Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws

by Mark Mirabello

A-Z of Rebels and Blasphemy; Terrorism (History and Practice); Megaterrorism (Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Nuclear Weapons); Survivalism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Non-Violent Resistance (Hunger Strike, General Strike, Civil Disobedience); The "Temporary Autonomous Zone"; Communications, Clandestine; The Revolutionary Cell ; The Assassin in History; "Dirty War" and the State ; Coup d'Etat (Theory and Practice); Secret Police (Techniques and Tricks); Deception in War (Theory and Practice); Guerillas, Partisans, and Asymmetric Warfare (History and Practice); The Urban Guerilla; The Bandit and Pirate in History and Legend; Mafias and Organized Crime; White-Collar Crime (Non-Violent Crime); Violent Crime ; Tyranny in History (Four Types Of); The Police in History; The Informant in History; Evidence (Physical and Eye-Witness); State-Sanctioned Killing; Torture (History and Practice); Prison and Punishment; Escape form "Controlled Custody"; Techniques of the FugitiveSELECT "The human racehas a savage past and will have a violent future. Some day, when visitors arrive on our little planet, may they find more than bones, pottery shards, and nuclear waste."
 
"As a force in history, beliefs are more important than facts."
 
 
"Do not believe anything until it has been officially denied."
 
 
"Always--in every era and civilization--the function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."
 
 
"Your intelligence makes you the stealthiest of all weapons."
 
 
"Never dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy."
 
 
"In general,there are three species of the rebels against nature (called deviants or perverts by their enemies), the rebels against knowledge (called heretics or blasphemers by their enemies), and the rebels against power (called terrorists or criminals by their enemies)."
 
 
"Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen."
 
"A nonconformist--untamed, ungelded, and undomesticated--a rebel is someone who resists authority, control, or convention. Like Prometheus, Satan, and Spartacus, he refuses to kneel and obey."
 
"In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave."
 
"All people are equal, according to Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher, because "the weakest has strength to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself.
 
Lee Harvey Oswald, the nondescript man who killed a president of the United States with a seventeen-dollar rifle   purchased from a pawnbroker, confirmed the theory of Hobbes."
 
 
"Essentially,there are three stages of imperialism. First, strangers arrive bearing gifts. Next, they build a fortress or a base. Finally, they conquer.
 
All imperialists--even from another planet--would follow the three steps."
 
 
"According to the Hindus, man is the master of woman--except during sexual intercourse--when he becomes her slave."
 
 
"The spy--with the priest and the prostitute--is one of the oldest professions. Spying is oneof few professions that has always had equal opportunities for women."
 
 
"Perversely, inmost societies the masses eagerly collaborate with their exploiters. From the ranks of the masses come the informants, the police, and the jailers that keep the tyrants in power."
 
 
"According to one fascinating and diabolical theory, "the psychological classification of paranoia" has been INVENTED by conspirators (the hidden powers that control the world) for the purpose of discrediting anyone who attempts to expose them. "
 
 
"Defined in abstract terms, fame is a kind of power.
 
Indeed, a piece of you--your fame--may outlive you. Even as a piece of you--your skeleton--may last millions of  years."

Genres: Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Mark Mirabello, Ph.D., writes on the supernatural (A Traveler's Guide to the Afterlife, The Odin Brotherhood, and The Crimes of Jehovah), the unnatural (The Cannibal Within, an erotic horror novella), and the natural ( Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws: Resisting Tyrants, Hangmen, and Priests).

Mirabello's area of expertise is the "outlaw" history on the "frontiers and margins" of human civilization. He lectures on Alternative Religions and Cults, Secret Societies, Terrorism and Crime, "Banned Books," Intellectual History, and other subjects. According to Mirabello, "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Mirabello, who is a professor of history at Shawnee State University in the USA, has served as a Visiting Professor of History at Nizhny Novgorod University in Russia.

Mirabello has a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow and an M.A. from the University of Virginia

Reviews

[Patrik · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book full of interesting and useful information that helps to put a lot of things in today's world into perspective.

[Pachyderm Bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Handbook of people, places, & historical concepts in concern with survival within post-colonial dictatorships anywhere in the free world, away from the supposed constraints and conundrums of society.

Of utmost and overwhelming interest here isn't wholly the entire contents of this volume, but rather the largely overwhelming bibliographic index which follows the main agenda of this book.

[Mati · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you ever read a dictionary? No? I did and enjoyed the colorful definition of revolutionary terms and not only them. Author made splendid work and this book is simply must to have in your bookshelf if you have at least little adventurous mind.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting information, some of which I might never have come across. Good bibliography. Well written.