Posted on 12/11/2011 7:19:55 PM PST by ElIguana
When Senator Rand Paul recently stated from the well of the Senate that those who store more than a 7-day supply of food in their homes may be considered a terrorist threat by our own government and subject to detention at Gitmo, a few eyebrows went up. On the surface, the statement appeared to be a hat-tip to what liberals derisively call the "lunatic fringe." However, what was formerly the stuff of conspiracy theories is now moving into the mainstream, bolstered by the frightening and undeniable fact that government agencies on the federal, state and local level are, in fact, actively monitoring citizens who store food.
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You really need to yank this thread......such hysteria is the stuff that gets the blood on the teeth of the media....they eat up on this stuff.
I would suppose you could go to Sam’s club and pay with cash and buy all the food you could possibly want.
Of course there too is a record of what you bought with your Sam’s club picture to go with it.
But how can they asses your food supply at home without a warrant?
When they show up at your door tell them to bite it.
The incident that supposedly took place at the TN LDS cannery has been debunked and Oath Keepers has retracted the original article.
My entire town of homeowners and condo dwellers have stocks of food and supplies for more than 7 days for Petes sake. There’s no way to make it through a North East winter without it. Been that way forever.
Got a link to that? I’m still seeing this info circulating usually along with the story about a drone being used by a sheriff in the US to locate 3 suspects.
Do you have two or three or more sources for this story. Anyone who lives in CA has that and more amounts of food because of earthquakes.
People who plan ahead, I don’t like to shop so always have at min two weeks of food.
The very premise is stupid, show more references.
Strange! The article says “Pulled” but every word is just as it was originally written?
“STORY PULLED: Oath Keepers Alert: Federal Agents Demand Customer Lists From Mormon Food Storage Facility”
What does that mean?
Witness no longer want to be on record.
My thought exactly. I’ve probably got a few months worth if you count what I can get out of the rice in storage along with canned foods. Most of the people I know could make due on the food they have for several weeks I would think. They wouldn’t be eating well, but they’d survive.
“The incident that supposedly took place at the TN LDS cannery has been debunked and Oath Keepers has retracted the original article”
No it has not been debunked. If you go to the Oath Keepers site and read their whole comment on the LDS cannery incident you will find that the source who originally told the Oath Keepers about the govt showing up and demanding a client list is now denying they ever said it. So basically that person is being put under pressure by someone and is now retracting. It does not mean it didn’t happen.
Yeah...so check your 2011 tax form...asking a lot of new questions about your house...
First up...the gobmint knows all about it as they mostly own the mortgage,,,,
Second...they know where you are at as during the 2010 census got a GPS fix on your front door.
Seems they are preparing a data base for some "reparations"
No surprise.
Big Brother is now Big Siss.
Crazy B
bttt
You should read the article.
Government is not keeping lists on who is hoarding food. It is actually tellling its employees to store food themselves and be prepared for uncertain times ahead.
OK is only conjecturing that the person is being pressured. I have a feeling that their source exaggerated, had no idea the story would take off the way it did, and now is backtracking since no one is confirming his story. It’s possible that USDA agents may have visited the cannery, but there were so many holes in the story: no date, no names whatsoever (not even the specific cannery), “federal agents” but no specific agency. Heck the people AT THAT CANNERY said it never happened, so the whole story hinges on a dubious account of one unnamed person. Sounds debunked to me.
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