(NaturalNews) Citizens in Tennessee are being asked by government workers to divulge details about their preparedness plans in a door-to-door "assessment" program reported by Janet Kim from local news channel 5 (
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15948523/door-to-door-assessment-fo...). During this assessment, government workers ask residents
22 questions about their preparedness status. NaturalNews has confirmed through reliable sources that these include questions about emergency food supplies.
Fortunately, this effort is being done by a Tennessee group of state employees who are widely recognized throughout the preparedness community as being "good guys" who are truly just trying to help people get prepared. They are not interested in confiscation or anything of the kind, according to our sources. It's a local community preparedness support effort.
On another front, three days ago Oath Keepers reported that their chapter president in Tennessee was told by a local cannery federal agents were demanding customer lists (
http://www.naturalnews.com/034371_food_storage_federal_agents_custome...). This account quickly went viral across alternative news websites, and the news exploded across the 'net.
The Tennessee cannery that originally relayed that account to Oath Keepers has backed off their account and is now telling customers who call that federal agents never visited their cannery. Oath Keepers has posted an update confirming this (
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/12/09/1oath-keepers-alert-federal-ag...).
The change in this first-hand account has many people scratching their heads, as this story was confirmed face-to-face by none other than Oath Keepers
Tennessee Chapter President Sgt. Rand Cardwell, a USMC veteran (Desert Storm) with a solid reputation. There is virtually no possibility that Sgt. Rand Cardwell invented this story, as he is widely known to be a trustworthy individual who honorably served his country as a U.S. Marine.
A far more likely explanation may be found in the Patriot Act itself, which features a
sneak-and-peek with a gag order provision that allows federal agents to conduct searches of any facility and then
gag the witnesses from speaking about it for at least one year, after which they may challenge the gag order. The existence of this sneak-and-peek gag order is widely acknowledged and easily verified through common web searches. Even NPR reported on it several years ago:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/patriotact/patriotactprovisions.htmlAnother possibility is that the original source at the Tennessee
cannery may have been instructed to remain silent by higher ups either within their own organization or, theoretically, the Mormon Church with which the cannery is affiliated. This is only speculation, of course. We no longer have access to any further fact-checking because nobody from that cannery is talking. NaturalNews has long admired the preparedness philosophy of the Mormon Church and its members, most of which are far better prepared for an economic collapse than people of any other organized religion.
Who is getting prepared? The smart folks
The bottom line is that government officials are taking a curious interest all of a sudden in the preparedness status of the American people. Whether for innocent reasons or for nefarious purposes, this is a new focus of both state and federal government, and it indicates that somebody up the chain of command is very interested in knowing WHO is preparing and HOW they're getting prepared.
My advice to NaturalNews readers is to
connect with a Mormon cannery in your area and help support their operations. Such canneries frequently offer
food storage skills and advice, in addition to offering you quality stored goods at affordable prices. Most Mormon-run canneries graciously open their doors to people of any religious denomination, and for that they deserve tremendous credit.
NaturalNews will continue to investigate this story and bring you any important developments. In the mean time, we encourage all our readers, in Tennessee and elsewhere, to
get yourself prepared for what's coming. Because there will very likely come a day when the federal government begins to look at
stored food, cash, and ammunition as "signs of terrorism." The government already flags people who "pay with cash" as being engaged in suspicious activity -- just try to buy an airplane ticket with cash and see what happens if you don't believe me. Similarly, those who buy quantities of firearms are already being flagged and tracked by the ATF. The federal government runs elaborate infiltration and spying schemes to ensnare raw milk farmers (
http://www.naturalnews.com/033428_FDA_secret_war.html).
For that same government to start asking questions about who has stored food isn't even a stretch.
It fits their pattern of spying on their own people even as the government tries to encroach upon more freedoms we all once took for granted.
Stay prepared, folks. The economic tsunami is headed our way, and there's a whole lotta paper currency that may end up being worth no more than the paper it's printed on. For now, I think it's safe to purchase stored food without drawing too much attention to yourself, but you'll probably get a much better value if you buy it locally from regional canneries where you don't have to pay the large shipping costs.
Do I have 5-gallon buckets full of spelt and brown rice? You bet I do. And I got 'em from a Mormon cannery in Idaho.
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