In the weekly Prepper thread, Freeper roadcat wonders about whether he gets to shoot his troublesome neighbor come the apocalpyse:
I and my neighbors get along great. However, there is one jerk and his jerk family, who no one likes. If the SHTF, what are the recommendations on dealing with a family like that? Do we:
A) Chase them out of their home and the neighborhood,
B) Hang them,
C) Restrict their movements and starve them,
D) Make slaves out of them.
Other alternatives welcomed.
Slavery aside (*ahem*), this is one of Freepers' greatest fantasies - to be the ones dispensing the true justice that their virtue unerringly sees!
Squantos has an odd one:
Pickle em ....After kinda dancing around summary trial and execution, Pollster1 mentions he also has a troublesome neighbor. Shocking!
Neighbors who pose a threat are a serious issue. Whether they cheat, steal, vandalize, or in other ways cause problems, you have to handle it right. The Internet is not the place to post my general thoughts, and in any case I don’t have enough information to give the right answer to your situation.Chickensoup advises an early sci-fi book with no white supremacy at all. There's even an interracial marriage!!
Read up on how government worked in various eras, back when it worked, and try to use some form of due process, even if the final answer is final.
BTW, I have one neighbor who is a serious concern. I will keep an eagle eye on that neighbor if we reach the point where government can no longer be counted on even to the limited extent that it works today.
I recommend the book: The Earth Abides by George Stewart.Simple Celerity reckons there are good guys and bad guys, and if you keep your powder dry the bad guys will soon be bad.
Keep a close eye on them. They will make the first mistake. They’ll go after someone - even you. Don’t turn your back on them. Don’t invite them to dinner. Don’t share with them.Man, the real world with it's complicated morality must be pretty frustrating for Celerity!
Because they WILL make a mistake. They WILL attack you. They will attack fast too - within 96 hours of the event.
All of your neighbors, my neighbors and everyone’s neighbors are much different than the neighbors you’ll have in 6 months. Get to be friends with THOSE neighbors - the 6 month ones. Right now, no neighbor is safe.
B4Ranch advises constant paranoia:
If you don’t seriously outnumber them do not allow them free access to your supplies. They may decide they want everything and kill you to get it.
It absolutely kills me how much of this prepper crap is sold by InfoWars from their own branded e-storefront. And not just the water filtration systems, rice, and beans that do have legit use when you're backpacking like a normal human being, but also the serious snake oil like colloidal silver and nascent iodine "supplements".
ReplyDeleteAlex Jones is a bastard genius.
I'd be careful about that "colloidal
Deletesilver". People have turned an ashen
silver color from that stuff.
Now, the "iodine" tablets are NOT for
use as "supplements". Only for use in
a nuclear accident or nuclear attack.
People living close to nuclear power
plants might want to keep a supply on
hand. (Fang & I have some in our
supply cabinet; but for normal needs,
you generally get enough iodine in
your salt. I take KELP capsules for
a natural source of iodine since we
use "Celtic Sea Salt" which contains
no iodine. Of course, we eat at the
seafood place every now and then and
get iodized salt on that food; also on
our Burger King drive-thru stuff.
Ya'll need to listen to TWINKIE or else ya'll will find yourselves OUT
IN THE COLD with nothing but an old
cold 'tater to eat and suffering
from a goiter from not enough iodine.
Don't doubt me!!
TWINKIE KING
My favorite are the "rapture survival" meal kits that the fundies sell.
Delete"Rapture survival" -- what to eat when God leaves you behind.
DeleteYou'uns will have more to worry about
Deletethan your hungry bellies if CHRIST
leaves ye butts behind!!
World is already in a bad enough
shape; when you'uns are shed of ALL
those derned Christians, the damned
hooligans can have a "Hooligans
Holiday" & be shed of that horrible,
hated CHRISTMAS once & for all!!!
Then, what a day, glorious day THAT
will be!!
AUNT HANNIE - Still alive & kicking
at 96 in spite of TWINKIE!!
I assume those Rapture Survival Kits are recieved each Christmas by the heathen liberals that have to misfortune to be related to those nutters.
Delete"The Internet is not the place to post my general thoughts"
ReplyDeleteNope. Those go on leaflets handed our 1960's style. Against commies and coloreds... y'know any c-words.