I did some research on the wood stove issue and one of the solutions is dirt simple and smart - integrating a couple of automotive type catalytic converters into your fireplace stove pipe will scrub the exhaust and then provide a lot more heat into the room(s) where such devices are installed.

I was researching this in relation to some other subjects, and learning what a catalytic converter actually does, now I think they are neato stuff.

As a matter of fact, as I design my next micro-cabin, I am probably going to put a dual catalytic converters on the stovepipe. Basically all that 1970s technology that would make your car run like shit was about turning that spare power and turning it into heat. It all sucked for motor vehicles, but in a home application where bulk, weight and complexity don't really matter, they are a good thing. A heat resistant air pump, IE, smog pump on your chimney, re-pumping the chimney smoke into the firebox will not just help scrub the air, but recover a lot of wood gas which normally just goes up and out the chimney. The whole thing, from the smog pump to the catalytic converter housings, gets hotter as the fire progresses, thus you get more heat out of the same wood.

The other aspect to look at on the "crackdown" is that those people were not particularly close to the survivalist movement, but it is a local municipal lifestyle control issue. There was something about their lifestyle and economic model the government decided not to approve of.

Now here is where it gets strange. Karl Marx had a bunch of the exact same criticisms of the European upper class in the late 1800s, as European lands became more and more closed off to where the poor could not just "go out in the woods any more". In that it became impossible for the poor to simply colonize some new area not far from the cities or be "off the grid" so to speak. Subsistence hunting and firewood gathering punishable by death in some areas, begging for bread and coal being met with disdain, but acceptance.

That was part of the "rights" enumerated in the Soviet Constitution.

Realize, even the "far left" and the statists have committed treason against the people even by outright Communist standards:

ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality.
The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.

Okay, so where is the part that allows for artificial wage suppression? Abolition of unemployment? How are those rates going? We have lots and lots of government money collection programs, a universal health care billing program, but are they putting people to work on roads and bridges? Heck, these days they are not even putting very many prisoners to work, since it might screw with someone's union contract, or contracts to build maximum security prisons where inmates don't work.

ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure. The right to rest and leisure is ensured by the reduction of the working day to seven hours for the overwhelming majority of the workers, the institution of annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people.

Interesting, and very little of that going on here in the US as any sort of "right".

ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work. This right is ensured by the extensive development of social insurance of workers and employees at state expense, free medical service for the working people and the provision of a wide network of health resorts for the use of the working people.

Legitimately retired folk often getting less than SSI scammers and illegal alien welfare scammers, so American workers who retire get the shaft, since they don't represent as large of a voting constituency as illegal aliens.

ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, being free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges; by instruction in schools being conducted in the native Ianguage, and by the organization in the factories, state farms, machine and tractor stations and collective farms of free vocational, technical and agronomic training for the working people.

One element to discuss; student loan payments, with a side note on vocational schools being the least vested portion of the education budget in the entire system here, but we got lots of liberal arts degrees available, everywhere...

ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.

Note, they said "equal rights" not affirmative action....

ARTICLE 123. Equality of rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R., irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law. Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of, or, conversely, any establishment of direct or indirect privileges for, citizens on account of their race or nationality, as well as any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness or hatred and contempt, is punishable by law.

Again, how does that affirmative action factor in there, even for a "true communist"?

ARTICLE 124. In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.

OK, the Commies did bad stuff on that one, but then they were not chiseling the ten commandments out of the fronts of courthouses either.

ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:

freedom of speech;
freedom of the press;
freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
reedom of street processions and demonstrations.

These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.

ARTICLE 126. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political activity of the masses of the people, citizens of the U.S.S.R. are ensured the right to unite in public organizations--trade unions, cooperative associations, youth organizations,' sport and defense organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies; and the most active and politically most conscious citizens in the ranks of the working class and other sections of the working people unite in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.

ARTICLE 127. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.

OK, we know they routinely violated this one, but the kill ratio of Soviet police vs their citizens did remain disputably low, but only after they murdered a few million people on the outset.

ARTICLE 128. The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.

Well said, but as we know, they did not practice it, but hey, they said it, which is nice, nowdays, governments don't even go through the trouble of saying it (note, this constitution was scrapped later too)

ARTICLE 129. The U.S.S.R. affords the right of asylum to foreign citizens persecuted for defending the interests of the working people, or for their scientific activities, or for their struggle for national liberation.

Actually, I plan on using this one in legitimizing the enclaves, and that's when the paramilitary forces of the enclaves reach international recognition, and even prior to that recognition, is a defacto issue, the sovereignty of offering asylum to the oppressed and resisters of oppression


ARTICLE 130. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to abide by the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to observe the laws, to maintain labor discipline, honestly to perform public duties, and to respect the rules of socialist intercourse.

ARTICLE 131. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to safeguard and strengthen public, socialist property as the sacred and inviolable foundation of the Soviet system, as the source of the wealth and might of the country, as the source of the rosperous and cultured life of all the working people.
Persons committing offenses against public, socialist property are enemies of the people.

ARTICLE 132. Universal military service is law. Military service in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is an honorable duty of the citizens of the U.S.S.R.

ARTICLE 133. To defend the fatherland is the sacred duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. Treason to the country--violation of the oath of allegiance, desertion to the enemy, impairing the military power of the state, espionage is punishable with all the severity of the law as the most heinous of crimes.

ooohhh, Oathkeepers and militias anyone?

There's more:

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/77cons02.html

Anyway, that's straight from the Communists. Now lets look at Reagan era freedom, and the values of the TV cowboy age, and we can see how badly all of this shit has been derailed. The "system" not on any proven ideology. The reality is that if they ever did publish their actual true ideology, it would be entirely indefensible.

When you look at this at the municipal level of attack on people living lifestyles outside the paradigm, sometimes they were forced out of the paradigm, simply not employed and paid in accordance with their abilities and productivity then provided housing and services at reasonable prices. In other cases, they saw it for what it is, a massive wealth transfer system and either opted out or prepared to opt out, especially since universal utility billing is artificially costly when you consider new construction methods and lower prices on off grid equipment.

The utter absurdity of attacking RKBA and self defenders/home defenders for "vigilantism" while not even nearly sufficiently addressing crime in a lot of areas, or worse, police just being revenue producers for the municipality, then that's a violation of every single openly state political ideology out there, yet its what they do.