Preparing for Post-Election Violence

We don't have much time left, so I want to give out a little advice on prepping for post-election violence. This election year is somewhat different than previous ones. We're looking at large segments of the population who haven't traditionally been politically active, and we're looking at a specifically charged environment. I think possibly now more than ever, we are at risk of post-election riots.

Here's what I've been doing to prepare. Keep in mind that I live in a rural area and do not have a daily need to travel into town, so I can isolate myself pretty easily. Your needs may differ and thus your plan will alter accordingly.

1. Buying ammunition. If some of our major cities have erupted into violence, it is possible the government could put out a ban on purchasing firearms and or ammunition. It's possible you might find that all the stores are closed, or have sold out already or been looted. For whatever reason, ammunition may be unavailable to you. Purchase plenty of it now for whatever weapons you have on hand, and if you don't have a weapon then you've just about now got time to get one.

2. Storing in non-perishable food supplies. A fall election is a good time for me because it hits right after harvest when my stockpiles are still high. However I did bring in a few cases of some of our store-bought favorites as a precaution. Rioting in Chicago could disrupt the distribution sites of various grocery stores near me and I don't want to get caught without my canned pineapple chunks. (That would make life hard.)

3. One of the methods that law enforcement uses to quell riots is to cut power and water to the affected area to force people out where they can be dealt with one by one. You've seen how the crazy electrical grid works when there's a normal outage. Half the houses in your neighborhood will be without power, but the one right across the street still has their porch light on. I don't know how the systems are wired, but it's possible that to cut power to a large urban area they might need to take down surrounding rural areas as well. Make sure you have candles, batteries, etc. for your lighting needs. A store of firewood or a topped off propane tank would be useful as well. November gets pretty cold in my area.

4. The day prior to the election, make absolutely sure that you have a full tank of gas and at least one spare 5' gallon can full as well. If you decide you need to leave the area in a hurry, stopping at a gas station isn't likely to be an option. I'd keep that tank full for about a week following the election, just in case and to see how everything plays out.

5. If you determine that escaping your current area would be a necessity, or if you live in a place you determine might be more riot prone, then have your bugout bag packed and ready as well as any other additional items you want to take with you. Prepare maps ahead of time for where you're going to go, even if it's just getting on I-90 and heading west until you stop seeing suburbs. Camping can be nice this time of year if you pack warm clothes.

Finally, follow the news media of your choice so you know what's happening and when. Don't be caught off guard. I can see multiple scenarios potentially playing out here, including one where nothing happens at all.

Why Vote Early?

The Obama campaign has ads everywhere now for early voting. I didn't even realize you could vote early, but apparently in many states you can.

Why would the Obama campaign spend money urging people to vote early? I suspect it is because, once cast, a vote cannot be changed. Regardless of whatever facts come to light between now and November 4th, you will have already voted (for Obama they hope). I am curious what it is that may be out there in the wind that makes them so urgently want to secure early votes.

An Interesting Read

This is entirely speculation, and it's from a protestant group that I am not always in agreement with, but it's interesting anyway. I believe that pretty much all Christians need to unite in this time for we stand against the forces of the antichrist. Not just Obama and his liberal humanist agenda, but McCain and the pseudo-Christian trappings of the Republican party. Neither of their voting records (however limited and brief) reflect that of a friend of God, Constitutional governance, or Christianity.

Anyway, on with the letter:

A Letter from 2012 in Obama's America

Cartoon Roundup

The Fourth Branch of Government

There's a lot of concern about this coming presidential election, not the least because there are three members of the supreme court ready to retire and/or in poor health. Those three seats can become a majority, and in today's America almost every issue goes to the supreme court ultimately. So the next president (and their lesser elected lackeys) will decide the consistency of the supreme court for probably the next 3-4 DECADES.

We all learned about the three branches of government in school, but what they neglected to teach us was about the fourth branch. It's mentioned in the letters and writings of both those who inspired our founding fathers, the founding fathers themselves, and those great thinkers who came after them. However it's not found in any official textbook being taught to our youth. Parents, we must teach it to our children since the state has decided it is so important as to be officially ommitted.

The fourth branch of government is WE THE PEOPLE. We are given three traditional boxes on which to make our stand when the other three branches fail us and the constitution.

The first box is the jury box. It does not matter what the law says, what a judge says, or what popular opinion is. The only final decision for any issue decided by court of law is decided by a jury of your peers. It doesn't matter what you did, if they decide to acquit then you are a free man. Judges and lawyers don't like this and there's been a lot of jury tampering where judges demand that jurors do certain things. It doesn't matter. No judge has the authority to tell a jury what to decide. If they try, they can be unseated. The Salem Witch trials didn't run out of witches. The law was overturned because, even though the witch hunters and officials kept finding witches, the jurors kept acquitting them.

The second box is the ballot box. We still control, however tenuously, the elected officials. While we may not be able to control what they do once in office, we can damn sure make sure they don't sit in that office for two terms. Of course this is going to require an educated group of voters who are unwilling to divide themselves into thieves (Republicans) or traitors (Democrats). We must stop accepting just whomever the two parties decide to put in front of us. We had a wealth of candidates this election year, just none were palatable to the mainstream media and so little attention was given them.

The third and final box by which the fourth branch of government stands is the cartridge box. So long as we are an armed people we will be a free people. I despise the NRA for their weak stance on "how Americans have a right to hunting and firearm sports." We are not given the second amendment for the right to shoot a deer or turkey. We are not given the second amendment for the right to plink at targets whenever we want. We are given the second amendment so that we the people can maintain our freedom with the implied threat of shooting government officials should they turn against us and the constitution. Every politically minded person, whether conservative or liberal, has an obligation to have a firearm in their household. A firearm adequate to both self-defense and to serve in a militia with.

In the next four years, the fourth branch of government is more in jeopardy than ever. Both parties have hoisted their men forward and both of them are criminals who would take our freedom. We must be watchful and wary for when the time for revolution comes it will not be broadcast on CNN. There will not be a headline in the New York Times stating, "Patriots: The Revolution is Upon Us". The internet forums, library meeting rooms, coffee shops, and church gatherings will be where we hear the word. Keep your ears open.

You've got STD Mail!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/21/std.e-cards/index.html

I couldn't make this crap up.

I want to see a card that says, "You slept around, you dirty slut, so now you're infected."

Loss of Respect

Colin Powell I always respected. However, his endorsement of Obama has destroyed that. He didn’t HAVE TO endorse any candidate. He could have done the right thing and said, “Both of them are unendorseable.” Instead he let his dislike of McCain dominate his choice. While I can’t bring myself to vote for McCain, I could not help usher in the new era of American socialism by voting for Obama.

Joe the Plumber

The liberal media and the Obama backers really would like to tear Joe the Plumber into shreds. I think part of this is because he seems to resemble a self-made man, someone who succeeded on his own terms and got by without the government’s assistance. The other part is because he’s the “little guy” who wasn’t intimidated by them. It just won’t do at all for the little people to start standing up to the political establishment and their figureheads and asking tough questions. They demand unquestioning loyalty at all costs.

Dumbass Bar

I went into a little sports bar for lunch. They have this little tv screen up that shows trivia questions and it’s linked into some sort of system where this bar competes with other bars around the nation on answering trivia questions. Pretty cool. While I’m looking at it, it shows that it keeps track of the bar’s overall scores in the trivia contest and ranks it against the other top 1000 bars in the nation participating. The bar I’m in is ranked #969. Out of 1000. From now on, when I go into a sports bar, I’m going to ask what their trivia ranking is before I sit down.

In my fortune cookie ...

“Wise men learn more from fools than fools do from wise men.”

Why I don't really worry too much

I've been posting some about the federal bailout of the banks and the wholesale theft of our nation and labor, but ultimately it neither surprises or disturbs me too much.

1. The founding fathers worried that giving freed slaves the right to vote would take the country in a place they didn't want it to go. You see, slaves have a slave mentality. They expect to be taken care of. They don't want to think, they don't want to worry about the future. They are willing to work and then have all that labor go to a master in exchange for security, food, and shelter. Anyone who doesn't think like this is technically not a slave, but a prisoner and being forced to work. You can only be a slave if you adopt the slave mentality. Ironically, it's the one thing that no one can ever force you to become. They may arrest you, limit your movements, take away your property, and destroy your family, but they can't force you to accept that situation as final. The founding fathers worried that those with the slave mentality (regardless of the color of their skin) would vote themselves security and welfare from the public coffers, vote in laws that hinder good and moral men and promote evil, and foster tyranny. Ironically, those who consider themselves your masters did it behind the scenes. They snuck into the cradle and secretly raised a nation of slaves who would willingly put the chains on you and I. We were not watchful. We were not vigilant. Now we must live with those consequences.

I take Ephesians 6:12 to heart:

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

Satan has set up a kingdom here on earth and the powers in government are now doing his bidding. They make laws that try and tell us good is wrong and evil is good. As Christians and upright men, men with chests, as C.S. Lewis would say, we are bound in Christ to disobey evil laws and to govern ourselves in accordance with God's law, not the laws of man.

2. God has called me to a farm where I can raise my own food, live in accordance to biblical principles, and raise godly men. I am a small man, and I must tend to the small matters that are my responsibility. Are my children fed? Are my animals tended? Do my fences need mending? Does my garden need weeding? The problems of this world are not entirely my problems because I have been told by Jesus in John 14:27:

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

God's plan for humanity was revealed in the bible. Those are his words. I do not worry because I cheated. I read the last chapter and I know how it ends.

Feeding at the trough

I think the time for politics has passed. We're entering a very dangerous era now. The best that we can do this year is apparently McCain who will further the corporate agenda of big business in their theft of our labor and resources to enrich themselves. The worst we can do is Obama and his downward spiral into totalitarian socialism.

We the people are seriously getting boned.

Folks, if you came home and found a whole bunch of pigs had broken into your house, overturned your fridge, and were helping themselves ... what would you do? I suspect, like myself, you'd either drive the pigs out or go quietly down the hall and get a gun in order to refill that fridge with some bacon and ham.

What bothers me is that some folks would just rather shrug and say, "That's just the way pigs are. You can't change the system." As if pigs belonged in the house! For a very brief time in this country we had politicians who looked out for the people. Now we have politicians who look out for some people, mostly themselves.

New Low for Wall Street

Nice. $700 billion and there still isn't any confidence in the market.

 

Hope your gardening skills are up to snuff. Next year it looks like we'll all be relying on what we can grow.

Scary Stuff

I just read on CNN that the Senate passed a version of the bailout bill. Both McCain and Obama voted FOR it. In my mind, that disqualifies BOTH of them as presidential candidates. Criminal activities abound in the senate.

“Money, has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their sole object is gain.”
Napoleon Bonaparte