tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post4065198118876348392..comments2024-03-28T09:26:11.184-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: TomorrowAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-35404018087003690202020-06-08T07:36:05.917-07:002020-06-08T07:36:05.917-07:00This sounded familiar. Then I remembered Matt Brac...This sounded familiar. Then I remembered Matt Bracken's essay: "When The Music Stops..." https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/05/when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/SmileyFtWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765087710266673347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-72396207228235101892018-03-09T10:17:21.364-08:002018-03-09T10:17:21.364-08:00As Aesop said, some of us are just weird like that...As Aesop said, some of us are just weird like that, my hobby just so happens to be finding strange signals to investigate, not even from a conspiracy point of view. Rely on OPFOR having someone like me near by and I'm not unique by any means.<br /><br />The presence of a drone doesn't actually mean shit, there were drones at Charlottesville and there have been other drones at other protests, if anything they may be mistaken for OPFOR's own drones but as I said don't rely on that to happen. Conversely, as I also noted commercial drones are very fucking easy to bring down which I personally feel as though it's by design.None Given, None offered.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61911899908854488812018-03-09T04:46:47.077-08:002018-03-09T04:46:47.077-08:00Some people are John Malkovich in R.E.D., they jus...Some people are John Malkovich in <i>R.E.D.</i>, they just don't know it.<br />Someone switched the flip, and they're still having acid flashbacks.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-19890814993798271322018-03-08T15:48:33.039-08:002018-03-08T15:48:33.039-08:00I'll admit up front to not knowing much, if an...I'll admit up front to not knowing much, if anything, about the tactics and equipment discussed here, but in regard to that last comment, I would ask, wouldn't all that stuff about the drone only matter if the protesters were *expecting* someone to ambush and barbecue them? If no one's expecting that to happen, they've got no reason to scan for hostile drones and take them down. Maybe if this sort of thing were to happen a few times, the Leftards would wise up, but this is clearly a first-time scenario, so it doesn't seem to me to apply here.<br /><br />Anyway, I too really enjoyed reading. It's both informative and dramatic.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-29305013472880008732018-03-04T01:07:59.102-08:002018-03-04T01:07:59.102-08:00I've read this a few times to try and poke hol...I've read this a few times to try and poke holes in your plan, I know what the intention of the story was (and very well written it is too, you should do more of this type, AmericanMercenary was excellent at this with his Freedom Camp stories) and I've got a few notes. <br /><br />The biggest hole you've got is that someone would very easily intercept the drone's video downlink, someone equipped like me to deal with most signals up to 10GHz and regularly searching the airwaves would locate it and demodulate it. <br /><br />You can of course do a long range set up but then you're either abandoning traceable and expensive equipment when you depart the place or you're involving another person to get up on a roof top with the relay equipment. <br /><br />Depending on the type of drone it is also highly possible to intercept the metrics that the telemetry is sending back and even re-transmit it. That said; whilst stuff like that would get my attention I'm unlikely to do anything about it other than note what I'd seen and the presence of a drone doesn't actually mean shit other than someone is watching somewhere.<br /><br />It should also be noted that so called "anti-drone rifles" are exceptionally easy and cheap to build (the price tag on them is obscene when you actually realize how they're built but that's the free market for you) and you should rely on OPFOR having these available to them. One way to mitigate that would be only ever programming the drone to autopilot somewhere and only taking control of it during the final approach back to wherever your hide is. Also do not ever rely on manufacturers like DJI and Parrot for your drones, have your covert outfitter/Q build it and operate it themselves.<br /><br />There's a ton of other shit to pick apart but it's pointless to the point of being pedantic about things. Good story anyway, write more, you're a solid writer. None Given, None offered.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-66909798580909599302018-02-19T17:23:50.144-08:002018-02-19T17:23:50.144-08:00It's fiction, not a trade manual.
But if you ...It's fiction, not a trade manual.<br /><br />But if you think one person in four, far from the madding crowds, is a plant or an informant, you're well past the time you should have started doing this, if you're right, and in need of some serious reality orientation, if you're wrong.<br /><br />Leviathan isn't everywhere, and if you use even half a brain, you can weed out the problem children with a little forethought.<br /><br />Everybody can make a mistake, but the people who get caught, overwhelmingly, make a few dozen to a few hundred. Starting with being average 80-IQs, for the <i>brains</i> of the operations.<br /><br />But glad you liked the read. That's - mostly - why it was written.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-82812554168249977632018-02-19T16:58:55.009-08:002018-02-19T16:58:55.009-08:00Get rid of all evidence on the brass by using a bi...Get rid of all evidence on the brass by using a bit of polish and some sandpaper on the bolt faces of the 10-22's and replacing the extractors (which, after meeting a file, go along with the barrels). the magazines died in a terrible fire, leaving nothing but the brass, which you took care of anyway. <br /><br />All the other clothing fell prey to that same fire, BTW, if you want to make those loose ends go away as well. No one even has any of that type of clothing, unless a single piece that they have a need for. <br /><br />Truly, though, with that many folks it is likely that one is either a plant or an informant.....<br /><br />But a good story, nonetheless. and not impossible, should the time come for that type of action. B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38889842549075355152018-02-19T14:40:44.669-08:002018-02-19T14:40:44.669-08:00Regarding the Police, FBI and other letter agencie...Regarding the Police, FBI and other letter agencies, they actively acknowledge (when amongst themselves) that they only catch the stupid ones. Really. Sat in many meetings watching and listening to them discuss how to catch the smart ones, and the answer comes back, "We won't.")<br /><br />I have seen/heard of cops standing over bombs, piles of explosives and igniters and other things that go boom, and get on the frickin RADIO to announce what they just found. That is the level of education and training our 'boys in blue' have.<br /><br />As to the Ragnarok moment, I have always thought it was going to be some old white guy who has lost everything, friends, family, wife, and who just doesn't give a frack at all anymore. Someone with a serious lack of caring, and has the means to go all out, even unto death.<br /><br />Referencing horrible repeatable crimes, take a look at the DC Sniper(s). How long would they have been able to continue if they hadn't started making mistakes. Or worse, would they have ever been caught if they had quit earlier and gone back to being 'normals'? So the thought of a non-repeatable attack like the one in the story is very plausible. Really. Police departments everywhere have tons of unsolved cases that will never be solved, no matter how investigative work will occur. Most crooks who pull of successful heists or attacks are done in by their inability to STFU, especially now in the Facebook generation (really, Facebook is a big tool of the authorities. If you are on probation, don't post a photo of you flashing drugs, guns and cash while smoking a big fatty. Or, do, please, as your lack of intelligence shows you need to be behind bars for a long time.)Not my normal handle, duh!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-40276558347298345892018-02-19T12:49:04.851-08:002018-02-19T12:49:04.851-08:00I'm inspired. Going to cite this as the seed ...I'm inspired. Going to cite this as the seed of a spec-fic piece.<br /><br />NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-23696575099812232752017-04-21T07:28:17.004-07:002017-04-21T07:28:17.004-07:00Four or five WHITE guys raised by gun owning fathe...Four or five WHITE guys raised by gun owning fathers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12239791522344795823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-23859690977025942422017-03-16T09:47:47.627-07:002017-03-16T09:47:47.627-07:00Successful investigators of what such things?
Fift...Successful investigators of <i>what</i> such things?<br />Fifty years out, there's still no consensus on how many people shot JFK.<br />The experts laid end to end point in all directions.<br />AFAIK, such a thing as described has never happened, so we're already into unicorn territory from the outset. Mass shootings are frequently people either deranged, or trying for martyrdom, so there's little doubt about whodunit.<br />Whereas the number of unsolved drive-by shootings nationwide is into five to six figures since the 1980s, at a SWAG.<br /><br />Unless we assume <i>a priori</i> they'd throw the entire FBI at this, indefinitely, to the exclusion of everything else, and scour every detail of 30,000,000 Californians' lives on the notional day in question, and pull them all in for questioning, you have no suspects, no descriptions, no fingerprints, no DNA, no vehicle information, no license plates, no weapons, and no real idea how many people you're looking for, from where, or why.<br /><br />It would be easier to fire 500,000 parts from separate cannons at one spot simultaneously and expect them to spontaneously assemble into a 747 aircraft as to expect with nothing but slugs and incendiary residue, anyone could winkle out so much as a single suspect, unless someone was stupid enough to keep on doing it over and over until caught.<br /><br />Even Jack the Ripper was smart enough to call it quits after six outings, and he was never caught, nor even identified.<br />Closer to home, there was never the slightest idea of a culprit in the infamous Black Dahlia case, and there likely never will be.<br />You can't solve a puzzle that's missing most of the pieces.<br /><br />Only blind chance could take a hand at that point.<br /><br />But just for fun, I'll run this by as many folks as I can find from the other side of things, and see what they have to say. I run into a fair number over time, and it would be interesting to see if they have something unexpected to offer.<br /><br />I'm always up for a challenge, and you're right: I might be surprised.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-52535067945086024522017-03-15T17:34:39.281-07:002017-03-15T17:34:39.281-07:00I suspect that further discussion is futile. Sugge...I suspect that further discussion is futile. Suggested follow up is with successful investigators of such things. <br /><br />You might be surprised. I was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-12239010174025765062017-03-14T19:26:02.912-07:002017-03-14T19:26:02.912-07:00A solo actor could do less, for longer, but every ...A solo actor could do less, for longer, but every time you do, you square the chances of accident, incident, or inadvertently tying a lit rag and tin can to your tail that leads everyone back to you.<br /><br />Appreciate the thoughts, but it was nothing but a fictional hypothetical, with enough detail to make it plausible. Not a manual.<br />In fact, the entire point is to <i>not</i> create a template, because investigators love signatures. Think "The Wet Bandits." Don't be those guys.<br />Unless you generate a hundred <i>exact</i> copycats, because the internet is a thing. Investigators <i>hate</i> that.<br /><br />And the underlying message is that the only thing protecting violent riots right now, is ongoing asinine official complicity in them, and the good will of people who are otherwise law-abiding.<br /><br />Once someone dissolves the latter thing, the former evaporates of necessity, and the entire problem goes away, and becomes a police thing, <i>like it should have been from the outset.</i><br /><br />Even if not, either way, the lemon is no longer worth the newly-costly squeeze to the anarcho-communist agitators who think they have a license to pull the entire civilization down in order to remake it into their own favorite dystopian paradise.<br />And some of them will die to drive the lesson points home.<br /><br />No down side in any of that. <i>Dulce et decorum est...</i><br /><br />Either society enforces all the laws equally, or we all get to try out the natural results of anarchy. I like my side's odds in that experiment, but I'd rather not test the hypothesis.<br /><br />Judging by the head-cracking crackdown on the protests since then, the police have figured that out in most places too.<br /><br />Once again, boo frickin' hoo.<br /><br />Best wishes, and thanks for reading.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-72125661367301545042017-03-14T19:25:28.848-07:002017-03-14T19:25:28.848-07:00Thousands of ordinary people kept the U-2 and SR-7...Thousands of ordinary people kept the U-2 and SR-71 projects secret for years.<br />Hundreds to thousands of submariners have kept decades of operations a secret.<br />And on and on.<br />Secrecy is not impossible. It's not really all that hard. It merely requires commitment.<br />The bromides about "Three can keep a secret, if two are dead" address the fact that most people are uncommitted and untutored idiots and blabbermouths.<br />With minimal instruction, they are not.<br /><br /><br />The very scary hit team handed the police the culprit, next day. Case closed.<br />She either falsely rats out innocent accomplices, or valiantly clams up, and takes the full rap. Boo frickin' hoo.<br /><br />Traceable evidence: .22LR brass. Best wishes there. Upwards of 2,000,000,000 rounds produced per year. Millions of firearms using it, for a century. Markings completely unrelated to actual weapons. Total wild goose chase. (And BTW, forensics is far less scientific than you've been led to believe, as defense attorneys and juries are finding out daily.)<br /><br />The firebug "signature" was a one-off, as noted. Dead end.<br /><br />Odd duck: Youngish guy, all in black, incl. balaclava, in a crowd full of same. That's the signature of a ninja. Nada.<br /><br />Vans: three counties away, untraceable. Cleaning it: marginally useful, but if they get that far, the jig is well and truly up anyway. And a van in a rural area, with a piece of brass and gunpowder residue? Geez, that's only about 10,000 people hereabouts, any given weekend. "<i>You caught me Sherlock; I wuz out plinkin' at the quarry with my kids last month.</i>". Game over.<br /><br />Pick-up truck: block away, not amidst the riot (which was the entire point). Over in seconds. Changed plates, user in black. Dead end. Untraceable.<br /><br />Video of non-descript members stopping for a workout/shower, at one of hundreds of such gyms, in another county. Really reaching at straws there. Look at a map of NorCal. They'd have 50,000 suspects to question, to all points of the compass. Assuming they could make the nineteen illogical leaps across evidentiary barriers to get to that point, first.<br /><br />Borrowed plates: closer to incident than home. If the digging goes/gets that far and wide. Only proves license plates were switched, by not from what, to what, or by whom. Dead end. Worse, they'll be looking at the <i>actual</i> vans with those plates, and burning time investigating those leads. Genius. <br />Maybe I should have had them drop some false evidence there too, but I figured the guys in the story wouldn't bring any more heat on innocent third parties than absolutely necessary.<br /><br />Jammer: sacrificial. Dead end. Didn't need to go into details.<br /><br />99% of criminals really are dumb. Cops aren't PhDs either, because they generally don't have to be. In the absence of other leads, DAs want to clear cases. Head Lefty is a convenient fall girl, with a good circumstantial case, which ties up two loose ends for the price of one for TPTB. They like that. And it's tough to convict someone else for a crime if you've already got someone in prison for it, without ironclad exculpatory proof. Which in this case is all gone in hours, forever. How...sad.<br /><br />Team members' attitudes mirror that of only 50-100M Americans, at this point. Best of luck with that search. (Bear in mind that if psychopath Timothy McVeigh hadn't been inconveniently pulled over for speeding or whatever, the OKC bombing would <i>still</i> be unsolved.)<br /><br />Nothing went wrong?: Drone failed. One of the guys was slow getting out.<br />Level of complexity? Set off four incendiaries amidst a riot. Launch three more. On cue, fire 100 rounds of .22LR. All drive away.<br />That's the level of complexity many thousands of Bubbas accomplish at a single day of plinking at tannerite targets in Greater Bubbaville, every Saturday and Sunday. With no notable difficulty whatsoever.<br />If this seems hard to you, you need to get out more.<br /><br />The whole band sits back and laughs about the incident all the way to senility, a la <i>Secondhand Lions</i>.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-75419852257876964642017-03-14T15:39:36.814-07:002017-03-14T15:39:36.814-07:00Interesting work of fiction. Some criticism of tha...Interesting work of fiction. Some criticism of that fictional account. For a more believable book you are writing, of course.<br /><br />Highly complex plans usually do not go well. Murphy will remind you. <br /><br />3+ people cannot silence a secret. Cannot<br /><br />The moment the LE types realize it was a hit, all the stops get pulled out to catch the very scary hit team. National-class investigators will be on this one. The mob organizers will pay pros to find the hitters.<br /><br />All that salvaged brass dropped as a red herring? All kinds of traceable evidence on it. Traced back where? Places the hit team visited. Loose thread - pull!<br /><br />Firebugs have signatures. The hit team wrote one all over the place in setup and delivery. Loose thread - pull! <br /><br />Anyone in the protest who remembers an 'odd duck' will speak of it. The firebug was seen. His -face- was seen by others in the mob. If not, he is doubly memorable. Loose thread - pull!<br /><br />All that ammo expended in the vans? GSR all over them, ditto the brass that leaked out of any collection gadgets. Shooters scrubbed down, but what about the vans? Loose thread to be found.<br /><br />No one saw a pickup truck hurling firebombs? Near a mob? Loose thread - pull!<br /><br />Nice video of the shooters at the gyms where they bathed. Surveillance cams on the lot of the borrowed plates? Lot probably closer to home AO than away from it? Loose threads to be found. <br /><br />The jammer was abandoned? Are you sure it is sterile? Loose thread - pull!<br /><br />The call to rat our the Head Lefty will be a big red cape waved in front of the LEs, who will appreciate the fresh clue. Loose thread - pull!<br /><br />Are the team members all solo, or do they have family and friends who usually know their habits, schedules, and most importantly attitudes? Loose thread to be found.<br /><br />Nothing went wrong? With that level of complexity? <br /><br /><br />Too complex. Too many loose threads. Too many people involved. Too high a signature. The whole band gets rolled up inside one year, max.<br /><br />This is why a cautious lone actor, or at most a bonded pair, get away with so much mayhem. <br /><br />Re-think that scenario for your book, this time with one actor, simple actions, and absolutely minimal threads to pull.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-40825009849843751172017-03-05T23:36:23.761-08:002017-03-05T23:36:23.761-08:00I've envisioned this sort of scenario, but not...I've envisioned this sort of scenario, but not for protests. Rather setting it up in advance as a response to rioting, as in Baltimore and Berkeley. A couple of vehicles with one or two shooters (van, pickup with camper shell, etc.) could put paid to quite a few rioters, flash mob attacks, and such. You probably already know this, Aesop, but the Israelis use to use suppressed 10/22s on Arab/muslim rioters. I can't recall if it was their local police, IDF, or Mossad, but they were busted eventually and - supposedly, at least - stopped doing it. Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-64102893247776958822017-02-28T10:26:00.349-08:002017-02-28T10:26:00.349-08:00Only when the Bundys are running the circus.Only when the Bundys are running the circus.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-89531493297061880452017-02-28T00:27:11.738-08:002017-02-28T00:27:11.738-08:00In reality you get four guys like this together to...In reality you get four guys like this together to plan something along these lines and eventually one of the guys finds out that of the other three one is an undercover BATFEces mole, another an undercover FBI agent and the third an investigative reporter looking to be the next Horrendo Revolver. And that guy ends up doing life plus 50. Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-78820879950586851732017-02-19T07:21:49.524-08:002017-02-19T07:21:49.524-08:00sounds like a plan!
LOLsounds like a plan!<br /><br />LOLDeplorable Kellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67875061451118137802017-02-18T14:07:44.449-08:002017-02-18T14:07:44.449-08:00Nice. Although not at this level of action, I have...Nice. Although not at this level of action, I have a theory that older men can be valuable in this war. We know the history and we know clearly why the fight must be taken up and the worst of the rot surgically cut out paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-84345167571155975262017-02-18T07:16:13.125-08:002017-02-18T07:16:13.125-08:00Of course, Jay Dee.
Scroll back a few days and re...Of course, Jay Dee.<br /><br />Scroll back a few days and read exactly that when I first wrote about the event:<br />http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2017/02/get-fing-grip.html<br /><br />My point is, if the lunatards continue assault and battery, arson, and felonious conspiracies to deprive other people of their constitutional rights to free speech and peaceable assembly, try this in less leftist areas, and/or TPTB continue to deliberately look the other way, Nature abhors a vacuum, thus an equal and opposite response is almost a metaphysical certainty.<br /><br />And when it starts costing them teeth, and body parts, they won't much care for an actual "WAR" when it's handed to them at several thousand feet per second, delivered on a platter by people who've seen the real thing.<br /><br />And once we open that toothpaste tube, there's no squeezing it back in, and no telling where it goes.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-37008489581041084212017-02-18T05:00:45.334-08:002017-02-18T05:00:45.334-08:00While such actions are amusing to contemplate, the...While such actions are amusing to contemplate, the simple truth is that the actions of the Left are more detrimental to their cause than anything that the opposition might do. In fact, such an attack would only confirm their victimhood and encourage them to redouble their efforts. Rather than attacking these fools, a better strategy would be to continually trigger them to exhaustion. For instance, one could repeatedly announce (false) Milo Yiannopoulos speaking engagements at Berkeley. Mr. Yiannopoulos doesn't even have to be involved. The Lefties would soon lose any claim of legitimacy as they burn their college down and assault the curious bystanders repeatedly. School bureaucrats would soon have to stop these outbreaks or lose their cushy bureaucratic sinecures.Jay Deenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-32529074773154170022017-02-17T20:45:28.274-08:002017-02-17T20:45:28.274-08:00What can I say RS, I write what I know. ;)What can I say RS, I write what I know. ;)Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-81782168285270598922017-02-17T15:38:18.718-08:002017-02-17T15:38:18.718-08:00What amazes me is that the precious little snowfla...What amazes me is that the precious little snowflakes have no idea how easy it would be to set this up, and make it work just as planned. Or how easy it would be to find 7 or 8 (or 15 or 20) guys who could pull it off as easy as changing socks.Retired Spookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07162727356116384883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-90927722573648428802017-02-16T17:46:30.285-08:002017-02-16T17:46:30.285-08:00Good job! The thoughts of many crystallized...
m...Good job! The thoughts of many crystallized...<br /><br />must have super reliable 10/22 mags though.<br /><br />The future is - slings.<br /><br /><br /><i>Tomorrow, tomorrow I love you tomorrow, you're only a day away</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com