Read This First Before You Decide That Preppers Are Crazy

TEC ^ | 4-2-2012 | Michael Snyder

[blam]

Posted by Kartographer yesterday:

Just In Time: When The Trucks Stop, America Will Stop

[KC_Lion]

Prepper Ping

[Envisioning]

When the trucks stop running in America, there will be mass chaos.

Are you prepared for that?

I don't think most people would be prepared enough, even some of the die-hard preppers.

I just plan on taking out as many zombies as possible before they get me.....

Prepper (((ping)))

[wastedyears]

Odds are the government will be the ones to start the problems.

[Freddd]

You see, it is very expensive to hold and store inventory-————

Makes one wonder why ‘inventories rose’ being reported month after month doesn’t it?

We know they store the oil on barges offshore, but where are all the other ‘inventories’ being stored?

[Gaffer]

All the warning signs are here, and it is prudent to think about how one should react given any of the dire signs occur.

However, I have a big, big problem on the Prepper shows. Firstly, a real prepper doesn’t advertise. At most he/she seeks out others to learn and prepare with. Secondly, advertising - participating in the ridiculous “Prepper” shows on TV is assinine. It gives the liberal conglomerate ammunition to marginalize and denounce. It also transmits to the enemy how preppers can be defeated.

An example of this is the DHS probing and questioning suppliers of emergency goods. This is fact and has been discussed here. It does not make good sense to advertise openly what you do if you have enemies that want to enslave you.

[NavyCanDo]

I think all human-kind instinctively know something has been set in motion. Not just preppers. Just look at the multitude of popular TV programs that are now focused around post-apocalyptic survival skills and guns. They are on every channel. It’s an epidemic of TV programming targeted to an ever growing audience. JMO - Like dogs that can sense an upcoming earthquake, I think God has given man the senses to detect something much much bigger.

[Berlin_Freeper]

It is good to know all the preppers near you.

[Kartographer]

I posted the original articlethis yesterday as blam shows in post#2 so I will not ping the preppers list.

If nothing else the whole worlds economy is a house of cards just waiting for the right zephyr to send it tumbling.

If the present spending continues I don’t see how we can avoid a collapse like that of Argentina ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index )but on a global scale.

But the market is up you say, yeah it’s up using billions in ‘printed’ money in the hands of corrupted bankers, investors and their cronies. The world is now flooded with fake and faux money. The game is so rigged and now even the ‘house’ is starting to lose.

When the whole thing tanks as it will what do you think the entiled class will do when they can’t get their cell phones, their food stamps and EBT cards, rent vouchers and so forth.

What we will see is a much more violent version of Argentina, we will certainly see something much closer to Bosnia. American has become Balkanized and splintered, we no longer share the same basic beliefs we have become pocks of people with little in common with one another.

And many of this pockets are very larger entitlement minded and believe they are owed much by others and already shown that they will use violence to get their due.

I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and see rape, robbery and murder for murder sake. You will see what I call ‘pocket pogroms’ where ‘yutes’ will think no more about killing those unlike them than most people think about stepping on a roach. That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.

Think of this quote which is one of my favorites:

“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.

On top of all who knows how many saboteurs (Islamic, Chinese etc) and sleepers have crossed our borders and are now just waiting to cause havoc.

For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it 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, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, 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.”

Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3

Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.

Underestimation can be fatal.”

[Kartographer]

IBTSMN&THS guy

(in before the “shoot my neighbor and take his stuff” guy)

[MrB]

I had questions for you.

How is the ammo can rocket stove working out?
Have you done some quantifying with it yet (pounds of sticks vs time to boil X ounces of water)?

How much does the whole thing weigh?

[Kartographer]

Planing to post something this weekend.

[MrB]

That’s what I’ve been saying - we’re near the end, and every human has a sense of that.

Those that don’t have the truth of God’s Word, and the Spirit to understand it, are truly anxious and worried and looking for something to pin that anxiety on.

Sun spots. Meteors. Peak Oil. EMP.

People of Christ, look UP, for your redemption is nigh.

[Kartographer]

Here’s another side of that. I think God expects his people to be ‘DOERS’ and some think that just faith is enough.

If it’s God’s call to end the world there’s nothing a prepper can have or store that will save him, but his faith in the Lord. That said there have been thousand of times in the history of men that they or nature have caused such destruction and misery that people have cried out for the Lord to end it all.

Reminds me of this joke:

God granting miracles
A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says “get in, get in!” The religous man replies, “ no I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle.”

Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in god and god will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again cause “God will grant him a miracle.”

With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in, mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help for the faith of God. He arrives at the gates of heaven with broken faith and says to Peter, I thought God would grand me a miracle and I have been let down.” St. Peter chuckles and responds, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about, we sent you three boats and a helicopter.”

[pabianice]

During Digital Equipment Corporation's long, hideous slide to corporate death, I worked for a while in the company's Six Sigma Group. This nonsensical fraud claimed that we could become so efficient that there would be only three mistakes per one million actions -- the 6th standard deviation above the median number of mistakes per one million. This is, of course, quite impossible in any human activity, but 6S had its grip on a lot of companies in those days. Part of 6S was JIT -- Just in Time Inventory Management, as referred to in this article. JIT is a bomb balancing on a beach ball; even the slightest outside force brings the whole thing down into disaster.

We do indeed live in a world in which an end to long-range road transport would result in our being instantly thrust back into the 18th century. This is the theme of a lot of sci fi, some of it very good. Get yourself and your family prepared.

[Secret Agent Man]

Both ends of the spectrum are problematic. Thugs and gangs on one end. An armed goverment/military that regards you as a supply depot is another.

[EyeGuy]

“Planing to post something this weekend.

Where?

Blog?
Website?
FR at large?
FR subscription list?

Thanks.

[hope]

Amen, Bro! AMEN!

[MeganC]

Great post. We’re not LDS but one thing we learned from the LDS was to put up 12 months of food and etc. for a ‘just in case’.

Living in a rural area our #1 concern in a crisis is not our neighbors, but the hordes of urban dwellers who will flee the hellholes that politically correct cities will become in the absence of authority. Post-Katrina New Orleans was a lesson for all who would pay attention.

Now imagine every city in America becoming a New Orleans and then millions hitting the road looking to invade YOUR ranch, steal YOUR home, eat YOUR cattle, and etc.

We’ll be just fine in an emergency and I imagine our nearby town will be just fine, too. But if thousands of entitlement babies come our way demanding ‘their fair share’ from us we’ll be happy to first share our ammunition with them and then we’ll be happy to parcel out real estate to them in 6x2x6 shares.