Black Friday Primer for the Future
Gill Rapoza
Friday, November 25, 2011
Hello All,
After watching the Black Friday shopping videos, I saw a lesson there. Thus, this short commentary.
I fairly often advise people on this list to be prepared for anything that comes their way. One of the things I frequently say is to have the things you need in a sufficient amount, just in case. The things you need are your staples, including food, water, meds, self-protection items, effective clothing, sanitary items, and perhaps a few more. Assuming you have a safe place to dwell, this is a pretty good short list. These would be the things you need, with the first two having priority. When Jesus taught His follower to pray, He used the words, “Give us this day our daily bread” right in the middle of the prayer. In fact it was the only specific, physical thing He said to ask for. Daily bread simply means the basics that are essential for our life.
Here is what I saw on TV and the web today just in the Wal-Mart stores.
- In California, a woman peppered sprayed other customers in an alleged attempt to gain an advantage over her competition for Wal-Mart sales in the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles.
- In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, two people suffered injuries in an apparent armed robbery attempt after they left a Wal-Mart store around 1 AM Friday.
- In Kingston, North Carolina, an off-duty police officer working security at Wal-Mart sprayed shoppers with pepper spray in an attempt to stop a disturbance there.
- In Kissimmee, Florida near Orlando, a person was arrested after an early morning altercation at the jewelry counter at Wal-Mart.
- In Rome, New York, a brawl erupted in the electronics department at Wal-Mart shortly after midnight. Two people were taken to the hospital afterwards.
- In Florence, Alabama, police had to use a stun gun twice on a Wal-Mart customer. The target was charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.
- Finally, in Southington, Connecticut, police used a stun gun on a man at the Wal-Mart store for an unknown reason. An iReporter, according to CNN News, witnessed the event.
This is the supposed cheerful “Christmas shopping.” The truth is this has nothing to do with either. These things were not cheerful nor were they Christmas related. This was greed buying perhaps, but not the other. I also saws news items where people pulled guns on each other. And in at least one location thieves did their robbing/shopping at gunpoint outside the store after others shopped and took what was bought.
Here is your moment to think about it. If there is a large scale catastrophe, major national weather event, full government failure, attack by a foreign or domestic enemy, failure of essentials to be delivered to the store, total bank crash, or something else detrimental affecting many thousands or millions of people in your area, are you going to have some sort of plan already in place? Will you have enough of the “daily bread” to sustain your family and self?
Today was a good lesson for those who watch and work. If TEOTWAWKI shows up, you should know that the same sort of people who will fight or rob over video games and big screens will kill over that last loaf of bread.
I hope you are awake and thinking now.
Godspeed,
Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit
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