Posted on 09/17/2012 9:26:04 PM PDT by Kartographer
They say they're not doomsdayers or survivalists, but a handful of people who met in a small room at a Mahomet church last week say they believe it's time to prepare for emergencies and disasters. And they want others to the same.
The group, known informally as the Christian Emergency Preparedness Network, wants church and civic groups to band together and prepare food, water, equipment, expertise, security and more for what they believe is an impending crisis.
It has nothing to do with the upcoming election, says David Pike, a crop scientist who lives in Champaign and is retired from the University of Illinois.
"We're not here to generate fear, but we're here to generate an awareness and then a preparedness," he told about two dozen people last Wednesday night in the upstairs meeting room at the Mahomet Community Free Church.
(Excerpt) Read more at news-gazette.com ...
Can you give me a source of that info?
http://madtownpreppers.blogspot.com/2012/08/brief-review-of-executive-orders-re.html
A quick search came up with this blog - seems these orders have been around since FDR, updated with Clinton and Carter, etc.... and now Obama.
Here it is straight from the ass..., horse’s mouth. Lots of stuff to wade through. Some prepper site was making notice that most times these types of EO talk about war, but that this one can be used in peace time. But didn’t dig that far into it yet.
We cannot rely on the government to save us in an emergency situationOh, they will find a use for some of us.
After a quick review of the EO - seems like standard bureaucratic crap to keep folks busy. Lots of stuff in there to “study”, “evaluate” etc. Although in Sec. 201 there was this:
“Upon such approval, the Secretary of the resource department that made the finding may use the authority of section 101(a) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(a), to control the general distribution of any material (including applicable services) in the civilian market.”
I suppose that could be viewed in fairly broad terms. Of course, no different than the rationing of stuff during WWII.
That is probably constitutional in the warped view of the far left. The thoroughly bizarre Wickard v. Filburn decision that growing wheat for personal use is "interstate commerce" and thus subject to federal regulation set the precedent. We are facing pure evil, and the socialists will use any excuse they can manufacture to take power over individuals who resist the dependency they need to impose as a means of control.
I do not live in as good an area. I am surrounded, not by dense housing but by homes with a few acres each. Unfortunately, more than half of those homes contain people who love Obama and socialism, extreme leftists who oppose the Second Amendment and individual freedom. If society collapses, I will be very nervous for several months. Hopefully I'll have some luck in concealing my degree of preparedness from all neighbors in the first few months and in converting those neighbors smart enough to survive the initial collapse.
Still, I don't want to live as our grandparents did before electricity, at least not for long. One important part of my preparation is paper reference books. I believe I could reconstruct most of modern medicine, math, science, and engineering from my small library. I also think that is important. I want Western culture to be the first to rise again if there is a global catastrophe, and scientific knowledge will be among the determinants of who wins that race. Those books, however, are in a sealed box. The references that are ready to use are field guides to local plants, both edible and medicinal, copies of applicable sections from Kart's prep manual to keep and to hand out, and other references that will help in learning or remembering key details under pressure.
That is when the 2nd Amendment goes to work.
That is why I sense a revolution will come, mark my words.
My wife will get it. God was trying to tell the guy that he should have stored for emergency but not just for himself.
The west will rise again, but via a Christian spiritual renewel.
Did you read the comments section? Only one person appeared to rise above moron status.
Churches that have a bit of land available to them should be building raised beds to help provide fresh produce in exchange for a bit of labor...we waste an incredible amount of heirloom vegetable seed in this country annually...G-d has provided, and we have ignored it...
>>Since it is stored in glass jars, you do not have to worry about chemicals from plastic bottles contaminating your water supply.<<
What kind of contamination, and at what sort of shelf-life? I’d thought one could easily get 3 - 4 yrs out of plastic water jugs before rotating them out. And even then, just aerating the water before drinking would remove the funny plastic taste.
Just a reminder, with all the violence breaking out....
SITUALTIONAL AWARENESS!!!!! Always be aware of what’s going on around you.
You have to have supplies, skills, and knowledge; but you need to be aware of what’s happening around you.
Example, when I go to the market, before I get out of the truck I look into the parked vehicles in the parking lot. Is there someone watching you from one of them?
When exiting the market, who’s hanging out on the sidewalk?
Prime attack times are also leaving or arriving home.
I’m in the NC Triad. We have a “secret” prepper group at church too. When you see someone toting a gun through the back door...we are in session. LOL.
As far as I am aware and I’ve been add this for a bit as long as you container is food grade you should be just fine. Especially if you rotate your water. The problems with many of the off the self containers you buy water in is mainly that they are weak and won’t hold up over time without leaking.
All the entitlement groups will soon be searching for hoarders, food stocks, clean water, toiletry supplies.
Best to start pulling back and disguising any prepping now if a person hasn’t done so already.
While its a good thing to help the needy the “needy” will be a clamoring frustrated mob. Especially the 47% of Americans that are dependent upon Obamas give away pogroms.
Just a reminder, with all the violence breaking out....
SITUALTIONAL AWARENESS!!!!! Always be aware of whats going on around you.
You have to have supplies, skills, and knowledge; but you need to be aware of whats happening around you.
Example, when I go to the market, before I get out of the truck I look into the parked vehicles in the parking lot. Is there someone watching you from one of them?
When exiting the market, whos hanging out on the sidewalk?
Prime attack times are also leaving or arriving home.
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Don’t forget underneath the vehicles!
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