Harold Covington - A Mighty Fortress

A Mighty Fortress

by

H. A. Covington

A Mighty Fortress

Glossary of Northwest Acronyms

and Terms

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - Christian Hymn written by Martin Luther. The national anthem of the Northwest American Republic.

ASU - Active Service Unit. The basic building block of the NVA paramilitary structure.

Generally speaking, an active service unit was any team or affinity group of Northwest Volunteers engaged in armed struggle against the United States government. The largest active service units during the War of Independence were the Flying Columns (q. v.) that moved across the countryside in open insurrection. These could sometimes number as many as 75 or even 100

men. More usual was the urban team or crew ranging from four or five to no more than a dozen Volunteers. After a unit grew larger than seven or eight people, the logistics of movement and supply and also the risk of betrayal reached unacceptably high levels, and the cell would divide in two with each half going its separate way. Command and coordination between the units was often tenuous at best. The success and survival of an active service unit was often a matter of the old Viking adage: Luck often enough will save a man, if his courage hold.

Aztlan - A semi-autonomous province of Mexico consisting of the old American states of southern and western Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, parts of Colorado, and southern California below a line roughly parallel with the Mountain Gate border post.

BATF - Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms division of the United States Treasury Department.

Used by the government in Washington D. C. unlawfully to suppress many early right-wing and racial nationalist groups and individuals. Unlike its more sophisticated counterpart the FBI, BATF seldom resorted to such things as bribery, fabrication, or forgery to get convictions. All brawn and no brain, BATF simply smashed their way into the homes of dissidents such as Kenyon Bellew and David Koresh and started shooting. Many of their agents later became Fatties when the FATPO (q.v.) superceded the old ATF organization at the beginning of the War of Independence. BATF was declared a criminal organization by Parliament and any surviving members are subject to arrest, trial, and punishment if apprehended.

The Beast - Term similar in meaning to ZOG (q.v.) used initially by Christian Identity people to describe the Federal government of the United States and the Zionist, liberal power structure in general. The expression later came into more widespread use among the Northwest American Republics non-CI population.

Break Bad - An incident or encounter between the NVA and Federal forces or others that turns violent.

Brigade - In the paramilitary organization of the Northwest Volunteer Army, a loose combination of all of the partisan units assigned to a specific geographic area. In the larger cities of the Homeland such as Seattle, Portland or Spokane there might be as many as two or three brigades, each operating independently of the others, so that a single catastrophic betrayal or Federal assault could not wipe out the NVA in that metropolitan area. A brigade could comprise

as many as two or three dozen active service units of various kinds and strengths, including technical, supply, and support teams. Some of the smaller brigades covering larger and more rural areas only had a few units. In actual practice there was always an immense amount of confusion and overlap in membership and function between units. As is the case with any conflict, nothing about the War of Independence was ever as neatly cut and dried as the Republics history books have portrayed.

BOSS - Bureau of State Security. The Republics political police. The mission of BOSS may be summed up simply in the five words of its motto: We will never go back. In The Hill of theRavens Don Redmond pithily summarizes that mission when he says, The revolution is forever.

Our job is to make sure of that.

CI - Christian Identity. By the time of writing of this book, the predominant Christian religious movement in the Republic. The faith of Pastor Richard Butler, Robert Miles, and many others among the founding fathers of the Northwest American Republic. The essence of Christian Identity is the transfer of Gods Biblical covenant from the Jewish people to the Gentile or Aryan peoples through the medium of the Christs Passion and the Crucifixion. In most Christian Identity sects this transfer is accompanied by a very complex (sometimes downright tortuous) theological construct whereby white people are alleged to be racial descendants of the Israelites of the Bible through the alleged wanderings of the Lost Tribes through Europe, Denmark being descended from the tribe of Dan, etc. However tenuous the historical and theological basis for Christian Identity, there can be no doubt of the spiritual strength and personal integrity which the CI faith imparts to its adherents. During the Time of Struggle and ever since, they have been the very backbone of the Northwest nation.

Centcom - During the War of Independence, Centcom was the central command authority of the American occupation forces, consisting of representatives from the executive and judicial branches of government, the FBI, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, etc.

Code Duello - The official protocols and procedures governing dueling within the Republic, administered by the National Honor Court. The purpose of the Code Duello is to make sure that the ultimate sanction for personal misbehavior remains available to all the Republics citizens, but only under very clear and formally recognized conditions. Ref. the Old Man: One of the problems under ZOG was that there was no longer any penalty attached to being an asshole.

There needs to be.

Come Home - To immigrate to the Northwest American Republic. Since the NAR is the Homeland of all Indo-European peoples, a white immigrant is considered to have Come Home.

Daryl and His Other Brother Daryl - Defamatory term used by certain white migrants to the Homeland during pre-revolutionary times to denote white people born in rural areas of the Northwest. Considered rude, boorish, and highly discouraged by the Party both before and since the revolution.

DHS - Department of Homeland Security. One of the many overlapping Federal political police agencies created under Bush II as part of the suspension of the United States Constitution and the abrogation of American civil liberties which took place after the events of September 11th, 2001. The Department of Homeland Security seems to have done little during the time of the revolution beyond adding to the confusion.

DM - Drooling Moron. Defamatory term used by certain white migrants during the pre

revolutionary times to denote white people born in rural areas of the Northwest Homeland.

Always frowned upon and discouraged by the Party. Several legal cases are now before the National Honor Court to decide whether DM is to be considered a killing word or not.

E & E - Escape and Evasion. Associated with General Order Number Eight, a.k.a. the Feets Dont Fail Me Now order. When an operation went bad, or when confronted with a Federal ambush, extreme danger, or overwhelming enemy numbers, every NVA Volunteer had a personal Escape and Evasion plan, a series of refuges and safe houses etc. to which they would flee and from which they would subsequently regroup. The underlying rationale of General Order Number Eight was the ancient one of all guerrilla forces: he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.