Hannity Transcript - Survival in the City Not Just For Extremists Anymore

[Ken]

Hannity Transcript - Survival in the City Not Just For Extremists Anymore

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527480,00.html

[Lorna]

I think it's great that the mainstream is finally opening their eyes and realizing they need to do something for themselves instead of relying on the government to do it for them.

[crashdive123]

I think it's great that the mainstream is finally opening their eyes and realizing they need to do something for themselves instead of relying on the government to do it for them.

Amen. If only more would.

[Ole WV Coot]

Cities are jungles and tougher to survive in. I have a strong dislike for large cities now that I am a little past 30. I actually had more personal threats in large cities than in some other countries with random violence. Survival will depend on what you can store, defend and "borrow" from others. Even without violence growing food and keeping it, increase in home invasions: Read lack of defensive weapons here and everyone is a stranger. Just like the military tried to teach the enemy was sub-human that's your fate. If you attempt to remain what we consider civilized you won't make it. Now for the bad news.........

[Ken]

I have a strong dislike for large cities now that I am a little past 30.

:whistling:

[Rick]

I don't know. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think people pull together in bad times and try to help one another. I don't discount the fact there are bad guys out there but I think they are the minority, just like today. When push comes to shove everyone will be helping each other out. We saw it in Oklahoma City, the LA Earthquake, 911 and Katrina.

We can afford to ignore one another now. I don't have to know who my neighbor is (even though I personally do). When it gets bad, that's when you find stranger helping stranger.

[Mischief]

Rick,very true when it is confined to one area.I have some serious doubts if it was a national event.

[crashdive123]

Rick,very true when it is confined to one area.I have some serious doubts if it was a national event.

I disagree. I think it will cause communities to bond even more. Think about the morning of September 11, 2001. Folks were scared and unsure but came together. At the time - at that very instant - we had no idea of the magnitued of what was happening. Was it just going to be the two planes in NYC? No - then the Pentagon was hit. Then a plane went down in a field in Pennsylvania. How many more planes were coming down? 2, 3, 500? We didn't know, but started coming together.

[Ken]

I I don't have to know who my neighbor is (even though I personally do).

I'm fortunate. I've had the most reliable and capable neighbors you could ask for. :clap:

[Rick]

A national event is pretty unlikely. Not because it can't occur, just because the U.S. is pretty darn large. 9 million square kilometers. The 9th largest country in the world. So, for something to impact the whole of the U.S. I think we'd have a lot more to worry about than some local bad guy.

Water shortage, food shortage, electrical outage, etc. etc. all tend to be regional in nature just because we are so vast.

Then add in what Crash said and you're back to helping each other.

[LudwigVan]

I agree for the most part about people coming together, just remember all it takes is one bad apple to ruin the whole bunch, if you know what I mean. And there ARE plenty of bad apples out there.

Some folks have it in thier mind that when anything bad happens we will all go out and hold hands and start producing food and everything else again in perfect utopian harmony. Some people have it in thier mind that the slightest disaster will turn the planet a hellfire n' brimstone pit of hate where everyone for themselves, eat the women and children first, etc. etc. Either way is a gross exaggeration, we will be somewhere in the middle I think.

[Winnie]

A national event is far more likely over here,the Uk is such a small area. Luckily the last one the people survived by coming together. Would that happen today? I doubt it, people are far more selfish and intransigent. I only know 2 or 3 people in the village and most, including myself are incomers to the village, but I would hope we pulled together in an emergency.
The biggest problem I see is that this country has now got to the state where we can no longer feed ourselves, even if all available land were put into food production it would take several years to achieve that and we'd still fall short by a long way.
For the most part the majority of folk no longer have (or want) skills to survive, I'm not talking wilderness survival, just being able to survive. There would be mass migration from towns and cities to the country once all the recources had been used up. THAT is what the likely scenario would be. Could country communities or individuals survive this and defend themselves? Well again I doubt it.
You guys are fortunate, overall your landmass to population ratio is still pretty good and there you still have large tracts of wilderness at your disposal, If the shout went up To the hills! well think Glastonbury festival and you have a pretty good idea. I'm really depressed now.

[Grant H]

I think it's great that the mainstream is finally opening their eyes and realizing they need to do something for themselves instead of relying on the government to do it for them.

Give a man a fish and he will be fed for a day; teach him how to fish, he will be fed for a lifetime.

[Rick]

Give him a couple of sticks of dynamite and he can feed the whole town....just sayin'.....

[Ken]

Give him a couple of sticks of dynamite and he can feed the whole town....just sayin'.....

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[bulrush]

I take pride in earning what I have. I don't have much, but what I have, I earned myself. It was not given to me.

I also tend to prefer lovingly crafted hand-made items. I'll tolerate impersonal items mass-produced in a cold factory, but it's not my preference. Anyone can buy a birthday present on the way home from work but few will put the time and energy into making one by hand.

And remember what my dad told me: "You're special, just like everyone else."
:)

[Rick]

That really is a good post, Bulrush. You're absolutely correct across the board.