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  HANDBOOK F O R R E B E LL S

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  M A R K M III R A B E LL LL O

  Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws

  Resisting Tyrants, Hangmen, and Priests

  Mark L. Mirabello, Ph.D. Professor of European History Shawnee State University (USA)

  Copyright © 2009

  First Edition

  Copyright 2009 by M L Mirabello and Mandrake of Oxford

  All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form by any means electronic or mechanical, including xerography, photocopying, microfilm, and recording, or by any information storage system without permission in writing from the author.

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  Contents

  Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------ 6

  A-Z of Rebels and Outlaws: Blasphemy; Terrorism (History and Practice); Megaterrorism (Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Nuclear Weapons); Survivalism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Non-Violent Resistance (Hunger Strike, General Strike, Civil Disobedience); The "Temporary Autonomous Zone"; Communications, Clandestine; The Revolutionary Cell ; The Assassin in History; "Dirty War" and the State ; Coup d'Etat (Theory and Practice); Secret Police (Techniques and Tricks); Deception in War (Theory and Practice); Guerillas, Partisans, and Asymmetric Warfare (History and Practice); The Urban Guerilla; The Bandit and Pirate in History and Legend; Mafias and Organized Crime; White-Collar Crime (Non-Violent Crime); Violent Crime ; Tyranny in History (Four Types Of); The Police in History; The Informant in History; Evidence (Physical and Eye-Witness); State-Sanctioned Killing; Torture (History and Practice); Prison and Punishment; Escape form “Controlled Custody”; Techniques of the Fugitive ------------------- 9

  Extended bibliography --------------------------------------------------- 330

  Dedicated to Paul Joseph Mirabello, the “master of those who know.”

  This book is intended for historical reference only.

  A special thanks to John Leo Kelley, a professor emeritus of history at Shawnee State University, Jennifer Reed, a graduate student at the University of Northern Kentucky, and Jennifer Sheroian, an independent scholar, for their comments and criticisms. I must also thank Regina Baranski Mirabello, Bradley Sheroian, Paula Sheroian, Stacey Sheroian, Ashley Sheroian, Donald Sheroian, Neil Reed, Jennifer Foster, Jill Gardner, Laura Munion, and Mogg Morgan.

  At the time of writing, gold costs 5,900 dollars per pound, cocaine costs

  61,000 dollars per pound, and pamidronic acid, an anti-cancer drug, costs

  133,043 dollars per pound.

  The price of the ingredients to make one pound of pamidronic acid is twenty-three dollars.

  In today’s world, what is a crime?

  “Everyone would work for everyone else; there would be no more war; and the whole world would be turned into one big jolly factory without an owner, and with playgrounds attached....You say youwant to makemen brothers. What you really want is to make them ants.”

  Rex Warner. The Professor

  “After all, the United States fought one of the bloodiest civil conflicts in history little more than a century ago. We know that it can happen here because it has.”

  Roy Licklider. Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End.

  “I foresee that man will resign himself to new abominations, that soon only soldiers and bandits will be left.”

  Jorge Luis Borges. The Garden of Forking Paths

  INTRODUCTION

  This work—the Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws—is a book about freedom. Written for intellectual swashbucklers–men and women who are radicals in politics and infidels in religion–warriors who hammer the stake of fear into the heart of tyranny–this volume belongs in select book collections, between the black magic and the pornography texts.

  Designed as a reference book for the enemies of all orthodoxies and despotisms, the Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws contains much information that is not beautiful. The reader must remember, however, that brutality is a fact in nature. When the autumn comes—observe the Chinese— no leaf is spared because of its beauty, and no flower is spared because of its fragrance.

  The information detailed here has been excavated from diverse sources. I have quarried the writings of philosophers and fiends, saints and mass murderers, sages and madmen, beneficent societies and sinister conventicles, illuminated religions and blasphemous cults.

  Why have I used evil sources? According to a traditional teaching— this one found among Kabbalahists—the wise man can learn from any source—even a thief. The thief is ever watchful, he takes every opportunity, and he does not despise the least gain.

  Besides, as the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges pointed out, “In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendor.”

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  This work–it is important to emphasize– is not an instruction manual for criminals. Frankly, in the current age–an era of depravity that the Hindus call the “Age of Kali”—violating laws is unnecessary. In the proper “context,” all crime is legal in our corrupt civilization.

  Do you like to lie? Become a journalist. Do you like to slander the dead? Become a historian. Do you like to libel the species? Become a novelist.

  Are you an authoritarian? Do you like to degrade, humiliate, and dominate others? Become a prison warden–or an elementary school teacher.

  Are you a sadist? Are you excited by the agonized shrieks of helpless beings? If you like to torture animals to death, become a kosher butcher. If you like to torture people to death–to poison, burn and cut them with impunity— become an oncologist.

  Do you enjoy doing evil and spreading terror? If killing strangers from behind with a knife, a garrote, or your naked hands arouses you, become a military commando. If mass murder is your interest–if exterminating thousands of people like germs and insects pleases you—become a combat pilot. Or–if you prefer to kill without danger to your own person–find employment in an abortion clinic. Over his career, one abortion pioneer in Canada personally killed more than thirty thousand unborn humans!

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  Finally, this clarification must be made: although the Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws is a book about freedom, in a real sense pure and unsullied “freedom” does not exist. In the words of one anarchist writer—Yves Fremion, the author of Orgasms of History–only “liberation” exists, and “liberation” has no final stage. It is a “process of ongoing amelioration.”

  But if the struggle is perpetual–if there will always be statute laws and moral codes, straitjackets and leg irons, priests and hangmen–what is the point of rebellion? And what is the point of outlawry?

  “Victory,” to cite Yves Fremion again, “comes in the form of the oppressors never feeling safe and secure and of tyrants living everywhere in a state of fear.”

  Besides, although they are always reviled and crucified in life, rebels and outlaws become cultural icons in death. Refusing to be slaves–refusing to toil and obey–these men and women–their short lives enriched by vengeance and loot—inspire our legends and shape our hopes.

  MAXIMS OF THE REBEL AND THE OUTLAW

  1. Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen.

  2. Do not believe anything until it has been officially denied.
r />   3. Remember the words of Frederick the Great of Prussia: “he who defends everything defends nothing.”

  4. Remember Aleister Crowley’s warnings: your friend can do more harm than a stranger and the greatest danger lies in your own habits.

  5. Keep plans simple. Do not take unnecessary risks. Trust only what you control.

  6. Follow the wisdom of Sun Tzu, and always provide the enemy with an escape route. When surrounded, even a rodent will fight ferociously.

  7. Know that when you fight alone and on foot, you are the most difficult target to locate on the battlefield. Your intelligence makes you the stealthiest of all weapons.

  8. If you must die fighting, have an audience.

  9. Never forget that dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy.

  A-Z of Rebels and Outlaws

  ACTION

  Action is all-important. According to a Neo-Confucian maxim, “To know and not to act is not yet to know.”

  AFGHANISTAN

  A harsh country populated by implacable warriors, Afghanistan has been called the “grave of empires.”

  The tribal code in Afghanistan is based on loyalty and revenge. The Pashtun teach their children to be aggressive, to lie to avoid punishment, and to fear only public humiliation.

  In 1839 the British Empire invaded Afghanistan, ousted the leader, and installed a puppet government. The victory seemed complete, but smallscale fighting continued.

  In 1842 Kabul rose up, and the British promised to withdraw, under a promise of safe passage.

  Approximately 16,500 people–British Empire soldiers and camp followers–left the city. Ruthlessly harried during their retreat, only one person in the group, a British surgeon named William Brydon, would survive to reach the British fortress at Jalalabad.

  In the twentieth century, the brave Afghans helped destroy the awesome Soviet Empire. Fighting a classic “guerrilla war of a thousand cuts” against the Soviet invaders, the Afghans ambushed convoys, mined roads, and destroyed bridges and railroads. They struck at night, in the rain, when the enemy was eating, or when the enemy had just finished marching. The Afghan guerrillas attacked aircraft on the ground, the power supply, dams, bridges, pipelines, isolated posts, convoys, and the enemy’s ammunition and fuel.

  AFLATOXIN

  A lethal substance—allegedly used by illicit secret police forces—aflatoxin is found in fungus-infested wheat and peanut crops.

  Aflatoxin causes swift death in high concentrations. In low doses, however, aflatoxin causes flu-like symptoms in the victim, who then develops cancer years later.

  Since one-fourth of the people now alive in the industrialized world will die of cancer, the aflatoxin murder does not appear suspicious.

  Oddly, although medical science cannot cure cancer, it knows how to cause the disease.

  AFRICA

  A great continent with the same surface area as the Moon, Africa is only fifteen miles from Europe.

  It is said that diamonds, ivory, and women are the gifts of Africa. For five centuries, the Europeans ravaged the “Slave Coast” and seized as many as twenty-four million people. About fifteen million survived the slave trade to toil in thralldom.

  So many were taken away that the Africans believed that the Europeans were cannibals who ate blacks. Mungo Park, the Scottish explorer, referred to the “deeply rooted idea that the whites purchased Negroes for the purpose of devouring them, or of selling them to others, that they may be devoured hereafter.” According to rumors, blood became wine, brain became cheese, skin became black shoe leather, and African bones were burned until they became the gray powder used in gunpowder.

  AGENT PROVOCATEUR

  Typically sent by the police, an agent provocateur is an undercover operative sent to infiltrate a political or religious group. The agent provocateur tries to incite the group to commit crimes that will discredit them or lead to jail sentences for members.

  Whenever possible, the Russian secret police will try to penetrate a group with two agent provocateurs. Neither agent will know the identity of the other.

  One notorious agent provocateur was George Gapon, a Russian Orthodox priest who led the 1905 “Bloody Sunday” march on the tsar’s Winter Palace in which thousands were massacred. Ultimately, Gapon was exposed and killed by “revolutionaries.”

  AGHORI

  Extreme rebels against convention, the Aghori, called the “fearless ones,” are a group of Hindu anchorites who follow Shiva, the god of death and procreation.

  Drawn to what Joseph Conrad called “the fascination of abomination,” the “fearless ones” carry human skulls as begging bowls, they smear themselves with their own excrement, and they devour bits of charred human corpses at cremations. During the Sepoy Rebellion against the British, the Aghori followed the troops and ate the casualties.

  With their extreme behavior, the “fearless ones” demonstrate that Shiva is all and everything. Nothing, they believe, is outside god. Nothing is horrible or terrible to someone who has overcome all illusions.

  ALEXANDER THE GREAT (356-323 B.C.)

  A celebrated conqueror–ultimately deified as a god–Alexander carved out an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River, from the Punjab to the Sudan.

  In battles, Alexander earned twenty-two victories without a defeat. Because his victories were so overwhelming, his army lost fewer than seven hundred men to the sword.

  ALIAS

  An alias is a false identity.

  Curiously, it is not against the law to use an alias as long as there is no criminal intent. For example, it is legal to use a stage name or pen name as long as the pseudonym is not used in a fraudulent scheme.

  Also, when no sworn oath or signature is involved, it is legal to give incorrect information to others. Prudent people will open all electronic mail accounts under false names.

  ALIAS (CREATION OF)

  There are many ways to create a second identity.

  One basic technique–used by people with foresight–is to take a vacation in the same locality every year. They use a false name–make friendships–establish a reputation–and they are free to assume their “holiday” identity in an emergency.

  To create a fake employment history, list companies on your curriculum vitae that are defunct. Make certain that the companies existed in the time to which you are referring.

  Another technique used to create a second identity is the substitution method. Simply take the identity of a dead person, one who did not leave behind a family.

  Or, assume the identity of someone who died as a child. Ideally, the child should have the same year of birth as you and the same physical characteristics (race, eye color, and so forth).

  Another method–one used only by outlaws–is to steal the identification papers of someone who resembles the outlaw. For this type of crime, a tourist on the street is a good target.

  Of course, stolen documents should never be used in the country of origin. In other words, the outlaw should never travel to Canada on a stolen Canadian passport. He may, however, use the document to travel elsewhere, such as to Africa.

  When creating an alias, never purchase false or forged identification documents. The type of person who forges documents for money will readily betray his customers to the police for a reward.

  ALIAS, OUTLAWS AND

  In the interests of prudence, a resourceful outlaw will establish a second identity. If apprehended, he will try to serve his prison term under the false identity, thereby keeping his true identity unblemished.

  Minority groups who are harassed by society–such as the so-called “gypsies” (the people who speak the Romany language)–often have children delivered under aliases. The gypsies will also have a telephone under one alias, an apartment under a second alias, and an automobile under a third.

  ALIBI

  An alibi is “a claim or a piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an alleged act took place.”

  The best alibi is always a
simple one.

  As crime writer Colin Wilson noted, no one can remember what they were doing on May 9 of last year. He pointed out that an “airtight alibi” always makes the police suspicious.

  AMBUSH

  An ambush is a surprise attack from a concealed position on a moving or a temporarily halted target. The most obvious ambush site is a spatially restricted area that slows traffic, a so-called “choke point.”

  John Kennedy, the slain American president, was killed at a “choke point.”

  Traditionally, Asiatic warriors have been the masters of the ambush. In the American-Vietnamese War, the Viet Cong guerrillas sometimes hid for ten days before launching an ambush.

  In a classic Maoist ambush, a powerful intruder is allowed to enter the position and is then attacked at close range from every direction at once. The enemy cannot call in air or artillery support without hitting his own people. By the time the enemy establishes his bearings, he is facing only rearguard operatives.

  AMIN, IDI (1925-2003)

  An African tyrant, who called himself “His Excellency President for Life,” “Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea,” and “Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular,” Idi Amin terrorized Uganda, the “pearl of Africa,” between 1971 and 1979.

  Amin was ridiculed by some, but was feared by all.

  A master of propaganda, Idi Amin had himself photographed in a sedan chair borne by four underweight Englishmen. A fifth white man–a Swede–carried a sunshade for the dictator.

  ANARCHISM

  In narrow terms, anarchism is the rejection of the state. In broad terms, anarchism is the rejection of coercion and domination in all forms, including that of the priests and the plutocrats.

  The anarchist is a man in revolt. He abominates all forms of authoritarianism, and he is the enemy of parasitism, exploitation, and oppression. The anarchist frees himself from all that is sacred and carries out a vast program of desecration.

  The classic anarchist embraces the convict and the outcast—the socalled subproletariat—and he uses bombs and commits assassinations.

  The classic anarchist believes that the established order is based on crime and murder, so crime and murder are justified. In the words of one anarchist tract: “Our modern civilization is a Moloch temple reared upon the bodies of slaughtered slaves. Let the terrorists do what they will, they cannot equal the crimes of our masters.”