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August 1, 2012

Whether you're red or yellow, black or white, be ferocious in their sight

Good things often come out of bad things. My year of living in the woods followed by a year of living in a chicken house taught me survival skills. Obviously, I had a few before then. <wink> This issue will cover some of those lessons I learned in hope that they will be useful to our friends out there in internet land.

Hurricane season is upon us. It is supposed to be a bad one. Much of the Eastern United States is susceptible to occasional tornadoes in the fall. Also, there is ever-present danger of flash floods. I will never forget September of 2009 when our section of the Georgia Mountains received 24 inches of rain in 5 days, which promptly flowed down hill and drowned Atlanta. If you live in a hurricane, tornado or flood zone being prepared for survive without electricity or running water is a must.

There is another danger this year. Domestic terrorist groups at the behest of their financial backers (often Boss Hogg types or drug dealers) plan to knock out power grids and attack middle class citizens in the near future. The purpose is to sway the elections and make people more amenable to totalitarian control. I have been watching propane gas generators being sold like hotcakes in this region, even though many people can't really afford them. The attack on the power grid scheme is really a carbon copy of what Mussolini did to destabilize Italy in the early 1920s. The wealthy Italian industrialists who financed that terrorism only realized too late that they had opened Pandora’s Box.

Of course, if the electric power had gone off 200 years ago, it would have been no big deal. Our ancestors lived in a world where the only electricity was lightning. However, today our lives are dependent on air conditioning, refrigeration, electric lights, telephones, IPods, computers . . . you name it. Turn off the power tomorrow night before going to bed. See if you can even find your bed! See how well you sleep in the sultry heat, then wake up in the morning, not knowing the time and being unable to check your email.

If you are an environmentalist, college professor, well educated, a political leader perceived as a "librul", gay, an African living east of the Mississippi or a Native American/Mexican living west of the Mississippi, your problems are likely to be more serious than not being able to watch your favorite college football team on TV. All 23 political murders in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Pickens County, GA during the past decade were physically attractive, college educated men and women, between 18 and 32. We will get to that later.

Must haves for survival

  1. Hand-crank light - These are flashlights and lanterns containing batteries that are recharged by hand cranking a built in generator. If you don’t have one, you buy one the moment you finish reading this article. They saved my life on many occasion and made life off the grid far more bearable. One never knows when the power will go off. These lights always work. By far the best one is the Garrity, sold by Amazon.com and several other online outlets. It is worth every penny. It produces as much light as a battery flashlight and will continue to produce enough light to see where to walk for at least 8 hours.
  2. Hand-crank radio receiver - Being off the grid means that you are cut off from weather reports, emergency broadcasts. Batteries soon die out and you want be able to buy more because all retail merchandizing now is based on electrically operated, satellite controlled cash registers. The best hand-crank radios will also recharge cellular phone batteries. My preference is the Eton FR-400 waterproof model. It picks up AM, FM, Weather Band, Shortwave and TV audio signals.
  3. Two-way radios - Radios enable you to call for help when cellular and line telephone systems are down. It also enables groups to stay in touch with each other when some members are out foraging. There are two types that don’t require federal licenses, citizen band (CB) and medium frequency. The CB radios or walkie-talkies are cheaper. They are on all trucks and most law enforcement vehicles. If you are in dire straights, an emergency call is more likely to be heard. However, their maximum range is about five miles on flat land. If you DON’T want to be heard, a medium frequency radio is desirable. These two way radios are more expensive, but have a range of up to 40 miles. The ones I have contain scramblers so that I can send and receive messages without anyone else understanding them.
  4. Potable water - Where I live, fresh clean mountain water is abundant. However, many of you live where the surface water is toxic, unless purified and boiled. Keep 10 gallons of clean water in your house and have a means of filtering and sterilizing lots of water at one time. Remember what happened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. I was in New Orleans after the hurricane. It was not pretty. People died of dehydration and contaminated water. I still have nightmares containing the pervasive smell of decaying human bodies. Most of the people of New Orleans, rich or poor, were totally unprepared to live off the grid.
  5. Food - Our nation has become totally dependent on truck transportation of food from long distances and refrigeration or freezing of food to preserve it. The food distribution and storage system will immediately break down when the electric grid goes off. Keep at least two weeks of non-perishable food on hand during the growing season and two months worth during the winter. Beans and grits are favorite survival foods of the Creek People. Whole grain rice also will keep for several months in waterproof containers. Wheat flour molds quickly inside a tent. In most of North America, there ain’t a whole lot to eat in the wild after November - except fish and the nuts that the squirrels didn't get.
  6. Clothing - The worse time to be in a tent is when it rains for days on end. You must have several days worth of dry clothing, especially socks and gloves, in a waterproof container. During the cooler time of the year, keep a full set of winter clothes in a waterproof bag that you can throw into your vehicle on a moment’s notice.
  7. Emergency equipment - In your waterproof emergency container keep a good compass, first aid kit, hydrogen peroxide, nitrofurozene anti-biotic ointment for burns and gangrene prevention, three-way anti-biotic ointment, fold up cups, one or more canteens, water purification tablets, several whistles, a sewing kit, and the US Army’s or US Navy’s Survival Manual. They are available online. Nitrofurozene can be purchased at livestock supply stores.
  8. Cooking equipment - Propane camp stoves are a whole lot easier for campers, but the propane sooner or later is used up. I had a dual system of cooking. When possible I cooked with propane and used modern cookware that was stick-free. For times when I had no money for propane, I had a back-up system using all cast iron cookware. It is extremely difficult to cook over a wood fire with the lightweight pans sold in camping stores these days.
  9. Tools - A machete, hatchet, fold-up shovel and camp saw are absolute necessities for survival. I also carried a waterproof box with basic tools such as screwdrivers, a hammer, wrenches, etc. to make repairs on equipment. Keep a fishing tackle box and fishing spear handy for throwing in your vehicle. However, I ended up catching most of my fish, frogs and crawfish with the spear. Modern spears are aluminum and can be extended to up to 12 feet long. They have three or four barbed points at the end.
  10. Weapons - A tough, sharp sheath knife and machete are necessities. The right type of rifle should be considered as (at least) a security device. A rifle shot will scare off bears and coyotes. My preference is a 22 long magnum, semi-automatic rifle with a synthetic stock. Don’t buy rifles with wood stocks. In damp weather the wood deteriorates. This particular rifle is as accurate as a 30 caliber carbine and has the knock out power of a Glock 9 mm. However, the ammunition is a fraction of the cost of 9 mm and deer rifle ammo. I also have a Czech made rifle that could shoot down an airplane or puncture a Bradley fighting vehicle, but I never had to fire it while in the wild. Its ammunition is VERY expensive.

If you have never been around firearms, don't buy one and put it in the closet. There are plenty of organizations and businesses who can teach you how to shoot and train you in approprate gun safety measures.

Be sure to keep a rifle cleaning kit with you. In the wild, damp weather will cause most rifles to rust overnight. Within a couple of days without oiling, the gun barrel will begin to corrode.

Conventional bows and cross bows are excellent for fishing. My 180 pound crossbow will snare either an alligator or a shark. However, I have only used it for catching large catfish and flounder near the ocean. The fishing arrows are barbed and connected to a lightweight line so you can pull the fish back to shore.

Oh ... and your drums Native Americans! Don't leave home without them.

Basic principles of counter insurgency warfare
I was recruited by the Navy out of high school to be trained at Georgia Tech as a science & engineering officer. At 18 I had dreams of wearing the sharp dress uniform of a Navy Sea Bee officer and being surrounded by a crowd of admiring, patriotic gals. Life has its surprises, though. I was actually trained for independent command and covert operations. I never wore a uniform and was officially an inactive reserve officer after college. I had to sign a document that for 20 years, I would not tell anyone why. Did get to see some very remote, interesting locations though! That’s how I got to know the Mayas and Lappland. That’s also how I know the inner workings of the domestic terrorist organizations.

Some folks have been offended by my hostility to the rightwing extremists, but this comes from first hand knowledge of what they are all about. Don't be fooled by the waving of miniature flags and repeated chanting of trite phrases. My sister will verify that I told her a month in advance not to fly to Atlanta on September 11, 2001 because there would be major terrorism involving passenger jets. From a covert operation ten years earlier, I knew that there was going to be terrorism (either faked or allowed) that month in order to usher in a authoritarian society. As a Native American I am far more concerned about the fate of America's democratic. free enterprise traditions, than whether some stranger likes me or not.

The purpose behind this intentional destruction of our economy is to break the traditional entrepreneurial spirit of the American Middle Class so that it will meekly accept a feudal economy and an authoritarian political system. They don’t want middle class people taking financial risks, starting businesses, innovating professionally, developing real estate projects, and perhaps becoming wealthy themselves. Every commercial real estate developer I had as a client in my architecture career is now out of business. The banks would not give them construction financing. That is no accident. We are to wake up one day when the majority of Americans will be impoverished serfs in a society that is culturally frozen. It is almost that way now.

I have also noticed that the foot soldiers of the Nazi groups seem to be wanting to settle scores from high school. They were the C and D students while the "in" crowd starred in sports, had lots of dates and went off to college. The drawn-out Mega-recession has made the economic predicament of the blue collar young men even worse. In one case three years ago, two Georgia cops beat up a guy driving to a summer job in between college semisters . . . because a former girlfriend later dated the victim in high school. The random politically motivated attacks seem to mostly aimed at affluent, attractive young adults, who are in college or recently graduated from college, and total strangers.

"Those of you in the primary target groups, environmentalists, college professors and 'alternative lifestylers' are assumed by your future attackers to pacifists, who will make easy victims. They will be attacking at night. They have been training teen age boys for over twenty years how to move through the woods at night with night vision goggles. They communicate with animal sounds, mostly owl sounds. Several times I set up ambushes by imitating their owl sound and drawing them in. God said, "Thou shall not kill." He didn’t say, "Thou shall not make white trash ninja nerds wet in their pants."

You people in the targeted groups will have to learn how to defend yourself, especially if you live in the Deep South. In many southern communities, the majority of Caucasian cops are members of the Brotherhood of Patriots. They or their sons or their sons’ buddies, will be your attackers. In Georgia, white deputies are generally the ones training the terrorists at night.

There are two things going in your favor. Both the leaders of the rightwing movement and their cannon fodder are motivated by fear. While true giants such as Bill Gates understand that the middle class must have discretionary income in order to buy computer software, the far right extremists only fear losing their wealth. The blue collar foot soldiers fear that they are not masculine and fear people with skin pigment. They only fight on the attack. I found over and over again that they were paralyzed with fear, when they realized that they were hunted, not the hunters. At that point, their favorite word was, "Jaysus!"

Secondly, even when I was a midshipman at Georgia Tech, we knew that white racists tend to be afraid of weapons shaped like phallic symbols. They grow up with guns, but associate more primitive weapons with American Indians and Blacks. A Muskogee Creek firing his home-made bow, would probably send a squad of "Patriots" into a panicked retreat. I ran scientific tests on this while dealing with neo-Nazi’s in the North Carolina Mountains. Your 10 year old daughter holding a sharp 10 feet long spear would probably stop most teenage neo-Nazi’s in their tracks.

Whether it is criminals or terrorists attacking your family, just remember that a locked door is the best protection in the city, while a big tree is the best protection in the woods. All of us Injuns know to fire from behind trees. Don’t try to be heroic in front of your family and expose your body. These thugs are programmed to think of you as a deer. They have the mentality of a pack of coyotes. Do your best to keep your family and yourself protected by solid objects.

A dead parent is no good to his/her family or his/her community. When eight pickup loads of thugs showed up at my campsite on Wolf Creek in Union County, GA at 12:30 at night, I grabbed my rifles, then the dogs and I ran like hell to a rhododendron thicket surrounded by big trees, where we quietly hid until they left. Creeks like to survive to fight another day.

Run Forrest! Run!

Y’all be smart, hear?

Richard Thornton, Editor
Architect & City Planner
www.historyrevealedmedia.com

 

 

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