CHAOS AT
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"I
just finished reading an article in the NRA magazine ‘American Rifleman’
(November) on potential crisis level events that could occur in our country in
the very near future. Although on first blush they may appear
sensationalistic and over the top, they are not.
Before
you blow off reading this article, first click on the links added at the bottom
of this blog entry. They were both written by federal government agencies
within our country! Toward the end, I will embellish some of the
information contained in the NRA report based on my own experience within a
large police agency over twenty years ago! It will emphasize the degree
to which our country is in trouble and how it is a ticking time-bomb.:
IS CHAOS AT OUR DOOR?
by Wayne
LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President
But the
reality is that we may be living in some of the most dangerous times in human
history. Does that sound like some crazy exaggeration to you?
Well,
consider this: Recently, in The Wall Street Journal, former CIA Director James
Woolsey warned that “the most significant threat to the U.S.
What is
an electromagnetic pulse? It can be triggered by a massive solar storm,
or set off by detonation of a nuclear device hundreds of miles above the
earth. Even if no blast, shock or fallout reaches the ground, the
cascading avalanche of infrastructure failures caused by an EMP can create a
national catastrophe.
Because
an EMP, like an astronomical bolt of lightning, destroys the electronic
equipment upon which so much of modern life is built.
In the
short term, EMP drowns out radio transmissions-everything from radio, TV and
cell phones, to air-defense radar systems, to police, fire and EMS frequencies.
Most
importantly, over a much longer timeframe, an EMP blacks out the power grid,
slamming it with so much voltage-and slagging so many transformers when it
does-that it could plunge much of the continental U.S.
Collapse
of the power grid, in turn, would have a domino effect on the infrastructures
Americans depend on most for survival. Landline telephone systems would fall
silent. Cell phone towers would go black-even if you had a way to charge
your phone.
An EMP
would flatline the Internet and paralyze all the vital signals the Internet
carries: Military command and control, our banking and financial system, gas
pipeline and power plant safeguards, hospital and emergency response
communications.
And it
would pull the plug on public water and sewage services-perhaps our most urgent
and immediate life-support systems of all.
This
isn’t some feverish, paranoid fantasy. It’s not some fabrication from
“Doomsday Preppers.” It’s the kind of scenario that the most informed
national security experts in the country-military commanders, emergency
response planners and scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Sandia National Laboratories and the Hoover
• “China and Russia
•
“Designs for variants of such weapons may have been illicitly trafficked for a
quarter century.”
• In
2004, Russian military officials warned U.S.
government investigators that North
Korea
•
“Terrorists or state actors that possess relatively unsophisticated missiles
armed with nuclear weapons may well calculate that … they may gain the greatest
political-military utility from … an EMP attack.”
Yet,
while the media should be alerting the public to this danger, and our nation’s
leaders should be setting up systems to protect us instead, we get adolescent
media gossip about the latest celebrity tweet.
Imagine
your world blanketed by pitch black. You have no lights, no electricity.
Phones don’t work. Even the battery-powered radio you keep for
emergencies picks up nothing but static-if it powers up at all.
Transportation
grinds to gridlock as soon as everyone’s gas tank runs dry-even if their cars’
computer chips aren’t ruined by the EMP. Fuel shipments dry up as energy
companies struggle to jump-start their pipelines and refineries. Food
shipments stop.
In many
ways, our nation would be plunged back into the 1800s. Without clean water or
sanitation, Third World diseases would
re-emerge-amoebic dysentery, typhoid, cholera-killing our youngest and frailest
family members. Hospitals would be overwhelmed.
Remember
the horrific scenes you saw from Hurricane Katrina or the 2010 Haiti
If this
all sounds inconceivable to you, again, consider the findings of the
government’s own congressional EMP Commission. According to their report,
within a year of a national blackout, as much as 90 percent of the population
of the U.S.
Now, that
might be too terrifying to even comprehend. But an EMP attack is far from
the only way of wreaking havoc on America
Cyber
attacks through the Internet, for example, are a new and growing danger to our
nation’s most sensitive government, military and financial operations.
Many experts worry that they could shut down our nation’s financial system,
locking up bank accounts, freezing credit cards and putting our economy into a
tailspin.
Worse,
according to 911 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, the danger of cyber terror is
even more immediate and deadly. “Hackers can threaten the control systems
of critical facilities like dams, water treatment plants and the power grid,”
Kean wrote recently in The Wall Street journal. “A hacker able to
remotely control a dam, pumping station or oil pipeline could unleash
large-scale devastation.”
Terrorists
could deliver a knockout punch with more conventional means as well.
Last
year, in what the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jon
Wellinghoff, called “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism
involving the grid that has ever occurred,” unknown individuals used rifles to
disable 17 tremendous electrical transformers near San Jose , Calif.
It took
technicians almost a month to get the facility back online-and that was just
one substation. What if terrorists did the same thing in coordinated
attacks all across the country? According to Wellinghoff, they could
disable the grid and black out much of the United States
Whether
it’s through an EMP, a massive cyber attack, another 911 or just isolated
sprees of murder and mayhem, military and homeland security officials agree
it’s just a matter of time before the U.S. faces some kind of terrorist attack.
It might
be along the lines of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai ,
India
Or it
might be like the attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya Kenya
So ask
yourself: Could suicidal terrorist mass murderers try to bomb an American
hotel, an American train station, shopping mall or movie theater?
Make no
mistake: The world that surrounds us is growing more dangerous all the time.
Whether it’s enemy state actors, foreign terrorists, Mexican drug cartels or
domestic criminals, the threats Americans face are massive-and growing.
Even the
Justice Department admits:
• Mexican
drug gangs are operating in more than 1,000 U.S.
• 20,000
gangs with at least a million members are embedded coast to coast;
• More
than 100,000 street gang members have been documented in Obama’s hometown of Chicago
Add to
that volatile mix the thousands of hardened, dangerous criminals that are being
released from prisons allover America
When
states can’t or won’t spend the money needed to imprison their criminals, and
those prisons become overcrowded, the courts say to set them free. So now
the floodgates are open as our nation’s prisons are purged.
The U.S.
Justice Department is now planning to release more than 40,000 federal felons
before their sentences are served. More than 13,500 inmates every month
are being released early in California
On top of
that flood, add the waves of drug smugglers, kidnappers, sex-slave traffickers
and criminals of all kinds who invade our country from the south every day.
Instead of securing the Mexican border to protect the American people, Obama
and his allies play political games with the immigration issue.
Even when
they catch convicted criminals coming into this country, Washington
No jail.
No prison. Just a stern but meaningless warning-and off they went.
Where all
these released criminals went, no one knows. But you can bet on
this: They’re among us, embedded throughout our society. For all you
know, you pass them in your car on your way to work.
And
consider this: Terrorists have known for 26 years that our southern border is
so porous and unprotected that crossing into the U.S.
Between
1999 and 2010, at least 6,000 so-called “special interest aliens” were caught
illegally trying to cross into the U.S. Authorities admit catching at least
three people “linked to terrorism” and one suspected al Qaeda bomb maker.
But how
many more did they catch that they didn’t tell us about? And if 6,000
were caught, how many weren’t?
Even if
you take terrorists and criminals out of the picture, chaos is an ever-present
danger to Americans today — especially when you factor in the undercurrent of
social unrest that seethes beneath the surface of much of our society.
How many
times have we seen peaceful protests in this country degenerate into riots,
looting, shootings, arsons, and worse?
How many
times have we seen crowds turn into angry mobs after court decisions they
didn’t like, sports team defeats they felt were unfair, natural disasters that
collapsed civil order — or just for the sheer hell of it?
And who
among us can say with certainty that we’d never face that same kind of
out-of-control mayhem and brutality in our own city or home town?
When you
consider all the threats encroaching on our country, one fact is clear:
We live
in an age when preparing to survive whatever comes our way is a simple fact of
life or death. It’s simply the most prudent way to survive. Prudent
leaders prepare their nation. Prudent people prepare themselves.
And
millions of NRA members and gun owners know the truth: The police can’t always
be there to protect you. The government can’t-or won’t-protect you, either.
Only you can protect you.
And
nothing provides individual citizens more immediate, undeniable and
irreplaceable protection than the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and
bear arms. It’s the one freedom that guarantees our lives and our freedoms
with force. It’s the one thing we can count on to protect ourselves when
nothing else will or even can.
Now, you
can bet the media will pounce upon and ridicule gun owners for talking about
these dangers and preparing for the worst. They’ll call us paranoid,
fear-mongering, reckless and ill-advised. They did the same thing after Sandy Hook , when the NRA said that shielding our schools
with police or certified trained armed security was the only proven method to
protect them.
Since
then, schools everywhere have done exactly what we suggested. They’re
giving their kids the first deterrent and last fail-safe defense against armed
madmen who murder without fear. Because they understand-as we all
understand-that there are surely more madmen out there, planning their attacks
on the most vulnerable among us, even now.
We were
right. History proves it. The American people know it. And men and women
who care about their safety will never let themselves be shamed, ridiculed or
accused of being “unreasonable” for defending their God-given right to
defend-life and limb.
We’ve
proven it over and over again, and we’ll do it again on Election Day.
So let
this be a declaration to America
You have
no right, no reason and no authority to deny us the protection that the
Second
Amendment alone guarantees.
We will
not be left defenseless. We will not give up our freedoms. We will not
surrender our safety to the lies of leaders who promise everything and deliver
nothing.
On
Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, we will defend our right to defend ourselves
because we have no other choice. We will vote our guns! We
will vote our freedom! We will vote our freedom! And we will
prevail! “
NOW is
the time to prepare! It’s your choice…
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