“Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government.”—Professor Henry Giroux
Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers. Unfortunately, the citizens of this nation believed everything they were told by their government, and they suffered for it.
When terrorists attacked the country, and the government passed massive laws aimed at paving the way for a surveillance state, the people believed it was done merely to keep them safe. The few who disagreed were labeled traitors.
When the government waged costly preemptive wars on foreign countries, insisting it was necessary to protect the nation, the citizens believed it. And when the government brought the weapons and tactics of war home to use against the populace, claiming it was just a way to recycle old equipment, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled unpatriotic.
When the government spied on its own citizens, claiming they were looking for terrorists hiding among them, the people believed it. And when the government began tracking the citizenry’s movements, monitoring their spending, snooping on their social media, and surveying them about their habits—supposedly in an effort to make their lives more efficient—the people believed that, too. The few who disagreed were labeled paranoid.
When the government allowed private companies to take over the prison industry and agreed to keep the jails full, justifying it as a cost-saving measure, the people believed them. And when the government started arresting and jailing people for minor infractions, claiming the only way to keep communities safe was to be tough on crime, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled soft on crime.
When the government hired crisis actors to take part in disaster drills, never alerting the public to which “disasters” were staged, the people genuinely believed they were under attack. And when the government insisted it needed greater powers to prevent such attacks from happening again, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were told to shut up or leave the country.
When the government started carrying out covert military drills around the country, insisting it was necessary to train the troops for foreign combat, most of the people believed them. The few who disagreed, fearing that perhaps all was not what it seemed, were shouted down as conspiracy theorists and quacks.
When government leaders locked down the nation, claiming it was the only way to prevent an unknown virus from sickening the populace, the people believed them and complied with the mandates and quarantines. The few who resisted or voiced skepticism about the government’s edicts were denounced as selfish and dangerous and silenced on social media.
When the government expanded its war on terrorism to include domestic terrorists, the people believed that only violent extremists would be targeted. Little did they know that anyone who criticizes the government can be considered an extremist.
By the time the government began using nationalized police and the military to routinely lockdown the nation, the citizenry had become so acclimated to such states of emergency that they barely even noticed the prison walls that had grown up around them.
Now every fable has a moral, and the moral of this story is to beware of anyone who urges you to ignore your better instincts and blindly trust that the government has your best interests at heart.
In other words, if it looks like trouble and it smells like trouble, you can bet there’s trouble afoot.
Unfortunately, the government has fully succeeded in recalibrating our general distaste for anything that smacks too overtly of tyranny.
After all, like the proverbial boiling frogs, the government has been gradually acclimating us to the specter of a police state for years now: Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality.
This is how you prepare a populace to accept a police state willingly, even gratefully.
You don’t scare them by making dramatic changes. Rather, you acclimate them slowly to their prison walls. Persuade the citizenry that their prison walls are merely intended to keep them safe and danger out. Desensitize them to violence, acclimate them to a military presence in their communities, and persuade them that only a militarized government can alter the seemingly hopeless trajectory of the nation.
It’s happening already.
The sight of police clad in body armor and gas masks, wielding semiautomatic rifles and escorting an armored vehicle through a crowded street, a scene likened to “a military patrol through a hostile city,” no longer causes alarm among the general populace.
We’ve allowed ourselves to be acclimated to the occasional lockdown of government buildings, military drills in small towns so that special operations forces can get “realistic military training” in “hostile” territory, and Live Active Shooter Drill training exercises, carried out at schools, in shopping malls, and on public transit, which can and do fool law enforcement officials, students, teachers and bystanders into thinking it’s a real crisis.
Still, you can’t say we weren’t warned.
Back in 2008, an Army War College report revealed that “widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” The 44-page report went on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”
In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that called on the government to subject right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans to full-fledged, pre-crime surveillance.
Meanwhile, the government has been amassing an arsenal of military weapons, including hollow point bullets, for use domestically and equipping and training their “troops” for war. Even government agencies with largely administrative functions such as the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Smithsonian have been acquiring body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition. In fact, there are now at least 120,000 armed federal agents carrying such weapons who possess the power to arrest.
Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that has been colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable. It’s not just the drones, fusion centers, license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You’re also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars, your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.
And then there are the military drills that have been taking place on American soil in recent years.
In the latest “unconventional warfare exercise,” dubbed “Robin Sage,” special forces soldiers will battle seasoned “freedom fighters” in a “realistic” guerrilla war across two dozen North Carolina counties.
Robin Sage follows on the heels of other such military drills, including Jade Helm, which involved U.S. Army Special Operations Command, the Navy Seals, Air Force Special Operations, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, the 82nd Airborne Division, and other interagency partners.
According to the government, these planned military exercises are supposed to test and practice unconventional warfare including, but not limited to, guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and unconventional assisted recovery.
The training, known as Realistic Military Training (RMT) because it will be conducted outside of federal property, are carried out on both public and private land, with locations marked as “hostile territory,” permissive, uncertain (leaning friendly), or uncertain (leaning hostile).
This is psychological warfare at its most sophisticated.
Add these military exercises onto the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more, and suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, the growing social unrest, the socio-psychological experiments being carried out by government agencies, etc.
And then you have the government’s Machiavellian schemes for unleashing all manner of dangers on an unsuspecting populace, then demanding additional powers in order to protect “we the people” from the threats. Almost every national security threat that the government has claimed greater powers in order to fight—all the while undermining the liberties of the American citizenry—has been manufactured in one way or another by the government.
What we’ve seen play out before us is more than mere totalitarian paranoia run amok.
What has unfolded over the past few years has been a test to see how well “we the people” have assimilated the government’s lessons in compliance, fear and police state tactics; a test to see how quickly “we the people” will march in lockstep with the government’s dictates, no questions asked; and a test to see how little resistance “we the people” will offer up to the government’s power grabs when made in the name of national security.
Most critically of all, this has been a test to see whether the Constitution—and our commitment to the principles enshrined in the Bill of Rights—could survive a national crisis and true state of emergency.
We have failed the test abysmally.
We have also made it way too easy for a government that has been working hard to destabilize to lockdown the nation.
Mark my words, there’s trouble brewing.
Better yet, take a look at “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a Pentagon training video created by the Army for U.S. Special Operations Command.
The training video is only five minutes long, but it says a lot about the government’s mindset, the way its views the citizenry, and the so-called “problems” that the government must be prepared to address in the near future through the use of martial law.
Even more troubling, however, is what this military video doesn’t say about the Constitution, about the rights of the citizenry, and about the dangers of locking down the nation and using the military to address political and social problems.
The training video anticipates that all hell will break loose by 2030—that’s barely eight short years away—but we’re already witnessing a breakdown of society on virtually every front.
The danger signs are screaming out a message
The government is anticipating trouble (read: civil unrest), which is code for anything that challenges the government’s authority, wealth and power.
According to the Pentagon training video created by the Army for U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. government is grooming its armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems.
What they’re really talking about is martial law, packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security.
The chilling five-minute training video, obtained by The Intercept through a FOIA request and made available online, paints an ominous picture of the future—a future the military is preparing for—bedeviled by “criminal networks,” “substandard infrastructure,” “religious and ethnic tensions,” “impoverishment, slums,” “open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a “growing mass of unemployed,” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots.
And then comes the kicker. Three-and-a-half minutes into the Pentagon’s dystopian vision of “a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes—brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers,” the ominous voice of the narrator speaks of a need to “drain the swamps.”
The government wants to use the military to drain the swamps of futuristic urban American cities of “noncombatants and engage the remaining adversaries in high intensity conflict within.” And who are these noncombatants, a military term that refers to civilians who are not engaged in fighting? They are, according to the Pentagon, “adversaries.” They are “threats.”
They are the “enemy.”
They are people who don’t support the government, people who live in fast-growing urban communities, people who may be less well-off economically than the government and corporate elite, people who engage in protests, people who are unemployed, people who engage in crime (in keeping with the government’s fast-growing, overly broad definition of what constitutes a crime).
In other words, in the eyes of the U.S. military, noncombatants are American citizens a.k.a. domestic extremists a.k.a. enemy combatants who must be identified, targeted, detained, contained and, if necessary, eliminated.
In the future imagined by the Pentagon, any walls and prisons that are built will be used to protect the societal elite—the haves—from the have-nots.
If you haven’t figured it out already, we the people are the have-nots.
Suddenly, the events of recent years begin to make sense: the invasive surveillance, the extremism reports, the civil unrest, the protests, the shootings, the bombings, the military exercises and active shooter drills, the color-coded alerts and threat assessments, the fusion centers, the transformation of local police into extensions of the military, the distribution of military equipment and weapons to local police forces, the government databases containing the names of dissidents and potential troublemakers.
The government is systematically locking down the nation and shifting us into martial law.
This is how you prepare a populace to accept a police state willingly, even gratefully.
As Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering remarked during the Nuremberg trials:
It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
It does indeed work the same in every country.
It’s time to wake up and stop being deceived by government propaganda.
Mind you, by “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law. I’m referring to the corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country and calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House.
Be warned: in the future envisioned by the government, we will not be viewed as Republicans or Democrats. Rather, “we the people” will all be enemies of the state.
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Reading posts like this make me appreciate the years of prepping, homesteading, and off-grid living training that I have spent doing. The tactic now is to stay under their radar, which is getting harder to do. It would be ignorant to say that when it all comes crashing down that I would not be affected. If a nuke drops and wipes my area out, well then yes I am definitely affected. But in terms of a crash of the currency, take down of the utilities, scarcity of gas / heating fuels, wipe-out of the food supply, and even defensive measures for the hungry zombies, are all things and so much more that we preppers have been geared up to deal with. I am ready…I think….I hope….time will only tell!
Well at least you can stop worrying about the nukes because they don’t exist. There’s plenty of other things to keep you occupied, but don’t let that phantom be the one.
Agreed, I was just using it as more of a sarcastic example that being self-sufficient and well prepped, while under their radar, there is little they can do to us. I suppose they could send the UN troops, but chaos among 300+ million Americans I think they won’t have the resources to worry about what us woodchucks are doing. I guess at this point I am confident that we could survive without the things in life we have come to take for granted. Not saying it will be easy, but it is human instinct to survive, after all our forefathers did it no problem.
Off topic I suppose. With all the talk about electric service blackouts, brown outs , Texas natural gas pipelines freezing last Feb. , folks in Texas without electricity (it was the fault of the freezing wind turbines don’t you know?) , it’s interesting the electric co-op in my part of the “conservative” world is actually in the process of building a solar farm in Simms , Texas. What’s this world coming to?
We are getting a 500 acre solar farm here in the Northlands. Gets very cold and hot here at times , cloudy many days of the year. More government waste and stupidity.
In all seriousness, why do flat earthers not believe in nuclear weapons? Couldn’t nukes exist in their flat earth model? Do they believe in nuclear power plants?
Well I can’t speak for HSF. But I never denied the existence of nukes, however their use to annihilate the world I think is something we won’t see. Perhaps a few big cities will be wiped out, which in that case whatever because I am hundreds of miles from any large city. Even then the fallout would not reach me or be very minimal. I guess what I am saying is I have doubts that I will be near any epicenter of nuclear activity, so the risk is minimal. If the doomsday scenario happens where Russia/China/USA send thousands of nukes at each other, well different story. I just don’t see it happening that way. To be honest, I don’t see the use of nukes at all.
Winchester, A long time TBPer insisted nukes don’t exist. The guy helps out on HSF’s farm a lot from what I gather. I like the guy, I like HSF, and I’m open to anything at this point.
Edit to add; The guy had much to say on a lot of topics including some accusations which have since proven true.
One more edit: I would normally never even look at or care about DV or UV but I wonder if in this case the results would be a referendum on 22 WinMag
But don’t forget EMF Winchester, if you relying on some power and comms to keep in touch with your gang/community. This is why I am moving back to Cape Town. 50% of the Africans live off-grid most of the time now anyway.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-02-12-south-africas-state-of-unemployment-disaster/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=80895&tl_period_type=3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Business%20Maverick%20Wednesday%2012%20February%202020%20i-Store&utm_content=Business%20Maverick%20Wednesday%2012%20February%202020%20i-Store+CID_6af6b43c5333c9afa5ea8380f5a83dc1&utm_source=TouchBasePro&utm_term=South%20Africas%20State%20of%20Unemployment%20Disaster
I believe in human nature and history, both of which amply demonstrate that once something comes into use, it will be used and once people invent or discover something, they do not continue on as if they hadn’t.
In all seriousness.
If you have two groups of neighbors, each of which are exceedingly well armed with modern firepower, and each group wants to rob and plunder the other group thus seizing all property and land, but each group refrains from doing so out of fear of the other’s arsenal…
…that does not disprove the existence of either arsenal.
Moreover, it is not yet 100 years since nuclear weapons were first designed, tested, and used in combat.
Perhaps human nature is slightly more prudent and patient than you perceive. Especially when we live in a world where using nuclear weapons will virtually guarantee their use in retaliation.
Even avaricious and small-minded demoniac rulers are in no hurry to be rent asunder and rendered ash.
In the 1960s they called it “MAD” rather apt I thought. In UK we were offered government advice on how to survive a nuclear attack – much preparation had taken place and a complete post-apocalypse organistion under the Home Office was in place.
I was a volunteer ‘observer’at the time and sat in my bunker ready to spot the mushrooms! The UK really never advanced much after WW2 and published:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500124311
Okay, Peter, I have got to share this with you. I was perusing that little pamphlet, came across the mushroom cloud, tried to share it and got a whole lecture on what “fair use” of that image entailed. So, I’ve screenshot it and uploaded it to Postimage, which is beginning to notice the thousand or so “free” images I have there. I wonder how long before they shut me out of my own pictures? LOL…
What is so special about that mushroom cloud?
I’d completely forgotten about the warning signals!
This is a wonderful little booklet that is bringing back memories of this stuff in middle school. I was obsessed with the cellar at my grandparents’ home on the “hill.” I knew we could get there in about 8 minutes, so as long as the warning came in time, we could survive in that root cellar with all those lovely jars of food!
It was a different time, the 1960s.
Lovely share Ghost, thank you. I guess it was a little different in USA – you had 8 mins. We only had 4 mins from Royal Air Force Fylingdales or more simply ‘RAF Fylingdales’ – it is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is “Vigilamus” (translates to “We are Watching”). It is a radar base and is also part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).
In 1962 the RAF station at Fylingsdales was built by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1962, and was maintained by RCA (Great Britain), now Serco Group plc. RAF Fylingdales consisted of three 130-foot (40 m) diameter ‘golfballs’ or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar.
The Fylingdale radomes were in use until 1992, when they were replaced by an advanced radar system, the three sided solid-state phased-array radar (SSPAR) grey pyramid. The golf balls were subsequently dismantled.
We remain on watch in UK! The threat never went away – only in the mind of the public. The Brits are a cunning and deceptive lot! I worked for the then, War Office in 1963 (now Ministry of Defence since we are not officially at war -yet). I was transferred to SHAPE and learned a lot about war games and you know what!
The Brits simply can’t keep out of a good fight and they are now going to move troops into Ukraine:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10445503/British-troops-poised-repel-assault-Ukraine-Russia-DAYS.html
It’s pathetic really but a good reason (of many) for me to move to Cape Town where I will be smiling all the time 🙂
Two independent topics, but the investigative approach is the same every time. Step 1: Remember that everything is a lie until proven otherwise. Step 2: Look at the available photos, videos, any other evidence, then step back and consider whether what you are presented with is logical and whether the footage matches the observable world and the laws of physics.
Therefore, the earth does not show the degree of curvature we have been told, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki closely match the damage of firestorms in other cities before them. q.e.d.
Are there just NOT any nukes NOW or have there NEVER really been nukes?
Asking seriously because I’ve never thought there were NEVER any, though I’m hoping and agree it is possible there AREN’T any now.
This time-lapse video begins to sound a bit like a casino with all the dinging of the tests around the world since 1945. I kind of enjoyed trying to “remember” what the world was like at the time of the buildup of the military arsenal around the world. Whether these 2053 warheads tested around the world were atomic detonations or just really big conventional bombs, they represent a tremendous amount of human labor and treasure spent on trying to be able to kill the most people at one time.
I enjoyed it and wonder what it would look like now with North Korea supposedly joining the games.
https://theconversation.com/the-understandable-fear-of-nuclear-weapons-doesnt-match-reality-73563
That’s an amazing video, Ghost, thanks for this – you are quite a surprise. No wonder the incidence of cancers has grown after WW2. I learn so much here ar TBP.
It seems that the radiation released by these tests allows them to test ivory to comply with the CITES dating – which is why they set the date at 1947 – before that not much radiation was around:
“Bomb-curve radiocarbon dating can be used to determine the year that ivory formed between ca. 1955 to present, to within several months to 3 years of the true date, depending on the year of death”
It is a really interesting look at the history of the testing of nuclear warheads… at least ONE of those tests I actually was part of the E3 AWACS crew tracking it from northern Alaska to point of detonation and the RTB to March AFB.
A very interesting day gathering a lot of data flying almost halfway around the world and back.
I will always listen to you 🙂
You know what, Peter? I appreciate that.
Notice I said “flying almost halfway AROUND the world and back.”
Crickets?
This is a quite interesting look at Utopia, which is where we are headed.
I was hoping HSF would have time to view this and tell me whether he thinks this is manufactured history, but if not, I understand.
Really.
Really.
I see a few old farts prepping for survival , but no young people. They’re too busy living their capitalist dream of jacked $80,000 grand 4 wheel drive trucks , towing their $3o,000 Razors to their favorite mud holes for a weekend full of booze and debauchery, then back to their 300,000 suburban trac shack for another 40 hours masked in their mediocre service jobs and they all seem to think this is the American dream.
And, most of this debt born babies have been bankrupt at least once, but the credit must flow, because otherwise the myth of a free market driven, capitalistic economy will collapse , to be replaced by the smoking ruins of a totally impoverished society, bent on one thing, not starving to death. Then thye become survivalists.
The smartest man in the world explains capital. Credit is money and he who controls the credit, owns it all.
https://gab.com/ChrisLangan/posts/107169103228150685
“Today’s lesson contains three parts (taken from the Comments section of my last post).
Comment 1: “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
Response: No, malice is more dangerous because of the associated intentionality.
Stupidity does not imply malice, but malice implies stupidity. That’s because a stupid populace is irresistable to a malicious ruling class – it’s much easier to deceive and control – which is why the populace has been methodically “dumbed down” by “the elite” using their proprietary indoctrination mills (public schools and universities) along with immigration policy favoring fast-breeding low-IQ migrants and mass-media idiocy including miscegenation propaganda directed specifically at White people.
Comment 2: “Better to reduce everything to power instead of money.”
Response: They go together. Here’s the definitive equation:
money = power,
i.e., capital = power. That’s because money, or capital, is just generic human utility, abstracted and distributed as coinage, paper, or digital data. Money and power both come down to utility, so the equation is a lock. Either you get the power by force and then use it to steal all the money, or you steal the money and use it to bribe and threaten your way to power. Either way, it comes out the same.
Comment 3: “Monopoly capitalism isn’t new, and it doesn’t have a monopoly on capitalism.”
Response: Well, actually, it does, via the global banking system. The global money monopoly has not always existed, and now that it does, things have changed. Big Monopoly Capitalists have what amounts to a worldwide monopoly on the most important commodity of all: money.
Money is the master-commodity, the commodity of commodities, Try to make your own, and they’ll lock you up and swallow the key. By the crooked reckoning of the global banksters, everyone owes them. Everyone’s on the hook. Everyone has to do what they say. And because sh*t rolls downhill, we’ve now reached the point where people still in the workforce can’t make a peep without loss of livellihood.
That’s how the banksters and their shills and corporate flunkies run the economy – everyone is rightly afraid of ending up in the street, in the slammer, or dead. Petrified, in fact. The plug can be pulled on any corporate employee in an instant. All the banksters have to do is cut off the money. Say the wrong thing or resist “vaccination”, and that’s it for you.
Unfortunately, this routine has gone too far. Once the Great Reset crowd moves to prevent the unvaccinated from buying groceries, there will be a pile of sellout cops, weasel politicians, and grossly obese fatcats so high, Sir Edmund Hillary couldn’t have climbed it.”
“They’re too busy living their capitalist dream of jacked $80,000 grand 4 wheel drive trucks , towing their $3o,000 Razors to their favorite mud holes for a weekend full of booze and debauchery, then back to their 300,000 suburban trac shack for another 40 hours masked in their mediocre service jobs and they all seem to think this is the American dream.”
You are spot on there! I am 38, which I guess is still considered young. Guys my age have no clue and in debt up their ears. Won’t even do something as simple as growing a garden or finding ways to be more self sufficient. They go out to eat everyday and try to live fake lavish lives. Never stay home and yes they live in 250k houses in cul-de-sacs. Honestly those people scare me the most because they will be hungry and desperate quick. Good thing I spent a lot of time prepping defensive measures, including a bug out plan.
Win, Amen. I know a bunch of the guys you speak of and they are scary because many live in rural areas where people are trying to live a simple life. I can avoid the big blue shitholes where there will be unmitigated chaos, but these guys are spoiled to selfish depravity and will be very dangerous. They are the one’s who say “Why should I prep when you’re doing it for me?”
I know exactly the type. I know people personally who have said to me “I know where I am going if the shit hits the fan”. Best part about it is I don’t go around bragging I prep to people that I know. Only close friends and family know my preps. It is simple things like the gardening, solar setup (which is well hidden), and many of the other things they see me do on my property that clues them in that I am much ahead of them. I simply laugh at them and respond “No you, won’t.” But in all seriousness they are a threat to me and I have to be prepared to send them on their way, even if it means a warning shot. I will not support people that refused to see what is coming. Good news is, after about 72 hours they will have went into the suburbs/cities or FEMA will take them in. It will be an on the edge 72 hours for sure.
“Why should I prep when you’re doing it for me?”
Folks need to HEAR when people talk like this.
Of my own personal experience, about half a dozen times over the past decade, in private conversation with COPS and with ex-military men, I have had this exact sentiment expressed to me.
These men with training intend to STEAL FROM, and if necessary to kill, the people who have prepared. They consider your preps as their right. They will come bearing arms to take what you have worked for. And I mean white, middle class, right-leaning men who have justified their actions even before they take them. Their thinking goes like this:
I will provide for my family.
And they will kill you and your family to provide for their own, without hesitation.
BE WARE.
One cop from New Jersey I pressed on the issue said it didn’t matter who he killed in such a scenario, because he would subsequently confess his sins to his Catholic priest and would thereby be absolved of any and all sins.
This is a much more common mindset than many of us realize.
Paul killed some people. Have you heard?
I have heard indeed.
Apropos of what, exactly?
Then, glad you understand that God can and does forgive murder, regardless your hate for the Catholic church …and bullshit story too.
If you don’t hate that whore, flash…
…then you’re not hearing the voice of the Lord.
God does not forgive premeditated murder which the murderer intends to seek forgiveness for after the fact. That sin makes a mockery both of God and of His forgiveness.
God’s forgiveness is not unconditional, and it does NOT come to man through the filthy hands of the Roman Rite.
I’m saying your story is bullshit and you too.
You and Winchester both stink of glowie.
That’s my gut feeling and it hasn’t failed me yet, so fuck off Christian hating deep state tool.
Since the day he arrived(Red). Riff raff is piling up.
WTF? Glowie? You unstable?
What the hell is a glowie, Winchester?
And by the way, being included with you in an insult, is an honor.
Red,
I have told this story before here…I think before you were posting, small rural NC town barber shop…seven white men various ages, two chairs, all talking about TSHTF…when I came in.
I am all ears.
One big burley late 30’s guy announces he knows an old man down the road from him who is a Prepper. He then said loud and flatly: “I’ll take my shotgun and do what I have to do to feed my family from him”. He looked arrogant and pleased with himself.
HE SAID IT OUT LOUD…and everyone went stone silent…his words and all they implied hung in the air as most of the guys looked down or away…the room was shocked.
I was pissed…I mean red faced curled lip angry…I straightened up in my chair, leaned forward and spoke for the first time looking right at him.
Hey (I said it loud) he turned his head towards me…you come down my road with that shotgun and I’ll put a 7.62 into you at 100 yards. I was growling when I said it.
You could hear a fuck’in pin drop.
I stared at him, he looked away and never said a fuck’in word back to me.
There is a big barn with a hayloft at the end of the road that leads to my house, my house is recessed into deep woods. In the hayloft of the barn I cut a small square out at floor level, and put the square on hinges with a way to latch it open from the inside. I laid down sheets of metal on the floor behind the sniper’s hatch, and put thick foam on top of the metal.
It’s about 100 yards down the road to my second gate where I would have a clear shot at anyone coming up my road or pasture.
I have my M1A zeroed in at 100 yards.
The metal under the foam will protect me in case…during an extended fight someone flanks me and gets under me in the barn shooting up through the floor.
Putting the same set up on the other side of the hayloft…but larger…rope will be anchored so I can crawl out the rear of the barn if needed insted of using the stairs and the hatch door on the floor of the hayloft…or I could just open the rear hatch and shoot down from above.
Hayloft has a high end sleeping blanket, ammo, food, water, wide mouth bottle to piss in, camping toilet with T-paper, binoculars, night vision, caffeine pills etc. etc. etc.
That punk (or anyone post SHTF) comes down my road and I’m in the hayloft…I’ll have a decent chance of dropping him/them like a bad habit before he/they even see my house.
My threat to the announced burley neighbor murderer was not idle.
Good story. I have some advantages with my setup as well. Mainly wooded area, but there really is one way into my property and it is up a slight hill with a gated entrance. I have a natural moat around 75% of the property with a big ponds and some streams, and all woods behind it. From road, just one way in and I will see anyone coming from about 100 yards as well. I have a few vantage points, some give me decent range. I will use my Rem 700 in 308 or AR-10 in 6.5CM. If they start coming onto the property I have a nice AR-15 setup with a Vortex strike eagle that is dead on. My girl knows how to shoot and she is handy with a 22, which may not be the first choice for a defensive situation, but she can shoot the tacks of a target, so plenty of options for her to do some damage. I figure as long as I can stop a vehicle from coming into my property. People would have to come in on foot. Even a group I could take out with ease. I guess a pretty reinforced Humvee could blow through the gate, but at that point I have some bigger things to worry about.
Winchester and mark,
#1. I like your styles.
#2. You fellas should look into the Ohio Ordnance HCAR (Heavy Counter Assault Rifle) — 30 rounds of 30-06 built as a modernized version of the Browning Automatic Rifle. Short trigger pull, short reset. Excellent for laying down rapid fire hell on any incoming assault. 16 inch barrel capable of sub MOA accuracy beyond 750 yards.
#3. I’m sure both of you fellas are savvy enough to post less-than-accurate descriptions of your defensive arenas on a public forum, but I read you loud and clear!!!
There are so many options for defensive rifles. Honestly (as my name implies) I like the old school wood stock and octagon barrel lever guns. If I could defend my property with just a lever gun I would. It would be pleasureful to lob some 450gr 45-70 cast bullets down at some unlucky chap.
And yes what I describe could exist in any of the 50 states, so I am worried very little about someone finding my whereabouts.
Again, you are a man after my own heart!!! I am VERY fond of the American-made leverguns…
…not so much the modern Japanese Winchesters and the Brazilian Marlins.
My grab gun is a Henry Big Boy in .45 Colt, backed up by the same in 45-70, named Frances and Big Medicine, respectively.
But of course, there’s Justin for when things get really hectic. As in, Just In Case.
Sometimes things call for a more modern platform.
Not much beats a good ole Henry rifle. However, I do have to say that you should reconsider the Miroku Winchesters. I get that many will refuse to even acknowledge a Winchester made outside of the U.S, but the Japanese make by far one of the finest rifles I have ever held. I guess it is one of those see for yourself kind of things. But if you get the chance I do suggest holding one and even shooting one if you can. The craftsmanship is beyond anything any mainstream rifle maker can produce. I have always respected the Italian clones, but not even they can match the Japanese made Winchesters. With that said, if you can’t come to terms on owning a Winchester made outside of the U.S., I respect that.
The fact is, I know good and well that Japanese engineers and craftsmen are very capable fellas. And I don’t doubt the quality of a Jap made Winchester. If it were a Jap company name on the side of the rifle, I wouldn’t balk so. But to think that WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS would ever offshore the manufacture of their rifles to a foreign country?
Tantamount to sacrilege.
I have too fond a recollection in my heart for what at least a part of this country’s mythos used to be.
Imagine John Wayne owning a Japanese-made Winchester rifle. Some things were just never meant to be.
I agree with what you are saying. I do not know what happened to Winchester. Like Remington, they were probably purchased by investing firms that can care less about the iconic name. I have seen Winchesters made in Turkey as well. I do not think any Winchester rifles are made in America anymore and that really is sad. The old levers are getting harder to find as people are keeping them. I remember when the 1894s were a dime a dozen now they are going for over a grand on Gunbroker. I scored an early 1900s 1892 a few years back. Can’t touch any of the toggle link guns for under 5 grand, unless they are rusted to shit. And even if you did get a good deal on an old 1866, would you want shoot it? Get em while you can I guess.
Red/Walt,
Depending on how the coming collapse unfolds I hope to have a number of families with me. They are related by blood and friendship…and are of a like mind spiritually and Prep wise.
My modest farm is also a serious compound and I have been setting it up that way for others I love or are close to and trust for a decade. Never, ever, thought I would have anywhere near this much time.
Everyone has their favorite weapons and I have mine in every single category. I’m flush.
It is amazing what you can do with a back hoe, 2’ X 6’ & a nail gun, preplanned paths, barb wire, reflective thumb tacks, prepositioned ‘stuff’ and hard lessons learned the hard way during your miss-spent yout…etc. etc. etc.
Hey…if I go home in my sleep at 4 am…Whata Ya Gonna DEW??? If they can melt tire rims from the sky my M1A won’t do to well…but I bet you I can put holes in the center mass of a lot of other types of bad guys…and gals.
Trust me…I have fought killer women before.
I’m not a Gray man…I don’t believe that is going to make any difference at my ‘local yokel defiant level’. If I did I certainly wouldn’t be posting here among a hot bed of:
‘Shove your Tyranny and Great Reset up your ass Rebels’.
Who in the fuck talks about their defensive position in a comment section on a blog ?Your comment literally glows.
Are you the flash? You are certainly negative. And we only discussed a little tidbit of our defensive measures, believe me.
And now you want others to discuss to theirs…POS
I can honestly care less about your defensive position. I don’t plan to leave my property so there is no need for me to know.
Fuck off Fed.
mark,
I wish I was one of your neighbors, brother!!!
I figure a 22 with a binary trigger could lay a good bit of cover fire. No one WANTS to get hit by a 22.
I’m sure you follow these people:
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/what-will-be-our-legacy-as-preppers/?vgo_ee=xY%2F69AnC6U6WEyDa6yLwag85z1qyH8s7CO7L7fJ0bxI%3D
“Comment 2: “Better to reduce everything to power instead of money.”
Response: They go together. Here’s the definitive equation:
money = power,
i.e., capital = power. That’s because money, or capital, is just generic human utility, abstracted and distributed as coinage, paper, or digital data. Money and power both come down to utility, so the equation is a lock. Either you get the power by force and then use it to steal all the money, or you steal the money and use it to bribe and threaten your way to power. Either way, it comes out the same.
Personally, imo, G.R.E.E.D. is the most destructive human trait.
What does that acronym mean ?
It just means good old “greed”. I write it like “G.R.E.E.D” simply to draw attention.
It’s the world owes me crowd. “Disabilities” among any number of skin colored folks etc. etc. IMO on the human side the death of this country rests in hypocrisy.
All excellent stuff Flash – I can’t add to it but I can illustrate it:
https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/379579-uk-finance-curse-suffer/
Those of us who have taken steps to prep and unplug from the system will fare better for awhile, maybe. They have no intention of letting any of us escape their new world. I don’t say this to be a negative black pill type, just being realistic.
As many here have said repeatedly, put your faith in God and the rest will sort itself out. I actually feel quite fortunate to be living in these times. It feels like I am getting the opportunity to fulfill my purpose in life. I will never go looking for a fight but I have known for some time that I will very likely die a violent death at the hands of tyrants. So be it.
You are living at this time because before the creation of the World it was decided for that to be.
Enjoy it, and Thank God.
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Clicking on this website and then commenting certainly have not helped you “keep under the radar”. I decided some time back I no longer cared what the evil freaks know about me. A. I’m old and close to the grave anyway. B. Under Obummer Valerie Jarrett labeled me a “terrorist” because I am an Independent fundamental Baptist. C. God determines when we are born and when we will die so it really doesn’t matter. D. My life has been blessed by God and I will slide into home plate shouting hooray, whatever the circumstances.
Ahhh I am a veteran software security guy. I come on here usually through my main VPN and when I am feeling like the FBI is having one of those days I will tunnel through some Tor nodes. I take security on the digital domain very seriously. So this is where I come to talk to other minded people, all while staying below the radar and never having to worry anyone ever knowing my identity or where I live.
That’s pretty funny. You’re a veteran software security guy and you use Tor to be safe? The NSA wrote Tor and the Onion software! I know a guy who didn’t listen, did some crap online, and they were on his doorstep the very next AM with a warrant.
I’ve been doing unix and linux for decades, and I can also tell you they wrote selinux. That’s why most admins disable it. They couldn’t reliably hack linux and they needed a backdoor, so they wrote one, and got it included by claiming it was like a firewall. They do have a sense of humor. Say…. you’re not from Winchester, are you? 🙂
Glowies….lol
Caalm down my friend. Tor works on a series of “routers” which are essentially nodes that the traffic passes through. The standard Tor network is full of pedophiles and NSA hackers. I utilize a different Tor network with a set of known and trusted routers and end-points. You have to be a part of certain circles to access these as they aren’t part of the standard map. And I don’t use SELinux, so no need to get me started on that. I have used plenty of NSA tools being in the contracting world to know what they are all about. Thanks for the technical insight though 🙂
You’re explaining it to me? Gee thanks. Hubris and all that…
I don’t need to explain anything to you. I have many years of software engineering and cyber experience. I am simply stating I don’t need someone telling me that I do not follow secure practices when I know for a fact I do. So we will leave it at that.
The only true way to be anon in this internet online world… is to dump ALL of your devices that connect to the internet. Otherwise you can be located easily enough buy the imie or mac numbers, and by wifi signal strength to other wifi’s in your area, geo locations etc etc… Your cell phone/tablets etc all give up this information and many computer programs, thru third party, also give up this info.
You are somewhat correct. But device MAC addresses are not part of a Layer 3/4 TCP/IP packet, so end points only see IP addresses. I use a Linux distro on a PC with the Brave browser. I have it set to refuse cookies and no script execution, so sites do not drop any files. Can be a pain with mainstream sites, but it works for me. I would never use a smart phone to chat on internet forums. I also like this forum because it doesn’t require an account and you can use any e-mail address you want. And at the end of the day I say only so much where it the odds of finding my identify among 300+ million Americans would be almost impossible. I am confident and not worried much.
That’s not enough.
America is a nation of ideas , and all ideas are equal, even those ideas that want to kill other ideas. May the ideas with the strongest lobby win. Diversity be their strength
“The Jewish Federations of North America first proposed Congress support the security needs of the synagogues and churches after the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which manages the Nonprofit Security Grant Program launched in 2004, funding has climbed from $20 million in 2016 to $180 million last year.
But Jewish leaders said more is needed, with some even calling for doubling funding to $360 million. Earlier this week, 1,500 Jewish leaders met with Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas via Zoom to enlist support for more security funding.
While the grants program is available to any group facing the highest risk of terrorism-related activity regardless of religious affiliation, historically upward of 80% of the funding has been allocated to Jewish groups. Liza Acevedo, a spokesperson at the Department of Homeland Security, said the Texas synagogue attacked over the weekend had previously received funding from the program.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/steep-cost-to-pray-in-peace-for-many-jewish-americans-police-protection-at-synagogues-is-normal/ar-AAT06ty?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
Every…damn…time
I know I’m going to catch shit for this but here goes:
Tell me again why Alex Jones is bat shit crazy.
My only substantial indictment of Jones is that his entire platform is a sales platform and he himself has become FIRST a salesman, and then a purveyor of useful information.
He would be more credible and much easier to deal with, absent the incessant sales pitching.
Even so, I’ll be your tenth upvote.
Alex Jones stole his whole act from a guy named William Cooper in the late 80’s-90’s. Cooper couldn’t stand Jones. I’ve personally caught Jones in some whoppers. He’s about pulling people in with emotion to make sales, as Red Riv says…
Opinion | A Wild, Dangerous Military-security Complex Has Seized Power in Israel
Israel has turned its most notorious cyberweapon export, NSO’s Pegasus spyware against its own citizens. Fresh from aiding autocrats abroad, now Israel’s security apparatus is killing democracy at home
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/a-wild-dangerous-military-security-complex-has-seized-power-in-israel-1.10553382
Capture Success Matrix
1. Condition hogs to trust a daily food source.
2. Condition hogs to trust the corral enclosure as a daily food source.
3. Select the optimum trigger device and time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10445503/British-troops-poised-repel-assault-Ukraine-Russia-DAYS.html
Like feral pigs led to a trap…
I think both Fred Rutherford and his son Lumpy are dead.