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FEAR IN THE CITY by Kurt Saxon copyright 1981
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Since I've been promoting survivalism I've been visited by
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dozens of TV crews, talked on dozens of radio shows and made
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several in-person TV talk and news programs. I've also given
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numerous newspaper and magazine interviews. All the others
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prominent in our field have likewise been interviewed by all
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segments of the media. Many journalists write us up with no
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contact except what they read about us.
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A recurring theme runs through this media coverage. Fear.
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But the funny thing is that, according to the media, we
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survivalists are the ones who are afraid. We are portrayed as
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terrified, kill-crazy psychotics, unable to cope with city life.
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The hustle and bustle of urban life have somehow unhinged us.
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We've fled Heaven and each has sought his own rural Hell.
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We are literally holed up in our primitive wildernesses. We
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are armed to the teeth against city people who would never leave
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paradise to threaten our poor homesteads. We all preach doom and
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threaten all those who would share our wretchedness.
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Almost without exception, interviewers belabor the idea that
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we would shoot to defend ourselves. No media representative visits
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me without insisting on seeing my arsenal. Many of my
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non-survivalist neighbors have more weapons than I. But they are
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collectors and hunters and I'm just a murderous fiend.
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One might ask; since most survivalists have left the cities
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and so are no danger to city folk, why the media blitz against
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urban dropouts? Also, if city folk are right in believing they
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live in the best of all possible worlds, why don't they just ignore
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us? Besides, it's unkind to make fun of us poor crazies afflicted
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with various forms of anxiety neuroses.
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It simply makes no sense for the media to be obsessed with
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urban dropouts unless the mere fact that we have withdrawn is a
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threat to the cities. But, you see, we are a threat to the
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cities. Brain drain. White flight. Eroding urban tax bases.
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Plain, gut-level jealousy towards those able to leave their
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respective Disneylands for dummies for cleaner, safer areas. I
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could go on and on.
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A big factor in painting us as vicious lunatics is to use us
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as an example of the kind of people who refuse to share the fate of
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those who stay behind. We are the rats leaving the sinking ship.
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We are the non-supportive. We can't stand the gaff. We lack
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compassion for the social dependents we abandon on the doorsteps of
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those with a stake in the cities. All this is simply because we
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refuse to be the victims of demanding parasites, muggers, burglars,
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etc. Every one who leaves makes city folk more heavily taxed and
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more likely to be criminally assaulted, due to the decrease in
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potential victims.
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So the fear is not with us; it is with them. The hostility is
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not from us; it is from them. So it stands to reason that if they
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can convince others that we are degenerate goofs, less city folk
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will be inclined to imitate us.
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The following is a reprint of an example of naked fear. Lynda
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Hurst is afraid and hostile. So terrified, in fact that she has
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lost control and so writes like an addled hysteric.
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Although she had access to enough of my material to know that
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most of it is non-violent, she singled out that dealing with
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defense. This was expected. But to attack VICTORIA shows she is
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irrational. The most telling line is, "Women who find uses for
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stale bread and are able to recognize alfalfa should be the first
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ones Kurt and the boys blow away".
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There's your key. A hatred of competence and independence
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from the collective. We "boys" might well blow away those who
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would loot us, but Lynda and her ilk would rather those of her own
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sex who are thrifty and self-reliant be destroyed.
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So let the Lynda Hursts rage against the competent on behalf
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of the parasitic. Let them soil themselves while calling us
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fear-crazed. Let them infer that survivalism is some sort of
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social treason. They are the collective against the individual.
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The have-nots against the haves. The doomed against the
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survivalists. So when they criticize your morality, your courage,
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your patriotism, just consider the source.
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