{"id":4302,"date":"2015-01-09T13:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T18:08:52","slug":"all-over-america-government-officials-are-cracking-down-on-preppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"All Over America, Government Officials Are Cracking Down On Preppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/america-government-officials-cracking-preppers\" target=\"_blank\">All Over America, Government Officials Are Cracking Down On Preppers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Why would the government want to punish people that are just trying to work hard, become more self-sufficient and take care of their families?\u00a0 There are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today, and often they appear to be singled out for punishment by bureaucratic control freaks that are horrified at the thought that there are families out there that actually want to try to become less dependent on the system.\u00a0 So if you use alternative methods to heat your home, or if you are not connected to the utility grid, or if you collect rainwater on your property, or if you believe that parents should have the ultimate say when it comes to health decisions for their children, you could become a target for overzealous government enforcers.\u00a0 Once upon a time, America was the land of the free and the home of the brave, but now we are being transformed into a socialist police state where control freak bureaucrats use millions of laws, rules and regulations to crack down on anyone that dares to think for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>For example, people have been burning wood to heat their homes since this country began.\u00a0 And this is still very common in rural areas.\u00a0 But the Obama administration does not like this at all.\u00a0 The Obama bureaucrats at the EPA fear that our little wood stoves may be contributing to \u201cglobal warming\u201d, so they have outlawed the production and sale of 80 percent of the wood stoves that are currently in use.\u00a0 The following comes from a recent\u00a0<a title=\"Forbes article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrybell\/2014\/01\/29\/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes article<\/a>\u2026<\/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>All Over America, Government Officials Are Cracking Down On Preppers Why would the government want to punish people that are just trying to work hard, become more self-sufficient and take care of their families?\u00a0 There are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today, and often they appear to be singled out for punishment [&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":[6,7],"tags":[1470,483,2528,2530,768,2529],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-epa","tag-liberty-2","tag-preppers","tag-regulations","tag-survivalism","tag-wood-burning-stoves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}