Posted on 12/11/2012 3:37:42 PM PST by Kartographer
Have you noticed that it has become trendy to bash preppers? For a long time the prepper movement was ignored, but now it has become so large that it is getting very difficult for the mainstream media to pretend that it is not there. In fact, it has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million preppers in the United States alone. So now the mainstream media has decided that mocking the movement is the best strategy, and lots of “critics” and “skeptics” out there have picked up on this trend. Instead of addressing the very real issues that have caused millions of Americans to prepare for the worst, those criticizing the prepper movement attempt to put the focus on individual personalities. They try to find the strangest nutjobs they possibly can and then hold them up as “typical preppers”. The goal is to portray preppers as tinfoil hat wearing freaks that need to be locked up in the loony bin for their own personal safety and for the good of society. The criticism of preppers has really ramped up in recent months, and it will likely get even worse in 2013. The establishment does not like any movement that is outside of their control, and the prepper movement is definitely not under their control.
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If you have been following our preppers’ threads you will find examples of the three types of people that I often warn fellow preppers about, two of the types are the “I’ve got lots of guns and plenty of ammo and I’ll just take what I need.” and the “I don’t prep because I don’t believe anything is going to happen, but if it does preppers should share with me.”
Call many of these people on their post and many will backdown or just not respond in their embarrassment, but many will reply back in righteous anger the same anger that you get from most Libs who are shocked and infuriated by preppers not putting sharing to the forefront. Even though many of us do, just we don’t to the point of endangering our own families.
Now as I said some the “I’ll take what I want crowd” when confronted will often back off saying things like “I was just joking”, but I don’t believe it. When I read their post I can’t help but think of this quote from one of my favorite westerns ’Open Range’: “Most times a man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear.” I’ve ‘heard’ their intentions and they aren’t good.
The third type that I warn about are those who wish to bring God’s Armageddon into the discussion as if they know that it will be God’s will should some catastrophe befall us. They claim this despite the fact that the history of man is full of direr times which were caused by nature or man himself. History has shown us all too well that men do not need God to help them muck things up to a point were their fellows cry out for God to end it all and relieve them of their misery. Some of these I like to ask: “Do you wear a seatbelt when you drive or ride in a car? Do you have car insurance?” And if they reply yes then I tell them their faith must not be as strong as they claim.
The real problem with the ‘its God’s will’ crowd who will be that many will want to see you punished as they will see your prepping as you trying to dodging God’s punishment. This group along with the “I don’t prep, but you should share” group will be among the first to report you and your ‘hoarding’ to the powers that be in their efforts to make sure you too suffer just as they do. The first group because as I said they see you as trying to escape the rightful wrath of God (as if they know the Lord’s mind) and the second because you proved them wrong.
You can be fairly certain that all three groups will hate you as they will be quick to blame you for the ‘troubles’ because in their twisted way of thinking your prepping brought the ‘troubles’ and therefore you need to be punished for your transgressions.
To these three types I like to add a fourth the have hearted anti-prepper the ones that say well prepping for a couple weeks is OK, but anything beyond that is NUTS. Well if you were a couple of weeks prepper and lived in Sandy’s path I bet you are wishing you was a ‘six month prepper’. Many of these people are still in direr need and there is little to no help forth coming. And this was just a hurricane not a real live SHTF advent. And now six weeks later many of these people are lived just as they did 6 days after. How many of these people wished they had stored more? And the fact is most real major disasters are not 5-7 day events they are weeks and sometimes a couple of months. And a week or two preps is not going to get you though. Yet somehow some people just allow normalcy bias shape their view and not actual facts of what real life shtf is like. It’s not a weekend camping trip it is often a week’s long gulling and frustrating time in which most of the time you are doing without and what you have and what you can get is never as much as you need.
Non religious Jews make fun of religious Jews and scorn them -— because we make them feel bad just by doing what they k ow they should be doing.
You KNOW those grasshoppers probably mocked those ants all summer long.
Rod Serling showed what those ‘snarky’ neighbors would do if the SHTF
Twilight Zone - The Shelter
Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuj2yuoC3PY
Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7v1Cs-Bc4
Part Three
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSwrIy4IwoU
The establishment prepper movement does not like any movement that is outside of their control, and the prepper movement establishment is definitely not under their control.
Some people never learn....
“To me they are no different than people who buy fire extinguishers: you buy it because you might have a fire, not because you’re crazy and paranoid”
I have lots of fire extinguishers. I don’t know how many I have because if I did I would have to buy more:)
They’re demonizing preppers like Stalin demonized the Kulaks, and they want (if not intend) to treat preppers the same way. Which, for those who don’t know, involved seizing and kicking them off their land and then killing them.
Exactly. Dependency is where totalitarian political power is derived from. Individual self reliance cannot be allowed to flourish in a brutish nanny state for that state to remain in power. People who embrace the nanny state as their sole provider and security blanket see the self reliant as a threat to their cash cow and nursing sow.
And when someone asked if I was a 'survivalist', I always asked what the opposite of a 'survivalist' was? Pretty much gobstopped 'em.
/johnny
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It looks like just the opposite to me. For a long time survivalists* were seen as a joke -- or as threatening and menacing. Katrina and Sandy** have brought home to a lot of people just how important it is to be prepared for disaster. Some post-apocalyptic television shows like The Walking Dead and Falling Skies (partially) turn old stereotypes on their head (only partially, but survivalists aren't portrayed as negatively as they were in the past).
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* No, I won't say "preppers."
** Not the hurricanes, two girls I know who are even worse disasters.
Even the FEMA website tells us to prepare and gives quite a few suggestions of kits and so forth.
Of course I already knew the government was nuts.
Anyways, any person who says the extent of their preparation, and says it either constantly or with a way of being identified, is not a prepper. That person is just a sad soul striving for positive attention and confirmation. Like some nerd trying to show he has the latest Star Wars role playing game.
Real preppers remain largely anonymous, and more importantly do not provide identifying details that can enable people to locate them when things go down. Real preppers realize that the only way to survive will be a medley of two meta-principles: a) preparing in advanced (in all ways, e.g. having a stocked larder but remaining in suburbia, which will be a killzone, is myopic to put it mildly), and b) realizing that prepping in secrecy is mandatory to the plan having any chance of succeeding.
All the 'preppers' in those tv shows and magazine articles are not preppers. They are simply nerds in need of attention, and wholly deserving of any mockery they receive. They are basically a wannabe Paris Hilton, only without the sex tape.
True, and I am thinking..Maybe being ridiculed by the left on this issue is not so bad. It helps insure that most of them won’t prep.
/johnny
G-d bless the child who’s got his own. That is the bottom line and it isn’t hardly new. I’d rather be hated than dead.
That's pretty cowardly to have to hide your activities.
As I said, I'll speak up in the community to encourage others to prepare for disasters. The more that prepare, the less problems I have.
Besides, I'm not sneaking off into the night and letting my community and country go to hell. If it gets me killed, I've got a better home awaiting.
/johnny
She know's if the SHTF it's going to be a fuster cluck, and those people who were promised and believed that the government wwould take care of the are going to be screwed.
She's afraid of the preppers because they're going to show everyone else just how badly they were lied to.
I was one of the original survivalists / preppers. It’s called being born dirt poor in a fairly remote area.
You very quickly learn:
To chew your meat carefully as the lead shot is hard on the teeth.
To bring in enough wood ahead of time as it is a pain to chop and split it in freezing cold weather and snow.
To keep a wash tub of water on top of the wood cook stove all the time. It keeps moisture in the air and you can always dip out hot water as you need it.
Always keep lots of water inside the house as it is a pain to chop through the ice on the spring.
The outhouse seat is always cold. Don’t use the shiny advertising pages.
Groundhog, muskrat, raccoon, and other small animals are really good if you smoke them.
Conibear muskrat traps with field corn on the prongs are the easiest way to catch geese.
It’s not as much about stock piling food as it is about sustainability.
A lime solution in a fishing hole will bring the fish up quickly and you can still eat them.
Learn to temperature check roadkills to determine how long they have been dead prior to picking them up.
Wood gives you two heats. One when you cut it and one when you burn it.
You can clear a whole table in the school cafeteria by pulling a whole smoked squirrel out of your lunch bag and proceed to eat it! People get freaked out when you eat an animal while the head is still on it, even if it is just a fish.
Must admit, it was fun.... Oh, the simple life.
Oh, and the guns sitting against the wall by the door are always loaded.
Liberals hate it when they try to destroy something but it doesn’t work. Preppers are people that will not be hurt as much by liberal actions and they hate that because they want preppers to suffer.
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