If you’re not, ask yourselves why Preppers have been
slandered by the mainsteam media for years, slammed for the derogatory
“stockpiling” of supplies – which may have kept you from being ready for
something like Sandy.
Ask your congressman “Why?” Ask your local newspapers and TV
stations, “Why?”
“Natural” disasters are part of life.
But what if the United States Government is preparing for
something not not
quite so “natural” and want you helpless against it?
You might find one answer in the FEMA”
CAMP SYSTEM set up “to detain US citizens in the event of an
uprising or civil unrest” – or anything else we might not be ready for, like
Sandy?
Today, the media owes you a massive apology (Hah! Fat
chance!) because if the-preppers-are-right,
they are the only ones making do in the wake of superstorm
Sandy.
If anyone asks you what you’re preparing for, just say,
“Another Sandy”.
Preppers are the new prophets,, deniers are the new homeless
– the tin-foil party hats vs the Lead-lined skullcaps – who survived Sandy?
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Sunday,
November 04, 2012
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) In the wake of superstorm Sandy, preppers are
the new prophets. Those who failed to prepare are the new homeless.
For as long as we can all remember, preppers and survivalists have been derided
by the mainstream media, labeled "kooks" and "wing nuts"
for stockpiling food, water, ammunition, medical supplies and emergency gear.
Only paranoid conspiracy theorists engage in evil preparedness activities, we
were told by the sellout mainstream media, and they've convinced many that
preppers may even be terrorists.
The very word "stockpiling" has been used in a derogatory manner, as
if it's somehow bad for private citizens to stockpile food, medicine and
emergency supplies that might save lives in a crisis. Never mind that the
government stockpiles all these things for its own survival; citizens are
routinely taught that stockpiling is bad!
Suddenly all that has changed. In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, preppers
are the ones who aren't starving, freezing or begging the government to come
save them with emergency supplies. Those who failed to prepare are now
subjected to the chaotic, incompetent actions of the federal government which
is, predictably, operating in a never-ending state of logistical failure.
An one example, in response to the ongoing scarcity of gasoline, New York
announced that the
Defense Department would be opening up free gas stations near areas
hardest-hit, but that residents should stay away and let first responders fuel
up ahead of them.
This, of course, set off a wave of confusion. It was then announced that those
"civilians" (a derogatory term against citizens, used only in a
police state) who were already in line could stay in line, but no
"civilians" could join the line. Many people waited up to six hours
for gasoline. Tempers flared, fist fights were commonplace, and state troopers
had to be sent to gas stations to keep the peace.
Preppers, of course, already stored away spare fuel at home and therefore
didn't need to wait in line and subject themselves to the chaos and
desperation.
FEMA runs out of
water
This one was easy to see coming: FEMA has run out of water
to distribute to Sandy victims and is now desperately trying to find a private
contractor that will deliver millions of bottles of water to the region.
That this could happen in the aftermath of a storm that everybody saw coming at
least a week ahead of time is nothing short of bewildering. How could FEMA,
whose only job is to plan for crisis, not have stockpiled some supplies in
advance of the storm?
The answer is that FEMA is just flat-out incompetent. As described in
an article by Michael Patrick Leahy:
...the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to distribute bottled
water to Hurricane Sandy victims when the storm hit this Monday. In contrast to
its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any meaningful supplies of bottled water
-- or any other supplies, for that matter -- stored in nearby facilities as it
had proclaimed it would on its website. This was the case despite several days
advance warning of the impending storm.
Once again, preppers who
had stockpiled water in advance of all this were sitting pretty, living on
stored water supplies. Those who invested in water filters were even able to
use water that would not have been drinkable otherwise.
No electricity = no
heat for cooking
Even today, the power grid is down in many areas, and for
all those residents using electric stoves and toasters, that means no ability
cook anything... not even to boil water!
Most people simply have no backup plan for when the power grid goes down. So
they become yet another victim who needs to be rescued by a government that has
a terrible track record on rescues.
Preppers, on the other hand, own non-electric cookstoves such as this Zoom Dura
cookstove which can burn paper, wood, small branches and almost
anything flammable. It boils water, cooks meals, and kills bacteria. No
batteries required.
In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, people who own emergency campstoves or
cookstoves have been able to cook meals if they also stored some food.
Something as simple as a few cans of chili can be priceless in the
middle of a grid down scenario. Or some quinoa, oatmeal, rice or whatever.
I know for a fact that we shipped a large number of 40-day
organic survival food pails to the Northeast in the days before the
storm hit. Those people have no doubt been sitting pretty with plenty of food
to eat, compared to their neighbors who didn't prepare and are therefore
starving or dumpster
diving for food scraps.
Arming up with bows,
machetes, firearms and baseball bats
Looting has been widespread in some areas, thanks mostly to
the fact that police are spread too thin and can't cover all the territory. At
first, the looting targeted commercial buildings, where looters made off with
TV projectors, flat panel displays and valuable electronics, but it soon
shifted to the looting of private homes by criminals dressed as Con
Edison workers.
Citizens quickly realized they would need to fend for themselves. As the NY
Daily News reports:
Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it's
become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power
and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby
traps -- even a bow and arrow -- to defend against looters.
"We booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,"
said Danielle Harris, 34, rummaging through donated supplies as children rode
scooters along half-block chunk of the boardwalk that had marooned into the
middle of Beach 91st St.
"We heard gunshots for three nights in a row," said Harris, who
believed they came from the nearby housing projects.
Preppers, of course, already have firearms and ammo. In fact, many preppers
today are investing in firearms proficiency training in order to gain
combat skills. I know several firearms instructors, and they tell me their
classes are jam packed, with waiting lists increasingly common.
A typical prepper owns
not only a handgun, but also a combat rifle (typically an AR or AK) and a
shotgun for close quarters defense. In addition, preppers stockpile at least
1,000 rounds of ammo for each. It's not uncommon to talk to preppers who have
stored 10,000 rounds of ammo for each firearm they own.
These firearms, far from causing violence, are used in the defense of life
and property in communities struck by disaster. People who legally own
firearms are law-abiding citizens who typically work with local law enforcement
to restore peace and security to local communities and help stop
criminals and looters.
That states like New York restrict private citizens from owning firearms is, in
a very real sense, denying them the ability to protect themselves during
a crisis when the police can't protect them, either. Using machetes and bows is
no match for a Glock 17 or an AR-15. While anti-gun people like Bloomberg or
Obama like to say that guns "have no place on the streets of
America," they are wrong. Firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens
are an essential part of restoring peace and order following any crisis. In a
disaster scenario, more guns in the hands of responsible citizens really does
equal less crime.
It's just common sense: When the cops are nowhere to be found, and the National
Guard isn't helping out, and FEMA's lack of preparedness has made the local
population desperate for supplies, a privately-owned firearm is the only
remaining defense against criminal-minded looters and violent opportunities who
try to prey on the weak. That's why I even published a tactical
home defense guide designed to stop looters and criminals from
targeting innocent victims of superstorm Sandy.
The media owes
preppers a massive apology
One of the realizations emerging from all this is that the
media's portrayal of preppers has been not just malicious and highly
inaccurate. Preppers are not the "kooks" you see on TV shows (which
the media admits are laced
with pay-for-placement messages provided by the White House); they are
intelligent, forward-thinking members of society who are truly a national
treasure capable of saving lives in any disaster.
Preppers pick up where the police and the government drop the ball. Preppers
provide food, water, emergency medicine and even local neighborhood
security. They do it without being paid and without even being thanked for
their contributions to society.
In the wake of superstorm Sandy, the national media -- and especially the liberal media which
expresses intense hatred for preppers -- owes preppers a massive apology.
Preppers create stability, safety and security in any crisis, and they deserve
to be portrayed as the upstanding members of society they truly are.
The White House owes preppers a huge apology as well. Preppers and survivalists have,
in the last few years, been characterized as "terrorists" by the
Obama administration. The message is that anyone with a gun, some ammo and a
stockpile of food is somehow "dangerous" or a threat to society. In
reality, that person is the guy sharing food with neighbors and helping protect
the neighborhood from violent criminal looters.
Famously, a prepper was recently put on a "no-fly list" and stranded
in Hawaii because he was classified by the government as a
"prepper." So hold on: Stockpiling emergency supplies makes you
synonymous with a terrorist now?
Preppers are actually on the target list of the U.S. government. As an active
duty National Guard member named "Soldier X" has recently revealed, the
Guard is being trained to "treat preppers as terrorists."
According to Soldier X, the government is compiling lists of preppers and
intends to confiscate their guns and treat them as enemy combatants in any
crisis situation. So the very group the government should be thanking for
providing local community stability and order is the group being targeted for
arrest, detainment and possibly being sent to Obama's secret military prisons
under theprovisions
of the NDAA.
The federal
government WANTS chaos and panic, get it?
The reality of all this is that the federal government is
trying to eliminate preppers and survivalists precisely as a way to create
more panic, fear and chaos. Why? Because it is from that scenario that the government can
justify yet more funding for itself, more police state crackdowns and more
dependency among the citizen slaves.
Remember: Every government wants to become like North Korea, where it dominates
everything in society, controls all the resources and commands citizens as if
they were slaves. The U.S. government is no different: Like every government,
it thirsts for unlimited power.
Preppers and survivalists interfere with the growth of government power because
they demonstrate the far greater power of individual preparedness. When
preppers take care of themselves and don't need to be rescued by the
government, they send a "dangerous" message to the rest of society:
Emergency preparedness is YOUR responsibility, not the government's.
The White House doesn't like people sending that message. Neither does the
liberal media which persistently pushes citizen victimization and government
dependence. The very idea of thinking for yourself, taking care of yourself and
being self-reliant is alien to the liberal media. And that's one
reason why the liberal media is ultimately so dangerous: Many people who
followed the advice of, say, the New York Times, are now DEAD in Jersey.
The bottom line: Preppers are the future of human
civilization; deniers are dead
Hurricane Sandy was a walk in the park compared to what
we'll see in a national grid-down scenario. As I've explained many times here
on Natural News, a single solar flare (or a high-altitude EMP burst weapon)
could knock
out most of the national power grid.
That would thrust virtually the entire nation into the scenario we've recently
watched unfold on Staten Island and certain parts of NY. Imagine fuel scarcity,
starvation, water scarcity and looting unleashed on a national scale. That's
what we will sooner or later face in America (and everywhere else, too).
When that scenario unfolds, it's a simple matter of fact that we're going to
see the mass death of liberal media worshippers and Big Government
worshippers who refused to prepare. The survivors will, by and large, be the
preppers who planned ahead.
It's Darwinism at work, backfiring on people who call themselves
"Darwinists" (who almost universally do not believe in preparedness).
It's natural selection doing its thing. People who cannot adapt to survive do
not tend to reproduce, while those who can adapt and survive are the ones left
remaining to repopulate the planet.
In fact, the domination of the planet by the "prepping gene" is one
of the most scientific ideas of our time. That's because crisis strikes our
planet on a regular basis: Solar flares, asteroids, the spread of infectious
disease and even the threat of widespread nuclear war or nuclear facility
failures.
Each "wave" of crisis weeds out the ignorant unprepared masses
through mass death. While those people may be in a majority right now, they and
their lineage have no real future.
Interestingly, modern humanity hasn't faced a real crisis yet. By
"modern," I mean the version of civilization that has bet everything
on complex electronics, food supply logistics and the continued restocking of
the artificial living zones known as "cities." This modern civilization
has only existed for about seventy-five years -- a blink of an eye in terms of
the big picture. So it hasn't been tested yet with a true global survival
scenario. We are one solar flare away from being thrust back to the early
1900's.
Another mass
extinction event is inevitable
Sixty-five million years ago, a single rock from space wiped
out the dinosaurs. It was the most violent mass-extinction event planet Earth
had ever experienced. So far, there have been five mass extinction
events in the known history of our planet.
Human beings are likely going to be the sixth, through the careless
proliferation of nuclear power plants, the toying with GMOs and the genetic
pollution of the planet, or even through the accidental release of a military
bioweapon with a 98% fatality rate.
The next mass extinction event will quickly eliminate from the planet all
organisms poorly adapted to survive, which includes most New York Times
subscribers. It will leave behind only those humans, plants and animals with remarkable
survival adaptation skills.
The most likely survivors, it turns out, are going to be well-stocked preppers
who have practiced the skills of self-reliance and sustainable living.
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