DO 2470 9/88

(After reading of an antagonistic reporter sicced on one of our properties by our enemies: )

1. That damn reporter's been so persistent, & they've already let him know that he's not exactly welcome‚ so I think they're going to have to start getting quite firm with him!

2. I'll tell you, we need to start handling our enemies tough! They've been tough enough with us, & we need to start fighting! Let's start fighting! I wouldn't hesitate to tell guys like that who get too persistent, "If you come on this property again you're going to get booted out of here! We'll have some men waiting here to throw you out!"

3. There's only one thing that the Devil & his crowd understand, & that's get tough! What did Jesus do when the moneychangers came into the Temple & He got fed up with them? He did it several times! He took a whip & beat up on them & tipped over their tables & made'm lose money & the works!—Mt.21:12; Jn.2:15; Mk.11:15.

4. So there comes a time to get tough! When they get that persistent & keep coming & keep trying to sell their dirty books, that is when you … throw'm out …, books & all, & I mean it! When it comes to open warfare, what have you got to lose? They're already on your trail attacking, & they're going to smear you somehow anyhow, so why not sock it to'm?

5. Let's quit trying to always be Mr. Nice Guy that has a reputation of Mr. Milquetoast & "keep sweet & keep the peace" & blah blah! They should just tell'm‚ "You come around here again & you're going to get thrown out! We don't want you here! We've tried to be nice, we've been polite, we've gone the second mile, we've turned the other cheek, now we're going to sock back, period! Now get out! You're not going to get another God-damned thing out of us, nothing! We fight!" Threaten'm! They can put that in their article, but that'll be good news that our enemies need to hear!

6. Let me tell you, I have been through some fights & battles & fracases in my time where we fought back with … whatever was necessary! There comes a time when God's servants have to pick up the sword! [Lk.11:21.] Jesus' disciples pulled out two swords & He said, "It's enough!"—Lk.22:36,38. In other words, how much more do you need than two swords in a group of 12 men …? If you have more, they're going to charge you with being terrorists or an army or something, but if you only have two swords, that's for your protection, self-defence!

GETTING TOUGH IN MIAMI!—TOM THE GANGSTER'S GANG!

7. I can give you some tales‚ & I have, of things that happened to us in Miami, Brother! We called out the cops & we called on the guards! When we were having trouble with the [ACs] there. …

9. But anyway, there comes a time when you've got to fight‚ & I'm not just talking about with words! I can tell you some hair–raising tales about some of our experiences in Miami. We had a 24-hour guard patrolling our house night & day for weeks. I can remember lying there at six years of age listening to those guards walking by regularly, around & around, protecting us. And the police, thank God, were all on our side in those days. They'd probably all be against us now‚ they're all [AC]–controlled.

10. But while you've got friends & people who know you & like you & everything else‚ they would certainly understand if you got tough! Once they know who it is that's harassing you, especially when it's a reporter from a known shit-sheet‚ I think they'd stand behind you! We had guys, volunteers, out there with baseball bats in those days who would have been happy to sock'm over the noodle, because we had a right of self-defense, & those guys were attacking us! They nearly killed my Mother 2 or 3 times. So you've just gotta get tough! That's the only thing that finally cured some of our enemies!

11. The police mowed down three of Tom's gang right at a root beer stand sitting on the stools! They had orders to shoot any member of the gang on sight, because they had threatened our lives & threatened others, murdered several guys. They were using strong-arm tactics like the gangsters in Chicago, real bozos! They pushed one poor Greek guy, a restaurant owner, into the Miami River in his car & he drowned, all kinds of things! They pulled a whole bunch of heists & killed I don't know how many people.

12. Finally the police had the order, "Shoot to kill! Any of them you see & recognise, shoot'm!" And they were sitting right there at one of those roadside root beer stands. They made the mistake of sitting there with their backs to 7th Avenue‚ thinking they were hiding their identity, & the cops came along. The cops got a tip from the waitress, "They're here!" And they told her, "When you see us coming, just lie flat on the floor behind the counter & we'll take care of them!"—And they just rat-a-tat mowed'm right down with a machine gun right on the spot!

13. And when Tom, the leader of the gang, drove into his driveway they had it staked out all around him. He said, "Okay boys, you got me!" They said, "Hands up!" & he put his hands up. Then he said, "Just let me turn off my motor," he just said it & went & did it & grabbed a gun & shot at the cop that was right there at the window. But it just grazed him right past the temple‚ & the cop shot him right on the spot, killed him. So they finally got rid of most of that gang. They either killed'm or threw'm in prison or drove'm out of town.

A TIME TO FIGHT!

14. So there's a time when you've gotta fight! And there's only one thing that those bozos understand, & that's force…! And if you don't actually do it, you can at least threaten it. You can threaten it in a way they don't really know what you're threatening, but they can guess & fear. If they have trouble with people like that at our Schools or Homes‚ if I were there I'd be willing to get out & fight myself!

15. See, it's a different story with reporters, they're not the police. Of course‚ that's why they can get away with a lot of things even the cops can't get away with. Cops don't come around harassing our Family & wanting information like that just so they can smear us. The cops are here to defend us & will as long as we obey the law & don't bother the System. But these other guys, they've got no principles, no conscience‚ no compunction, nothing! They are the Devil's own & they will go to any lengths including killing you if they thought they could get away with it!

16. So don't have any illusions about such people! They are monsters, they are evil, they are demons‚ & the only thing they understand is force…!—And that's what they need to get if they go too far! The cops will even excuse you for it. Just tell'm, "Well, we were protecting our women & our children!"

FIGHTING THE COWBOYS AT TSC!

17. We let'm know that at TSC! We wouldn't have survived if we hadn't threatened … force! We shot over their heads sometimes to keep'm out of there! These drunks came by shootin', bang, bang‚ bang & yelling, "It's open season on hippies!" blah blah! And those guys were drunk‚ they could have killed somebody! We just said, "You get outta here!" We had big blaring loudspeakers right down there at the gate & blazing floodlights, & when we turned those things on they knew we knew they were there! We told them, "You get out of here or we're going to start shootin'!"—And they cleared out quick!

18. Some guys came in & started invading & trespassing across the property on the other side of the road where we didn't have anybody at the time. We warned them several times & they gave no reply, just laughter & making fun, so we started shootin' over their heads! Brother, you should have seen how fast they cleared outta there! We were shooting with [legally owned] rifles! We had to have full-time 24-hour guards there or we never would have survived! We had guards there all the time, at least two guards on duty, & usually four!—Two guards guarding one direction & two guards guarding the other direction!

19. This is a rough business, I've been through it before! Some of these Combo properties of ours may get to the point where they're going to have to have 24–hour guards there all night patrolling those places! People like that don't mind trying anything, throwing rocks through your windows & banging up your car or anything just to terrorise you! Terror, that's their business! Well, brother, you need to [warn] them & let'm know you're not going to take it!

20. Boy, those cowboys got out of there fast, jumped in their car & took off! But they didn't take off soon enough, we'd already warned the sheriff by radio clear down in Stephenville 25 miles away. We couldn't get him on the radio because we were on CB & he was on police channels, but we finally raised a ham who was clear down in Oklahoma or someplace. We had a ham outfit too, which was a shortwave, not just CB, & Dave Handyman raised him on the ham radio. He said, "What can I do for you, boys?" They said, "We've got an intruder here on our ranch & we've warned him to go away & he won't leave, & they're firing guns!—Could you kindly phone the sheriff in Stephenville & tell him to come quick?"

SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE!

21. You've gotta speak their language!—Like that time with dear old Fred Shultz! Mother was running from those [ACs] that were after her in Miami, so she went out to Fred's big Coral Gables mansion thinking that she had managed to get away. But apparently they were watching her all the time & they knew right where she'd gone. And in the middle of the night two of them picked the lock of the front door downstairs & were coming through the front room. But in the dark one of them stumbled over a chair or something, & dear Fred woke up & grabbed the nearest thing he happened to have, a golf club. He & Mother & the rest of them were on the second floor because the bedrooms were all upstairs. So he took that golf club & he aimed it down over the stairway like a rifle & he started cussin' like you'd never heard!

22. He spoke their language, Brother! He said, "If you don't get the hell out of here‚ God damn you, your ass is blah blah blah‚ & I've got a gun & I'm gonna start shootin'!" Brother‚ they got out of that living room so fast, they knocked furniture over & rushed out & left the front door open & jumped in their get–away car & took off! They had come in to try to assassinate my Mother!

23. You've gotta speak their language! When they get rough, you've gotta get tougher! When the goin' gets tough, the tough get goin', & they get tough too! (Maria: Sometimes, if possible, you've got to warn'm in advance what you're going to do if they try anything.) Oh yes! That's why I put that little warning at the end of that "20/20" rebuttal Letter, that we are going to fight & lay down our lives to protect our children! That implied [force] right there. (Maria: A threat. …) Yes, exactly. "And if you come here & cause any trouble‚ you're going to wish you never had!" They don't know what you're going to do, see, you can make it indefinite, "So you'd better not come!"

24. It's not the police that you have to worry about, they have to do everything legally & just so, according to the law, & they're usually your friends. They're on your side, they're trying to prevent trouble. It's guys like that reporter, the lawless ones who don't give a damn & will try to give you trouble & who will do anything, throw rocks, come with clubs & whatnot & say‚ "We're going to 'rescue' your children‚ we're going to close down this place, blah blah!" You just say, "We're ready for you, come on! We would just love to knock your blocks off! You just come on! Our wives & our children are here, these are our kids, & we are going to defend them to the death! You just try it & see what happens! If you come up here or cause any trouble, you are going to have war!" That's all they understand!

BE PREPARED TO FIGHT!

25. I've been through this all my life, I've seen this happen! I'll tell you, we never would have survived at Huntington Beach without the help of a tough bunch of kids, a gang, a former drug gang led by Shad! He was the head of this whole gang of toughies. And brother, they passed the word around to any potential troublemakers that "You'd better stay away from the Club & quit bothering us or we're going to get on your case!"—or we probably wouldn't have survived there. A lot of those guys didn't like us, "These Jesus freaks," & were threatening, "We're going to come in there & mess things up some night," & they did come in there a couple of times.

26. We had a whole row of bikers, "Hell's Angels" written all over their backs, one night. And let me tell you, that's probably the first time they ever got hell, I gave'm hell! I really socked it to'm! They sat there meek as little lambs like they'd never heard anything like that before. I gave'm the Love of the Lord, but at the same time you've gotta get tough!

27. Look what Jesus did, He went through their temple, He beat'm up! He beat'm up & dumped over their money & the works! He wrecked their business & beat'm up‚ on their own territory supposedly. Of course He said, "This is My Father's House!"—Mat.21:13.

28. You've gotta be prepared to get tough! Now with guys like that snooping around our Family properties, I would suggest they may need some guards. They can take turns watching, just in case they decide to come & try to make trouble, harass & try to terrorise you. Let me tell you, those cowboys & those drunks from Mingus soon found out that we were prepared to defend ourselves & to shoot [over their heads with legally owned firearms], & we did! And they soon simmered down & stayed away. We had a lot of friends too, who proclaimed themselves on our side. A lot of the ranchers around there liked us. We never hurt their livestock or anything. And when the news hounds finally descended on us there, nobody had a bad word to say about us. Everybody had nothing but good to say about us, PTL!

29. I hope the same thing will be true with the neighbours around our Combo properties. Because if reporters are really out to get you, that's one of the next things, if you refuse to personally have anything more to do with them, they'll probably start going around to your neighbours trying to get stuff off of them & fill them full of their lies & shit! So watch out! So that's always a time for good PR, & as I said, it's a time to warn your enemies that you are ready to fight, "So stay out, stay off!" PTL!

30. When it comes to that you've gotta be prepared to fight! Jesus didn't prevent Peter from chopping off the ear of the High Priest's mobster who came with his mob. He could have. And Peter hadn't planned to just chop off his ear, he planned to chop off his head or cleave it in two! Jesus very gently reproved him & said, "Well, Peter, he that lives by the sword will have to die by the sword," & He healed the servant's ear.—Mt.26:51‚52; Lk.22:51.52. I wouldn't be surprised that it won that guy's heart, Malchus, in the long run‚ the fact that He healed his ear. How could he have a hard heart toward Jesus after He healed his ear? I'll bet he got converted.

31. I've never seen any movies that depicted that, isn't that funny? You've seen that scene in the movies‚ but not what happened to Malchus. That's what I once told a movie company in Hollywood‚ I said, "My goodness‚ there's so much in the Bible, so much drama! Why don't you just stick to the Scriptures, why don't you stick to the Bible? You don't have to cook up all that other fiction! Stick to the Bible, it's got more than you could ever produce!"

USE WISDOM!—KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS & ENEMIES ARE!

32. Anyhow, you might have to [threaten to use force], but they're not going to come that close any more if you do! (Maria: Our people are such extremists, if you tell them this, every reporter they look at from now on, they'll take a very antagonistic stance towards them. They have to realise that they need to first know & understand each particular individual situation before they judge it or act rashly.) Yes. They have got to sound people out as to whether they're friendly or antagonistic. Of course, those guys usually put on a friendly false front for awhile, but when we've finally gone far enough—they asked for a coat & we gave them our vest too, & they still aren't satisfied & they keep coming back & then start getting tough & showing their true colours, what they're really after‚ then you can slam the door & you warn'm to stay away!

33. You don't slam the door in every reporter's face, because some of them will be good publicity for you‚ some will take your side & write good articles. So you've got to sniff'm out first, until you find out where they stand & whether they're favourable or just out to try to smear you. As soon as you see they're going the wrong direction, just clam up & shut'm out & that's it, & warn'm to stay away.

34. (Maria: We have as much right to ask them questions as they have to ask us questions! We need to find out where they are at & what they're up to.) Yes, why not ask them: "Who's backing you? Who sicced you on us, anyhow? What are you after? What are you going to do with this story? Are you friend or foe?" You might as well come out & sock it to'm! If they're asking you a lot of strange questions & that sort of thing‚ just say, "Who the hell wants to know?" Don't be afraid to go after'm!

35. There's only so far you can go on the defensive, & the defensive isn't enough. You've gotta go on the attack! But you've just gotta make sure who your enemy is & who you're attacking & be careful you don't attack one of your potential friends! Just because people ask questions doesn't always mean they're an enemy.—Pray for wisdom & discernment!