Mob burns Venezuelan man alive over $5 as justice fails

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• "This is why you need to buy ammo and stock up on guns."

  Preppers are now suggesting that you take note of what they've run out of in Venezuela and use that to make your own "collapse supply list:"

  http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/create-a-collapse-supply-list-based-on-the-things-they-are-out-of-in-venezuela-05162016

  • I'll address the article in sections.

    What's the point of stockpiling food if the government steals it from you? However, keeping enough in house to feed yourself for a few days or more, might not get you on their radar. I keep about 25 cans of SPAM that I rotate regularly. It's not everyone's favorite, but when you're hungry, it tastes pretty damned good.

    If you grew up in a low income family like I did, you know how horrible dry milk tastes, and that's if you are able to break up the lumps of powder that might not dissolve. However, the whey milk available from the prep food companies is supposed to be pretty good.

    Again, low income makes you resourceful, and just because I live well now, old habits are hard to break. I save up the bits of bath soap that are too small to use, keep them in a plastic container. When I have enough, I "melt" them down by soaking in water, and then leave it out in the containers you get mac and cheese from KFC, and let them dry out. You can also use it for washing clothes if you need to.

    Toilet paper is a tough one, but not impossible. Save up old newspaper, and tear it into TP wide strips. If you crumble it up a good bit, it comes out soft enough to use to wipe.

    Water is the major staple, and it wasn't mentioned in the article.
    You need at least a gallon a day per person in your house. At that rate, I have enough to last the 2 of us and the dogs 2 years without having to get too creative. Having a small back yard limits my water storage, but a 12'x4' above ground pool holds 1600 gallons of water, and it's chlorinated, so it's fairly safe for drinking. Even without that, having some Lifestraws in stock is a great way to make sure you have safe water.

    Cooking is another item they left out. I am lucky, because in my line of work, when we get a foreclosure to remodel, many times there are propane tanks left behind. The condition doesn't matter since you can take the ones that won't pass muster to the local Home Depot and use the propane exchange machine outside. I have gotten rid of some pretty nasty old tanks that way, and left with nice full ones. When you have a nice tank, you can take it to get refilled for less than exchange prices. Then you can cook almost anything on a propane grill and not have to worry about if the electric or gas utilities are functional.

    • Wasn't toilet paper one of the first things to run out? I got you covered.

      http://www.allahsquran.com/free/

      • You are truly devious and a scoundrel. That's just one of the reasons I like you.

• If he was a child molester/rapist and/or very violent assault and/or a murderer caught in the act I actually would have no pity whatsoever. I say that in cases like that vigilante justice (as long as it was in the timeframe or right before, during or right after the act) is necessary. It helps cut down on court costs, it actually gets the victim to have immediate justice over what happened to her or him, and so many positive things in my opinion (it will help immensely in cleaning out the neighborhood, etc).

  However when it comes to acts of thievery (without violence) and acts of this nature I don't think this was appropriate at all. It was literally overkill. Especially because of five dollars? He should have been caught and dragged kicking and screaming to the police and make sure that he gets arrested. I do not approve of what the thief did. He should have known better especially if it is true he went to church. He should have never taken anything that didn't belong to him and it was stupid for him to do so in the middle of the day. However, he didn't assault the older man, he didn't murder him. I don't agree with his actions, but I don't agree with the reaction it was too much.

  This is just sad overall. Venezuela is now far worst than a typical third world country. It is going down the road of anarchy. The thing is that it affects one another not the central government which should be the focus and target of their anger.

• I'm surprised this hasn't happened in some of our worst inner city slums. The good people living in these places like you see in New York, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and Los Angeles are sick and tired of being victimized. Gangs, dope dealers and users, prostitution, criminals of all kinds, rule the poor areas in most of our larger cities and the law can do nothing about it. Or the law doesn't care, thinking if enough of the animals kill each other off things will calm down. If a few innocent people die along the way, oh well. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  • Citizens arrest should be made possible and just take non violent criminals to the police when the police won't or can't come into the neighborhoods, but people are afraid for many reasons.

• Feel good story of the day. Knowing your neighbors will burn you alive instead of spending the night in jail. Pretty good incentive not to steal

  • The problem being that this story and many like it, do not get national attention, so a lot of the people don't even know. It seems it wasn't the first time either, so he must have not known that this is something that was happening in his country (people being killed for crimes).

• Civilization is just a thin vulnerable veneer on the normal state of chaos and barbarity. This can happen anywhere. Take the men in blue out of any inner city in the U.S. and the same chaos will prevail within hours. That's how fragile civilization is.

  • I'm reading "One Scond After" now. It is about what happens in the aftermath of an EMP strike. In the novel, it turns bad in less than two days.

    • That's why stocking up on water and propane are critical.

  • Ah. You mean, like how much of Chicago already is?

• Sad and scary.

• If Barky has his way, we will be there before he's out of office.