Book · 2018 · Militia movements
Setting sights
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One of the things that Scott Crowe in his uh in setting sights, which is a really good book on community self-defense does is set out that um a a key aspect of community self-defense, as you said, is that you're like a member of the community.
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Setting Sights by Scott Crow and Ward Churchill is a publication that examines the principles, strategies, and practical applications of community self-defense. On the podcast Behind the Bastards during the episode It Could Happen Here Weekly 6, broadcast on October 23, 2021, Robert Evans referenced the book while engaging in a detailed discussion about community protection and mutual aid. Evans praised the work, describing it as a really good book on the subject of community self-defense. Specifically, the host highlighted how the author outlines a fundamental aspect of organizing local protection, which is that individuals must genuinely act as integrated members of the community they seek to defend. By citing these insights from Setting Sights, the podcast emphasized the importance of grassroots solidarity, collective responsibility, and localized accountability over outsider intervention. The reference helped ground the conversational exploration of defense strategies in established activist literature, offering listeners a concrete resource for understanding how communities can organize safely, ethically, and effectively to protect their neighborhoods and vulnerable populations against external threats.
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Robert Evans One of the things that Scott Crowe in his uh in setting sights, which is a really good book on community se… 1
“One of the things that Scott Crowe in his uh in setting sights, which is a really good book on community self-defense does is set out that um a a key aspect of community self-defense, as you said, is that you're like a member of the community”
