Our government declaring martial law is one of the scarier scenarios that we might be faced with.
There’s no saying just how thoroughly our civil rights might be violated during such a time, as the declaration of martial law carries with it the unwritten right for the government to do pretty much anything it wants.
It’s the ultimate totalitarian government situation. Some people complain about the violations of our rights that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic; that would be nothing in comparison to the atrocities that could happen during a time of martial law.
Actually, what martial law is supposed to be and what it often is are two entirely separate things. According to the legal definition, martial law is the military supplanting the duly elected government, for a short time, when the government is unable to fulfill its obligations to the citizens.
This has been very rare in US history. On the other hand, the government using troops, usually National Guard troops, to control the population and uphold the law is much more common, even though it is still somewhat rare. If martial law is declared, this is what we are more likely to see, even though it doesn’t fit the actual definition of martial law.
With that in mind, we need to prepare ourselves for that eventuality.
After the abuses of power that were perpetuated during the pandemic, I have a sneaking suspicion that there are those in Washington who are hungry to use… or should I say misuse… their power to control our lives again.
They will grasp any excuse that chance offers them or that they can create, in order to take that power and we will have no other option than to put up with it.
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For many of us, our first reaction might very well be to ignore martial law and go on with our lives as normal. The problem with that, is that doing so just might put us in jail.
I don’t know about you, but if I’m going to have to go to jail for my actions, I want to make sure it’s for more than just thumbing my nose at some power-hungry politician. Martial law is not the time for taking such a stand.
There are a lot of things we could say that we should do, in preparation for the eventuality of our government declaring martial law; but in reality, they are things that we, as preppers, are already doing.
So, I’m not going to talk about them. We’re dealing with a different question; assuming that martial law is declared, what should we do?
Our Most Important Protection
The real key to surviving through martial law is making ourselves invisible to the authorities.
While there is always a possibility that they will go door-to-door, looking for anyone who might cause trouble; that’s unlikely. If it does happen, it will be after a while, when things settle down.
At first, they’ll be more than busy, just trying to put martial law in place. That includes rounding up those who have a demonstrated criminal history, indicating that they might cause trouble for the authorities. As law abiding citizens, we don’t fall into that category.
Ok, so how do we make ourselves invisible to the authorities? The simple answer is to bug in, staying in our homes. But before we do that, we need to make sure that we’re ready.
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That’s the most important thing we have to do, as soon as martial law is declared. Fortunately, it takes some time to put martial law in effect; at least a day or two.
That’s time we can use to do our last-minute preparations. Those preparations are our first priority; the things that we should do as soon as possible after martial law is declared.
What We Should Do
So, just how do we make the most of that time, preparing ourselves to “go underground” per-se, in the little time that we have available to us?
Before we make sure that everyone is inside and lock the doors, we should ensure that we are ready to stay there for a few months, without having to go out in public. That means making sure that we have enough food, water, fuel, and other supplies to keep us going.
In other words, we need to spend that little time we have available, before they really clamp down on civilians being out in public, getting our hands on all the supplies we can, which we might be short of.
Putting that simply, we need to make a supply run to top off our existing stockpiles, focusing on picking up:
- Food, especially fresh food that we might be short of (we should have plenty of non-perishable food in our stockpile)
- Bottled water
- Fuel, especially gasoline
- Firewood
- Plastic bags (useful for a lot of things)
- Batteries
- Disposable items, such as dishes, cups, TP, paper towels
- Personal hygiene supplies, including feminine hygiene supplies
- A radio (for picking up the news)
These are all things that we should already have in our survival stockpile; so, what I’m really saying is to take that little bit of time and use it to top off your survival stockpile.
We don’t know how long martial law will remain in effect, so we need to be ready to stay inside for an extended period of time.
Notice that I didn’t mention anything about guns and ammunition in that list. That was intentional.
The confiscation of firearms is one of the many things that commonly go with martial law.
As part of that, I expect that the ATF will be visiting licensed arms dealers to see who has bought recently. Those would be the first people visited and you don’t want to end up on that list.
Hunkering Down
Once you’ve done your last supply run, which should be no more than 24 hours after first hearing about martial law and hopefully a lot shorter, get everyone into the house and lock the doors.
Gather your family together, give each other a hug, let them know what’s going on and what you expect from them, specifically that everyone is to stay home for however long the emergency lasts.
This may be more challenging than it sounds. Our lives are incredibly complex, involving activities in a variety of places. Staying home means curtailing those activities, with the exception of those which can be done online.
We’ve already experienced this during the COVID-19 pandemic. So, I guess we can call that a dress-rehearsal for martial law.
As we lock ourselves in our homes, the two biggest challenges we’ll have to work through is working remotely and having our children do their schoolwork from home.
How easy those will be to accomplish will depend largely on the type of work we do and whether our employer is prepared for us to work from home.
As for school, anyone can homeschool their children and many people do. There are curriculums available for homeschooling and a host of resources available online.
There are also some excellent websites, which can give you some good advice about how to homeschool and what resources are available. Homeschooling has been around for quite a while and the pandemic gave it quite a boost.
Remember, out of sight, out of mind.
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President Woodrow Wilson was behind what happens in our internet censoring we see in today’s woke cancel culture of the FCC. Does history repeat itself from previous progressive liberalism.
President Biden is taking the FCC into another progressive realm of woke.
Both had war like era that motivated citizens and Hollyweed movie stars back then and today. Many people can not look beyond their smartphone screens to see where they are going. So martial law will be easy to implement in today’s smartphone society.
Think not? We have the reinvention of the original 1918 flu into our modern times of the Covid Plandemic. Liberals or progressives are still fearmonger into wearing the badge of courage: the face mask. The face mask just has us re-breath the exhausted bad air out, barely lets in fresh air. So mask wearers are reinfecting themselves with Covid or similar illness.
So yes we will let this happen martial law as many of our citizens are indoctrinated into Marxism in our schools of garbage college degrees.
Transgender kills citizens and the FBI hides documents on these shootings.
The JAN 6th videos are slowly being revealed to the public. The FCC will control the internet, God help us.
It’s funny that all of you are blaming the Democrats, when old donny boy flat out states he is going to get rid of the US Constitution and anyone that disagrees with him. Just look at his hate and kill statements lately. He is not hiding anything. Wake Up America! Earl Pitts off.
Ol Donny boy as you say, sure goofed up. He had 4 years to do what you said and didn’t. Someone is incorrect. Since Donny usually did what he said maybe you should consider you heard wrong.
You need to get your information from a new source. If by Donnie you mean Donald Trump, you couldn’t be more wrong. Watch some of his rallies and learn the truth. He is a staunch defender of the constitution that the present regime is shitting all over. The dimocrats are doing their best to destroy America. Even a blind person knows that. Take your hate filled blinders off see what is really happening. There is even salvation for you. But you have to get a grip on the truth first.
Donald Trump did suggest “terminating” parts of the Constitution. NOT the whole Constitution as you imply.
I cannot find any instance of him saying he would get rid of those that disagree with him (he might have but probably meant to fire them).
I’m concerned that this article is giving too much benefit of the doubt that our government will (eventually) do the right thing and return us to a democratic republic. Would that implementation of martial law might be a passing thing, like a bad snow storm or tornado season, so that hunkering down for a relatively short time before emerging to the sunshine of clear weather is actually a possibility!
As was pointed out in this article, what martial law was intended to be and what it plays out in reality, are two very different things. World history has set a precedent for what to expect; not just what will unfold, but the duration (most often unending).
The alphabet agencies probably won’t need to go door-to-door raiding and seizing goods and firearms. Getting neighbors and total strangers to do their dirty work by snitching, will allow those agencies to more effectively prioritize who gets a “knock on the door” with a battering ram.
Yes the Bidenomics government of today’s shinny object will get us closer to the Chinese Social Credit system a lot sooner.
They already wreck our economy and let in too many unvetted illegals that have terrorist ties to harm many Americans in our clear and present dangerous globalist decisions Biden does.
The worst combination for the 2024 election is not China Joe and cackling hen Harris. The new upcoming danger is CA gov Newscum as president and Michelle Obummer as vice president.
Look at their previous political musings on the American landscape.
California is a ghost or shell of it’s once golden State status. We can see both would be a higher level of disaster for the next four years of hell.
A 4th term of Obama’s changing America to a Marxist country.
Yeah I see a fourt term for Obama on the 2024 horizon. They will NOT let Trump become president even if it means a repeat of JFK. The Soros voting machines will see to it. There’s treachery afoot and dark times are ahead.
Preppers is a broad term for basic survival. The preppers like in America, we have division among us, varying opinions to what is prepping, survival, truth, justice and the American way.
Martial law is another excuse for a government of elected an non elected bureaucrats to become tyrants.
We can relate to some movies that bring those type of messages in hidden ways to the sleeping public.
One comes up is “The Postman” an American epic post-apocalyptic action adventure film. Shows how weak men become tyrants in their local regions. How the difficulties are to fight back when many people have been beaten into submission. There are other movies that show what it takes to be free or not. We are not talking about the walking dead zombie garbage.
We need to look back in history to the world war two era, how much it took to fight back. That may not be what the smartphone generations will be or want to fight for their freedoms in our futures, coming soon.
Recently on Biden’s open Southern Border, illegals have smuggled in IED’s onto American soil. What is coming in the Mexican underground tunnels.
It takes one to four months for terrorists to flood America courtesy of China-Gaza Joe, Mayorkas and the border Czar VP Harris.
Biden and Mayorkas can’t escape blame for migrant crisis by scapegoating their border czar Harris.
Are we not concerned for another terrific 911 in all 50 States?
Are we willing to fight these Muslim terrorist cells on American soil?
Neighbors snitching on neighbors program is already in effect, so don’t tell anyone anything they should not know, remember Judas snitching on Jesus for a little silver & others?
Throw away your smart any things into a big proven Faraday bag and bury it at least 4 ft from the top or better 6ft and wait to see how things go. It is already illegal for our military to be used against the people, but government does not abide by any law including the court system including the SCOTUS, so don’t expect any justice then as we don’t have any now. Hide your real address as best as possible, if you have a home or a farmstead don’t put the address on anything if possible.
If you have the funds, get a bug out location and use for that only, no names on anything if possible. Let’s face it when Marshall law is imposed it will not go back to normal it will be permanent, remember REX-84 several years ago. The first thing they did was to separate families, children from parents, men from women & they took them out from school first to gather entire families making it easier for them. Look into a 2nd. residency at least some ware & be hard to find you if you are forced to leave it, some ware you could get lost in and be hard to find. Do some research on how the government / police find buried items, they have drones with special lenses that enable them to find buried bodies up to a year after the fact. Plan ahead on what’s best for you.
excellent point!
Gregg, first and foremost we are NOT a “democratic republic!” What the US is is a “CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!” Look up the differences and educate yourself.
Lonnie, I agree, and have taken oaths several times to support and defend our Constitutional Republic against all ene1Z1831V00329097791mies, both Foreign and Domestic.
Folks, what this means is being willing to take action, real action, if required, to defend our Constitutional Republic. Are you ready, and willing, to do whatever it takes to truly defend our Constitutional Republic?
Many of our family, relatives and friends have been voting the progressive woke way. We can blame ourselves for many of these social ills as these don’t develop in a vacuum. The sickness comes from our distracted intentions of real world events.
If voting was real they wouldn’t let us do it. It’s only function is to keep us distracted, divided & blaming others because they didn’t “vote right”
It doesn’t matter who vote for what it’s all a sham, the exact same things would be happening regardless.
All politicians are corrupt, self serving actors, the high profile ones are WEF puppets.
Well the majority of people here will turn in their guns
They do that already in California, law enforcement has gun buy back programs through out their State. A cheap $25 to $200USD gift card for turning in their expensive guns.
The real shame is not having a pawnshop and gun shop program for those who give up their Second Amendment rights. To have their working guns sold to private gun owners who want a pistol or rifle.
To give up a gun for a shinny object, carrot and stick motivation in short may make sense. But second guessing to want another gun will cost more in today’s Bidenomics paycheck to paycheck economy.
So think twice and regret giving up a gun when you will need it. As the unvetted illegals take up the homeless street existence. Along with free taxpayer’s funding of free housing.
These people don’t care about integrating into the American borders, language and culture. Especially not learning ENGLISH the spoken primary language of America.
It is obvious about the unvetted groups coming into America getting free education on university campuses recently protesting against Israel. Extremist who are told one form of history by Marxist professors of tenure positions. Riots that should not happen fueled by Marxist who hate America.
Yet we elect these numb nuts into elected positions every time and wonder why things go bad. Mass shootings are not random with no purpose, these are preplanned. Law enforcement, alphabet agencies have known about these people for weeks, months and years.
The First and Second Amendments are being shredded by our Biden administration, Deep State or whatever we call them, they hate freedom loving citizens. Home of the brave, land of the free.
Nope. The folks turning in guns are mostly turning in garbage.
most of the guns turned in to the “buy back” programs are not worth buying, such as stolen, “modified”, guns that ended up being traded for drugs or to pay off “debt”, abused and or rusted and pitted, and so on… nothing I want to be involved with.
Definite need for a dedicated sarcasm font. That way you will know that was tongue-in-cheek and you’re not just a blithering idiot
Where I live, I would hardly notice that martial law has occurred for a long time. I think my next thing to do is to improve my communication. I have decided to purchase a crank radio for my husband for Christmas.
great idea! they have small hand-held, combination hand-crank / solar charged, flashlight and AM/FM radios for reasonable pricing. Search sites like Walmart.com, Etzy, and Amazon
When, not if, Martial Law is imposed, our prepping skills will be put to the test. Are you prepared to have everything taken away for redistribution for the greater good? Will your preps be be confiscated, or just cataloged for a future need? Are you prepared to die on your chosen hill? I do not trust that our government, nor the UN, will do the right thing. Once obtained, power is never relinquished.
Appearing to comply with Martial Law is an option, but total compliance is a failing that I am not prepared to face. In the movie The Patriot, Mel Gibson asked, “Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?” I feel that Martial Law will be just that. Instead of being able to know what our “government” has dictated, we will be getting instructions from our local overlords. Will that be a general, or a private? The person with the gun/army makes the rules, and those rules may be subject to change at any time.
I am no longer young, so hopefully I won’t be around to see our country taken over by the one world government, but we all know there is something brewing that will make our lives miserable in the very near future.
Stay strong. Stay vigilant. Stay prepared.
Good afternoon. I sense in you the same paranoid feeling I have in the pit of my stomach. I’ve been a prepper well before it was called prepping. Survivalist back in the day. I hope to never see the days of the great depression scenario because martial law would definitely create such an era. So, for and until an event such as this occurs, keep getting into it, prepping that is. Stay vigilant and informed.
It is not paranoia, look at what the personal mood was, for people in the two European world wars. Europe is a crucible of liberalism that always had infighting of the kingdoms and peasants. This in modern America has spilled over to our once highly rated education systems from grade school to university level Marxist teachings. Now at preschool level too.
We are in a mild form of the great depression, called “Bidenomics.” A Swan Event in today’s liberal news medium could spark martial law.
I’ve ‘prepped’ for years and people thought I was nuts…but that’s ok.. most of them don’t live outside their bubble of life. They will know when the whole world collapses into chaos. However, the ones that know I’ve been prepping, they also know NOT to come by my place. They won’t be welcomed! They’ve had the time and $$ to prepare for what’s coming and have chosen not to.
But then, I’m just a conspiracy theorist… funny how those theories have proven true so far… Be prepared for anything!
I’ve lived long enough to know things happen when we least expect them but if one looks at signs all around, and read God’s word, they aren’t surprised.
My faith in God helps me know this world is not my home and I plan to be gone before all this happens…. then all my prepping will be for those left behind…they’ll need it!!
One of the first things they do is shut down open internet and telecommunications. It’s already happened in other countries. The last thing they want is us communicating with each other or sharing information. The second thing they do is use the NSA stored records to identify those they will visit. You have been tracked, you have be monitored. Even if you stopped today, they have the records. So if you are relying on the internet for home schooling or other stuff, don’t, it my not be there.
The Bidenomics plan is to have all those Chinese nationals on American farmlands now owned by China’s CCP and military aged illegals crossing our borders.
To do a massive attack on our CONUS military bases and our targeted electrical grid stations.
Bidenomics is crippling our private citizen’s access to ammunition being sent to Ukraine and other bush fire wars then to us Americans.
FCC is very soon taking over the internet gatekeeping, as social media big tech does in shadow banning important information we need.
Many of you can blame yourselves in using social media. Free stuff is never really free, strings are attached to free stuff, someone always pays for it.
Those free apps are taking our personal data to be sold or end up on alphabet agency servers for making lists.
It wasn’t Biden giving free land to the Chinese, it was Nikki Haley. DeSantis is courting the Chinese as well. Don’t be fooled by the R next to their names.
What should we do, Agorism and anarcho capitalism? A free market businesses without the government red tape, rules, regulations and Pseudo law of liberal taxation and unionism employees. increasing our prices for their big fat retirements?
We are SUPPOSED to live in an Anarcho-Capitalistic Society.
Youtube what anarchy ISN’T by Larken Rose.
Excellent video.
Hey people stop taking the blue pill, take the red pill!
This is why I demand my bills be mailed to me. If you have it on auto pay or auto withdrawal, they can, and wipe out your account. It’s a free-for-all. Expect the worst from people especially those around you. It did not take very long for the German people to begin turning in the Jews. They were all in the same neighborhood for hundreds of years. Someone that is prepared or someone dead is a little vocal or his written something… We are on a list. As much money as you can get and hide in your house the better off you’ll be. The stock piling of canned goods cannot be over emphasized . I’ve been doing things for about four years and have enough for my family to last quite a while. Don’t be overwhelmed. Anything is a good start. Just buy one extra can or two and put them up. There are numerous sites on how to canned food . There are books on how to canned food. It into being fun once you get over the nerves of the hot high pressure canner. I don’t plan on standing toe to toe with anyone. I am preparing for long term. Power outage like has happened to us numerous times with hurricanes and tornadoes. If you look at it from that standpoint, it makes things easier. Your stockpile can be used for both. There are many things you can pick up at garage sales. Sometimes pennies on the dollar. Winter is coming on. Imagine you just lost your power and no way to heat your house. You get a text alert that its lines down or rupture gas line and it will be 24 hours. What do you need? I thought this and I got a $150 wool blanket from Yellowstone National Park for five dollars.
to control the population
That is the sole reason for Marshal Law.
Remember, anyone in a uniform is your ENEMY.
Behave accordingly.
Anything called a “right” that can be taken away is not a right at all, it is in fact simply an indulgence (and usually on the part of and at the whims of your government)
Our American rights come from GOD, not some bureaucratic godless government we have had. Restricting our 1st and 2nd Amendments, giving illegals more freedom and citizen rights than us American taxpayers.
Strange times these are…. My state gun buy back program just ran through its entire budget and folks were disappointed. Cheap buyers and an abundance of fools.
I read a few posts now and then but stay so busy I seldom post anything anymore. Good luck. Stay dry. Keep warm and your belly full.
“…Notice that I didn’t mention anything about guns and ammunition in that list…I expect that the ATF will be visiting licensed arms dealers to see who has bought recently. .”
So read this as saying “BUY YOUR GUNS AND AMMO NOW!”
That’s why you want to pay cash. (No ID for ammo purchases in my state.)
The government barely has enough manpower to inflict “martial law” on a couple of dozen large Walmarts, let alone over every road, city, and town across a nation of 340 million residents. Watch the news … they can’t even contain a simple riot efficiently. They’d be spread so thin you could take them out one at a time with a ballbat, or just ignore them altogether.
They could have controlled the George Floyd riots. They simply chose not to. While you are correct, that if 330 million people acted as one, there’s no way the government could keep control, the government also knows it won’t have to. They’ll do it in a more organized and methodical fashion if that is their plan. They’ll play the “gray area” and deploy their people strategically. The only question is, are there enough freedom minded individuals left, and is the perceived price of in-action going to exceed the price of action – which is potentially death to them and their family/friends? Time will tell.
Article says, “As part of that, I expect that the ATF will be visiting licensed arms dealers to see who has bought recently. Those would be the first people visited and you don’t want to end up on that list.”
Many of us may have already purchased firearms by going thru the legal channels over the years. This means the gov’t has the records. I know they are not SUPPOSED to keep the 4473 forms and more on record, but come on, you don’t think the same outfits that record us per the Patriot Act have kept copies of these purchases? For years?
People making their own hasn’t been a large percentage, I would venture to guess. So I don’t think the confiscations will need to begin at the local FFL dealer. Who’s going to open the door with a firearm at the ready when uniformed personnel are knocking?
Just wondering,,,,,,
Awww…Political Bias…the great equalizer of the ignorant masses. The D’s had their BLM riots & the R’s had their J6 Insurrection. Both sides 100% Wrong & just puppets who are thrilled to willingly get their strings pulled by the greedy, power-hungry R/D politician of their choice. This just helps both sides to check their brains at the door and let someone else tell them what to do or think. “Not my fault..Bubba told me to do it!”
If your plan is to hide in your hole, surrounded by all of your preps and just “wait it out” then you have maybe a 1% chance to make it.
Preparedness should be the most unifying thing we do. Pulling together resources, standing against true evil, leading our families and building strong communities is how we provide a future.
So, why don’t we skip the regurgitation of the regular political BS. Then we can start having some productive discussions on building skills, resources & plans that increase our odds of survival.
Be Smart & Prep On
“the R’s had their J6 Insurrection.”
No the R’s did not. The crowds were totally infiltrated by FBI and Antifa. The violence was instigated by them.
As far as the government rounding people up… they won’t be looking for thieves or drug dealers, nor gang members or rapists.
They’ll work their way down the lists they’ve been compiling of people like the subscribers and commenters of sites like this. Or maybe even voter rolls. Their analysts could easily calculate risk factors combining data to rank targets.
Any martial law would more likely a prelude to a coup.
I am reading a supposed “top secret”/”confidential” book Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. based on information in said book and based on current global events, especially with the formation of BRICS & the incoming collapse of the U.S dollar globally & domestically. I am extremely concerned that citizens, companies, banks & even government institutions will collapse over night. How can we trust our government authorities will declare martial law so that everyone is aware? not in a way that is covert/silent?! We all know congress is a sham. I suppose I will have to research what the government is supposed to do in declaring martial law, but that doesnt necessarily mean they will implement it lawfully. i guess time will tell.
The very first thing to do is Pray, then act accordingly.
Don’t forget about the United Nation. They have a big hand in all the despicable wrongs happening in America and the world. I don’t put it past them to send in troops from foreign countries to enforce martial law here in the states. They have the most to win in their quest to rule the world.
Why wasn’t NATIONWIDE martial law declared after 9/11?
9/11 happened because the C.I.A. did not share information with the F.B.I.
A reporter once asked Pres. trump about The U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile. Trump did not understand one thing. Why do we own them if we’re afraid to use them