Had one of those moments where what was originally supposed to be a five-minute talk turned into 90 minutes of survivalist commiseration.
And that’s not a bad thing.
See, for various reasons I have to exercise a certain amount of discretion. I can’t just sit down at lunch with a couple of the wife’s coworkers and start lamenting about food expiration dates, the difficulties of procuring Betalights, arguing diesel vs. gasoline for bugout vehicles, etc, etc. To quote Bill Murray from Ghostbusters II “You’re scaring the straights.”
The other day I had a few extra goodies laying around and thought I’d drop them at the shop of someone an LMI friend introduced me to. This person has come late to the preparedness table but he’s making up for it with gusto. We wound up chatting about MRE’s, food storage, bugout bikes, silver, caches, guns, etc, etc, and showed off a few new acquisitions. As always, it’s so darned nice and refreshing to be able to talk about these sorts of things with other people who don’t look at you like youve got two heads when you start talking about things like economic collapses, historic parallels, freezedrieds vs. MRE’s, and that sort of thing. It’s nice to be able to let your freak flag fly once in a while without worrying about what the other guy thinks. That is, to me, a part of the attraction of the internet and the preparedness forums that are out there – it’s an opportunity to chat and opine about the sorts of things that you normally wouldn’t be comfortable discussing with folks at the office. But, as cool as that is, it’s always nice to be able to face-to-face and have a nice conversation with someone.
Those conversation can be pretty weird , though. Lots of “..but I can’t tell you [who/where/exact number], you understand.” Even with those limitations imposed by opsec, it’s still nice to be able to sit down over a burger and just socialize about something that’s important to you.
Does this mean that I’d go to some sort of ‘sirvivalist meetup’? Hmmm. I want to say uniformly ‘no’, but I’d be lying if I said I wouldnt be curious about it. I’m not a big fan of interacting with large groups of strangers to begin with…I think I’d probably feel uncomfortable at such an event. Keep in mind, these meetups are completely different than, say, a preparedness expo or gun show….those I’d have no problem going to.
Anyway, it was a pleasant and welcome change of pace to get to hang out with someone and talk about this sort of stuff without feeling self-conscious. I need to do it more often, if for no other reason than the solidarity is nice to have even if I dont really need it to validate what I’m doing.
My spouse works for a large Medical Device company. Last week she was at a trade show in another state and took one of the top five M.D.’s in his field out to dinner. This guy is “World Class” super wealthy and super educated.
To make a long story short, about the same thing happen. He’s relocated himself and his family to a farm, taken much of his money and purchased food, guns, ect. and has a second “Mountain Retreat” when the SHTF.
Is this utter BS or is today a good day to die?
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/12_Unrest/120530.gun.confiscation.html.
3500 Foreign Troops At Fort Harrison Montana Positioned For Gun Confiscation: ran into a retired vet friend this weekend, at a store,and we began talking about things going on around us.He knows a friend who is a guard at Ft. Harrison near Helena Mt and he explained to me that there is 3500 foreign troops resideing there for training, and the main objective is to go door to door for gun searches.He stated to me that this guard who is on active duty there, at the fort, is not happy about what is planned for the residence of Helena and surrounding areas, that is coming real soon.He said the orders are coming from the higher ups and most guards don’t like what they are being ordered to do by the administration,and are worried of what is about to happen, and are uncertain of what they are -going to do,when this all unfolds. more
Utter fantasy, IMO. I heard this before when it was the evil new world order illuminati secret police taking over Hardin Montana and it turned out to be a very creative scam artist.
That would not be my first site to go to for information. He is wrapped up in alot of off the wall stuff.
Also it would take a hell alot more than 3500. We currently have over 800,000 LEOs in this country and even with the entire military behind them the task could not be completed. We could not even control the flow of arm in Iraq with a population of 30,000,000. It is pure fantasy to think you could do it in a country of 320,000,000 where LE and Military make up less than 1% of the total population.
In addition, the idea that the military (or portions thereof) would either turn their weapons on law – abiding citizens or abide by some sort of Federally mandated ” round up” is rather far-fetched.