In Case Of War: Dial 911

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US citizens know exactly what to do in an emergency, Dial 911 on their telephone to summon help.


In Los Angeles that phone call goes to an Emergency Call Center located in an underground bunker in downtown Los Angeles. Underground, because it creates an aura of safety, security and control for emergency personnel. Underground, because it was cheap space for the County and City of Los Angeles.

If they survive in their concrete bunker who are they going to summon to assist you? The same emergency people in the city who are equally affected by the same disaster. Emergency responders affected by disaster conditions are not the best people to rely on in life and death situations. They have their own mortality to consider.


There is no other group of people who can assist unless they travel to your location from an area unaffected by the calamity. How long would that take? Probably too long to save a life.

So the Emergency Call Center is a comfort to all of those who have no idea what a real disaster is, and no idea that the emergency personnel aren’t really going to be able to assist you. But you won’t discover that until the disaster occurs and then it doesn’t matter that you feel deceived, that is if you survive.


Truth be told, there are very few things that can occur in a real disaster that you can rely on. It’s essentially an issue of self-survival, self-sufficiency and preparation. If you don’t have a months supply of water, canned food, first-aid items including antibiotics, soap, toilet paper, batteries, rope ladder, shovel, hammers, hand-drills, nails and screws, plywood, propane hot-plate with lots of extra canisters, matches, extra clothing, blankets, eyeglasses, hearing aids, canes, walkers, wheelchairs, tarpaulins, plastic bags, etc. etc.? Then the disaster is certain to wipe you out quickly simply because you have none of the necessities for survival.

911 won’t provide any of the above items, so you are on your own. What about the Red Cross? Only if you are in a heavily televised location, assuming TV cameras can get to your area. The Red Cross makes no bones about it. They only go to those areas where there are TV cameras. After all, they rely on donations and donations only occur when the public can see the action on TV.


The Red Cross is next door but you are pinned under a building and are shouting for help? Too bad, no TV cameras, no assistance. This is exactly what occurred in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in California. The Red Cross was heavily criticized but as they explained there are limited resources available and they need TV to promote their agenda and urge donations.

So who do you call if World War 3 breaks out? Well, there isn’t anyone. You are on your own. Calling 911 won’t help. Calling the Red Cross won’t help. Calling your Congressperson won’t help. He or she is in an underground concrete bunker praying that the war will go away, soon. Calling the police won’t help either, or the sheriff, or the courthouse, or the mayor. All of the above are preoccupied with their own version of the disaster situation.


Feeling warm and fuzzy because everything is ok today and tomorrow will be exactly the same, won’t it? Then you are vulnerable in the extreme. If you plan on surviving a real disaster don’t sit on your laurels and pretend. Get organized to acquire the items you need to survive.

Plan on leaving town in a disaster? Not by car since all of the roads will be jammed with traffic or heavily damaged or destroyed, or barricaded with huge concrete blocks that can’t be moved.

How about by air? Not from a major airport unless you have priority clearance from a government agency. Only essential personnel will be allowed to board aircraft, if there are any aircraft. How about a small plane from a local airport? The pilot and his family and friends will be leaving first and probably will not return to pick you up.


How about your own helicopter which you have ready to go in your backyard? Yes, there’s a real possibility of getting the copter into the air and leaving the area, assuming that you are not shot down or ordered to land by troops with anti-aircraft guns aimed directly at you. Still, it’s the best chance you have in this scenario. Maybe painting a large red cross on the side of your helicopter will help, or at least buy you time to land without being destroyed in mid-air.

These are some of the realities we face in our rapidly deteriorating society. The economic downturn is in fact a world-wide economic crash of huge proportions, most of which have not surfaced or are not readily apparent to the public. You can be certain that their isn’t a single politician or economist anywhere in the world who truly believes that the worst is over.


In a contrarian theory, the more people that believe in a single idea the more likely it is that the opposite will occur. Therefore, under that theory the economic crash is actually a positive thing and it’s over and now the world can get back to business as usual. Problem is that there is no business as usual anymore. Entire economic markets have vanished along with the corporations that thrived in them and the hundreds of thousand of jobs that depended on those thriving corporations.

Don’t think a global war is likely or even possible? One of the first things that occurs in a war is the disruption of the population. People forced to flee for their lives, forced to seek refugee status anywhere they can find it. Disruption occurs because there is civil and military unrest due to famine, disease, genocide, climate and natural disasters such as earthquakes. Generally, this kind of disruption is of a relatively minor nature and things return to normal over time.


What you may not be aware of is that there are 42 Million people displaced as the result of one or more of the events listed above. That includes 16 Million refugees who have fled war or persecution and another 26 Million people who are displaced within their country’s borders.
Enormous numbers that keep growing. Tension that can not be eased. Control that cannot be exercised without force and violence. People pushed into a corner with no way out and nothing to lose.

There is an old adage that the most dangerous adversary is a cornered lion. Brave because there is nothing left to lose, strong in its numbers, and empowered by the tyrants themselves.
Someone said “The tyranny of tyrants is limited only by those whom they oppress”. Maybe they were paraphrasing Frederick Douglass who is quoted as saying “The Limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.’


The concept is the same regardless of phrasing. To ignore the combined elements that fuel war is to invite a disaster of huge magnitude. Arm the oppressed and we have World War 3. They can’t reach North America? They already have. The conditions over there are not the same as here? Conditions in the US are deteriorating rapidly and the US government already considers you to be a potential enemy. You and every other American. All of us are a potential threat to government. The bigger threat to America is from its citizens, bigger than any foreign nation. Think that’s an exaggeration?

Your community police, your city and county and state law enforcement have trained repeatedly to crush any civil unrest. Think that’s a good thing? What if the unrest is about insufficient food and water. Will you watch in silence as people in your community are murdered by police or troops because they begged, screamed and shouted for food? Because they attacked a police car demanding food, because they attacked city hall demanding water, because they attacked the supermarkets. The police won’t kill those people, or will they? Yes, they most certainly will.

Large scale and widespread civil disturbance may be construed as criminal conduct and the perpetrators may be shot and killed on the spot if law enforcement feels that they are being threatened by the presence of criminals or people engaging in criminal conduct.


Massive crowds are a specialty of the Los Angeles Police Department who has already proved their enthusiastic willingness to attack peaceful demonstrators and bludgeon them. Blood without bullets. What do you think the cops will do if they actually feel threatened?

Starvation, the number one cause of civil disturbance, is a daily reality for millions of people. Not only in Africa, but right here in Los Angeles where 100,000 children go to bed hungry every night. And in every other major city in the world.


The people are hungry, they are displaced, they are oppressed, they fear for their lives, they cannot find a way out. Sound like the cornered lion? The potential for further deterioration is very real. The potential for universal uprising is very real. The potential for abrupt political change is very real. And this is how the world changes, abruptly. Gradual changes are rare unless they are contained in a controlled environment. Where there is heavy police or military oversight the citizens are forced into change of small increments.

Where only the military are supervising, abrupt political and societal change may occur without warning. What would it take to bring a military presence into our cities? Not very much. If local police are overwhelmed they will call in local and state military organizations. Which is exactly what happened in the 1992 LA Riots resulting from the beating of Rodney King, a motorist who wouldn’t stop for police.


It’s not comforting to see armed troops patrolling residential neighborhoods. The possibility of wrongful, indiscriminate deaths of civilians seems to increase with the interaction of troops and civilians. Proof of that fact is evident in the rising number of civilian deaths occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan. Same US troops, same motivation. Control at any cost. Indiscriminate killings of women and children. Can’t happen in the US? Put troops on the street under threat of attack and the response is the same, after all it is the only response possible. Troops are trained to kill. That’s what they do best.

Anarchy is around the corner. The conditions are present and possibly escalating at a rate greater than we know. Drastic refunding of American small business is essential to level out the economic distress felt in every city in the nation. That was the intent of the Obama Administration with the formation of America’s Recovery Capital Loan Program, to provide viable small business owners with up to $35,000 in an interest free loan to bridge the economic downturn.


The major banks were the funding vehicle for this program but instead of assisting Americans the banks have refused to fund the loans even though they are risk-free and priced at 2% above prime rate.

Hundred’s of thousands of small business owners are relying on those loans for survival. Another example of how the tyranny of the major banks oppresses the masses. The banks are taking billions of taxpayers dollars for bailouts but refuse to administer the very same program that would save small business in America.


Time for reflection, time for change. But the time for hope is over.

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