The Ultimate Doomsday Provision: (shorted)

SHTF Plan ^ | 5/12/13 | Mac Slavo

[Kartographer]

All too many of the other great tragedies of history – Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few – were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history.

The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late.

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.

However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

Judge Alex Kozinski dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003) (full text)

[Kartographer]

In the end we are all responsible for providing our own security.

According to the US Supreme Court decision in Warren v. District of Columbia in 1981, the police do not have the duty to provide protection and services to individuals except under specific assignments.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Kartographer]

What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Marcella]

“However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”

That statement is an absolute truth. It is pure folly to think our country is not in danger of becoming subjected to total government rule of our lives in every way. I think it's imperative to be able to exist well on your own.

I've said before I can't control the world, or this country, or this state, or this county, or this town, but I can control my household and prepare it as I see fit. I hope everyone does that to ensure tranquility in their own future.

[immadashell]

According to the US Supreme Court decision in Warren v. District of Columbia in 1981, the police do not have the duty to provide protection and services to individuals except under specific assignments.

Police don't "have the duty to provide protection" because, quite simply, they couldn't have any success with such a directive without having an array of "protective" means which would be totally oppressive of human rights and privacy. Police don't protect anyone from crimes in progress. At best, they investigate crimes after the fact and take the perpetrators off the street so they can't do it again...and they are only successful in that endeavor less than 50 per cent of the time.

SO:

In the end we are all responsible for providing our own security.

[ryan71]

Will we be the passengers aboard the planes that flew into the towers, not knowing our fate and not resisting?

OR

Will we be the passengers aboard the plane in Pennsylvania knowing all too well our fate and resisting together to the end?

I pray, the latter.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Will we be the passengers aboard the planes that flew into the towers, not knowing our fate and not resisting?

To this day I cannot fathom how so many people just sat in abject fear while their deaths were handed to them on a silver platter.

It is not within me to simply go quietly in that manner.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

To this day I cannot fathom how so many people just sat in abject fear while their deaths were handed to them on a silver platter.

Because they didn't know death was coming.

We forget that the reality of killing all the passengers and crew was a new concept in hijacking. At the point they were sitting there their reality was, at worst, the plane was going to flown somewhere, land, they would be held there for a week or two at longest, four or five might be killed but most of them were going home.

At best they would be held a few hours and they would all go home.

That they were all going to die never crossed their minds.

In the plane that knew that they were all going to die, they fought back.

[ryan71]

“To this day I cannot fathom how so many people just sat in abject fear while their deaths were handed to them on a silver platter.”

Flying airliners into buildings was a whole new thing. I’m sure they could not fathom it. They thought, like almost all other hijackings, they’d land in some other country and be let go. Of course, the people in Pennsylvania learned the plan. That very moment was the turning point for those of us who are vigilent.

Hopefully, enough of us will know “the plan” when the time comes and we will not “simply go quietly”, as you well put it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Because they didn't know death was coming.

From the timelines I have seen, more than a few people saw the first and second flight attendants get their throats slashed with the now infamous box cutters.

Additionally, these were Mohammed Atta's words over the intercom to passengers;

"Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet."

That would certainly light my fuse and set my mind in motion.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Flying airliners into buildings was a whole new thing. I’m sure they could not fathom it. They thought, like almost all other hijackings, they’d land in some other country and be let go.

Actual phone transmission from Flight 175...the second plane:

A Mr. Lee Hanson receives a second call from his son Peter, aboard Flight 175: "It's getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. They seem to have knives and Mace. They said they have a bomb. It's getting very bad on the plane. Passengers are throwing up and getting sick. The plane is making jerky movements. I don't think the pilot is flying the plane. I think we are going down. I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building. Don't worry, Dad. If it happens, it'll be very fast. My God, my God." The call ends abruptly, as Lee Hanson hears a woman scream.

They knew. And yet did nothing except await their deaths.

God Bless their souls but, as I said, I can't imagine reacting in that manner in such a situation.

[yorkiemom]

All too many of the other great tragedies of history – Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few – were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history.

The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late.

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.

However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

Judge Alex Kozinski dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567 (9th Circuit 2003) (full text)

Wow, that was beautiful.

Sorry judge, but nothing seems improbably any more. We are there. So I just have to repeat this spot-on line one more time:

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.

[yorkiemom]

Obviously, great minds think alike. And almost simultaneously ;)

[yorkiemom]

I've said before I can't control the world, or this country, or this state, or this county, or this town, but I can control my household and prepare it as I see fit. I hope everyone does that to ensure tranquility in their own future.

I like that line. You can't post it often enough, IMO.

[Marcella]

“I like that line. You can't post it often enough, IMO.”

It seems every day something else happens that we have no control over. I remember, in my earlier long life, the freedom we had. We didn't have a lot of technology, but we had freedom from government control. We had government taxes and had to get a license to drive. We didn't have health insurance. If we got sick, we paid the doctor. If someone had a heart attack, that person usually died. If you had cataracts, you went blind.

Now, illness and disabilities can be helped/cured. That's a good thing, but we have progressed to the point, we are ants the government pushes around.

[Shadowstrike]

Let’s Roll.