At 8:07 a.m. local time, all cell phones alerted, “Emergency alert: ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii, seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”

This was obviously a huge failure of state government that added up to a big”oops!”

Maybe there really was a missile headed to Hawaii, maybe the real “screw-up” is it was one of ours and not one of theirs. Maybe this was a ridiculous and cruel test to see how people would react knowing their lives were about to be cut short by a stubby pork chop with a bad haircut. Whatever the case, you can always judge a calamity not by the act itself, but by the reaction.

Politicians, like politicians do, are trying to make political hay from it. But the question remains; “Exactly what DID happen?”

The National Intelligence Service says Pyongyang “has been implanting malicious codes by sending enticing text messages” from late February to early March 2017, adding that a fifth of those targeted were successfully hacked. The hackers stole text messages and voice communications, and they secured the numbers of senior government officials, it said.

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Those Americans who lived through the 1950’s Cold War Era are familiar with the concept of civilian-based civil defense programs. Unfortunately, the societal fabric of the country drastically changed with the fall of the old Soviet Union and Civil Defense in the US went from focus on individual preparation and survival to relying on the government, (in the form of FEMA), to come in after any disaster and pick up what’s left of the pieces.

On Saturday, January 13, 2018 the residents of Hawaii, (and, for that matter, the rest of the world), saw just how woefully unprepared our American society is. Reports of elected officials cowering in their bathtubs with their children, panicking mobs running chaotically at the university, folks standing outside staring at the sky trying to see incoming missiles… all of them without a clue… all of them looking for someone to blame.

“Much to-do has been made about the shock and indignation of many Americans when they learn that their nation has no defense against ballistic and cruise missiles. However, a more glaring, and infinitely less technically complex, deficiency is that all but a few Americans lack even the most basic personal protective equipment and live, work, and study in environments that afford little shelter against chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incidents”

“Since the end of the Cold War, America’s programs (except those designed to protect key government leaders) to provide shelter, food, and water in the case of a nuclear exchange have essentially disappeared. Although an Office of Civil Defense existed within FEMA to coordinate these programs, the office was quietly closed during the mid-1990s. Questions regarding public and private shelters as well as personal protective equipment (gas masks, chemical suits, etc.) must now be referred to state emergency preparedness offices.”

For years, a political movement determined to disarm America had persuaded the public there was no use in trying to save lives during a nuclear war. We were all going to die. We might as well be vaporized. There was no point in trying to prepare, no point in defending ourselves, no point in living if we were attacked.

This movement ultimately won out and became official national policy during the Clinton years.

But the movement is based totally on lies. People do survive nuclear blasts. Most people survived the initial blasts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many emerged from the rubble unscathed — only to die a miserable and unnecessary death from fallout. There were dire predictions the two islands would never be inhabited again — or at least for 75 years. Nagasaki and Hiroshima today are bustling metropolises — much bigger, more prosperous and more healthy places to live than they were before the blasts.

There is no question that properly constructed and stocked shelters can and do save lives during nuclear attacks. The proof? Russia has built them. China has built them. The Swiss have built them. All of them, by the way, built based on technology developed by the US government and paid for by US taxpayers — who remain defenseless.

There’s more proof, not all Americans are left defenseless. Your federal government has used your tax dollars to build shelters for itself and its key people — tens of thousands of them. They will survive the inevitable attack on the US. You, the taxpaying public, will not.

That’s the plan. National suicide.

Learning as much as possible about the threats facing us and reasonable measures we as individuals can take to protect ourselves and our loved ones to make up for the shortfall of government assistance is a vital, effort we should make.

It is time that we relearn the lessons taught by Bert the Turtle. It is time we once again, took personal responsibility for the safety of ourselves and our families instead of counting on the government nannies.