NC Renegades

Did Paul always obey authorities? No. Did Peter always obey authorities? No. Did Jesus always obey civil authorities? No, in-fact many times he defied them.

All authority is given by God. This means those who are in power, have power delegated from God. So what about when a corrupt magistrate issues decrees AGAINST God’s Word and law? He MUST be defied. Compliance will only allow tyrants to grow in their evil. Historic acts of defiance have shaped Western civilization.

When Luke Mogelson attended President Donald Trump’s speech on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, he was prepared for the possibility that violence might erupt that day. Mogelson, a veteran war correspondent and a contributing writer at The New Yorker, had spent the previous ten months reporting on the radical fringe of Trump supporters, from anti-lockdown militias to fascist groups such as the Proud Boys. After Election Day, he interviewed Trump supporters who showed up at ballot-tabulation sites, and who believed the President’s lies that the results had been “rigged” and his victory “stolen.” At one post-election pro-Trump rally in D.C., Mogelson witnessed racist violence against Black residents of the nation’s capital. At another event, he watched the host of the white-supremacist Web program “America First” declare, “Our Founding Fathers would get in the streets, and they would take this country back by force if necessary. And that is what we must be prepared to do.”

After Trump’s incendiary speech, Mogelson followed the President’s supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. What follows is a video that includes some of that raw footage. Mogelson harnessed this material while writing his panoramic, definitive report, “Among the Insurrectionists,” which the magazine posted online on Friday. (It appears in print in the January 25th issue.) His prose vividly captures how the raging anger and violence of the initial breach of the Capitol was followed by an eerily quiet and surreal interlude inside the Senate chamber, where Mogelson watched people rummaging through desks and posing for photographs. Although the footage was not originally intended for publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to Mogelson’s probing, illuminating report.

Click here to read “Among the Insurrectionists.”

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If this is considered to be a riot, how would you classify the “demonstrations” by Antifa and BLM over the past year? The winners write history. Let us hope we win this war and will write the truth.

David DeGerolamo

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You will need a minimum of two units. These are frequency hopping units. You also should buy the cable interface to program the units.

Update: Link for the programming cable,

David DeGerolamo

I want to relate a story concerning a real life FTX where one of the leaders wanted to make a point concerning communications. The exercise parameters were in place and the goal was to secure a perimeter and ensure no insurgents made it through. Communications was the key that made the exercise fail and that was the point one of the commanders wanted (needed) to make.

The group had handhelds with assigned frequencies for the exercise. The commander gave those frequencies and another handheld to the man playing the insurgent. As the insurgent listened to their compromised communications, he was able to track the perimeter guards. When he made his move to breech the perimeter, he keyed his handheld to transmit which effectively locked down anyone else being able to transmit.

That is how easy it is to overcome a Baofeng based system. How do you know what frequencies are being used by an approaching enemy? You buy a scanner.

I was invited to participate in a group’s training nearby where they decided to buy Baofengs instead of the frequency hopping DTR 550s recommended by a communication’s expert. This group knew the risks but were misled by bad leadership. I was invited to participate and was planning on going to play the insurgent role. With a handheld scanner and handheld radio to shut down their communications as noted above. After due consideration, I did not go. I cut off most contact with this group for several reasons but mainly I consider them to be a security risk in the future.

This is the last story concerning another FTX. This FTX was similar to the first FTX above: secure a perimeter against insurgents. The difference was they listened to experience and had DTR 550s. I was discussing this with one of the people who would be playing an insurgent prior to the start of the exercise. I told him the solution was to “steal” one of their DTRs before the exercise started. Ten minutes later, he came back with a big smile. When the exercise started, it did not take long for them to realize that their communications were compromised since the DTR was programmed to receive all of their transmissions.

Points to consider:

1. Baofengs are not secure and will get people killed in a real life situation.
2. Secure communications includes securing your equipment. If one DTR is compromised, all DTRs in your group must be reprogrammed.
3. People love to argue for their ignorance. Recognize that trait when you are qualifying your leaders.
4. The hour is late. It may be too late to coordinate communications now but what choices do you have?
5. Download and print manuals for radios of all types. You never know what you will find on the battlefield.

David DeGerolamo

The intent of this post is to tie in the related concepts of tactical gear, fitness, teamwork, logistics and tactical loading, in order to present a realistic and logical way to approach the subject.

There are a number of related factors at play here:

Mission: We often utilize the military terminology of ‘METT-TC’ in order to analyze our mission and thus apply it to the gear that we may carry. Factors such as weather, duration and the specific mission that you are conducting all play into considerations of what to carry. We must be realistic in what we plan and train for now, and thus pack for, based around what we think we realistically might be doing in a collapse situation. I put it to you that most people will be engaged in local defense, security patrolling, and perhaps presence / ground domination activity (GDA) patrolling in and around their homestead and perhaps local community; thus not multi-day ruck-missions out into the boondocks. This has relevance as we examine the other factors.

Logistics: However much you pack, you will ultimately need a resupply. Many people with a ‘prepper’ mindset want to pack too much ‘just in case’ they need it. I would advise a different approach, one where you plan for that resupply and set up a logistics chain. If it allows you the ability to maneuver under fire, it would be better to have to temporarily make do without something, than carry a huge load. Thus you could consider something along the lines of planning to utilize vehicles such as trucks, ATV/UTV’s, and even perhaps horses or mules to support any mission that you plan that you suspect will go beyond one days rations / one first line ammunition scale (i.e. what is realistically carried on the person as part of a deployed load-out). This also ties in very well with casualty evacuation. I tell people at class that the hardest thing they will do is evacuate a casualty under fire. So much so that I propose that with today’s typical weight of person measured against poor levels of physical fitness, factoring in the exhaustion of being under fire, many casualties will not be evacuated, or at least not evacuated far. Thus, in a break contact drill, this means they will be left, or the team will be forced to strongpoint, in order to call for QRF / casualty evacuation. For this, you need communications, an actual QRF (trained and rehearsed team) and suitable transport for them to deploy to you and extract you.

Tactical Load: You should only carry what you can fight in; by which I mean maneuver under fire. Much has been said about 55lb being the maximum that a person can carry into combat, but we must remember that 1) the person must be fit and robust in the first place to manage this, and 2) this refers to weight that can be carried in on an approach march, not actually fought in. In order for the individual to be able to maneuver tactically under fire, this load must be reduced. For example, I would consider 35lb as a much more practical load weight that 55lb. This however may not include the weight of the rifle; your mileage may vary. This goes directly against carrying all that stuff that you want to carry because ‘two is one and one is none,’ and relates to the concept of logistics. An individual should not be loaded out with, for example, 16 magazines on the person, plus whatever else. They should be loaded with something more like 6-8 mags depending on the mission, with a support team moving resupply up in an ATV. “No man is an island” and you cannot fight everyone forever on your own – you can only carry a limited amount and still remain effective, and then you need resupply.

Physical Conditioning: None of these factors mean anything without the physical conditioning to carry your load and maneuver under fire. Given that many suffer from age, obesity, lack of training, injuries and medical conditions, it really does reap benefits to take a more ‘light fighter’ approach and plan to be without, rather than be with, too much. You probably do not need all those widgets and extras. There are some things that it is really sensible to carry, and that detail is beyond this article . But you cannot carry ALL that water, ammo and food, so you need to balance the needs of realistic short term missions with arranging resupply. Tied to this, is the activity of ‘rucking.’ I really do not think that anyone should be planning to do anything while carrying a ruck. Get away from the idea of ‘bug out rucks’ and all that. It is possible that you may have to carry a ruck on an approach march to set up a patrol base, but how likely is that given the missions that you may be conducting? You will also have to drop that ruck at the first contact and may likely never see it again. I posit that you are more likely to be doing relatively short term missions, if you go anywhere at all outside of an envelope of more than a mile or so from your home base. Thus, get away from heavy ‘rucking’ as training. I would advise that you train where possible with your actual tactical load-out gear, weighing around 35lb. The training value of carrying a ruck is more relevant to situations where for profile purposes, you cannot, or do not want to, go out wearing tactical gear. So then you pack a ruck to replace that for training purposes – but carry no more than 35lb in that ruck, which is a realistic combat load weight that you can use for training purposes. Alternatively, use a weighted vest, which is ergonomically similar to your plate carrier load weight.

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from Parler.com

The Trump administration on Friday renewed its efforts to learn the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, issuing a report that suggests researchers inside a Wuhan lab became sickened with the virus weeks or months before the country’s communist leadership reported it started in a food market in that city.

“The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses,” reads the State Department report. “This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was ‘zero infection’ among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.”

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President-elect Joe Biden will ‘immediately’ send a legislative package to Congress which would provide a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants, according to the Los Angeles Times, according to “immigrants rights activists in communication with the Biden-Harris transition team.”

The bill would also provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people living in the United States under a temporary protected status and/or who qualify under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program who were brought into the US as children.

And in what the Times calls a “significant departure from many previous immigration bills under both Democratic and Republican administrations,” the Biden plan would contain zero provisions for stepped-up immigration enforcement and security measures, according to Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center Immigrant Justice Fund, who was informed of the details by Biden staffers.

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The military buildup in Washington, D.C. makes no sense if you are only considering a virtual Presidential inauguration.

It may be that Trump will declare martial law and make mass arrests of the Deep State traitors.

Or it may be that China is planning to start a world war. Either scenario will show the people that they are ill prepared for what is about to happen.

David DeGerolamo