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It can't happen here. Right? Exclusive: Patrice Lewis warns people to pay attention to red flags
wnd.com ^ | 6/24/2022 1215 hrs edt | Patrice Lewis

Posted on 06/25/2022 9:19:14 AM PDT by rktman

As a former wildlife biologist, I have a fascination with animal behavior. One of the lessons I've learned during my time observing wildlife is how attuned animals are to situational awareness and "red flags." In the kill-or-be-killed crucible of nature, to ignore a potential threat may be the last thing an animal ever does.

Yet people have developed the astounding ability to totally ignore red flags because "it can't happen here" (or "it can't happen to me"). Modern humans living in a modern society with modern conveniences have been able to bury the situational awareness all creatures possess by instinct. Americans in particular have cultivated an amazing ability to disregard warning signs, both internal and external. We still have the instincts, but we're often too "civilized" to pay attention to them. After all, it can't happen to me. It can't happen here.

With this in mind, let's discuss the normalcy bias, shall we? Wikipedia defines this as a mental state which "causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects." It's sometimes called the "It can't happen here" syndrome. The assumption is that since a particular disaster has never occurred before, it never will. Any disturbing indications that something bad may happen are dismissed or trivialized.

But ever since 2020 when governments across the entire globe united to forcibly lock down their populations, we've been veering into unknown territory. Or is it so unknown? Vaccine passports ("You're papers, please"), supply-chain disruptions, shortages of everything from fertilizer to baby formula, war in Europe, horrific weather extremes, electrical grid issues, civil tensions, riots, crop failures, avian flu, inflation, domestic terrorism from abortion radicals, diesel shortages …

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: falseflags; iylm
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To: SaveFerris

I am convinced that both “normalcy bias” (your friends) and paranoia (me :-) ) are at least partially genetic.

That is why (imho) logical discussion on these points cannot change a lot of minds.


21 posted on 06/25/2022 9:51:10 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: rktman; All

Good article.

However, what if many of us SEE all the Red Flags Mother Government throws in our faces on pretty much a DAILY basis, we bring them to the attention of our ‘elected representatives’ over and over and over again and then...

*CRICKETS CHIRPING*

So frustrating!!


22 posted on 06/25/2022 9:52:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Pollard

(Great Reset. All economies collapsing. National governments collapse. Then comes the fix. New ‘stakeholder’ based digital economy and NWO.

At least that’s what some people want.)

Daniel 7:23 and Revelation 13:16-18 says they will be successful in the short term.

But. not in eternity, praise God.


23 posted on 06/25/2022 9:54:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: rktman

Bookmark


24 posted on 06/25/2022 9:54:16 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: GOPJ

We need to hang Red Flags on the government, because that’s where the greatest danger is.


25 posted on 06/25/2022 9:57:20 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: rktman
If you want to see some "Red Flags", just take a look at the left..

They don't need free abortions, they need free lobotomies..

26 posted on 06/25/2022 9:57:34 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: SaveFerris

I bought my 9mm right before President Pudding declared it to be like Corn Pop - one bad caliber according to him.

I’ve never felt so validated in my life.


27 posted on 06/25/2022 10:00:53 AM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO )
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To: GOPJ
The SC tore Red Flag laws apart last year Caniglia v Strom.

The communists have decided to go ahead with this bullchit but I suspect that if the court remains pretty much as it is, these Red Flag laws will be dealt with down the road.

28 posted on 06/25/2022 10:02:24 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: rktman

aka “normalcy bias”.

Search that term.


29 posted on 06/25/2022 10:03:00 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: cgbg

(“normalcy bias”)

They are ALL infected with that.

AND fully-jabbed and boosted.

Because they’re basically decent people and God would never allow anything bad to happen to them.

Book of Job shows that the Enemy sometimes inflicts severe testing but only with God’s permission.

However what with their money and assets, these passages come to mind:

Luke 17:27-30
English Standard Version

27 (A)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of (B)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
29 (C)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—
30 so will it be (D)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A27-30&version=ESV&interface=amp


30 posted on 06/25/2022 10:04:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SaveFerris

One thing that is kinda fun is that when I inherited a few extra guns from my father, It included, for my Glock 19, two 34 round magazines. 😁


31 posted on 06/25/2022 10:05:16 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: cgbg

When I tell them the world is changing rapidly and it is accelerating, I get shrugs, rolled eyes 🙄, and basically, I’m ghosted.

Cares of this life..... Biblical - lots of good stuff in this one.

Mark 4:19
King James Version

19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4%3A19&version=KJV


32 posted on 06/25/2022 10:10:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: cuban leaf

Whoa nice


33 posted on 06/25/2022 10:11:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: GOPJ

On a side note: what is to keep me from accusing my angry neighbor as a red flag? Am I reading this red flag business correctly? I could turn in anyone, correct?


34 posted on 06/25/2022 10:13:26 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: scott7278

Yeah I may order a little bit more ammo.

Simply because I expect it could be harder to get down the road.

I don’t even target shoot anymore.

Too expensive.


35 posted on 06/25/2022 10:15:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: rktman

You don’t even need to go down the route of safe guards. They are moot. Red flag laws disarm law abiding citizens when they have committed no crime. There is no need for due process for someone that has not committed a crime because due process is only needed after a crime is committed. The last thing we need is someone in government deciding safe guards and making decisions on peoples constitutional rights.


36 posted on 06/25/2022 10:29:28 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: rktman

The article is not about the Gun related Red Flags. It is about the warning signs that YES IT CAN HAPPEN HERE.


37 posted on 06/25/2022 10:44:16 AM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: SaveFerris

I’ve been able to go about every 1-2 weeks, but I have to hard-stop at 100 rounds, even if I get the itch to keep going.


38 posted on 06/25/2022 10:59:38 AM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO )
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To: SaveFerris

I’ve been able to go about every 1-2 weeks, but I have to hard-stop at 100 rounds, even if I get the itch to keep going.


39 posted on 06/25/2022 11:00:08 AM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO )
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To: ClearCase_guy

She’s got that, “I’m a woman, and I’m in charge!”, look.


40 posted on 06/25/2022 11:44:46 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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