The Solitary Man’s Refuge (26 page)

Janice wished she had Donald around to question
on evolving events and get his inputs and opinions. He
used to do something called “Red Teaming” in the military
and in his college terrorism classes that required him to
place himself in different scenarios as an opposing force
and figure out basically what he would do in an opposite
position to act or react to things. She had read a few of his
papers and to be honest, she had difficulty in doing so
because his outcomes were always so horrendous and
plausible enough to show the holes and failures in the
current response efforts planned.

The one outcome that worried her most was a fear
that what he had previously predicted was happening now
because the Ham operator had said there was a lot of
Middle Eastern chatter on the radio.

Donald had a theory that he had described in a
theoretical paper that had made her blood run cold to think
about. He had said them crazy Iranians were going to use
this Solar Storm as a sign to go run amok and start World
War III.

What the sneaky bastards were going to do was
say to soldiers and citizens that when this predictable
storm happened, it was going to be a sort of religious or
patriotic sign in the sky that it was time to start a little
“Jihad”. Now all this information he had was based on
many factual statements he could cite which the country
had made published statements about their belief Muslim
nations around the world should unite militarily in response
to the imminent coming of Islam’s messianic savior – the
Mahdi.

Janice remembered the Christian bible had its own
thoughts about the signs that we should heed in the sky
from Revelations but getting rid of the religious
connotations, it made perfect sense to pick an
astronomical phenomenon to set a date and time when
you know the electrical grid was going to be down.

All it took was some patience and a bit of space
weather predicting to bring about an uprising. Oh yea, the
Iranian military already had plans on how to bring as they
called America “The Great Satan” to its knees by taking
the electrical grid out using the so called “scud in a bucket”
technology they already possessed.

The ship-launched threat of the so-called "Scud in a
bucket" scenariois is as simple as it is horrific. Explode a
nuclear device in the air of our eastern seaboard coast.
The explosion sends out an EMP, which shuts down all
electrical systems in the broad, multistate region below the
explosion. In the modern United States, hardly anything
works when the electronics go down. No transportation, no
heat, no lighting, no communications . . . no nothing.
Hospitals cannot function. Food, medical and other
supplies are immobilized. In a matter of days, masses of
people start dying. EMP attacks could come in any number
of ways. Iran's Shahab-3, an advanced scud variant, can
carry a 10-kiloton warhead about 1,000 kilometers. It
couldn't reach the United States from Tehran, but it doesn't
have to. As Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) noted it: "A terrorist
organization might have trouble putting a nuclear warhead
"on target" with a Scud, but it would be much easier to
simply launch and detonate in the atmosphere. . . . Just
launch a cheap missile from a freighter in international
waters -- al Qaeda is believed to own about 80 such
vessels -- and make sure to get it a few miles in the air."
Iran didn’t even have to do that or get North Korea to give
them some help if a Solar Storm did a similar number.

This is no mere theoretical risk. Iran has simulated
an EMP attack, conducting tests in the Caspian Sea to
determine whether its ballistic missiles could be detonated
at a high altitude by remote control. Currently, the United
States does not have adequate missile defenses to protect
against this type of attack. And that's not the only EMP
threat we faced and they knew it.

Iran just cranked the rhetoric up in a little paper they
decided to publish to get ready for today and mobilize
some forces Donald had theorized. Nine years ago a
Revolutionary Guards arm, the Holy Defense, published a
book, “The Last Six Months,” in which it describes the
conditions needed in the last six months prior to the
reappearance of the last Islamic messiah. The book was
distributed by the hundreds of thousands to all of their
military army bases throughout the country. Islam’s Shiites
have this belief that their 12th Imam, Mahdi, will reappear
at the end of times and kill all the infidels, raising the flag
of Islam in all four corners of the world.
The book, which relies on Islamic hadiths by the Prophet
Mohammad and his descendants from centuries ago,
describes the 9/11 attacks and the invasions of
Afghanistan and Iraq as signs that the time is near for this
prediction to come true. But it also prophesies much more
significant signs that would launch the six-month time
frame for the reappearance of Mahdi: an attack on Syria
and then an attack on Iran. The US is not the only one that
can stir up some shit with a false flag or mess with folk’s
patriotism or religious beliefs. Telling the masses a
religious sign is coming to the poor or uncommitted, raising
nationalist fervor, etc. is something the orator and chaplain
Lindsey Williams said the worlds elite, Illuminati etc., were
also capable of. He also said the elite had to warn us
before they did it which they have been doing for years.

Janice often told Donald that he dwelled too much
on the weird scenarios of his emergency management
business too much, but what if he was right with the
possibilities of this scenario? No wonder he got into deep
dark thoughts or a sometimes anguished mood over what
he saw might be possible or what was actually going to
happen to his world based on his educated estimations.

Donald had told her as soon as the lights and power
went out along with some kind of sign appearing in the
sky, that that was when he expected the minions of doom
to start dancing. The religious fantastic’s, the war hawks,
the political wanna be hope riders would all start plans to
put a spin on it and say only they could solve it if you gave
up some more freedom.

Religious fervor, patriots, doomers, military and
terrorists will start the big board game to snatch and grab
the sustenance out of the mouth of humanity for
themselves in border wars. Each faction has its own
reasons, each has leaders devoted to causes but regular
folks will be just struggling to tread water and survive as
starvation knocks at their door.

Thousands of terrorist cells consisting of the most
loyal nutcases have been placed throughout the world by
the Islamic fundamentalists, and they believe Iran will be a
key player in creating the circumstances for the coming of
a “Jihad” leader all too many will follow.

The Islamic regime had fully expected to be
attacked by Israel and the US before this event even
occurred. The solar storm that just happened was the
equivalent of the Sam Colt six-gun equalizer of men in the
old American West and now had reduced the capabilities
of the great armies of the world to level out the playing
field a bit.

Iran’s leaders believed signs in the sky will happen
as foretold in centuries-old hadiths and written in the book
“The Last Six Months.” Response contingencies call for
either seeing the signs or the country being attacked would
call for simultaneous attacks on Israel, Saudi Arabia and
the Gulf States, and attacks not only on U.S. bases in the
region but the U.S. homeland itself.

THE SOLAR STORM WILL BE TAKEN BY SOME
TERROIST GROUPS AS A TRIGGERING EVENT OR
CALL TO ARMS!

The trigger has been pulled globally by this solar
event and the entire world is now at risk. The sun had
already pooped in our corn flakes, but now the friggin
Muslims want a last holy war dance with us, not based on
the teachings of a religious book but on a twisted political
fanatic interpretation and we are in for hell in the near
future. Donald had said to be warned of any kind of
phenomenon somebody in power could but a supernatural
spin or meaning behind.

What exactly did he mean by that warning? Janice
thought, mentally flustered trying to recall the
conversation. Oh yea. He said it worked liked the “Goes
into process” he used to fix an electronic problem in a
radio. Something about a half split process in looking at
things. Was that meaning start in the middle of circuit
board? No it meant start with what you know. You got
power in; you don’t worry about that you look for power
out. You got sound in, but no sound out, look for the
obvious.

So Iran already has some kind of insurgent cells
here in the US to create some mischief and mayhem on a
given cue. Stay away from Muslim places of worship
during these times, that was a given, but she tended to
avoid getting near them anyway. Donald had said many
people’s minds were somewhat simplistic when following
organized religions, people that believe in a higher power
will act according to whatever religious leader guidance
they take to be true.

He said people that are deceived by false prophets
or leaders tend to believe their religious convictions or
deceptions ultimately. There is nothing you can say that
will change that persons sense of responsibility, but you
must recognize it as a threat and attempt to plan for or
work around it if its violence that is advocated as part of
their belief system.

Planning was the key to awareness, who don’t like
me, who wants what I got, what or who is threatening me
and why they might think of these things is the education
process one must undertake to know their enemies.

According to the Department of State, Hezbollah,
with Iran as its state sponsor, is considered the `most
technically capable terrorist group in the world’ with
`thousands of supporters, several thousand members, and
a few hundred terrorist operatives’, and officials from Iran’
has been working in concert with Hezbollah since the
1990s.

A hundred plus thousand yahoos with one bullet
each against me in a best case scenario is nothing to
sneeze at let alone who they are influencing or are bank
rolling to do their dirty work.

Law enforcement can barely control the inner city
and international gangs like MS 13 now that threaten us. If
they go to work for a country like Iran we really got some
problems on our hands.

Donald began sorting through his preps while trying
to decide what holster and the pistols he was going to
carry concealed for his trip back to town. It was open carry
for long arms in the country, but not in the city by a long
shot as of yet. There were still plenty of cops on the streets
as far as he knew and he didn’t want to run the risk of
getting stopped with a loaded shotgun or rifle at a
checkpoint in his vehicle. He decided on wearing a belly
band for his 9mm Astra A-100 and put a small 9mm Keltec
in his pocket holster. Two extra 17 round magazines for
the Astra fit in the pockets of the belly band and a extra
mag for the Keltec resided in his front pants pocket He had
an extra 20 rounds of 9mm stored in his get home bag and
if all that ammo wasn’t sufficient to counter a threat, well
then he wouldn’t have made it out alive most likely
anyways.

LowBuck came into the gunroom and surveyed
Donald’s collection of firearms. “Dang man, you got a
pretty good assortment of weapons there. You got one for
about any task I can dream up. I see you went all out on
stocking ammo, too.” LowBuck said as he started reading
what kind of shells were in the gun safe.

“Well, fortunately or unfortunately there are 7 full
ammo cans out in the prep shed, too. I kind of over did the
stockpiling ammo thing and couldn’t resist the latest
greatest bullet or some great deal from Sportsman’s Guide
or Ammunition to Go.” Donald replied.

“Why do you say unfortunately? I for one am glad
you got that huge stash of ammo prepped. Weren’t you the
one that said something about how easy it was to burn up
several 30 round clips in a concentrated firefight?”
LowBuck said looking confused at Donald’s negative
thoughts on ammo.

“Well, I really doubt I will need to be burning up
more than a mag of .223 or 7.62x39 if trouble starts and I
got more 12 gauge double ought and no 4 Buck than I will
ever have a use for. No, I wish about half that stash could
be converted into food right now and no sane person is
going to be trading ammunition for food unless the person
holding the food is desperate for ammo and I am not sure I
would want make that kind of a deal anyway. I should have
spent a lot of that money on acquiring more food preps.
The guns I got are all task oriented true enough, but it’s
like how many do you need unless you are providing
loners to someone and then you got caliber issues. I did
do some serious thinking about each one in a task
oriented fashion though. If I am going hog hunting I would
rather be toting that Ruger Blackhawk .357 or that Sig .45
than a 9mm. I got that Blackhawk single action so I could
see the big sights before I could finally afford to have eye
surgery. It’s a bitch not having health insurance. It’s more
of a bitch when you got to weigh buying food preps over
saving up for some eye surgery because the asshole
doctor won’t work with you on time payments. I figured it
would take me at least a year to save up 3500 bucks and
not be prepped or spend 300 a month on preps and be a
blind ass prepper with food. I chose the latter and finally
came up with a way to get my eye surgery done from
doing a couple business deals. Man, I am glad I finally got
that done and off my mind. It’s damn scary to have sight
issues to begin with. But having that concern, while
planning on the poo hitting the fan, can be downright nerve
wracking. In a massive social collapse, law and public
order break down and the truth about human rights is
revealed: An individual has rights only as long as he can
defend them. Second guessing ones marksmanship
capabilities do not make for a very secure feeling.” Donald
said fiddling with a leather sling he wanted to swap out for
Michael on the SKS Chinese sniper rifle.