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>>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:39:12 -0700
>>>>From Jim
>>>>Subject: Martial Law rumors, and one gun store owner
>>
>>The following item appeared this morning on the J. Orlin Grabbe web site
>>at:
>>
>>http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
>>
>>This site has consistently been a reliable source of accurate and
>>important news items from both well-known "mainstream" and obscure
>>"alternative" sources. I was a  little surprised to find this item
>>there. I figured if Grabbe placed enough credence in this information to
>>use it on his site, then it was worth sending to you.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>----------
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ###
>>


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