This website is intended as a place of cautionary conversations. We have reached the state of ultimate inversion of our purpose of Revolution and for the establishment of our governments. It is the stage where the people who govern are free to do anything they please, while the Citizens may act only by permission. This is the stage of the darkest periods of human history. (Thank you, Ayn Rand.)

Our governments in 2008 have adopted policies demanding unresisting subservience. They demand our meek submission and unquestioned obedience. They demand our property. If we are slow to submit or reluctant to obey, they no longer hesitate to hurt us, maim us and kill us.

If we dare ask why, their policy defined as "structured escalation of force" or "pain compliance" is invoked. This means that no matter how ridiculous or openly unlawful their demand, any question you may make or any delay in your obedience converts the interaction from casual or investigative encounter to your felony of resisting arrest, or the misdemeanors of interfering with an officer or delaying an officer in their duties. This is a critical conversion, because it is at this point that the limb and life of the Citizen are in immediate jeopardy. The policy of unquestioned submission requires the application of pain and escalation of force, including the convenience of your murder, to coerce your submission. There is no longer any encounter with anyone from government that does not carry a real, significant and palpable threat to your life.

the Ruby Spot is an allusion to the line-of-sight impact point created by a ruby or HeNe laser mounted on a projectile weapon. The targets of these aiming devices are the People of our society. The Ruby Spot of government violence is the daily overt threat to our life when in any interface with the acts of our armed law enforcement, our prosecutors, our judges and every petty bureaucrat and clerk who is willing to use force to coerce our obedience to any irresponsible demand they may conjure.

The moment which inspired the Ruby Spot was the initiation of mercenary forces under contract to the federal government and the merging of federal, state and civilian operatives into an armed opposition against the rising opposition of our Free Society to the advancement of armed authoritarian policies of our public servants. 

Blackwater and a hundred other mercenary groups, our own California Highway Patrol, local government, corporate and charitable organizations participating in the FBI and Homeland Security programs allowing "Shoot to Kill" discretionary acts are commonplace and a growing daily threat to peaceful Citizens.

Our military's increased acquisition of "less than lethal" weaponry, training for "urban war" in our own towns and cities, soldiers and Marines being surveyed to determine their willingness to shoot Americans, if called upon to do so, and their willingness to agree to that abomination were pressing arguments for the Ruby Spot.

The thoughts which took place in the intervening period have been thorough and carefully considered. People who abuse power have very sensitive egos and itchy trigger fingers. It is the purpose of this website to return the spectre of the Citizens' personal participation in self-government to the sdiscussions of Liberty and Governbment.

These musings will return the Citizens' pitchforks and torches, the tar and feathers, the muskets and swords, the pipes, fifes and drums, the cannons and grapeshot, the righteous indignation and open and forceful patriotic condemnation of treachery, treason and ill conduct by people in government so that there rises the clear reminder that tyrants always end badly and that their fear of the abused Citizens should, and will, soil the perfumed silks of the bullies, cowards and thieves who infest our institutions.

The time has come that the Ruby Spot is shown upon the rebellious among our governments. If arbitrary decisions and orders are to be established and carried out by force, it is the People who have the sole right and the authority to force their will upon their servants. Those who have forgotten that the order of authority and obedience in our form of government is from the Citizens to the public servants should bear the Ruby Reminder of mortality.

Our will shall prevail.

The accounts I present are true narratives and examples of hubris and tyranny, grand and petit, of unjustified abuse of one Citizen by another. Each of these identify at least one man or woman deserving of the Ruby Spot and an entry in the Dufarge List. the list is admittedly prejudiced, but the offended are welcome to defend themselves. Attorney or representative letters will be treated with the contempt they deserve.

I have printed them following the advice of Paul Revere regarding peaceful personal conduct and the virtues of forgiveness and tolerance of abuse by the turn of the cheek. Revere opined that such personal conduct was an admirable Christian virtue for one's personal life, but was inappropriate where duty demands that we be unforgiving and unforgetful of abuse of power, treachery and misconduct in matters of civil affairs.

The Dufarge Letters will have links and details soon.

Are you listening?