***During World War Two the local ration boards were on the lookout for hoarders & relied on snitches.****
During WWII my brother-in-law’s family operated a ranch in Texas. They canned and killed their own meat and veggies.
One day someone dropped a dime on them and their ranch was raided. All their stored food was confiscated.
They survived by having another hidden cellar way back in the hills.
I think some serious research into conditions during WWII on the American “homefront” is in order for those of us who treasure liberty.
For most, WWII is about Pearl Harbor, D-Day, & Hiroshima. On the homefront, they know about Japanese internment, gasoline rationing, & Rosie the Riveter. That’s all.
But domestic surveillance on citizens was more than finding out who was spying for the Nazis & the Japs. Being overheard saying the wrong thing and suffering bad consequences didn’t just happen under the Gestapo, NKVD, or Kempetai.
Glenn Beck has talked about citizens ratted out & arrested during the First World War for things that had nothing to do with enemy spies.
Just what was the government going to do with those homecanned foodstuffs, anyway? Destroyed them as a warning to others, I’ll guess.
Anyway, I don’t do prepper stuff and all my guns were lost in a mysterious boating accident. For the record.