[balrog666]

This is just one real long shaggy dog story, right? If it wasn't for the inevitable, tragic outcome, it would be a fool's opera, a farce. The destruction of this once fine agricultural community is sad indeed. (Where bees Jesse, Al, 'n all dose repairations peoples?)

It begs the question of whether a brave man with a BMG .50 could start to reverse this tide.

[norton]

At this point the answer to your question is 'no'.

With no means to produce either food or revenue, and with hoards of displaced persons organized into what I'd guess are autonomous gangs; a small army with light armor would run it's ass ragged trying to keep up with one provence.

The place is a loss and I'd personally doubt that SA can me saved over the next couple of years.