text: I agree with Scot's sentiments and tactics for this group 100%. APIII's national role in networking and sharing best practices should not be compromised by trying to make it something different.But I want to post an e-mail I got this morning from another wise patriot, and also my response to it."You know, John, there are certain words and phrases that just trigger the hell out of other people. For example, if I were to use the word "nigger", in normal conversation, very few people would hear anything else I was saying. A perfectly good word, in the right context. But Political Correctness has poisoned that word. Ironically, when I grew up, using the "F-word" would have gotten my mouth washed out with soap (or worse), but the "N-word" was commonly heard and used. Now it's just the opposite. I don't have a problem with the CONCEPT of the "M-word" - in fact, I consider it essential to restoring Freedom. But the word has been poisoned, and sometimes we find ourselves like a drowning man, clinging to an anchor that is sinking us faster than we are able to resist. That word, "militia" is, in my opinion, somewhat akin to holding a "Marriage Enrichment Seminar" at church, and thinking that the F-word is a good way to describe sexual intercourse in marriage. It isn't. When you say the M-word today, you might as well say, "How would you like to join our Vigilante Committee?" It shouldn't take much creativity for us to come up with more marketable terms, such as "Security Team" or "Watch Group", etc. In fact, thinking and operating in small squads ought ti be the norm, because when you get a group of ten,, I reckon you have a 50% chance that you have TWO snitches, either already, or potential when the time is most critical. The M-word is a magnet to snitches. It is for that reason that I would advise anyone wanting to set up such a group to use some kind of cover. I don't care if it's a quilting club or a butterfly watching group. And infiltrating a group is a heck of a lot easier than creating one - then you might have to start learning zoological names or something. LOL. Everyone likes to "play soldier." We feel so brave, strutting around in various patterns of camouflage, and yet we seem to have missed the very concept of not standing out like a turd in the punch bowl. If I had a team of 50 like-minded men in my county, I would encourage five of them to become active participants in ten different groups. I would then seek a monthly report from one person in each group, at a location where no cell phone may even be brought. (Have you watched 2000 Mules yet? After you do, you'll see the necessity of leaving the phone at home.) My experience with M-groups was limited, but I saw so much deception and snitching that when a young patriotic intern doctor went to prison for making a video on silencer from Home Depot materials, I realized that we were attracting too many flies along with the bees, if you get my drift.