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Surviving Martial Law, Financial Disasters & Becoming More Self Sufficient
Frustrated by the decline of freedom in your country? Sick of
seeing your hard earned dollars fund more wars, more spying, more regulation,
and other things that make you less free?
Read this guest article by Frank Bates…
In a situation where the government invokes martial law, the
availability of food is one way Big Brother can control the people… or force
them to submit.
Surviving Martial Law
By Frank Bates
Our
Founding Fathers did everything in their power to make sure the United States
government they were forming would stay small.
They had
suffered from taxation without representation and many other injustices from
the English government that continued to try to control them. So they were
especially sensitive to make sure nothing like that ever happened in America.
But as
we know, today our government just keeps getting larger and larger.
The last
guy who lived in the White House for eight years dreamed of a government that
would control everything… from what food we grow and eat to how we raise our
children to what we can and cannot say both publicly and privately and much
more.
It’s for Your Own Good… Yeah, Right!
One of
the ways that big, oppressive governments control their populations is by
occasionally establishing and enforcing martial law. It’s a great way to take
away freedoms from people while justifying the action by saying it’s for
everyone’s benefit.
In
reality, it’s a legal way to set up a dictatorship.
Some
people call conservatives paranoid when we talk about the possibility that our
government will establish martial law in the future. But they completely ignore
the signs pointing in that direction.
They
look the other way when the Department of Homeland Security buys up billions of
rounds of ammunition.
They
don’t think twice about the government providing local police forces with
thousands of armored fighting vehicles designed for the most extreme
circumstances.
They
don’t notice that the government sets up one program after another to spy on
everything American citizens say and do, even in the “privacy” of their own
homes.
And they
certainly have no problem with the government singling out conservative
organizations for harassment.
Patriots and Martial Law Don’t Mix
We have
every right to fear and get angry about what is happening here. If you are a
freedom-loving patriot, the last thing you want is the government invoking
martial law.
We may
be powerless to stop it from happening, but we should be prepared for it and
determine in advance how we’re going to handle it.
So let’s
take a look at what martial law is and what our options are once it is
established.
Martial
law involves the military taking over governmental functions with an aim at
restoring stability.
If
people are rioting in the streets, a very brief period of martial law doesn’t
seem like such a bad idea. But if it is established before those types of
circumstances exist, it’s all about taking away liberties so citizens can be
more easily controlled.
There is
a very obvious military presence in the streets once martial law is declared.
With soldiers walking up and down the streets and tanks parked on corners,
behavior will be closely monitored. Also, curfews will be strictly enforced,
civil liberties will be revoked and you can bet they will come after your guns.
Martial Law Equals Police State
Basically,
it will be a police state. And if they don’t like you or the fact that you
disagree with martial law being established, there’s a chance you could be rounded
up and placed in one of the 800-plus camps run by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA).
What
else do we have to look forward to if martial law is declared in the U.S.?
Plenty.
The
government could grab control of all media outlets, making sure they only
publish and broadcast news it wants disseminated. They could seize control of
all public highways and seaports to control who goes where and when.
They
could take control of all power production, determining who gets electricity
and who doesn’t during which hours of the day. And they could do the same for
food production and distribution.
So what
should we do if martial law is enacted? There are some options, and while none
of them is good, one or two are better than the others.
- Be
one of the herd. In this scenario, you just act as much
like everybody else as possible so that you don’t stand out. Don’t express
any negative opinions of the government or about what is going on. Just
deal with everything you have to deal with like everybody else is doing
and hope the situation doesn’t last too long. This is far from desirable,
but at least you probably won’t be singled out for even worse treatment
- Bug
out to a secret location. If you are prepared, this could very
well be your best bet. It would mean you’d be away from all the carnage in
a comfortable place that you have established, and you’d have all the
necessities including food and water because you thought ahead and
prepared for this very day
- Fight
against the authorities. Unless you have your own army, this is
probably your worst choice. You may believe you are justified in doing
this because the government is behaving in an unconstitutional fashion,
but there’ s a very good chance you will end up seriously injured or dead
if you go this route
- Find
a way to hide. This may be nearly as bad as the
previous option. You might be able to hide for a little while, but unless
you’ve fully prepared for this situation with stockpiles of food and
water, you’re going to have to come out in the open to find those things
and then you’ll get caught.
One
thing is certain, and that is the importance of preparing ahead of time.
And in a
crisis, your No. 1 need is food.
Noted:
Jackson is the 42-year-old chief executive officer of Wise Co., a
leading brand in survival foods, that is, Mylar pouches of freeze-dried meals
such as Savory Stroganoff and Loaded Baked Potato Casserole designed to remain
edible on shelves for a quarter century. Over the past several years, the
prepper phenomenon—people geared for imminent disaster—has come out of the
backwoods via shows like the National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Prepper and
media reports of the very rich and very worried buying and fortifying luxury
bunkers. Jackson’s been positioning Wise to feed the trend. During the call, he
felt a rush of conflicting emotions—not so much from the prospect of getting a
fat government contract while legions of people suffer, but because the windfall
could derail his business strategy. A 2-million-serving order will increase his
sales for 2017 about 15 percent but stretch his supply more than he’s
comfortable with; his answer to Lee was not an easy yes.
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2 comments:
Hope it never comes to this but knowing how the government operates, they'll create a 'wag-the-dog' situation to create some kind of BS scenario so they can take away even more of rights under the pretext of 'protecting' us just like how they screwed us after 9-1-1 with the creation of the un-patriot act BS.
Most people have their head up their arse or buried in the sand or as I think you once put it...they want life insurance-AFTER they're dead.
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