Back in the 1990s, "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross told a story very much unlike what you'd expect from American literature …

The novel had its problems, including being roughly twice the size it should have been to tell its core stories most effectively. But what it did do well was that it told the story of what might happen if someone who had been turned into a "targeted individual" by overly zealous bureaucrats decided to fight back against the bullies with an organised campaign against them.

And so let's talk about the unthinkable for American police …

The police are valuable on-the-hoof resources of four types: vehicles, weapons, clothing, and food.

This remains true regardless of any money they may also possess.

In their homes, they tend to have all sorts of lovely weaponry that may be acquired by people who have been forced to the wall and who no longer give a shit about whether they're particularly in the right.

Eventually people who have been tormented over various absurd types of malum prohibitorum may no longer give a toss about whether they're committing a few bits of malum in se as well.

In many American states, the police are also obligated to have their home addresses on their driving licences and insurance cards that they must have in their possession, which makes some of this process of acquisition a lot more straightforward.

It doesn't take Lex Luthor to connect enough of the dots to know where a ready-to-use arsenal of weapons and supplies might be had in an unconventional survival scenario.

As for the food angle, that too should be fairly obvious to anyone who owns an industrial-sized smoker, or anyone who can make friends with someone who owns one.

The smarter among the police realise that the appellation of being labelled "pigs" also works as a functional description for certain types of enterprising groups, and that they personally need de-escalation in order to stay off the menu.

Those who are even smarter know there's a time of widespread conflict that means that they need to take off the uniform and blend in so that they may survive.

Selco Begovic's tales of the Balkans include a few characters of that particular variety, some of which sound like former constabulary chiefs who were savvy enough to figure out that they no longer represented any of the operating powers.

"When people stop worshipping fiat money, the government, etc. …"

Taking delivery of physical silver these days can be a security nuisance, and yet silver has never been so cheap relative to gold prices through most of human history.

I doubt somehow that America will become more "conservative", but instead more survivalist and pragmatic.

I for one look forward to having my own recreational nuclear weapons in an Anarchy for Everyone scenario. 🙂

Have you ever read Vernor Vinge's story called "The Ungoverned"?

Click the link and enjoy the story at Baen Books for free.

I guess this is the best time to stock some guns, gold and canned food along with a decent vegetable garden and make friends with a Navy Seal neighbor. I guess this is where religion kicks in the most, at least in the strict sense of worshipping a specific entity. That's when people who have a close sense of community will probably fair much better throughout the coming storm. When people stop worshipping fiat money, the government, etc. I think America will at least become more conservative.

I'm in Europe so I will flee on the first chance to a better continent or country.

That's what worries me. The police will do what their paymasters tell them to – but in so doing, they simply guarantee that when, not if, the rupture comes, they will be the first ones in the line of fire from enraged civilians with guns.

The police are already far worse than King George III and the entire British Army ever were.

When the time comes, cops will do as they are ordered.

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