from Off The Grid News

[BeardyMan]

Two disturbing trends are converging that should have every American rushing to get their ducks in a row. Something big is in the wind ... and it's anybody's guess when or how it will all go down. Here's what I'm talking about:

Trend #1: The government stockpiles over 1.6 billion rounds of ammo.

Since last spring, the federal government has purchased over 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. The Department of Homeland Security has been the biggest stockpiler, but other agencies are in on the game, too - including FEMA, the National Weather Service, and, believe it or not, the Social Security Administration.

That's five rounds, by the way, per U.S. citizen. That's a chilling thought. Even more chilling, though, is this scary fact: 450 million of those rounds are hollow point bullets. It's designed to expand when it hits the target, to slow down so that it doesn't penetrate the target completely, and to achieve maximum tissue damage and blood loss. This type of ammo is so destructive that it has been banned by the Geneva Convention. The U.S. military does not use it in any of its operations abroad - not in Iran, Afghanistan, or anywhere else. The only place it can be "legally" used is within U.S. borders.

But it's not the military, anyway, who has been acquiring this type of ammo. It's the Department of Homeland Security. And they don't fight wars abroad. They operate inside the borders of the U.S.

If this trend isn't disturbing enough, it's even more startling what has come to light in the past few days:

Trend #2: Military leaders are being asked if they will fire on U.S. citizens if ordered.

The story exploded all over Facebook earlier this week and quickly went viral. It was posted by Jim Garrow, a humanitarian who has helped rescue tens of thousands of Chinese baby girls from infanticide and who was a 2009 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Garrow shared some extremely disturbing information, which was leaked to him by someone he describes as "one of America's foremost military heroes." Here is what he posted on his Facebook page:

"Obama is using a new 'litmus test' in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. 'The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not.' Those who will not are being removed."

Is it a coincidence that just one day earlier, on Sunday, January 20th, General James Mattis, head of the U.S. Central Command, was told "to vacate his office several months earlier than planned"?

So what's it going to be? Will civil unrest break out because of the awful economy? Will civil unrest break out because of Obama's current demonization of the Second Amendment and his stealth gun grab? Or will Obama engineer some kind of disastrous event as a pretext for imposing martial law (not to mention as an excuse for gun confiscation)?