Garrison Davis

quoting an Atlanta anarchist, quote, but while we understand our own fear, I think people often fall into the trap of not understanding that the state is also afraid of them.

Because the state feels like this monolithic, machine-like, this unassailable entity that it is not.

It's made up of people with flaws and emotions who have the same cortisol response to being threatened that you or I do.

A big part of the lessons learned from Atlanta has to be a willingness to engage with them in a way that is personally endangering.

That is the single way out.

They're human and they get scared.

The fear that I think had them so tight until May of 2022 was a fear that manifested itself in a lot of paralysis.

Fear is a normal human remotion to danger.

So whether you're the most hardened SWAT team guy going up against the craziest eco freak in the world, fear is a normal reaction to that.

But what really had them so tight was fear as a matter of them being paralyzed by it, that they could not find out how to move.

And once they did find out around May of 2022, we really start to see things change.

And they were scared enough in the woods to shoot someone to death.

They were still afraid.

We were able to instill an immense amount of fear in our enemy, which is an absolutely necessary tool if you're going to be on the very nimble, small, green team insurgency side of things.

You have to make your enemy afraid of the dark.

but also you have your defensive strategy against fear.

You would hear all the time in Atlanta, the whole let the fear wash over you and through you mantra.

That was a thing that people talked about and said constantly because you have to find a way to move through that paralysis, unquote.

Eventually, and with the help of a multi-agency task force, the cops in Atlanta were able to move through that fear and continue their actions.

They were not totally paralyzed by it.