Posted on 03/19/2018 6:29:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Official Washington flocking to Doomsday Camps
by Paul Bedard | March 19, 2018 08:16 AM
A building network of backwoods doomsday camps around the country are pulling in members from affluent areas and even Washington national security officials as the threats grow from nuclear war, an EMP or virus attack.
Called Fortitude Ranch, the outposts promise protection and a years supply of food for those unable to build their own bunker. Whats more, until a crisis strikes, they are being used for prepper training and vacations.
Were seeing members from all the three letter agencies, said Fortitude creator Drew Miller, a retired Air Force colonel and intelligence officer, in a reference to the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He called an attack or even a weather-related electromagnetic pulse shutdown of the electric grid inevitable, and a driving force in his project.
One of his members from the Baltimore area, speaking on background, said that he and others joined after waking up to the potential of a national crisis from an attack, financial meltdown or political violence. For most of us, something rattled our cages and woke us up, he said.
Through memberships and his own cryptocurrency called Fortitudes, Miller has raised about $400,000 and established a ranch in West Virginia and Colorado with 10 others planned. An open house at the West Virginia ranch is scheduled for April 21-23.
He said that for the West Virginia ranch, most members are professional Washington area folks. They dont have time to do this own their own. The cost is about $1,000 per person per year to join.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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>> “There will be no safe places during the Tribulation.” <<
Which begins at the Aviv, 2021!
Be ready, or prepare to gnash your teeth!
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Vehicles can be fairly easily hardened for EMP, but it has to be done in advance.
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So three Eastern, Midwestern, and Western EMPs go off. “Problem” solved.
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You have a valid point.
Experienced hunters, and other outdoorsmen, and construction tradesmen, will all have a distinct advantage over all others in any emergency.
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Plug-in electric cars will be fancy coffins blocking the highways, even without an EMP attack. Just a few hours of driving puts them out of action.
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>> “The idea is to hunker down where the ravaging hoardes cant find you.” <<
Only if you’re unarmed and inexperienced.
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Now I wonder why that scene from The Dirty Dozen comes to mind, the one where fuel and then grenades are tossed into the air shafts?
Rev 13:10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
What he is saying is if you plan on killing to get your food, or maybe rape your neighbor, or steal others food, your not going to last long. He talks about the "patience of the saints". What exactly is that?
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Rev 14:13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' " "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."
What he is explaining is, if you are claiming to be Christian, you must act like a Christian even when there is no law. You can't kill or steal, commit adultery or fornication, and to sum it all up, you must love your neighbor as yourself if you claim to love the Lord with all your strength, mind, and soul.
If you miss the Rapture, then you must serve the Lord even with the Antichrist as ruler of the earth. What verse 13 is saying is you will be blessed if you go ahead and die with your works unspoiled. If you start to murder and steal to live, it will go against the record of your works if you break Commandments in the Last days.
Most people seem to miss the "big picture" of the Bible thinking it's all about life here on earth. Our life here is to get ready for your "real" life to come. If I tell you the earth and sky will burn, then you know this life is temporary. The "Real Life" is in eternity with heaven or hell as the only destinations offered. Reality for a Christian comes from faith in something he hasn't seen.
Jesus died for you and you are expected to die for Him. You can die to your flesh in the baptismal, or you can die to your flesh at the hand of the Antichrist. The souls heard from in Rev 6:9-11 are these people that were NOT Raptured, but were left behind to face the Beast. The "Bride" Jesus comes for in the Rapture are those that gave up their flesh for Him and lived their life for Him after Baptism. These were referred to in Mat 25 as "wise virgins". The foolish virgins were left behind to buy and sell. If they take the mark, they are lost. They receive the same plagues as the non believers and end up in hell no matter if the claim Christ or not. This is where "prepping comes in. Th3ese people will try to survive as long as they can, but what God is looking for is faith. They are relying on their own strength and not God's. You must NEVER take the mark or DENY Christ. That's hard to do in the Satanic Kingdom run by the Spawn of the Beast. Just give up your life for the Lord and you will be accepted in Heaven. Why fight it for a maximum of 3 1/2 years more life.
Jesus said many times "I never knew you" to people that obviously called themselves Christians but didn't live the life of one. If you deny Him before men, He will deny you before the Father. Why would you fight for life here knowing God wants you for eternity? No one wants to die, but everyone dies once, and then the Judgement. Your first death should be at Baptism. If you are baptized and really serve God from then on out, you will never die. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. If you don't lay down your flesh at baptism, then you will be left behind to face the Antichrist. If you haven't even committed to Jesus you will die and the SECOND death is a doozy. It will involve hell and fire.
Jesus is doing everything possible to not lose even one soul. We have been given many chances for eternal life. Once the church leaves, the "pew sitters" will be obvious and will realize what happened. If you think it was "space aliens", you obviously didn't read your Bible carefully enough. There is a level of dedication Jesus is looking for in His Bride. Salvation can still be had, but you will face the Tribulation in the flesh. I don't look down on prepping for disasters, but to believe they have a chance in the Last Days is foolish. I'm sure there were plenty that thought they could tread water long enough to survive the Flood if it came. It did and they couldn't.
Dying for a Christian is a reward. The people "left behind" will mourn, but us "left behind" should do everything possible to rejoin them in Heaven. Put the Kingdom of God first, and everything else will be added to you. Put Jesus second, and you are gambling everything no matter how much food and bullets you have.
Itll be more like 100 million vehicles dead on all the roads and nothing working to push them into the ditch. Think of all the millions of people stranded far from home people who couldnt walk five miles if their lives depended on it.
One Second After
Great read and a very plausible scenario of what would happen in the event of an EMP.
Organized lawless mobs??
It would take hundreds of EMP’s, which would knock out everyone’s satellites.
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I don't understand. To whom do you refer? D.C. elite or the FBI and CIA guys? They're not under stress yet so why would their decision making be clouded? I certainly wouldn't pay $1,000 a year for sanctuary that everyone and his brother knows about. It just sounds weird. Who on earth would buy into it? Maybe more goofy fake news.
Imagine if it's a scam -- A disaster happens. The swamp dwellers decide to evacuate now! It's time to "bug out" to the fortress. So they pack everything into their Prius. Okay, it can't hold that much. They pack two bags each into the "trusty" Prius. Then they head out. Right. Into. A. Massive. Traffic. Jam.
But they're lucky. They make it onto some side road. But it's slow going. Not because of traffic. No. If they try to go faster, "trusty" Prius uses more power and shows them they'll run out of power 12 miles short.
But, let's say they get there. "Trusty" Prius gave its last volts for them! Will they be welcomed to their fortress? Will the gates be open for them? Will the government look at the fortresses, retreats and redoubts as "threats"? (Oops. Game over)
They're making two major mistakes, in my opinion. 1: Establishing their safe location far away and trusting that they will be able to get there (how?). 2: advertising that they have a well stocked safe location (target of opportunity).
I’m watching this show called “Walking Dead”, which is essentially a survival show about a band of folks battling zombies and rival survival groups. It’s very brutal and savage.
Now take a brutal savage show like this, replace the zombies with wondering people just looking to steal food, and then having to fight off bands of para-military and you have a scenario that could easily develop if our system fails.
Point is, these rich people setting up these camps, even if they make it there they are still toast.
But like you said, they’d probably never make it there anyway.
You would very much enjoy “One Second After.” It’s just as you describe. Paramilitary militias sprang up all over and towns were battling towns. Some had good military vets to get them organized with good leadership - others didn’t. People had to decide whether to throw in with the rapidly evolving organizations or go it alone. Scary stuff.
I hadn’t thought of The Walking Dead as a metaphor for that.
It's like airlines overbooking flights, just a little more extreme.
The first thing that crossed my mind.
Check out the website, it sounds more like a vacation at a camp ground with a membership fee...........Oh, the shooting range is free.
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