{"id":12602,"date":"2015-09-24T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2015-09-24T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:17:27","slug":"concealment-strategies-against-social-unrest-theft-or-confiscation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12602","title":{"rendered":"Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/concealment-strategies-social-unrest-theft-confiscation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It does little good to spend a lot of time and money in preparing for difficult times if you don\u2019t also plan on securing those supplies\u00a0 against the very threats you are preparing for.\u00a0\u00a0 Severe social dislocations caused by war, economic problems, or widespread natural disasters are almost always accompanied by looting, theft, and increased criminal behavior\u2014sometimes in large mobs that even police cannot control.\u00a0 We need to plan ahead on how to deal with those threats without resorting to violent confrontations, which should be a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>We also have to consider government\u2019s propensity to confiscate stored supplies when in short supply.\u00a0 There is still a 1950\u2019s law on the books that gives the government the power to declare anything in short supply as \u201choarding.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldaffairsbrief.com\/pdfbrief\/World%20Affairs%20Brief%2023%20March%202012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">March 3, 2012 edition<\/a>\u00a0of my World Affairs Brief,\u00a0 I covered the relevant sections with the Defense Production Act of 1950 that affect personal storage:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Sec. 102<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>HOARDING OF DESIGNATED SCARCE MATERIALS<\/strong>\u00a0[50 U.S.C. App. \u00a7 2072]<\/p>\n<p><em>In order to prevent hoarding , no person shall accumulate (1) in excess of the reasonable demands of business, personal, or home consumption, or (2) for the purpose of resale at prices in excess of prevailing market prices, materials which have been designated by the President as scarce materials or materials the supply of which would be threatened by such accumulation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wording implies that the government is taking action against those that start to hoard for profit once something gets scarce in a crises, but notice that there is no provision for acknowledging or exempting stockpiles that were accumulated\u00a0<u>before something was declared scare<\/u>.\u00a0 That\u2019s what is dangerous about this wording. And there are severe penalties for getting caught \u201choarding,\u201d regardless of when your supplies were purchased:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation It does little good to spend a lot of time and money in preparing for difficult times if you don\u2019t also plan on securing those supplies\u00a0 against the very threats you are preparing for.\u00a0\u00a0 Severe social dislocations caused by war, economic problems, or widespread natural disasters are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9250,4853,6049,648,2528,650,4268,712,3174,8745,8351,854],"class_list":["post-12602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-concealment-strategies","tag-confiscation","tag-hoarding","tag-preparations","tag-preppers","tag-prepping","tag-protection","tag-security","tag-social-unrest","tag-survivalist-blog","tag-theft","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}