The come back Pen and paper

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Already happening here. Local underground cells use handwritten comms and dead-drops. Couriers for known contacts. I've seen their "flags" hanging for when a message is in a dead-drop, although I have no idea of where the dead-drops are..

I reckon they're getting ahead of the curve to be ready for when the balloon goes up.

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Damn, brother, what kind of cells you talking about? Sounds like something that needs to be reported.   And as always, it you can tell you've worked in ci. Most people would never pick up on those suttle markings used.

American Underground is the generic term. There are different factions, but so far as I know, this area has not been infiltrated to any great extent by Leftist undergrounds. Some small cells of them, but they mostly stay quiet. The only activity I've seen out of the Left is posting a couple of signs near the railroad crossing here, which funnily enough were shortly riddled with buckshot.

Underground cells have been organized here since at least the mid-1970's. There may be a few white supremacists die-hards still around, and maybe some very few John Birchers left, but for the most part I think they're more of the MAGA strain. Time moves on, and people - and the organizations they organize - change.

Mostly what they are doing at this stage is watching folks, taking notes, and collecting intel on persons of interest... whatever that interest might be. That's the mode they've been in for at least the last 40 years or so. Their objective is to be ready to spring whenever the fuse is lit, not to take any sort of action now. They just sit, and wait, and watch. They just have the philosophy of "if anybody gets hurt here, I ain't gonna be the last one", and to that end, they gather information on potential threats, and potential allies, and folks that might need a bit of hurting when the balloon goes up.

We don't generally report much of anything out here. We clean up our own messes if we can, and take an honest ass-whoopin' if we can't. When I was growing up, I saw the law about twice a year on average, and then they were just passing by. If we got into any kind of ruckus, it would take the law at least 40 minutes to get to our location, and that would have been 40 minutes too late if it were anything serious, so we just handled it ourselves.

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I'll be honest, I'm not 100% sure how to interpret this. I mean, I get it. I can read what you were shooting for. Just not sure how it fits into the OP thought. My first thought about it was, was that a personal jab of some sort; maybe at my southern dialect. lol 

If so, no worries. If it's an internet joke I would be unaware. I do admit to being a little puzzled to what your meaning is here.

Kind regards 

I think he was taking a dig at the modern education system. The subject of the thread is taking to reading and writing again in preference over electronic communications, and kids these days are no longer being taught that. They might be able to fly across a keyboard, but give 'em a pencil and paper... or a clock with hands instead of numbers... and they just stare at you like you suddenly grew a second head.

So, us older farts will be able to communicate via the written (rather than typed) word, but kids? No such luck. They will be at a disadvantage.

The gag he employed to make that point is from an old Cheech and Chong skit parodying the quality of inner city "learning" back then, which I posted above. Probably gotta be one of us old farts to get that, too!

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Ahh, I should have picked up on a Cheech and Chong reference. Damn I'm slipping in my own old  age. (47 lol) 


Good joke BTW,  now that I get it.

Sadly, it was part of their plan in not teaching our youth the necessity of handwriting. I actually find handwriting much much much easier than this typing crap. Dyslexia, these forums' set ups, and typing do not mix. I trained myself to catch my mistakes as I was writing by hand. Not so much in typing. I grew up in the 80/90s graduated in 95. So we had computers as a part of our education, but they were still rarely used, and so therefore everything was still hand written in school. I would welcome handwriting again. I actually sort of miss it, now that I thinking about it.

With this thought in mind, and now that I got the joke conundrum squared away, I have a another thought to add. I can even see it being illegal to teach someone to write, in the future. "Passing notes" will be a punishable offense.....just like it was in school.


As far as those lefty cells you mentioned-----yeah, they're of no real threat (for now). I was thinking cartel action, or something along those lines.


I sure am glad I live in a place that is mainly untouched by the outside world. Far far away, and deep, very deep in the woods. We don't even have internet/wifi out here. I used to hate it here. "The land that time forgot," is what I called it.

Now, I am thankful I ended up here, in the literal middle of nowhere. 

Old fashioned "neighborhood/community justice" like you mentioned. (We don't see the police much around here either) 

It's going to end up being a "God send" that I ended up where I'm at. Very difficult to find. Unless you know these woods. And very few do.