The come back Pen and paper

[Bally002]

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.

They just don't want to be surprised - surprises are for birthday parties, not life and death, y'know? - and want to be ready on that account to be able to "hit the ground running" so to speak when attacks do come. They don't want to get caught flat-footed, they want to be pre-organized and trained.

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'm Prode of me, my, reddin and writtin. I tuk the e v e l i n woodenhead sped reddin corse.

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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.

When was the last time you saw an actual typewriter, like an old Underwood, rather than a word processing program on an electronic gadget? See, all those electrons fly all around the world, and all of them fly through intel services (like Ft. Meade, Like ATT Atlanta, Like ATT Memphis, like ATT New York, etc) To get gobbled up and analyzed, but the WRITTEN word - either handwritten or typed on a good old air-gapped Underwood - is an alien concept to today's young-uns.

So, us older farts will be able to communicate via the written (rather than electronically 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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Yeah, that's right @"FlickerOfLight"#259 .  It is my interpretation of todays young folk who don't write anymore and may have to read a screen or Cue words sorta like I see Biden doing.
@"Ninurta"#2 Yes it was in jest off the Cheech and Chong album which this old fart here has really never forgotten.  I often enough cite it when I hear someone attempting to read and I get that 'look'.

An  you  kin  tellem,,,yer, you heerd it here fir, firrrst on "RollerDerby".

Kind regards and in jest,

Bally.