Rawles: “It Would Be Impossible To Disarm The People Of This Country”

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Rawles: “It Would Be Impossible To Disarm The People Of This Country”

Mac Slavo
May 21st, 2012

How likely is it that we will actually experience a disaster that brings down our national power grid?

Will the government seize all guns in the United States?

If Continuity of Government response plans are initiated, will they be able to effectively lock down every major city and the country as a whole under a martial law scenario?

Is an economic collapse in our near future?

These and a host of other critical topics are covered in the latest interview from SGT Report with Survival Blog editor James Rawles.

Rawles on Gun Confiscation:

I think it would be impossible to disarm the people of this country. Along with Yemen we’re the most heavily armed society on the planet. It would be absolutely impossible to disarm the citizenry.

There might be an attempt to do it incremently over the course of generations. I think that’s the only way that would happen.

There are so many guns being produced each year – a couple of million guns each year – it’s just mathematically impossible, if not socially impossible, to even envision the logisitics of trying to disarm the American citizenry. It just can’t happen. There’s too many guns in circulation and they’re essentially the final guarantor of our freedom.

The next phase of the financial collapse:

I think that given the financial situation globally – if you look at what’s happening in Italy, Spain, Greece and the most recent election in France – we’re very likely to see a lot of financial turmoil in the coming months.

A lot of it will spill over into American markets. I think there is likely to be another global credit crisis like in 2008, and it could get very, very ugly very quickly.

I think it’s prudent for people to prepare. I think that if you look at it in terms of the clock face approach, we’re probably just minutes from midnight in terms of where we should be in terms of our preparedness.

Rawles on the probability of a grid-down worst-case scenario collapse:

In all of my writings I’ve stressed that the North American power grids – and there’re three of them – are the real lynch pin of our modern technological society.

If the grids go down, all bets are off.

It’s important that people plan for the worst case. The worst case would, of course, be grid down. The chances of that happening are fairly small, but if you’re prepared for the worst case you can take anything lesser in stride.

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In terms of the power grid, if they knock that leg out from underneath society they can create a cascade of events that will be completely beyond their control.

Martial law is not going to restore order if the power grid goes down and does not come back up within a few days.

On martial law:

I think the whole rhetoric about martial law tends to be overblown, because the logistics of implementing martial law would be daunting. Even in the United States, where we have a fairly sophisticated military, the numbers just don’t add up for martial law being instituted for more than just a very short period of time.

We have a military that’s primarily deployed overseas right now. The military here in the United States, active and reserve components, don’t even have enough vehicles for training much less live operations. The majority of the rolling stock for the US military right now is in places like Bosnia and Afghanistan.

How do you institute martial law if you can’t even get troops from point A to point B?

Obsessing on martial is probably not productive, but we do need to be on guard to guard our liberty, and we do need to speak up when there are abuses of our Constitutional Rights, especially the first amendment.

SGT Report with James Wesley Rawles (Part 1 of 2):
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SGT Report with James Wesley Rawles (Part 2 of 2):
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[Borax Queen]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, these Ruskis are straight out of “Red Dawn”.... Sharky better be scared :0) The Denver airport is rumored to have underground tunnels that go all the way to Michigan.............

[Shadowstrike]

Sorry, it doesn’t matter if it was one agency or not. Or, if they all agreed on it. It happened, and many of those who had their guns taken, still don’t have them back.

[Lakeshark]

Sorry, those tunnels end in Chicago. Axelrod wanted a way out of town when Bambi loses.

We're safe, we has boat to bring us (and that hot Lith with her big guns) to Canada..........

:p

[Borax Queen]

Darn tunnels!!! And goody about the boat, that is my Plan C (if I can make it through the hordes of zombie apocalypse-types in/near Chicago and Detroit...

[Lakeshark]

The trick is to leave early and travel the northern route........look inconspicuous in that Priuss........wear liberal camouflage......

[Borax Queen]

Ha!
Bike rack on car .... check
Birkenstocks on feet... check
Peace and “coexist” bumper stickers ready to be glued on... check

:0)

[Iron Munro]

Yes indeed, I also think that a sub-rosa paramilitary police will be a major threat. How they would operate would be to cause a major act of terrorism and then show up as the very people who are there to investigate and protect the citizens.

A further development of the "Fast and Furious" mentality is almost a certainty.
Once a force is trained and equipped they will find a way to use their skills and equipment. If an enemy isn't forthcoming they will manufacture one.

The militarization of local and state police forces is also a disturbing delelopment. And of course, every federal agency now has to have its own quasi-military SWAT force.

[Lakeshark]

Tie-dye t-shirt - check
Librarian badge - check
Tickets to DNC meetings - check
Bambi songs on Ipod - check

There must be a prepper list for this kind of thing.....

:-)

[Borax Queen]

There must be some list, FOTFLOL!
We must remember to not comb hair, shave, or take a bath for a few days or weeks....

[Lakeshark]

"Liberal look alike prepping for dummies"

We'll do a joint authorship........

[Jay Redhawk]

I might consider having some equipment stashed in several different areas. It is important for them not to know what you have so that they don't know what to look for. My main point, however, is that the tyrants directing the seizure will not at first risk police confrontation. Instead they will use our friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens to do their dirty work. Once we pass through that stage there will be many fewer armed citizens, and then the police will be sent out to isolate or go after those who are still holding out. Tyrants like Obama and company love to turn citizens against one another. They seem to get some sort of sick and twisted pleasure out of it.

[ctdonath2]

Critical point: save for one little old lady, they weren't taken, they were handed over. Those adhering to FMCDH kept them.

[JimRed]

Here is one of the references to troops refusing to confiscate guns during Katrina:

FYI, when I clicked the link, a stupid Myspace ad popped up after the page had loaded.

[archy]

Hey I play the bagpipes (badly!)

Likely not as badly as I do. I need a lot more time with a practice chanter, but I've been using it picking my banjo chops back up instead.

[Sarajevo]

Government forces using informers to sow fear and distrust and therefore disunity amongst the citizenry, employ a weapon just as powerful as battalions of jackboots kicking in doors.

That technique is already utilized by cops. I don't know how many times I've gone to jury duty and the prosecutor asks if anyone has problems with snitches.

[Sarajevo]

The short answer is, the number of large-game license hunters in America exceeds the military personnel of all the countries of the world combined, sans China.

Big game hunters typically do not have Apache helicopters, tanks, missiles, or ground attack fighters.

[TEXOKIE]

A source I consider reputable sent me an email a few days ago, but for which I do not have a link:

Russian paratroopers will meet up with American forces May 24-31 for military exercise at Colorado’s Fort Carson.

· The purpose of the joint training is to practice airborne tactics and anti-terror operations, such as dropping into a hostile area and conducting a “terrorist camp raid.”

· They will use US weaponry and equipment.

· This comes at a time when Russia has troops working in cooperation with China where a joint naval drill in the Yellow Sea is currently underway.

· With 25 vessels and 13 aircraft, it is reportedly one of the largest Russian-China drills in recent history.

Just did a google:
Here is a link from a not-so-great source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/us-russian-soldiers-train_n_1525502.html

and a better source:
http://www.kktv.com/news/military/headlines/US_Russian_Soldiers_Train_Together_At_Fort_Carson_151918645.html

[Borax Queen]

Oh... it’s only 22? I had heard thousands (up to 120K!). We can take ‘em, Red Dawn Part II. :0)

I was looking for links about this the other day too, and went down the rabbit hole into the “One World Airport Authority” plaque in the Denver airport... Apparently no such agency exists.

[Lakeshark]

I had heard thousands (up to 120K!).

We have that many readers for our prepper book?

Awesome......

We could set up a store selling the necessary camo stuff.

[gundog]

That was one agency, and not representative of all agencies or police officers.

That wasn't even an agency. Many NOPD's quit. Many mercenaries moved in. The attitude of many of the citizens was "Do you think they came all that way NOT to shoot somebody?"