Wahoo! Book Nine was released on July 31.

Here’s the link to Amazon for it.

This book ends the series in a way (but not really) with the final battle in Olympia and the beginnings of the Rebuilding. The cover of the book, which is one of my favorites, says it all: a new flag flies over the capitol.

Please review Book Nine (and all the books) on Amazon. Reviews are extremely, extremely important. The number of reviews tells the Amazon algorithm that a book is a good one to list as an “You May Also Like” selection when someone is looking at similar books. This is huge, huge, huge to getting the message out about prepping and 299 Days.

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Speaking of thanks, let me thank you for reading the series. I am always humbled and amazed by you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. – “Glen”

As you know, tens of thousands of illegals are streaming into the US right now.  We are told that many of them are children and some of them are hungry and have nasty, but treatable, conditions like scabies and lice.

Glenn Beck recently made huge waves by announcing that he would organize a relief effort and provide humanitarian support to the illegals, mostly aiming to help the children on the border.  This made a lot of Patriots mad. Including me.

I’m a Christian first and a Patriot second, so I stopped to think how a Christian, in my opinion, should approach this.

Christians should be guided by the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible. In these passages, a Jewish man is beaten by robbers and left for dead on the roadside.  A rabbi and a supposedly religious man pass the man by but neither stops to help him. Finally, a Samaritan helps the man.  This was remarkable because the Samaritans and Jews had a long history of battles and hated each other.  The Samaritan gives first aid and then transports the man to an inn. He pays for a few days of the man’s stay – for as long as it takes him to recover. That’s the key.

Does the example of the Good Samaritan mean Christians should help the illegals?

In my opinion, yes, but only until they are healthy enough to return.  Like the Good Samaritan, I believe we should offer temporary aid to anyone who needs it to allow them to recover.  The Good Samaritan paid for a few days of the man’s stay at the inn, enough to let him recover.  The analogy here would be to try to treat the medical conditions of the illegals so they are healthy enough to return to their home countries. This would be fulfilling our Christian duty, in my opinion.

It’s like when someone runs out of gas and is stuck on the side of the road.  It makes sense to help them by giving them a gallon of gas so they can get to a gas station and then be on their way.  That’s giving them the temporary help they need to, in effect, recover.  But it doesn’t make sense to give them your credit card and tell them to buy all the gas they need for the rest of their life.

By letting illegals into the US, we are effectively giving them all the welfare they need for the rest of their lives.  I know that many illegals work hard and aren’t on welfare, but a good number of them are.  Once those kids are in the US, most of them will be on welfare for at least a while, and maybe a long time.  It’s a lot like giving them having our credit cards to buy all the gas they want for the rest of their lives.

And that’s way more than the Good Samaritan did.

There’s an age-old debate in the prepper community between guns and gardens.  The gun people say you need to have security to protect yourself during the Collapse; the garden people say you can’t fixate on guns and ignore food production.  Of course, you need both but sometimes a small portion of the garden people feel morally superior because they’re peace loving and not “aggressive” like us gun guys.  These garden people say, “You can’t eat a gun.” To which I reply: “Your wife never got raped by a garden.”

Look at every single collapse that’s happened in the world and you will see that vicious bands of thugs roamed the cities and country and stole, killed, and – yes, we don’t like talking about it – raped.

Take the economic collapse in Argentina in 2000 for example. Read the accounts of a survivor, FerFal, as he describes what happened out in the country to those peaceful and decent farm families.  Who were unarmed.  Russia in the early 1990s is another example. Bosnia. We all know what happened there.

It’s not just rape.  Good old fashioned stealing is a problem for peaceful gardeners.  I find it amazing that gardeners will erect sophisticated barriers so deer and other animals don’t eat their crops, but they have no real defense against people walking up and stealing all the food they so diligently protected from deer.  News flash: a gang, or even a hungry neighbor, is much more of a threat to your food supplies than a deer.  Defend your garden accordingly.

“Oh,” the peaceful gardener will say, “I have a gun to defend my homestead.”  What kind of gun? “Grandpa’s 30-30.” Not good enough. Count on bad guys to be much better armed – perhaps even rogue military and law enforcement – and definitely count on them to rove in packs of several men.  Don’t think about scaring off one person; think about killing a street gang.

Once they get to your house, you’re dead.  You need to keep them away, far way.  You need full-time long-range snipers – yes, plural – and you need a warning and communication system.  You need to have extremely badass-looking men with impressive weapons and gear that bad guys instantly realize they don’t want to mess with. You need word to get out that you have a bunch of warriors.  Gangs and especially hungry neighbors will move on and try to take someone else’s garden that’s only defended by Grandpa’s 30-30.  Good.

Can every single peaceful gardner acquire a security team? Nope. This is what community is for.  A community has a security team that does this work.  But how does the security team eat?  They can’t be out pulling weeds when they should be patrolling.

The answer is so simple and, quite frankly, it baffles me that liberty-minded gardeners don’t realize this: trade. The security teams will trade their services for food – that can now be grown because there are no bands of gangs stealing it.  This is the free market.  I can’t believe some hardcore libertarian gardeners who think everyone should garden.  They are wrong.

Here’s another fallacy to the idea that gardening is king for everyone: the assumption that everyone is set up to garden.  Take my cabin, for example. There isn’t much space that has any sunlight.  But there’s plenty of space to house the Team and store our vital supplies.  Gardening doesn’t work for everyone.

So the next time someone says, “You can’t eat a gun,” remind them, “Your wife never got raped by a garden.”

“Joe Tantori” is a real guy.  He’s just like I describe in the books.  He really has a training facility and really is a Patriot.  Joe is an extremely interesting guy.

Joe is putting out a really great AR-15 that’s different: it has the latitude and longitude of his facility engraved on the lower – and this is the “Rally Point.”  As in, if you have one of his rifles, you have an invitation to come to his facility when the Collapse comes and be with like-minded people.  His facility is the Rally Point.

Here’s the web site about his rifle, which he calls the Ft. Discovery Expedition Rifle.  Here’s an interview with Joe about the Rally Point and the rifle on Bob Mayne’s Handgun World Podcast (Joe comes on at 20:23).

We’re at a thrilling time in our history.  Patriots are putting manufacturing rifles with the latitude and longitude of a rally point.  Think about that.