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I want to have the foundation of wheter a parade will even be down within the next 3 weeks. How effective the event will depend on participation.
I am hoping we can lay a working model so that it can be used for other events that may come up in the future for other types of events that Cal Guns members may choose to participate in.
It is my hope that the Pride parade will create a momentum for far more things, that what our actions will be one of the many fuses that need to be lite that will make a bang and wake up Americans who still are asleep and by their actions or lack of, will let not just our gun rights, but other rights just fade away without even a fight.
To make this work, we will need roughly three levels of commitment to the project. I am going to use a Military style chain of command since it works, if someone knows a better system, I'm ears.
1. Regional Organizer, my captains
2. Squad leaders.
3. foot soldiers.
4. Supporters.
This project will take time/money.
I make myself available, I will be down in Fresno this weekend and am open to putting together a informal meeting, a Carrow's restaurant or something similar on Sunday for lunch if anyone is interested. Send me a PM and contact info, cell phone preferred.
Most of us don't live in San Fran, but many of us do live in the surrounding counties. What I want to do is get together with groups of you guys in the next 2 weeks, I am willing to travel around the bay so that we can build a core group of people, have workshops and agree on plans for the project.
I have not made plans yet tuesday March 31, thurs Apr2, Sat Apr4, Sunday Apr5. I am looking primarily to create core cells in the bay area that will still exist after the parade for other projects in the future that will come along.
Many of you have expressed interest, send me PM's to which of those dates would work for you.
Done correctly, we will hit San Fran from 3 fronts. Now if someone wants to lauch a amphibious attack, we can have a 4th front also.
Intially I will make 3 levels of plans and we will decide based on participation on which one we will go with. We are not going for perfect, we are going with what we can actually do.
Once I have core organizers, we will float our proposals to you and go from there.
I'm going with what I call the AK47 model, it doesn't need to be pretty, just effective. We are going to make mistakes, there will always be something that can be done better.
What I want is that we get something done rather than get tied down on small details.
I realize some members of this forum will not participate and that is their choice and I respect that. I am sure those members have their own ideas on what we can do to not only protect our rights, but work to get them back.
I encourage them to come up with their proposals on how to get back our gun rights.
To get back our rights we need creative ideas because we need to reach beyond the choir. We have to reach the political middle, the undecideds.
Gun rights are typically equated with Conservatives, the more "liberals" we get on our side, the more "in the middle types" we pick up by default.
For every liberal we get, we probably pick up at least 2 fence sitters.
I don't have a monopoly on ideas, what I do have is a attitude that I'm not going to let fear of what a few may say or think shut me down and neither should anyone else here.
We have to leave the comfort zone of the "Gun Shows' to reach out to the public because the real issue is not just our guns, it is also the rest of our rights
We are on a "Highway to Hell" with "Hell" being a "Police State". It doesn't matter if we have a right wing or left wing police state, it still is a police state.
If you agree with my statement and don't want to live in a "Police State", then you MUST get into action and do something.
We still have a chance of keeping our guns because one man, Robert Levy, a libertarian lawyer from the LIBERTARIAN CATO INSTITUTE backrolled the Heller case.
If Robert Levy didn't invest close to 200K or his own money, where would we be now. The gun industry should have been funding this case or something similar to it in the first place.
The reality is that the "Heller Case" was a perfcet case, and early on, those who wanted a "perfect case" or a "better Supreme Court" tried to derail the case early on. Imagine if they had been successful where we would be today.
A few people can make a difference, but it has to start with the people who take the first step.
Michigan got CCW, but it was a eight year battle, it started with 8 people who grew a organization called the Michigan coalition of responsible gun owners. The group grew to 50,000 members.
They were one of the first groups to start using the internet in mass, and they got results.
The courts of Law and the courts of public opinion are not exclusive, they are intermixed, that is reality.
Enough of my rant.
Nicki
I am hoping we can lay a working model so that it can be used for other events that may come up in the future for other types of events that Cal Guns members may choose to participate in.
It is my hope that the Pride parade will create a momentum for far more things, that what our actions will be one of the many fuses that need to be lite that will make a bang and wake up Americans who still are asleep and by their actions or lack of, will let not just our gun rights, but other rights just fade away without even a fight.
To make this work, we will need roughly three levels of commitment to the project. I am going to use a Military style chain of command since it works, if someone knows a better system, I'm ears.
1. Regional Organizer, my captains
2. Squad leaders.
3. foot soldiers.
4. Supporters.
This project will take time/money.
I make myself available, I will be down in Fresno this weekend and am open to putting together a informal meeting, a Carrow's restaurant or something similar on Sunday for lunch if anyone is interested. Send me a PM and contact info, cell phone preferred.
Most of us don't live in San Fran, but many of us do live in the surrounding counties. What I want to do is get together with groups of you guys in the next 2 weeks, I am willing to travel around the bay so that we can build a core group of people, have workshops and agree on plans for the project.
I have not made plans yet tuesday March 31, thurs Apr2, Sat Apr4, Sunday Apr5. I am looking primarily to create core cells in the bay area that will still exist after the parade for other projects in the future that will come along.
Many of you have expressed interest, send me PM's to which of those dates would work for you.
Done correctly, we will hit San Fran from 3 fronts. Now if someone wants to lauch a amphibious attack, we can have a 4th front also.
Intially I will make 3 levels of plans and we will decide based on participation on which one we will go with. We are not going for perfect, we are going with what we can actually do.
Once I have core organizers, we will float our proposals to you and go from there.
I'm going with what I call the AK47 model, it doesn't need to be pretty, just effective. We are going to make mistakes, there will always be something that can be done better.
What I want is that we get something done rather than get tied down on small details.
I realize some members of this forum will not participate and that is their choice and I respect that. I am sure those members have their own ideas on what we can do to not only protect our rights, but work to get them back.
I encourage them to come up with their proposals on how to get back our gun rights.
To get back our rights we need creative ideas because we need to reach beyond the choir. We have to reach the political middle, the undecideds.
Gun rights are typically equated with Conservatives, the more "liberals" we get on our side, the more "in the middle types" we pick up by default.
For every liberal we get, we probably pick up at least 2 fence sitters.
I don't have a monopoly on ideas, what I do have is a attitude that I'm not going to let fear of what a few may say or think shut me down and neither should anyone else here.
We have to leave the comfort zone of the "Gun Shows' to reach out to the public because the real issue is not just our guns, it is also the rest of our rights
We are on a "Highway to Hell" with "Hell" being a "Police State". It doesn't matter if we have a right wing or left wing police state, it still is a police state.
If you agree with my statement and don't want to live in a "Police State", then you MUST get into action and do something.
We still have a chance of keeping our guns because one man, Robert Levy, a libertarian lawyer from the LIBERTARIAN CATO INSTITUTE backrolled the Heller case.
If Robert Levy didn't invest close to 200K or his own money, where would we be now. The gun industry should have been funding this case or something similar to it in the first place.
The reality is that the "Heller Case" was a perfcet case, and early on, those who wanted a "perfect case" or a "better Supreme Court" tried to derail the case early on. Imagine if they had been successful where we would be today.
A few people can make a difference, but it has to start with the people who take the first step.
Michigan got CCW, but it was a eight year battle, it started with 8 people who grew a organization called the Michigan coalition of responsible gun owners. The group grew to 50,000 members.
They were one of the first groups to start using the internet in mass, and they got results.
The courts of Law and the courts of public opinion are not exclusive, they are intermixed, that is reality.
Enough of my rant.
Nicki
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