Tuesday, August 02, 2011

semi apocalypse

SEMI APOCALYPSE


As Wind In Dry Grass” by H. Grant Llewellyn is one of the best militia porn novels I’ve ever read. If you are forced to stop buying toilet paper, using your wives coveted Princess Di bed sheets to wipe your ass, so that you can afford to buy this book, it will well be worth the pain and aggravation bestowed upon you for insubordination. Trust me on this. Having said that, despite the near total anarchy, starvation, elements exposure and chaos caused by the national disaster described in this book, total collapse does not ensue as it should, so I cannot under good conscience recommend this book as a post-apocalypse novel. Under total collapse, the end of public transportation would also effect the military as soon as their standard Spray And Pray tactics used up the stockpiled inventory. You can’t have all civilians starving without the military running out of ammunition. Yet, that is exactly what happens- the military has free reign to mow down everyone months and months after the semi rigs and trains and airlines stop moving. But aside from this one flaw in logic ( which is what makes this militia porn instead of a great Doom And Gloom novel ), the book is near perfect.

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If you like my extreme paranoia, my insane rants and mental purges, you will simply love this book. This guy can projectile vomit bile and hatred and the cold hard bitter reality of social collapse like nobodies business. There are no friggin soft edges in this book. Friends are killed for siding with the feds, military nurses are butchered for caring for the enemy, children are used as shields to kill the UN troops. My god, the death and destruction and pure raw hate is a wondrous and marvelous thing to behold. I rise to my feet and shout that a new god of chaos has been unleashed, Cry Havoc, you beautiful vile bastards, and let loose the dogs of revolution. Uncompromising and realistic, a portrait of a sick and wrong yet needed hero. And one of the better parts of this book was how normal it started out. Joe Unsuspecting Militia will be reading along, minding his own business when, BAM, the hated suddenly spews forth and never stops. If this guy churns out anymore books, I’m one of his first customers.

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The end of the empire is simplicity itself. A small group of terrorists plants improvised explosive devices to semi-trucks. Hundreds, if not thousands, are booby trapped. No suicide bombers, just guys slipping quietly amongst parked semi’s, their owners getting a shower or meal or sleeping in a few of the countries giant interstate highway truck stops, and planting the bombs. Hundreds of trucks start blowing up on the roads, in loading docks, stopped in city traffic. The locations and times are mostly scattered, random and different. Then drivers start abandoning their rigs in fear of they themselves becoming a casualty. Then people start panicking when nothing gets delivered ( Just-In-Time Delivery, no decentralized supply ). Nothing is shipped in and all shelves are emptied in minutes. After that, within a day or two, the abandoned desolate stretches holding gas pipelines or transmission lines are targeted randomly in many locations. Then comes the sewage treatment plants. Not the water supplies, as they are relatively more hardened targets, but the sewage plants as they are largely unprotected. Total breakdown.

Brilliant!

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Can you imagine what would have happened if the Soviet Union had still been around these days? This would have been their strategy to immobilize us. Back then, computers hadn’t totally “revolutionized” our inventory system. We had pretty much already dismantled our rail system and went to semi’s for moving goods, but that to some extent was strategically sound. Decentralized movement away from vulnerable track. And we were already starting to centralize farming, but that movement didn’t weaken us so badly until the last of the suburbs ate up the farmland in our last housing spurt. Thank you, Central Bank, for putting profit ahead of a strategic food plan. So, after the Soviet Union collapsed, we saw complete centralization of everything, then complete computerization leading to Just In Time. We have never been more vulnerable. I don’t think the ragheads have the legions necessary to pull off this kind of attack. The Soviets would have. The Chinese could, even using mostly white faced sub contractors. That is another thing we did post-Soviet, the wholesale opening of our borders to immigrants so as to crush the Unions. A lot easier for terrorists to get in and stay.

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The fact that this sort of attack hasn’t already happened tells you one or two things. First, most people are incompetent fools. Or, two, the terror attacks actually are false flags by in house intelligent services. The possibility of this kind of simple attack ( forget the pipelines or sewage plants even, just the semi fleets refusing to roll is enough ) should wave a red flag in front of you frantically. Got food stores?

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A hearty hi-ho and thanks to Dave for the magical coins you sent ( in referance to a story in The Road To Roma )! Useful trinkets in the mail make me grin stupidly. Usually, I scowl stupidly, which simply does not have the same charm or class. A ten percent shortage in wise words and irrefutable logic for today‘s article. I won’t it happen too often, not to worry.

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3 comments:

mohave rat said...

A suggestion for an article:

A Hundred More Things To Worry About Besides All The Crap We Currently Worry About or A Hundred Things I Worry About That Nobody Else Worries About or How To Live With Certain Doom Hanging Over Your Head and Still Be Happy.

the rat

Anonymous said...

Well, my recent hobby has been learning to play the ukulele--don't laugh it really is fun.

Plus what a better way to put the mutant zombie bikers at ease when they see a hippy lady playing the uke while my husband sites them in with the rifle ; )

Idaho Homesteader

JP in MT said...

I also found the book to be different from the usual. Thought provoking in attacking the trucking system, leaving multiple potential villains. My copy is already loaned out (hope I get it back)!