Claire Wolfe

For Historical Context: Claire Wolfe’s First Book

Hang on to your copy of “101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution” if you’re lucky enough to have one, because, like several others by Claire, including “Don’t Shoot The Bastards Yet“, it is now out of print.

Vin Suprynowicz is an editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was one of the first to review Claire’s “101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution”. A very personable gentleman, he rambles a bit to set a context and then in his essay he states:
In her introduction to “101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution,” Claire Wolfe writes:

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we’ve gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. …

“Something’s eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. … Maybe it’ll be one more round of ‘reasonable gun control’ or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from ‘child abuse.’ [i.e Waco] Whatever. Something will snap …

“Until then, what do you do if you … don’t want to be a Good Little Citizen begging an unhearing congresscritter to give back the rights he and his buddies swiped from you? (‘Dear Congressman Baron: You’re such a busy and important person, I’m sure this little matter has just slipped your mind temporarily. But 90 percent of the federal government is unconstitutional. … I’m sure you’ll want to abolish all the unauthorized agencies and programs right away. Please don’t forget to repeal all the illegal laws and get rid of the taxes while you’re at it’ …”)

Ms. Wolfe’s “101” answers are useful, and thoroughly entertaining. From shifting your meager assets to where that junkie with the million-dollar-a-minute habit, Uncle Sam, can’t lay hands on them, to preserving and storing enough food and water to last you through any extended shutdown of the government and commercial services, to the proper
way to bury your guns should blanket confiscation loom (as in Australia right now), this common-sense guide never loses its sense of humor and perspective.

It’s blissfully free of the delusion that the system can still be reformed, but also of those tedious ramblings about U.N. conspiracies and biblical prophesy that clog so much of what passes for “survivalist” literature these days.

If you’re just starting to realize the “police” gang is unlikely to protect you in times of real disorder — that you’d better break down and buy some firearms to protect your home and loved ones — where do you start?

“101 things” has the specific, well-thought-out answers.

Hardyville Tales:

When “Don’t Tread On Me” Meets “For Your Own Good”

ONCE UPON A TIME …

… there was a town called Hardyville. Truth to tell, it wasn’t much of a place… It didn’t have a single sign of what people in the real world might have called civilization or culture. It was just one dusty intersection with one lone stoplight, a few encircling residential streets, a fair number of surrounding ranches, and a whole lot of nothing, all located in a red-rock valley 600 miles west of the precise geographic middle of nowhere.

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