Each team will need to determine what its primary focus, or mission will be. While everyone’s rights are important, most people have certain issues that are of particular importance to them. A team will be most effective if it works to develop strategies to protect and reclaim the liberties that are most important to its members. By developing specialties, the teams will ensure that all forms of abuse have the potential of being addressed and curtailed.

After a new team chooses a mission/specialty to focus on, the members will need to develop agreements for coming to the assistance of members who are threatened, harassed, or arrested. Teams in close proximity to each other can link together in networks with mutual assistance agreements, and neighboring networks can develop terms of cooperation.

Groups of people who normally wouldn’t be associated can agree to assist each other in protecting their freedom. Gun owners and Christians can turn out to protest the arrest of dope smokers or to protect gay folk from gay bashers in return for the gays and dopers lending support and getting in the way if a gun nut, Federal Firearms License holder, or fringe religious group attracts the tender attention of the ATF.

No one has to actively crusade for anything he or she doesn’t believe in or is offended by in order to support everyone’s right to be free. I’m a straight, gun toting anarchist. I’m not religious. I don’t drink or use drugs. I really don’t care how anyone else chooses to live their life. All I care about is if they want to be free. And I will gladly work with anyone who will help me protect my rights and regain my liberty.

Newly formed teams will also need to determine how they are going to communicate with each other, and develop a plan of action for responding to the incidents the team members have agreed on. Mobile phones and email will probably be the most readily available form of communication to start with.

Finally, each team member will need to be trained in the Incident Command System to develop the ability to work together effectively with other team members, and to be able to work in concert with other teams and networks.

Political Heritage

Retaining the ability to overthrow our government if the need should ever arise is part of our political heritage. However, attempting to do so is against the law. Conspiring to engage in armed rebellion can also land you in prison.

The Liberty Incident Command System is like a rifle. Both are very powerful and dangerous tools. Both can be used for lawful and unlawful purposes. Like a rifle, the Liberty ICS can legally be used for defense only if another person or entity initiates unlawful use of force. When a new team is formed, the members will need to take care to ensure that its proposed activities are legal, and will not result in it members being shot or imprisoned.

Working Together

Organizing to protest and demonstrate whenever a member of the network is arrested or harassed for a political crime is still protected speech and freedom of assembly (although for how long?). Using video cameras to monitor the activities of government agents is also legal as long as the actions of the agents are not obstructed and criminal trespass is not involved.

Civil Rights demonstrations and protest marches were quite effective in promoting equality during the sixties. Local law enforcement agencies could quickly tire of every bust for a crime without a victim resulting in large turnout of unhappy protesters, especially if the media could be enticed into covering the events. Federal agencies have repeatedly demonstrated that they cannot be trusted under any circumstances. All actions by the feds where sufficient notification of their intentions can be obtained warrant surveillance and monitoring by video teams. This is particularly true of any standoff situation.

Level One

One of the main functions of Level One activities will be to provide training opportunities and help the teams and networks gain confidence in their ability to respond quickly and work together effectively. The legal nature of Level One activities means the teams can maintain a high profile to attract attention and gain supporters. Teams can even order custom ball caps and tee-shirts with their insignia on them. The lack of formal organization means the networks cannot be shut down by arresting the leaders. Each team needs to be extremely leery of any member who advocates anything illegal or violent, but the informal structure of the network should make infiltration and subversion of the effort very difficult.

Level One activities could very possibly save the lives of individuals or groups who have been targeted for political crimes. And who knows, maybe a sufficient show of strength and determination will cause all of our public servants who have been blithely ignoring the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment to see the error of their ways, and prompt them to reverse our slide into tyranny. Maybe.

Response

The members of each team will need to develop means of staying in contact with each other and alerting the network to respond to an incident. Email discussion lists can be used for general communication, exchanging information, and training purposes. Text messages can be transmitted to the entire team or network with alphanumeric pagers. Pagers and telephone trees can be used to activate the teams. Communications at the scene of an incident can be carried on with mobile phones and FSR two-way radios.

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