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  With even the most minor experience within Movement circles and activities, you yourself will probably be - in any given outside situation of a tense nature - the coolest head present. Whenever the situation does become heated or aroused in any way, never assume that other "cooler heads" will prevail - for to do so runs the risk that the problem may escalate out of control with you being right in the middle.

  Never forget the number one priority of any revolutionary: to maintain; to survive at all costs.

  We can't allow ourselves the luxury of common anger and the resultant outlets that such anger inevitably seeks and finds. If there's no clear-cut advantage to any potential conflict, then stay out of it, head it off, avoid it absolutely. Suicide pacts are of no use. Policies of mutual destruction are only feasible where huge resources exist. Punitive measures are currently an unaffordable expense for us. It is a mistake of the most childish sort to abandon the greater, higher goal, in favor of pursuing some momentary thing involving some practically meaningless sidetrack. Whatever move you make, whether it involves punishing, leaving alone, or even rewarding any person or any thing, make sure that it is so calculated that it is you and the Movement who will ultimately profit from it. And it matters not whether you apply any one of the three options to situations where spur-of-the-moment emotion might want to apply another, just so long as you do not shoot yourself in the head but rather emerge the final beneficiary of your own decision.

  It is here where SUPREME SELF-DISCIPLINE is demanded.

  For the young revolutionary Movement, the old concept of the "Mexican standoff" should become well understood. Whenever tangling with equal or superior force over some tributary or even lesser matter, you should consider yourself to be "batting one thousand" if you can walk away from the situation alive, free and intact. Not to mention with the added experience which has cost you nothing. That is a definite victory of sorts. The "Mexican stand-off", therefore, is about the best we, in our limited and tedious position, can hope for. We must learn to be able to base all decisions and actions accordingly - to our own benefit.

  The time for chest-thumping, false theatrics, and heroics is past. We must act prudently and wisely in each case henceforth if we are to be around and in the position to exercise GENUINE HEROICS when the actual day for them arrives. We must continue to survive until that day.

  Be assured, cooler heads will prevail. It is up to you to make certain that the cooler head belongs to YOU.

  [Vol. XIII, #7- July, 1984]

  Leaks

  Paranoia is an insidious thing and must rank as one of the top two or three causes for the complete failure of racialist organization. Paranoia is most often thought of as seeing things which aren't there (infiltrators, "Jews", etc.), but it has one residual effect of NOT SEEING things which really are there. We've all seen the instances of the racialist, "Right Wing" type who sees - and often goes on to create - an enemy in one or more Movement comrades, but who falls blindly into government traps.

  A genuine leader type can, and will, override all human foibles and deficiencies and go on to wield an effective organization. IN SPITE of surrendering to individual weaknesses, he will exploit strengths and talents. The trick is that he himself must be smarter or made of better stuff than those he is trying to manage. Hitler was one. Rockwell was another. Hitler originally titled his autobiographical masterwork as a "Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice", thus almost surrendering to the temptation to lower oneself to the negativism which, admittedly, abounds. Fortunately, Hitler thought better of it in the end and gave us instead MEIN KAMPF. Commander Rockwell publicly inveighed against Right Wing divisiveness and privately complained about how it was eating up far too much of his time and energy and preventing the Party from growing into what it should, and could, have become during his life and under his leadership. But he stayed on the road and in the public eye, hard at work BUILDING THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION DESPITE ALLI

  Today what passes as the Movement lies at the total mercy of unbridled paranoia reaching back for an entire decade. Times and strategies have changed, or have had to be changed to face present realities, and I've often enough in the past labored long over most things of an hallucinatory nature which have ripped the Movement into shreds. Now perhaps is the time to discuss some of those things which are quite real but have done almost as much damage simply because Movement adherents have been too occupied with the unreal.

  The real threat to radical political organizations is always from government sources. After all, is it not the FEAR of the presence of government agents which leads to (or provides excuse) for those paranoid ones to label this or that hapless person an agent provocateur? But for every ten persons so accused, only one turns out to be the real thing. And that is IF he is ever "uncovered" as such. Most of the time, these agents simply gather their information and then disappear as quickly as the came, with no harm done. I've known the company of quite a few.

  The really classic example of an agent provocateur is in fact the one which only appears in the rarest of cases. He's the one who, through his skill and your carelessness, gets you and your associates locked up, injured, or killed. These agents are distinct from simple informants because they actually ENGINEER things which otherwise would never happen. Commander Rockwell often said that both an idiot or an agent can get you just as dead or just as locked up. But if you can't determine the difference between the two, then be assured, you'd be better off not aspiring to any Movement leadership.

  The leaks which I'm talking about are not OUR leaks, that is, any holes in our security such as it is, but rather THEIR leaks... leaks in the secrecy of their blanket surveillance of us and leaks in the effectiveness of it. Agents do exist and if you stay at this long enough, active enough, you will run into your share of them. But regardless who you are and what role you may play in the Movement, if your name so much as appears on a mailing list, then you too are part of this "blanket surveillance" which extends over all the rest of us.

  About 1970 I was at a party in a rural county south-east of here, attended by a group of young persons of about my age at that time (eighteen years). One of them was the son of neighbors of ours down the country road where we'd moved from the city. After a few drinks, he approached me with, "How come the FBI is after you?". I told him I hadn't been aware that they were after me, whereupon he stated that two agents had been by his home and had asked certain questions about me of his parents. Questions pertaining to certain nocturnal gatherings being held on my grounds lately and being pretty well-attended by locals. I assured my friend that everything was all-right and laughed to myself at the idea of the FBI concerning itself over earlier drinking parties I had hosted, and which were made up of practically the identical cast that was present that evening. This, to the FBI, was a "Nazi Rally" if I was the one hosting it. Wouldn't the guests have positively crapped had they but known?

  In 1975, when I first emerged from six months in jail (having been convicted of a "criminal" charge as this country "has no political prisoners"), I sent for and obtained my FBI file. At that time it amounted to a mere fifty pages but it was notable that it extended back into my high school days, with information having been supplied by former "friends" and associates as well as parents of same, and amounting to no more and no less than hearsay and rumor. 1975 was also the year I broke from the former national Party and became active in my own right. Three years later, in 1978,1 again requested my updated FBI file and was told that it now amounted to 2,500 pages. Fifty pages accumulated from 1966-1974 (including three years off and on at National Headquarters), and 2,500 pages from 1975-1978. That tends to speak for itself except that the vast bulk of what was contained in those pages is useless garbage, and again, rumor. (Specifics, such as the identities of agents, informants, etc., were blacked-out but, by reading "around" the omitted parts, one had no difficulty in determining who the informants were.)

  During 1974 the Ross County unit of the Party was engaged in a legal fight to
secure the country's first openly Nazi booth at a county fair. With the help of the ACLU, we succeeded in doing just that. As this is a small town and "things like that just don't happen around here", the air was tense that entire summer. I recall one evening picking up my telephone to make a routine call, first to hear no dial tone and, next, to overhear open-ended conversation in the background. Conversation which, after a few moments of listening to, was determined to be originating from Chillicothe City Hall and Police Station! And at about that same time came the incident after I had cashed a few minor checks from Party headquarters at my customary bank for the purchase of licenses necessary for the fair booth, etc., when the rumor came back to me that I was "being bankrolled by the Nazis". If only it could have been true!

  It was during about 1977 that I received in my P.O. box a letter from the secretary of a California comrade, a major Movement leader at that time. The envelope was unopened, there was no return address save for the postmark itself, and the only things correct in the address were my name and the State of Ohio . The box number, the name of the city, and even the zip code were all wrong - not even close. Yet the letter made it to me all safe and sound. Rod Serling, move over!

  Then there have been certain actions here locally which, had the police but intervened in them, could have put myself and a few others away on some heavy charges. These involved matters ranging from the illegal to the quasi-legal, but which contained too many legalistic, red-tape complications to be comfortable with in any case. Some had to do with planned physical attacks in broad daylight in public, while others involved forays into surrounding counties to spread the revolutionary word, and involving trespassing, minors, etc. (We were told that these cities' police departments requested of the one locally to please either stop us from doing this or at least tip them as to when we were on our way. They failed to do either.)

  There was the flight I had to make from Ohio in 1981 when a warrant for my arrest appeared imminent. There was no difficulty in getting out. Evidently, they weren't watching closely at these times... OR ELSE they didn't want to move until they felt sure they could put me away for GOOD.

  More recently, I was told by an amused ex-girlfriend last year that, during the course of a conversation at a social gathering attended by herself and some local attorneys, etc., plus one out-of-state government man, it was dropped by this out-of-towner that there was one local name on his list of "dangerous persons" to watch: mine. And, presently, there was a call from one ex-associate about a month ago to the effect that I was "about to take a fall". According to him, rumors emanating from sources both official and private - were too many to be ignored. Illegal possession of certain material was at bottom. He advised me to get rid of it if, indeed, it existed at all and I assured him, "No problem". (And, to date, no raid.)

  With the single exception of the last account, none of the above was ever, at any time, discussed over the telephone, through the mail, or with any person not immediately involved with the issue at hand. (And persons involved were kept to a strict minimum.) As Commander Rockwell advised in his masterful Legal, Psychological & Political Warfare, you must assume that you are being watched and listened to at all times and proceed to act accordingly because, in effect, you ARE! The degree and intensity of this surveillance rises or falls hand-in-hand with the degree of revolutionary political activity you maintain. Mine has been pretty intense in the past but I have always found there to be "leaks" aplenty in Big Brother's fearsome apparatus; leaks in his supposed steel wall of covert secrecy; leaks in his supposed air-tight coverage of everything we say and do.

  Most importantly, these leaks can be anticipated and even ENGINEERED by YOU for revolutionary advantage if only you discipline yourself and rid your mind of deadly PARANOIA which, far from "protecting" you from Big Brother's agents, actually does about eighty percent of their work FOR them!

  [Vol. XIII, #12- Dec, 1984]

  There Was No Time To Say Goodbye

  You can't exist it the middle of an embryonic revolutionary movement and expect to live trouble-free indefinitely. We around here never did. At present if the System decided upon one, big midnight raid on all known Movement members, he'd probably make his bag with little difficulty and that is because we are nowhere nearly enough prepared defensively. But then neither are we properly prepared offensively and so Big Brother is not likely to be contemplating such a strike. I'm speaking instead of the kind of situation where there exists the immediate threat of arrest and/or jail for a so-called "criminal violation" which on the surface would appear, legally and otherwise, to have no political connection. That, as all of you should be aware, remains our #1 threat individually as it has been for twenty years.

  What would you do this minute if you were made aware that an arrest might be imminent? Not the kind of arrest that could be seen as the System vs. the Movement, but merely as the police against you. Would you, could you, leave your home, your family, immediately? Do you have dependable transportation readily available? Do you have safe accommodations nearby which you can depend on without notice? Do you have safe accommodations out of state which are likewise dependable without advance notice? How about out of the country if necessary? Do you have lines of communication back home which can act as your eyes and ears in your absence? Do you know which foreign governments - and how to approach them - might offer aid and sanctuary should you have to depart permanently? Could you and would you go if you had to? Or would you be caught flat-footed, paralyzed by terror and indecision, without instant recourse?

  If your answer to any one of these questions, except the last one, is "no" then I suggest that you take steps to correct the situation while you still can. Your liberty may depend on it. Forget a glorified, dramatized guerrilla war in which hundreds or thousands are involved. In more or less "normal" times, could you, on a one-to-one basis, evade the damned police if you had to? Just pick up and go on a few, precious moments' notice?? If not, you're living under a deadly disadvantage and possibly fatal handicap. We were suddenly faced with this very thing here and managed to pass the test. Our lines of communication discovered afterward - once we were out of reach and safe - that the situation was one which could be controlled or at least looked to be a decent enough gamble and not a one-way ticket to Who-Knows-Where. We're back in the saddle now and making our moves. Whatever the outcome of that, it afforded a priceless and 100% realistic "dry run" for what can happen in life under a police state, in life in the reality of revolution, and not the fantasy of books. I urge all of you to think about it. Then act.

  [Vol. X, #6- June, 1981]

  Off My Case

  Don't confuse this with the spectacle of the Right Wing joker who stages a press conference to announce the formation of a secret, underground guerrilla army. This only involves YOU and nobody else but you.

  I've never been accused of being a paranoid individual, of imagining things which aren't there. My desire to be aware of what the hell I'm doing and what's going on around me precludes that. Earlier I wrote a segment entitled "LEAKS" in which I partially delved into what I'm about to discuss, except then it was to demonstrate a different point. At that time I was concerned with the range and the limits of the System surveillance of ourselves.

  This time, however, I want to discuss definite ways in which we can actually control and turn to our own use the things I revealed in" LEAKS". Every time I pick up one of those exposes of the Movement done by the ADL, etc., it appears to me as though they are invariably about three years behind the times as far as who's who and what's what. There can be no doubt that this constitutes for us an advantage in itself, however accidental it may be or unintentional on our part. Clearly it would seem that the desirable thing to do would be to take it upon ourselves, individually, to make sure that the gap in current, accurate information gets even wider.

  Unless you are a publicity hound or an exposure freak, it shouldn't prove too hard at all to leave an icy cold trail.

  The point being that you can do
a hell of a lot more in anonymity by way of things which COUNT, than you could ever hope to do under any kind of official, or semi-official, scrutiny. It is never necessary to foolishly attempt to deny or otherwise disown the Movement or any part of it. Far from putting distance between it and yourself, that only amounts to another kind of "grandstanding" and draws more attention - the wrong kind of attention. Morally, politically, ethically, who gives a damn? Rather, it is in whether or not you are a person who bears a lot of watching. And too, whether or not you're the type of person who DEMANDS to be watched.

  The best example of this is the legal demonstration. There you are, in the middle of the spotlight in the middle of a country full of people who not only don't give a damn but who also hate shit-disturbers. You might prove some kind of point which says something about yourself but you've done nothing which effects them... except to put them on notice, giving them something to wag their tongues about in bottomless ignorance. Morally, you may have accomplished something very significant but if it had been at any time a question of morals, we'd have won the Second World War.

  Perhaps, at bottom, the sad fact is that it's dangerous and counter-productive, as well as futile, for us to attempt to COMMUNICATE in any way with the people of this country. When has it gained anything for us? Those who have come to us have done so because of some inner calling of their own. So it shall continue, I suspect.

  Joseph Tommasi in 1975 declared the closing of the strategy of a mass movement and opened the way for the armed struggle. Have things been developing this way ever since or have they not? I merely propose to increase this division and intensify its development for the good of us all.

  No stunts, no handstands, no fanfare. Instead, care and caution. Long range planning. When you strike, strike hard and strike deep. Play for keeps. But, always in the end, it's a matter of greater steady mileage over intense but short bursts. Don't attract needless attention.