## UPDATE## Time to SHOW you're Fighting Back!

l've had some fun these past two weeks. A friend of mine had some badges made for me. These are professionally made out of metal with a safety pin fastening at the back and are 25mm in diameter. l didn't put any reference to my site because we are all Resistance. There are no leaders, no membership, no head office or anything like that. We only know each other by our blogger names and little more than that but that is where our strength is, isn't it?

We all fight the endless onslaught by government on our civil liberities and freedoms in our own way. We fight on many different issues and all are worthy and have merit. Some, like ourselves, concentrate on a specific issue. Ours is the UKBA and lately a little on parking tickets. Others are more general but just as important. There are those that fight politically and there are those that are activist. We are definitely activist :) Both are of equal importance and both need each other.

The point is, we are ALL Resistance in our own way.

So, back to the badges. Both myself and Zaphod have been wearing them on our jackets and they've attracted attention which has given us the opportunity to spread the word about what we are doing Most people don't really know what is going on because they depend on the MSM for the news and information. We've been able to open their eyes a little and direct them to what is really going on. Of course we've directed them to our site but from there they go onto our links to you guys. Don't get me wrong, we haven't been inundated by thousands. lt's just been a small number but it's people we would never have reached by the internet. We've taken our message out onto the streets and that has to be positive. We've sold a few of the badges too ... even my mother and stepfather have one (l gave them theirs). My stepfather is a Normandy Vet and his badge is now on his RNA jacket along with his medals and other association badges. l'm rather proud of that.

So, l've put the remaining badges up on Ebay here. l only have 25 up on there and 12 at home but if they all go l'll get some more made. Jeez, Ebay know how to charge though, they want insertion fees, then 10% of final price etc and then Paypal want their cut aswell. l've kept the price as low as l can, which is only £1.50 incl p&p.lf you haven't got or don't want to use Paypal, just contact us by e-mail and we'll sort something out.

l'd love to bump into someone in the future wearing one ... that'd be a buzz but regardless of that, we will be wearing ours on the Baccy Mini Cruises in OCT/DEC. Maybe others going on these trips will do the same? :)

After all, we are all 'THE RESISTANCE'

NEWS!

ln our particular fight with UKBA we have just received a letter from victims of the UKBA. A couple only had 6kg of tobacco between them but UKBA seized it . The couple appealed but were frightened off by the UKBA threatening them with costs so they cancelled their appeal. UKBA still went ahead with the court appeal in their absence and got the magistrate to award costs against this couple of  £2669.50 ... l kid you not! l'm currently going through all their paperwork to see what we can do.

UPDATE

Thanks for the great response. lt's heartening to see we have people willing to take it out on the streets. l've spoken to my friend and he assures me he can get me another 25 or so badges by Mon am. That being the case, l've added 25 to the number of badges available as the post office is not open till Mon anyway. lf he gets me more than 25 l'll revise the stock again. THE RESISTANCE grows! :)

Go Patsy!

Some talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

Patsy walks the walk! Go Patsy!

"Give us your tobacco" demand gets "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!" reply.

Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back ...  ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ! (Molon Labe) They mean  “Come and get them!”

Today we echo those words in defiance of the Governments new stategy on tobacco control. The UKBA are to implement reduced guidelines on cigarettes and tobacco bought legally in the EU. Simon reports it here and the Guardian here. They will announce that the guideline of 3200 cigarettes will be reduced to 800 cigarettes and tobacco guideline amounts to be 1kg from 3kg.

Firstly it has nothing to do with duty free, it's about EU duty paid goods. Duty free remains the same as it has for years and applies to non EU purchases. MSM can't even get that right and you'll note that comments are not enabled on the Guardian article so people like us cannot inform the public as to their rights.One would thing the MSM are working for the UKBA!

Guidelines are simply guidelines and nothing more. You still have the same rights to purchase as much as you like for personal use .... this has not changed! Don't be intimidated by them!

So folks, don't let the UKBA get away with this. Stand up for your rights and fight them but make sure you are prepared for the fight and be prepared! 

Let the UKBA know the meaning of "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ! "

Terrorising the Anti-Smoking Righteous!

One of our guests at the smoky-drinky last night is having a great deal of fun with the anti-smoking zealots. He saves some of his cigarette butts in a small ziplock plastic bag and when the opportunity arises he takes one or two out and leaves them where they can be found. This can be in restaurants, council waiting rooms, doctors waiting rooms, offices, airports, airline/tran toilets and so on.

Sometimes for added effect he leaves a disposable ashtray too. He says it's hilarious to see the anti-smoking righteous go into acute terrified panic mode, rushing to report it and then trying to find the deadly assassin smoker.

l must say l love it ... but then l would, wouldn't l?  l am an evil smoker! ... a smoking terrorist, in fact.

A Cunning Plan ..... guest post by SBC

Hitting ‘em Where It Hurts

(a suggested ‘Plan Of Attack’)

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My Boss was pissed at me. Again. Nothing new there; I was the only member of the detail who wasn’t ex-special forces/ex police and I have an ‘attitude’ towards authority.

So I drew a ‘punishment detail’. Instead of hi-end armed security work, I got to play ‘renta-cop’. Mind numbing, soul destroying and ,above all, boring work. Patrolling a hi-rise full of offices at night.

A couple of nights of doing that and I felt like taking a Browning Hi-Power orally.

Then I had an idea. I dragged out the A4 binder of  ‘Service Regulations’ and spent an hour reading up on EXACTLY what my duties were.

The next morning my Boss arrived at his desk to find over one hundred hand written ‘Incident Reports’.....in triplicate. I had, following the exact written instructions,  correctly reported every coffee machine that had not been unplugged, every computer not turned off at the wall, every unwatered pot plant, every light left on, every blinking light on every fax or photocopier.

A lesser bureaucrat might have simply have filed all my reports in the round filing cabinet marked ‘trash’ but not my then boss. As a former Oberleutnant in one of the nasty DDR ‘security’ units he was a true bureaucrat, a communist bureaucrat, a GERMAN communist
bureaucrat...

The word ‘Vogon’ springs to mind.

He dutifully sat at his desk reading and 'signing off' for the whole morning and that night I suddenly found myself back on the glamorous duties, doing the private planes of VIPS with the GSG-9 and Pizza Express on speed dial.

Ok, ‘nice anecdote’ I hear you cry but what’s my point?

Any bureaucracy has a weak point and that weak point is its own internal bureaucracy. Somewhere the UKBA will have written, legally binding, Regulations. Regulations written by ‘Experts’ who have never been at the ‘sharp end’, Pencil Pushers. Every UKBA officer will have detailed written instructions on how to make a seizure etc.

Just as an example I’ll wager that, when they make a seizure,  they are required to give you a receipt. But I’m guessing that usually that receipt simply says ‘10 kgs of Rolling Tobacco’ or  whatever. However the law and their own regulations probably require them to list every serial number....every serial number of every packet...and in triplicate...

The UKBA ignore complaints from the public when the public is the ‘injured party’ but you can be sure that a complaint that an UKBA officer has breached their own regulations, ie a  complaint to their own ‘Internal Affairs’ will get noticed and dealt with.

The Resistance needs to get hold of the official “UKBA Officer’s Guide To Being A Fascist Piglet” or whatever it is called and then INSIST they comply to the exact letter (make sure you open all the ‘ten packs’ before hand).

item: 1 50g pouch , Golden Virginia, sealed, Spanish tax stamp number XYZXYZXYZ Manufacturers S/N: 123456789

item: 1 50g pouch, Golden Virginia.....etc etc

... ad nauseum

Celebrity joins The Resistance

Now where's Keith Richards?

The Resistance ... you've talked the talk, NOW WALK THE WALK.

Stickers  now available @  only £2.50 per 100 plus p&p. Non-profit

Order through facebook or blog

Details by return

WALK THE WALK!

Post taken from Resistance facebook 
  from Johnny Rebel to James Watson

Are you Junican? Where was original post from?

Your post is interesting however it misses a point about 'The Resistance'. Not only do we advocate no more UK tax on tobacco and to some extent alcohol, we intend to publically state it.

It is of little use except to oneself personally to buy your goods abroad. This statistic would be lost and manipulated by those such as ASH that they are winning by coming up with their own statistics that people are giving up smoking. To back this up, they would quote the Treasury's figures on reduced tax got from alcohol/tobacco.

They would do this and probably will and it would work ... if we let them.

We can also use propaganda and the same tools they did. Stickers will shortly be avaiable stating we pay no UK tax on tobacco/alcohol. Placed in strategic places such as Government buildings, Health Depts, fake charities such as ASH ... they will be noticed. Taking pics of them and posting will help too. Of course pubs etc should also be targeted because others will then join in.

Now here's the interesting part and indeed most important. Every sticker out there can equate to 1 member of 'The Resistance'. lt does not matter whether it was put there by a smoker or a non-smoker who is with us. Every sticker will be classed as someone not paying UK tax.

Only a small percentage of 'The Resistance' will join this site ... because they don't have to join to be part of it!

So how do we know how many of us there are? ... the stickers! lf someone gets 500 stickers ... are they 500 members or just 1? We re using their tactics :)

As l say, use the stickers on predominately specific targets and record it. The MP's constituency offices are a good one as well as the ones already mentioned ... especially so if they are photographed and posted. Virtually everyone carries a camera nowadays ... it's on your mobile phone!

Stickers will be available ... 100 for £2.50 + p&p ... or print them yourself.

Resistance group now open.

Well, here's the facebook link to join the Resistance.  We will be few but at least you will be making a statement of defiance and expressing your freedom to do as you choose. You will be saying to this government that you will not finance the smoking ban and it's acolytes. Support another country who listens to it's people ... like Bulgaria where the smoking ban lasted just 3 days.

l see it as being quite exclusive as only the brave would join given the hordes of anti-smokers waiting to vent their wrath upon us .... and l do mean hordes. Just type into the search engine for groups and put in 'Smoking' or 'Smokers' and you'll see what l mean. All you get is anti-smokers using any tactic they can think of. Here's one ... here's another and not forgetting the many 'If l can get 100,000 fans my dad will quit smoking' ... or their mum, sister, brother, dog, goldfish blah blah blah.  lt really makes you despair at mankind.

Given the percentage of smokers in the UK, indeed the world, there doesn't seem to be many on Facebook. Have they been hounded off?....  is it Facebook themselves? ... is it just apathy?

So become a member of the Resistance and make a stand. The message needs now to be taken out onto the streets with stickers and leaflets put into pubs etc ... being a keyboard warrior is not enough. l've found blank black flags and am now looking how to get the designs on them. lf you've got the time ... design one of your own, it's fun. lf not wait until we can produce them and then ... fly the flag.
        lt will announce that you're a member of a rather exclusive and unique group .... The Resistance.

Somewhat more gratifying will be that it states loud and clear 'FUCK OFF' to the government, the hordes of anti-smoking groups and their acolytes. Even more gratifying would be to unexpectedly come across one of these flags flying in the non-smoking occupied territories, for there would be a friend! :)

Spread the word.

Yo Ho, Yo Ho ... a herd of cats for me!

Ok, l'm no good at art but you get the general idea. Leg Iron produced No 1 so here is No 2. Idea behind is we are called many names but jist of them are we are criminals, pariahs, smugglers and so on ... hence pirate. Put recognisable symbol on hat so it refers to the alcohol, cigarette is self explanatory. Left swords in and had unfriendly skull because l want to portray we are not to be messed with. We won't go away and we don't scare. Leg Iron is far more articulate on the rest so l refer you to him. Savvy?



So this doesn't degenerate into squabbles about who likes who's best and ending up with nothing, which would be a shame. l see no reason why different flags etc cannot be used for different areas ... or Resistance Groups if you prefer. As long as it has the skull, cigarettes and alcohol, l can see no problem. We will all be acting independently anyway. lt's no different to military units having different patches. Comments?

Resistance Fighters .... call to action!

The enemy (the government) aren't listening because we are not hurting them. Well it's time we did. There is no need to wait for our supposed leaders in the campaign against the smoking ban because, to be quite frank, they aren't achieving anything anyway. Parliament just pats them on the head and sends them away with nothing. They do great work but nobody there listens ... it's time to stop being nice!

ln reality we are all isolated and instead of constantly trying to get ourselves organised as a group lets use what we have. The government pay attention every time to one thing in particular, and it's the one thing they are short of ... money.

YOU are in control of whether they get that money or not. lt's the tax on tobacco/cigarettes and it is not an insignificant amount.

A pack of 20 cigarettes cost on average £5.70 and from that £5.70 the government get £4.40! ... yes £4.40.
Golden Virginia tobacco costs £12.12 and from that the government get £8.60 ... yes £8.60 (source)

The government then use that money to fund such as ASH and other anti-smoking groups. So YOU are paying your enemies to treat you like pariahs. ls that insanity or what?

A single smoker who smokes 20 cigarettes a day pays the government £39.90 a week, which is £2074.80 a year. 40 a day ... £4149.60 a year!  STOP PAYING THEM!

 Every pack of 20 cigarettes you buy in the EU puts approx £3.50 back in your pocket and the UK government gets nothing ... zilch!

Go to the EU and pay on average approx £2.20 for the same cigarettes that would cost you £5.70 in the UK. Preferably go to pro-smoking countries like Bulgaria and let them have the excise duty and vat. lt's 100% legal and is your right as an EU citizen. Do groups like FOREST promote this sort of thing? Can somebody tell me?

You rolling tobacco guys will also make huge savings but l've no idea of how many rollies you get out of a 50gm pouch so can't do my calculations. Maybe someone can tell me how many?

l know some of you are already doing this but get more to do it. Organise little pockets of resistance. Let them tell their friends, and their friends tell their friends. Make it grow. Stop moaning on the web and do something positive. The government will notice then and perversely they'll make it look even worse because they'll over-estimate the statistics like they always have done when used against smokers.

lt's a win-win for smokers. You end up with more money in your pockets and the government end up with none! There's lots of details on this blog on how to shop in the EU as is your right but if you are still unsure e-mail me with any questions. I'll gladly answer them.

 You veteran resistance fighters ... help others to help themselves. We maybe fragmented but we are many and that's a great deal of tax we have control of. Don't give it to our oppressors!

Oh, and don't forget your bottles of spirits when shopping .... less tax for the UK government.

Update

Anon in comments 21.54 .... with your figures that'd be roughly £18.7 Billion for cigarette tax and £2.7 Billion for rolling tobacco.

Total would be £21.4 Billion lost to treasury or if you want   £21,400,000,000. :)