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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SARMAN who wrote (107884)	6/9/2007 1:20:34 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362090

I read Bush recently signed an order that gives him ultimate control over all in case of a national disaster. Cheney has a hiding place, so do bush and rice. I believe Bush answers the question - What would happen if a serial killer became president?: Our exit strategy by Sherri B., Unknown News June 4, 2007 America is in the toaster and burning to a crisp. Little Bush has his secret hideaways, as do Cheney, Rummy, Condi, and Elder Bush "in case of dire emergency in America". Hence Little Bush's need to enact "emergency powers", which give him full dictator authority. What about us? We've -- point blank -- alienated America from darn near every country on the globe. If we're being nice to any country you can guarantee that it's because the U.S. needs something from them. You can also guarantee that the U.S. will burn them when it's done with them. We're eating China's poisoned food, we're drinking water with who-knows-what "helpful additives", our skies are chem-trailed, our kids are obese, our money is coming close to being useful only as toilet paper. If you haven't got a few lovely secret fat accounts in Switzerland, off the Florida keys, or in the Cayman islands, you're pretty much stuck if we experience a 1929-like stock market crash. Even those markets are only guaranteed if we're still friends with those countries when it all goes sideways. I have a friend that lives in the Caymans who recently very laughingly told me to save the effort, when I asked about moving the very little money I have out there. I asked why not. He smiled and said, "What are you going to do if we don't give it to you? Bomb us? You're going to be bombing too many others and getting bombed in the process. What's stopping ME from taking the money and running?" He kept laughing and said he was only kidding, that of course they'd honor their relationship with us. I suddenly did not feel comforted. At all. So what's the plan, Stan? What can you do if you suddenly walk to your ATM on Monday and see it is empty, and so's your bank? What if you find that you and your significant other's jobs have been outsourced, without any warning? Where do you send the kids when the school closes due to budget cuts or the teachers go on strike because they've either resorted to carrying mace to protect themselves from sixth-graders or a couple have been arrested for sleeping with them? Will you go to the cops? Hopefully some of you can. But many of you know not to bother a force with budget cuts, fewer good cops on the street, short tempers, fear or power issues, and trigger itchy fingers. What about Grandma and Grandpa? Will you have money to keep them at home or in a rest home? What happens when social services, Social Security, or disability benefits fly out the window? This is what you do: Go backward in time for your skills and go forward in your problem solving abilities. Can you fix a bike? Open a bike shop while you can. Can you fortress supplies for people? Can you fix things? What happens when your gas or propane gets low? What if FEMA takes your supply without explanation? Can you teach wilderness survival skills? (Please remember that the "safe berries, edibles leaves, etc may now need to be double checked.) Can you make a stove from stones or an ice-box? Can you wash clothes in a stream with a washboard or rocks? Can you teach kids in-home? Can you care for the elderly in-home? Does anyone have transferable medical skills? Can you rent rooms (to safe, known people) when the fur starts to fly? Can you barter? Can you police your own neighborhood? Can you share a home with more people than you're used to? Can you endure energy blackouts during winter and summer? If not I'm sure you're already getting prepared. Can you shoot a gun? Can your kids? It's a hard question but desperation makes killers out of the most tame individuals, and pure evil out of those already without consciences. What happens when you can't get on-line, watch TV, or listen to the radio? If anyone has relatives old enough ask them about the first and second world wars and what they had to do to survive. This seems scary but America is, I think, about to experience what Iraq and Afghanistan experience every single day. A vacuum of resources. You'll have to be prepared for the cops to come and take even the strawberry preserves from your shelves, your guns, your car, or your daughters virginity. Who is going to stop them? You? If we have to go down for a time, we should go down swinging and prepared. If we have to go down permanently, then let's go down with honor. We're facing too many kinds of war with too many factions globally, and our increasing troubles with imported foodstuffs makes my paranoid mind think sabotage. But that's just me. What's your exit strategy? There's no shame in going to Panama, South America (I wouldn't but that's just me. Maybe some of you can.), Canada, or any country where you can ride out the storm. But many of us won't be able to bring our whole families, so many of us will stay. Get to know one another. Please learn each other's strengths and weaknesses. Support your neighbors, but also know your enemies. Plan for the future. The future is no longer hurtling towards us. The future is now.