America - A Controlled Demolition
May 15, 2013 19:43:35 GMT -5
Post by southwind on May 15, 2013 19:43:35 GMT -5
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America's next revolution will not resemble the first revolution - in manner nor outcome.
The Tinder Foundations:
The threat of federal intervention was the only thing that kept the South from all-out tribal warfare in the sixties. Should the threat of federal intervention fade for any reason, genocidal warfare could erupt in the South.
Certain minority religious groups will start to suffer more public persecution and harassment. This will be more so for religions that are completely dissimilar to the dominant religion in their area.
Demographics and affirmative action will purge area minorities out of police departments and other branches of local governments, forming new local majorities.
The result of affirmative action is that economic opportunities (and even legal rights) are now determined not by your status of being an American citizen or not, but by your 'ethnic group'. This also fosters tension and resentment.
Increased exodus of non-ethnics from decidely ethnic enclaves. This will also cause a collapse of housing values and certain local industries, pushing the area further into economic depression.
Movies and media desensitize the populous to normalize killing and human death, removing the shock value - especially when one's self interests (such as hunger) are infringed upon. Also promotes themes that certain groups may be expendable depending on situational ethics. Movies also normalize the concept of giving up liberties for 'greater good', and handing of sovereign controls to non-governmental agencies.
America has aborted the greater equivelant lives of the population of our largest 50 cities combined.
It has become worse to judge evil today than to do evil. We are morally corrupt, with just a thin veneer of civilization.
Historic Notes:
The future conflict will be more like the American Indian wars (1622-1924 intermittent) than the Civil War (1862-1865) because wars fought by dissimilar armies and peoples inevitably run to excess.
Inevitably, programs of systematic punishment are dealt to groups deemed responsible for this or that misfortune (economic collapse, etc.), just like happened in Nazi Germany.
Your Actions:
Evaluate if you are an obvious minority in an area of suppressed tribal angst. If the presence of law enforcement is the only thing preventing clashes and violence, move now to an area less charged and volitile.
Downsize your lifestyle and frivolous committments; yet, get involved with (and be an asset to) your community.
The Sparks:
Certain tribal 'leaders' feed the angst and resentment for political and other gains.
The government stealthly practices for what it anticipates unfolding by field testing city lockdowns and drills, as well as increased police militarization in large key cities.
Increased showdowns between a militarized police and urban drug gangs, with increase use of military heavy firepower and tools.
The appearance of third-world slums in American cities. Attempts to evict them bring accusations of racism and class favoritism, and will spark violent riots.
Smash-and-grab looting increases, along with criminal flash mobs.
Increased occurances of 'vigilante justice' and 'mob justice'.
Acts of terrorism such as car and truck bombs become common. Assassination of law enforcement and those in local government increases dramatically.
Some Hispanic-controlled police departments will publically announce their refusal to enforce immigration laws.
Certain minority groups that see the handwriting on wall may leave America en-mass, especially those in the eastern cities. Media acknowledgment of this further exacerbates public panic and tension.
First-stage riots appear that they will be nothing more than the Los Angeles riot of '92 multiplied by most major cities.
Public discontent and worry as law enforcement is not able to handle the scope of looming threat.
Media feeds the flames by building hype and angst. Presents false causes for the masses to rally around.
Many towns of blacks and hispanics will declare in favor of the rebellion, and tense standoffs will develop with neighboring white towns.
Armed gangs or armed cults such as the Nation of Islam declare independence for the cities they control.
Historic Notes:
Our Founding Fathers were largely men of solid character and morals, which helped restrain many excesses of war and revolution. Without leaders like these (and a similar populace), the American Revolution would have ended like the French Revolution. We have few such leaders, and populace, today.
In times of stress, people tend to become strongly tribal and religious.
In the Civil War, almost all federal military bases in the south were quickly captured by state national guards or quickly assembled militias. This captured firepower and heavy weapons provided the backbone of the new Confederate Army.
Your Actions:
Do your best to squelch and diminish public disparaging tribal murmerings and divisions.
In your church and daily life, avoid religious/tribal bashing and derision. (Read my article: Arabs and Muslims are not 'ragheads': A Christian Response)
Be very aware of your community's sentiments. Support your local law enforcement - you will need them, and they will need you.
First Flames:
Cellphone and internet blackout to stem mass organization. Infrastructure will also sustain damage. You will lose contact with distant friends and family - plan accordingly.
Multiple-day riots that the military and DHS cannot crush in all cases. Battle fronts and territory starts to emerge.
Travel restrictions and limited area martial law. Deliveries, trucking, and commerce greatly affected in denser areas.
Street gangs will form the core of future black and Hispanic urban militias.
It becomes harshly clear which areas the government is willing to let fend for itself, and which areas it will focus protection on. Strategic retreats and mobilizations.
Waves of refugees flood across our borders as border enforcement is overwhelmed. Mexico possibly topples into civil war around this time as political forces once sustained by political stability are overthrown by revolution.
The riots will shift into a decided military mode, with barricades set up and local municipal buildings and tv stations seiged.
Historic Notes:
In Bosnia, Muslim criminal gangs scored initial victories against the Yugoslav Army, taking their garrisons under siege and capturing their heavy weapons - providing the backbone for the emerging Bosnian Army.
In Grozny, local police sided with the gang-militias to fight the Russian invaders.
Your Actions:
Have plans to get you and your family quickly home from work/school if events start to unfold in your area. Avoid major roads, especially near cities. Study alternate routes now. Never leave home unprepared to get home.
Full Ignition:
Serious ethnic warfare will most likely first erupt in the southwest, and then flash across the south.
•Social chaos, looting, and fits of anarchy will be everywhere, largely in proportion to the population density. Cities will be ravaged the most. 82% of our population lives in the cities and suburbs, with little or no experience/skills living in third-world conditions, many of them will die.
•Since our military bases are situated on supposedly friendly American soil they weren't designed to withstand sieges. They are vastly different from Vietnam firebases. There will be numerous instances of tribal defenders siding with the attackers, supplying them with information, deserting with weapons, and even fighting from within.
•The battle front/new borders will cut through railroads, power lines, highways, various pipelines, farmland and factories - all destroyed or completely idle in this new no-mans land. Millions of refugees will be displace, flooding the areas just outside the military zone. Military deadlock will eventually stabilize the front lines.
•Sectarian violence will also erupt at this time against minority religions within their own tribe. Certain religions will be persecuted more heavily than others, regardless of tribe.
•Limited occupation by UN troops is a possibility in key areas and large seaboard cities deemed most vital. Control measures will be harsh.
•America will break up into probably 4-5 different regions - East Coast, fractured South, Hispanic southwest, northeast Redoubt, and central.
•The different revolutionary groups will seek outside and foreign assistance (weapons, airstrikes, food, and medical supplies) as well as political recognition - this may come with strings attached in return for assets or territory.
•Alaskans (and other non contiguous states and territories) will find themselves on their own, and their resources (oil, etc.) also under new scrutiny by Russia and China.
•Major ports, rivers, and areas of industry will become targets of military and strategic importance.
•Avoid areas near military targets.
•Most heavy weapons are located in federal military bases outside the cities in predominately white areas. They most likely will fall primarily into the hands of white formations.
•FYI, a lot of our military's capital intensive, big-ticket items like stealth bombers, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, patriot missles, etc. all have little or no use in counterinsurgency. Once things come apart, there will be little the military or government can do to stop it except let it run its course, burn down, and mitigate losses in key areas.
•Road and rail corridors, and nearby highpoints that give military dominance, will be heavily fought-over objectives.
Areas with Asian Majority:
• Asian enclaves in the west may receive international assistance from China or Japan. They might also be given autonomy by the dominant area tribe in exchange for foreign assistance and commerce as tolerated allies.
The Southwest:
•The Hispanic revolution will have several advantages: support of the local tribal people; suitable sanctuaries to operate from, both in-country and across the Rio; and ongoing support (firearms and heavier weaponry, medical supplies, etc) of a foreign government/cartels from across the near border. Non-tribal minority populaces will be at clear disadvantage (and outnumbered) unless equally supported in these areas.
•Massive urban riots from San Francisco to Houston, with the epicenter in Los Angeles. Spanish-speaking police and National Guardsmen will likely side with the rioters.
The South:
•The new tribal civil war in the South will be widespread due to the close intermingling of the tribes. It will also be utterly without mercy or regard due to the mutual hatred and loathing so deeply rooted in southern history.
•Militarily, the American Blacks, particularly in the South, may quickly find little or no outside foreign assistance (except those in strong control of certain strategic areas such as ports and similar resources). Blacks are universally abused in Hispanic countries (who will be making military advances in the southwest) and will find few military allies in this hemisphere. Whether the Blacks hold and expand beyond the current density areas will depend on a variety of factors (lack of foreign aid being just one). There is a strong possibility that this fractured area will see this territory shrink into smaller fragmented enclaves.
•A front will likely form in the Appalachian foothills, with military advantage to the whites because they will occupy the high ground.
•The northern black cities will either be wiped out or allowed autonomy, perhaps in confederation with the black South.
The Northwest:
•Relocation options? James Wesley, Rawles (www.survivalblog.com), recommends Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, eastern Oregon, and eastern Washington. Learn more...
Historic Notes:
Syria: the warfare is self-propelled, and financed, in its early stages by looting and spoiling. Katrina: looting quickly broke out during the absense of local authority and restraints.
Revolutionary War lesson: Don't count on the military to quell uprisings - guerrillas, militias, and mobs have demonstrated that they can defeat regular armies when the circumstances are right.
Unfortunately, most ethnically-based revolutions can only be crushed by ethnic cleansing or similar butchery due to the base prejudices fueling the conflict. The more different the two sides perceive each other, the more often the tool of genocide is employed.
Bosnia: the most multiethnic European nation produced the most multiethnic dead
During the Civil War, torture of prisoners and mutilation of the dead was rare. In the Indian wars and again in Vietnam (both with dissimilar armies), such practices were employed by the fighters of both sides - sometimes even as a base form of recreation.
When civil authority breaks down in America, the criminal gangs will instantly fill the power vacuum - exactly as has been the pattern in other lands.
Each tribal revolution will be divided into countless factions fighting among themselves over territory and resources. Syria rebels are an example.
This upcoming conflict will degenerate into premeditated and systematic mass slaughter because blind prejudices (and lessor secondary causes) will fuel its frenzy. Like the wars against the Indians, one of the goals will be to drive others from the territory. This view guarantees fanatical resistance and necessitates heavy handed measures to achieve the objective.
As in Yugoslavia and Syria, many combatants will join specifically to avenge the murder of their families.
Historically, surrender to the ethnically dissimilar opponent meant gang rape, torture, and mass murder; as a result, the fighting will get very desperate.
Thoughts for You:
If you have no plan of your own, you will have to live with the plans that others have for you (and your family).
Do not assume you will get what you need at gunpoint. Those who have will already be waiting for you before you realize things are falling apart.
Your three options: Fight (defense and defensive offense), Flee (strategically), or Deception (divert focus away from you and your resources).
"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." - John 7:24. Exercise caution with any information that requests action on your part. Beware of the half truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Be prepared to feed/provide for family/friends who have had to flee their community.
If you are in an obvious minority in your area, but stay, remember that (at best) you will be the first ones denied when shortages come, and also the last ones defended. You will also be the first ones blamed and used as a scapegoat.
Many civilians, including women and children, will fight as guerrillas which will lead to their mass elimination on the grounds that they're combatants, or at least military assets.
Stay at least 30 miles away from potential new borders, as they will be scenes of intense military activity. Border territory will often be negotiated over and handed to the other side.
Defensively, it is better to target an attacker's supply means rather than their heavy weaponry if possible. Everything else is affected by supply and logistics.
Be prudently prepared to endure sudden and indefinite food and supply shortages, especially in the area of critical medicines.
Fallout:
Supermarkets are looted. Fit humans can live up to 40 days without food, and 180 days (6 months) on a meager diet. After the warfare starts, the inability to get food alone will kill millions within the first 40 days. The next 140 days will then see many of the survivors (who initially had somewhat more resources than the average household) die off. Violence aside, those who will survive the first 140 days must have some way of supplementing and replenishing their food and water supplies.
The collapse of the dollar will throw much of the world into economic tailspin and chaos for a time. Do not expect much aid (if any) from overseas or other nations - they will have enough problems on their hands as it is.
Food will be used as a weapon, extortion, and tactic. In large population areas, turning in guns (or those who have guns) will be rewarded with food. Also, those known to have food will become targets. Hunger makes decent people do indecent things - including you.
The greater part of fighting will be urban and static, not assault-oriented like conventional warfare. Local forces will be securing their area. This static nature calls for longer ranger weapons, and automatic fire or lightweight weaponry will offer no benefit. Aggressor forces will be confronted long-range, not up close. In dense, urban areas, sniping will be common.
Millions die due to inability to get regular life-saving medicines such as insulin, and other maintenance meds.
Concentration camps, rape camps, and death camps will appear as the war becomes total. Prisoners will be kept alive as needed.
Mass starvation from collapsed supply, water, and farming infrastructure. The very old and children will die off first. Many will resort to cannibalism.
Millions die of disease due to immune systems weakened by lack of food.
Once areas 'stabilize' somewhat, regional laws and currencies will emerge. Do not expect the Constitution and Bill of Rights to necessarily be brought along.
Historic Notes:
During the first Civil War, even the agricultural South came extremely close to mass starvation due to labor shortages, lack of tools, seed, transportation, etc.
The fragmented economy means that certain areas cannot be sustained without outside supply lines and commerce. When trade and commerce is cut off, fuel and fuel will virtually disappear in some areas. Consider the civil war in which the Serbians (under seige) resorted to eating leaves off the trees in the city parks.
Once revolutionary groups seize control, inadvertently, just like the French revolution, extensive purges take place - even of the people who helped bring them to power. Anarchistic revolutionary leaders know that whoever is willing to turn on their own government will one day turn on them as well. Do not follow anyone who advocates anarchy and disregard for just law.
Your Actions:
Within your community, take heed that additional divisions are not fed and focused on; these could include ideological, ethnic, religious, and even economic differences.
Fuel is always dear in war, and often unavailable at any price. Do not make long-term plans that depend on fuel (generators, etc.); however, for short-term stop-gap and transition times, or for short-term emergencies (hurricane, ice storm, etc.) these plans are fine and prudent.
Also, fuel (and food) will be very sought after by government, quasi-government, and marauders. Safely store your reserves hidden and unknown.
Present Considerations:
Find an area that has secure sources of food and water. For that area to thrive long-term, it must also have secure sources of fuel and electricity. If none of these are available in your area, then they will have to be brought in through corridors in hostile territory by military force and kept open by military force. Consider the smallest town possible. Cities will attract refugees, have limited resources, and will become areas of greatest chaos.
Some geographic areas may be relatively isolated, but they may not be safe if an oppressor force has armored vehicles. The Plains would be one such area to avoid.
Avoid occupations/interests/hobbies now for which no real wartime equivelent or need exists.
If you cannot presently move to a different area, but need to evacuate in such a scenario, then be packed and ready to go now. As a backup plan, you may only be able to carry a backpack as you hike out. Once things start unraveling you may have little warning. Those in Nazi Germany who did not leave at the beginning were barely able to flee later with their lives and not much else. He who hesitates will have a short life. Definitely evacuate before checkpoints and barbwire starts going up. "... when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another..." Matthew 10:23
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Panic now; avoid the rush.
Keep a low profile now. A low profile will help you live longer. Avoid outward signs of wealth, and dress down, especially once the crisis hits. Apparent wealth always breeds envy. Keep in mind that in certain situations food will appear as a form of wealth. Use older (but maintained) vehicles, don't fix up your house to live for the Jones. Avoid drawing attention to yourself.
Fragmentation of regions will not follow state lines. It will more likely follow geographical boundaries (rivers, mountain ranges, etc.) and ethnic enclaves.
Guard your reputation and associations now. Be very selective and cautious with people you are known to be in circles with.
Make some approximation, however crude, of how your local situation will develop locally. What National Guard armories and federal bases are nearby? What heavy weapons are stored there? What is the ethnic mix of the personnel stationed there? How vulnerable are these military bases to siege? Are there militias, gangs, or organized crime active in your area? What are their numbers, armaments, political, and ethnic loyalties? What are the assets and potential of neighboring ethnic enclaves that are different than yours?
In your Community Safety Committee, assign someone(s) the task of gathering information about specific aspects of local self-defense and drawing up preliminary self-defense contingency plans based on that information. Priority should be given to developing plans for securing local infrastructure against lawless forces. This should be done by recognized, objective individuals with genuine concern for all members of the community, the Constitution, property rights, etc. These plans should be presented, discussed, and modified as needed.
Additional Maps:
Population Density, based on US Census 2010.
The people and social problems/chaos will largely be proportional to the population density - and the demographic mix within that density. Both of these have to be factored in.
2012 Presidential Election by County
(Red counties with plurality for Romney (largely perceived as conservative), and Blue counties with plurality for Obama (largely perceived as liberal). Source.)
Besides taking population density, ethnic makeup, religion, etc. into consideration, you also need to consider the predominate social values of the area you are in, or the area you are considering moving to.
Who Should You Follow or Counsel With?
•A godly Christian (Psalm 1:1-6) whose life and actions bear fruit and witness of that fact; this person is not a Christian in name only (Psalm 119:63).
•They have an active prayer life, and regularly seek God's help and wisdom in all that they do (Ezra 8:21).
•Is humbly aware of the need for counsel, yet affirmative during extingencies (Proverbs 12:15).
•Discreet and wise (Genesis 41:33).
•Cautious (Proverbs 12:23, 18:13).
•You can judge a man's character by how he treats thosewho can do nothing for him (James 1:27).
• Armed forces experience (optional, but preferable).
•In good standing with their community, and known in the community (Proverbs 31:23).
Who Should You Avoid?
•Hotheads with little restraint; easily provoked (Proverbs 16:32, 25:28).
•Those who cannot overlook prejudices (Proverbs 28:21, James 2:1, 2:9).
•Those without a solid moral compass such as the Bible; they tend to lean toward situational ethics (Proverbs 21:2-3).
•Those without at least some understanding of history and current events (I Chron. 12:32).
•Those with a lot of 'toys', but failing other criteria (Eccl. 7:12).
•Those with a history of making poor choices (Psalm 141:4).
•Those not in good standing with their community and law enforcement; recent criminal record (Proverbs 4:14).
•Someone with low regard for law and justice (II Peter 2:10, Jude 1:8).
Be Ready To Show Prudent Charity
•"If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink." - Proverbs 25:21
•"Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." - Proverbs 21:13
•"...this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." - II Thess. 3:10. Those who can work, must.
•Joseph did not create a welfare state in Egypt during the famine; he made food readily available - for a price and barter.
•Charity can be done through proxies (ie. churches, soup lines, etc.) so that you do not become a target.
•Be selective and discerning. Be sure your charity will not be funneled away to select groups only or sold as a commodity.
•Don't give to government organizations - government's top priority is those in government.
•Learn lessons from how charity was mishandled after the Haiti earthquake.
•"But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly." - Matthew 6:3-4
•Charity is more than goods and services - it is love and compassion (I Cor. 13:3-8). There will be many hurting people who will need genuine love and compassion, a listening ear, a helping hand, and a testimony to God's love.
Why Do You Call It A Controlled Demolition?
A controlled demolition, or even a controlled burn, is meant to cause near-total destruction, without causing unwanted collateral damage. In a tall building, typically explosives are strategically placed to keep the center mass always falling straight down, and to avoid the center of gravity and resistance from pushing the debris wildly off course and damaging the surroundings. An example of this is seen if you build a tall tower out of plastic building blocks. To make it fall straight down, you do not start smashing it at the top; you quickly sever the main and center supports at the bottom. The rest will follow - quite neatly if done right.
To obtain a national demolition, certain tensions must be fostered, tolerated, and even mitigated so as to keep them all simmering until all hotpoints are ready. Only when enough fuel is on the fire will the proper spark ignite the whole thing. Premature triggers may only produce flash and sparks, while full ignition is desired - in the right timing. A controlled demolition will have near-total anarchy and social chaos; however, it can be mitigated, mediated, and facilitated to where core assets and enclaves are protected or receive minor fallout. A demolition engineer knows the capabilities and goals of controlled chaos.
America does not appear to be mentioned in Bible end-times prophecy, even though (historically) knowledge and trade with parts of this hemisphere were well know during Bible times; America either no longer exists, or it exists in such a fractured or minor capacity as to be not worth mentioning on the global scene.
The 'value' of a national controlled demolition is the same as a building's demolition - removing it to replace it with something bigger and better. In this case, the fiat (paper) dollar currency is fostered for worldwide use as a reserve currency by many nations; then, when that currency is shown to be worthless, all infrastructure systems using it will be brought to their economic knees. The rampant social chaos will provide impetuous to the end-time nations to disregard sovereignty, and to usher in a new model of nation states and order. To engineer a foundation leading to a one-world currency, you must destroy the previous dominator so completely that there is no return to it, and scare the fire out of the rest of the world so they comply (Rev. 17:12-13).
America's next revolution will not resemble the first revolution - in manner nor outcome.
The Tinder Foundations:
The threat of federal intervention was the only thing that kept the South from all-out tribal warfare in the sixties. Should the threat of federal intervention fade for any reason, genocidal warfare could erupt in the South.
Certain minority religious groups will start to suffer more public persecution and harassment. This will be more so for religions that are completely dissimilar to the dominant religion in their area.
Demographics and affirmative action will purge area minorities out of police departments and other branches of local governments, forming new local majorities.
The result of affirmative action is that economic opportunities (and even legal rights) are now determined not by your status of being an American citizen or not, but by your 'ethnic group'. This also fosters tension and resentment.
Increased exodus of non-ethnics from decidely ethnic enclaves. This will also cause a collapse of housing values and certain local industries, pushing the area further into economic depression.
Movies and media desensitize the populous to normalize killing and human death, removing the shock value - especially when one's self interests (such as hunger) are infringed upon. Also promotes themes that certain groups may be expendable depending on situational ethics. Movies also normalize the concept of giving up liberties for 'greater good', and handing of sovereign controls to non-governmental agencies.
America has aborted the greater equivelant lives of the population of our largest 50 cities combined.
It has become worse to judge evil today than to do evil. We are morally corrupt, with just a thin veneer of civilization.
Historic Notes:
The future conflict will be more like the American Indian wars (1622-1924 intermittent) than the Civil War (1862-1865) because wars fought by dissimilar armies and peoples inevitably run to excess.
Inevitably, programs of systematic punishment are dealt to groups deemed responsible for this or that misfortune (economic collapse, etc.), just like happened in Nazi Germany.
Your Actions:
Evaluate if you are an obvious minority in an area of suppressed tribal angst. If the presence of law enforcement is the only thing preventing clashes and violence, move now to an area less charged and volitile.
Downsize your lifestyle and frivolous committments; yet, get involved with (and be an asset to) your community.
The Sparks:
Certain tribal 'leaders' feed the angst and resentment for political and other gains.
The government stealthly practices for what it anticipates unfolding by field testing city lockdowns and drills, as well as increased police militarization in large key cities.
Increased showdowns between a militarized police and urban drug gangs, with increase use of military heavy firepower and tools.
The appearance of third-world slums in American cities. Attempts to evict them bring accusations of racism and class favoritism, and will spark violent riots.
Smash-and-grab looting increases, along with criminal flash mobs.
Increased occurances of 'vigilante justice' and 'mob justice'.
Acts of terrorism such as car and truck bombs become common. Assassination of law enforcement and those in local government increases dramatically.
Some Hispanic-controlled police departments will publically announce their refusal to enforce immigration laws.
Certain minority groups that see the handwriting on wall may leave America en-mass, especially those in the eastern cities. Media acknowledgment of this further exacerbates public panic and tension.
First-stage riots appear that they will be nothing more than the Los Angeles riot of '92 multiplied by most major cities.
Public discontent and worry as law enforcement is not able to handle the scope of looming threat.
Media feeds the flames by building hype and angst. Presents false causes for the masses to rally around.
Many towns of blacks and hispanics will declare in favor of the rebellion, and tense standoffs will develop with neighboring white towns.
Armed gangs or armed cults such as the Nation of Islam declare independence for the cities they control.
Historic Notes:
Our Founding Fathers were largely men of solid character and morals, which helped restrain many excesses of war and revolution. Without leaders like these (and a similar populace), the American Revolution would have ended like the French Revolution. We have few such leaders, and populace, today.
In times of stress, people tend to become strongly tribal and religious.
In the Civil War, almost all federal military bases in the south were quickly captured by state national guards or quickly assembled militias. This captured firepower and heavy weapons provided the backbone of the new Confederate Army.
Your Actions:
Do your best to squelch and diminish public disparaging tribal murmerings and divisions.
In your church and daily life, avoid religious/tribal bashing and derision. (Read my article: Arabs and Muslims are not 'ragheads': A Christian Response)
Be very aware of your community's sentiments. Support your local law enforcement - you will need them, and they will need you.
First Flames:
Cellphone and internet blackout to stem mass organization. Infrastructure will also sustain damage. You will lose contact with distant friends and family - plan accordingly.
Multiple-day riots that the military and DHS cannot crush in all cases. Battle fronts and territory starts to emerge.
Travel restrictions and limited area martial law. Deliveries, trucking, and commerce greatly affected in denser areas.
Street gangs will form the core of future black and Hispanic urban militias.
It becomes harshly clear which areas the government is willing to let fend for itself, and which areas it will focus protection on. Strategic retreats and mobilizations.
Waves of refugees flood across our borders as border enforcement is overwhelmed. Mexico possibly topples into civil war around this time as political forces once sustained by political stability are overthrown by revolution.
The riots will shift into a decided military mode, with barricades set up and local municipal buildings and tv stations seiged.
Historic Notes:
In Bosnia, Muslim criminal gangs scored initial victories against the Yugoslav Army, taking their garrisons under siege and capturing their heavy weapons - providing the backbone for the emerging Bosnian Army.
In Grozny, local police sided with the gang-militias to fight the Russian invaders.
Your Actions:
Have plans to get you and your family quickly home from work/school if events start to unfold in your area. Avoid major roads, especially near cities. Study alternate routes now. Never leave home unprepared to get home.
Full Ignition:
Serious ethnic warfare will most likely first erupt in the southwest, and then flash across the south.
•Social chaos, looting, and fits of anarchy will be everywhere, largely in proportion to the population density. Cities will be ravaged the most. 82% of our population lives in the cities and suburbs, with little or no experience/skills living in third-world conditions, many of them will die.
•Since our military bases are situated on supposedly friendly American soil they weren't designed to withstand sieges. They are vastly different from Vietnam firebases. There will be numerous instances of tribal defenders siding with the attackers, supplying them with information, deserting with weapons, and even fighting from within.
•The battle front/new borders will cut through railroads, power lines, highways, various pipelines, farmland and factories - all destroyed or completely idle in this new no-mans land. Millions of refugees will be displace, flooding the areas just outside the military zone. Military deadlock will eventually stabilize the front lines.
•Sectarian violence will also erupt at this time against minority religions within their own tribe. Certain religions will be persecuted more heavily than others, regardless of tribe.
•Limited occupation by UN troops is a possibility in key areas and large seaboard cities deemed most vital. Control measures will be harsh.
•America will break up into probably 4-5 different regions - East Coast, fractured South, Hispanic southwest, northeast Redoubt, and central.
•The different revolutionary groups will seek outside and foreign assistance (weapons, airstrikes, food, and medical supplies) as well as political recognition - this may come with strings attached in return for assets or territory.
•Alaskans (and other non contiguous states and territories) will find themselves on their own, and their resources (oil, etc.) also under new scrutiny by Russia and China.
•Major ports, rivers, and areas of industry will become targets of military and strategic importance.
•Avoid areas near military targets.
•Most heavy weapons are located in federal military bases outside the cities in predominately white areas. They most likely will fall primarily into the hands of white formations.
•FYI, a lot of our military's capital intensive, big-ticket items like stealth bombers, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, patriot missles, etc. all have little or no use in counterinsurgency. Once things come apart, there will be little the military or government can do to stop it except let it run its course, burn down, and mitigate losses in key areas.
•Road and rail corridors, and nearby highpoints that give military dominance, will be heavily fought-over objectives.
Areas with Asian Majority:
• Asian enclaves in the west may receive international assistance from China or Japan. They might also be given autonomy by the dominant area tribe in exchange for foreign assistance and commerce as tolerated allies.
The Southwest:
•The Hispanic revolution will have several advantages: support of the local tribal people; suitable sanctuaries to operate from, both in-country and across the Rio; and ongoing support (firearms and heavier weaponry, medical supplies, etc) of a foreign government/cartels from across the near border. Non-tribal minority populaces will be at clear disadvantage (and outnumbered) unless equally supported in these areas.
•Massive urban riots from San Francisco to Houston, with the epicenter in Los Angeles. Spanish-speaking police and National Guardsmen will likely side with the rioters.
The South:
•The new tribal civil war in the South will be widespread due to the close intermingling of the tribes. It will also be utterly without mercy or regard due to the mutual hatred and loathing so deeply rooted in southern history.
•Militarily, the American Blacks, particularly in the South, may quickly find little or no outside foreign assistance (except those in strong control of certain strategic areas such as ports and similar resources). Blacks are universally abused in Hispanic countries (who will be making military advances in the southwest) and will find few military allies in this hemisphere. Whether the Blacks hold and expand beyond the current density areas will depend on a variety of factors (lack of foreign aid being just one). There is a strong possibility that this fractured area will see this territory shrink into smaller fragmented enclaves.
•A front will likely form in the Appalachian foothills, with military advantage to the whites because they will occupy the high ground.
•The northern black cities will either be wiped out or allowed autonomy, perhaps in confederation with the black South.
The Northwest:
•Relocation options? James Wesley, Rawles (www.survivalblog.com), recommends Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, eastern Oregon, and eastern Washington. Learn more...
Historic Notes:
Syria: the warfare is self-propelled, and financed, in its early stages by looting and spoiling. Katrina: looting quickly broke out during the absense of local authority and restraints.
Revolutionary War lesson: Don't count on the military to quell uprisings - guerrillas, militias, and mobs have demonstrated that they can defeat regular armies when the circumstances are right.
Unfortunately, most ethnically-based revolutions can only be crushed by ethnic cleansing or similar butchery due to the base prejudices fueling the conflict. The more different the two sides perceive each other, the more often the tool of genocide is employed.
Bosnia: the most multiethnic European nation produced the most multiethnic dead
During the Civil War, torture of prisoners and mutilation of the dead was rare. In the Indian wars and again in Vietnam (both with dissimilar armies), such practices were employed by the fighters of both sides - sometimes even as a base form of recreation.
When civil authority breaks down in America, the criminal gangs will instantly fill the power vacuum - exactly as has been the pattern in other lands.
Each tribal revolution will be divided into countless factions fighting among themselves over territory and resources. Syria rebels are an example.
This upcoming conflict will degenerate into premeditated and systematic mass slaughter because blind prejudices (and lessor secondary causes) will fuel its frenzy. Like the wars against the Indians, one of the goals will be to drive others from the territory. This view guarantees fanatical resistance and necessitates heavy handed measures to achieve the objective.
As in Yugoslavia and Syria, many combatants will join specifically to avenge the murder of their families.
Historically, surrender to the ethnically dissimilar opponent meant gang rape, torture, and mass murder; as a result, the fighting will get very desperate.
Thoughts for You:
If you have no plan of your own, you will have to live with the plans that others have for you (and your family).
Do not assume you will get what you need at gunpoint. Those who have will already be waiting for you before you realize things are falling apart.
Your three options: Fight (defense and defensive offense), Flee (strategically), or Deception (divert focus away from you and your resources).
"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." - John 7:24. Exercise caution with any information that requests action on your part. Beware of the half truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Be prepared to feed/provide for family/friends who have had to flee their community.
If you are in an obvious minority in your area, but stay, remember that (at best) you will be the first ones denied when shortages come, and also the last ones defended. You will also be the first ones blamed and used as a scapegoat.
Many civilians, including women and children, will fight as guerrillas which will lead to their mass elimination on the grounds that they're combatants, or at least military assets.
Stay at least 30 miles away from potential new borders, as they will be scenes of intense military activity. Border territory will often be negotiated over and handed to the other side.
Defensively, it is better to target an attacker's supply means rather than their heavy weaponry if possible. Everything else is affected by supply and logistics.
Be prudently prepared to endure sudden and indefinite food and supply shortages, especially in the area of critical medicines.
Fallout:
Supermarkets are looted. Fit humans can live up to 40 days without food, and 180 days (6 months) on a meager diet. After the warfare starts, the inability to get food alone will kill millions within the first 40 days. The next 140 days will then see many of the survivors (who initially had somewhat more resources than the average household) die off. Violence aside, those who will survive the first 140 days must have some way of supplementing and replenishing their food and water supplies.
The collapse of the dollar will throw much of the world into economic tailspin and chaos for a time. Do not expect much aid (if any) from overseas or other nations - they will have enough problems on their hands as it is.
Food will be used as a weapon, extortion, and tactic. In large population areas, turning in guns (or those who have guns) will be rewarded with food. Also, those known to have food will become targets. Hunger makes decent people do indecent things - including you.
The greater part of fighting will be urban and static, not assault-oriented like conventional warfare. Local forces will be securing their area. This static nature calls for longer ranger weapons, and automatic fire or lightweight weaponry will offer no benefit. Aggressor forces will be confronted long-range, not up close. In dense, urban areas, sniping will be common.
Millions die due to inability to get regular life-saving medicines such as insulin, and other maintenance meds.
Concentration camps, rape camps, and death camps will appear as the war becomes total. Prisoners will be kept alive as needed.
Mass starvation from collapsed supply, water, and farming infrastructure. The very old and children will die off first. Many will resort to cannibalism.
Millions die of disease due to immune systems weakened by lack of food.
Once areas 'stabilize' somewhat, regional laws and currencies will emerge. Do not expect the Constitution and Bill of Rights to necessarily be brought along.
Historic Notes:
During the first Civil War, even the agricultural South came extremely close to mass starvation due to labor shortages, lack of tools, seed, transportation, etc.
The fragmented economy means that certain areas cannot be sustained without outside supply lines and commerce. When trade and commerce is cut off, fuel and fuel will virtually disappear in some areas. Consider the civil war in which the Serbians (under seige) resorted to eating leaves off the trees in the city parks.
Once revolutionary groups seize control, inadvertently, just like the French revolution, extensive purges take place - even of the people who helped bring them to power. Anarchistic revolutionary leaders know that whoever is willing to turn on their own government will one day turn on them as well. Do not follow anyone who advocates anarchy and disregard for just law.
Your Actions:
Within your community, take heed that additional divisions are not fed and focused on; these could include ideological, ethnic, religious, and even economic differences.
Fuel is always dear in war, and often unavailable at any price. Do not make long-term plans that depend on fuel (generators, etc.); however, for short-term stop-gap and transition times, or for short-term emergencies (hurricane, ice storm, etc.) these plans are fine and prudent.
Also, fuel (and food) will be very sought after by government, quasi-government, and marauders. Safely store your reserves hidden and unknown.
Present Considerations:
Find an area that has secure sources of food and water. For that area to thrive long-term, it must also have secure sources of fuel and electricity. If none of these are available in your area, then they will have to be brought in through corridors in hostile territory by military force and kept open by military force. Consider the smallest town possible. Cities will attract refugees, have limited resources, and will become areas of greatest chaos.
Some geographic areas may be relatively isolated, but they may not be safe if an oppressor force has armored vehicles. The Plains would be one such area to avoid.
Avoid occupations/interests/hobbies now for which no real wartime equivelent or need exists.
If you cannot presently move to a different area, but need to evacuate in such a scenario, then be packed and ready to go now. As a backup plan, you may only be able to carry a backpack as you hike out. Once things start unraveling you may have little warning. Those in Nazi Germany who did not leave at the beginning were barely able to flee later with their lives and not much else. He who hesitates will have a short life. Definitely evacuate before checkpoints and barbwire starts going up. "... when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another..." Matthew 10:23
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Panic now; avoid the rush.
Keep a low profile now. A low profile will help you live longer. Avoid outward signs of wealth, and dress down, especially once the crisis hits. Apparent wealth always breeds envy. Keep in mind that in certain situations food will appear as a form of wealth. Use older (but maintained) vehicles, don't fix up your house to live for the Jones. Avoid drawing attention to yourself.
Fragmentation of regions will not follow state lines. It will more likely follow geographical boundaries (rivers, mountain ranges, etc.) and ethnic enclaves.
Guard your reputation and associations now. Be very selective and cautious with people you are known to be in circles with.
Make some approximation, however crude, of how your local situation will develop locally. What National Guard armories and federal bases are nearby? What heavy weapons are stored there? What is the ethnic mix of the personnel stationed there? How vulnerable are these military bases to siege? Are there militias, gangs, or organized crime active in your area? What are their numbers, armaments, political, and ethnic loyalties? What are the assets and potential of neighboring ethnic enclaves that are different than yours?
In your Community Safety Committee, assign someone(s) the task of gathering information about specific aspects of local self-defense and drawing up preliminary self-defense contingency plans based on that information. Priority should be given to developing plans for securing local infrastructure against lawless forces. This should be done by recognized, objective individuals with genuine concern for all members of the community, the Constitution, property rights, etc. These plans should be presented, discussed, and modified as needed.
Additional Maps:
Population Density, based on US Census 2010.
The people and social problems/chaos will largely be proportional to the population density - and the demographic mix within that density. Both of these have to be factored in.
2012 Presidential Election by County
(Red counties with plurality for Romney (largely perceived as conservative), and Blue counties with plurality for Obama (largely perceived as liberal). Source.)
Besides taking population density, ethnic makeup, religion, etc. into consideration, you also need to consider the predominate social values of the area you are in, or the area you are considering moving to.
Who Should You Follow or Counsel With?
•A godly Christian (Psalm 1:1-6) whose life and actions bear fruit and witness of that fact; this person is not a Christian in name only (Psalm 119:63).
•They have an active prayer life, and regularly seek God's help and wisdom in all that they do (Ezra 8:21).
•Is humbly aware of the need for counsel, yet affirmative during extingencies (Proverbs 12:15).
•Discreet and wise (Genesis 41:33).
•Cautious (Proverbs 12:23, 18:13).
•You can judge a man's character by how he treats thosewho can do nothing for him (James 1:27).
• Armed forces experience (optional, but preferable).
•In good standing with their community, and known in the community (Proverbs 31:23).
Who Should You Avoid?
•Hotheads with little restraint; easily provoked (Proverbs 16:32, 25:28).
•Those who cannot overlook prejudices (Proverbs 28:21, James 2:1, 2:9).
•Those without a solid moral compass such as the Bible; they tend to lean toward situational ethics (Proverbs 21:2-3).
•Those without at least some understanding of history and current events (I Chron. 12:32).
•Those with a lot of 'toys', but failing other criteria (Eccl. 7:12).
•Those with a history of making poor choices (Psalm 141:4).
•Those not in good standing with their community and law enforcement; recent criminal record (Proverbs 4:14).
•Someone with low regard for law and justice (II Peter 2:10, Jude 1:8).
Be Ready To Show Prudent Charity
•"If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink." - Proverbs 25:21
•"Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." - Proverbs 21:13
•"...this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." - II Thess. 3:10. Those who can work, must.
•Joseph did not create a welfare state in Egypt during the famine; he made food readily available - for a price and barter.
•Charity can be done through proxies (ie. churches, soup lines, etc.) so that you do not become a target.
•Be selective and discerning. Be sure your charity will not be funneled away to select groups only or sold as a commodity.
•Don't give to government organizations - government's top priority is those in government.
•Learn lessons from how charity was mishandled after the Haiti earthquake.
•"But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly." - Matthew 6:3-4
•Charity is more than goods and services - it is love and compassion (I Cor. 13:3-8). There will be many hurting people who will need genuine love and compassion, a listening ear, a helping hand, and a testimony to God's love.
Why Do You Call It A Controlled Demolition?
A controlled demolition, or even a controlled burn, is meant to cause near-total destruction, without causing unwanted collateral damage. In a tall building, typically explosives are strategically placed to keep the center mass always falling straight down, and to avoid the center of gravity and resistance from pushing the debris wildly off course and damaging the surroundings. An example of this is seen if you build a tall tower out of plastic building blocks. To make it fall straight down, you do not start smashing it at the top; you quickly sever the main and center supports at the bottom. The rest will follow - quite neatly if done right.
To obtain a national demolition, certain tensions must be fostered, tolerated, and even mitigated so as to keep them all simmering until all hotpoints are ready. Only when enough fuel is on the fire will the proper spark ignite the whole thing. Premature triggers may only produce flash and sparks, while full ignition is desired - in the right timing. A controlled demolition will have near-total anarchy and social chaos; however, it can be mitigated, mediated, and facilitated to where core assets and enclaves are protected or receive minor fallout. A demolition engineer knows the capabilities and goals of controlled chaos.
America does not appear to be mentioned in Bible end-times prophecy, even though (historically) knowledge and trade with parts of this hemisphere were well know during Bible times; America either no longer exists, or it exists in such a fractured or minor capacity as to be not worth mentioning on the global scene.
The 'value' of a national controlled demolition is the same as a building's demolition - removing it to replace it with something bigger and better. In this case, the fiat (paper) dollar currency is fostered for worldwide use as a reserve currency by many nations; then, when that currency is shown to be worthless, all infrastructure systems using it will be brought to their economic knees. The rampant social chaos will provide impetuous to the end-time nations to disregard sovereignty, and to usher in a new model of nation states and order. To engineer a foundation leading to a one-world currency, you must destroy the previous dominator so completely that there is no return to it, and scare the fire out of the rest of the world so they comply (Rev. 17:12-13).