Some thoughts of James Rawles | Emergency Preparedness | Forums

for those of you who don't know who Mr Rawles is he is the owner of survivalblog and author of several books including patriots.

Some of his points from the interview

" I think it would be impossible to disarm the people of this country. Along with Yemen we’re the most heavily armed society on the planet. It would be absolutely impossible to disarm the citizenry. There might be an attempt to do it incrementally over the course of generations. I think that’s the only way that would happen. There are so many guns being produced each year – a couple of million guns each year – it’s just mathematically impossible, if not socially impossible, to even envision the logistics of trying to disarm the American citizenry. It just can’t happen. There’s too many guns in circulation and they’re essentially the final guarantor of our freedom."

" In all of my writings I’ve stressed that the North American power grids – and there are three of them – are the real lynch pin of our modern technological society. If the grids go down, all bets are off. It’s important that people plan for the worst case. The worst case would, of course, be grid down. The chances of that happening are fairly small, but if you’re prepared for the worst case you can take anything lesser in stride. In terms of the power grid, if they knock that leg out from underneath society they can create a cascade of events that will be completely beyond their control.Martial law is not going to restore order if the power grid goes down and does not come back up within a few days."

"I think the whole rhetoric about martial law tends to be overblown, because the logistics of implementing martial law would be daunting. Even in the United States, where we have a fairly sophisticated military, the numbers just don’t add up for martial law being instituted for more than just a very short period of time. We have a military that’s primarily deployed overseas right now. The military here in the United States, active and reserve components, don’t even have enough vehicles for training much less live operations. The majority of the rolling stock for the US military right now is in places like Bosnia and Afghanistan. How do you institute martial law if you can’t even get troops from point A to point B? Obsessing on martial is probably not productive, but we do need to be on guard to guard our liberty, and we do need to speak up when there are abuses of our Constitutional Rights, especially the first amendment."

The Interview is about 24 minutes long, figured some of you guys would like to listen

http://www.youtube.c.....cBDejd3OA#!

http://www.youtube.c.....Op5e9UNyv0