People are free and easy about announcing likelihood of SHIT HITS THE FAN scenarios, yes? People ARE doing things like converting paper money into precious metals, and people ARE stocking up on Survival Supplies, are they not? Weapons, ammo, food, water, seeds, that sort of thing?
Surely, SURELY, no one here still has sufficiently virgin sensibilities as to imagine that in full-blown, wholesale calamity, Uncle Sam can provide protection for everyone simultaneously. What, like Santa Claus?
You are new here but anyone who has been around the block on a few message boards knows full well that the disparity of personalities and principles is . . . well, let's just say that disparity exists. In particular does disparity exist as to who submits in the face of force and who fights. In MY world, that there is whatcha call an Irreconcilable Difference.
Insofar as people have CHOICE as to which people they align with -- unless meddlesome politicians are involved to moralize and profiteer -- it makes sense to figger out where one's people are assembling or, failing that, to proactively ASSEMBLE one's people. To figger out who yer peeps is, people have to be HONEST. I would very much like NOT to invest my time, money, effort, energy and emotion in a community dominated by Peaceniks who, eschewing violence, in order to spare life and limb, are apt to surrender the whole kit and caboodle to the first band of Authentic Bad Asses.
Truth, like Life, is sometimes a brutal thing. I don't make the rules.
