Speaker 0: This is the Hour of Decision, and my name is Lou Moore. And now you're gonna be listening to an Hour of Decision replay about doing something rather than just talking about doing something about the problems all around us. Here we go. Tonight, we're gonna talk about direct action. We're gonna talk about doing, not just talking, because it really is midnight in America and we probably don't have a lot of time.
And there are things you need to do or need to try to do to the best of your ability. You need to get right with god. You need, if you can, to get out of debt. You need to get your kids out of public school if that's possible, And you need to get as financially independent as possible. And I understand depending on your circumstances, every one of these items, even the first one having to do with our heavenly father, may be very difficult.
And some of these might not be possible for you right now, like getting financially independent, but you need to set those goals and move toward those goals. You need to store some food, some water, medical supplies, ammunition, some guns, but not too many guns. You gun nuts out there, tools, hardware. You need to learn how to use emergency medical supplies. You need to, if you can, get an independent power source.
You can rely on either for your whole home or at least to operate in some fashion. If the grid goes down and that likelihood I mean, that is becoming a real likelihood that at some point it will, and it will be at a good time. Let me assure you of that. And most of all, you need to figure out all these priorities and the correct use of the time and resources that you have now. And that's already a pretty big list, but you need to get your thinking right.
You need to get your background knowledge right about history, about why we are in the circumstances we are in, and you need to get your strategy and tactics right. You need to start developing some kind of an idea of how we are gonna get out of the situation we are in right now. Because it is in fact midnight in America, and this is, my friends, the hour of decision. Why is it midnight in America? There's two reasons pretty much.
1 is our own moral failings, including cowardice, and the second is the fact that our enemy, and we have an enemy, and they are organized, and we are not not enough at least. So there is a desperate necessity today to organize. Widespread organizing doesn't usually happen without urgency anyway, not when it's painful. Up until now, on this podcast, I've only talked about political organizing generally at least, and I've talked, frequently about the precinct strategy. Now I wanna talk about maximizing your time and potential to organize for not just political activities, but for partisan political activities, but for lobbying perhaps, for more hardcore types of direct action, like boycotts, picketing, protests, law fair, joining a sheriff's paucity, or becoming a citizen journalist.
I mean, a real journalist. Does that mean doing more than trying to elect good candidates? You're damn right it does. That is just the beginning of the journey, my friends. It is hardly the end destination.
We need to do anything we can to stop the destruction of our civilization and the end to our own personal freedom. Illegal activity, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm talking about dire things, but illegal activity right now, tactically, if for no other reason, is completely counterproductive at the place we are at today. It just is. Not gonna get into a lot of detail with that, but, I mean, if you're not buying that, you might as well not listen to anything else I have to say. Illegal activity is counterproductive, at least where we are at today.
The precinct strategy that I've talked about has benefits beyond party and electoral politics. I've talked about this a little bit. And just to go over the precinct strategy briefly, it's for you to, first of all, recognize that no matter where you are in America, pretty much you live in a precinct. And if you're in suburban America, it's it's a fairly small area around you. Geographically, it's around a 1000 folks, give or take.
And that's your precinct. And if you go down to the county or you chat up somebody at the Republican party, you can find out more about this immediately, you know, the what the boundaries are of your precinct. But that's the basic unit of political activity. It's not a TikTok video channel. That is not the basic, unit of political activity.
A precinct on the ground in the real physical world is that basic element to electoral politics, and it's how we, can take over and we need to take over. We have the ability now, it's within our grasp to take over 1 of the 2 major parties and get real electoral change through a large grassroots army organizing first at the precinct level. So I won't go into that anymore right now, but I've talked about in my discussions of the 2 party system. I talked about the importance of party government and that it starts at the precinct level, whether you are just an activist supporting someone who becomes a precinct chair or a precinct captain, whatever it's called in your state, the leader of the precinct for the party, whether you support them or whether you become that person or seek to become that person. We need to do that.
Absolutely. But there are benefits to the precinct strategy around, around the idea of organizing in your neighborhood. We we have to organize on the ground by neighborhood. We it's of the utmost importance right now. And let me tell you, this is this is a more dangerous activity in the minds of our opponents, than than just about any other because we're isolated from our neighbors generally right now in this society, this culture.
There's exceptions to that depending on where you live. But we need to get to know our neighbors, and we get to know we need to get to know our neighbors that think like we do. And we need to start that at that point as a basis of organizing. The Internet's great, and and even a lot of the traditional on the ground organizing is great. You know, doctors organize.
Unfortunately, their main organization is organized against us, the American Medical Association, but insurance agents are organized. Real estate agents are organized. Collection agents are organized. Landlords are organized. There's all kinds of other organizations out there, and all of them can be used for the cause I'm talking about right now.
But those are not the the they're not the principle that's not the principle place to start organizing. It it it could be an important component of what we need to do, particularly, politically, but where you live and the people around you is where we need to start as well as within our extended families, because there's a certain amount of trust there. Anyway, I don't think I need to explain why that is important. Ron Paul 2,008, you know, we did a lot with the Internet, which was kinda novel. It wasn't new in 2,008, but it was still pretty novel to have as much success as we did using the Internet.
But the weapon that would really made the Ron Paul 2,008 campaign effective to the level that we were was Meetup, but which is an Internet based outfit, but what what what was Meetup all about? You start groups and then you meet these people, you know, pizza parlor or whatever, and you start to get to know them on the ground. And when you start organizing that way, combined with all of the advantages, the cost advantages, and and a reach that you can get and whatnot with the Internet, when you combine those two things, you have something going then. So the precinct strategy, therefore, is a launching point for other tactics. Now I am not suggesting that you use the Republican Party as the organized organization for all of these tactics or maybe for any of the ones I'm about to talk about.
But, again, the principle of getting to know your neighbors and then those neighbors getting to know their neighbors into a larger entity that eventually will encompass not just one precinct, but all the precincts in your city or region, whatever. That's applicable. Organizing that way is applicable to a lot of different tactics, and you can get to know people as a Republican representative going around knocking on doors. But there are other things you could do with the knowledge you gain, but you don't want to be doing it usually within the confines of the Republican party appropriate. But, so, you know, we need to accumulate data starting with who our neighbors are.
And then there are many ways today in the era of rapid computing that that we can, develop less, buy less, get less from other people, etcetera, etcetera. I know you get in all that now, but you need to accumulate data. Who is it around you? Who is it in your area? Who is it in your region that may think like you that might do various things in concert with you to take our country back.
So data is important, but I'm gonna tell you right now, if things go bad, if we have a EMP attack, if mass rioting starts if you're in on the edge of an urban area, you're gonna be retreating back to that neighborhood pretty quickly. And about the only people if communications, through the Internet are disrupted and by the other means of communications we have now, cell phones, etcetera. We're gonna be retreating back to that neighborhood pretty quickly anyway, so you need to know your neighbors. So a dangerous activity, canvassing. Now canvassing for a candidate is not a dangerous activity, and it can be a very, very, very effective activity.
I worked for a man for years by the name of Jack Metcalfe, a constitutionalist conservative Republican from Western Washington State, and not just Western Washington State, from Everett, for crying out loud. I mean, he lived most of the time on Whidbey Island, but, lived in legislative districts that encompassed a larger blue very blue city of Everett. And he was the 1st Republican to win a state legislative seat, the 38th district as it was constituted then, mainly taking in Everett. Back in the early 19 sixties, he was the 1st Republican to win that district, I think, since the beginning of the Great Depression, and he did it because he hit 20,000 doors himself. A long extensive personal campaign going door to door with one simple piece of literature, and, his sincerity and his knowledge of the issues in his his internal compass be very strong as to what needed to be done in Olympia, the state capital, in this instance.
But, anyway, point being, that's that was very effective in the early 19 sixties with no Internet, no, you know, no practically any tool that we use now politically, and it's still effective today if you're thinking about running for office. If you're willing to hit a ton of doors, you got a shot. If you think about it carefully, think about your message carefully, present yourself effectively. If you're a person that can do that at a door, you're a powerful person already. You're already a powerful person.
You maybe have not exerted that power yet, but canvassing is it can be critical. We had somebody come to the door where I live. They knocked on the door, knocked, knocked, knocked. I'm a little bit nervous. Just a neighbor.
They're a neighbor. They're about 4 blocks away, probably in my precinct. I'm not even totally sure now as I think about it. But they had the courage to go around and talk to every neighbor in the area I live and talk about one of these damn city plans that was developed by some think tank somewhere where they were gonna rip out the sidewalks and bicycle lanes everywhere and, you know, all this kind of stuff totally disrupting the amenities of the very nice neighborhood I live in with a bunch of crap. And if this neighbor hadn't taken that on, most of us, I mean, there was probably some notice in somewhere about this big change.
It was about to happen, but, you know, we weren't aware of it. Our neighbors weren't aware of it. People all the people I talk to live around me. But this person went around at 400 people ended up showing up at the high school and giving what for to the mayor, to the city councilman, and guess what did not happen? This whole big plan, developed by people from out of town, people don't even not even familiar with this area culturally, physically, anything else.
His plan was defeated. That is the power of canvassing among other things. And they didn't have any literature. All they had was just going around knocking on doors. They have a list, you know, they just went around and but they had the correct information about what the city was up to.
So this is powerful. Whether you're thinking of running for office or wanting to help somebody run for office, for somebody concerned about a very, you know, local issue, It's also an extremely powerful weapon in our fight, our ongoing fight for election integrity, which is why if you're going around canvassing your neighbors asking them any questions about their voting in the last election, I don't mean who they voted for, not an invasion of their privacy, but just whether they voted, whether the records what public records you can gather are correct, man, they'll come after you. I know this for a fact. They don't want this. And as Peter de Varo said, as he was developing the entire argument that the 2020 election was stolen, the surest way, the quickest way to determine if there was election fraud in places like Maricopa County, Arizona, in Clark County, Nevada, in Fulton County, Georgia, in Milwaukee, in Philadelphia is for people to canvass.
And that's why they don't like that. And they have harassed people. They put people on no fly list. I mean, there's all kinds of things that have happened to people that were just organizing folks to go around and ask their neighbors if they actually did vote in the last election. Stuff like that.
Canvassing is extremely powerful. They don't want people talking to your neighbors. They don't want people getting really, upset and organized on that basis, and they don't want you finding things that right now are siloed because we don't talk to our neighbors. And, they can do other kind of chicanery to prevent certain things from being known. So canvassing.
The precinct strategy is not, in my opinion now the people that have the precinct strategy, capital p, capital s, they're focused on the GOP, which is fine. Totally supportive of it, but the real precinct strategy goes far beyond that. I hope you can see the potential there. So it's efficient because we want you to be to get involved with the precinct neighborhood activity anyway in the quest of making sure we control at some point in the near future near future the Republican party, but there are so many other things can be done with it. So I mentioned there are other organizing steps that can be taken for direct action, and, you know, that's organizing by profession or in networking at church, organizing affinity groups of a lot of different types, organizing small business people, that can be very, very powerful, particularly when you're doing that by area and people are actually canvassing businesses in certain areas.
That can be very powerful. You have the right message. You're in the right kind of an area, and you get small business people organize it. You really have something there politically, and in and in a lot of other arenas as well. So that's the launching point.
First, the neighborhood and then these other groups and also your family, your Christmas card list as we always tell politicians. Thinking about running for office, the first mailing you mail is to your own Christmas card list, all the people you send a Christmas card to, and tell them what you're up to and ask them for a couple of dollars. That's standard operating procedure for a political campaign these days. So there's other actions, though, other direct action things that when we get organized in an area, we being the constitutionalist, conservative, America first, populist, patriots, nationalists, Christian nationalists. There's other things we could do.
One of them is the boycott, and the boycott could be at a national level. I mean, we've seen what could happen, like, with somebody like Bud Light. We can also see what did not happen with something like the vinyl money grabbing, National Football League, but unpatriotic and vinyl, National Football League. That boycott didn't go very far. It kinda gets back to some of the moral failings that we have as a society in my opinion.
But the other boycotts can be successful or at least cause them a lot of pain. And let me tell you, if people really start to get organized, like, with more local type of boycotts, you're gonna get some attention real fast because you are now starting to exert real power. When you take money out of the hands of our enemies, that is real power, Real power. We had a situation here in the area where I live in the Salt Lake, Utah Valley area of Utah, the Wasatch Front as we call it here. And there was this punk news, excuse me, TV reporter operating in the Salt Lake metro area.
And there was a leak of information that the Guardian on a lefty outfit picked up on a leak of information, I think, from give, send, go. Anyway, it was a leak of information as to who was donating to the legal fund for Kyle Rittenhouse, a poor young man who got caught up in events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, ended up having to take a life in his attempt to defend his friend's property as Antifa, those civil rights protesters you heard a little bit about during that period of time, were burning half the town down. I mean, it was unbelievable what was going on there. He was just trying to protect a friend's property, and then he had to defend himself. He had to protect himself.
Anyway, he got into a violent situation, and the feds tried to ram it to him. They attempted to, put him in jail and essentially throw away the key, but it didn't work fortunately for Kyle. But in that process, people were donating to him, a second amendment advocates, people trying to help in any way they could, all of us looking at the TV with that helpless feeling as towns are burning down all over America, and the government, the federal government is doing nothing about it. But, anyway, in that process, there was a young man in the Salt Lake area. I think he was an EMT driver, and he gave, $10 to the Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund.
But because of this leak of information, people found out, including a punk reporter at a TV station in the Salt Lake Valley, and that, reporter doxed him and talked to his neighbors and showed up at his door with cameras. And the next thing you know, you know, he'd be employment review is going on, and I believe he was fired for a $10 donation to Kyle Rittenhouse. But even if he wasn't fired, I don't remember that detail right now, unfortunately, but all of the all all of everything that happened to him should not have happened to him. And if we were more organized as a patriotic movement, we could've gone to that television station and and pulled this guy off of what he was doing and get them to retract this story and apologize for the way they behave. This was a national news story in conservative media.
You can look it up, you know, right now on the Internet. It was so outrageous. So outrageous. But, anyway, because we could have gone to the sponsors of that news broadcast and threatened the boycott. Now we could do that now, but they might laugh in your face.
But when the economic hits starts to hurt because you are targeted by a boycott because you're sponsoring irresponsible news programs on local TV or national TV. Again, real power. There's real power there. We need to be thinking this way. You may not believe that, but we need to be thinking this way.
Now there's public meetings. A lot of times there's a temptation. Let's crowd that public meeting. We're gonna tell these people what for, and there's nothing wrong with that nothing wrong with that, particularly at a school board meeting. And, that could be true in a legislative hearing as well.
But but if the elected officials you were pointing your finger at, no matter how many people you pack into this room, or in the case of a hearing I went to in Salt Lake, a state legislative hearing, 5 rooms, 4 overflows, and the main legislative hearing room, the largest one they have at the capitol, This was over the issue of election integrity and returning to paper ballots. It doesn't have as much pull. It doesn't have as much power as you might think because if they perceive that you're all even though there's 100 of you, and in this case, there was 500 of us, there in those 5 rooms. But if they perceive that you're all from actually a You're listening to Hour of Decision on Liberty News Radio, and we'll be right back after the news. Fairly small fragment of the voter file that you're extremist, that you're not swaying people in the middle, swaying people who go out and vote in large numbers that your position is right.
If they're not convinced of that, you're not putting on as much heat as you think. And I always say, if they don't see the light, give them the heat. But you can't really give them the heat if they don't perceive that their jobs are in danger. And their jobs are not in danger if from all over the state, a few 100 radical right wingers come and wag their fingers at them. They don't feel threatened by that.
And I'm not suggesting you physically threaten them. So, you know, it doesn't work when it's like that. But when there's a perception and hopefully a reality that you're getting average folk who are the ones you wanna send to the microphones when if there's a open mic time to wag your finger directly at a legislature a legislator from a microphone. Do you want people that have that that are either obvious concerned citizens that aren't necessarily right wingers or at least the kind of person that could easily persuade a larger part of the voter file, the voters at large. So, anyway, you gotta think about that a little bit if you're gonna do that kind of thing.
I'm not saying don't do it, but I've seen it done. I've seen it not work at all. Depends on the issue. Again, it depends on whether the politicians think that this activity has legs, that it's gonna lead to other things, that it's gonna lead to bad press, that it's gonna lead to more people in their own districts, giving them a very hard time about the position they're taking. And, again, this issue was election integrity, which, unfortunately, there isn't the perception there should be.
I know for a fact. I mean, I just know, and I've also I have some polling data. There's a ton of people in Utah concerned about election integrity and concerned about universal mail in ballots and concerned about computer tabulators tabulating the vote, concerned about not a requirement for photo ID and things like that, some of the problems we have here in Utah that you might be having in your state too. I know there's concern about that, but it just hasn't really manifested itself in the public sphere yet to the point that politicians are afraid of this issue. They're just not afraid of it in the state, unfortunately.
So you gotta think about that. But going to meetings in force can be effective. Going to meetings, going to demonstrations can also I'm sorry. I'm looking at my notes trying to talk and looking at my notes at the same time. Next thing I wanted to talk about was demonstrations.
So sometimes when we get really upset and we have some very hardcore people with us or good people with us that are really concerned about their country and really know we have to change things here in the country, those kinds of people are willing to go out and demonstrate. That could be really powerful. That can also be a complete and total freaking disaster. So this is one you gotta think about real carefully. There's a couple of kinds of demonstrations.
1 is when you know somebody's gonna come out of a meeting. They're gonna come out of a courthouse. They're gonna be somewhere where there's gonna be a lot of cameras. And you can pull up just 2 or 3 cars, no warning, no notice, have very well thought out signage that's readable, that has letters big enough that they show up on television and in videos that people are taking. And you come out and you start chanting or whatever, right, as a person who's trying to get in the car or they're gonna try to have a little press gathering for a minute or 2 before they get in their car, that could be effective.
And you don't have as many security considerations because you're it's kind of a hit and run kind of thing. The other kind of demonstration is the one where we are gonna stand up and fight. And on a certain day, we're gonna meet at the park, and we're gonna tell them, or maybe it's a counter demonstration, a temptation to counter a demonstration for a transgender library day or whatever weird thing is going on in your town with that issue. There's a real temptation sometimes if they're putting on some show of force or some kind of demonstration to counter demonstrate. This is where you have to be really, really thoughtful and really, really careful.
First of all, what are gonna be the pluses if you show up whether as as the initiator of this public demonstration or as counter demonstrations? What what what's the goal? What what is the likelihood of a good outcome? What does a good outcome look like? It depends.
It depends on the situation. So that's the first thing. Second thing, security considerations immediately come to the fore. It's just about any area. I'm sure we're talking to people in some area where, oh, we can go out there and do that.
No one's gonna do anything. But that's not the truth for most parts of this country now, even very red states. So do you understand all of the ramifications of you going out there and force? And that's the only thing I wanna say. If you're not sure that you're going out there to this demonstration in force, please do not do it.
Please do not have 3 scraggly people with signs falling off the sticks that have a message that people don't understand that may not be legible. Nothing wrong with handwritten hand hand painted signs. Nothing wrong with that at all, but they have to have the right message on them, and they have to be readable, and they have to look good. Because a lot of this is visual, so everything has to look good. And you need to think about visuals, and you need to have flags, and you need to have other things behind signs that say, to hell with John Smith, he's a commie or, you know, whatever whatever the message is you're trying to get across.
So these things need to be thought out. How you walk into the place, how are you gonna get there? You can't probably just all drive up in your cars and park and be right there where you're supposed to protest. You also may not want to have your cars there because people may smash all the windows in those cars. They may take down all your license plate numbers, and they be maybe the kind of scurvy and types, but you don't really want these people to have your license plate number.
So now I think you can see there are many other considerations that could come into play if you are a thoughtful, cautious patriot that does not wanna get any of your people hurt, that does not want to get any of your people thrown into jail where there is no bail fund, where there are no smart attorneys at the ready to defend them. So these are other things that you need to have a consideration of. You need to have a medic, at least one person with the stuff they need for field emergency field first aid with you. You need to have a lot of people. You need to have somebody like that with you.
You need to know how you're gonna get in, how you're gonna get out. What is your contingency plan for leaving the area? Where are your cars gonna be parked? How are people going to leave? There's some there's some details here, folks, and you need to think about that carefully.
Who is gonna speak to the news media? What are you gonna say to the news media? Again, what is your purpose? What are your main talking points? 1, 2, or 3 very clear, logical talking points that people who might see this demonstration on their television news or even just on YouTube can or rumble can figure out what the hell it is you're out there for and want to support you.
So those are all things you need to think about. People need to look strong, but not scary. You don't want everyone, in your demo looking like they might have just gotten out of prison. That's not a good idea either. But what kind of security are you gonna have there on the scene?
Other thing. Are you gonna be taking pictures or video? Who's gonna take the pictures? Who's going to do video stuff? Who is taking pictures of the opposition?
If you do have opposition, you have a very good opportunity to take their pictures, to get their license plate numbers, to just see who exactly they are. And particularly if I'm talking about people who are not very nice, who come out to counter protest or turn up when you're counter protesting drag queen story hour or whatever it is. So, again, you need to have an attorney that you could pick up the phone, and they will answer it immediately. If there is a legal problem that occurs, you need to know the law. You need to have a permit usually for a demonstration.
Do you know where the nearest hospital is? How quickly can you get to the nearest hospital if things really go south? So these are all things you think about in that kind of a demonstration. So there's a couple of types, but don't look weak. Be sure of what you're doing.
Be sure that you're going to be safe. Stay within the law so if things happen bad, that way, you know, you were within the law, and that can be proven later. I hope that doesn't have to happen, but stay within the law. So those are elements of a demonstration, but why do one? It's because people are frustrated and they're at home.
They see, Kenosha burning down, half the town burning down. They see that there's a big 200 people out next to the BYU campus celebrating the wonders of drag queen story hour. A bunch of groomers, some predator types there with a bunch of little children, and you see this on TV. And what what are we doing about this? Your politicians are mostly weasels.
They're not doing they're not doing anything about it. Most of them are hiding from the mics or the sticks as we like to call it in the business. So they're not even saying anything about it. So people are frustrated, and you could fill a void there, and you can show people that there are people who know this is wrong, who know this is destroying our civilization, who know that when we join together, we can accomplish things. So there's reasons to do demonstrations.
There's a lot of reasons to think, maybe not today. If you don't have some resources, you don't have some specialists, you don't have anybody with any experience doing this kind of thing in your ranks, probably not the greatest idea at this point. It depends. Totally depends. So lawfare a whole lot of lawfare is going on against us, but there is some going on against our opponents not nearly enough.
That's another area that might open up for you. Did the lieutenant governor do something really bad, and there is proof of it because you got a freedom of information act type of request? And you got the goods. Can you put something together in law against this elected official who is one of your opponents? So, again, who is that you're going after?
What kind of information is there? How easy is it for the public to understand what you're doing? How easy would it be for a judge or a jury to understand what you're doing? Can you find a competent attorney who can both speak to the press and speak to a judge or a jury with the law behind them? Can you get somebody like that to take your case?
Those are things you need to think about. A lot of times you can get into a court situation and spend a ton of money and not get the job done. So you think about that, but that is another avenue that we must pursue more than we are now. And this overall conflict that we have with the forces of evil that are trying to take away our way of life. I mentioned the freedom of information act request.
That is something you need to do. I mean, you need to go through every office holder. You need to look at every type of situation, whether it's the county planning commission or the election office or the lieutenant governor or the governor. You need to when you understand what's going on, you need to start digging. And you probably are not gonna get all the information you need without filing.
Just about every state has one of some type, and Utah is called grandma of all names. And it's called the Freedom of Information Act requests, at the federal level. You need to have people in an organized fashion request those. They usually take a while, sometimes a long while. Sometimes you get harassed in that process.
Sometimes they want a ton of money for them, which is not usually legal or right. But, anyway, you can still get a lot of information, I think, almost no matter where you are, and keep them on their toes and get more information for what you are doing and what you're trying to accomplish. But that's the other thing. When when you make a request, think ahead of what the next steps are with this request. You're gonna do a report.
You're gonna hand it to an attorney. Are you do you have a friendly reporter that would put something like this on television news or in the newspaper? You need to think about where you're going, beyond just the request if you can't. It's tough. It's a volunteer operation generally, and what I'm talking about, volunteers doing these kind of things.
It's difficult. I know that. But, you know, the more you think it through, the more worthwhile it all is in this area and and in every other area. So I don't know how many sheriffs are doing this now. I talked about sheriff's posses in an earlier podcast, but you might look around for that.
People are forming militias. I know it's constitutional. Be very careful about playing with guns when you're trying to play patriotic politics because those two things don't mix very well because they will come after you and drop a ton of bricks on your head. And so if you assist that that has to be part of what you're doing, if that's your calling in life, be ready. But, you know, if your sheriff is forming a posse or you can elect a sheriff that will form a posse, that would be an activity that would be worth getting involved with, in my opinion.
There's also like, in Florida, they have a state militia. State militia. Not the National Guard. A state militia is controlled by the governor, and that might be worth worth it too. A place to get some training, a place to maybe do some good when things turn bad.
So that's that's another thing you could do as far as doing something rather than just talking about doing something. So, yeah, it's easy to talk, and I'm talking right now. I have done something in just about every area I am talking about. But, you know, easier said than done. Fully admit it.
Your area may not be ready for a lot of these things, but we need to get your area ready for a lot of these things. So and don't do these things, most of these things under the auspices of the party. That's not always true either. Because, you know, I started this conversation talking about the precinct strategy and trying to combine some other activity as you go out and chat up your neighbors with the basic precinct strategy to take over the GOP and elect some good people through the Republican Party. A lot of times, you're not gonna want to do these kinds of activities under the auspices of the GOP, but sometimes it would be fine if you can.
There's a group in Salt Lake Salt Lake County, at least there was. Salt Lake County Republican party authorized this group to become election integrity committee. I know some of these folks, and they had did some great work. They did some great work and came up with some really important information for the public. So nothing wrong with using the party for these kind of things if it if the situation of common sense tells you it's appropriate.
Form other organizations only as needed. This tends to be a characteristic of conservative patriotic activity. Maybe it's just human nature. I'm not totally sure, but our folks tend to form a lot more organizations than they that we probably need. You know, I went to a demonstration a couple years ago, about 40 people there on our team, probably about 25 organizations.
I mean, that's kinda ridiculous on the face of it, but yet that's not an easy thing all the time to sort out. I'm not saying you gotta give up your organizations so you can make mine bigger. Anyway, the all kind of weird things happen. Sometimes there's disagreements on approach. People don't have quite the same mission.
I there's also specialization, which is good. You get an expertise in some, you know, in election integrity and on the education issue, stuff like that. There's nothing wrong with that. But look at that carefully if you're trying to figure out where you fit in to activist picture. A lot of times just working with a network of people who think like you do is better than being in any organization.
But there are organizations that that do good work. There's a couple of national organizations I really like because they operate locally on the ground. One of them is moms for liberty. I love moms for liberty. I love what they're training folks how to act.
They need to disrupt the current public school system, not try to figure out a way so that we can hold hands and work together because that ain't gonna work. Our enemies are too heavily invested in destroying us through brainwashing our children in the public school system. So there needs to be a whole lot more confrontation far as the activist community and the public school system, and Moms for Liberty seems to have that just about right. I ain't perfect, far as I know. Anyway, that's one organization I recommend.
I also frequently talk about the JBS, the John Birch Society, and that's because they're it's not just, oh, they got a great magazine or, man, did you see that video or whatever? No. No. That's not why. It's because they have chapters all over the United States with people who want to do things, who want to do things in their own community as well as do things locally that affect the national picture.
And, they're basically an education organization, but you need to get more educated. We all do. But, that's a networking opportunity there. You can learn about other things you can do. Good people.
I like them. Alright. So what are some of the problems with the precinct strategy? It's not it's not perfection. There's always a downside, and I'm not, anyway, trying to dissuade you from participating in a precinct strategy.
I have been trying to persuade you in almost every podcast to get involved with it if you haven't already. But one of the problems with the precinct strategy, capital p, capital s, the one that that is a specific group right now trying to take over the Republican Party, thinking elections and winning over politicians is enough. It's not. It is totally not because we're fighting on every front. We're not just fighting in legislatures.
And legislatures can do all kinds of great things and and a judge can destroy what they do in a day. But it's really important. You just need to think about that. And, again, this is all a question of balance. A lot of times it skews the conversation to electoral activity when, you know, you're very involved with that, you're other activists.
When there are these other things that need to be done, investigating, going to meetings, all the other things that that that we've mentioned, it's it's too much emphasis on electoral politics or there can be. It's not necessarily true. And a lot of people involved in a precinct strategy are involved in a lot of other things, but that is my point. You need to approach it like everything else, like buying guns, like becoming a survivalist type, like becoming a protester. You need to do it all with a lot of common sense and balance and balance.
Very important. That's really what I'm talking about. Because there could be a real time management problem when you become a party activist because party politics can suck you in. Did you hear what Bob said about Joan the other day? And, you know, I don't really think Pete should actually be on the county central committee because let me tell you a couple of things you maybe didn't know, or we better call a meeting about that.
I think we should talk about some of the other things that were brought up at the you know? You can get sucked in, not just the gossipy stuff, not just the human drama that goes with any kind of organizing of humans, but there's all kinds of stuff. You can get sucked into that's not really on point. So you just need to be careful about that. I'm still a big believer in it in the precinct strategy.
Your enemies, friends, they don't want you talking to your neighbors. They don't want this, particularly not if you're canvassing, trying to determine if there were any irregularities in your last election. They really don't like that, but they don't like people getting organized, neighbors, whatnot, and ending up out in the street. They don't want that either. They don't want big protests.
You know, they there's a reason they came down as hard as they did on members of the Proud Boys with all this j 6 stuff, the Oath Keepers. They don't want organizations around that can protect other people who wanna go out in the street and protest. They really don't want that. So what if you're starting from scratch? Trying to figure out what to do.
You don't really know anybody. You don't know what to do. You have a couple of friends? Are they in your vicinity? Are they not in your vicinity?
I like working with little groups of 3. Sometimes 3 moms that don't really know what to do, but are really pissed off about the school board. You can change the world at least in the local context. It's happened many times. So do not be discouraged, but reach out in whatever way you think is prudent and appropriate, and get some people to learn things with you as you're learning, who will do things with you as you realize you need to be doing, like going to the school board meeting, like finding out who's who in the zoo at the county council meeting.
So, you know, maybe you should plug into the party first. It just, you know, call up the republicans. There's a way you can get in touch. Usually, a lot of times, they have offices even all the way down to the county level. Depends where you live.
But it's usually not that difficult on the web, whatever, to find your local Republican party. Maybe you should start there. And then there's these other types of national organizations, but I'm not pitching join a national organization. That's the most important thing. But a national organization that can help you focus, it could get you information, it could get you resources so you are effective on the ground and in your neighborhood, that is a good thing.
This has been Hour of Decision. My name is Lou Moore. Thank you for listening.