{"id":184775,"date":"2019-03-07T07:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184775"},"modified":"2019-03-11T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:35:02","slug":"rural-sheriffs-ominous-warning-to-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184775","title":{"rendered":"Rural Sheriff\u2019s Ominous Warning To Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG\u201d<\/h2>\n

Michael Snyder \u2013 The End of the American Dream March 6, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Is this a sign of what is coming for the rest of the nation?\u00a0 In Martin County, Kentucky times are very tough right now.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to severe budget cutbacks, there are only two paid law enforcement officers covering a deeply impoverished 231-square-mile area that sits right in the heart of America\u2019s raging opioid crisis.\u00a0 Needless to say, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk feels greatly outnumbered by the thieves, sexual predators and drug dealers that he has to contend with on a daily basis, and he recently issued a very ominous warning to the citizens of his county<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Before making a wave of cutbacks across his department, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk delivered a grim warning to residents of this hardscrabble Appalachian community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist,\u201d he posted on Facebook last month. \u201cWE ARE BROKE\u2026 LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG. If the Sheriff\u2019s office can\u2019t protect you, WHO WILL?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So why can\u2019t Martin County afford more law enforcement officers?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, like so many other local communities all across America right now, they are deep in debt and flat broke<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The county has accumulated $1.4 million in debt \u2014 a surprise to many of its new officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t sleep well,\u201d said Susan Hale, the county\u2019s new treasurer, who is sifting through the bills left by the previous administration: $230,000 to a regional jail that houses its inmates, $140,000 to a state association that provides liability insurance, plus dribs and drabs for mundane items such as office supplies and toilet paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

As economic conditions continue to deteriorate<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, we are going to hear a lot more stories like this all over the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the truth is that things will ultimately be far worse in our major cities than in our rural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just take a look at Chicago.\u00a0 Today it is a war zone, and the growing poverty in the city has fueled the rapid growth of criminal gangs.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a study conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago, approximately half of the city was considered to be \u201cmiddle income\u201d in 1970, but now that number has dropped to just 16 percent<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

UIC\u2019s maps show that fully half of the city was middle income in 1970<\/strong>, including large swaths on every side of town. Today, just 16 percent of the city\u2019s 797 census tracts are considered middle income<\/strong>. Those middle income areas are confined mostly to the corners of the city, and to thin strips between areas of wealth and poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those numbers are absolutely staggering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, there are about 12,000 law enforcement officers and more than 100,000 gang members in the city of Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n

That means that the gang members outnumber the police by an almost 10 to 1 margin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things are not quite as bad in other major cities, but trouble is definitely brewing.\u00a0 For example, the murder rate in New York City is up 37 percent<\/a><\/strong><\/span> so far this year, and more gang members are moving in with each passing day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Philadelphia has also seen the murder rate rise substantially, and this is something that Jim Quinn commented on in his most recent article<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Facts are always inconvenient to welfare state Democrats, but the ignorance of their constituents is what keeps them in power. The narrative of Philadelphia getting safer is obliterated by the 351 murders in 2018, up 43% since 2013, and the highest level since 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assaults involving a gun totaled 2,327, up 13% since 2014. There were over 14,000 violent crimes and 63,000 robberies and thefts in 2018. The vast majority of these crimes occur in West and North Philadelphia, as local news stories lead with multiple murders and shootings every night (average of 4 shootings per day).<\/span><\/p>\n

If things are this bad already, what are things going to look like when economic conditions get really bad?<\/span><\/p>\n

We live at a time when Americans are becoming increasingly pessimistic.\u00a0 And even though economic conditions have been relatively stable in recent years, the combined national death rate from alcohol, drugs and suicide has been steadily rising<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Feelings of hopelessness and despair are overwhelming many in the U.S. So much so, that people are turning to alcohol, drugs, and suicide to numb the pain of their lives. Government enslavement and the stranglehold on the economy are making life even more difficult on those already struggling to get by. And this is seen in new death numbers released.<\/span><\/p>\n

The national rate for deaths\u00a0from\u00a0alcohol, drugs, and suicide rose\u00a0from 43.9 to 46.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2017,\u00a0a 6 percent increase,\u00a0the Trust for America\u2019s Health and the Well Being Trust reported Tuesday. That was a slower\u00a0increase\u00a0than in\u00a0the previous\u00a0two years,\u00a0but it was greater than the 4 percent average annual increase since 1999, reported <\/a><\/strong><\/span>USA Today<\/strong><\/span>.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The big reason why people are turning to alcohol, drugs and suicide to deal with the pain in their lives is because they don\u2019t have any hope<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 And as this country continues to literally fall apart all around us, unfortunately a lot more Americans are likely to give in to anxiety, depression and despair.<\/span><\/p>\n

If we want to turn this nation around, we need to act now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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