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Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws: Resisting Tyrants, Hangmen, and Priests is a book by anarchist writer and historian Mark Mirabello. It is designed as a reference book “for the enemies of all orthodoxies and despotisms.”

A book about freedom, the Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws is for “intellectual swashbucklers,” defined as “men and women who are radicals in politics and infidels in religion.”

Quotations from the Book[edit]

"Never forget: dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy."

"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."

"The human race has 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."

"Your intelligence makes you the stealthiest of all weapons."

"If you must die fighting, have an audience."

"In general, there are three species of rebels: 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)."

"In terms of final goals, there are three types of terrorists.

The most ferocious type believes that the system is a monster that must be pulverized. Committed to regeneration through violence, he wants to destroy civilization and live off its corpse.

The second type--rather less dangerous--believes that disrupting the system will purify it.

And the third type of terrorist--the least destructive of all--simply wants to see something in flames, such as the White House, the Kremlin, or the Vatican."

"Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen."

"With power, one can master and enjoy."

"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."

"The consequences of rebellion are usually death, incarceration, impoverishment, infamy, or ridicule.

Sometimes, however, the consequences may be limitless power, endless wealth, and unrestrained devotion. Zeus, who ousted his father, became chief of the Olympians. George Washington, who betrayed his king, became the first president of the United States."

"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."

"According to science, mankind is a freak occurrence in a boundless, cold, and dark void. The first life, say the evolutionists, was spontaneously generated in a primordial slime, and those germs ultimately developed into a bloodthirsty vertebrate called man."

"’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."

"To barbarians, life is a glimpse of beauty, a flash of joy, and the sharing of fellowship. The barbarian lives to destroy monsters, slaughter tyrants, and breed sons."

"The spy--with the priest and the prostitute--is one of the oldest professions. Spying is one of few professions that has always had equal opportunities for women."

"Perversely, in most 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."

Main Themes[edit]

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)

Guerrillas, Partisans, and Asymmetric Warfare (History and Practice)

The Urban Guerrilla

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”

References[edit]

Mark L. Mirabello. Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws: Resisting Tyrants, Hangmen, and Priests. Oxford, England: Mandrake of Oxford, 2009. ISBN 1906958009.

External Links[edit]

Mark Mirabello

Book Web Site

Free Version

Internet Archive (Free Download PDF File)