In all of those countries that have famine, dictatorships, communism is it not apparent that those that have supplies are usually those with higher positions of power?
So as I see it communism sees any person who has more than his neighbor a threat as that individual then is elevated and thus a threat to socialism, unless they aspire to be a political prty member.
But you cannot have preppers in the news because they are a threat to socialism, they will have an unbroken spirit because they won’t have crying hungry children.
A nation of hungry families will do anything to insure they get food, and they will do it passively first by asking for handouts when the feds are giving it out.
And then they will band together and demand their socialist leaders to arrest and confiscate those that are prepping. All it takes is a break in the chain to disrupt some part of the food chain.
If TEOTWAWKI ever happens, during the first week that person's neighbors will be asking for assistance, which will be kindly given. However, more and more people will keep coming for food and provisions, and no matter how large the cache of supplies is the prepper will have to stop giving stuff away. People will continue to ask, at first with pleas, then with concern, then with angst, and finally with fear (i.e. when one has a sick child or a starving spouse, and the fear that the person may die is merged with the realization that the neighbor everyone knows has a lot of food/medicine is 'refusing' to 'share'). Soon people stop asking and start taking. Ok, you have the AR-15, the Benelli, and enough Mosins to restart the Russian Revolution ...but you are not the only person who is armed, and they are by far more numerous (based on the cases in the Balkans, by a factor far higher than the calculation given by Lanchester's Square Law. Even if you are armed with automatic weapons, and you have ten of your cousins with you, and all of you are crack shots ...and the masses coming to the house are unarmed - totally unarmed - beyond 1^3 you are in trouble).
These people are saying what they have, and where they have it. I consider that the epitome of stupidity. I am a prepper, and the only people who know what I have and where it is (and most of it is not in the suburbia house since I plan on being out of there the moment things seem to be heading south) are my immediate family. If that makes me a 'coward' then so be it, but what I saw in Africa and told about in Europe was not good. Saying it can only happen in communist countries is also not necessarily true (for one those specific countries were not communist), because if you look at what happened post-Katrina in NO shows it can happen in the US too. However, someone will say that it only happened amongst 'Holder's people' or whatever 'clever' word is currently in vogue here, to which I will bring up the several recorded instances of power going out in a WalMart and white middle-class people going ape-sh!t because the tellers weren't accepting cards and the ATMs were not working.
I am a prepper, and I consider it folly to tell media what I have and where I have it ...and including pictures of myself, my family, and my house. Inane insanity that is.