To: Carry_Okie
It's when TSHTF that they suddenly realize they're duck-bait. Wasn't it Uri Whathizfacenik who said the leftist professors would be the first the mob/cop maelstrom would whack?
Yes! Also...if you take a poll, you'll find that TOO many people have a bug out plan of simply knowing somebody else. In our opinions, this simply isn't good enough. However, it's a fact with far too many people. But these elite of the intelligencia simply don't KNOW anybody in our circles. They've heard that we exist, but they don't know anybody.
I know some people at work and I was probably a little more honest with them one day than I should have been. I gave them some fairly raw information and a few specifics on what we've done as well as some others that we know. I do NOT think these people believed me.
I don't think the intellegencia will live long enough to get whacked. They're only important as long as their little self-made empires stand. When the factors around them make their own self importance a moot point, then they'll have to actually confront reality for ONCE and the stress and depression will kill them.
Some of them from where I used to work had a plan to come to our place, and I asked what made them think they were going to make it that far (40 miles)? What if nothing was running (EMP damage scenario), or what if the military or local law enforcement had roads blocked? Or what if it was simply a very BAD ice storm as it was last time?! They just looked at me like sheep. Then I said, "WHAT if you DO make it to our place and discover we're not there because we've gone farther away?" One of them snapped out of it and asked where in the world somebody like us would go?! There was a guy within earshot who was raised near me growing up and I motioned to him and told her to ask him... I said he would know where we were going. He just sort of smiled and shook his head and said, "Yeah...even if he doesn't go where he's from, I know the sort of place where he's likely to go!" The sheep were straining toward me to find out. I simply told them that me and mine would be going deep into very rural country....and that it would be most UNPLEASANT for them! They appeared concerned, but in the several years that I worked around them, none of them ever changed their life styles....even though they observed the same things we do.
Since that time, the plan has changed. We've connected with a very rural community about 20 miles to the north of here....which is fairly rural itself. But even so, those sheep I had that conversation with that day would still have a hard time of it.
164 posted on
07/25/2009 11:19:45 AM PDT by
hiredhand
(Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
To: hiredhand
I wish we could say we were ready. We're in better shape than many, but still not there for a 3-1/2 year trib. The biggest problem we have is social. There simply aren't enough level-headed people around here to form a group sufficient to make it.
165 posted on
07/25/2009 11:41:33 AM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(They were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
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