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If there's a big 'terrorist attack'? Anti-government advice

b | 27.07.2004 10:50 | Terror War

Say there's a big 'terrorist attack'. The government says 'Go Home, Stay Home, Tune In'. But what should its opponents do? This tracts gives some ideas.

0) PREAMBLE

Just as at the end of 1999, the authorities in the UK are propagandising
about the danger of a big catastrophe which causes many deaths, puts
the domestic electricity system out, etc.

Their main propaganda message is:

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STAY AT HOME
LISTEN TO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD
OH AND KEEP A COUPLE OF PACKETS OF BISCUITS OR SOMETHING
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This is 'jazzed up' into GO IN, STAY IN, TUNE IN. Just to give a
little frisson to aging jeans-wearers maybe?

In fact, what we should do is:

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DISTRUST WHAT THEY SAY
HOARD STUFF
TRY TO BE MOBILE
SHARE STUFF
HAVEN'T GOT FOOD? FIND OUT WHERE THE RICH KEEP THEIRS
MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS, LINK UP
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1) DISTRUST WHAT THEY SAY

the way the propaganda will be done when the new government pamphlet
comes out will be MORE SOPHISTICATED than it was with the
widely-ridiculed 'Protect and Survive' 'nuclear' pamphlet in 1980.

Membership of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament quadrupled within
a year or so of that pamphlet. This time there may be some sort of
'allowed pseudo-opposition', for intelligence-gathering purposes,
and as a psy-ops safety-valve, but it is extremely unlikely to be on the
same sort of scale.

It is possible that they will start with a smallish 'event' so as
to 'show' that when some people did what it said in the pamphlet,
so many lives were saved; but when some people DIDN'T do what it said
in the pamphlet, many people were killed. 'Save lives; do what your
superiors tell you!'

Remember: the STATE does NOT represent the general interest. It
represents a small private interest, the interest of the rulers.
Doubt and distrust everything they say. It's us against them. What
do they want? What do we want?

If you listen to a government broadcast, then before the very
beginning, think 'WHAT LIES ARE THESE SCUM GOING TO SAY, AND FOR
WHAT REASON?' Discuss with people on that basis.

Above all, they want us under control.


2) HOARD STUFF

DO hoard food! Hoard stuff such as:

- brown rice
- lentils
- oatmeal
- vegetarian mince
- dried fruit

Also hoard WATER.

And hoard PETROL if you have access to, or think you may have access to,
motor vehicles of any kind.

Get a camping stove and some GAS canisters too.

The authorities love to pretend that everything will be in danger
of falling apart if the supermarkets, workplaces, and main roads
are shut. This isn't true. Maybe for the first time, turn off the
telly and use your common sense.

And do it NOW. All it needs are a couple of cubic feet.

If the authorities launch a big anti-hoarding campaign, that's the time
when it's particularly good to hoard, if you haven't done so already.


3) TRY TO BE MOBILE

The authorities want to ISOLATE you. That's why they want you at home,
listening to their lies, only going out when some local officials
(having orgasms for the first time in their lives) have ordered you to,
maybe to get an injection, maybe to get drugged, maybe to get evacuated
if they're going to allow you to, maybe to get your ID card, give a
sample from your body for 'security' reasons'.

They want to know where you are. If they want you at work, well, they
want to make sure you ARE at work. If they're allowing you to have time
off work, they want to make sure you aren't doing anything they don't
like.

They want the population under control.

If there's a food shortage, they don't want RIOTS. They don't want
the sort of rioting crowds of mothers of hungry children who have
started
most of the best-known revolutions.

They don't want HARDY INFORMATION CHANNELS outside the control of the
government.

Where they can't break community, or get people to see things the
way they're supposed to, they may erect rings of steel...or worse.

But DON'T stay at home. Go to the HILLS and have a HOLIDAY for a while.
Enjoy not thinking about money. Think about what life could be like
without bosses, money, jobs, the State, telly, and mobile phones.

If you're going to be isolated for a while, do it on your OWN terms.

If you don't go to the hills, go out onto the streets. Spread MISTRUST
of anything the authorities say. Get out and about, again on your OWN
terms.

Don't follow leaders, whether they're 'activists' or whoever the fuck
they are.


4) SHARE STUFF

Not just food etc. But also information on our opponents' movements,
organisation, personnel, resources.


5) HAVEN'T GOT FOOD? TAKE IT FROM THE RICH

OK so what if the food does start running out? Well, what do you
need? You need to know WHERE there's food, right? Not where there's
money,
but where there's FOOD.

In the cities, there'll be food at

- the sort of large hotels where important officials stay,
- wherever the judges and magistrates are,
- posh institutions (public schools? posh colleges? cathedral churches?)
- army bases


6) MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS, LINK UP

Muslims and non-Muslims, LINK UP. On the basis of SHARING and OPPOSING
THE AUTHORITIES, not on some sort of nicy-nicy liberal Uncle-Tom basis.
(I mean, Yvonne Ridley, I ask you!!!) Shun the illusion that we can
'guilt-trip' the authorities into 'respecting' us.

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