I recommend reading my 2007 piece on this subject and Vassar Bushmills' little opus, You Lie, We Hang You, at GreatAmericanZeroes.com, since the "lie with legs" is one of the cornerstones of Leftwing ascendency on the internet...as well as one of our targets.
    We're putting our money where our mouth is with this Guide since, not long ago, we thought this might be a good book idea in order to raise money for the Institute. But events on November 4th scrapped those plans since the things that have to be done have be done rather more quickly than I'd envisioned in 2007. (If this is your first visit to this site, we're analysts, so not bloggers in the conventional sense. If you like what we write, then go an do something beyond chewing your cud. At least pass it on.) Do something that moves conservatism forward.
    This Guide is all about doing something. I'm putting this into the public domain because, for one, what I've said here isn't really a trade secret, just common sense, with a splash of go-gettum And two, it won't hurt if the Enemy knows all these "secrets" as they have absolutely no power to counteract them...except through arrest, imprisonment, and the eventual guillotine.
BC

    RESOLVED: The Left wing has captured the internet highway, chastising Truth, Honor, Reason, Common Sense and Good, forcing them to retreat into the alleys and side streets, while allowing Dishonesty, Dishonor, Stupidity, and Evil to pass, toll free, and roam the highway at will. (Would any conservative like to debate this?)
    RESOLVED: That little armchair blog where you now reside is not really on the main internet highway. It is down one of those side streets. So quit fooling yourself with those congratulatory notes to one another about the superiority of your arguments and your intellects. You had you butts handed to you on a platter on November 4th...by that same little foul-mouthed army who indeed are far lesser intellects than yourselves. (Would any conservative like to debate this?)
    RESOLVED: That while there are many things that need to be done to move conservatism back to the high ground, not only by true conservatives and protectors of the Constitution, but also by ordinary citizens of Good Will, a major front in this coming Fight must be the retaking of that internet information highway. If the Left wishes to stay there, they must be forced to fight for every inch of territory. They must not be allowed to utter even a single lie that goes unchallenged. And they must be held publicly accountable for the consequences of the words, their acts and the secret supplications of their hearts. This can only be done with face-to-face confrontations on internet sites where they now prowl.

    A cautionary note: You may wish to hear Henry V's pep talk as Shakespeare described it , but real history also shows that not only at Agincourt but a generation earlier, at Poitiers under the Black Prince, twice the French lost major battles despite having far greater forces, in part, because their nobility would not deign to dismount and fight alongside commoners on foot.
   This is but one of several Achilles Heels of the Left. But if this is also true of you, and you also are unwilling to dismount and fight the common Enemy shoulder-to-shoulder with, and for, your redneck cousins (whose shoulders you no doubt also stand upon), then please, read no further.
    And get off my g-d'd page.

    Now, how to proceed.
1: KNOW THYSELF
    The Enemy comes in all ages, sexes and educational levels. The anonymity of the internet is a great protective shield for all participants, not just the Left. One can disguise name, location, sex, even age and educational level...to a degree. It's a place where a 90-pound weakling can growl like a lion, and hiss like a cobra. It may be easy for a 15 year old to "sound" like an 21-year old if he knows his stuff. But 25? 30? At some point he will push the envelope too far and be discovered...perhaps a casual reference to a word, an icon or song that is peculiar to Millenials. These can be dead giveaways. On the other hand, it would be impossible for me to try to pass myself off as a 20-something, or maybe even a 30-something. But I can do Forties....I think...and Seventies for sure. Moreover I can sound like a professor or a truck driver. It's a skill we've acquired at the Sands Institute. Rule: Keep 'em guessing, but don't overplay your hand.
    Females can even pass as males sometimes, but the trained eye can pick up subtle differences in syntax, even emotion. I know this to be true from the radicals I'd known during the 1960s. I can spot a radical babe just by her sneers. When George Eliot wrote Silas Marner in 1861 Charles Dickens read it and said, "This was written by a woman." (Mary Ann Evans). You can't fool the pros. And on the internet, you don't know who's one and who's not, so be careful.
    Experience also brings the same limitations. Experience is the sum total of everything you've ever done, seen, read and heard. Every time you think, if only to yourself, and certainly when you speak, you reflect that experince. I've actually been out Route 66, a highway which is no more, at the same time a TV series by that same name was on. Speaking of television, I can remember black and white vividly. And 3 cent stamps. And colored-only water fountains. I've been through college (twice), hitch-hiked to Mexico and back (twice), run after whores in Juarez, Taipei, Bangkok and Angeles City, seen people in unimaginable poverty, under the whip, and in bondage with a boot on their neck. Here at the Sands Institute we've all seen those "dead eyes" of socialism Vassar wrote about a while back. But we've also seen them recently liberated, smile, and tears well up in them in joy and gratitude. I cried too.
    Watching "Leave it to Beaver" on Cartoon Network, or National Geographic, or reading Uncle Tom's Cabin or Dickens just isn't a suitable substitute. But they are still experiences, and make up your whole. Rule: Don't try to fake your experience or your knowledge. We all have to come to the table with our own tool box. Making the most of it is what matters most. Yours will continue to grow while mine is slowly grinding to a halt, with little more than stories to tell, hopefully with a little wisdom embedded.
    What most of you have is more knowledge, more keenness of wit, and more experience than the Other Side. That's enough to expose them publicly. That's enough to win.

    I'm not suggesting you describe yourself exactly as you are, keep 'em guessing, just don't exceed your limits of believability. One of the things I've learned is they will start parsing everything you say to find some flaw as soon as you've gotten under their skin. It's ironic that they'll believe an "Al Jezeera" headline as gospel if it fits their template, but will spends hours trying to prove you wrong, but that's how it is. This is a good thing, as it means they take your presence seriously on their highway. With any misstatement of fact they will jump all over your credibility, which, since factual truth is supposed to be in your arsenal, can cause problems. They are much like mainstream Democrats who will rail at Republicans for professing a fealty to Honor, even as they fall short from time to time. Better not to profess any honor at all is the Democrat view. In their view, that is how one can die blameless. (I don't believe St Peter sees things that way, but what I know is that only one us is wrong, and only one of us can afford to be wrong.)

2: PICK AN ISSUE, PICK A TARGET
   Trust me, there is no issue that can be of interest to you that doesn't have a small army of Left wing bloggers out there attacking and infesting it. Find it.
   Rule: The more knowledgeable, and more importantly, the more passionate you are about a thing, the better you will play the Game, so we recommend that you weigh in on subjects that are of importance to you, and which you know something about.
   The Things You are Passionate About: As you know, the things conservatives are passionate about are generally tiered, from the Philosophical to the Factual. The War in Iraq, the climate change fraud, the bailouts, the mortgage meltdowns, all have major philosophical planks, from Truth, Liberty, to certain laws of economics or anthropology (human nature), even common sense.  You can and should be prepared to fight at both these levels, especially since the Enemy usually only fights on one. Another Achilles Heel.
   Conservatives are (supposed to be) passionate about the Constitution, and all the doors the Constitution holds open so that men and women may enjoy Liberty. These are philosophical planks the Left does not even possess, but which they must keep disguised, for they cannot come out in support of the opposite, can they?...servitude, class-based elitism, or sympathy for terrorism....even though the logic of their positions always takes them there. They have to adopt the labels of liberty and Good. "Hypocrisy is the price vice pays to virtue."  This is part of their veneer. Your mission is to strip it, one layer at a time, and lay them naked.
    Here at SICCM, we're also passionate about factual truth, as we can find no free society that has a general disregard for it that survives very long. G K Chesterton wrote in the 1930s that the rich can do without democracy, and they can also do without standards of morality. Only the common man needs those things for his (the masses') society to survive. (That's a paraphrase of separate quotes from GKC). When the rich rule, society generally hobbles down toward vulgarism and barbarism, much as commoners in Europe lived under aristocracy for a thousand years. It's a pit that is almost impossible to climb out of....which is why that "rising out" took place one ocean and one continent away. Rule: Attacking the absence of truth (fact) is the quickest way into a Left wing bloggers nightmares for almost nothing they say is fact-based.
    Another Achilles Heel of the Left is the absence of any understanding of immutable laws in any form, from those guiding human conduct to those guiding the planets. The Right's failure to understand that this is the Left's greatest weakness has so far been their greatest strength, for no one seems to know how to deal with it. Deconstructive thinking, which provides the basis for most Left-wing thinking, appeals to their narcissism, and provides that almost anything can be true if they just want it to be badly enough. Our view on deconstructive thinking is that it is a cynical device created by "handler" Leftists so as to allow spoiled children to be able to wish a world into existence that 1) doesn't exist and 2) in which they are at the center. (It arose from the education establishment, I might add.) The old Communists were masters at this in Europe in the 1930s. These sonnenkinder can then become susceptible to manipulation from above. It's a kind of spiritual lollipop, a sugar teat, given to a child about to throw a tantrum, a child who almost never hears the word "no".  Indeed, they've become little more than stormtruppen marionettes, moving in concert with others, without ever knowing exactly why or how.
    In fact, this is one of the reasons many conservative bloggers don't like to do battle with this crowd. They refuse to debate under any kind of rules; of logic, fact-checking, let alone decorum, making up the rules and their facts as they go along. In a word, they're exasperating. If you are to prevail, you must be aware of this going in, so be patient, and be willing to step outside the four corners of your frames of reference. Once your understand their field of play you can negotiate very well, I'm sure.
    This is also why, to many conservatives, they are viewed as irrelevant in American politics. But our view is that this is precisely why they are so dangerous, not only to democratic politics and the Constitution, but to culture in the larger sense, for (here's one of those immutable laws) they thrive on a nihilistic world view that can destroy a civilization with the absoluteness of a hydrogen bomb.

    Understanding the battlefields:
    I am quite sure you are better than we are at negotiating the mine field that is the internet, especially blogs. We're old. But we've noticed things there that perhaps you are not aware.
    For instance, as you know, when a person sets up a blog site, he immediately invites his friends to that site, creating a network. His friends may be college chums, regional friends in a certain locale, or issue-oriented colleagues. (None of my friends, or VB's, or St George's even know of this site, or that we are associated with it. There's a reason for this.)
    When I come to your sites I can see your blogroll, as well as any associations of bloggers with whom you might network...the Minnesota Conservatives, Virginia Student Progressives, Bacchi Ball Enthusiasts of eastern Oregon, etc. In nature blog sites are forums for the exchange of ideas among people with similar interests, and a way to disseminate to others within your circle information they may not have. When you read Michelle Malkin or Matt Drudge, or hear it first on Limbaugh, you pass this new news on to your network, just in case they missed it. When global warming supporters issue yet another questionable finding you immediately go to a known credible watch-dog site, read their take on it, then pass that on, plus your own observations. Some of you are quite good at it, very dedicated, and quite talented. We've seen. You also have Snopes or some other fact-checking site bookmarked. What we have here, then, is a dissemination of information and really little more. There is no call to action or arms, real or implied among conservatives. The idea among conservatives and most other normal people still seems to be that knowledge is power. Tain't so. Just ask the Jews of Europe.
    Left wing networks spread information around differently than conservative sites do. We here at the Sands Institute are trying to unravel this network, for the Right has nothing like it. It is sinister, dark, but also well funded and pretty good at accomplishing goals. There truly is an invisible hand(s) coursing information through their veins in ways that is unknown to you, with the intent of stirring immediate action, not merely disseminating information. Some blogs are those invisible hands, sending to other, intermediate "management" blogs, then to others who are mere conduits (the mules), to the end of the cycle where we find action cells. Throughout there is an implied call to action...although for the most part, that action is little more than taking the information a level or two deeper, and raising the decibel level. But it almost always ends up in the computer of an "action agent" who will move to a phone call, a letter, organize a mob with signs, or head a local action group taking a petition to city council to impeach George Bush, or prompting John Murtha to stand before a microphone calling Marines murderers. Murtha's office, as well as those who could call him personally, had hundreds of calls from these unknown sources before he strode out to that microphone.
    Trust me, the original disseminators, the invisible hands, know these things are all lies. They are not the useful idiots. They are players. But they also know the well-placed, hard hitting lie today, if repeated often enough, and quickly enough (rat-a-tat-tat), will have legs that will stand long past that lie being exposed, several months later. They also know they have that army to give it legs.
    We spotted some of this little tactic in researching the genesis of the Haditha lies. The original Time Magazine Haditha story itself was a speculation, nothing more. It only insinuated a mass killing. Rumors. Maybe. Maybe not. I thought it was innocuous. The writer wrote it from his hotel in Baghdad relying on emails and accounts from people, it turned out, who were Sunni partisans (working for the BBC!)  posing as a humanitarian group. However, within 48 hours of this story hitting the news stands (where it made no real impression on its own), the story was all over the internet blogosphere of a mass murder. There can be no doubt that this had been planted and distributed in advance. It was from those internet sources, not Time Magazine, that John Murtha got his "facts". It would be several weeks before Time would come back to follow up on the story, after no doubt calculating that it would be in their best interest to run with the story rather than recant it. They still had no concrete facts. By then the story had taken on a life of it own...with not one single "fact" proven or perhaps even provable. The lie became truth and stayed truth long after it had been proved a lie.
     The manipulators knew well the vanities of its puppets, and the short attention spans, and ultimate passivity, of the public. (We've all seen this is real life, or maybe even profited from it, as when Mom says don't drink any more soft drinks, but when you walk brazenly by with another in your hand, she looks up, then immediately has to decide if she wants to stop and drop what she's doing in order to punish you, or let it pass. Many of you know this thought process. Invariably (except with my mother) you not only win, but you come away with a new hat full of knowledge you can exploit in the future. The public, alas, is like your mother, not mine. They let thing slide...if it requires an effort.
       This is instructive as to the power, and also the synchronization, of the Left wing blogosphere. They are interconnected in ways you are not. On deeper analysis we can see the "community action" work of people like Sol Alinksy, updated for the internet. (Alinsky's book, by the way, is a must reference, for while his inspiration may have been Karl Marx, and his goal Socialism, his tactics are there for all, even conservatives to use. Besides, we have the majority on our side, something Alinsky could never have.).
       We're trying to break the code of this synchronization (Bushmills smells Soros) and believe it to be similar to the way Al Qaeda forms cells, which itself was taken from the way Algerian separatists formed their cells against the French in the late 1950s, where everyone has a network of only a few, with perhaps only one link or contact outside that network. About this research we will be more discreet, for there is much still to be learned, but this network is "geometric" in design and thought. Very clever, very sophisticated.
 
    Picking the Fight and Site: First, get a toy wooden pistol. I'll explain. Not everyone will let you in, or allow you stay. First you have to register, with a password, you know the drill. (Recommendation: Take a name that is distinctive and easy to Google. If you have something clever to say, it will get around more quickly.)
    The further you move up the Leftwing food chain the more difficult to get in and get a response. A lot of prominent people have blogs, Right and Left. But they also have followers who cling to those blogs. Don't expect to go to Keith Olbermann's blog at dailyKos and expect him to respond when you call him out on some lie. He's long gone by then. But what you will find there are his sycophants, chewing up and regurgitating what Keith said in pretty much the same way 'Bama fans did at the ESPN game blog before the Florida game. How many ways can you say "we gonna win, we gonna win"?
    What kind of sites? Any blog site that has a popular following has groupies.They are good place to graze, as well as just read to get a sense of the style and tenor of the Enemy. DailyKos has a lot of vanity among its site managers as well as some of their regular bloggers, so after awhile, they may even join in themselves. If they do, carve a notch in you pistol. But they may also decide to block you. Don't fret, and don't worry about the notch. You've just been acclaimed as better than them. Move on.
    They are at the top of the food chain, exceeded only by the science and academic blogs, which, unless you're ready for the Bigs, you don't need to try. (We would like to see some of the conservative and ethics- based science blogs get a little more involved in the blogs of the Other Side. Perhaps, if we can kick up enough dust at the mid-to-lower levels of the blogsophere, here, they'll be inspired to jump in.)
    Then there are the regular run-of-the-mill issue-oriented or generalist progressive Left wing blogs, the mules. Just Google "anti-war Blogs" and you'll come up with 100's. The same if you Google "anti-Christian", or "progressive blogs". As I said, pick a subject. These are harder to break into (but worth the try, we recommend 2-3 tries a week) for the the same reasons conservative blogs are difficult to break into. They are there for the writer's own amusement and the use of a close circle of friends. They really don't care what other people think and don't want to join a debate, and are rarely at the computer more than an hour or so a day. If you can get in, and get anything started, carve a notch. Many however, are a little higher up in that cell-network I described, above. They are part of the chain, which is why we want to probe them. They are mid-level handlers. We are hoping to be able to out them by following their traffic patterns in the near future. As an aggravation, I want you to try to hit two-three a month. Just don't expect results. (See our Feedback notes below.)
    There are also open-forum sites, such as Glumbert (Canadian), eBaumsworld, and of course YouTube, where people all over the world come to watch funny videos. These are no-holds-barred forums, a magnet for bottom feeders, but as my colleague Streamline found out, a place where you can debate in front of literally hundreds of people as an audience. Making the other side look like liars, wrong, stupid, or just childish in front of a crowd is a very good, and if you're a Christian, healing thing, for there is nothing that can more quickly cause a miscreant to go look at himself in the mirror as when he's been made the fool in front of others. Rule: Always be aware that others, who aren't commenting, are nonetheless "listening". Many times, they, and not your foil, should be the real objects of your argument. Once you established your mark (a grifter's term), start preaching to the audience.
    Most of these videos are innocuous. You've probably had a few sent to you, but never checked the chatter. Many however, poke fun at Bush (a lot). I suspect Sarah Palin is there, too, and poor gullible, stupid Christians are the object of many videos. As well as the Japanese.?? Videos that are as old as two years are still getting new looks, so the comments there can be fairly recent. Rule: We recommend you stay with comment streams that are only a few hours old.
    Every day you will find a new insult to either your religion, your country, or Truth. Debates (sic) are basically in real time, almost like chat rooms. And you will find very early on a gang of people commenting in each of them, who roam the territory almost as if it were their own, with some really nasty language. You can make your own profiles of these people (an interesting hobby, by the way), a couple I've seen are certifiable and worthy of study by psychologists (There's something about the give-and-take of these mobs that reminds me of Capote's In Cold Blood  and makes me thank God they aren't all out together in a car on a Saturday night caper. There's a sinister synergy there. This type of imagery will also pop up in some of the political and anti-war blogs, and dailyKos. It gives you an idea of the caliber of minds that are driving the lower ranks of the Left. Tolkein may have had it right. They are orcs. Taken from behind those computers some of those people could be real storm troopers, not just yapping wannabes.) One of my colleagues has had a great deal of success in dealing with one of these mobs. Oh, they still roam free, but they are a little afraid of him. But what's more important, when he started he was an army of one. Now he is an army of  five or more, and two of their original seven or eight have disappeared. Where did they go? Got a job on day shift? Grew up? Got bored? (Rule: Most Lefties are bullies, and really don't like the taste of someone else's knuckles.)
    We also think SodaHead is a good place to look, as you can start your own fights simply by posing a question for their poll. Or you can join in on other issues that appeal to you. Pay attention to when posts have been made, for when people leave one of these polls, unlike eBaumsworld or Glumbert, they stay gone. It can dry up very quickly. I also noticed on this site that there are almost as many Right wing idiots as there are Lefties..so it's a good place to see many of your own closely-held beliefs mirrored by some genuine low-lifes.

 3: LOBBING THE FIRST STONE:
    Rule:  Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Most Lefties state their opinions as facts, engaging in what has become the most dangerous and most craven lie in America today. It is a disease. (See Bushmills' article.). I generally tell our Scat Patrol to leave opinions alone unless they are based on "facts" that clearly are not true. A simple inquiry, "Is that an opinion or statement of fact?" will get a quick answer. The untruth is always the best foot in the door, as you already have its author on the ropes. All you have to do is practice until your entry becomes an art form. Rule: Don't save your best swing for last. Sucker punches won't work for very long. You are the heavyweight. They are the 90-pound weakling. It's just for you to proclaim it. Be ready and able to hit their first pitch out of the park. Trust me, you can.
    Rule: Try to make a comment in as close to real time as you can, so that reply comments can be read and answered by you. The best debate is one that lasts an hour or more, so once engaged, stay committed. Always make the other guy break it off.
    Rule:  Once in, plan to stay. Lefties tend to be quitters if they think you're getting the best of them. Make them break it off. Then check tomorrow, same time, perhaps even at another posting on the blog. They like to jump from subject to subject (or video to video) as a form of evasion. If you caused them to break off the fight last time, they won't be glad to see you, and since, they too are often guests on the site, they really can't get you tossed. (This by the way is a thing people who own their own blog site can do. They can look over, then expel any comments they don't want to appear in public. Conservatives also do this. We've long wanted conservatives to cut the filters and allow more scatalogical language and arguments onto their sites, so long as the arguments are substantive.) Rule: One thing a scat-tongued cusser hates most is when you can beat him without using a single m-f'r, g-d, or c-s'r. "Oh thou shite-ing bovine!" We don't disapprove of limited profanity, but it must be cleverly placed and inserted, preferably just under the rib cage. Once you've made contact and gained points (remember your pistol?) check every day to see if this guy shows up again. Usually he will. But if he doesn't, you might even search his name as he may well go to other places, as well. One of our Scat-men tracked one guy to another site. He hated it when our guy showed there, too. His worst nightmare: knowing he's being dogged. Finally he may even change his ID, re-register, and come right back. So look for similarities among newbies when an oldie suddenly disappears.

    Setting the Hook: An Example
    What you are trying to "hook" (this is a lot like trout fishing in that you often have to try a lot of casts, and even tie on different flies before you can get them to rise to the bait...hence my internet ID, Chumm or Chummin)...is a writer caught in a lie, or a position that philosophically is contradictory with his stated position. For instance, it doesn't take long, a few questions at most, to fillet away the "invasion" or "illegality", "war for oil" arguments of the Left about Iraq. Forget about winning those points, i.e. changing their minds. That's not how you "win" in these fights. They think that's where you are going, so, when you cite the exact language of Congress' authorization, they will (most likely) come back with the Bush-Lied-WMD refrain (thus, in their minds, invalidating Congress vote, although Congress had several chance to do just that very thing, but never would). At this juncture you can bring up, however you choose to use it, the fact that their notion of illegality then, is a figment of their own creation, perhaps because of narcissism, stupidity, clairvoyance, pick your pathology. They are deathly afraid of being shown to be stupid, by the way...a classic sign of insecurity.
    It only takes three or four back-and-forth's, you providing official records, them citing anti-war sites, even Al Jeezera. They think it's done, and are about to retire, and you hit them with the big ones. Make it personal.  (We use this to great effect, it's part of our stock arsenal.)  "Hey, one of the things that has always made Americans different to every other country in the world is that we have always been willing to lay down our lives for our neighbors. People we don't know. (Cite John 15:13). There are thousands of white crosses in France from WWI and WWII. And over 600,000 white men died in the Civil War freeing a colored people most had never even seen before.
     "Are you saying you disapprove of this? Would you rush to the aid of your neighbor if you saw thugs beating him up next door, or would you just cower under your desk? Would you at least call 9-1-1? We just freed 25 million Iraqis. Are you say thing this is a bad thing?" (Remember, other are watching.)     
      At this point you own the floor, for there is no honorable retreat for the Leftie. He can't admit he's a physical coward. (He usually is.) He can't say he wouldn't lift a finger to save his neighbor. (He wouldn't.) He can't say he's really in favor of totalitarian thuggery, as Saddam imposed. He can't say he a Terror-Symp (although indirectly he is).  All he can come back with is "Well, the Arabs can't handle democracy. It's not in their world view." (We can prove otherwise, by the way.) At which you counter that little bit of condescension with a "That's exactly what the State of Virginia said all the way up until 1968 about black people. Are you sure you want to stand on that?"
     As you strip away each level of veneer from this person, you've laid bare his soul. He/she may be socialist, a communist, but most are little more than "me-ists" defining themselves entirely by what they hate. What they know of Marx you can write on the back of a postage stamp. What they hate is America, God, or a host of other things that are attainable by everyone. Their mantra is: If the masses can get it, we hate it. These are alienists, with a hole in their soul.
     The good news is that many, even most, will grow out of it. But many won't.

 4. STYLES OF ARGUMENT
     "Do unto others...". It's true, you will be well advised to avoid arguing in the same manner as that which makes your own spine stiffen. I know a head of an English Department, old-fashioned Liberal NOL (Not of the Left), who, when backed into a corner in an argument will  lead a parry with "As everyone knows..." meaning of course, if you don't know it, you're as dumb as a bag of rock. This line of attack is merely annoying when used by an arrogant so-and-so, but downright insulting when that thing that "everyone knows" ain't even so, as we see now especially in the Al Gore approach to selling man-made climate change. He does that all the time, and if he weren't a former vice-president protected by Secret service, I'd knock his block off. In fact, I whispered to one of my friends, who got caught in the cross hairs of one of those insipidities at a dinner party recently, "Go ahead, slug him. I can get you off. No jury would ever convict you."
     Condescending arrogance is the first shelter of the know-nothing. Watch for it. Rule: Just don't use it yourself, except as parody or satire. (They hate being mocked...effectively. It is the quickest way to make them change their manner of speaking.)
     Most Lefties argue with the ad hominum and the strawman. Hitler used the Jews, Lefties use Halliburton, Carl Rove, etc. They even use "capitalism" as one, even though few can tell you what it is. Every issue the Left raises begs for a deeper inquiry into 1) their knowledge system...what they actually know about a thing, say, progressivism, liberalism, Marxism, socialism, the Constitution (which most insist they love and defend), 2) their belief system...what they truly believe about these things, and 3) their reason system, i.e., their ability to put two and two together; their ability to see logical consequences. Conservatives own this field of battle, if we'll just go there.

5: WINNING
   By opening these closets and laying bare their skeletons, Leftists will generally fall into two categories: Deceptors and self-deceptors.
The first group, Deceptors, are committed Marxists, socialists, or maybe only opportunistic Me-ists seeking to be part of the power grab  now going on (It is a sweet job, if you can get it...to be on the management side of socialism.) They know what they are saying is a libel, and they also know where you are trying to lead them...into a trap. Don't look for confessions from this group. Don't expect them to change their minds. Your target is the audience. Your arguments, against an unseen audience of say 50, may cause 5-10 to become doubters. That's the best you can hope to do...but that's pretty good. But even the Deceptors will come away with a sense that they had lost ground. It is dispiriting to have your real game revealed. Just remember, debating a true socialist is not the same as debating a pretender. These are the ones with something to lose if they are exposed.
    Self-deceptors, the far more numerous, are easier to cause to stumble for many of the questions you will ask them will be the first time they'd encountered it. Just what is a fascist? A communist? Did Stalin really do that? Did George Bernard Shaw actually write that?
    Of course, all these "I didn't know that's..." are subliminal, unspoken, but one of the great lessons of human kind is that only a very, very few who are proved wrong will ever stand on a peach crate and announce it to the world. Most will simply and quietly change their behavior.
    That's how you know you are winning, by picking up in their tone, cadence, and language that they've started thinking about things differently. Remember, you are not out to smite these people. You first want to win them over, or get them to retreat from the field. You are doing God's work in this regard. You have offered up the hope of redemption (secularly speaking). When those have all been sorted out...then we smite the rest.
    We like the use of clever one-liners to go along with your factual arguments, and suggest you make a list. This may sound incongruous from the length of this article, but after all, this is little more than a one-hour lecture. (In fact, you have my permission to take this Guide, condense it, alter it into more a form more suitable to your needs), and hold your own lectures or group session. You can even do so without attribution. Just spread the word.)
    As part of my arsenal, to go along with my experiences, I have a collection of notes, Chesterton's quotes, The Portable Curmudgeon, 2548 Best Things Anyone Ever Said, The Cynics Lexicon, a couple of books on foreign language quotes, including Latin. Bushmills is a fiend for Mark Twain, but he also has a lot of direct Moses Sands quotes. The internet is full of great quotes that might be worthy of use. We even have a couple of stock terms, such as dixit insipiens (thus spake the fool), Oh Thou Shite-ing Bovine, even Bolshevik! which VB uses in lieu of b-s from time to time. Even Shostakoich sounds like a swear word.
   If you write a good argument, even a single line, save it for future use. Pass it around, in fact. Most of your colleagues will give you the footnote credits. We also try to. (You can see what we're trying to start here. Huh? Close you eyes and look forward a few years.) Getting a reputation online can be valuable, as a few Lefties may want to come gunning for you.
   If you haven't already gathered, it's obvious, for our purposes that you enter these frays as a group, a Scat-patrol of sorts. One of you may scout a site, then move in, then bring in others as the debate picks up heat, or go in a swarm. Since you will always live to fight another day, you can try several approaches just to see which works best. Or, you may be a solo hot-shot pilot. A lonely sentinel. (That's how my friend in Georgia does it.) Some want to create a personna, while others may (one I know, who's hooked on Batman) want to use a different ID each and every sortie...always just a joust, a jab, and pain in the jaw, then a shadow.

6: FEEDBACK
    Which leaves to why do this at all...and first among firsts is that you satisfy certain inner needs; being a part of a real fight  against Evil, which, trust me, is far more rewarding than exchanging holier-than-thou quips about the stupidity of liberals with your mates. As to style, we have patrol members who like Batman, the Scarlett Pimpernel, Zorro, but also the Mag Seven, Kurisawa, Legalos...make you own list.
    But our Movement really does need this. These people need to be shown they cannot have the internet highway as their private domain. We can take that away from the, in the process, neutralizing many of their soldiers. The remainders can be made to retreat, further and further back into more protective recesses, but what you will have done, say in five years, will have interrupted some of their action-based communication system, and perhaps equally as important, lessened the power of their noise. You will have made the wheel less squeaky, which in turn, will make the next move to the microphone by the likes of John Murtha less likely. Politicians should always be afraid, but the Constitution wants them to be afraid of the Good...which right now, they are not.
     You may even want to launch a counter-offensive. If so, I wish you'd go after Chuck Schumer for that bombshell he dropped causing the run on IndyMac back in August. Look at the trickle down on that little criminal act. The California attorney general is said to be looking into it...just as the Ohio attorney general is said to be looking into the public release of Joe the Plumber's personal files. See!!!!! That''s the difference the other side made. Schumer and Brunner would have been gone by now, in jail, jail, jail, had our side had the energy, not to mention to the cause of right, that the Lefties do.
      But there will be other chances. Watch and wait. And build your networks, 2-3-4-5 at a time.

     What we need at SICCM is your feedback. No attaboys, mind you, real feedback as to what's going on. St George Frederick is in the Balkans right now, but when he returns he's going to open a new page at GreatAmericanZeroes.com to celebrate any and all of you who go out and pick fights with these cretins. I'm not sure how that page will be set up, but it is his first priority in January. We need you to let us know what's going on. Just go there and email us a link, or any other kind of after action so we can watch how you're doing. We may even send some our old scat-patrols over. Expect some failures and some slip-ups. Be able to handle rejection. You may or may not want to let us know about your failures, but we do hope to do a statistical work-up in  a year or so.
     With that,
     Good Hunting

Bernard Chumm