The Continued Escalation

Greetings to all, 

I came across an article, entitled "Lemons: Gun-Totin' Left-Wingers Demonstrate at the Arizona Capitol: Is Bloodshed on the Horizon?" This article split me in two, one part in hysterics and one part deeply concerned. In this article talks about how this is the beginning of the true escalation of the left following President Trump election. 

Here is what happened:

"40 or so assorted anarchists, Brown Berets, and members of a group calling itself the Phoenix John Brown Gun Club across the street from the state Capitol, openly armed to the proverbial teeth. The left-wingers, some of them masking their faces, some not. Many of them were armed with long guns. You know, just like the "patriot" groups." 

Now, do really care about a group of left-wing protestors deciding to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to bear arms, especially if they are in accordance with State and Local laws? Nope not at all, here is where I DO have a problem. 

The author of the article continued:

"While I was taking photographs of them, a woman approached me and told me that the group would not be granting interviews. She gave me a flier with a statement from something called the "Redneck Revolt," which according to the flier aims to "put the RED back in redneck."

This website is filled with your typical left-wing nonsense about "fighting white supremacy". The creation of this group is in clear response to the Democratic Party's loss of the "White Working Class Voters" in 2016. 

If you go to their "principles" page, you will see the another reinterpretation of the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto. With the exception that now it is aimed squarely at white people. Most of it is nonsense, with the exception of "We are an aboveground Militant Formation", with the aim to: 

"We strongly believe in community defense, the basis of which must be meaningful involvement in our own communities, material support for other liberatory defense groups and survival programs, and an acceptance of the risk we take on when we commit to defending each other. Defense means more than just confrontation. Our relationships with our neighbors are strengthened by breaking bread together, knowing each other's families and struggles, and becoming accountable to one another. Most importantly, we are willing to take on personal risk to defend those in our community who live under the risk of reactionary violence because of their skin color, gender identity, sexuality, religion, or birth country. For us, that means that we meet our neighbors face-to-face, and stand alongside them to face threats whenever possible. We understand this means that we may also become targets ourselves and become known to their enemies, but we act always with the understanding that those who oppose liberty for all people are already our enemies. Power is built collectively through intentional relationships and networks with each other. The best security measures enable us to act militantly and from a position of strength, rather than preventing us from taking meaningful action"

Ladies and Gentleman this is narcissistic personality disorder, but now with guns. We have seen the rise of Black Lives Matter, Anti-Fa and now this. You must always mind your surroundings, because not only do these people feel they are fighting for a just cause, now they have given themselves just reason to do so. My real issue is that these people, who are driven by emotion, will end up causing a catastrophic event, resulting in terrible loss of life.

Stay Safe, Stay Ready 
 

London has not fallen yet, but it is close

Yesterday we saw a gruesome display of what the west refuses to acknowledge. The clash of cultures has been an unmitigated disaster. What we are witnessing in Europe and in some places here in the Union is the result of the promotion of one culture to the detriment of another. Now I will go into the actual attack in a moment, but this does need to be said.

Events do not happen in a bubble.

When I was teaching history, the first thing I would tell my students is that nothing happens spontaneously, but are the culmination of actions that have take place, sometimes YEARS before (a prime example is the Boston Massacre was a result of Washington's ill fated raid on Fort Duquesne). Yesterday was another example of these events being set up far in advance. Look a the numbers, and if you can see past emotions, propaganda, and political correctness, you will see that this is only going to get worst, from The Guardian UK (keep in mind this article is 2 years old)

"The Muslim population of England and Wales is growing faster (2.71 million) than the overall population, with a higher proportion of children and a lower ratio of elderly people, according to an analysis of official data. 

One in three Muslims is under 15, compared with fewer than one in five overall. There are also fewer elderly Muslims, with 4% aged over 65, compared with 16% of the overall population.

Half the Muslims in England and Wales were born there and almost three-quarters (73%) identify themselves as British. Two-thirds of Muslims are ethnically Asian and 8% are white.

80% of Muslims live in inner-city areas of Greater London, the West Midlands, the north-west and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Eight per cent of all school-age children (five to 15) are from Muslim households."

The popular saying is that only small percentage of a given Muslim population supports the Sharia Law. Let's use a popular number, let say 3%. So if my math is correct, that is 81,300 Muslims that are walking around London at this very moment that support Sharia and all it represents. That means their are 81,300 Muslims that live in London that are either neutral or happy that their was an attack on the Houses of Parliament. Well, what if it is only 1 percent? Ok, then that leaves 27,100 Muslims in England that were happy about that. Compound that idea with the fact that the Muslim population is out producing the English population, I'll let you figure that out.

As far as the attack is concerned, the perpetrator used a Kia SUV "4X4", proving again that these acts do not need to be conducted with guns, or IED's or any of the things that are commonly associated with "terrorist attacks". You want to find out more information about this attack, see my post on the terror attack that took place in Nice, France. Until the root of the problem is addressed, this is all folly to examine and argue. Trust me, there will be more of these to come.

Good Luck and Good Hunting

National Preparedness Goal vs. Disaster Psychology Missions Discussion

When looking at the commonalities and differences between the National Preparedness Goal put out by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) vs the mission repertory of disasters, we should first look at the objectives of these two methods:
 
 I will compare the concepts of Preparation and Recovery within the methods. The first look at determent. Both methods address the idea of Prevention. That is where the similarities end. As far as the differences:

 Disaster Psychology Mission Set (DPMS):

Anticipation and Preparation – One of the focuses is on the “important differences in the ways individual’s vs organizations prepare for the disaster.[1] These preparations can be for anything, from natural disasters to man-made events.

Homeland Security Cycle (HSC):

Prevention- Focuses on how to physically prepare for incidents, more specifically terrorism driven. “Prevention also includes the intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland defense activities conducted in the event of an act of terrorism in the homeland to determine if follow-on attacks are planned and to thwart and/or apprehend the adversary.”[2]

 Now looking at the concept of Recovery:

 DPMS:

Resilience and Recovery- This idea considers how the disaster will impact the frame of mind of those impacted.  The reason being that you can have all the resources available to you, but unless the individuals in the community have healthy and positive influences to foster mental resilience, the physical recovery will be stalled until that is accomplished.[3]

 HSC:

“Recovery includes those capabilities necessary to assist communities affected by an incident in recovering effectively. It is focused on a timely restoration, strengthening, and revitalization of the infrastructure”.[4] This one sentence demonstrates where the focus of the HSC really is, on the infrastructure. These are shelter, roads, power, etc. The entire focus of the National Preparedness Goal is on physical.

As you can see, the HSC focuses on the material or physical aspects of disaster preparation, while the DPMS focuses on how people behave with this knowledge. I believe that the HSC can learn from DPMS that there is more than physical needs have to be address when dealing with disasters, whereas DPMS can incorporate better overall preparation strategies that can be found in HSC.

 Cheers


Information obtained from Penn State course "HLS 558 Disaster Psychology"

Emerging from the Bunker

Greetings everyone!

Sorry for the long hiatus, just been busy getting school stuff out of the way. I am currently 9 credits deep and experiencing the joys of graduate school! Anyway I hope to get back to posting at least once a week, but hopefully sooner.

Good Luck, and Good Hunting.