{"id":2752,"date":"2012-02-22T09:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2012-02-22T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:47:00","slug":"insane-prepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/02\/insane-prepper-2752.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Thumb Knuckle \/ Prepper Declared Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doomsday Preppers (currently screening on NatGeo in the USA) is reality TV, so of course it includes some drama. And what happened to Tim Ralston certainly wasn’t scripted:<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, David Sarti, who also appeared on the show, has been declared insane. Yet it might all come down to his SHTF beliefs.<\/p>\n

He visited a cardiologist and after refusing treatment ended up being kept in a psychiatric unit for evaluation – seemingly because the cardiologist felt Sarti was suicidal. You’d like to think a cardiologist wouldn’t be allowed to make such a call! Sarti was consequently released, with no further action taken, except for one very cruel twist: due to his brief stay at a psych facility, he has been deemed by the Tennessee state to be mentally defective and unfit to own a gun. Yet he is a survivalist… ironic.<\/p>\n

Here’s Sarti telling his story:<\/p>\n

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In the second video he makes it clear that this all happened before he appeared on TV, and that his guns have not been confiscated… they are “elsewhere”. And he hints that some kind of appeal process is underway.<\/p>\n

The lesson for all preppers and 2012ers is this: only share your SHTF thoughts and beliefs with like-minded folk, and never with officials or those who might feel compelled to report you to the government for your own good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doomsday Preppers (currently screening on NatGeo in the USA) is reality TV, so of course it includes some drama. And what happened to Tim Ralston certainly wasn’t scripted:<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, David Sarti, who also appeared on the show, has been declared insane. Yet it might all come down to his SHTF beliefs.
\nHe visited a cardiologist and after refusing treatment ended up being kept in a psychiatric unit for evaluation – seemingly because the cardiologist felt Sarti was suicidal. You’d like to think a cardiologist wouldn’t be allowed to make such a call! Sarti was consequently released, with no further action taken, except for one very cruel twist: due to his brief stay at a psych facility, he has been deemed by the Tennessee state to be mentally defective and unfit to own a gun. Yet he is a survivalist… ironic.
\nHere’s Sarti telling his story:<\/p>\n

In the second video he makes it clear that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}