Reply #89: Boy Scout Picnic is a stretch...but I agree w/ the concerns of the post & [View All]

...I agree w/ your premise about Americans, Militia etc fighting back...but I see more of a scenario in recent dreams of mine (when I can sleep) that involve the following scenario:

Sometime in the next several months, there are significant terrorist attacks both abroad and here in the US...significant in terms of the damage to transportation (airplanes, trains, shipping ports etc.),economic structures (ie. oil pipelines, communication centers, power plants etc.) and meanwhile to population (dirty bombs in city centers with large populations) and to food and water sources (contamination, poisoning etc.). A combinination of such attacks on a few or even all of these categories would have such a huge economic impact on our already weak and unsteady economy and would result in huge panic and problems on a scale most of us living our cushy, air-conditioned American lives couldn't comprehend. Just getting safe drinking water and food (in terms of availability in getting it to people) becomes a challenge and people are scared. The $$$ falls further especially in light of our booming deficit and debt and the gov't either prints more money, inflation sky rockets and there are most Americans who have refinanced their house out the kazoo that when their house/property is worth only 1/2 of what it is now, and have either lost their job or can't make money to pay for the house, food etc...then what? What if, dirty bombs went off in city centers and people can't go into cities or many are sick and dying? What if, then, our gov't, in all its wisdom declares "in the interest of national security" that a form of martial law takes place? What if this happens before the elections? What impact do you think that could have? What if you wanted to leave the country, but couldn't?

Think this can't happen? Look at the problems even recently our economy and most Americans suffered when gas prices went up...it affected people incredibly and its impact was felt not just at the pump, but at the Supermarket and elsewhere. That was nothing compared to what can happen to our "oil dependent" economy was suddenly hit w/ no Oil - wonder why Bush &Co. didn't want to tap into the Strategic Oil Reserve? Its because they "know"....Imagine the situation in Saudi Arabia getting so bad that attacks not just on workers but on the production & pipelines are damaged/destroyed or even the House of Saud falls and the ruling "tribe" doesn't want to send us our Black Gold...Many of us in California remember in 1989 the Earthquake in the Bay Area (Loma Prieta) and you couldn't find bottled water on any shelf anywhere. What if we all suddenely needed water & food? What if we can't even drive to find it?

Because of the above possible scenarios (which are not so unrealistic) while I try not to live in "Fear" but because I have a responsibility to care for my family and always have a "Plan B and C", I am seriously preparing for the possible scenarios (and no, I don't mean Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting)...but seriously, we might all need to know how to grow plants, have a source of water, protein food source (chickens etc.) and "know how" to survive...even if its in a nice little neighborhood in America....possibly all of ours...

On the issue of guns: How wild that the "left" might actually be joining the Radical Right in its thinking....I actually under stand the founding fathers reasoning for the "right to bear arms"...and that's coming from a Mom who marched in the Million Moms March in Washington years ago....