The M4A3R3 Zippo
was a tank converted to flamethrower use- I think that one only saw use on Iwo Jima but the type had been used quite a bit in both wars.
One of the problems with this- especially with a mechanized opponent- is the HUGE ARROW OF CHARRED VEGETATION that points directly at your position. Or in the case of winter war, the huge arrow of melted snow.
it’s hard to hide, then. Not that tanks were easy to hide in the first place.
the time is rapidly approaching (Indeed, maybe already here) that we have to put away our flamethrowers. We can keep doing what we’re doing, but we have to do it differently and ELSEWHERE. As countless people are finding out, you can’t do anything that points to you. Instead of posting what you’re going to post, print it and mail it to twenty people. Keep your head down. or you will act as an object lesson to those who follow you.
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Mail, as in “snail mail”? Nazzofast, Guido.
The US Postal Service has gotten the NSA’s “bug ’em all” religion and takes/keeps a digital record of all mail incoming to their big regional depots. Anytime any Postal Inspector, FBI or other Feddle agent wants, they can search that data bank to see who you mailed letters to. That’s how they caught the ricin-babe some weeks ago.
I’m told that non-commercial mass mailings pop right up in that system.
You need to set up a classic “dead drop” system and hand deliver it to be REALLY safe.
Or, just don’t use a return address.
Remailing services.
Pretty funny, og. Just in case you haven’t looked around lately, the world has already changed to the point where just about anything you do to obfuscate or hide your communications is nothing less than throwing up a big red flag. It’d be like begging for some gs-7 to turn a piece of some cluster server your way for a cycle or three.
You might, maybe, get away with hand printing a newsletter and hand-delivering it to 20 people on bicycle. Leave your cell phone at home and don’t turn on the porch light when you leave.
Lastly, let me save you the trouble of saying that wasn’t what you said.
So you’re really so stupid that you can’t figure out ten ways to send a snailmail untraceably? Really?
I saw “M4A3R4 Zippo” and my first thought was “some lunatic made an AR-15 attachment that shoots fire”.
Which honestly, I’m surprised I’ve never seen.
There’s no Federal law against flamethrowers…
yet.
“There’s no Federal law against flamethrowers… ”
wait…
Sure, bub. Print it out on your home PC and send it untraceably.
So, you are that stupid.
I wonder if there’s a combination of characters, printed as an address and OCRed by the USPS scanners, that would force a reformat….
roflmao. That would be awesome!
Reboot would be better.
Reformat could be taken over by the leftist bastids running the country right now. And I do not distinguish those by left or right, democrat or republican, as they are all bastids.
Hmm….
I recall reading of a person who formatted a euro ‘license plate’ for the front of his vehicle which was in fact an ‘erase’ command for the software package running the traffic cams in his region of the world.
If there ever is an “un-do” of big gov’t, it will have to include a “re-do” of both major parties. Tweefledum and Tweedledee look and act a lot alike these days.
My understanding is that Marines in the pacific typically avoided being near tanks, claiming that they were there primarily to draw artillery. I’m pretty sure you can draw similar conclusions when it comes to online encryption. In China if you want to access pages that are outside of their ‘government friendly’ list, you can use encrypted proxy servers, but they say that having an encrypted feed to your location is pretty much certain to draw attention to you.
Of course if you really need to send something secretly you can pretty much forget the digital approach (there’s always a better hacker out there)
Old fashioned spycraft and magician’s skills would probably be much more useful.
Exactly, EJ. Type what you want to say on a computer without internet access. Do a screen capture of the document. Save it as a jpg. Take the jpg on a thumb drive to a jiffy print or a library. Print the jpg. Photocopy it to eliminate any printer ID, preferably on an OLD copier. Never touch the prints or the envelopes with your hands. Send it through a remailing service. It’s not foolproof but it’s one hell of a lot safer than drawing attention to yourself.
Sheesh, what ever happened to my old typo-writer, and mimeograph machine? And unless they start using “triangulation”, wouldn’t CB’s and or shortwave still be options? (Radio-free Og does have a kinda nice ring to it.)
Typewriters can be very easily traced. Even more so since they’re so rare.
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