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...by James Mason
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It may be construed as paranoid to come out and say that the police are only there to mess you up. If you exist as a truly "herd" animal, you might never experience any difficulty with them at all. You might live out your existence in total indifference. But even those types live with the ever-present risk that someday, somehow a Big Brother minion might decide it's time to cut one out of the herd for an impromptu slaughter. Maybe a la Amazon River where one is sacrificed to the voracious piranha. That is no existence for a real White Man. Those who decide NOT to follow Master's Rules will have to get sharp– physically and mentally– if they are going to long survive for, sooner or later, Big Brother will fix his sights on YOU.
Brushes and run-ins with the police do not have to end in disaster for the Cause and victory for the System. You must fully expect to have these brushes, often, and you must be prepared to handle them. You can either live for the Cause and fight for the Cause in a totally legalistic way and, when you must face the police, you can do so with the complete knowledge that you are perfectly clean. OR... you can choose to be part of the Lawless Breed and learn to become an Academy Award winning actor.
My own, personal set of morals– at least those few morals that I have fixed and permanent- will not allow me to advocate in a general way that anyone go the route of complete lawlessness. I don't want to see anyone victimized and I refuse to have a hand in their victimization. As was said in a previous segment, I consider myself among the luckiest individuals on earth for having bucked so many odds successfully for so long. Like the Vikings, I hold luck as something very real and sacred, almost as a science. Never abuse it or it will destroy you. When, through your righteous actions, your bold and daring tactics, your chivalrous demeanor, etc., luck chooses to smile on you then you must do your part by LEARNING and profiting thus by each and every experience so that Lady Luck won't have to carry quite such a share of the burden next time. Instead of a dependent of luck, you'll become a partner.
Part of mastering self-discipline is the ability to know– in advance– what is stupid and what is not so as to be able to avoid doing anything stupid yourself. (It is stupid, by the way, to fall to pieces when run up against adversity, large or small.) I do not advocate this lifestyle for all because I know, I have experienced, how most can and will fall apart under a certaina mount of stress– a ridiculously low amount, I might add. As kids, my gang and I used to get into all sorts of kid-style trouble. Some would crack the moment it appeared the jig was up. Others would crack wide open merely at the passage of time, even when nothing occurred and it would have seemed that we were absolutely in the clear. Some could be tricked, others could be scared. I must credit myself that, even as a child, I had pretty good composure. I wasn't an "incorrigible"– as that, in this context, describes a typical punk. Let us say that I was damned skillful and seldom caught. And when caught, I had the art of the next step, a possibly even more important step– CUTTING YOUR LOSSES.
YOU WILL BE CAUGHT! Remember this for it is a fact. Anyone who isn't a complete fool can expect to get away with some things for awhile without getting caught. It's an old story. They will keep it up and up until they overextend, develop a pattern or otherwise trip themselves up. Down swoops the System and personal disaster usually follows. As a kid, the rap may have been small but, as a revolutionary, the cost is life and/or liberty. You had better know how to cut your losses. Had Nixon known this, you'd never have heard of Watergate.
You must expect to be caught. This is a struggle against an enemy who is in power everywhere and you are an OUTLAW. No one's skill and no one's luck can be expected to hold forever, in every case. Mine certainly hasn't. Yet, I suppose, one can look upon the ability to cut one's losses as the ability to end Game One and begin Game Two in order to gain one's own advantage. That takes skill and luck and judgment all by itself. It is this realization, when constantly borne in mind, that will lead you to exert extreme caution even while in the midst of what others surely would call the most daring and foolhardy of exploits. If you're not caught in the act of something, then you generally will have great room to maneuver later on, should anyone pickup your trail. It is here where you'll have to prove your gamesmanship because it will be a game in which the only real, permanent loser can be you!
When the term "Pig" is used, it applies not only to police but to any person or agency of authority within the System. And the term "crime" is the only blurb you can expect when it comes time for you to feel their inquisition; it applies to any act– large or small, violent or "white collar"– which goes outside the rules. So much can be summed up in so few words and basic principles. "Deprogramming" what the System has taught is where most difficulty is encountered. Taking CONTROL over one's thoughts, reactions and emotions makes up all of the rest. Beyond that, the rule must be to always, always act alone or in the smallest numbers possible. Next is to never talk- before, during or after. And "after" means FOREVER AFTER. Next is to leave no witnesses and no evidence to turn up later on.
All of these precautions may be taken and still, eventually, you WILL be before detectives or panels of investigation. You WILL be either under suspicion or under arrest eventually. Knowing or having a pretty good idea of the strength of the Pigs' case against you is of critical importance and you can only really know this through knowing yourself and being aware of all your own actions. Never forget the unbelievable number of those who are completely innocent but are broken and railroaded by professional techniques of interrogation, intimidation and, perhaps most dangerous of all, entrapment. Bluff, high-pressure and, surely, by "The Pigs Are Your Friends", "Let Us Help You" and so forth. That is tough enough. But going in to face an interrogation– a most dangerous and uncomfortable experience, I assure you, under any circumstances– when you yourself know you are guilty of what they are investigating or accusing you of is something else entirely.
Here is where it all either comes together or falls apart. I don't recommend trying this unless you know what you are doing. The word here is brinkmanship. You must know how much to admit, what to deny, where to be vague. You'll be asked to write your story out for comparison later on. You'll be asked to submit to polygraph examination. You'll be told you're sunk already. You'll be insulted and threatened. You'll be alone and surrounded by a room full of Pigs. Sometimes it will happen that friends, acquaintances and even family may have actually betrayed you. Scenarios of your life ending may pass before your eyes. Through it all, your composure must never slip for even a split second. At this precise moment, things are most critical.
It'll be the longest hour of your life and you'll probably be able to count on a good many of them. But if you can withstand the best that the police academy can dish out in that initial blitz, then you most likely have weathered the storm. A long war of nerves is far preferable to a short war of violence. If you walk away from that encounter a free man, then, most usually, the thing is reduced to a kind of sick, graveside game of "Mickey Mouse". This is the contest. The sight of a blubbering weakling, shaking, crying, babbling like an asshole is no contest at all.
One of the primary things to keep always in mind is that police have no magical powers; they are not omniscient. They depend on your foolishness and the cooperation of others– informants– to win their battles. If you ROB THEM OF THESE by not making typical, idiotic mistakes and by not exposing yourself to needless vulnerability and betrayal, then you are ENTITLED to march into their lair like the Lord of the Earth and proceed to match wits with half-wits. The sensation of fear will never leave you, nor should it. It is there to help you. IT– not they– is your friend. It will do the most to keep you sharp and on your toes, alert and super-aware of what's around you. Tempered by the highest degree of self-control and self-discipline, fear will help make you a formidable beast of prey.
Perhaps the only appropriate bottom line to this was supplied by one who provided little else in his career with the Movement other than this comment, which I'll paraphrase here: "When it comes time for you to finally cash in your chips, you'll go out with a sense of deep satisfaction for having always kept one up on the forces of the Pig System." Keep it that way; live it that way.
[Vol. XIII, # 4 – April, 1984]
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