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Preparing for What is Coming: The Wisdom of Survivalist Crowds

2006-10-23

some key quotes here - RTWT at the link

Five years after Islamic apocalyptists turned the World Trade Center to fire and dust, we chatter more than ever about the clash of civilizations, fight a war prompted by our panic over (nonexistent) nuclear and biological weapons, hear it coolly asserted this past summer that World War III has begun, and wonder if an avian-flu pandemic poses more of a personal risk than climate change. In other words, apocalypse is on our minds. ...

Some thousands of Muslims are working seriously to provoke the blessed Armageddon. ...

 If there is one thing that is most likely to lead to some sort of breakdown in national order, it's not avian flu, hurricanes, global warming, or Armageddon. It is the war 

[I]f there is one thing that is most likely to lead to some sort of breakdown in national order, it's not avian flu, hurricanes, global warming, or Armageddon. It is the war.

Perhaps this can be dismissed given my military background. "Man who has only hammer sees every problem as nail." Didn't Confucius say that? Nevertheless of all those other maelstroms, the one that is most immediate, growing, global, and certainly getting worse is the global Islamist insurgency - and unlike the other threats, it includes an adaptable, quickly learning enemy that seeks to kill as many as possible.

 There are few places in the world or spheres of life now unaffected. 

There are few places in the world or spheres of life now unaffected. Pakistan has ceded Waziristan to the Taliban. A coterie of Islamist judges have taken over Somalia. Thailand's new prime minister plans to "reach out" to those in the south of his country who have killed 1500 since 2004. The French police fight an intifada every night, and recently requested armored vehicles and water cannons to bolster their efforts. The British have asked university professors to keep tabs on Muslim students - because there are so many who could be radicals that the intelligence agencies need all the help they can get. And we haven't even touched Iraq, the ambitions of Iran, or its bosom buddy Kim Jong Il, who now professes a trio of more nuclear tests shortly.

One cannot listen to the Pope; watch South Park; walk into a bookstore; enter a university campus; or of course peruse the news without being inundated by reactions to or the influence of jihad.

 Americans are therefore preparing for what might come, without really knowing what it might be, only that it will probably be bad to say the least. 

Americans are therefore preparing for what might come, without really knowing what it might be, only that it will probably be bad to say the least.

Posted by:lotp

#8 I am neither paranoid nor a stereotypical survivalist, but there's nothing wrong with my having a backpack of food, water, survival gear, a rifle and a sidearm always packed and accessible.

Mine has been packed for about 25 years now, I use it every trip as a "Getaway" bag.
(Fond memories of my father, an Army Colonel who had jut such a bag stashed in the hall closet to grab as you ran out the door, mandated by the Army when we were "Overseas" (In Canada?) Yes he thought it was a sensible idea, You never know when a Government will fall)

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-10-23 20:17

#7 I'm dressing up as Peak Oil this year for Halloween. Last year's global warming get up was to heavy.

Posted by: Shipman 2006-10-23 17:57

#6 best......BEST!

Preview is my third best friend.

Posted by: no mo uro 2006-10-23 15:51

#5 The Lord is my beast friend.

But a good 12 gauge is a close second.

Posted by: no mo uro 2006-10-23 15:50

#4 I grew up in the 50's when we were told to sit under our school desks when the atom bombs fell. Even as a kid I knew this was stupid advice and the government hasn't really gotten much smarter. I am neither paranoid nor a stereotypical survivalist, but there's nothing wrong with my having a backpack of food, water, survival gear, a rifle and a sidearm always packed and accessible.

Posted by: jim 2006-10-23 15:24

#3 This boy ought to migrate to RB. We've been preaching this for some time. As for the Moron Glenn Reynolds, he is another self-declared genius. He came up with Instapundit blog years ago. But his rantings expose him as the leftist liberal he is. Another worthless fool full of gibberish.

Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-23 14:27

#2 Its not panic. Its preparedness. We used to extol the attitude.

Posted by: Procopius2K 2006-10-23 14:23

#1 Part of the motivation for survivalists is the lack of attention paid by the gov't to national self-defense measures, such as placing some restriction (either tax or rationing) on imported petroleum, and ratcheting up civil defense (preparing for a nuke strike on the U.S. as was done in the 50's, etc.) Instead, TSA is strip-searching grannies at airports and the Border Patrol sends their agents to prison for shooting drug smugglers in the rear.

Posted by: Slaviger Angomong7708 2006-10-23 10:27

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