(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 the
provisions 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.
Survival resources
If you're serious about survival, here are some resources I recommend:
James Wesley Rawles' Survival Blog:
www.SurvivalBlog.comI also recommend
books by Rawles on Amazon.com.
Joe Nobody:
www.HoldingYourGround.comAuthor page on Amazon.comLehman's Non-Electric Store:
www.Lehmans.comArticle: How to "Bug In" for survival.Health Ranger course on self defense and preparedness.
