#5) Practice personal health when and where you can, make connections with online and foreign pharmacies and reduce your footprint in the health care system. On the other hand, if you get sick, might as well sign up for what you are paying for anyway. I used to pay upwards of $200 for a pair of eyeglasses in the late 1980s. Now I can get them mail order from China for $39.95 and I think they are all coming out of the same factories.

There are medical professionals who can and will provide health care for cash. Use them. Move to and interact with alternative cash communities. A lot of doctors end up living and working in those places anyway.

Personally, I am not on board with the raw milk thing. You make your choices, I'll make mine. I don't want to roll the dice on food poisoning so I get pasteurized milk at the store, but if you want your own cow in the back yard, more power to you. I hear that bootleg raw milk goes for $15 per gallon in some circles.

#6 Buy guns, ammo, magazines and some accessories. Buy extras for trading around, especially among older folk. Old folk who will be passing along soon anyway should consider it a legitimate source of spare income to go buy extra guns for cash and barter purposes. Respect a modest markup on guns in return for some privacy, and respect the privacy of buyers and sellers who seem legitimate. Remember, only the government hands high end hardware over to a bunch of dopers sporting gang tatoos and are fresh from the last massacre they pulled off down in Mexico. Use common sense with this, but yeah, buy extras and trade them around privately. That creates a resource pool of usable weapons out there which has a reduced enemy intelligence footprint as time goes on.

#7) Agitate, resist, retaliate when your rights are violated. Be rightfully offended and show it when someone implies support for the violation of rights. The flip side, don't do anything to facilitate victimization. The police state likes to use high crime as a justification for their actions, but you always need to stress that they define and create much of the crime they supposedly fight against. Take a realistic look at tolerance for community programs which help the poor and be merciful to the poor from the standpoint that you don't want people getting desperate enough to turn to crime for survival, especially when they might lose sight of what is immoral vs what is just illegal. Engage in vigilantism when appropriate, but be absolutely ruthless with criminals who align themselves with the police state as an empowerment play.

If you find common criminals who utilize the police state in order to facilitate crime, then they need to suffer the wrath of vigilantism. Any connection they have with the police state apparatus should be made very public by the vigilantes.

#8) Harden, hide, decentralize your wealth. Engage in cash and barter business wherever possible, divorce your capital from the system whenever possible. Do NOT, however allow yourself to be reduced to the depression that keeps you from producing wealth. The working poor are the key to a lot of things in this country, and suffer an effective 80% tax rate. Teaching and facilitating self sufficiency to the working poor will seriously inhibit the function of the oligarch crony system.

#9) Think locally, act globally.

#10), Veterans and preppers also exist at several different levels of society. Play the payback is a bitch game when you can get away with it. Learn and know who the enemies of freedom are and make sure they feel the bite in the ass when Karma comes back to them. Promote prepping to the mainstream, network with other preppers, establish and support the survivalist enclave communities.