TACTICS THAT WORK

Easy to Implement
TACTICS THAT WORK
Are you tired of getting the slats kicked out of youby anti-rights bigots, corrupt politiciansand hopelessly biased media?Take the offensive with these Rights Preservers!

Dinner GroupsWith a close friend or two, make a short list of upstanding, reasonable folks you know, invite them to dinner (separate checks) and discuss “issues that concern us as free people.”Harnesses the Right to Assemble, and the power of brainstorming, automatically creates synergy, leads to multiple plans of action, easy, and the food's good.Learn More: Easy organizing, cool dinner tricks, followup plans----------------------------American Freedom Essay ContestAsk your child’s teacher to introduce this simple, fun and educational contest that teaches schools why freedom is important and the enemies of freedom.Brings to schools a compelling Bill of Rights discussion, inexpensive to sponsor, teachers, students and parents learn.Learn More: Executive Summary, PDF brochure, student and judge instructions.---------------------------- Cartridge Family BandsLots of rights advocates are musicians, so gather a bunch and throw together some political songs or parodies, which communicate superbly and attract media attention.Songs communicate better than anything, lightens things up, brings smiles, fun for you and audience. Swap songs with Cartridge Family bands in other cities.Learn More: See what the original Cartridge Family band has done.---------------------------- TUG MeetingsAll it takes is a few dedicated activists to invite all the local gun-rights groups to a big pow wow (“the umbrella group”) for huge synergy and activism.You call one member of each group, go to dinner, make a steering group e-list, pick a date, invite everyone. National groups are generally cooperative. Pretty easy, very effective.Coming soon: How-to-TUG essay, meeting review by the 2,000-mile-away man.---------------------------- Billboard CampaignsSmaller, city street billboards are remarkably affordable (about $125/month) and allow you to get the message out that the mainstream ignores.Sticks messages suppressed by the mainstream media right into the public's eye, generates publicity, exercises free speech.Learn More: Images of billboards in Phoenix, EZ how-to instructions, swell messages to use.---------------------------- The Liberty PollDesigned to make politicians sweat, use these razor sharp questions the media avoids to get at the truth from elected officials, reporters and bureaucrats.This joint effort of columnist Vin Suprynowicz (Libertarian Candidate for Vice President), author Alan Korwin and attorney Mike Anthony is breathtaking.Learn More: The Liberty Poll, and all the juicy backup questions.----------------------------Take a Hoplophobe ShootingMany anti-rights people unknowingly suffer from a medical condition, morbid fear of guns (hoplophobia), which is often cured by some range time and a .22.Never start a newcomer with a .44; many hoplophobes chill out when someone provides a chance to safely shoot. You know, you could ask a friend to go enjoy a shoot too.Coming soon: That great piece about the nervous woman who thought she was going to die on the whole ride to the range, and ended by asking for more ammo.----------------------------Legislative Drafting CommitteeDream up, draft and introduce new bills that support freedom and your rights, or else suffer solely under the legislative onslaught of the anti-rights crowd.Check out the ideas in “Sunshine Gun Laws” and from various state associations that have had successes.Coming soon: Lists of good bill ideas, sample language, resources
Get alerts automatically about proposed federal gun laws, good and bad.----------------------------Join the Not-ChoirStop preaching to the choir, go and listen to the other side. Join a group whose ideas offend your sensibilities and learn how they think and why. This is not easy.You have to fight your principals in the first place to pay for admission, and you have to be able to sit, quiet, in the face of often outrageous affronts to your sensibilities and liberties, but you get to see what makes them tick, learn how to clean their clocks, and once in a while inject a little reasonable curiosity, with a well placed innocent question or two. How about, "If guns are so bad, why do we give them to the police?" ----------------------------FIJA—the Fully Informed Jury ActAnything you can do to let people know how robust their rights and duties are in a jury is valuable.A linchpin of freedom is the ability, right and duty of a jury of your neighbors (peers) to decide if you're guilty of a crime, and if the law you're charged under is fair or even desireable. It means that true power remains in the hands of the people, not the hands of the system. It's the crux.Learn More: Visit fija.org.----------------------------Gun Policy ForumOK, this isn't quite so easy. But a group of you can get a library auditorium, book panelists, invite the press and everyone, and run your own show on the issues.Certainly beats going to a trumped up anti-rights presentation carefully orchestrated by "officials" who infringe your liberties, and other riff raff.Learn More: Our most recent was the 10th Anniversary of CCW banquet. Everyone came armed, service was slow, and the waiters all lived. Go figure.----------------------------Make a PR List AlreadyTake out a yellow pad, and start writing down the names of reporters who cover the issues. Get their outlet's address, fax and email, and set up to use your list. Start with today's paper.Free speech belongs to those who use it; You don't get media coverage when they don't hear from you; even when they get it wrong some good leaks through.----------------------------Use Cartoons MoreThink about the ironies or injustice of modern society, government and the people, and have a local caricaturist express it as line art.Find caricaturists at malls, tourist spots, state fairs, they're inexpensive, really good, can turn your dull essays into compelling images, if you'd but think that way.----------------------------Attend Gun BuyupsYou're still free in most of America to buy a firearm from another person. Exercise this right at tax-funded gun buyups, cherry picking the goods pre-smelter.It really ticks off the elitist operators of these events, is usually legal (check locally first of course), attracts media for a few good sound bites, saves historic pieces, builds your collection.----------------------------Booklets on HalloweenYou can give out candy like everyone else, or be different and put a booklet in each kid's bag. "The Grandpa Jack" series are eye-openers, or the Constitution.Helps spread the word, makes people think, costs little, stands out.Learn more: The Grandpa Jack cartoon booklets are inexpensive, cover a wide range of topics.----------------------------Don't Waste Time On True BelieversAnd for a lot more time-saving, action-oriented ideas, get Jon Haupt's superb, "Five Minutes to Freedom."Learn more: Download this classic short pamphlet.---------------------------- Discuss the Subject PolitelyAsk, for example, at your barber shop, what they all think of "gun control," and listen back and see. Show interest with a question or two to see if they know anything or are living in mythology.----------------------------Go for the Ink — in the Letters to the Editor ColumnEven if they don't run 'em, the editors have to read 'em, and they have some effect. If they're not running 'em, find out why, change your style, get better, get ink more. Try a one- or two-liner, very effective when you dream up good ones.---------------------------- Stop Winning Debates...... and start Winning Friends and Influencing People. If you win the debate you lose. "A man convinced against his will is of the other opinion still." Get the book (How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie) if you want to advance the cause of freedom.


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