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SAFE Ark Two Newsletter
Special Radio Edition
Part One of Three
September 19th, 2013
This special edition of the Newsletter is the first of a special three part series being devoted to the subject of the radio.
The radio is very important to the SAFE Reconstruction concept.
In this first part, of the three part series, there will be described what having this radio capability will do for you.
The second part of the series will talk about the plan to set up and
operate the SAFE Ham Net itself and in the third and final part of the
series will examine the equipment plan itself.
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SAFE versus Survival
Many people who look at SAFE www.webpal.org and who join this newsletter
are what are called survivalists or preppers. Survival is a requirement
for recovery and reconstruction. What is unique about SAFE is that
while it provides what we think is the best plan for survival it also
provides a plan for reconstruction.
The Five Step SAFE Plan for Survival
Our first three recommendations for survival are:
Step 1. Get out of the cities NOW!
Step 2. Get out of the cities NOW!
Step 3. Get out of the cities NOW!
Realistically, after telling people this for several decades, we realize
that most people are not going to do that. They feel they have to stay
with jobs, family, home investments, or whatever. Their alternative
plans are:
a. Leave when things get worse. When a nuclear event or some such
thing occurs overseas, or perhaps earlier when the geopolitical
situation gets worse.
b. Have a bug out bag and a bug out location ready and get a fast jump on everyone else.
Not likely. Even if EMP doesn't shut everything down suddenly and
simultaneously it is unlikely that separated family members will be able
to reach a distant gathering point.
Step 4. The SAFE alternative recommendation, to getting out of the cities, is to plan to shelter in place.
Not the best idea, but after decades of telling people to get out of
the cities it is recognized as the best that can be hoped for.
Survival in the City
or Elsewhere
The traditional recommendation for survival in the city, or elsewhere, is:
"Bible, Bullets, and Biscuits"
The Prepper attitude is either:
"Me and my trusty gun will defend my family and our preps."
or:
"We will hide where no one will find us."
Fight or flight. The natural animal response to danger.
Won't work in this case. In the fights someone will eventually take out
the alpha dog and the rest of the pack will be easy. As for
flight/hiding, there is nowhere to flee to that you won't eventually be
found.
"Bible, Bullets, Biscuits."
All good but never enough.
Bible: No matter how strong your faith in God you will likely
come to a place where you need more faith. The true answer in the Bible
is sharing and caring. The final Foremost Personage in the Bible laid
down His life for others - and that was His advice to all. You are going
to die anyway - that is not the issue. The issue is how you live.
Bullets: If you have millions of rounds you won't be able to
fire them all before one takes you out.
Biscuits: The more you store, the more likely a target you will
become. If you store any substantial amount, hungry neighbors will come
after you. Store enough tons, or hundreds of tons, of food and even any
remanents of the government or military will come after you.
BBB - Bible, Bullets, Biscuits
Bible: If you are not into Bible now, you will be into religion of some kind - because there are no atheists in fox holes.
Bullets: If bullets aren't your thing, the need for protection
and security will be, no matter if you are physically handicapped, an
octogenarian, or some other limitation. Bullets aren't for everyone, but
security and protection are. I hope that you are reading SAFE (Safe
America For Everyone) for a reason.
Biscuits: Food is necessary - but let us be practical - many
people cannot store a two year supply. A small fraction of Mormons may,
but most don't, and those that do will have the privilege/bounty of
sharing it all in the first weeks/months.
The Best Plan for Everyone
The SAFE Plan has to be suitable for everyone. The protypical individual
that would have a difficult time in preparing is TYSMWYC (The Young
Single Mother With Young Children) on assistance.
Bible, Bullets, Biscuits
It will be good if she is big on Bible, but as for bullets, one single
bullet and her children will have no protection. In her situation she
probably cannot put away very many beans, biscuits or bacon. A plan that
will save her - will save you.
Step 5. The SAFE Plan is Service
Service to God
Service to Community
Service to Others
Some see the above plan as idealistic and unrealistic, but God has told
us that this is the only plan that will work, for Him or for us.
And the SAFE Plan WILL work. Take this plan for TYSMWYC. We cannot be
totally specific but there are solutions. At the time of emergency, in
case of fallout, in a highrise she can move to a center floor and
interior hallway. In some buildings there may be an underground parking
garage. If her apartment is suitable the more she can stay in familiar
surroundings, the better. The KEY (above all) is cooperation with
others.
The more that she can associate with and provide for a group around her,
the more that she can/will be provided with defense and safety because
that is going to be a mutual need.
If she has stored away some bags or buckets of the most basic survival
foods such as beans, lentils, rice, grains, then she will have something
to share with others, and if she is of service to the community the
community will share with her and help her to survive.
The key to all this is community and service. The community may be
several houses on a street or several floors in a high-rise. Family,
members of a church group, or strangers brought together. It may be one
or two dozen people, or a couple of hundred.
The more service an individual can provide, the more valuable they will
be to the community and the more likely to be provided for by community
resources for protection and essentials such as food, water, and warmth.
What kind of service can
TYSMWYC provide? Most important is spiritual strength and leadership.
For TYSMWYC, that will sound unbelievable to many, but it is an idea
that will be explained in future newsletters.
The key to service is preparation. This is where the true Prepper can
shine. Knowledge is a great power. Understanding 'what' needs to be done
and how to do it is one of the first requirements of leadership. Having
copies of "The Paper" which is available as a pdf press master or having read and understood about LERNs ahead of time in the book "Society AFTER Doomsday" will be a great asset.
I have explained in previous newsletters how TYSMWYC can provide a great
service by being able to provide radiation detection equipment, and
understanding of how to use it. But, that is only one example. I will
give just a couple more, but everyone's situation is different (remember
we are not talking about just TYSMWYC, but also others with very
different resources and capabilities). Still, there are many other
things she could do also.
For example, if she would take some First Aid courses, and really focus
on just two or three real skills there - such as how to wrap wounds. It
is an amazing skill that many doctors can't do well. Books are available
and it just requires a lot of practice on any available subject. Ten
types of bandages done fifty times and she would be an expert.
She could store great quantities of bandaging material by gathering free
suitable salvage material from recyling stores, and then cutting it up,
sterilizing it and packaging it. One can improvise and acquire many
kinds of materials, such as kinds of tape that will have to make do.
Some kinds of salves can be made very inexpensively and some
disinfectants can be acquired in bulk very cheaply or almost free in
present day society. It is amazing what is thrown out. Someone who has
prepared, and knows how to bandage wounds, will be of great value.
A next step up would be simple suturing, and above that setting and
casting breaks. Medical care of any kind will be highly valued. Having
the skills, confidence, and materials will make one completely accepted,
no matter that they lack degrees to hang on their walls.
A second example was promised - but don't think for a moment that many
dozens more couldn't be provided for her. Anyway, here a second example
for TYSMWYC. Soup preparation. Knowing a number of emergency soup
recipies. Having practiced with them. Acquiring, if possible ahead of
time, a large kettle and knowing of some way to heat it. Storing a
quantity of bulk spices would really be a hand up.
With all that - here is one more that TYSMWYC (or anyone else can do)
and that is radio, because that is the particular thing that this series
is about. Radiation equipment and radio are two VERY VALUABLE skills
that TYSMWYC (and anyone else) can acquire.
The SAFE EMS (Emergency Messaging System) ham radio network is going to
be so very important because there will be no other way that people will
be able to:
a. Find out what is going on around them.
b. Be able to reach others at a distance to cooperate with them.
c. Communicate with members of families from whom they are separated.
Anyone who can provide this service will be EXTREMELY valuable to the
other members of their surviving community, and their own survival will
be assured as much as anyone's.
Next, in the second part of this three part Special Radio Series there
will be explained how we plan to build and operate the SAFE network.
In the third and last part of the series we will discuss the radio equipment itself.
Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org
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