If you keep good OPSEC, stay low profile, don’t go out when and if do try and make yourself look as dirty and as down trodden as the next person. The authorities will have their hands full and they won’t have the man power to do a massive house to house search and even if they did it would be in all likelihood fruitless as only 98 houses out of 100 would be likely to have any real food storage. The authorities will rely on ‘snitches’ and not all of them will be who you would expect. Just read some of the Prepper threads right here on FR and you will see there are ‘conservatives’ like mkleesma and others that would be more than happy to turn Preppers in.
Read their post post look at the anger in many of them and you can see that it’s not just the Libs that are shocked and angered by preppers.
Some want to bring God’s Armageddon into the discussion as if they know that it will be God’s will should some catastrophe befall us. Despite the fact that the history of man is full of direr times which were cause by nature or man himself. Man doesn’t need God to help them muck things up to a point were their fellows cry out for God to end it all and relieve them of their misery.
How many Jews do you think while crammed into a cattle car on their way to some death camp didn’t wish they had heed the signs more and prep for what was coming? What would the average citizen of Sarajevo had said if you told them during the 1984 Olympics what was going to happen to their beautiful city in just ten years time? How many Argentinians do you think would have believe what would become of their country?
I want to warn you who prep, beware these pseudo-conservatives they will be the worse in someways than many of the Libs. These types will want to punish you for being right and proving them wrong, they will even go as far as blaming you for the troubles because in their twisted way of thinking your prepping brought the ‘troubles’. I also warn you of those of the ‘its God’s will’ crowd who also will want to see you punished as they will see you as dodging God’s punishment, these two groups will be among the first to report you so as to make sure you too suffer. The first group because you proved them wrong the second because you try to escape what they see as the rightful wrath of God, as if they know the Lord’s mind.
OPSEC is not just for you Lib neighbors many people that you think as being conservative thinkers will be just as dangerous.
We have talked a lot about safety in numbers and that is so true, just keep in mind not all enemies sail under their true colors.
Beware these people listen to their words carefully and keep in mind this quote from one of my favorite westerns:
“Most times a man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear.”
I would ‘listen’ to some of these post and take warning at what they are saying.
This is why I do no understand why these people go on doomsday preppers. Most of them are by far more prepared than I...but they have exposed themselves by their poor OPSEC. Sure...I don't know where they live...but their neighbors do. The authorities do. It's crazy. 1 month after a collapse or EMP...solar flare...they will be overrun by their neighbors who saw them on TV.
OPSEC ???
is used often on this thread and some do not know what it means ...
HELP, Please ...
Kartographer, I beg to differ. We only need to look back as far as Hurricaine Katrina and the house-to-house searches that were done. The "authorities" conducted those searches looking for bodies/people in need/guns, but it could easily have been for supplies also.
We mustn't become fixated on a nationwide catastrophe. It will most likely be a regional one where National Guard or other assets can be mobilized in a few days time. Nelson- You might also want to prep for the eventuality you mentioned. You don't necessarily need a car to bug-out. Think bicycle, or backpack. ;)