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Defending Space - Part 2 for the right-wingers

Now, let's go back to the (in)famous 'guerrilla playbook'.

At the start it establishes that:"Finding yourself providing security for threatened individuals, groups, actions, and/or locations is not just a necessary reaction to the threat now present before us but is an act of radical solidarity and love in increasingly dangerous times. The weight of this responsibility to each other necessitates the need for informed, organized, and value-based organizing and support around Community Safety, Security, and Defense. The following document is intended to provide a basic overview of some necessary tactics, techniques, procedures, and theory, that should be considered when providing physical security."

At this point I do wonder how could anyone think that this is about guerrilla warfare. It's about establishing and defending a static zone with no intention of actively attacking anyone, just defending it. It's the exact opposite of guerrilla warfare, both in its intents and for the fact that guerrilla warfare is 1) a fucking warfare, which this has nothing to do with and 2) highly dynamic in nature (this is about creating a static zone, I repeat).

The document moves on by defining the values that one should have when building such communities.

"The way in which we show up to support our communities, partners and networks really should, in all seriousness, most definitely, reflect the values and vision of the world we are hoping to create. Folx intending to provide community defense in any situation should consider the values that are informing their praxis."

The paragraph continues: "[...]Though this can be a very individualized expression, collective and community values and agency should be centered."

So, if anyone was thinking that there was some gran scheme to bring down the government should really ask themselves why would anyone do it by starting with an heavily decentralized structure (which makes planned events extremely hard, since there's no centralized group planning what to do. And these people claim that the Iranian government may be behind this (sic!). Lmao, imagine anarchists approving the actions of a violent theocracy which spends its time putting their anarchists behind bars) and by creating local communities, instead of, say, actual terrorist organizations (something which would also be much easier to do. Clearly, then, this document has nothing to do with terrorism, which is a shameful practice that most of the time only targets innocent civilians)

The first main value the document promotes is Demilitarization (if they were some evil terrorist organizations, as these people are implying, they would be quite explicit about doing the opposite, right?). In particular, it explicitly states: "Avoiding the recreation of a Left leaning gun/defense culture, which only continues to reinforce the mechanisms of capitalism and imperialism, is imperative."
Once again, if these people were guerrilla fighters they'd be literally saying anything but this.

The document follows by promoting Mutual Aid (a staple of anarchist thought, see Kropotkin) and values promoting Harm Reduction and the elimination of any barriers for individuals within the community to express their fears and needs. Because the point would be to create an 'happy' community, or at least a community that works at its best for the sake of working at its best. Being anarchist, they of course promote Decolonization and Democratic Control and Decision Making by abolishing all unnecessary Hierarchies, another staple of anarchists' thought.

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