Tag: Three Percent

Blast from the Past

From George Gramlich, Editor of the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel, via email:

David

I don’t know if you remember but Mike’s last Smuggler’s episode was him going up to NY or Conn with a bunch of 30 rounders and give them out at a rally. Well, he got too sick to do that and he called me up (or email, I can’t remember) and asked me if I had any options.

This was before July 4 so I said mail them to me and we will give them out at our 2nd Amendment section before the parade (with a little speech about where they came from. Everybody remembered when he marched with us a few years before). That give away was Mike’s last official action.To make the mags special, I asked him to write something on each one and he did.

Each mag read, first line, “MBV III” with the 2nd line saying, “Smuggler Prod. Co.”. In white magic marker.

I grabbed three that day. I have one at the office and one in my man cave but just found the third one yesterday. I had forgotten about it.

I want it to go to somebody who would value it.

Though you might want it. If so, please send your USPS address and I will ship it out shortly.

The wife just came in with the mail. Guess what I got:

Thanks, George! You’re the best!

Jeepers, Creepers, Where’d You Get Those Threepers?

Seddon’s vision for AP3 was novel for the time: a national organization, with chapters across the country operating under his command. [More]

Compare that to what Three Percent founder Mike Vanderboegh intended and didn’t want to see happen:

The Three Percent idea, the movement, the ideal, was designed to be a simple, powerful concept that could not be infiltrated or subjected to agents provocateurs like many organizations that I observed in the constitutional militia movement of the 90s. In this I was both correct and dead wrong, as I have been battling folks almost since the beginning who have misunderstood, deliberately or not, what the Three Percent was in history, what it is today and what its aims are for the future.

If you call yourself a Three Percenter, stop it if this is the first time you’re hearing this.

It looks to me like Joshua Kaplan and ProPublica are trying to amplify Garland and Wray’s “greatest threat” bull$h!+ by blowing some self-promoting low-hanging fruit up to scary boogeyman proportions. You’ll note so many who claim the title “Three Percenter” never even mention Mike on their websites, or post the catechism to articulate how to embrace the concept’s true meaning.

Don’t argue with me. Argue with him:

[Via DDS]

SEO Irregular

While looking for a link to my Points question, I noticed something again today I’ve been meaning to mention for a while: Type in “Sipsey Street Irregulars” on Google and the first link that comes up goes to an SPLC post about it closing down after Mike’s death.

That means either algorithm ranking results have been manipulated to make one post outweigh Mike’s life work, or the majority of Mike’s readers didn’t regularly help him promote his work by sharing links. Noting how many of his thousands of readers didn’t step up when asked to, I’d be hard pressed to pick a reason.

Noting the importance of that work — and the way it’s now being misapplied exactly as he warned against — either reason, censorship from without or apathy from within, is one hell of a demotivator.

There’s a Simple Solution

Yet full-scale civil war is not the only danger. Far-right Americans are highly unlikely to coalesce into a cohesive force that could wage war, but an army is not required to wreak sustained havoc and destabilize the country. [More]

Imagine if, say, just Three Percent decided enough is enough.

It would seem the best way to keep that from happening would be to stop squeezing.

Speaking of Trust and Safety

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That seems libelous against anyone who has identified as a Threeper, especially since anyone who actually understands what Three Percent founder Mike Vanderboegh advocated knows it is an idea, not an organization:

The Three Percent idea, the movement, the ideal, was designed to be a simple, powerful concept that could not be infiltrated or subjected to agents provocateurs like many organizations that I observed in the constitutional militia movement of the 90s… The Three Percent idea, being an idea, is internalized and finds expression in action when required without any top-down organization issuing orders.

Here’s another media lie:

She said a lot of the extremism in the U.S. is being driven by white supremacists and anti-government extremists, such as those following the Three Percenter ideology.

Vanderboegh was a Constitutionalist who rejected racism on religious, moral, and ideological grounds, identifying the judging of individuals based on that as collectivism.

Real racists and anti-government extremists hated his guts and took joy in his cancer and his death.

You don’t insult a man, and in lying about him libel others who share his beliefs, and then wish him “all the best,” all the while representing yourself as being your company’s arbiter for customer trust and safety.

[Via Jess]

Follow the Judas Goat!

@97percentorg On the Season 2 premiere of #TAG we’re joined by Jonathan and Geneva Solomon, the husband & wife co-owners of @redstonefirearms: California’s only Black-owned gun shop. [More]

You folks do realize 97percent is a millionaire-funded anti-gun front designed to divide the gun owner community and you’re helping to “legitimize” that among the uninformed?

It’s no coincidence their name is the antithesis of the Three Percent.

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