From the TYSK Insider
Newsletter dated: 11 June 2010
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This should be mandatory reading the first day of every college semester, at the start of any activist rally, inserted inside the front cover of every Quran and posted at all border points of crossing. Selected paragraphs: The
following is intended to serve as a useful guide to various activists,
protesters, migrants and other completely non-violent folk who happen to be
packing knives, guns, rocks and crowbars. You will encounter soldiers, border
patrol officers and various law enforcement and military personnel – this is
how not to get shot by them. The
good news is that there is a very easy way not to get shot. It starts with you
not attacking the nice men in uniform. That means not trying to disembowel them
with your peaceful knife and not throwing rocks at their head. Because while
you might think that legal activism includes attempted murder, the nice men in
uniform think that attempted murder should result in sudden death. And when
that happens you will realize that fanatical passion for your poorly thought
out cause and a medieval weapon are no match for trained law enforcement
officers who have guns and know how to use them. The
thing to remember is that while just about every revolution you read about does
involve a crowd of people rushing at armed men, those people usually end up
dead or in a lot of pain. You should expect to have the same thing happen to
you. Putting on a Kefiyah or a pair of Birkenstocks does not exempt you from
the laws of physics, or the code of common sense. And considering that Allah
failed to save numerous Muslim armies and crystal power never levitated the
Pentagon, this kind of story can only have one conclusion. Putting all politics
and wacky beliefs about a pedophile who rode a flying horse aside, if you
attack someone, you should expect them to respond. And if they have a gun, they
will respond with bullets. At that point you will either become a martyr or the
world's ugliest man. Everyone has their own narrative
and play the hero of their own story. And while you might have a great story in
which you are the Mahdi or the reincarnation of Che, the man you're attacking
just might have a story in which he's John Wayne. And just to refresh your
memory, Che was shot in his thirties by the Bolivian Special Forces. The last
Mahdi died of Typhus in his forties in a besieged city and his remains were
tossed into the Nile along with the rest of the trash. John Wayne died
peacefully in his seventies. Which fate would you rather have? Since
the dawn of time, men have guarded the borders of their nations. The border indicates
that the lands within are the possession of their tribe and their chieftain.
That border may only be crossed with the permission of the laws of the people
who rule over it. To cross that border without their permission is to invite
war, or at least a shower of arrows, spears or more lately, bullets. To cross
that border for hostile purposes is to take your life in your hands. And unless
you have an army with you, those hands are slick, greasy and operated by a mind
completely devoid of common sense. What
you need to understand is that for you violence is political. To soldiers and
law enforcement officers, violence is only a tool. In your mind, your attempt
to kill is noble, while his attempt to kill you is vile and cruel. In his mind
however there is an equation, violence set against violence. He does not
particularly care what you believe, just that you not attack him while you are
believing it. To you he is only a rage puppet in a political or religious
narrative. To him, once you attack you are nothing more than a moving target.
Understanding this will help you to not get shot. Failing to understand this is
how martyrs are made. But the thing about martyrdom is that the health plan is
terrible and there's no long term prospects to it at all.
The terrorist is utterly terrible
at the art of war, but excels at the art of making his innocent victims suffer.
The soldier dispatches his targets quickly and cleanly. For the terrorist
however, inflicting agony is the sadistic purpose of the entire exercise. The
suicide bomber gives himself a quick death, while mutilating those in his
vicinity. He spreads horror and shock. And of course terror. But the media
finds something awful about the soldier who executes his target with one round
to the head, and something faintly heroic about the suicide bomber "making
a statement" by taking away the arms of a 13 year old girl. Because the
media radicals admire murderous passion, but find something horrible about the
detachment of the soldier just doing his job. To kill horribly because of
passion is somehow better in their eyes, than to kill cleanly and
dispassionately to keep the people around you safe. Note: Some
formatting from the original newsletter may be lost in this reprint.
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