Posted on 01/26/2012 4:44:50 PM PST by blam
Here's what that was about. And, if you think it's for urban warfare in foreign cities...I'll sell you a bridge:
bttt
I wouldn’t be caught dead in a city of any size for any real length of time.
Largest would be Olympia, Wa.....for about 2 hrs at a time.
BTTT !
Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.
It must be almost 10 years since I was in a city of much more than 30 or 40 thousand people.
I’m not in a rural area...but I thank my lucky stars I’m not in a city, either.
Flew home last night and had a stopover in LaGuardia. Sigh of relief just leaving there, they won’t have much of a chance in a place as big as NYC.
I live in a metropolis of around 150.
A great additional problem is the out-of-control Public Sector Unions, and there needs to be cuts to them, too, as Scott Walker has done in WI. We need to do the same thing in EVERY State (all 57 of 'em !)
One of my concerns is if comes down while I’m on the road..can’t carry on a plane. I’m prepared as I can be on the road..have maps of where I’m going, a packed bag, cash, cards (for renting a car if need be)..and my wits. It will have to be enough if it comes to that, can’t be home all the time.
“Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.”
I thought they’d given up on that; once the decision was made not to “harass” illegals, you’d be waving through a good number of drivers in ANY city.
Cities died because there was no reason to go or live there anymore; as manufacturing diappeared, fewer people worked in cities, and as the nature of shopping changed, fewer people had any reason to go there at all. At this point moving to a city is equivalent to adopting a public school teacher, a cop, a carrer politician, and five members of a permanent underclass “family” - you have to pay/clothe/house/feed all of them. No wonder companies and taxpayers have fled...
Possible SHTF thread...
If they make it past Suburbia, will they be stupid enough to head for Ruralia?
[just askin’]
I get tired of the comments that start out with, “Can you imagine if this happened during the Bush Administration...,” BUT can you IMAGINE if stories like this came out during the Bush Administration??? People are afraid to live in cities and are preparing for the EOTWAWKI, and yet there’s a chance that Obama will be reelected?? What is this, the Twilight Zone???
Don’t answer that.
Ditto. The cows outnumber the people by a long shot.
As I always tell my liberal sister in Livonia, “They aren’t coming out here, they’ll be coming to your upscale suburban neighborhood lookin for stuff.”
We live about 100 miles from Dallas and we have to go there about four times a year. It’s not bad where we have to go there but we know it isn’t far from some really bad areas of Dallas. It is always a relief to get back to the tranquility of the country.
Someone told me - if you have a place where cells phones don’t work, it means you are far enough way when TSHTF!
What made the difference was a scan of the town. When the fertilizer hits the ventilator, all we need to do is blow the Route 17 bridge on the south end and barricade two roads on the north to secure the perimeter. The exits on I-95 are far apart, and if city people want to get to the town without using the exits, they have to wade through two swamps and swim a river with alligators. The land is flat enough that a machine gun nest in my third floor condo would have fields of fire wide enough to prevent anyone from getting into town without my permission.
Of course I'm being facetious...
...or am I?
Olympia has a fetish for roundabouts and Eurosocialism and a fairly high tolerance for derelicts and potheads, but it is a civilized place. I think it would be hard for the thug population to reach critical mass. I’m a native but I live over 15 miles into the country.
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