This was posted to James Wesley, Rawles' blog site: http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/06/letter_re_the_vancouver_hockey.html

Mr Rawles,
I first posted this in a Survival forum I frequent often in response to the widespread, violent riots that broke out in Vancouver after the local hockey team lost in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

I just was reading up on it this morning and you got to ask yourself: If your "countrymen" would essentially devolve into barbarian hordes over a stupid game - what do you think they'll do when they have no food, water, heat, electricity and no government to bail them out or keep them in their place?

While I don't want to start a debate with this pserson I do want to share my thoughts about the letter here.

First there were NO widespread, violent riots but rather isolated and small pockets of crime, the biggest one in a few blocks of downtown.

Second, no one devolved into barbarian hordes over a stupid game. These folk were primed to cause crime and they came prepared. They had criminal intent, not barbaric mindlessness and were hardly a horde. I can't even justify the term "riot" to describe this self indulgent crime spree using a crowd to hide. A true riot would have seen the whole crowd on the rampage rather than 1%.

If we must decend into this level of incredibility to urge others to prep, we do them no good and look foolish ourselves. A true anti-gov't riot over food and taxes and wages is met with violence, not phone cameras.

Equating these two scenarios does no justice to either.