September is National Preparedness Month

CitizenQ

CitizenQ

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I'm sure you are all aware that September is National Preparedness Month. I would like to challenge all of the members of this forum to go forward and enlighten all who will listen about this special month and the need for preparedness. Please help me in my mission to educate as many of our fellow citizens as possible about disaster preparedness of all types.

http://www.ready.gov

www.PreparedToLive.org

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Have already started. Planned on making up flyers containing information on where to look online for preparedness suggestions and listing local fire/police contact numbers and handing them out in our area.
 
mete said:
Do they tell you not to trust or depend on the Gov't ???
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That's for sure. I was up in the Maine wilderness last week talking to an oldtimer who told me about a forest fire when he was young. He told me back then the fire department sent a truck his high school to collect all the able bodied boys to help fight the fire. I told him this would never happen today in Surburbopolis...the parents would be up in arms and the laywers would be workin' OT. Back then you went because you were protecting your community. Today everyone views protection of their community as the government's responsibility, and most of us here know that the government...while well intentioned...is incompetent, wastefull, and most interested in protecting the government. So I view National Preparedness Month as a simple reminder for us to educate all those who'll listen about our common responsibility to protect ourselves.
 
To which I might add...

Old fears new again: 1950s themes are still ringing true

Having grown up in the 1960's (I was born in the mid 50's) I remember well the preparedness campaign that was waged during my childhood. The Qhaos Magazine article I posted today (Old fears new again: 1950s themes are still ringing true) speaks to the truth that never before have the preparedness themes of the mid 20th century been more pertinent than today.

Yet where is the preparedness campaign we need now? No where it seems. I would ask Michael Chertoff, George Bush, and Peter King (the NY State congressman who chairs the Homeland Security committee) where the heck is the information that Americans need now?

I have written before that America needs a national preparedness campaign that runs for a decade on television, on the radio, in traditional print media, and on the internet. In just a few years every American would contemplate preparedness every single day, and at the end of the decade America would have been transformed into the most prepared nation on earth.

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Congressman Peter King ??? He the idiot who said that Northern Ireland is part of his constituancy !!!!.....I'm an amateur radio Ham and have been involved in emergency communications for floods etc.However it's now becoming more Gov't controlled [FEMA] .I fail to see how they will make our operations better or more efficient.We had three floods in the last three years and I think we handled it very well !!
 
Because the average American still looks to the Gov. for protection and help in an emergency and the fact that I wanted them to take the flyer seriously, I didn't slam the gov, but I did state that the government was unprepared and unable to help those poor souls after katrina went through and with that in mind, the private citizen would certainly have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting and caring for themselves and their loved ones, until real help showed up.
 
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