Posted on 01/30/2011 7:01:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Until recently, Seif Awad worked a day job as an account manager for Cisco.
But since Saturday he has begun volunteering at nights, protecting his neighborhood with a volunteer defense squad of young male neighbors armed with makeshift weapons. Last night he armed himself with a big stick. On Sunday, Awad bought gasoline canisters and started making Molotov cocktails.
"If anyone comes on the street we're going to throw those at them," Awad said. "And I have a friend here who has a gun."
Shortly before he spoke on the phone Sunday night with CNN, Awad says he and his comrades scared off a group of men who tried to scale the walls of his upscale gated residential neighborhood.
"They were trying to jump the walls and we ran at them," Awad recounted. "And when they saw us they fell back."
Real estate broker Karim Amer armed himself with a kitchen knife Saturday night and joined his own hastily formed neighborhood militia.
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Here in Montana, if the need arises to organize, we could hold off a battalion.
Lowlifes taking advantage of the unrest to do some looting. It’s the same everywhere.
I’ve been up to the river country via Great Falls a number of years ago and I was very impressed. It was colder than heck and 7ft of snow was piled up but that was some beautiful country.
You are correct! The police react to crime and violence. They do not know where and when it will happen. When violence occurs you and only you can save yourself and family from harm.
Be humble but firm, retreat if possible but be calculating and shrewed with you plans and actions. If violence is unfortunately necessary, be ruthless, cold, and violent to the extreme, least the same be exacted on you and your family.
I can get a small at home pressure washer from Lowes, give me some filtered hot bacon grease and a little home brew ethanol added to it and I can make it stream out 50’ or more, with a high pressure Hotsy I can get even more. I have one at work that will spray over 50’, instead of water just use a flammable fuel.
Interesting points about both Egypt and the US. Many people all over the world are fed up with greedy and corrupt leaders.
Gives me the thought for the title of of a book
“When the compassion runs out”
A big stick and a kitchen knife?
And he knows one guy who has a gun?
(wonder if he has bullets)
These people are unarmed cattle!!!
Got to be careful with those kind, they can diesel with you and blow up.
Old propane tanks work good, and use propane as a pressurizer instead of air.
Security officials said the prisoners escaped overnight from four jails after starting fires and clashing with guards. The inmates were helped by gangs of armed men who attacked the prisons, firing at guards in gun battles that lasted hours.
Looting and arson continued overnight as the police totally disappeared from the streets of the capital and several major Egyptian cities. There has been no explanation for why the police have vanished.
The vacuum left by the police has prompted residents to form neighborhood protection groups, armed with firearms, sticks and clubs to set up self-styled checkpoints and barricades to ward off looting gangs roaming Cairo and other cities. The groups set up barricades, using bricks and metal traffic barriers.
They should soak the entrance area of their neighborhood in petrol and then torch it if people try ot enter.
In Egypt they’re also invading the neighborhoods of the wealthy, something that never used to happen except in the French and Russian revolutions. If there is a new set of riots here, I bet it’ll end up wiht the rioters going into the neighborhoods of the wealthy in LA and New York, which may well not be a bad thing.
In Britain, Prince Charles’ car was attacked nad the Duchess assaulted and it’s mainly because the Conservative government is as useless as the Labor government. Govenrments around the world are failing and not bothering to even listen. Only a matter of time until it spreads.
“If violence is unfortunately necessary, be ruthless, cold, and violent to the extreme,”
Poeple need to stop shrinking from getting their hands dirty.
Yeah, no more relying on the government.
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Armed militia protects its New Orleans neighborhood
September 10, 2005
NEW ORLEANS -- The Algiers Point militia put away its weapons Friday as Army soldiers patrolled the historic neighborhood across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter.
But the band of neighbors who survived Hurricane Katrina and then fought off looters has not disarmed.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482060/posts
Misleading Headline - probably stupidity.
The problem is, you can’t stockpile enough to prepare for everyone.
It also is not moral to assume others will give you items you yourself did not set aside while you hadthe chance, but now they need to survive.
The caveat is that not all people would be turned away. If some people have needed skills that would benefit such groups, there would probably be some kind of arrangements worked out. But many of the people probably will not have any skills or abilities that will be needed in the immediate or long-term futures.
It is an easy explanation. It’s the same reason why much of the police would disappear in our own country if that happened.
Some will be targets and taken for their weapons.
Most will be trying to get to their own homes and families and trying to protect their own.
It’s one thing to take people in short term for protection, say for example during riots where law will return in a short period of time.
It’s another thing to take people in long term.
Question people need to start asking themselves,Can I turn someone away and can I put someone out?
I don’t think there are too many people on this sight that would turn someone away and leave them to face a mob by themselves.
If there is, they are not someone I would want to depend on to cover my back because they’ll do the same to me to protect themselves.
That being said, the question then becomes when do you turn someone out?
Having a set of rules to go with the emergency supplies is just as important as the supplies themselves.
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