Re: EMP

From	jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups	uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.antenna, comp.misc
Subject	Re: EMP
Date	2015-11-18 06:03 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<0ugthc-6g5.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink)
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In rec.radio.amateur.antenna rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2015 6:12 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> In rec.radio.amateur.antenna rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/17/2015 5:38 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>> In rec.radio.amateur.antenna rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 11/17/2015 4:56 PM, Wayne wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "gareth"  wrote in message news:n2frkm$b7j$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those who were self-taught to the exclusion of sideband and sidetone
>>>>>>> are no doubt unaware that in the event of a nuclear detonation that an
>>>>>>> EMP
>>>>>>> will melt the RF amps in their RXs because of the amount of power that
>>>>>>> their antennae will pick up?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway, in the light of the events in Paris last Friday, and
>>>>>>> previously the attack
>>>>>>> on the World Trade Centre on 11/9  the costly and
>>>>>>> unnecessary nuclear deterrent doesn't seem to be working awfully well,
>>>>>>> does it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is indeed a mess, and I'm doing my own part to be prepared.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However that includes some options not available to you.  Example:  a
>>>>>> few semiautomatic rifles, pistols and several thousand rounds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then what do you do the second day?
>>>>
>>>> Reload.
>>>
>>> John Brown tried that...
>>
>> Nope, John Brown was fighting his own war against the US government; a
>> totally different thing from citizens resisting terrorism.
>>
>> A better analogy would be the local farmers, shopkeepers, and militia
>> that pinned down Brown and his troops in the Harpers Ferry Armory
>> until the Marines arrived.
> 
> The issue is not the *why*.  This issue is the *what*.  Armed 
> insurrection is a loosing game.  Or if government deteriorates and can't 
> maintain control, even a few guns won't keep you safe for long.  There 
> will be those with bigger guns and who know better how best to use them. 
>  "Cold, dead hands" will be the appropriate expression.

The subject is NOT insurrection of any kind nor the why of anything.

The story of the local farmers, shopkeepers, and militia that pinned down
Brown and his troops in the Harpers Ferry Armory until the Marines arrived
is most appropriate to the actual subject no matter how much you want
to change it.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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