Posted on 11/26/2008 6:08:12 PM PST by BGHater
Why? Because President-Elect Obama has said that he wants a “civilian domestic security force” to meet “internal security needs” that’s as large as, as powerful as, and as well funded as the military.
Rahm has seconded this, and has hinted at a three, maybe four or six month mandatory training period for all between 18 and 24 including “jumping jacks”, civil defense training, and community activist training.
Now Gates has been tasked with setting the mechanisms up, what do we need, how do we do it, where will the camps be, what will the training entail.
So that trained community activists will know how to handle themselves when their activism takes them to your neighborhood, and mine.
That’s why. Change!
When was the last time anyone ever heard a civil defense test alert?
Kinda what I thought when I read it.
I hear them on radio all the time. Plus, the FD tests their siren every day.
Once when I was staying in the Tornado Belt the rental-car radio started The Tone and told me to look out, there was a tornado watch (not an alert or warning) until 7 PM. Then it went back to music.
“When was the last time anyone ever heard a civil defense test alert?”
In San Diego county they have started calling us.
INTREP
I wonder how many people know where the nearest Civil Defense fallout shelter is? I wonder if said shelters are properly equipped?
“I wonder how many people know where the nearest Civil Defense fallout shelter is? I wonder if said shelters are properly equipped? “
Some of this might be regional, in my area escaping fast moving, direction changing fires means phone calls, while people in other areas may know where a tornado shelter is.
Like you I really don’t know what the current big picture status is, but I do know that they still do a lot of testing, including TV and radio.
“I wonder how many people know where the nearest Civil Defense fallout shelter is?”
They were shut down/dismantled as part of the Cuban Missile Crisis deal, back in the 60’s. There are no more fallout shelters, but the Peaceniks were successful in teaching elementary school teachers that any bomb anywhere kills everyone anywhere.
Khrushchev thought our CD plans were warmongering so Kennedy agreed to shut them down.
That’s why there are so many CDV 17 Radiation Monitors on Ebay.
I got a lot of 30 gallon water drums long ago when the shelter project was shut down, and a partner got several tons of survival crackers, which he used to feed his animals with.
I don’t know about that little history. In the eighties when I was going to various county buildings to get platts, I would also ask to visit their shelters where I would take pamphlets for my collection.
They may not have been well maintained but I did get pamphlets from the early 1960s and the early 1980s.
What stood out to me was how “man to man” the old information was, it was matter of fact, informative, detailed, and helpful, the newer stuff was of the “try to keep everyone calm and wait for help” type, it was useless.
A counterforce to Obama’s armed civilian forces?
OK, guys!! I know everyone is kinda freaked out right now, but NOW your freaking me out!! My husband has done a lot of work with DOD in the last few years and he has been in some of these Security Briefings. He says this is about terrorist attacks. If you remember after 9-11, there were threats of attacks on oil refineries, ports, and pipelines. I think there is growing concern, and today is evidence after what happened in India. It could very easily happen to us. Look, our borders have been basically open for years. I wouldn’t say we have the greatest security on the whole because we haven’t had to. I think that is about to change. Anyway, just thought I would share this with you. I wouldn’t get too worried about this...
What does that have to do with the current status of fallout shelters? Have they mostly disappeared, or are they no longer maintained?
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