Posted on 12/17/2012 3:27:19 PM PST by blam
The Psy-Ops War on Preppers: This Has Become a Two-For-the-Price-of-One Crisis
Daisy Luther
December 17th, 2012
The Organic Prepper
This article has been generously shared with our community by long-time contributor Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper.
First of all, where is the headquarters of this “Doomsday Preppers Movement” I’ve been reading about? And where can I sign up? I didn’t realize there was an organized movement, one deserving of capital letters. Who is the leader of this “movement”? I’d like to meet him (or her) immediately!
The propaganda machine is not only going after guns in the wake of the terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School – this has become a two-for-the-price-of-one crisis, allowing the government and media to yet again, demonize preppers.
Psychological Warfare: Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience’s value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator’s objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
Yesterday the mainstream media began churning out articles about Nancy Lanza, the mother of the shooter, Adam Lanza. When you read the following quotes, ask yourself: “How many of these comments could describe ME?”
A few descriptive quotes:
■ Nancy was a member of the Doomsday Preppers movement, which believes people should prepare for end of the world. (Riehl World View)
■ According to reports, Nancy Lanza was a so-called ‘prepper’, a part of the survivalist movement which urges individuals to prepare for the breakdown of society by training with weapons and hoarding food and other supplies. ( The UK Independent)
■ Reports are starting to emerge of the troubled young man and his unusual upbringing. (Yahoo)
■ Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping firm who worked on the family’s home, said she was an avid gun collector: ‘She told me she would go target shooting with her kids.’ (UK Daily Mail)
■ Marsha Lanza described Nancy as ‘self-reliant’.( The UK Independent)
■ He was reportedly homeschooled by his mother, a school principal and gun enthusiast, who wasn’t satisfied with the education her son was receiving.. (Yahoo)
■ As America searches for answers, investigators are turning towards Nancy Lanza’s supposed identification as a survivalist. (Yahoo)
■ Her former sister-in-law Marsha said she had turned her home ‘into a fortress’. (UK Daily Mail)
■ Mother of Sandy Hook school gunman Adam Lanza was a ‘prepper’ survivalist preparing for economic and social collapse, say reports. ( The UK Independent)
■ Mrs Lanza is thought to have trained her sons, Adam and Ryan to shoot, even taking them to local ranges. ( The UK Independent)
■ ‘Nancy had a survivalist philosophy which is why she was stockpiling guns. She had them for defense. She was stockpiling food. She grew up on a farm in New Hampshire. She was skilled with guns. We talked about preppers and preparing for the economy collapsing.’ (UK Daily Mail)
Gee…they say this stuff like it’s a BAD thing.
Let’s see.
■ Stockpiles (or hoards) food….check.
■ Takes children target shooting….check.
■ Preparing for economic and/or social collapse….check.
■ Serious about home defense….check.
■ Home is well-fortified against criminals….check.
■ Skilled with weapons….check.
■ Survivalist philosophy….check.
■ Self-reliant….check.
■ Believes that we are capable of educating our children at home….check.
Nancy Lanza’s description could apply to nearly any prepper. Preppers have been cast in an ugly light for quite some time. We are painted as camo-clad survivalists, clenching a knife in our teeth while unloading an automatic weapon into some real or imagined threat. After our Rambo-esque rampage, we will crouch in the forest by a campfire, shoveling down an MRE while glaring suspiciously into the dark, a large Katana hunting knife close at hand with which to dispatch the next enemy.
The assault on preppers through the media is becoming more and more focused. Let’s look at some recent examples.
We were described last month by emergency manager Valerie Lucus-MacEwen as “socially selfish” – even though the existence of prepared people makes her supplies go further to help the unprepared. In an editorial meant for other emergency managers, Ms. Lucus-MacEwen arrogantly asserted, “You might wonder why someone like me, who has been in the business of encouraging disaster preparedness for a very long time, is so critical of people who are doing just that. It’s because they are being socially selfish – preparing themselves and the hell with everyone else. Instead of spending time and energy making changes that would benefit the larger community, in their very narrow focus of loyalty they are more concerned about themselves.”
The National Geographic program Doomsday Preppers also has had a lot to do with the demonization of preppers – it’s a full-court press propaganda attack against preppers. The program finds the most outrageous examples of preparedness possible and edits to make them look foolish. An article on the American Preppers Network explains the modus operandi:
The show severely skews Preppers in an effort that can be summed up as “making good television”. This is evident not only through viewing the show itself, but through the format they have built the show around. Some highlights of that format include:
■ Featuring one Prepper for 15 minutes only, ensuring that you don’t get too comfortable with them or learn very much about them
■ Requiring each guest to pigeon-hole themselves into one thing they are preparing for – almost always a “doomsday” scenario
■ Creating conflict and drama via their “experts” who review the segment and then condemn or condone what the Prepper has done – all within the context of the “one thing” they’re preparing for
Do you really believe that each of the families on that show only focus on one particular scenario? No – they are portrayed in a way to marginalize the philosophy of preparedness. We, as preppers, are a threat to the powers that be.
One participant on the show, David Sarti, learned that his appearance could have serious ramifications. Mr. Sarti “took one for the team” when, only days after the program aired, however, David Sarti was declared “mentally incompetent”….and his guns were seized. All of them. Mr. Sarti, who has no criminal record, is no longer allowed to own guns. He tells his story here.
Apparently, the constitution no longer applies to those who are categorized as preppers.
The accusation of insanity came after he went to see his cardiologist for some chest pains and shortness of breath. So far, it sounds sane and rational to me. The cardiologist, Dr. Andre C. Olivier, whose name and contact information I am delighted to publish, had Mr. Sarti held at the hospital for psychiatric evaluation and broke doctor patient confidentiality by contacting the authorities.
Then it really went to hell on a greased slide. Mr. Sarti, because of his stay in the psychiatric unit, was then declared “mentally incompetent”. His very large collection of guns was then stolen removed from his possession. He is no longer allowed to own weapons.
Earlier this month, Maryland resident Terry Porter had his home descended upon by 150 armed federal agents and local police officers. The raid also included helicopters, SWAT crews, armored vehicles and excavation equipment.
His crimes? He was known as a prepper, he was unhappy with the reelection of Barack Obama, and he owned guns. He “openly admitted being a prepper.”
So, why all the vilification? Why are preppers the new “boogeymen”? Why are we being pigeonholed as people who homeschool our kids and turn them into mass murderers of elementary school students?
Simple…because we don’t NEED help. We do not require the assistance of the government. We don’t need to line up for 5 hours to wait for a paltry bottle of water and an MRE after a hurricane strikes. We don’t call 911 and hide in a closet waiting for the police to arrive.
Preppers threaten the very existence of all of the social safety nets that are set up. We can’t be easily manipulated by the offer of a free flu shot and a grocery store gift card in exchange for our weapons. We think critically and don’t automatically accept the programming of the mainstream media, whose job it is to provide people with the opinions that they should hold. We don’t shovel in the HFCS-laden genetically modified crap, otherwise known as “food”, killing our brain cells and dumbing us down into cattle to be easily led to slaughter.
We are the last bastion of independent self-reliant thinkers. And the powers that be are very afraid of those who think for themselves, rather than regurgitating the media-presented party line.
I don’t know why Adam Lanza went on a rampage and killed 26 people last week. But I do know that it wasn’t because his mother was a homeschooling prepper who stored up food and taught him to fire a gun at a paper target.
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You know you are a prepper when you have backups to your backups and backups to them too
One form of socialism that liberals can't figure out how to force on anyone, to prepare their neighbors too. It's all about power and control and liberals have none in this matter.
It's not illegal to "hoard" anything that you've paid for, earned or made yourself nor is it illegal to defend it. It drives liberals nuts and that's a good thing.
I don't know if he is still making those films, but he needed to shut up long before he did. He appeared to me to be lonely and using those films as contact with people.
About Doomsday Preppers: It's still going on Tuesday nights. That program is the highest watched program on their channel. None of those preppers are shown in a good light. Now, some of their preps are fantastic and some of their locations are terrific. If I was the most perfect prepper in the universe, I still would not be on that program. It's too damn risky.
All mine were homeschooled on math english and American freedom. Too much media overload to find the truth but my heart is broken for all of those families. I’m a grown man who has cried out loud seeing this. Not just this, but the entire direction of our country.
I cannot fathom how this man slaughtered those children.
Stick the freakin gun in his own mouth and be done with it.
You’ve summed up where I am and how I’ve felt these last few days. Sadness, disbelief and anger.
You really have to be careful about what you do or say nowadays even though prepping activities are still legal. Of course, using cash for purchases and not talking openly about various aspects of prepping are prudent for the most part. But, when the SHTF, people will need to form groups to trade products and services as well as for defense. The Leftist media is intentionally demonizing us so that we cannot join forces now or later.
I think you are on to something. UN arms treaty being pushed, then Colorado shooter shoots up a theater. Obama’s war on coal, two weeks later one of the worst coal mine catastrophes following a mine inspection by government inspectors. After a while coincidences just don’t explain away the happenings.
The coincidences are becoming most curious.....more like out of a Chricton novel.
Don’t know if you’ve seen this, but *both fathers of these cretans ,Holmes of the theater massacre and Lanza the CT massacre are about to testify in the 3 trillion dollar internation rate scam involving 12 major banks.........look behind the curtain. There were reports of a 2nd or 3rd shooter that quickly ended. Police radio transmissions attest to this. Is it possible this kid was a tool, a participant for his own reasons but included on a more devious plan he knew nothing about.*
Published on Dec 16, 2012
The father of Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza, Peter Lanza, was the tax director for General Electric, a corporation that paid -0- taxes on 14.2 billion dollars in profits last year. According to Fabian4Liberty, Peter Lanza was scheduled to testify in the ongoing global LIBOR scandal. In what could only be described an amazing coincidence, the father of Colorado Batman shooter James Holmes, Robert Holmes, was also a LIBOR witness in his position with FICO. According to the link at FICO, Robert Holmes was a ‘Fraud Scientist’.
The father of Newtown Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial. The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is Robert Holmes, the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO. Both men were to testify before the US Sentate in the ongoing LIBOR scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate, known as Libor, is the average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of their low level traders arrested.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a motive and a link. This coincidence is impossible to overlook. Two mass shootings connected to LIBOR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6BsyNEJ8EQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuhbCOqIaC4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19199683
dont forget millionaires! (the mom was VERY wealthy)
Excellent...I've gotten a couple more too since we last spoke.
If you were going to pick an ideal candidate for a government psyops program administered during elementary school age, an autistic child of a GE Tax VP would probably be a good candidate. Just sayin....
FYI = Government could mean any government. Some may pay better then the US.
LOL!
stockpiling iswhat people do before a problem.
hoarding is what people attempt to after a problem has happened and things are being rationed or limited.
being prepared is just being a good boy scout.
it’s already a trifecta - the boy scout motto is Be Prepared.
now being prepared is evil. up is fricking down. if you’re a dumbass and don’t plan for yourself, so you can end up in some line for hours to get you stinking govt handout, you’re thge problem.
friking socialists.
Yeah someone chucked it and it is still about 1/3 full of propane so ...a double score for me :)
So easy to rig these tanks to a two burner stove (like is used all over the 3rd world) if you cut off the hose fitting to a gas BBQ that someone is disposing of. Cut off as much of the hose as possible.
I bought another 2 burner propane stove Friday at a yard sale for $2.00. It’ll be good for barter some day...I already have as may as I need.
Great deal! I had to shell out $10 at the flea market. I only have two of them.
Amen and God bless. We’re in for a storm.
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