Gun Shops, Grocers, Other Retailers Key to Disaster Survival

When the stinkiest FEMA kind of stuff hits the fan, anyone who has a business dealing in key resources will find their valuable inventories and property at risk of sack and pillage by looters, or outright theft by government. There is a way to protect such assets while at the same time insuring better chances of survival of families.

How do I protect my business in a disaster?

by H. Michael Sweeney

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What can gun shop owners do to protect against gun consfication?

The Threat to Business Property is significant in a disaster…

Korean shop owners (rooftop) defend shops during LA Riots to augment or supplant Law Enforcement (click for riot details)

In the prior part of this series we reviewed a wide variety of disaster situations that make emergency preparedness an ultra-important concern for families, reasons far more serious and far reaching than mere quakes, floods, or tornadoes. In the second part, we proposed a disaster preparedness plan much more comprehensive and truly useful than that advised by FEMA/DHS, albeit one government will never approve. Why? Because it’s closer to their own preparations and mimics their own capabilities, and removes you from dependence upon them. That means they cannot control you by being your only source for key survival items.

But the previous material addressed family needs from their perspective. And, there were certain aspects of such a plan which would prove difficult for many families without the help of an outside party. Then we have businesses to consider, who have their own unique concerns as to what happens in dire emergencies. Business owners or responsible managers of many kinds of retail and other business with select kinds of inventories or resources, should be every bit as concerned as a family, and looking for a disaster preparedness plan which specifically protects their valuable business assets, both real property and inventories.

There are several key reasons to consider this a critical concern: One, many disasters are deemed Acts of God and are therefore not included under insurance provisions unless, perhaps, paying extra premiums for specific policy riders such as a flood or tornado insurance. No insurance policy provides protection against acts of war, which includes revolution, military coups and similar political unrest, often even excluding protection against riot losses — regardless of the cause of the riot.

And beyond the worry of insurance protection, FEMA’s plan for your assets in an emergency will very likely include confiscation and take over of your property ‘for the good of the community.’ Similar concerns exist in any Martial Law situation. So if you have such a business, you should worry and wonder if there is not some way you can protect your assets from such total or near-total loss or take over. Never fear, the Professional Paranoid is here to help…

What will happen to gun shops in a FEMA declared emergency?

Partnering with Family Collectives

The prior posts in this series dealt with idea of forming multi-family unit collectives for improved emergency preparedness at the family level, as well as why such preparedness plans and kits should go well beyond minimal FEMA advice and prepare for long-term disasters, not just three day fire/quake/flood protection. This involved numerous considerations and plans in terms of organization and supplies, individual responsibilities and more. But for many such collectives as might be established, some items become difficult to come by or store due to cost or special attributes.

The bottom line is, in a serious emergency situation, looting and general criminal activity become a serious threat to any owner of a business handling inventories of critical resources which are also valuable to long-term disaster kits. Often just as important, many such inventories represent a storage problem for long-term home survival kits. Gun shops especially, and even food or fuel can be difficult to store in quantity suitable for a long-lived disaster. Many more items could be added to such a list, as a given collective of families will have their own unique set of limitations and issues to resolve. As result, even a motorcycle shop or car dealership, auto parts store, tire shop, or tool shop, may find themselves in the same position as a gun shop. In some communities, for example, boats will be a key product in need of protection and in demand as an emergency item. So there are many kinds of businesses who can take advantage of the ideas offered here.

My goal in this series of posts was to attempt to find a solution addressing both these concerns by partnering family collectives with such owners. And, the word owners could in some cases mean ‘managers,’ where owners are corporations or persons who do not themselves manage and/or live near enough to ‘take charge’ for the purpose. Such partnerships are simple: the owner joins or heads a family collective, either one they formed on their own (perhaps made up of employee families), or by joining with someone who approaches them with an acceptable offer.

In some cases, such as gun shop owners or owners of vey large facilities (e.g., super market,), they may wish to partner with multiple collectives. This is because in the event of worst-case long-term disaster scenarios, there may be a need for significant armed resistance against third parties, even to include unconstitutional seizure by Federal forces. By unconstitutional, I mean in the event of an attempt to overthrow the government by the military, or armed insurrection to restore the Republic against some other form of tyranny.  We will know that horse when it rides into town; mass arrests or attempts to seize weapons door-to-door will be its hallmarks.

We all remember the LA Riots? Even though the National Guard was deployed, it was up to citizens to protect their own property. Neither soldier nor Police and Fire were of much help. Korean family-owned businesses gave us the model we need to consider following; they armed themselves to the teeth and took to the roofs of their stores and residences and fended off looters. Family units can band together in like fashion, and better yet if also joining with a one or more business owners in some mutually beneficial arrangement.

Gun shop owners, in particular, have a serious need. They become the highest-value target in town, and therefore, need many able-bodied people to bear arms — in sufficient number to become a significant deterrent to assault. This works well for the families involved, as well, providing them with low or no-cost access to weapons needed to protect their families and homes. The trick is to find ways to do it which do not amount to simply giving away inventory. Not a problem, given that provisional contractual agreements can be drawn up in advance.

How can we prevent government confiscation of our business assets in a declared emergency?

Making it work for all concerned

I propose that such partnerships might be best approached with a contractual agreement for mutual protection. The agreement should provision for both the possibility of taking possession of weapons and munitions immediately and only after a serious event transpires. It might provide for trade of ownership of weapons deployed once the crises is over for a minimum guarantee of service to the shop owner providing protection of the business property.  Weapons can be deemed as ‘rented’ during the disaster with options to purchase afterwards, perhaps with rental applying to the price, or may be considered as ‘payment’ for protection helps rendered, or some mix, thereof. Such items, pre any event, need not be fully deployed to family possession, allowing for normal inventory turnover so that older inventory is sold off and replaced with new, and families don’t need to worry about storage.

Take a gun shop: Only if the family collective partner wishes to take possession (ownership) of weapons for storage at home up front (the suggested kit calls for one pistol minimum), need any money change hands. Once a serious emergency transpires, the families can be issued the additional firearms from shop inventory, and sign for them. They must keep them safe, and must use them on call or by schedule in protection of the store property. It would only take one person from each family unit at a time, given the quantity of family partnerships participating — to adequately defend the store. They ‘pay for what they use’ in the form of a rental/purchase option to be addressed after the emergency ends, perhaps involving payment terms (perhaps involving very small payments pre disaster). There are any number of creative solutions to make it mutually viable.

I am no lawyer, but in a civil emergency, many laws fall by the wayside as a matter of practicality. A gun permit process is not something you worry about when the government is shut down and lives are at stake. However, a wise shop owner might want to check with a lawyer and get some advice and deal with such concerns up front. There is no reason a single individual from each family collective could not undergo a permit process as part of the contingency preparation. What they do with the weapons in an emergency should at that point no longer matter to the shop owner, with reasonable agreements to avoid illegal uses in place. One might also want to address how to safely store key records in order to insure lists of gun holders are not compromised and lead to confiscations, anyway.

Other kinds of businesses? Consumables such as food from a grocery store which have dates of expiration would be lost, anyway, so any financial arrangement to distribute storables in an emergency with any level of appropriate financial reimbursement or property protection services of participants should, IMO, be eagerly embraced. For most shop owners, it converts a disaster where they face the potential loss of all inventory and significant property damage into a situation that more closely approximates the ultimate ‘sale’ where all inventory goes out the door to happy customers, AND the property is protected.

From the family side, a collective should easily be able to field 6-10 adults to defend as many different business sites simultaneously, while still retaining sufficient adults to protect the home base camp. Therefore, they have access to 6-10 different key survival items they might not otherwise be able to afford or store long term. It is a win-win situation for everyone but looters and would-be confiscators.

Upon event occurrence, family members ‘report for duty’ and are issued weapons, sending the appropriate portion back to the family for home defense and protection from confiscation by FEMA/Military.  I propose an organized convoy is the only safe way, as otherwise, armed interlopers might dare to ambush a lone person or single vehicle. I further suggest that, if not already the case by natural instinct, a strict military-like organization and rules for command and engagement be established. Such a model should ideally trickle down to the family units as well, if a long-term event is involved.

Therefore, prior military service, especially in combat or involving combat training, is to be highly prized in any collective or partnership. Where such experience is found in a retired Officer (as opposed to an enlisted rank), so much the better. If there is additionally someone with prior intelligence or forward observer experience, or demolitions or military engineering background, better still. Likewise for any medical corps. or other medical background.

In closing, the business itself should have on hand sufficient stores of foods and other resources (as opined in the prior post) to sustain several months of a ‘stand off’ in defensive posture. A key factor will be the ability to communicate with partnering family units that they may be called in to provide force rotation, deliver emergency supplies, or outright tactical relief against assaulting forces. The prior posts cover communications alternatives in a total outage of all utilities.

How can I protect my business as well as my family in a disaster?

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Portending Martial Law: Three Facts That Put You at Risk

Warning signposts, mostly from local media, which mainstream media deems not to share

by H. Michael Sweeney

Call me a fool if you wish for thinking such is in our near future, but I’d rather be that fool than the one who disbelieves and is caught unprepared for serious consequences. My next post will be on how to deal with the consequences of Martial Law, but it will not be for the squeamish. The following information, save some more recent incidents, is documented in my book set Fatal Rebirth (over 1,500 footnotes).  Most are also documented in greater detail in pages and pages of example after example in my book, The Professional Paranoid Defensive Field Guide. All stem from credible local news and agency resources and eye witnesses, myself included — serious matters all, despite a lack of mainstream coverage.

In addition to all of this, we have a report from theswash.com that the Council on Foreign Relations, which infects every part of government with members is proposing that the military take over Police duties in the United States. Now for the disturbing facts…

1) Fact set regarding surveillance: 

DOD Image: RF-4CU Phantom

a) CIA, in Operation VERDICT, has over flown major U.S. Cities with low-altitude RF-4CU surveillance aircraft for LAMP (Low Altitude Photo Mapping) specifically related to Martial Law contingency planning. More current information reveals LAMP can include multiple imaging technologies such as visible light spectrum (photos), IR thermal, and ground penetrating radar. Overlays can therefore provide complete visual information as to locations and routes of critical power and communications, sewer and water, and service tunnels.  LAMP also allows 3-D computerized modeling of an entire city.  This means that a very detailed set of plans for establishing the best command and control locations, checkpoint roadblocks, observation and sniper rooftop positions, and cutoff points for communications, water, and power to any given neighborhood;

b) local National Guard are using city neighborhoods for training in the use of small (palm sized to dining table sized) UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for surveillance, and passing along information to Police in some instances, a serious threat to privacy;

c) the Pentagon is ordering 30,000 Predator ‘Surveillance’ Drones capable of launching missile attacks for use in American skys, and these have already been used by one County Sheriff to illegally (Posse Comitatus) surveil a man deemed a suspect based on a personal vendetta (Color of Law violation of civil rights);

2) Fact set regarding ‘training exercises’ by National Guard units in various states:

“No. Didn’t see any terrorists, today, either.”         My caption, image: theswash.com (click)

a) in door-to-door searches of whole communities looking for ‘contraband’;

b) in highway and street checkpoint set up and vehicle searches, including stopping and unloading of buses and full identity checks;

c) in night-drops from helo into suburban neighborhoods for sudden control of same, informing citizens they were in a military reservation, and in other communities, broad daylight practice helo landing runs on shopping area parking lots and school yards by groups of helos full of soldiers;

d) in occupations of small towns by psyops teams who interrogated the residents as if foreign hostiles;

e) in providing ‘disaster relief’ (Andrew and Katrina) which turned out to be psyops teams evaluating civilian reaction to pervasive military control;

f) in storming hi-rise buildings, in at least one case a joint exercise between U.S. and Russian forces along side of local Police, and in another case, live ammunition was used, and lots of it, while on the ground, military psyops teams controlled the populace as if the event was not a drill, doing so in the guise of emergency medical care;

g) in beach landing assault of a beachfront community;

h) in assaults of entire neighborhoods with armored vehicles and soldiers entering by foot from all sides through yards and holding every citizen at gunpoint — a joint-Police operation in violation of Posse Comitatus and in direct violation of a Judges Order;

i) in night-time low-level attack helicopter runs between hi-rise buildings;

j) in one instance an Air National Guard jet straffed a school building at night with live ammunition, and in another, the vacated home of a politically incorrect individual was hit by a missile from a helo;

k) in surveillance by U.S. Navy helos over inland highways using ISAR Radar capable of tracking the movement of hundreds of vehicles simultaneously;

l) in psyops ‘practice’ flights of Command Solo aircraft capable of brainwave manipulation and known to be used to say elections in Bosnia by Air Force admition after the fact. Operators of these aircraft have no idea what content is being broadcast.

m) in military occupation of portions of larger parks and public lands, generally threatening civilians to vacate at gunpoint, often speaking foreign languages in addition to English. Related reports include sweeps of entire regions of forested lands by units who hassled civilians and used GPS to map locations of survivalist camps and hunting/fishing cabins.

Note: In almost all instances above, no advance warning and no on-site explanations were being offered, causing significant fear, confusion, and risk of armed conflict, except that in most cases, soldiers guns were allegedly not loaded (some lies caught regarding that). Many of these same kinds of trainings have also been held in mock U.S. cities set up at various military reservations, where bleachers at key points were set up so that officials might watch the action unfold. Some of these exercises included joint military and Police training which included use of lethal force in some cases (building assaults).

n) several respectable sources have indicated that the DOD has established plans that if Martial Law is declared, units from each State will be routed to an adjacent State (generally in tri-state rotation) so that troops will not face anyone thought to be family or friends.

3) Fact set regarding road signs:

a) in most communities of any size, and at key highway interchanges, one can find numerous highway signs and signs for public sites have been changed from the traditional green to a shade of Army brown;

b) many other signs have been affixed with curious reflective signs on reverse (seen only when going the other direction) with various codesl

c) highway departments cannot or will not explain either sign anomally.

d) analysis by many persons including myself reveals these are military codes and indicators;

b) brown sign locations represent ideal sites for military control points along key highways with large areas for staging of vehicles or encampments.

c) sign codes indicate exit points to nearby sites which would make excellent helo landing points, providing visual cues for ground traffic intending rendevouz.

4) Bonus fact set semi-related CIA infiltration of public sector:

a) CIA assets have opened a special training facility in California where bounty hunters, CIA and other intelligence agency members, military, and police are trained in clandestine entry, surveillance, and marshal activities (assault) of the kind not allowed by conventional warrants and law, but useful in a Martial Law situation. It is by invitation, only, that one may attend;

b) based on consistent discoveries (again, in Fatal Rebirth) most Major U.S. Cities would appear to have a Police Chief, Public Affairs Officer, and Internal Affairs Head (and sometimes SWAT head) who are CIA operatives (in-place assets), many of which who have taken the above cited training. A high percentage of Police Chiefs are promoted into place from the other three groups, allowing a perpetual supply of operatives to be arranged for’

Note: I have certainly seen exceptions, but in cities examined more closely, estimate a 90% consistency. Of course, this is one which cannot be proven except by circumstancial evidence — but why would there be so much like evidence consistently available? Almost all these people have military or intelligence community backgrounds, have taken that training or similar, and have a lifestyle indicative of extra income (two paychecks for the same job), and many are outright ex-CIA employees. In my community, over the last three decades, ex-CIA employees have also held other key jobs (e.g., Port Authority, City Council), and yet others have run for Mayor, Governor, Senator, etc. I suspect this is true in all States and major communities.

c) several major cities have adopted a CIA sponsored initiative to deputize bounty hunters and gang members for special community related situations unspecified, though door-to-door searches have been implied;

d) deputizing of highway workers, sanitation workers, postal workers, firemen, and similar has been variously proposed in communities or Federal interests over the last few decades, some proposals to include arming and arrest powers.

Part II of this series: On Being Prepared for Martial Law or Revolution

Its one thing to be warned, but advice on what to expect and what to do about it, is better yet

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