This represents an interruption in our entire Pacific shipping channel. The significance to this seems to escape the Occupy kids and seems to have escaped the broader patriot community. However, the fact is that some Occupiers are considering extending the success of this action. If they could pull it off for 60 days then people like us would likely be pulling every trick out of our bugout bags because a lot of the staple foods and commodities we rely on up to about the Mississippi river relies on those shipping channels.

Perhaps more disconcerting than these dry facts is that I have developed a rapport with these young people and I find them thoughtful and imaginative and even receptive to the liberty message but when I questioned them last night, they exhibited a blythe denial I found shocking. In answer to such questions as "do you realize your actions today have upped the cost of basic good and services your community needs?" I got total dismissal: rich people use imported goods and they deserve it.

"OK what about the Longshoremen and truck drivers who got shafted out of a day's pay?" It's for their own good, they should be grateful somebody is standing up for them.

We honestly are talking to a bunch of kids with liberal arts degrees from what I have personally experienced and they are perfectly willing to bring mayhem on you and on me in faith of some nihilistic transformative process. They have absolutely no plan besides unfocussed rage and a seeming instinct to "bring it down" by any and all means necessary.

The are the second most scary thing I have apprehended besides government. What makes it really scary for me is I like these young people. Get them relaxed and just tell some jokes and they are bright and reasonably well-read, they are engaging and literate and they have terrific senses of humor. They are astute and whitty and sparkly and cute and they would kill you and me and not so much as drop a curtsy. "Father forgive them for they know not that we sure as hell won't".

The other thing I got out of debriefing them, which is exactly what I was doing and I told them so, was I discovered how they mobilize and have near-instant effect like we do with one big difference: nobody sees what they do coming:

They operate just like we do with Ron Paul, as one great big body of consensus. Ideas are always getting kicked around in their GAs, their General Assemblies which are unique to every occupation and the ones that catch everybody's attention are the ones that get circulated but they don't do it online.

They actually do it in person, physically sending emmisaries between occupations in planes, trains and automobiles. In other words, their inter-state communication method is actually in-person. They don't have instant coordination, they have OVERNIGHT coordination. It's very effective security: one GA says "we're sending you Bill and here's what he looks like on streaming video and he will be there in 8 hours" so Bill shows up and guess what? He looks like Bill and he sounds like Bill so you know it's Bill. Simple, effective, secure, elegant.

My summary might be that our brother Aaron Russo told us the world to be ready to take part in mass strikes and demonstrations and I kinda think he meant us to take a leading role. I don't chastise us because the Ron Paul thing took us down a completely different path of legitimacy and (thank God) non-violence, and ethic which we now preserve in the face of the Occupy movement. However it causes me to wonder how we are born leaders and we are given, in spirit, the mantle of the spirit and fabric of freedom in the USA. And what it tells me is while we exert teaching in every way we can see, like ernest parents (not meaning Earnest but as we all are ha ha), we can try to see to every need but we always miss the ways we don't see.

There are 1,000,000 ways at least to screw up as parents and sometimes it seems there's only one right way. By sheer process of trial and error we might get it right sometimes. And I'm mindful that children have a shelf-life. Every year and every opportunity we miss, we never get it back. It's gone. They are only young once and for a brief period. 18 years sounds like a lot when you start but by the time it's over, trust me, it happened way too fast.

Well for better or worse, these are the youth of America. In numbers they DWARF our freedom movement. At the best time, we mobilized about 15,000 bodies for the Ron Paul Rally, our culmination of all our hopes and efforts for the '08 elections.

THESE KIDS CAN MOBILIZE UP TO 35,000 IN A SINGLE CITY ON A SINGLE DAY WITH SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS IN EVERY OTHER MAJOR CITY. THEY ARE NUMERICALLY MASSIVE.

Only half-jokingly do I tell them "good thing you guys don't know how to shoot". I am a Mountain Joe and one thing we very seldom are is sobered by news from the world. What is sobering to me is something we know or we think we know but we forgot in all practical application, it's a fact and it's this:

The powers that be operate by our SUFFRANCE. We The People grant PERMISSION TO THEM TO RULE US. And even our kids can choose to let them operate or they or we or any or all of us can simply refuse to allow THEM to operate. And that is power. And that is scary.