Senate dumps strategy to prevent EMP damage

WND ^ | August 07, 2010 | Bob Unruh

[The Comedian]

The U.S. Senate has dropped a House-approved plan that would prepare the United States to defend itself from an attack from any electromagnetic pulse source – whether it would be from a natural solar flare or the detonation of a space-located nuclear weapon by enemies intent on destroying America's infrastructure, according to a representative who has raised alarms over EMP.

U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., said it is "unfortunate."

"While one part of the federal government was warning us of possible solar electromagnetic-pulse damage to our electric grid, a key Senate commission approved a bill to ignore this threat," he said.

[The Comedian]

Once again, we're being killed in slow motion by the evil morons we are paying to protect us.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[BenLurkin]

Guess Mrs. Lurkin better sign up for that candle making class after all.

[The Comedian]

Fries-are-up ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Quix]

THIS TAKES THE CAKE YET AGAIN. Why don’t they just paint a big bull’s eye in the center of the nation and yell to the cosmos—HAVE AT IT—DESTROY AT WILL! GRRRR

HOW ON EARTH CAN ANYONE

WITH A MIND AT ALL . . . MUCH MORE SO IN THEIR RIGHT MINE . . .

CONSTRUE THE TRAITOROUS JERKS IN D.C.

AS DOING

ANYTHING

OTHER

THAN

OBEYING THESE JERKS:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2

TO UTTERLY DESTROY OUR GRAND NATION?

I don’t care what color they dye their hair; how many goats they sleep with nor what their party label is . . .

they are virtually all traitorous jerks hell bent on flushing this nation down the toilet as fast as their traitorous fingers can vote.

This takes the cake.
Yet again.

[metmom]

I read the book, *One Second After* and found it to be very intriguing reading. It starts out somewhat slow, but really picks up.

Thanks, feds.....

Is there some way I can get a refund on my taxes for all that they’re NOT doing to protect us?

God help us.

[metmom]

I read the book, *One Second After* and found it to be very intriguing reading. It starts out somewhat slow, but really picks up.

Thanks, feds.....

Is there some way I can get a refund on my taxes for all that they’re NOT doing to protect us?

God help us.

[EdReform]

ping

[JoeProBono]

[stump56]

Agreed, everyone should read that book. Scary how our way of life depends 99.999% on microchips!

[NavyCanDo]

I never gave EMP much thought until reading the book, One Second After.

http://www.onesecondafter.com/

In a Norman Rockwell town in North Carolina, where residents rarely lock homes, retired army colonel John Matherson teaches college, raises two daughters, and grieves the loss of his wife to cancer. When phones die and cars inexplicably stall, Grandma’s pre-computerized Edsel takes readers to a stunning scene on the car-littered interstate, on which 500 stranded strangers, some with guns, awaken John’s New Jersey street-smart instincts to get the family home and load the shotgun. Next morning, some townspeople realize that an electromagnetic pulse weapon has destroyed America’s power grid, and they proceed to set survival priorities. John’s list includes insulin for his type-one diabetic 12-year-old, candy bars, and sacks of ice. Deaths start with heart attacks and eventually escalate alarmingly. Food becomes scarce, and societal breakdown proceeds with inevitable violence; towns burn, and ex-servicemen recall “Korea in ’51” as military action by unlikely people becomes the norm in Forstchen’s sad, riveting cautionary tale, the premise of which Newt Gingrich’s foreword says is completely possible. —Whitney Scott

[MrB]

Of all the “disaster scenarios”,

I’m more worried about economic collapse than anything else,
at this time at least.

That’s because we have an active domestic enemy implementing such an attack at this very moment.

I’m less inclined to think that our foreign enemies have the will or the capability to launch such an attack.

[NavyCanDo]

Remember what the most valuable bartering item was in that book? Bullets

I could see how that could be.

[metmom]

Don’t underestimate the effect something like this could have.

The Day the Sun Brought Darkness

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html

A google search of Montreal and solar flare will provide lots of information on what can happen in an EMP type situation.

[George from New England]

“I’m more worried about economic collapse than anything else,
at this time at least.”

And you don’t think that when the military is down and maybe out from an economic collapse that anyone of the enemies would seal our fate with a nail in our coffin by EMP?

[null and void]

Agreed, everyone should read that book. Scary how our way of life depends 99.999% on microchips!

Although it's a bit dated, Alas Babylon! is also well worth a read.

[metmom]

I’m not quite into survivalist mode..... yet.

But that book really got me to thinking.

Mr. mm and I could be pretty self-sufficient and manage pretty well if we had to. It really helps to have domestic skills like sewing and canning and gardening.

Matter of fact, I’ve been planning my landscaping around plants which serve double duty by making good foliage plants which produce food as well. Living out in the sticks helps. This is farm country... and smells like if under the right weather conditions. Not quite the country fresh type of air I was anticipating.

[dfwgator]

Although it was made about 30 years ago, the series “Connections” talked about this “Technology Trap”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H-w9Rm46o&feature=related

[metmom]

Yeah. Lead is more valuable than silver and gold.

Note to self: Buy more ammo...

[patriot preacher]

I read “One Second After” as well. Good, if bleak, read. What the Senate did is deplorable, but again, it’s not surprising.

They know the threat of EMP. They also know that pretty much anything and everything that they would need is “protected.” If it all “went down” tomorrow, their families and entourages would he hearded to those secret locations, luxurious bunkers, closely guarded compounds, and they would have all the luxuries and amenities, and they would retain all the “power,” or at least the privileges which they have heretofore been afforded.

WE, on the other hand, the “little people” out in “flyover country,” would have nothing. we have little now, and if we lost it in an EMP attack, well, we would just have that much LESS with which to defy THEM — for they have authority over us, which is THEIR rightful place in the scheme of things. An EMP attack might just speed up the process by which WE would come to realize the need to give assent to this proper scheme of things. We, the people must finally come to realize our total and utter dependence upon they, the government, to live, to sustain ourselves, to enjoy our liberties — or at least the ones we can mutually agree it’s alright for us to have.

It’s no longer about protecting the people or preserving the Constitution with these people — it’s about promoting their own power. What happens to the people is secondary. If the people benefit in the meantime — Great! That’s good politics! If they suffer — that’s the price they pay for “us doing what has to be done.”

The “Political class” is quickly approaching the point of no return — and stupidity like this vote to leave We The People vulnerable to enemy attack is a textbook example of their arrogance and blindness....

[metmom]

I haven’t read that one in decades; since high school.

Time to hit the local library.....