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How likely is it that we will actually experience a disaster that brings down our national power grid?
Will the government seize all guns in the United States?
If Continuity of Government response plans are initiated, will they be able to effectively lock down every major city and the country as a whole under a martial law scenario?
Is an economic collapse in our near future?
These and a host of other critical topics are covered in the latest interview from SGT Report with Survival Blog editor James Rawles.
Rawles on Gun Confiscation:
I think it would be impossible to disarm the people of this country. Along with Yemen we’re the most heavily armed society on the planet. It would be absolutely impossible to disarm the citizenry.
There might be an attempt to do it incremently over the course of generations. I think that’s the only way that would happen.
There are so many guns being produced each year – a couple of million guns each year – it’s just mathematically impossible, if not socially impossible, to even envision the logisitics of trying to disarm the American citizenry. It just can’t happen. There’s too many guns in circulation and they’re essentially the final guarantor of our freedom.
The next phase of the financial collapse:
I think that given the financial situation globally – if you look at what’s happening in Italy, Spain, Greece – we’re very likely to see a lot of financial turmoil in the coming months.
A lot of it will spill over into American markets. I think there is likely to be another global credit crisis like in 2008, and it could get very, very ugly very quickly.
I think it’s prudent for people to prepare. I think that if you look at it in terms of the clock face approach, we’re probably just minutes from midnight in terms of where we should be in terms of our preparedness.
Rawles on the probability of a grid-down worst-case scenario collapse:
In all of my writings I’ve stressed that the North American power grids – and there’re three of them – are the real lynch pin of our modern technological society.
If the grids go down, all bets are off.
It’s important that people plan for the worst case. The worst case would, of course, be grid down. The chances of that happening are fairly small, but if you’re prepared for the worst case you can take anything lesser in stride.
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In terms of the power grid, if they knock that leg out from underneath society they can create a cascade of events that will be completely beyond their control.
Martial law is not going to restore order if the power grid goes down and does not come back up within a few days.
On martial law:
I think the whole rhetoric about martial law tends to be overblown, because the logistics of implementing martial law would be daunting. Even in the United States, where we have a fairly sophisticated military, the numbers just don’t add up for martial law being instituted for more than just a very short period of time.
We have a military that’s primarily deployed overseas
right now. The military here in the United States, active and reserve components, don’t even have enough vehicles for training much less live operations. The majority of the rolling stock for the US military right now is in places like Bosnia and Afghanistan.
How do you institute martial law if you can’t even get troops from point A to point B?
Obsessing on martial is probably not productive, but we do need to be on guard to guard our liberty, and we do need to speak up when there are abuses of our Constitutional Rights, especially the first amendment.
SGT Report with James Wesley Rawles (Part 1 of 2):
SGT Report with James Wesley Rawles (Part 2 of 2):
http://www.bioprepper.com/2015/02/15/rawles-impossible-disarm-people-country-video/
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Right, Obama and his insufferable ilk destroy this, that, and the other. They cannot and will not ever destroy or oppress the American spirit of the people. This is why those that claim him to be ‘oh, so intelligent’ are nothing but delusional.
Most of the American military is against them, they know that. They can’t fight or sustain any kind of long term operation against the American people, they simply don’t have the boots or resources to do it.
Idiot!
The ameriiiSCUM Military WILL DO AS THEY ARE ORDERED!
These ‘volunteering” WAR CRIMINAL Morons are NOT going to ‘disobey” a direct order, and get thrown out of the military at the least, or, in the Brig, at worst!
And, NO MORE PAYCHECK!
And, as we all know, the WAR CRIMINALS CALLED “Military” iterally live paycheck to paycheck.
That is what they “joined” for, a PAYCHECK.
Now, as far as “Disarming” amerika.
HOW ESAY that will be!
All you MORONS that were ‘good little government order following doobies” over the years, and registered your firearms with “your” government, you will be ESAY to disarm.
You will voluntarily go and deliver your guns to the approved government site, when ordered.
You will get a letter I the mail from ‘your” state gov.
It will say, you have (complete list of firearms that YOU registered with them) blank number of firearms in your possession.
You will deliver them all to us by (date), or, proceedings will begin that will cause your to FORFIT YOUR PROPERTY!!!
Idiots, they will come for your homes!
And, like good little order following doobies, YOU WILL TURN THEM ALL IN, IN MASS!
You ameriiiSCUM live in some kind of hollyWEIRD induced Dream!!!!
You will “obey”, or else, NO HOME and NO JOB!
WRONG!
“Idiot!
The ameriiiSCUM Military WILL DO AS THEY ARE ORDERED!
These ‘volunteering” WAR CRIMINAL Morons are NOT going to ‘disobey” a direct order, and get thrown out of the military at the least, or, in the Brig, at worst!
And, NO MORE PAYCHECK!
And, as we all know, the WAR CRIMINALS CALLED “Military” iterally live paycheck to paycheck.
That is what they “joined” for, a PAYCHECK.
Now, as far as “Disarming” amerika.
HOW ESAY that will be!
All you MORONS that were ‘good little government order following doobies” over the years, and registered your firearms with “your” government, you will be ESAY to disarm.
You will voluntarily go and deliver your guns to the approved government site, when ordered.
You will get a letter I the mail from ‘your” state gov.
It will say, you have (complete list of firearms that YOU registered with them) blank number of firearms in your possession.
You will deliver them all to us by (date), or, proceedings will begin that will cause your to FORFIT YOUR PROPERTY!!!
Idiots, they will come for your homes!
And, like good little order following doobies, YOU WILL TURN THEM ALL IN, IN MASS!
You ameriiiSCUM live in some kind of hollyWEIRD induced Dream!!!!
You will “obey”, or else, NO HOME and NO JOB”!
What a slope!
Comrade, it will never happen. You don’t study history nor learn from it it seems!
“These ‘volunteering” WAR CRIMINAL Morons are NOT going to ‘disobey” a direct order, and get thrown out of the military at the least, or, in the Brig, at worst”!
There is a vast difference between a direct order and a lawful one, I’d suggest you learn the difference Dear Dink.
Piggy. You need to learn to spell. You seem to like calling people Morons. You should check your spelling………….
Piggy Chris-tian is Chris Kitze ( Site Editor, Contributor, Sock Puppet Master, American )
Just in case anyone wants to know.
Thank you.
In other words, a worthless slope head.
“Now, as far as “Disarming” amerika.
HOW ESAY that will be!
All you MORONS that were ‘good little government order following doobies” over the years, and registered your firearms with “your” government, you will be ESAY to disarm”.
Dear Slope,
They haven’t won in Afghanistan, or Iraq in several years of fighting? They haven’t disarmed anyone in either case, correct?
I think you will find that is true. If the People want arms, then they willl have them, by hook or crook.
Humm, all of this equals A CALL TO VIOLENCE which in my mind would be a very bad idea.
Go look at Ukraine. They aren’t doing real well there either.
There are over 200 million guns in America ! That’s a bigger Army than China !……MOLON LABE !
Hey there Piggy. You feelin froggy? Come and get ‘em you sorry pos…
You’d be surprised as to how fast people will be willing to give up their guns for food and or medication.
Unfortunately, there is a large portion of folks out there on pharmaceuticals that keep a “condition” from deteriorating and I believe that those people will be among the first impacted by any kind of martial law, or crisis. Therein will be the source of the first wave of casualties as they cannot obtain the medications they need.
Things will deteriorate very quickly with the gubment offering food for guns.
This is how they will get people to come to them and give up their guns at the same time.
We as voters need to look past the “party” and start electing people who are not “professional” politicians who are interested in what’s best for us instead of what’s best for them. These “professional” politicians are, without exception all millionaires who’s interests are far different from the average American.
Their first order of business is getting re-elected and that means instant sell out, regardless of how good their intentions are.
Yessir, time for term limits, balanced budget amendments, and oh yeah, making sure that our candidates are Americans who understand the scourge that Islam truly is. There are no peace loving muslims, they are instructed by their “owners manual” and by that I mean who owns them, to kill everyone who is not a muslim.
Wake up America!
Freedom ain’t free!
No weapons in free citizens hands means not free citizens. Do people really think they will live a free’r life if only the criminal police have all the weapons? Welcome to North Korea, as the people have no way to protect themselves…