ammo dump PA

AMMO DUMP PA

I had a caring minion take the time and suggest an article idea. Now, usually, these ideas are rather good. Most, alas, just don't tickle my fancy. I have to be motivated to rant, blather and pontificate. The best subject doesn't do me any good if my muse is uninterested ( another minion questioned me on my Wrong Gender use of “muse”. I was incorrect using the term as it was historically, rather using as it was more recently used in the last century in a non-religious context. Today it is used more like “subconscious”. Historically, it was a female deity ).

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Well, SHE liked it very much ( yeah, I like it better in a supernatural context. Almost as if Baby Jesus himself was helping a brother out ). The historic and pop culture ammo dump and how that might effect the balance of power post-apocalypse. I think, just maybe, someone got hold of my book “Forever Gun” ( in BBBno9 ) and liked the idea. If you recall, or if you don't, read the book, at the time of writing ( I'm pretty sure I serialized it on the blog, but darned if I can find it-four or five years ago ), rimfire was unaffordable.

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It was actually cheaper at the time to reload 9mm than to buy 22's. And if you recall, about the same time the government bought up billions of rounds of ammo. Much was made of it at the time. They are arming up ALL government employees to kill us all! But what if the government was just buying their Forever Guns? I know, it sounds far fetched. And I'm delving into Hollywood Lore here to make my case, so I KNOW I'm going out a bit on a limb here. Take it as a more far out conspiracy theory.

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But what if they actually do have guys like Robert Redford in “Three Days Of The Condor”? Guys with jobs which are to read unconventional sources to mine bizarre ideas. Don't you think DARPA does this from reading science fiction and nerd computer sites? Why not read all the post-apocalypse sources to get better ideas for running FEMA ( who was founded for Continuity Of Government, NOT to bring bottled water to idiots too stupid to poor flood water out of their boots )? I know, I'm grabbing hubris by its scrawny neck and sexually violating it. But I like the theory I was responsible, anyway.

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You know, I know, and even from his grave Ross Perot knows, that FEMA was never about safe guarding the federal government leaders so that they could reconstruct the government. I think they knew far more about nuclear weapons than they let on ( and still wouldn't admit even after Fuki ) and they knew the US would be hosed. They probably were just there to shelter the leaders in place and protect them. We couldn't build Politburo Playground Bunkers, as that would remind the proletariat how expendable we were, so they made up stories about how the surviving leadership would be there to guide us after the bombs fell.

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Nobody was going to be left to guide, of course, but the fiction had to be maintained, that we weren't complete idiots building a doomsday weapon just to clutch to our imperial colonies. Who wants to admit that we nuked the entire globe into species extinction just so DuPont and United Fruit had extra cheap commodities to buy to pad the bottom line? That would be embarrassing. Luckily for mankind, Russia ceded the contest and nuclear tensions ratcheted WAY down. What to do with all those top secret bunkers?

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Well, just as all survivalist writers drop the last danger and move to the next one, to keep customers shopping, the government just focused on the next Big Idea that called for protecting the President and his minions. After all, FEMA budgets were on the line here. The bastards in the CIA and sister services False Flaged the Twin Towers ( the first time ) and Oklahoma City, to get terrorism blamed as Public Enemy Number One. Militias were introduced as Exhibit A.

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But that didn't really fly, back then. Perhaps memories of the Black Panthers and the SLA were still too fresh. As in, Meh!, been there, seen that, not worth the extra “defense” spending. Not a plausible enough enemy to get the public work up about. Of course, the US military can NEVER afford to fight an actual nation state armed force. We can't even defeat guerrillas. Well, of COURSE, we could, if we wanted to. Just nuke them from space. Total genocide. Why didn't we, after the Soviets were gone? Who was going to oppose our use of nuclear weapons?

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But the reason the military is neither equipped or trained or willing to fight a real enemy is two fold. One, the military industrial complex is there to make money. Period. It ain't about defense, about offense or about common sense. It isn't there to protect the country from REAL enemies, but the enemies to its profits. And two, I truly believe our nuclear umbrella has already been allowed to decay to the point of near impotency. We just keep cannibalizing failing components, shrinking the pool of available weapons ( keeping weapons current, with warheads that haven't lost potency, using microchips we must import from abroad, is VERY expensive ).

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At some point, you have a limited response ability. We cannot afford to fight a real enemy posing a real threat. So we pick Pretend Enemies that have no means to nuke us. Which is why we are bombing Habeebs from aircraft carriers ( which are obsolete against other armies, but just fine for bombing our colonies who step out of line ). The entire point of the GWOT is certainly not to win ( not that we could, against Afghans, unless we played the Genocide Card ), but to expend munitions for the glorious good of the Defense Industry. And the bankers, who loan us a trillion a year to MOAB strike camel riders.

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The military doesn't necessarily firehose munitions because it helps in the safety of our troops. After all, military doctrine for a very long time is to get our forces attacked so we could find the spot to open up on with artillery. All these munitions being fired are oh so very profitable. Troop loss is secondary, if even considered past not upsetting a Congressman's constituents. Unless that gets in the way of that Congressman's reelection fund, of course. I stipulate to you that the geniuses wearing Stars And Bars never much learned past Napoleon.

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You might recall that long after repeating smokeless powder small arms were introduced, the Army was still quite happy issuing the troops single shot carbines. Sent out in small numbers, to save on the military budget, it was easy for them to be surrounded by hostile Indians, with slower loading weapons. No, military doctrine is not written to favor the actual fighting man at the tip of the spear. It was only incidentally that they are now equipped with mass firepower. Unfortunately, most people think that one, the military as a whole knows what it is doing and two, it chooses appropriate tactics.

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The cult of mass firepower, semi-autos ( it would be full auto, if allowed ), spray and pray and suppressive fire is alive and well. Rather than telling you how that is wrong, at least for the apocalypse, I'll explore how that doctrine will be used against us by the evil forces of FEMA. The organization put in place not to suppress rebellion, but to be the Praetorian Guard of the Empire. Continued tomorrow.

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note: free for today book.  Not PA, seems more military thriller.  China smuggles nukes into the US HERE 
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