry about the name or the identity of the aggressor, merely that he or she bears evil within his or her heart. And this is the crux of the matter – evil exists, and it is bad for humanity.

            Part of this evil manifests itself within both human ignorance and people’s natural desire to simplify matters to the point of diluting the topic at hand. Some are quick to point out, for instance, that jihad, in the context of Islam, represents, literally, “a struggle”, “a striving” or perhaps “a great effort” of the person.[1] This is significant, for the world still suffers from the last global aspirant who spoke of a “struggle”. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s record of “self-praise” and “self-pity”, also represented the fundamental basis of a personal struggle.[2]Aggressors tend to shift attention away from their public actions, to their innermost personal beliefs as if, somehow, personal “struggles” absolve public actions. We witness this in Hollywood and the entertainment industries where the most despicable members of society often excuse his or her actions through the – voila! – personal struggles he or she suffered through. Even President Obama’s The Audacity of Hope involves more a self-promotion of personal struggle than anything else.

            As “Deception is the way of War”, there is little doubt that those terroristic forces (and their supporters), targeting peaceful nations would employ great deception in their “struggle” against the world. One of my favorite examples rests with those supporters of Islam who, for various reasons and in differing methods, illuminate how many times Muhammad referenced Jesus and Mary within his books, as if sheer voluminous recitation implied allegiance and love.[3]Adolf Hitler, it remains argued, referred to the Jews untold thousands of times and, yet, he showed absolutely no love for them. President Barack Obama often mentions the Republicans and gun owners, but he shows little consideration for them despite having acknowledging them. In this regard, the individual can rightfully assume that Muhammad – a warrior politician, whose exploits are notorious and of the historical record – merely referenced both Jesus and the Virgin Mary because he wanted to elevate himself to omnipotence amongst humanity, not honor Christ and His Mother for their rightful role in human salvation.

British Blasphemy

By R.J. Godlewski

©February 19, 2013, All Rights Reserved

 

I often wonder why Americans often attribute a great deal of affinity with the British, particularly the English. I suspect that it has much to do with the common language, though I marvel over how many Americans find trouble following the dialect of British television shows airing within the United States. Perhaps, a great measure of this filial obligation rests with the United States, as a nation, wresting its freedom from the Crown. Still, what constituted the original thirteen colonies pales in comparison to America today. Remove the slice from, say, Georgia to Maine and the rest of America bears decidedly Spanish and French heritage, the former controlling virtually every portion of “modern America” west of the Mississippi River.[1] Although, eventually, the British came to control even my native Michigan, most of our towns and rivers bear decidedly French and Indian names. True, I live next to Brighton, but I have to tell everyone where that is in relation to Detroit.

The British also possess a checkered history with Americans, going to war against us twice in 1776 and 1812, fueling the division of the nation during the Civil War by supplying the Confederacy, and conniving to force us into war against Nazi Germany during the early 1940s through falsified intelligence, such as the infamous map supposedly showing Nazi designs on Latin America. Granted, in the latter case, Hitler’s regime had to be stopped, primarily for what they did against the Jews and countries such as my ancestral Poland. The British, however, were not particularly supportive of the world’s Jewish population. The British Navy blockaded Jews escaping war torn Europe from entering their own ancestral homeland.[2] In other words, the post-war British government “found itself on a collision course with the Jews in Palestine.”[3] They further resisted the efforts of U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s calls for allowing 100,000 homeless Jews to migrate from Europe.[4] Eventually, the British Army did provide some support to Jewish settlers – but only after British territory had been invaded by the Arabs.[5]

The Dorner Party: Cannibalism of Reality.

By R.J. Godlewski

©February 10, 2013, All Rights Reserved

 

John D. Hurth, writes in Combat Tracking Guide (2012, Stackpole Books), that combat trackers are special individuals that cannot be mass-produced simply out of need by any agency. Likewise, David Scott-Donelan, in his Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers (1998, Paladin Press), writes at length regarding the specialized training and team-orientation that trackers require, necessitating certain technologies for the environment in question. Arguably the granddaddy of all modern trackers, Jack Kearney, establishes the tone in his Tracking: a Blueprint for Learning How (1978, Pathways Press). His contention remains that man, himself, remains a primal tracker from a million years of evolution, but that his modern descendants migrated away from the necessity to understand sign.

I concur with these professionals, for I, too, am the proud descendant of those whose livelihood rested upon understanding the minute idiosyncrasies of nature…and man. Members of my family have farmed land continuously since at least 1766. My great-grandfather owned a large estate in Poland and served as both gamekeeper and stalker. In a manner of childhood largely forgotten today, I grew up camping on uninhabited islands, partaking of hunting trips to the farms of relatives, and getting ‘up close and personal’ with nature as befitting anyone raised upon a small and (at that particular time) largely undeveloped island. In my adulthood, I spent years hiking the mountains of Hawaii and sleeping alone in the depths of the Amazon jungle. My claim to fame, as it were, rests, however, with perceiving the thoughts of my terroristic enemies.* A talent, and an opportunity, that permits me to write such works as Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer (2012, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform).

It is within this context that I observe, with remote interest, the hunt for ex-police officer and rogue citizen Christopher Dorner in California and surrounding states. Epitomizing this ridiculous “manhunt” remains the $1 million bounty placed upon his successful apprehension and conviction, a reward the authorities bear no intent on ever paying. Mr. Dorner will not be taken into custody and that, friends, you can take to the bank. For whatever information the authorities in California and the West receive, neither he nor his former comrades in arms will permit the caveat of capture. Therefore, the search for Christopher Dorner resembles very much a hunt. But is it? What hunter, in his or her right mind, flushes out prey with thousands of humans? The closest traditional tactic – dogging – employs a few people to flush deer out of a well-defined wooded area. What tracker could possibly follow Dorner’s sign with so many conflicting footprints and odors? The only thing the local police have attracted was the spotlight of the national media and herein lays my most egregious complaint.

The authorities hot – their description, perhaps; not mine – on the trail of the fugitive have offered little to quell the nerves of the public than frequent news pleas to the criminal, suggesting for all to see that they bear absolutely no opportunity in which to apprehend him, and equally frequent suggestions of his professional brilliance. From what I can observe, Barney Fife could elude those ostensibly tracking Dorner. And what to make of the myriad of video images that I have seen of Dorner engaging within various aspects of martial arts training and shooting? Strange that a police officer so terrible in his work that he was both discharged from the force and denied promotion in the Navy would be appearing so often within, dare I say, publicity videos? Can you say “diversity” boys and girls? Or, perhaps, “affirmative action”?

Perhaps I am in error over my estimation, but what cannot be denied are those quirky press conferences with the local police and even mayors announcing that – gosh – they cannot apprehend the criminal without his support. Obviously, Mr. Dorner must be bunked down in some Sheraton Inn along the beach somewhere because nobody in the woods is listening to the television. I suspect that the locals are making Dorner out to be some form of police superman (a strict contradiction in terms) in order to hide their own ineptitude. I wonder how many of those police chiefs shuffling in front of the cameras earned their four-stars by going head-to-head with humanity’s worst specimens. How many have spent decades following a single adversary. How many have sacrificed personal lives to track people that even militaries fear to meet. Surrounded by the various mayors, I see more General McClellans than General Shermans or Grants.

One traditionally trained military sniper, sans the 80-pound pack of ridiculous communications gear, would do more to serve justice than all of the 800,000 police officers in America combined. Christopher Dorner is not an animal; he is a human being and one largely trained in the wiles of urban society. This makes his presence in the wilderness stand out as much as a grizzly on Park Avenue. Such rogues take months and years to track down, usually the length of time that it takes Hollywood movies to glorify their evil. His “turf” will remain the city and the camera and herein is where the search should concentrate. The forest should be left to the experts…

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is the author and architect of the Web-based Independent Counterterrorist training program. He is currently a graduate student at American Military University completing his M.A. in Military Studies, Asymmetrical Warfare concentration, and graduate certificate in Security Management. Mr. Godlewski holds a B.A. in Intelligence Studies, Terrorism Studies concentration with a minor degree in Area Studies – Middle East with honors from American Military University. He further holds an undergraduate certificate in Explosive Ordnance Disposal and is a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve. His most recent professional article is “Financial Counterintelligence: Fractioning the Lifeblood of Asymmetrical Warfare” in American Intelligence Journal 29 no. 2 (2011): 24-33. His latest book Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer (ISBN-13:  978-1480240001) is available for order from wherever books are sold. His next book, Of What Price, Heaven? Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society (ISBN – 13: 978-1481902342) will be available in February 2013.

 

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* Memorandum for the record, R.J. Godlewski, “Human Intelligence: Perceiving an Enemy’s Thoughts” American Intelligence Journal 27 no. 1 (2009) 29-37.

If but for ten good people…

By R.J. Godlewski

© January 31, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

 

“’For the sake of those ten,’ he replied, ‘I will not destroy it.’” Genesis 18:32 New American Bible

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            Usually, when I write, I have already plotted out the article or book well in advance, merely composing the words from memory whenever time presents itself. This piece, however, remains different because I wanted to write something from instinct – or from the heart, for that matter – and not suffer the intent through a myriad of cerebral modifications ad infinitum. Accordingly, I shall let the reader undertake the chore of mental evaluation and reflection. Anyone can lead a horse to water, I am constantly told, but only a leader can make that horse buy him double bourbon and, folks, leaders are sorely lacking today.

            The Biblical quote referenced above comes from Abraham’s intercession on Sodom’s behalf, of course, and remains illustrative of this very article. The “Father” of the world’s three great monotheistic religions could not save one single city and, no Virginia; there apparently were not ten good people in Sodom. Myself, I will be so bold as to turn the tables a bit on God. For the sake of ten good people, I will care about the world. I will make it even a bit easier, for the sake of ten good people; I will care about the United States. Inasmuch as I have not, yet, been able to find ten good Muslims to stand alongside me and protest against violence enacted in their name or against the persecution of Christians and Jews living within Arabic lands, I doubt that I will find ten good Americans living within the United States to sufficiently save this great nation of ours from itself.

            If there were a mere ten good Americans living today, then President Barack Obama would not be determined to destroy our beloved Constitution. Certainly, the president does not fear his constituency and so the most inexperienced, ill vetted and historically ignorant president in U.S. history landed a second term upon four years of shattered expectations and a mountain of unsustainable debt. If there were ten good Americans, at least one would be in the mainstream media and challenge the president, his party, and the journalist’s peers on what remains common sense and what remains abject subversion. If there were at least one good person working on the O’Reilly Factor, for instance, they would certainly have challenged host Bill O’Reilly on his professed endorsement of federalizing all gun crimes and requiring federal approval before one moves firearms across state lines (say, if I should relocate my residence from Michigan to South Dakota). If the avowed purpose of the Second Amendment remains to keep the government in the hands of the people, how does placing the people’s right and ability to defend themselves against government into said government’s hands beneficial? If there were at least one good person working the eight o’clock stretch at Fox News, perhaps they would tell Mr. O’Reilly to go back to teaching. Or, at least, write a book on his own merits.

Gun Owners versus Enemies of the State: R.J. Godlewski’s Reflections upon the Second Amendment.

By R.J. Godlewski

© January 20, 2013, All Rights Reserved

 

“Often, an intelligence analyst must weigh conflicting reports, decipher rumors, and formulate ‘best guess’ estimates forged from very limited and undisclosed sources. Often times, a mere word is uttered barely within earshot that leads to prolonged research and investigation. Only after consolidating multiple sources from the academic to the archaic, from the familiar to the fantastical, can an individual even hope to piece together some semblance of the truth.” SKILLS OF THE ASSASSIN: UNDERSTANDING THE TACTICS OF THE PROFESSIONAL KILLER by R.J. Godlewski, Page 102.

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I wish that any member of the Progressive movement or the mainstream media that implies that gun owners are criminal would go fornicate with their iPads®, Notebooks, or whatever other instrument of communication they prefer to use to spread their hatred, lies, and insinuations. I hate them almost as much as I hate any politician who says something to the effect of “I support the Second Amendment, but I believe in responsible gun laws such as eliminating “assault rifles.” Listen, folks. I am going to provide you with a two-second introduction to the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment guarantees citizens the right to keep and bear arms to defend the country against its own government. Period. Any federal or state restriction upon firearms ownership remains nothing less than providing bank robbers with the keys to the vault or putting the KKK in charge of human rights commissions.

As for those who believe that gun owners are criminals, when was the last time that criminals preferred to own firearms. Statistically and historically, criminals stole the guns, purchased them via the black market, or otherwise procured them for the crime at hand. After which, they ditched the guns. American gun owners, however, treasure their firearms as much as Arabs treasure horses. We care for them, maintain them, protect them, and never use them to intentionally destroy or injure human life. As I write these words, some 80 million gun owners within the United States have never lifted a finger to harm another living soul and will never do so unless they have to protect a loved one, their neighbors, or simply another member of the public.

Battle of the Little Blowhards: Progressivism’s Last Stand.

By R.J. Godlewski

© January 13, 2013, All Rights Reserved.

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The Progressive Left seems fanatic about their attempts to outlaw firearms in America, proving for the last time that the movement remains hostile to the Constitution of the United States and our Bill of Rights. Salivating over their desire to eliminate modern rifles and pistols, however, they have unintentionally fired the first shot of the debate right between their very own eyes. In the power-intoxicated image of their desire to employ the Newtown, Connecticut massacre as their cause célèbre, they have identified themselves to the whole world as nothing more than a bunch of mentally unstable misfits seeking to enthrone the dying embers of tyranny upon the freest nation of God’s green earth.

Who else, but the Progressive Liberals, of the Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, and Dianne Feinstein breed, would proposed firearms confiscation against a nation of 300+ million firearms? Who could possibly enforce such legislation? The U.S. Army that could not even protect its own people from an Islamist maniac down at Fort Hood? The local police that do not bear enough ammunition to train their own officers let alone seek out gun owners in locations that they often know more intimately than the officers’ own beats? The suggestion remains preposterous; lunacy at its most academic level of excellence.

What possible outcome could there be if the ~800,000 law enforcement officers – local, state, and federal – choose to attack the 47% of Americans that own the 300 million guns within the United States, a figure that increases by 4 million firearms each year? For every police officer in the country, there are over 387 gun owners, and if Dr. Stanley Milgram was correct in the 1960s, at least 259 of those are quite able to inflict deathly pain upon another innocent soul with little prompting from an “authority” figure. And the Progressives say that gun owners are crazy.

With all the arrogance of George Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn, the Progressives appear to look adversity in the eye and ignore it. There is not a singular federal, state, or municipal force within the United States capable of confiscating even the tiniest fraction of America’s legally owned firearms before Washington and its Progressive subversives collapse under the weight of a truly free nation well-versed in the use of firearms. Yet, as if an amnesiac in denial, the Progressives believe that they hold the power over the nation. Apparently, too much time spent in Washington cliques and not enough in “flyover country”.

The Progressives really need to put down their bongs and pacifiers and clear the air between their ears a bit. America has done just fine with its firearms owners building the businesses that pay taxes and keep America running; defended against the likes of Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo; and landed men on the moon and robotics on Mars. Oh, by the way, gun owners also created this nation and gave the world humanity’s first “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” And, folks, gun owners – including millions of “assault rifle” owners – will keep this great nation of ours from perishing from the earth. I guarantee it.

 

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is the author and architect of the Web-based Independent Counterterrorist training program. He is currently a graduate student at American Military University completing his M.A. in Military Studies, Asymmetrical Warfare concentration, and graduate certificate in Security Management. Mr. Godlewski holds a B.A. in Intelligence Studies, Terrorism Studies concentration with a minor degree in Area Studies – Middle East with honors from American Military University. He further holds an undergraduate certificate in Explosive Ordnance Disposal and is a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve. His most recent professional article is “Financial Counterintelligence: Fractioning the Lifeblood of Asymmetrical Warfare” in American Intelligence Journal 29 no. 2 (2011): 24-33. His latest book Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer (ISBN-13:  978-1480240001) is available for order from wherever books are sold. His next book, Of What Price, Heaven? Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society (ISBN – 13: 978-1481902342) will be available in February 2013.