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POT SHOT

A minion sent me a link to an Atlantic Monthly magazine article, which I would normally skip because of the source, but for some reason, perhaps as I was in the middle of my hastily discontinued Kindle Unlimited subscription and I was agog at the Unlimited supply of really crappy books and needed a well written voice to give me hope once again that somebody knew how to use the typewriter themselves rather than turning it over to a team of feces flinging chimps, I went ahead and started reading. And it was pretty good!

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I apologize for not noting the issue, but it shouldn't be impossible to find. It was on that big ass valley in Colorado where a lot of people are living poor. It is the same location the guy that wrote the $5k Travel Trailer Homesteading book lived at ( HERE but don't bother buying the book-it is twenty some odd years out of date ). The thing is, twenty-four years ago, he was already warning that the Zoning Nazi's were making frugal off grid homesteaders lives miserable ( I think he had been grandfathered in ), and that was probably prior to the state turning BlueBelly.

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So, here you have present day homesteaders moving there and “compliance officers” are harassing them about whatever it is government officials do to keep poor people away from their jurisdiction, or if you get lucky, merely to shake you down for fines and fees ( they call these “bribes” in Spanish down in Mexico ), which is probably things like requiring a minimum square footage house rather than a mobile home or trailer, a septic permit and etcetera. Whatever it is this feral humpers pull out of their ass to outlaw the lower class.

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And here is the fun part. These bastards won't go into certain sections because the “officer”, riding along with Sheriff's Deputies, are drawing fire! Once the pimping police car draws a couple of pot shots, the department won't visit that area anymore ( not for the zoning police-one imagines they will send out SWAT and helicopters and drones if it is in the interest of the Sheriff ). How awesome is that?! This warms the cockles of my heart. It means an insurgency is already afoot, that the guerrilla warfare of generations past is not dead.

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Of course, there is a catch. There is always a catch. And the catch is that these people are not Working Poor, or Retirement Poor, or Molon Labe Poor, they are simply White Trash Welfare Poor. They are criminal scumbags. If you leave into town, you better have a dog in a fence around your trailer, because sometimes the trailer itself is stolen, not just the solar panels and propane tanks. They are the kind of poor that don't budget for trips into town ( and town is a long ass way away ), the kind of poor that buy the land but don't have a reliable vehicle to get to town, or to heat the trailer in winter.

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So not only are the lazy thieves, they are stupid lazy thieves. Which usually means they are druggies on top of that ( inviting the Sheriff to conduct crack head raids, perhaps on your neighbor ). They were stupid enough to think moving to Socialist Paradise Colorado ( no offense to any minions, I'm sure that you moved there when it was free, like I did with Nevada ) was a good idea, without a car to drive a hundred miles a day ( well, whatever it is-I think it was said the valley is the size of Connecticut ) and without good prospects of a job for winter heat.

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The only thing they were smart about was finding what they thought was the cheapest land, and buying it instead of squatting illegally. But I don't think that is enough to make them the kind of neighbors you want. At the end of the day, when oil gets unaffordable or unavailable and it will for no other reason than Iran ( or, punishing Saudi Arabia ), these stupid humps are stuck out in the middle of nowhere, literally, and will likely target your place. A PRE-apocalypse combat scenario.

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If you think this is far fetched, why are there brazen ballsy homesteaders out there willing to shoot at cops? They will shoot at you with far less reservations. Yes, they shot at the cop car, not to kill but to warn away unwanted attention, but the point is that if the cops wanted to take personal offense, or if the Sheriff wanted to make a big deal about it ( one imagines the budget is too constrained, which is probably why the residents are being squeezed in the first place ), it is rather dangerous shooting at cops.

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The valley isn't that populated. Obviously, the shooter is probably firing AWAY from his actual lot location, but the cops could if needed find out who it is easy enough, due to the sparsely inhabited area. I applaud their efforts, I honestly do. I wouldn't have the balls. I'm just glad the spirit of rebellion is still alive and that it doesn't take much to fight back. Just don't mess with these kind of deranged bastards! Like, for instance, being their neighbor ( and yes, the attitude that YOU are a danger just from being there will be prevalent. Even if you lived there first. That is the attitude I have, after all ).

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Now, you do realize that this Colorado valley isn't unique, I trust. Almost everyone is reporting that their location is now subject to theft, no matter how far away or isolated. There were plenty of YouTube videos on this, and plenty of Minion confirmation. Have a dog or three. Always stay armed at your homestead. Realize you are living in Indian Country. The 2008 Crash HAS gotten worse. What? You think that rents doubling, car prices doubling, medical care unavailable except to the rich or illegals, all that isn't squeezing a good portion of the population?

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You think that HALF of workers earning less than $30k isn't forcing the former middle class into poverty? You don't think those in poverty don't turn to crime? Yeah, they are on drugs. Most of the population is, even if most of that is legal drugs ( Deep State funding from the Afghan War poppy prize ). “Another one to kill the pain”. Wishing people to be smarter doesn't work, sorry. Most ghetto residents stay in the ghetto, but some, enough, have moved out into the rural areas. Welcome to overpopulation.

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But take comfort in these acts of defiance, even if from the criminal class ( on par with moonshiners “disappearing” revenue agents ). We don't have to be impotent, rolling over like a whipped dog as the Police State grows. My own personal feelings? The day “indefinite detention without charges” passed into law was the day our entire ruling class lost legitimacy. That doesn't mean I'll fight back. Nor will I urge others to do so. That is illegal. What I WILL do, however, is cheer on anyone that does.

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I'm sure soon enough they will get around to making such a poor attitude illegal, but I don't care. My bad attitude is all I have left. I cherish it :)

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