that's the way i read it...
Posted on 08/04/2013 5:17:59 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Washington state legislator Rep. Matt Shea (R) says preparation is crucial to get ready for what he calls "the inevitable collapse" of the US economy.
The Self-Reliance Rally event at an Idaho State Park had several speakers encouraging attendees to prepare by gathering arms and ammunition and considering forming militias.
"When it happens, we need to look at this as a opportunity, not a crisis," Shea said. "Who's job is liberty? That's our job."
Shea told the crowd to stock up on ammunition, stay in shape, practice shooting, learn self defense and special tactics.
He related a story from when he was in the military where a superior officer told him to remember an important lesson.
"Be prepared at any given moment to give up your job to do what is right," he said. "You have to stand up for what is right - even if it means you have to stand up to your government," Shea's superior officer allegedly told him.
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that's the way i read it...
There’s a Great Storm coming you can feel it and the great cities of Europe are on the edges of it now, soon it will consume them.
Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
Any one with half a brain can look around and see for themselves what is happening right before their eyes.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
One of the things Selco covers in his blog was the fact that many will not accept a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
There is a Great article in my Preparedness Manual on building your on Bug Out Bag titled: A Highly-Mobility 72 Hour Kit-by Ward Dorrity. You can download the whole manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
OK... Where and when do we meet to devise our plan?
Well, about the only way you can tell for sure is that with just a minimum of press, the government quickly comes out to announce that there is nothing to see here, please move along. They just seem to be incapable of shutting up when they get caught doing something dubious.
Personally, I can see why FEMA wants to requisition emergency supplies. It’s sort of their job. But why they would want so much and so fast, without any real disaster pending, is that some bureaucrat noticed that the expiration dates of a lot of their emergency supplies had come and gone.
You figure that there was a major resupply right after Katrina in 2005, but that probably happened 7 years ago.
brtrr
We still import more though. A good portion of which, comes from ... China.
China is winning.
Yes, WE should be the biggest exporter in the world, because it's really great to be sending your stuff to other people instead of taking their stuff. China is winning like Charlie Sheen.
brtrr?
patriots support their country no matter what, and their government when it deserves it.
Well, if the DHS didn't get the ammo, and we're winding down the war, where is it going? ANY ammo has been pretty scarce on the shelves around here, popular calibers (.223, .308, .30-06, .270, .22, .45, .38, .357, 9mm, 7.62X39) haven't been on store shelves in eight months.
Ah, such a simplistic view of economics! Not that I don’t understand if you listen to the news that comes out of this administration. We have lost our way...
We are done as a democratic nation but it is not due to anything other than our own making - stupid decisions, one after another, both parties and yet we still pull for one side or the other out of ignorance! Almost all of our government officials are corrupt and if they are not yet, they will be by the second year. It is a battle to be reelected for profit.
Yes, we are doomed but it is because we the public are so engrossed with the piddly things that we are missing the whole picture. While they push their pet peeves, we continue to lose our freedoms.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic but it really is getting bad with this Administration and the so called power checkers (media - Congress) have become part of the problem. Way too many stupid people out there and voting for more stupidity. I do think that there are enough of them now that the tide has turned to their favor. Democracy has succumbed to the stupidity of the uneducated masses. Probably their plan all along...
A guest on Huckabee named Whitehead has a book about the police state. He said DHS DID buy all that ammo.
Heh, probably true, but that does not mean that lower costs of production combined with quality will not eventually win out. Now that may not be the problem now, but it eventually will be from someone...
The question is why America does not continue to compete with advances that make production both high quality and profitable. You can never compete with cheap labor so it has to be a quality issue.
Thank God I live in Texas. We’re doing fine.
I was watching a documentary on what would happen if D.C. was nuked. It’s called COG....continuity of government. There are 17 radio stations set up to broadcast. And a line of succession is in place. There are different locations all over the place where government officials will go. There are military teams already trained for martial law.
But what about this? We’re sitting at home and the power goes off. No big deal. It happens a lot so we wait for it come back on. And we wait and wait and wait....then we try our cell phones and they don’t work. Even with a battery powered radio the airwaves are silent. If there was an EMP how would we know? When would we know?
Who the hell is Huffington? Don’t they wear kneepads for their visits to the oval oriface?
I have mine...in every size needed for the pieces I have...bring ‘em on!
“But what about this? We’re sitting at home and the power goes off. No big deal. It happens a lot so we wait for it come back on. And we wait and wait and wait....then we try our cell phones and they don’t work. Even with a battery powered radio the airwaves are silent. If there was an EMP how would we know? When would we know?”
A scenario that always makes me think of the excellent PBS series ‘Connections’, which began with the New York blackout of 1977 caused by one small relay.
Anyway, week after week Connections did a fine job of illustrating just how dependent we have become on the technology that we think is our servant.
I’ve thought for years that one of the few good things that the national government could do is to encourage less of a dependency on single suppliers, whether it be electricity, or water, or food. Of course no one in politics has shown the slightest interest in doing anything like that. In fact we have become more dependent upon things functioning without a glitch.
If there is something like an EMP in our future there is going to be mass death. And that mass death will come largely because we have become overly reliant on the technologies that make our usual life possible, and we have no backup plan in case it all collapses.
I wonder if this is a parallel of the ammunition shortages that have been experienced in places.
I'm going to assume you mean that government should bring back jobs. That is impossible, at least impossible to do in an economically-healthy way. The real problem is that Federal government has too much power and is too corrupt. Indeed, just destroying the tax-code by adopting a single flat-rate, no exceptions, no exemptions, no credits system would instantly cut off most of the power/corruption we see in tax-collection; spending tax-monies (and incurring debt) are the other half that need to be cleaned up: the best way to do that would [IMO] require a Constitutional amendment (a) stripping the Congress of the power to regulate the dollar as well as defining the dollar in terms of a weight of gold of certain purity, and (b) limiting the amount of total debts that be incurred to a proportion of gold physically in the Treasury.
The two above would drastically cut two abused powers down to size and make it much easier to do business in the US.
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