Martial Law

If you listen to the clamor all across the US media apparatus, they treat a looming shutdown of the federal government as something akin to the planet running out of breathable air. The sky is falling, the seas giving up their dead, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. In truth, a federal government shutdown […]

Martial law. It is a term that strikes more than a little bit of fear in the heart of every freedom-loving person, and pretty much every prepper. When martial law is instituted, civil rights get suspended. For how long, no one knows… And more than once in history we have seen governments and militaries grow

Seems like hardly a week goes by before we hear about another state of emergency being declared in one state or another, or even at the federal level. We hear it so much, it’s easy for the term to lose its meaning, but what does a state of emergency actually entail? Although every state handles

Pretty much every prepper has heard of martial law, and most of us are afraid of it. Martial law is used around the world on a regular basis by governments that want to keep a tight rein over any situation that might set off their citizens. Luckily it hasn’t been used too much here in

The concept of martial law is a terrifying one for most of us. The notion that law and order might be placed in the hands of the military, no matter how high our opinion of them, is usually enough to make most freedom loving people very apprehensive, and with good reason. Though it is a

Martial law is one of those concepts that is once again clinging to people’s thoughts… It’s not hard to see why, with levels of social division, political strife, rioting, and other forms of civil strife becoming so commonplace and so intense it stands to reason that, eventually, the authorities are going to put their foot

Martial law is a concept usually discussed with derision and fear among preppers, and with good reason. Any declaration of martial law in the United States is an obvious symptom that something bad has happened, perhaps something society-alteringly bad. Visions of people being dragged out of their homes, held without cause or warrant, random checkpoints

We hear it on the news and see it on the internet all the time in response to a natural or man-made disaster: state of emergency was declared by so-and-so at… We know it as shorthand for a situation turning out really bad, or having the potential to turn out disastrously, but what all does

With recent events taking place inside the United States as well as outside, it isn’t hard to imagine the United States government declaring martial law under the guise of maintaining order. The truth is that martial law might be a last ditch effort to maintain power and ignore the will of the people. Martial law

Martial Law is by far one of the biggest nightmares we could face, one that’s keeping many preppers awake at night. This is because it can happen in the aftermath of any number of natural or man-made disasters (see list below). In other words, if it’s happening, the country is in so much trouble that even the Government