Well, Part One of this series was the basics in how we ought to think. I will next start wandering through the woods of reality and application:
1. ESCAPE
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
This usually is a bad idea. You are most prepared to survive and thrive right where you live. But, if you really are threatened by either lawlessness nearby or big nanny government threats of prison or punishment, or worse, removing your kids from your home, then you may need to flee.
Understand this about fleeing: It is not unpatriotic. Furthermore; many people have suffered horribly because they thought they should somehow stay and suffer to prove something. The Mennonites of the 1500s in Europe fled from Switzerland to The Netherlands when the Calvinists and Lutherans did violence to them. Later, they fled to England and New England, where they are well known to this day.
If you have no religious zeal, the most convincing alibi in history is not available to you. It is too late to invent a religion just for your selfish purposes. No genuine motivated religious group will want you. You are nothing but an opportunist and fake. So, you must find other ways to define your flight.
The government usually shows some restraint when people use a higher power, God and the Bible, as the standard for their actions. So, pastors and church leaders need to define when their people must flee, and this must be put in writing NOW. This will then be a grandfathered issue when action is needed.
If you are in a church or Christian group where the pastors are intensely possessive, such as 90% of all Fundamental Baptist churches, you need to move on to another denomination that allows the fathers of the homes to defend their families, and church leaders will help and defend them. This was the manner of the Mennonites long ago.
Where to go..... The shorter the trip the better. If you live in New Hampshire, what is life like in Maine? Your culture will mostly be in tact this way. To move at once from New Hampshire to Bangladesh would be horribly traumatic, not because Bangladesh is terribly inhospitable, but because you are in no way ready to hit the street in Bangladesh.
Once you are in Maine, define when you must leave there. What trigger signals you to move on? This was another practice of the Mennonites in old Europe. Send someone, if possible, to the next point to reconnoiter. Learn all you can about the next destination. Meanwhile, make yourself as valuable as possible to local citizens and officials so that they will be motivated to defend you. Again, I learned this from the Mennonites. They were fantastic farmers, and the king of Holland refused to turn them over to the Swiss authorities. Later, Queen Catherine of Russia protected them because the tamed the wild steppes of south Russia and made them produce wheat.
And the "uttermost parts"? For me, I feel safest thinking about places I have lived, or where I have close friends. That is a given. Never go off into oblivion unless you are absolutely desperate. I would be best received in Australia, then Kenya, and I have associates in Singapore, India, and South Africa who might at least help me survive until I can justify my existence there. I would use my piano tuning skills to survive, and trust God for the rest.
Your situation will be very different than mine, but most of you reading can come up with a plan. Once you have a plan, set a trigger point of when you must make your first move. The trigger will be something ominous that threatens you whole family. Once you have this all tentatively planned, get passports, and if you intend to leave your home country, send money ahead via either investments in ETFs in the target nation, or into a bank account in that nation. Get a credit card with international use.
Contact your friends at your target destination BY SNAIL MAIL [ e-mail etc can be sniffed, telling authorities what you are doing]. Once you anticipate really acting on this, send one of two kids ahead if possible, either accompanied by friends, or alone if they are older. This makes it look like you are not really leaving.
2. HUNKER DOWN
This is the most desirable choice of course. If you choose this plan, you must try to become as self-sufficient as possible. You may be deprived of employment and freedoms as a form of religious persecution.
Do not associate with ANY militia, tax rebels, or rabble. Stay away from protesters. Your job is first and foremost to care for your family, so you do not need to respond to those who agitate and talk of anarchy. Keep all laws that do not violate the Word of God. God does NOT tell you to defend democracy, freedom, or the US Constitution.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Samuel Johnson
The problem is, rational leaders and local law enforcement officials know that patriotism, and mongrel conservative Christianity is often claimed by trouble makers who are simply lawless.
Don't shoot guns carelessly, and don't indulge in tough talk. BE tough, and be gentle until you need to be tough. After all; this is always perceived as manly by the world anyway.
Before you leave, you may want to arrange for someone to either own or occupy your home or property. If you are leaving for good, don't leave your possessions to be trashed. There may be someone who is not on the bull's eye who would love a place to live and would take care of it. You may want to come home one day. In fact, the majority of fugitives from persecution in recent years have gone home after the regime changed.
3. SCATTER
This has the disadvantage of breaking up the family. It has the advantage of being the most sudden way to flee, and the authorities have several trails to follow instead of just one. Small children must not be sent off alone to live with even the most loving friends if at all possible.
If you do this, be sure everyone understands that all communication must be by snail mail or traveling friends.
By now, this discussion must be sounding a bit morbid to some readers. If all is well where you are, and local authorities are friendly and supportive of you, fleeing sounds wicked. Well, it is. But, all over the world are people who are on the fine edge of severe suffering and persecution, and I have been where this was in progress. I would be derelict if I did not pass on my observations. I hope you understand.
4. PLANNING FOR THE MIDDLE ERA OF CRISIS
We are assuming you are not going anywhere. You plan to prepare for the future and survive the best you can. The question is, what will the middle of a collapse era be like, and how can I make the best of it?
The first thing I must say to you is that you should become moderately entangled in either law enforcement, local government, or social agencies. If you are a military veteran, join the American Legion or the VFW. Of course if they are nothing but a drinking club, don't bother. Although, drunk Veterans sometimes let the cat out of the bad on government policy. Hmmmmmmm
As to survival, you need to change some things now, not later when the trouble starts.
a. But extra. The economy is NOW tanking slowly. Later, it may crash, or at least head down sharply. When that happens, run away inflation will start, OR rapid devaluation of the dollar. This is because the government will finally realize they will never pay off the national debt with the present cash flow from taxes. The rest of the world will also figure it out, and the dollar will tank
So, what you buy at present prices will cost a lot less then in one of two years. Again, buy extra, and store it.
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5. PLANNING FOR THE DISTANT ERA OF CRISIS
6. ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER SURVIVORS
7. HOW TO THRIVE INSTEAD OF JUST EXIST
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