{"id":61082,"date":"2021-12-23T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T01:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61082"},"modified":"2021-12-23T20:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T01:04:27","slug":"the-criminalization-of-preppers-in-turkey-will-our-country-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61082","title":{"rendered":"The Criminalization of Preppers in Turkey: Will Our Country Be Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/the-criminalization-of-preppers-in-turkey\/\">The Criminalization of Preppers in Turkey: Will Our Country Be Next?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>History has shown us that collectivism detests the individual. The man who can exist independent of the system, who thinks for himself, who is not easily swayed, and who has values rooted in absolute truth which he refuses to give up \u2013 this is the enemy of collectivism.<\/p>\n<p>But if we take a closer look at one aspect of the individual \u2013 his ability to exist independent of the system \u2013 is it not clear this is an end goal of prepping?<\/p>\n<p>Is that not what a prepper strives for \u2013 the ability to exist independent of the world around them so that disaster does not affect them in the way that it affects others?<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0<em>is<\/em>, and this is why collectivism criminalizes preppers over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen it before and we\u2019re seeing it right now, most notably in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkey is cooked, and we all know it.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who keep a fairly accurate pulse of world events, you know that the fiat currency of Turkey \u2013 the lira \u2013 is collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>As of this year the lira has lost approximately\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/lira-implodes-turkey-proposes-huge-fines-hoarding\">40% of its value<\/a>, and from all appearances, it shows no signs of stopping its downward spiral anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation is rapidly leading to hyperinflation within Turkey and the Turkish citizens have recognized this. People began attempting to step away from the lira and delving into cryptocurrency\u00a0<em>in an attempt to protect themselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And then the Turkish government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-16\/turkey-bans-cryptocurrency-payments-saying-risks-are-too-great?sref=6uww027M\">made crypto illegal<\/a>\u00a0as a form of payment on April 30, 2021. This was done to prevent \u201cirreparable damage.\u201d What\u2019s ironic about this is that the Turks said this was because cryptocurrencies were \u201cneither subject to any regulation and supervision mechanisms nor a central regulatory authority.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2021\/4\/16\/turkey-bans-crypto-payments-and-bitcoin-feels-the-pain\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a fun train of logic from the people that are in the process of destroying their own currency.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Criminalization of Preppers in Turkey: Will Our Country Be Next? History has shown us that collectivism detests the individual. The man who can exist independent of the system, who thinks for himself, who is not easily swayed, and who has values rooted in absolute truth which he refuses to give up \u2013 this is [&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":[31989,5059,8099,6049,413,648,650,4053,3573,5756,818],"class_list":["post-61082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-aden-tate","tag-currency-debasement","tag-emergency-preparations","tag-hoarding","tag-hyperinflation","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-shortages","tag-supplies","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61082","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=61082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61083,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61082\/revisions\/61083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}