Today’s lesson is about a wee bit of social engineering that should be a part of your glove box in your vehicle, or your bug-out bag.

It is: the Media Pass.
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This little darling has been used as far back as the 1970s to smooth the way through more than one coup d’etat.

Professor LawDog’s School of Mayhem and Survival

I want to add a comment to the following:

As soon as you get to a point where you can duck, disengage, and Beat Feet Away From The Stupid, do so. If there’s a barricade in front of your Newest Favourite Alley, waving your Media Pass at the cops manning said barricade will frequently get you past it.

Heed that advice. Even if you are Media, your welcome mat has a quickly fading expiration date. It would not be the first time that a Journo got his ass kicked or a hole in the head for failing to see the winds of change. Mobs have no logic.

If you live in an area where mob and looting may happen more than usual, you may want to invest on fake blood. Thanks to the general fear of blood-borne pathogens, people may want to stay the hell away from you if they think they can get contaminated with AIDS and/or Hep C. Keeping a little vial handy may give you another tool to get the hell out of the Crazy “Party.”