The NW Preparedness Expo was great fun! I arrived late and missed many of the speakers, but still caught Rep. Shea's presentation on the State of Liberty, E. Wa. seceding from the left coast. I attended one on Strategic Landscape Design, and stayed for a great sermon that was an intro for the Jordan Page concert. Seeing so many young people and children gave me a lot of hope.
I've spent some time with the good folks of the Lower Valley Assembly on a few occasions. I can't say enough on how good these people are. Very friendly, warm, and welcoming folks. I'm starting to make friends there too, since I have been taking all of these Groundrod and SHTF Intel Prep classes. The folks at the Patriot Barn are good solid people who are not violent extremists at all. Their message is one of love of God, liberty, family, and community. Self sufficiency and helping each other are not mutually exclusive. When I got there I saw a sign that said "Smile. Drone overhead." Later I found out that people inside the alphabet soups do not see the people at this event as a threat, but rather a resource of help in emergencies. Many LVA folks are in AMRRON. AMRRON had great a booth there too, and now I'm currently studying for my technicians license. I bought seeds, books, cd's, etc.
The next day I attended a class there on Advanced SHTF Intelligence Analysis on HUNINT and OSINT. Great class with relevant info that you can easily apply to daily life. Sam is a really good instructor, and I will be doing a review soon on the SHTF Intel Prep classes, and the Groundrod classes by CSG as well. If they come to your area, take them. If you are broke and have 20 guns, sell one to take the class.
When Rep. Shea said "Will you fight?" the first time, the "yes" was not very loud. That's because these people are good moral folks that do not want to resort to arms, but will only if attacked. As was recently pointed out to me while in the Lower Valley at a class, the left does not have the moral inhibitions we do about using violence. They don't believe in God, whereas we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard because we have to answer for our actions someday.
I bought a really cool American Redoubt shirt that had the snake on it divided up into E. WA, E. OR, ID, MT, and WY.
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Regarding the main topic of this thread, I have seen greater numbers of leftists take up Prepping for the Trumpocalypse. The prepper oriented companies should take advantage of this and market to the left in this way because it keeps the conversation going between our 2 sides which reduces chances we will shoot at each other. I have Bernie socialist friends into canning and jarring. Those types like gardening and non-GMO too. I have also seen dramatically increased numbers of left leaning people becoming firearms owners too. Good! Teach them how to drill and mill their own 80% lower and build their own AR-15, and guess what? They will start to vote like an AR-15 owner! Then they will say, "I don't want them taking away MY AR!" I'm less worried about them shooting me with that AR because I'm now in the Redoubt. I'm more worried about meth addicted predatory survivalists who's SHTF plan is to go wipe out people in the cabins, take their shit, and live there. Next time Jihadi Ahmed goes Allah Akbar on a night club full of fags, go up to one and say "Hey, that wasn't us American gun owners. Would you like to go shooting with me? I'll show you what I know, and help you create your own "safe space" anywhere you go, because you will be armed." Then, as a new gun owner, they will start voting like one. I offered to one I knew at work, and was warmly thanked. He didn't take me up on my offer, but just making the offer built repor (sp?).
