Originally Posted By: martinfocazio

2. Gold & Silver. I like gold, I wish I had lots of it. However, when you start talking about Gold as a means to buy the guns to shoot down the black helicopters and buy food when all the banks have gone under.....BZZT! Thanks for playing, please try again.


I'm sorry I'm confused. No offense, but what exactly in that topic was this?

I realize the topic was about barter goods, but I don't see how that automatically equates to black helicopters, anymore than talking about defending your home using a shotgun equates to fortifying your compound.

I can see that these topics can drift in that direction, but I thought that

"This section is for the CIVIL, APOLITICAL discussion of tactics, techniques and tips related to being prepared for a long-term (5 days +) emergency situation" -Doug Ritter

From this, I thought as long as the topics fulfilled these three things, then it was a go. I didn't see anything about "no discussions of barter goods" because they attract the wrong sort.

I know there are people who disagree with such topics (I happen to think stocking gold for such purposes is pointless), but I know there are others who want to prepare for bartering conditions, and want others opinions on it. I don't think talking about bartering automatically equates to survivalist.

If any discussion of bartering is off limits, then maybe you should add it to the forum rules.