Re: WTSHTF crowd
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Greg Langelius *</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I said this on another site not too long ago.
WTSHTF, our government is not the bunch we we need to be watching.
Seen from the hustings, the government's role will most appear to be one of ineptitude and neglect.
Their concerns are about securing and sequestering a relatively small number of 'specials'; for the rest of us, resources are hopelessly inadequate. Public resources will be nationalized, primarily dealing with fire fighters and hospitals doing triage, and collection and distribution of an ovewhelming number of casualties among an largely inadequate number of beds.
The orders and procedures have been in circulation as "In case of..." since Eisenhower.
Outside that, maintaining order is a fiction that can only survive in times of calm and public distraction. The government can only dictate when the populace goes along.
If the populus said a collective 'no', there's really damned little the government could do about it beyond singling out some very finite number for a public lesson. I think there's valid question about whether the goverment would have the stomach for that, and I'm damned sure they'd be nailing their own coffin if they tried.
The more plausible threat would be from tinpot wannabe warlords and local fatcats, being quick out of the blocks to recognize and capitalize upon an impending power vacuum.
Don't let 'em.
I think the more valid questions would be about who would stand up, who wouldn't and what would they be doing, and who's trying to load the deck in their own favor between now and then.
Greg </div></div>
This and:
My biggest concern lately is some economic crisis, that causes people to go bananas and start killing each other. Im not worried about the govt in a SHTF, im worried about panicing mobs of people trying to kill me/mine for food, water, ammo, etc. People that are used to the govt holding their hand, who find out that when the SHTF, the govt is too busy to care for them.
or
Someone/group exploiting the peoples desperation during just such a time to cause a ruckus to gain power of some sort, or to pass some restrictive laws, or to rewrite our constitution to save us from ourselves.
