Strength in numbers, organization, and planning

August 31, 2010 by alarmrideratl

US Park Police gathered at Gravelly Point on Sunday, April 18, 2010

From Cliffs of Insanity:

“At the Sunday leaders walkdown for the RTC 4-19 rally, one member openly carried his rifle onto the field at Gravelly Point. The bad news was that the police hadn’t been briefed on what was coming on 4-19 and this led to a few tense moments with the National Park Police. The good news is that a quick but tense education session was held and all of those citizens went right on their merry way with no charges, no confiscation, no trampling of rights. Rights must be exercised.”

Alvie points out the similarity between the RTC rallies and Carlos Miller’s camera open carry protest , in which participants went in a group, with cameras, into an area where police had harassed photographers in the past.

1) Authoritah didn’t know their own rules.
2) Authoritah abused a citizen of his rights and his property.
3) Citizen organizes a host of friends to exercise their rights together.
4) Authoritah knew they were coming.
5) Citizens in a group were treated correctly.

Having a plan and having numbers is, unfortunately, sometimes necessary in order to deter and prevent abuses. The open carry camera and open carry gun rallies described above illustrate how this applies in activism, but the principle of planning and gathering also applies to emergency situations. Note in the video below the part about the armed neighborhood watch. While the unit the Staff Sergeant belonged to wasn’t going to be obeying orders to grab guns, the neighborhood watch was vigilant nonetheless.

Would your neighbors be up to the challenge?

I’d bet that, all else being equal, the neighbor willing to attend an RTC rally would be more willing to stand with you in an emergency neighborhood watch, in the face of possible gun confiscations, than the one who says “I’m just going to lay low for now.”


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