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--Something to think about--
loudspeaker begins to blare
Civil disobedience will not be tolerated.
Leave all your belongings in your dwellings, and enter the buses in an immediate and orderly fashion.
You will be provided with food, water, clothes, and shelter.

Civil disobedience will not be tolerated...

Things seem to be awfully quiet tonight. So here's a question for any Freepers willing to bite. Let's say the worst case happened, a major city is gone. Within hours all major cities are being locked down. What would you do if it came down to this scenario? Anyone already have contingency plans?

Check this out everyone:

Arab translators cheered Sept. 11

Posted: January 7, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Paul Sperry
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON -- In a shocking revelation, an FBI whistleblower claims some Arab-Americans translating Arabic intercepts for the FBI spoke approvingly of the terrorist attacks on America more than two years ago.

Former FBI translator Sibel D. Edmonds says translators of Middle Eastern origin working for the FBI's Washington field office maintain an "us"-versus-"them" attitude that's so strong it may be compromising al-Qaida investigations.

She cited examples of mistranslations and security breaches within the FBI's language division, where translators with Top Secret clearance interpret sensitive terror-related information for agents.

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Let's say the worst case happened, a major city is gone. Within hours all major cities are being locked down. What would you do if it came down to this scenario? Anyone already have contingency plans?

Scared you all away, eh? Let's just consider that a rhetorical question. Do I really need to ask anyway? :)

What makes you think there would be a lock down of 'all major cities' if we 'lost a major city'? What purpose would that serve?

What makes you think the US even has the resources and manpower to 'lock down' all major US cities- at least in any effective way, even assuming there was some logical reason to 'lock down' cities in the first place? For example, about the only reason could be a biological attack using not anthrax, but some TRANSMISSIBLE agent like smallpox)

This country is enormous- few people realize just how immense this country is. Not only is it enormous, but the geography and infrastructure would not work in the favor of any effort to isolate specific regions.

Major American cities even by themselves are enormous and cannot be efficiently cordoned off, unless everyone concerned is willing to abide by the rules, and when has that ever happened? Perhaps isolating a city like Las Vegas would be prectical, but try to isolate a city such as St. Louis, Memphis or Chicago without the full cooperation of the residents and the effort would fail miserably.

Were there a biological attack, and locking down areas were thus made neccessary to limit the spread, there would be no logical reason to break travel restrictions, unless of course you want to help spread transmissible agents outside the lockout zone. Oh, certainly some people would try. And some would likely succeed.

I remember the flood of 93 where most people cooperated in dealing with the situation and volunteers came from all over, frequently unasked, to help shore up levees against rising waters, to provide medical aid, bring in supplies, to secure areas against possible looters, and even to clean up afterwards. (We had to arm ourselves to protect the state's water pumps and our neighbors' pumps from occasional aggressive thieves desperate to obtain them to save their own property or planning to sell hot pumps to those who were unable to buy them legally.)

There are always going to be people who care only about themselves, such as the guy who took his boat out to try to ram already saturated levees in an effort to save his fields. But when things come down to the wire, the bulk of people work together to do what is neccessary, just as in the flood of 93, or in Gulf coast hurricanes, or in harsh winter storms, western firestorms, etc, and have the resources stashed away to live independently and make things happen when neccessary. They will be able to apply these same resources and resourcefulness they use in natural disasters to situations which are decidedly 'unnatural.'

My family has had plans in place for some time. I rounded everyone up during the summer and laid out the plan. Many thought I was just being my usual wierd self, but since then pretty much all are believers.

Those in NYC refuse to leave, but should something occur, they will try to meet and come up to my house in rural RI by back roads, previously planned.

The majority of my family still lives around here and will all come here. My house will hold thirty or more easily.

The Florida contingent has been organized as well and are prepared to meet at grandparents place which is fairly remote. Some wanted to gather at our place on Longboat key, because it is a gated and secure place, but I convinced them that it was a likely target.

Here we have stores of food, a generator and a well. We are far enough away from things that I don't believe we would be affected, other than potentially the loss of grid service and (the horror!) internet. We are also "well regulated" from a certain standpoint.

I'm more concerned about the Floridians since they are largely elders. My daughter and my brother-in-law would have their hands full.

I would recommend everyone have a family/friend gathering and at least start the discussion.

This sh!t is not going to go away for a while and if I know anything about life, it will get worse before it gets better.

"Anyone already have contingency plans?"

Dressing up like amish?

I have some. I posted yesterday a similiar query. We suggested all of his were I'm a Freeper sign andmeet centrally located. I am buying a gun this week I know. And will go to Alabama if we must leave here.