Posted on 12/23/2011 12:51:20 PM PST by Kartographer
After an economic crisis and with a “benevolent” authoritarian figure in charge, you can expect the following:
■Expect Corruption: Maybe in their minds, it’s not even corruption. The high ranking politicians simply do extra-legal “favors” for one another, and perhaps they even believe their own BS speech, that they are doing them for “the greater good.” Or perhaps not. Perhaps they are just greedy, lying crooks from the very start.
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EXPECT CORRUPTION???? We already GOT CORRUPTION by the rail car loads!
Prepper’s Ping!
Return to a limited Constitutional Republic with three distinct branches of government. Whatever it takes.
In return they should expect blindness from the public when an angry mob deals with a corrupt politician.
Looks like he couldn’t bear the guilt of stealing from the public so he hung himself.
I guess it depends on how complete the collapse is.
Some very cogent points in that article.
Unfortunately, a SHTF scenario looks like it’ll be the only way we get back to it. However, that won’t happen overnight.
Black clouds cover the horizon, the lightening is flashing and there is the distant sound of thunder! The storm flags are going up, who you heed them?
I think that at best we are in for a collapse much like that of Argentina. A excellent 12 part documentary on the economic collapse of Argentina can be see on YouTube with opart one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6_i8zuffs
I am very aware that if it’s the great end that there is nothing I can do to stop or change it, but history is full of instances and times when man or nature have caused such a calamity that people have cried out and begged God to end it all.
The bible has many verse such as this:
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
This verse and others are there for a reason and I urge all to take heed of them, because we are clearly on the edge. Everyday there is a new story about the ‘Yutes’ who grow more restless everyday and when you add the fact that because of the economy people are already on edge it won’t take much to set things off.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
Today we have ‘yutes’ who roam our streets who are with out morals, without respect for law or life itself. They will look are you with the same ‘doll eyes’ a shark does before he eats you and they will feel no more compassion than the shark does.
That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf
(NOTE THIS DOWNLOAD IS FREE AND I DO NOT MAKE A DIME OFF OF IT. ALSO NOTE THAT THE MANUAL IS CLEARLY MARKED AS NOT BEING FOR SALE. I PUT TOGETHER THIS MANUAL FOR ONLY ONE PURPOSE AND THAT IS TO HELP FELLOW PATRIOTS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IS COMING.)
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
Though I believe that the collapse we face will be much like that of Argentina I also believe that ours will be much more violent and there will be what I call ‘Pock Progoms’ which will be very violent and life for some will quickly become much more like that of Bosina.
For a somber, yet realistic look at what SHFT in Bosina was like I urge you to read some of a Bosinian name Selco’s posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798007/posts
If you like to read more about what SHTF in Bosnia was like take a look at this post on Bosnia War Survivor Selco’s Blog at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
We can expect things to be run by Jennings&Rall, policed by Ravenwood.
OK, what's SHTF?
SHTF=S#!T Hits The Fan
After a collapse, we would be reduced to our local community and ourselves for nearly everything. Think AD 1812. Federal government could not hold, by definition. Otherwise, there would be no collapse. We are more likely to be headed toward Venezuela. Think Germany, AD 1932.
OK, so government collapse gets close to SHTF and maybe we get our country back.
Sh*t hits the fan. A really bad scenario.
There’s another possiblity think USA April 12 and 13, 1861.
“The high ranking politicians simply do extra-legal “favors” for one another”
You mean like they do now?
I agree, it’ll be Argentina at best - actually Argentina only if someone has rosy colored glasses on. When Argentina collapsed, the rest of the world was still more or less functioning. This time, it’s all going down. And Argentina is still a s***hole.
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