Posted on 06/13/2012 9:08:22 AM PDT by blam
Going Deep: Its Entirely Possible That Nowhere in North America is a Safe Redoubt
Eric Peters
June 13th, 2012
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Some friends have been actively talking about their Exit Plans about getting out of this country before the curtain goes down. While there is still time. They believe the situation to be hopeless. That despite the upwelling of liberty-mindedness among some, the vast majority of Americans are not liberty-minded. That Americans tens of millions of them are stupid, unreachable, mean, irrational, authoritarian-minded Babbits and poltroons. People who always speak in we and lust to control others.
Reluctantly, I have to concede the point.
I have had exhaustive (and exhausting) conversations with countless people some of them probably a lot smarter than I in terms of raw IQ who just cant connect the dots.
Or much worse dont care to.
The problem is as much psychological as it is intellectual. There may just be a defective sub-species of human being, homo servilus, who much like a bee in a hive is programmed to crave the collective and therefore accepts its corollary coercion as the natural and right order of things.
Its very easy to get these bees to reveal their true natures. Their core antipathy to individualism and its corollary, liberty. Just let them know, for example, that you find sports/celebrity worship disgusting. Or that you dont subscribe to any particular religious doctrine or much care what doctrines otherssubscribe to, so long as they leave you be.
Let them discover that you dont feel obliged to pay more taxes for our children only an obligation to take care of your own children. Criticize war.
Make a negative comment about cops .
So, I dont disagree that jumping ship is probably a smart move. Nonetheless, Im reluctant to leave the country, for many reasons high among them just orneriness. This is my country, dammit. I hate the idea of just giving it to them.
That said, I am beginning to wish Id gone deep when I selected our fallback redoubt. We consciously moved to very rural SW Va. from the Northern Virginia area (near DC) about eight years ago to a great extent to limit our exposure to whats surely coming. But I am thinking now that we would have been smarter to have moved to rural Idaho or Wyoming or Montana (like Chuck Baldwin did) instead. There are too many Clovers here.
And signs of sprouting continue to worry me.
For example: Several recent letters to the editor in our small community newspaper go on and on about how we need to raise taxes on real estate so that our schools will have adequate funding. There is one school an elementary school in a far corner of the county threatened with closure because of limited revenue and not enough students to justify keeping it open. So the idea was floated to close it and consolidate it with another. The children would then get bussed a little farther to their new school. This is an outrage to the parentsites of these children, who believe others should be compelled to provide the necessary revenue to keep the old school open for their children.
Everything discussed in terms of we, of course. Its never my children need you to pay for their school.
If I were to speak at a public hearing about this and ask why dont people who chose to have children bear the responsibility for raising their kids which includes educating their kids as opposed to their kids becoming an open-ended claim on the property on the liberty of other people who had nothing to do with it Id likely be the victim of a mob beating. At minimum, Id become a community pariah regarded as selfish and anti-child (as well as anti-education) because I am troubled by armed men threatening to kill me and take my property so that it may be given to someone elses kids kids Ive never even met let alone had anything to do with bringing into this world. It is no defense, either, that such a policy makes it that much harder for people whod like to pay their own way to do so.
Other peoples kids take precedence. Over everything.
It never occurs to these freedom loving Americans that freedom cant exist when you are no longer free to say no to being forced to hand over your rightful property to other people to whom you properly speaking owe nothing other than goodwill. That if the children becomes a justification for theft, then any other reason is just as good a reason.
But dont dare say it out loud . these freedom-loving Americans will very quickly show you just how much they actually believe in freedom including even the freedom to speak your mind, if your mind differs in any meaningful respect from the parameters of orthodoxical Republican or Democrat parameters.
The only cardinal sin is to commit non-authoritarianism. To state that you dont want anything from anyone except their respect for your rights and are willing to extend the same courtesy in return.
It is a thought increasingly foreign to Americans even here, in a rural southern farming county 35 miles from anything in most places and often a lot farther than that.
Another example:
In our tiny, literally one-stoplight county, the same government that moans about not having sufficient revenue for the children recently spent probably several thousand dollars painting at least six pedestrian crosswalks in town, complete with safety man icons imprinted into the pavement plus signage. Apparently, people cannot cross the street unaided here, either. I have no doubt that tickets for jaywalking are right around the corner. Tazerings for the non-compliant.
Signs of the apocalypse.
There is talk of writing zoning laws which this county has never had and which will surely mean The End of everything that made moving here worth doing. People will no longer just be able to freely buy and sell their land, to be used however the new owner wishes. There will instead be restrictions on how a lot can subdivided and what may be lawfully constructed on said lot. I can already see a time when BTK-type zoning enforcement officers will be knocking on peoples doors, threatening them with onerous fines (and ultimately, county seizure and auction of their land) if they dont mow it, or have too many cars parked on it or a not approved shed built upon it .
Clovers. The god-damn bastards are here now, too.
It only took them eight years to find this place and ruin it.
Its entirely possible that nowhere in North America is a safe redoubt.
What happens, ultimately, depends on the character of the people. And the character of the American people by and large is one that reflexively defers to authority willingly, worshipfully. That happily submits to the most despicable degradation if it will keep them safe. And which never fails to speak in terms of we.
So, where do the rest of us the remnant that still believes in I go to get away from we?
That, friends, is the question of our time.
Sure! Bring guns so we can have some shooting practice together! :-)
—...at least until the desperate start driving down I-65 in convoys looking for food and shelter. No doubt folks in your part of the world will defend themselves, and no doubt the desperate will do what they need to do to survive....—
Because of the distance, and the effort it will take to get to where I am if we go all “Road Warrior”, I expect my “cull the herd” comment to be implemented.
Living off a road, off a road, off a road doesn’t hurt either. It’s no guarantee, but it improves our odds. Other than that it is, as you say, in God’s hands.
But really, isn’t it always? ;-)
—...I don’t know the weather patterns, critters, plants, etc....—
I checked all that out before I moved here. Interestingly, I still screwed up. In my old home of 45 years, Seattle, you can wander in the woods with impunity all year round, fearing only the occasional banana slug between your toes or the temporary pain of nettles.
Here we have ticks and Chiggers and, as I found out, Turkey mites. I knew that once it warmed up I needed to be careful. I knew this was especially true in the transition areas between the woods and meadows. But I forgot.
I spent an entire day expanding our “meadow” area into our woods using a weedeater while wearing shorts and a t-shirt. A week later I was at the doctor where I got a steroid shot and a bottle of steroid pills. That was a month ago and the rash has pretty much subsided. The doc said “it looks like we have both a bug and plant thing going on here”. I could not wear shorts for a couple of weeks just because of what my legs LOOKED like. And did I mention the itching?
But I knew better. I’m still doing the clearing, but I wear long pants and use the bug stuff. No problems now. I’ll REALLY go to town after the first frost.
—...but I’m not running...
To be frank, fear of SHTF was only about 20% of the reason for our moving here. It was the deal closer for me, though.
I truely identify with this article! It is great!
Cute pups. They look real happy.
Been around prepper circles quite a bit. I've found they mostly consist of a bunch of uneducated lunatics talking a bunch of nonsense.
You better wise up and begin making mutual friends or you will get squashed like a lil bug. No matter how prepared you think you may be.
You'll be counting cans of pork-n-beans in your head while you fall asleep and around 4am you'll be flat on your back with nothing but your skiveez on and hands securely fastened behind your back with a muzzle between your pretty lil baby blues.
Not unless of course your a Mormon with twenty five chitlens to lend a hand.
Just sayin
Yes, VFD.
Try thinking not just saying. Probably won't help you much but at least it will keep your yap shut for a second or two. |
/johnny
No matter where you go you’re going to face some variety of the same problem. There is still a government entity in most places and there are still potentially restive locals.
In fact those two things go hand in hand and to some degree keep each other in check.
I suppose you could go to the North Pole and there wouldn’t be either there but there are practical issues with doing that.
Thank the Lord I’m in Texas.
Good luck to ya. See ya on the front lines....well, perhaps not.
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Yep. I’m already there and I agree. I wouldn’t want to be any place other than high up in the mountains/boonies in a SHTF thing or any other thing. I love it here!
Face it folks, no place is safe.
The only question is wether you are prepared to
deal with those that are a threat to YOU.
A bunker without a berm is a grave.
Even with a berm it might be your grave
but you won’t go alone.
There.
Fixed it.
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Well, the ones in my circle do happen to fall at the more “sensible” end of the lib spectrum if there is such a place.
Typically, while they adhere to some of the insanity, they all do exhibit the occasional flash of sense. They therefore have at least some potential to see the light one of these days.
The complete idiots I stay as far away from as I can.
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