How I saw it... A story (Something to think about it)

Through the scope on my 30-30 I kept the reticule steady on the first of the insulators I was to destroy tonight. The Power lines leading away into the distance from the Niagara Power station to the Cities of the south were thin lines in the bright moonlight. I thought about what had brought me to this spot… Cold, hungry… Ah who am I kidding, I still had another twenty pounds of fat I could stand to burn through. My spotter hadn’t had a good meal in two days and I had given her my Jerky and portion of the trail mix we had scavenged three days ago. Sarah’s a good kid, a good spotter and Ohhh… how she burns with righteous hatred for those bastards far to the south of us.

It’s Christmas Eve and I prayed that everyone would be ready, if not… Well we would do our job, I had to trust that they would do theirs.

For years now I have been a semi-isolated man, I gave up trying to warn people of what I could see coming in the years ahead. I consoled myself with the adage that ‘A prophet is not recognized in his own land.’ But still it hurt to be rejected for what I could so plainly see coming at us in the mists of the future as seen by the history of the past.

But perhaps you can see it now too? Our politicians who we elect to ‘represent’ us… Don’t. I’m not really sure if they even represent themselves actually, it’s like they become absorbed into a collective hive mind when the reach the halls of power in Washington D.C. and the various Statehouses around the United States.

Through the power of the Treasury they bought the servitude of over half of the people through the power of ‘welfare’, Food stamps, ‘Free’ housing through the Section 8 program and so many other programs to ‘help’ the poor. Using the power of the Tax Laws they were well on their way to impoverishing those who moral character insists that they must pave their own way through life. But like all men who grasp at their vision of ‘destiny’ with the goal of becoming the undisputed ‘lords and masters’ of all they survey, the current group of politicians in power see the ends of their lifespans rapidly coming to an end and unlike their fathers and fore-fathers they don’t have the patience to work slowly and wait for it to all fall into the hands of their own children without a ‘fight’.

They want it ‘now’ and so they moved too fast and angered too many of the citizens ‘unnecessarily’. Through Obamacare they would have the final tool to control everyone. Why? Because if you can control ‘healthcare’ you can control all of the actions of a person in even the smallest way. You eat too much/little food, change your ways or you will go to ‘camp’ and we will change you for your own good. “Too much/little exercise, you do ‘dangerous’ activities like biking, hiking in the forests and mountains. You do… well whatever it is that the masters have decided is the wrong thing and you will pay in one way or another.

But I digress once again; please forgive an old man’s mental wanderings. As you now know it began in earnest in early December, there was the ‘prediction’ from the weather service for an extremely heavy and dangerous blizzard conditions in the Northeast. The people listened and yawned and continued on with their habitual activities. The snow came down and it was pretty to watch, the temperatures dropped and night came. They went to bed and thought nothing of it.

In a power distribution center the computer system had a ‘glitch’ and the electrical grid started to shut-down. Because everything is so interconnected the effects spread throughout the country, in less than ten minutes the country was powerless… electrically anyway. The Internet was down, no electricity remember? To the common citizen that is, the forces of the United States Government had their own independent systems.

Telephones? Well now… Cell service was out and those that had old style copper wiring for their connections found that with the advent of the wonderful fiber-optic lines their old-fashioned telephones were no longer connected to the ‘Central battery’ at the Telephone company, ergo no telephone service either.

In the cities of the Northeast the people awoke in the morning to no power, ‘No problem they thought this has happened before. I’ll just have a cup of coffee and wait a bit. It’ll come back on soon enough.’ Those who were fortunate to have a natural gas stove could cook food… Well they could if they had any in the refrigerator, so many of them ate exclusively at restaurants throughout the cities and those were without power too. At least it was now cold enough that the frozen and refrigerated food would not go bad quickly.

In much of America in one way or another this same pattern was repeated over and over again even those places that were fortunate to have temperatures that were comfortable without heavy winter clothing.

In Washington D.C. the orders were going out to prepare their forces for turmoil if the power outage lasted very long. And we now know that it did… and on purpose. The goal was simple, there had been a calculation made; a cold calculation. There were too many people in the United States, well… too many of the ‘wrong’ type of people.

They knew that the people in the sub-urbs, ex-urbs and rural areas were more self-sufficient the farther away from the city you were and you could add on to that that too many of them were of the ‘wrong’ political persuasion too. And now that everyone was cut off from each other, no warning could or would be given.

The raids began on the third day of the blackout. First would come a convoy of MRAP vehicles to surround a town and then the DHS ‘troops’ would go door to door collecting weapons, all the food from hoarders, in other words if anyone had had food for more than three days and especially those people who were known as Mal-contents. Since it was winter most people didn’t want to leave their homes in a power blackout and were perfect prey and those who did get some warning and fled were easily tracked with the thermal cameras.

But the worst thing they did was to confiscate the Gasoline, they were methodical about it too; an empty tank truck would drive down a street, every car was drained of fuel as they went, every gas station was emptied and the people were left to starve in the powerless days and nights to come.

The Goal was elimination of the populace, and any who dared to resist by words or actions was eliminated ruthlessly. The people of each town and hamlet wondered how these ruthless men and women could live with themselves and their actions. Finally one woman with a tight face and red eyes from crying said. “It’s either you or our own families and my kids are being held hostage against me. I’m so sorry… so sorry.” But still… she followed orders and did as she was told.

People on the far outskirts of the towns and counties were left alone, not because they were wanted or needed but because there weren’t enough ‘troops’ to do a 100% job. And they rallied and brought in firewood as needed, food that could be shared and they planned their own ‘revenge’ on the bureaucrats.

The ‘supplies’ that had been ‘donated’ found their way to the various cities so that the ‘right’ people would be fed and there would be fuel for the generators that the Federal Government had provided could run and provide necessary power to the Hospitals, police stations and Welfare food distribution centers. It took a week or so before the word filtered back to the cities of what was happening in those places they only heard about when the latest shooting atrocity occurred. The smarter ones began to wonder at first quietly and then loudly, if it can happen to ‘those’ people can it happen to us too?

The answer came swiftly, speak out against the government and you don’t eat, your EBT card wouldn’t be recognized or accepted any longer at the local stores and if you showed up at the Welfare center to claim your daily food ration you were asked to come inside for a ‘talk’, those who went in for a ‘talk’ never came out again.

An historical ‘buff’ soon recognized that this was the same thing the Spartans would do to the ‘outspoken Helots’ they would entice them to a secluded location with a ‘goodie’ of one sort or another and they would never be seen again. It was a subtle form of control of the populace by terror, but it worked then and it still worked to this day. His warnings fell on deaf ears and he soon disappeared too.

From what I’ve managed to piece together from the stories and rumors spread from person to person the DHS raids are still going on even now. It’s not like there are millions and millions of them because there aren’t. But they’re organized… really, really organized. And when they pick a target town or community for their latest ‘donation collection’ they clean it out of everything worth taking. The only things they leave behind are the people living if they are lucky, dead if they opposed them in any way.

For the longest time the ‘conspiracy theorists’ thought that the FEMA camps would be used to hold the malcontents. Ha! If only… if only that were true. No these people in Washington and elsewhere have a better plan, why feed those you plan on eliminating anyway, let mother nature do it for you. And if they resort to cannibalism to survive… Well there are laws against that and they’ll use those laws to the fullest later on as they reassert control over the countryside outside of their core cities.

The survivors of the looted towns and communities eventually worked their ways back to the cities. Most of their weapons were gone as well as their ammunition, Gasoline for Molotov cocktails was at a premium. With only a five gallon can here and there for lawnmowers to be found and they were mostly empty as it was winter and there was no need to run a lawnmower in winter… right? But still they came; they had figured out if they waited for spring then most of them would be starved to death or too weak to resist the hordes of 'thugs' that might be unleashed on them from the cities so it was a brutal winter march to the cities. And it was made even more brutal by the daily over flights of the Helicopters that would strafe the groups of ‘rebels’ as they walked down the empty roads to the Cities.

As the ‘rebels’ approached the no-man’s-land around the cities they soon learned another part of the ‘plan’. Anyone who wanted to leave the cities was allowed to do so. No weapons or food were permitted to leave and only the gasoline in their vehicles was allowed, no extra cans of gas were permitted to leave. But to get back in… “Sorry man, no-can-do!” Only those with a valid ‘city passport’ could get back in and those were reserved to the ‘troops’ or the bureaucrats.

It took time, but the ‘rebels’ were motivated now, they had once been American Citizens; now they were declared by their own elected government to be ‘rebels’ and ‘useless eaters’. They squirmed their way in through the nooks and crannies, the storm drains and sewers. Once in they waited for the ‘signal’ and prepared their own attacks. No one was to know what they planned because they didn’t know themselves going in. Not even the signal was known, they were just told that they would recognize it when it occurred.

In Washington there was… well not jubilation, perhaps it was the satisfaction of a good plan coming to fruition. Ninety-five percent of the military forces were overseas at the time and through tight control of information they were clueless for the most part of what was occurring in the United States. They had built a magnificent buffer zone around D.C. filled with their sycophants, hangers-on and Welfare recipients. No rag-tag bunch of ‘rebels’ could make their way through the buffer zone to affect them personally.

All that was needed was to wait and let ‘Mother Nature’ starve the ones they wanted most to get rid of. All they wanted was to cut the population by fifty percent. So far the youngest and the oldest were dying off in sufficient numbers. By summer they would be on target and then everything would be brought back to ‘normal’.

And with their total control of the News Media it was all working out perfectly. What the people under their control in the cities were fed information-wise was all that mattered and what happened in the still blacked out areas didn’t matter at all. They too would be fed the ‘right’ information and the ‘right’ conclusions would be made by them in the end and really that’s all that mattered… the end goal, right?

So here it was… Christmas Eve… The lights were back on in the cities and the Welfare centers had given out double rations for the day and the next one too so that their workers could spend the ‘winter holiday’ with their families.

“Ker-Rack, Ker-Rack, Ker-Rack” I fired methodically, all of them were good shots, the insulators and the transmission wires they had supported were down. Now to move on to the next location we had scouted out earlier on in the day. ‘Can’t make it to easy for them to repair the lines.’ I thought in satisfaction.

The long-distance Power lines were cut in a coordinated attack. The Water Distribution Plants were shut-down, anything one or two people could do. The Welfare centers were closed and the Guards were inside having a ‘party’ when the buildings caught on fire from the hoarded gasoline bombs once called Molotov cocktails. You would think it hard to coordinate so many people so that they would act in unison; but no it wasn’t all that hard to do. All it took was the power going out once again… that was the signal and those whose families had frozen and starved in the countryside outside the now-hated cities took their revenge.

In Washington there was at first a ho-hum attitude, their plan was still working; the populace was being thinned out even more.

I used the term spotter so that people would realize this guy wasn’t out there alone. In the middle of winter hiking in rough country or any country with no backup is near suicidal.

Two people give them both a better chance of getting to where they need to go and surviving long enough to do the ‘mission’.

I have a lever action 30 30 - I think it is pretty accurate to hundred yards or two

a 30 06 would be great when you want to reach out and touch someone from 5 or 6 hundred yards

best to have one of each

Be careful of tragic boating accidents

A .30-.30 is a brush rifle, purposely designed for close quarters.

A scope on that rifle is a waste of time and money.

A .30 caliber rifle is not a brush gun. A .44 magnum is a brush gun. In its day the .30-30 was considered a "flat shooter".

You may be Superman, but mere mortals like me are much more accurate at 100 yards with a scope than with open sights. I have a 4X scope on a Marlin .30-30 and greatly appreciate its help.

Yes a brush gun and I really like mine.

Have a friend that shoots one loaded with the Hornady FTX Leverevolution bullets. That is a 160gr rubber tipped ballistic bullet that increases the accuracy and range a great deal. Will not make a 30-30 a 30-06, but will make it effective out to 250 or possibly 300 yards.

I bought some of those bullets for my model 71 .348 Winchester. It is the big big brother of the 30-30 much longer ranged but kicks like a mule. The old standard load was a Barnes 250 grain bullet, the Hornady FTX is a 200gr rubber tipped ballistic bullet.

Neither gun is shabby in the right hands. I use peep sights on both. No scope.

I’m finding it very interesting that other than Dynoman pointing out the Electrical grid ‘impossibilities’ that no one has commented on even the remote possibility of such a scenario or how to deal with the DHS ‘Donation’ Raids.

So what is it? Is it impossible to imagine the U.S. Government deciding to ‘rid itself’ of half the population of ‘Useless Eaters’ and Mal-contents to the current ‘regime’ in power? Is it impossible to imagine that by doing so that the possibility of eliminating the populace of Fly-over country and packing the remaining populace into the easily controlled cities?

What I see is nit-picking over details, 30-30, Spotter, Electrical Grid sabotage, that sort of thing.

I’m not sure what to think here, We are asked over and over again to think of SHTF scenarios and how we would deal with them. Well here’s one, with the addition of the ultimate ‘looter class’ the Government and it’s own forces collecting the items most people needed to survive a SHTF scenario. No Food — That was taken under the Anti-hoarding Laws. No Weapons aka Firearms — those were taken under the FEMA Emergency Management Law.

Gasoline — Modern American rely exclusively on powered transport. No Gas and you are reduced to walking, no gas and you can’t operate a Chainsaw to cut firewood. How many people have an axe anymore? And you can only take what you can carry or pull along in a cart or wheelbarrow if you are forced to leave your home.

Things like that... and I don’t see any comments about what could be done.

“A scope on that rifle is a waste of time and money.”

Not necessarily. That gun’s effective range stretches out to 150 yards, easy. 200 is not out of the realm of possibility

Can you see better with or without magnification at 150-200 yards, especially in the types of brushy conditions that you might be talking about? 3x magnification might be the difference between realizing you have a shot or you don’t.

I live in what is basically the .30-30 capital of the world, since it is mountainous here, without a lot of long distance sight-lines. Lots of people here have .30-30’s and lots of people have them scoped.

I work in the power industry, I did like your story. I’m getting pretty sensitive about inaccuracies, like what someone posted on here a month or so ago, some conspiracy theory about the government shutting down the grid. It’s strange in a way, I read many conspiracy books 30 years ago, None Dare Call It Treason, Fabian Freeway, etc. All about the trilateral commission, Bildenbergers, the shadow government. Read “Say No to the New World” Order at least 25 years ago. Well none of what was predicted came to pass. So now I’m a skeptic when it comes to that kind of thing.

All “they” need to do is lose one detail-member in each town, either dead or grievously wounded, and their enthusiasm is going to drop rather quickly.

See Solzhenitsyn.

Good point! I did mention their families were being held hostage for their own ‘good’ behavior. If they can’t get near enough to rescue them then they have very little choice in continuing on. Plus I can see the ‘ruthlessness’ towards any resistance skyrocketing. Remember the people they are re-leaving of their possessions are intended to die off anyway.

Still though, Solzhenitsyn was right I believe.

If you were to have a good mix of guns for any occasion, what would you have?

I like a Rossi Circuit judge (several of them)- it is a rifle made like a revolver handgun - it can shoot 410 shotgun OR .45 cal bullets (is that cool, or what?) and for home defense you won’t take out a structural wall with it. Besides, 410 shells are so darn cute I just wanna eat em’ up

a 30 30 rifle for hunting and 30 06 for long range hunting

a 12 gauge pump action (the noise scares intruders away before you even have to shoot) with bird shot and some deer slugs.

and a 22 rifle (cheapest ammo for target, small varmints, all around plinking)

If the zombie apocalypse comes the Rossi can be modified to make your own handgun - but that would be highly illegal and you should not do it EXCEPT during a zombie apocalypse

Any one have any thoughts on what I might now have covered?

There isn’t really one gun for every situation

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