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To: Noumenon; Travis McGee
While I don't pretend to be an expert on Argentine history it occurs to me that they're a much more homogenous society than 'we' are. They have a several hundred year history of Catholocism, and not much of a history of individual freedom. This is no slam against the Argentine people, simply an observation.

"We" are a very diverse population spread across an area much, much larger than Argentina. Our inner city, welfare acustomed population has almost nothing in common with the productive class. And I mean almost nothing including language.

Have either of you ever listened to some of the some of what some people try to pass off as English? I live just the next county over and for the life of me I can't figure out more than about every third word.

How do you think they're going to behave when the system finally breaks down? They're going to come boiling out of those cities with a raging sense of entitlement in their heads and guns in their hands.

And it's not necessarily a racial thing. I have folks of various hues on my block that I would trust at my back any day of the week under almost any circumstances.

Variables? Yep. Wheels within wheels....

All I can do is make sure that me and mine are as prepared as possible with the resources that we've put together with our own hands. God will do what He will and we can't worry about that.

God helps those who help themselves, luck favors the prepared, and fortune favors the bold. That's the way we look at things for better or worse.

I don't see what else we can do.

Good luck to you both.

130 posted on 06/21/2010 8:47:31 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker

I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”

Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.


131 posted on 06/22/2010 5:46:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Lurker

I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”

Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.


132 posted on 06/22/2010 5:46:28 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Lurker

I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”

Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.


133 posted on 06/22/2010 5:46:28 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Lurker

I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”

Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.


134 posted on 06/22/2010 5:46:37 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Lurker
They're going to come boiling out of those cities with a raging sense of entitlement in their heads and guns in their hands.

That they will. And it won't take long if the one hour meltdown is even remotely accurate. Eve naround here. there's a lot of dead weight in Coeur d'Alene and the surrounding area. There there's Spokane. Folks unprepared and without a clue. A significant number of folks here in northern Idaho depend on that government check.

When it grinds to a halt, even for a few days, they'll be madder than a pack of raccoons that you just stopped feeding.

136 posted on 06/22/2010 10:35:48 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: Lurker
The corollary of the will to power is the desire to submit.

"He [Albert Camus] had noticed a modern impulse to rebel, which had come out of the French Revolution and the nineteenth century and had very quickly, in the name of an ideal, mutated into a cult of death. And the ideal was always the same, though each movement gave it a different name. It was not skepticism and doubt. It was the ideal of submission."
Paul Berman - Terror and Liberalism p46

And thus, the tyranny of the weak...

146 posted on 07/10/2010 10:34:40 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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