Posted on 05/13/2017 10:06:46 AM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
This is from the Free BeaconFrom David “Dave” Benham, U.S. Pacific Command, Fox News, May 12, 2017
‘Depending on the specific characteristics of the attacks, unprecedented cascading failures of our major infrastructures could result,’ the 2004 commission warned in a statement. ‘In that event, a regional or national recovery would be long and difficult and would seriously degrade the safety and overall viability of our Nation.’
A lot of people in the (perhaps, fatally) distracted US media, as well as apparent, armchair “commenters and posters,” still openly poo-poo the idea of a Korean EMP attack on America.
I don’t know why. Except to say that in some cases there seems to be almost a kinetic need for this sort of denial. A mysterious, occulted, inner knowledge—a feeling that— despite conspiracy-facts—everybody else is just wrong.
“Oh, even if there were an EMP attack, it would take a really long time for people to be affected, and we could handle it.” This sort of critic seems to believe that they will be able to “lock and load,” break out the freeze-dried lasagna, “molon labe,” and survive in the mountains on goat milk.
What they do not seem to know about, or take into account—whilst still ignoring the reality of a possible EMP attack—is the principle of the above-cited, “Catastrophic, Cascading Systems Failures.”
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Don’t mess with tex-ess
“The experts say if we get hit by an EMP there will only be 10% of the US population alive at the end of a year.”
Well, since I live close to a Sam’s Club, I guess I’m in the 10% !!!!
Just kidding...I doubt anyone on this site is savage enough to able to survive, as that means killing others in cold blood, on a regular basis. Democrats certainly are capable of doing that, as history shows over and over again, but it would be tough for conservatives to have the stomach for it.
Perhaps we should, instead, consider hardening our infrastructure and buying the necessary spare parts...but it just seems easier, I guess, to kick it down the road - then to start sounding like Art Bell.
“I doubt anyone on this site is savage enough to able to survive, as that means killing others in cold blood, on a regular basis”
Imagine a large apartment complex in any city that has a fair amount of families living there. After about 3 days they start realizing the power is not coming on and most vehicles no longer run. It will also take about 3 days for grocery stores to be empty. I do not think fathers are going to just sit there and watch their children starve. I can see groups of them getting together and deciding where they might find food and how to get it. I can also see single men doing the same thing. That would entail commandeering running vehicles and raiding businesses and homes in an ever increasing radius. In think the thought of starving will strip the humanity out of most people.
I have read One Year After. Very icky, but that is how it would be. Of course I don’t think that it would take that long...Long term Marshall Law and government rationing is total control. I have not seen the last book yet.
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