Posted on 03/19/2018 6:29:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Official Washington flocking to Doomsday Camps
by Paul Bedard | March 19, 2018 08:16 AM
A building network of backwoods doomsday camps around the country are pulling in members from affluent areas and even Washington national security officials as the threats grow from nuclear war, an EMP or virus attack.
Called Fortitude Ranch, the outposts promise protection and a year’s supply of food for those unable to build their own bunker. What’s more, until a crisis strikes, they are being used for prepper training and vacations.
“We’re seeing members from all the three letter agencies,” said Fortitude creator Drew Miller, a retired Air Force colonel and intelligence officer, in a reference to the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He called an attack or even a weather-related electromagnetic pulse shutdown of the electric grid “inevitable,” and a driving force in his project.
One of his members from the Baltimore area, speaking on background, said that he and others joined after “waking up” to the potential of a national crisis from an attack, financial meltdown or political violence. “For most of us, something rattled our cages and woke us up,” he said.
Through memberships and his own cryptocurrency called “Fortitudes,” Miller has raised about $400,000 and established a ranch in West Virginia and Colorado with 10 others planned. An open house at the West Virginia ranch is scheduled for April 21-23.
He said that for the West Virginia ranch, “most members are professional Washington area folks. They don’t have time to do this own their own.” The cost is about $1,000 per person per year to join.
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"Called Fortitude Ranch, the outposts promise protection and a year’s supply of food for those unable to build their own bunker.
What’s more, until a crisis strikes, they are being used for prepper training and vacations.
“We’re seeing members from all the three letter agencies,” said Fortitude creator Drew Miller, a retired Air Force colonel and intelligence officer..
He called an attack or even a weather-related electromagnetic pulse shutdown of the electric grid “inevitable,”
and a driving force in his project.
Miller has raised about $400,000 and established a ranch in West Virginia and Colorado with 10 others planned.
An open house at the West Virginia ranch is scheduled for April 21-23.
He said that for the West Virginia ranch, “most members are professional Washington area folks.
They don’t have time to do this own their own.”
The cost is about $1,000 per person per year to join. "
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I believe there is sufficient Washington interest, but insufficient funding at this time, and could be a scam.
Renting bunker space to idiots is a more profitable financial model than selling back-yard bunkers to idiots.
This guy might be a genius.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that. And this:
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
...when the locals decide to take them out....
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My husband and his friends just laugh. A few earth-movers, something to pour down the inevitable vents...the recreational possibilities are endless.
How will these redoubts be supplied? Do they have their own drivers or will they hire it out?? And when they arrive, if they do: what then? Have they inventoried their own skill sets?
Are they going to guard these in the interim? Monday through Friday? Lots of former Rangers and such out here, too....
Fire in the hole takes on an expanded meaning.
“Skill Sets”?......like buying coffee, or looking up something on Google?
sure THERE IS! it’s A Chicago typewriter! line THE PERIMETER FENCE WITH TRIPE CONCERTINA RAZOR WIRE WIRE THE FENCE TO A 200 KW POWER GENERATOR THEN READY AND DEFEND IT WITH IT, FROM RIOTERS TRYING TO Breach THE FENCE, WITH clamor MINES!
Claymore mines
Follow the money here too. Looks like Al Gore 2.0.
On the order of “Comet Insurance” I’d say.
Good one.
We pay these thugs to protect the country and the only people they protect are fellow liberal elites.
Better to fire all of ‘em ...
There is a fool born every minute. Most stay that way all their lives.
This is just plain goofy IMHO.
This guy might be a genius.
Wait until the "elite" learn that their facility will be dormitory/barracks type living. They'll flip out!
oH, yes, AND plant SOME bouncing Betty AP MINES TOO ON ANY APPROACH-WAY TO THE FENCE. just TO BE NICE.
This frightens me. You know when they run out of their own food, they will come after ours and they will have the means to do it. That’s what government means to me.
They are creating their own “cryptocurrency called Fortitudes” to use when the electrical grid is wiped out.
Psst, hey Bud. You might want to rethink your plan.
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