I’ve posted the link to my Preparedness Manual a good number of times now, but it never fails that not more than a week goes by and someone FReep-mails me that they just downloaded it for the first time. So here it goes again: For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf
For those of you who would want an idea of what an economic collapse looks like I suggest you watch an excellent documentary available on YouTube Part One is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6_i8zuffs
As a armed society with a very large entitlement minded population I expect that our collapse will be much more violent and I see many many a small business wiped out by looting, think Katrina/L.A. all rolled into one.
I also see what I call ‘Pocket Pogroms’ taking place in many big ‘Blue’ cities and if you aren’t a ‘0bamamite yute’ or one of ‘Holder’s People’ it’s going to get Reginald Denny bad for you very quickly.
I hate to add this, but I don’t like what I am seeing trending with LEO’s lately in the news. I am not sure if it’s stress or what, but there seems to be a growing disfuction in the area of ‘To protect and Serve’ among LEO’s. In a SHFT situation calling on LEO’s for help I think will end in not only not getting help you need, but actually end up with you very sorry you called.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
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I’d say, if you have the resources/area to do so, you should split your preps into multiple caches so that if the LEOs show up to confiscate your stuff, you give them what’s currently in your house and still have the majority of it in your caches.
Thanks for the PDF.
“don’t like what I am seeing trending with LEO’s lately in the news.”
Good point. I don’t like it either and I’ve always considered myself a very pro-cop person. Of course, I did grow up in NYC and those cops are very good.
I once heard a man on the radio (I have no idea now who it was, but he was some kind of authority) say that there are only 2 really good police forces in the entire world, Scotland Yard and the NYPD.
Now, I always knew some cops were quite bad, but lately the whole “jack booted thug” thing seems to be increasing, but it is also coupled with the “swat team hiding in cover” thing that was seen at Columbine, and then there is the unionized work force problem that seemed to be brewing in Wisconsin recently.
So yeah, the cops might end up being part of the problem in some total societal collapse.
But, if it was a total collapse, then there would probably be a lot of good cops that would be on our side, so there’s that.
I’ll just close this post with a warning given to me by my Irish grandmother many years ago.
She told me there were 2 types of people to avoid at all costs: priests and policemen.
Of course I was horrified and wanted to know WHY? right away.
And she explained it was for the same reason in both cases, because they are NEVER around when you need them, but always RIGHT THERE when you hope they are far away.
(And it is totally true that my own grandmother told me that when I was about 10 years old. Maryama would have LOVED FR and the tea party!)
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