Doomsday Preppers Week 6: Escape From New York
We’ve made note through the previous five weeks of the season which preppers were spending their time and energy preparing for rational disasters, and which folks were preparing for events that are nothing more than paranoid fantasy. Margaret Ling is a Florida transplant to New York who bears the unique distinction of being the first prepper in two seasons of the show who actually faced the disaster she was preparing for head-on before the show aired.
Twice.
Ling was trapped in her home in Florida during Hurricane Katrina’s less famous 2005 landfall on the Sunshine State prior to moving north and encountering Sandy. She’s a storm magnet.
Her bug-out plan in the event of a disaster is to walk upstate, all the way to the Canadian border. Now, I’m all for exercise, but let’s be realistic here for a moment. The commuter corridor in the northeast is nothing if not heavily developed, and hurricanes don’t exactly sneak up on you in this day and age of weather satellites and 24-hour news channels screaming Deathmageddon 2012 is coming for your soul!
Commuter stations run north on both sides of the Hudson, and there are dozens of bedroom communities that would be far more logical stops than fleeing on foot all the way to the border. Here’s a hint for Ms. Ling: Take MetroNorth to Beacon, then hitchike over the bridge to Newburgh. Maybe one of the guys from American Chopper will let you crash at his place.
A pretty young woman, Margaret is worried about being taken advantage of, so she’s taking Krav Maga, a brutally effective Israeli martial art that doesn’t play around with pretty forms and goes straight to the butt-whuppin’. Matan Gavish is her Krav instructor and guide in her “escape” 14 miles on foot up Manhattan, through the parks in the center of the island, and across the George Washington Bridge.
Ok, so give us a scenario something like the Ukraine Holodomor, and tell us how to survive it.
Imagine food price inflation goes ballistic, then factor in some crop failure, and the US dollar is worth less in international trade. President Obama declares a food emergency, and sends special units out into the heartland to secure food for the urban voters, the democrat party loyalists. If you are in the urban areas, obviously your best strategy is to be a loyal party member.
How do the rest of us survive?
Well, if you’re one of the producers, I’d assume you’re already armed and in good standing with your neighbors (being raised in the country, this is how it was for my folks when I was growing up). There’s multiple sources freely available on how to organize and coordinate a guerrilla insurrection, I recommend you read up on some of them and raise the question with your local community. After that, lay low and keep your powder dry. Act only when the Kulak Suppression Units have already inextricably invaded your community.
If you are not one of the producers, but do not look forward to living in the government-sanctioned ghettos, you have two options:
A) You become one, starting today. When food becomes the most valuable resource, those with the means to produce it will be the ones in power. Learn to farm, buy some land, and give up whatever dream you had of becoming. It will not likely happen in Obama’s America, but you can still take solace in the freedom your production affords you (provided you are willing to work to secure it).
B) Ingratiate yourself with someone who is a producer. Depending on the circumstances, this could be an amicable agreement akin to a business partnership, or indentured servitude. It is a pattern within history that whenever civilization fails, a loss of rights inevitably follows. Yet you must ask yourself, who faired better, the serfs under Czarist Russia, or the proletariat under Communist Russia? The new aristocracy of the land-owning in this hypothetical situation may not be fair gracious, but I would rather gamble my chances with them rather than the assured terror of a socialist regime.
If you insist on living in the government-controlled ghettos, pray for health and protection. Expect crime and poverty to be rampant, and expect your “party” to be as dangerous to deal with as the gangs. God forbid you should need anything of quality (ex. medicine), expect it to only be found on the black market. And yet, any contact with such “non-governmental organizations” (such as the aforementioned black market) will endanger your life and livelyhood once the party discovers your treason.
If you are or wish to be a “loyal party member” then you deserve all the suffering that will be heaped upon you. You have voted for and enabled the making of this crap sandwich, now it is your turn to partake of it.
Open wide.
About that ‘ingratiating yourself with producers’: farming is labor intensive if gas or other fuel is not readily available, or if the machines now in use were to start breaking down in a situation where they can’t be easily repaired or replaced. So farmers, under such situation, and if they want to keep on producing, would presumably be very interested in hiring strong, healthy workers, both as workers and as protectors of their farm and produce. So, make sure that you are as strong and healthy as possible, learn about old fashioned farming and animal husbandry methods, at least enough to be seen as useful without having to be taught everything from scratch, and try to get friendly with farmers so if you one day need a place you already have people who know you and trust you. And if you can buy some land and a cottage (use it as retreat or whatever now) in such a community – having your own place and being able to produce at least some food for your family yourself would always be better than being only a hired hand, but even so being at least a part-time hired hand for some big farm would still make things easier for you.
And make sure the community you choose will start seeing you as somebody useful for the whole community from the beginning.
“Special Units”…. I think you mean ostracized special targets. I doubt they would last long or succeed at their objective.
If I was (or even wasn’t) a farmer the first thing I would have done is have a years worth of food AHEAD OF TIME.
The second thing I would do would be to burn my crops and urge fellow farmers to do the same.
And if I wasn’t a farmer… I’d just break out the torch. Burn it all down. If I’m going to starve… then no one eats.
Regardless of what the situation or emergency we may face everyone needs some type of preparation. No governmental help can get there fast enough for your specific needs. Everyone needs some type of survival kit or 72 hour kit. When this is accomplished a 2 week supply of food and water should be the goal. Preparation should begin with you not the government.
In the real world, as opposed to the wish-fulfillment fantasies
generated by Hollywood for moviegoers, the way to survive is to
be somewhere else, somewhere safely isolated from the violence,
hunger, and disease which will rapidly reduce the ranks of the
Underclass, and anyone within reach of its desperate death throes,
in the Big Blue megapolises.
The research I find convincing says that one has the best chance
of survival in a Red State city of about 100 thousand population.
My best guess is that such a city would stabilize at a 1950 level
and over the next two generations would return to the future, in
which the sadder but wiser grandchildren of the survivors would
restrict the franchise to that upper third of the population who
have demonstrated their dedication to conserving civilization.
Sen. Rand Paul Objects To Indefinite Detention Language In NDAA – 12/21/12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvuhVu0z9p4
Wake up America! We MUST repeal the PATRIOT Act! NOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiY7AarMoI
Dear Bob,
Nearly every conservative on this site has figured out not to associate the conservative cause with the ever–expanding survivalist movement. Why haven’t you?
If you’re not talking about small government, then why the hell are you writing for this site?
Chris
I figure the best way to escape from New York is never to go there.
An ounce of prevention prevents a load of wasted resources getting out of a bad area you should never have gone to in the first place.
Well observed and spoken. The rest of us should take heed: get thee out of Babylon… while you still have time!