-Caveat Lector- > ***** > Preparations for Martial Law > > From: Tim May > > Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000, misc.survivalism > > Subject: Martial Law rumors, and one gun store owner > > I was in looking at assault rifles today at one of my local gun stores > (looking at an FAL parts gun, comparing it the HK91 parts/clone gun I bought > a week ago). I got to talking to the owner, and Y2K came up. > His store is in an area with several DOD installations and he has many > customers who are either active military or retired military. And some CIA > spooks. I once met one of the CIA spooks in the store....we had been > jawboning about which of the 50 BMG rifles was best, the Barrett or one of > the several others, for ultra-long-range sniping. Then the store owner > casually mentioned that "Fred" had been in the CIA. Out on a medical > disability, and living in the Monterey area. > > (The area is in the Monterey-Pacific Grove-Carmel area. The DOD installations > include: The Naval Postgraduate School, the Fort Ord base (now being closed), > the Defense Language Institute, and some Navy undersea warfare think tanks. > Also, some CIA-affiliated think tanks (suspected: Monterey Institute for > International Studies). CIA spooks visit the area, and his store, for various > reasons. I surmise that he supplies some of the folks down at Camp Roberts > and Camp Hunter Liggett. Viewers of some Tom Clancy movies will recognize > this is where snipers and special forces get training.) > > Here's the bombshell: He told me that "more than one" of his best longterm > customers, with affiliations to these aforementioned groups, have told him of > a plan for a "quick response" imposition of martial law. "72 hours." The date > he heard from some of them was December 1st. To disburse the troops and have > martial law in place in 72 hours. By December 4th, in other words. > > The idea for the timing, presumably, being that it will be clear by then just > how many nations, companies, and agencies are not going to be ready. And > enough time for the soldiers to integrate with the rail and utility > distributions, perhaps for ration coupon books to be printed and available by > January 1st, etc. All those things the Naval War College seminars were > running scenarios about. (Links between Naval Postgraduate School and Naval > War College? Presumably. Whether they are significant links is for > researchers out there to look into. Would be interesting to see if NPS folks > were at the NWC seminars, and vice versa. And I'm not saying Monterey and the > NPS is somehow the epicenter of martial law planning for Y2K...the actual > centers are presumably in or near Washington, D.C. But links are still > interesting.) > > He didn't say his sources _knew_ that martial law was going to be > implemented, but that the sources had seen plans for possible implementation. > Now this could just be the usual rumor mill process. But to lend some > plausibility to this tidbit, this area is a hotbed of certain kinds of > counterinsurgency warfare (Fort Ord had been a major center of this, now > moved up to Washington State somewhere--Fort Lewis, I think. But many of the > staffers remained or retired in the Monterey-Carmel-Pebble Beach area, and > they hear things. And the think tanks are where such plans are often > formulated and "gamed." > > Monterey, perhaps not coincidentally, was one of the sights for that recent > "urban assault" exercise which got so much attention a couple of months ago. > (Soldiers rolling down the city streets in Bradley Fighting Vehicles, being > mock-fought by urban guerillas who looked suspicially like militia members > defending their communtiies. Coincidence? The planners are here. The exercise > was here.) > > This guy, owning one of the main gun stores in the whole area, comes into > contact with a lot of them. Take it as you will. > > By the way, this guy had some experiences to tell of past civil disturbances. > He was a young gun store clerk in Stockton, CA when the 1967 Watts riots in > L.A. erupted. Pockets of rioting had also appeared in other cities, including > Stockton, in the Central Valley. (Stockton now has a serious gang problem, > and many murders each year.) The local cops lent him a Thompson submachine > gun! My, how things have changed. He knew how to use one, for various > reasons. He never had to use it, but he slept in the store with that Thompson > nearby. A couple of years later, in some other riots, the cops lent him a > BAR. > > (It used to be common, by the way, for police departments to have one or more > old Thompsons sitting in storage lockers, for special uses. Now, of course, > they are likely to be AR-15-pattern rifles or carbines, or H & K MP5s. The > usual S.W.A.T. gear. And they no longer lend these things out to gun store > owners!) > > Fast forwarding to today, he anticipates there could be serious riots, even > without Y2K bugs being as bad as some expect. "These clowns are just itching > to live out their fantasyland lives." > > He isn't sure yet what his strategy will be to defend his store this time > around, but he _is_ glad he has a place in the nearby mountains with a > running water stream through the land, a woodstove with a couple of cords of > wood, his various rifles, and a bunch of friends in the ranching country of > Steinbeck Country who he will join forces with. > > Anyway, I thought these were interesting tidbits. Kind of like Cory's > "geekvine" news from those in the programming trenches. > > It sure looks to me like military planners are preparing martial law > contingency plans. I know I won't let the happytalkers with their talk of how > Russia is now approaching 90% completion (of what, their first Five Year > Plan?) deter me from adding to my stockpiles. "Don't leave home" remains the > core of my plan, and martial law is not a good environment to be leaving home > in. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave this list, email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > with the body text: leave Survival-Ark > or go to the archive web site at http://lyghtforce.com/survival-ark/ > { in case of difficulty contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> } > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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