Make sure you have your ducks lined up in a row.
And if you're gonn'a do it, you might as well make some hay.
Are you a leader, or a follower?
Choose which.
We need point men for this movement right now.
So beforehand....
Send the Chief of the LEO's the facts and laws regarding OC in your state. Make sure to tell them that you have an attorney who will be present to monitor the conduct of his LEO's. Alude to the fact that any violations of civil rights will be met with action in a federal court (these little sh_it-bird towns hate buring up their money in court actions, and may tell the LEO's to back off).
Make sure you notify all the local media beforehand, TV news, radio talk show/news, papers, etc. Download the format of the OC.org press release, copy it for style. ThenFAX your press releaseto them--this gives them something tangible in their hands which cannot be ignored.
If you can get on a local radio talk show--do it! This is done by calling into the station, and asking for the host's producer (usually thier board operator on small stations). Tell him who you are and make sure you get his FAX number. FAX the donkey the press release immediately. This will put the meat to him--and force him to deal with you. Remember that radio and TV is a hungry animal that needs to be fed.
They will most likely book you. Try to show up personally at the station to do the interview--this way they cannot cut you off, or blow you off out of hand. Force them to deal with you (good tactic). Have something to say, is short sentences, that say somthing everyone will understand... "the 2nd amendment is not to protect the rights of duck hunters" "I don't want to be a chalk line." "OC is a protected 2nd Amendment right." "Police don't know the laws--they only follow orders from the politicans, who control them through the chiefs/elected sherrifs." "Then let them arrest me for a lawful conduct--we have attorneys standing by to pursue any civil rights violations in federal court." Get the drift?!
Also if you get on, announce a meeting place where you will start from. Invite any "real American men and women" to join you and your friends. You will be surprised how many show up--some OC-ing, some not (because they don't have weapons). If you are in a position to supply weapons for OC, announce that also (non-loaded of course and no firing pin, but they don't have to know that). Loaners will get a laugh and break tension.
Usually when you are booked onto a show, you can send out talking points (relevant questions that commonly come up) to the producer, who then gives them to the donkey host. Remember these guys are not there because they are rocket scientists. If a local host was half way good--they'd be syndicated and located in a major market. You have to do the work for them. They are mostly stupid.
Make sure you have a couple of guys with video camera (hi-def preferably), who are covering the whole event on the QT. If you are the point-man of the operation, you will be the one the LEO's confront... so have your person wired for sound, and hooked into two recorders (one just sound), the other into one of the videos (see radio shack). In case one is turned off--the other continues to record.
Better to have two videos hooked into the sound also. Have the microphone in open-plain sight--but do not say anything other that "this is an openpublic event (meaning not a protest march with needs a permit), and that you areon a public street/venue or private property."
This is 101 level info.
Anymore questions email me at:
fiveringstakezo@yahoo.com mention OC.org in the header so I don't erase it.
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