Posted on 05/16/2013 10:08:35 PM PDT by Kartographer
I am from Bosnia. You know, between 1992 and 1995, it was hell. For one year, I lived and survived in a city with 6,000 people without water, electricity, gasoline, medical help, civil defense, distribution service, any kind of traditional service or centralized rule.
Our city was blockaded by the army; and for one year, life in the city turned into total crap. We had no army, no police. We only had armed groups; those armed protected their homes and families.
When it all started, some of us were better prepared. But most of the neighbors' families had enough food only for a few days. Some had pistols; a few had AK-47s or shotguns.
After a month or two, gangs started operating, destroying everything. Hospitals, for example, turned into slaughterhouses. There was no more police. About 80 percent of the hospital staff were gone. I got lucky. My family at the time was fairly large (15 people in a large house, six pistols, three AKs), and we survived (most of us, at least).
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Here’s a link to some interesting pictures of Bosnian.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/04/20-years-since-the-bosnian-war/100278/
Number 43 click on the picture and it shows you a before and after picture.
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For all our supposed ‘advancement’, when the lights go out, we’re animals once again, and I get the sense that the power is slowly running out here.
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Not a problem for me. I’m only a few miles from a Sam’s Club, and they ALWAYS have lots of food.
I’ll just go there when “it” happens.
...along with about 300,000 other people, by my count.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst: the same reasoning why many of us have CCLs.
I enjoy your threads. Keep up the good work!
thanks for the ping, bflr
We bombed the Christian Serbs since the Clintons are on the Saudi Payroll. In the name of fairness and diversity we will be forced to submit to Islam here at home. The left equates fairness with the destruction of Christianity.
Looking through the pictures... I noticed that the only used examples of Muslims. I am sure there were atrosities on both sides.
I was lucky enough to visit Croatia around 2000. I remember how beautiful if was walking down ancient streets that survived and as you walk by you’d see the occasional bullet holes in the stone. War is an ugly thing.
Ping.
Correct. No one understands the history. Over the years the muslims harrased and beseiged the Christian Serbs. Finally, after enough brutality from the muslims the Serbs lashed out and fought back, then to our national shame, Clinton bombed the Serbs.
I remember the bullet holes is Schofield Barracks.
War is an ugly thing.
Sometimes not having a war is uglier.
My son is a director of documentary films. He took a film crew to Bosnia while the war was still ongoing. He made a documentary film about the orphans of Bosnia. When parents were killed, if the orphans were lucky, this Bosnian organization found them and cared for them.
It was during this time in Bosnia my son made a decision about risking his life for a film. He and his camera man snuck upon an ongoing battle, hid and filmed. Afterward, he considered the value of his life. He said if he had been found and killed and the film was shown in England (he was living in England), people would watch the film, then go to their kitchen or the bathroom. He determined his life was worth more than that. He would no longer risk his life for a piece of film.
He had already been kidnapped in an African country and the UN had to send a helicopter to rescue him and his crew. They broke away from their captors and ran for the helicopter. He had been held against his will by Gadhafi in Libya when he made a film about Gadhafi. Gadhafi didn’t trust men so his personal guards were women. Once Gadhafi convinced himself my son wasn’t the CIA and wasn’t going to kill him, he let him leave the area where he was and took my son wherever he went, even into his personal home. One time when Gadhafi was going upstairs to his bedroom, guards stopped my son from following. They didn’t want the United States to see film of the location in the house of the actual bedroom.
My son has been in many parts of the world, spent three months on the ice cap headed to the north pole. He walked across the Amazon river in a low place filled with Paraná. The others stepped on rocks but if my son slipped, the camera would be in the water and it would be destroyed, so he waded across. He said he checked for any place on his skin that was scratched that would attract the flesh eating fish and felt he could wade across that area. He made a film in Pakistan (when Russia was fighting in Afghanistan), of the men who became the Taliban. A lot more happened about that film but I can’t tell that.
I am lucky to still have a healthy live son.
That is a key phrase. I do not want any war, and I certainly do not want a civil war. However, I am not so afraid of war that I will tolerate something even worse in order to avoid war. Like many real Americans, I will not tolerate a loss of freedom, and the thugs on the far left are pushing their luck in that direction.
#18 was the best photograph of them all. I hope all employees of DHS take a close look at it.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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