Self Reliance Expo Houston September 12-13

[Prone to Knit]

Texas, the Self Reliance Expo is once again coming to your state:  September 12th and 13th at the Reliant Center in Houston!

Once again, they welcome an Appleseed booth and pellet line.

We have decided we will not be coming back to Texas. We've made 4 long trips down there to help build your state and it's just too costly: loss of work, wearing out vehicles, unreimbursed expenses and things like bringing home sick stressed dogs incurring huge vet bills and the destruction of the awning on our trailer on the last trip due to ferocious winds.

It costs Appleseed more for our roughly 15 hour drive down there. It makes so much more sense for some of you Dallas people to make the 4-5 hour trip to Houston to help out your state. The expo would benefit more than just the Houston area and I'm sure the Houston folks would appreciate getting a hand in promotions.

The expo is willing to bring down the rifles and pellet traps but they don't have room for the walls.  This would require the Texas team to fund and build walls for the pellet range and then to store them. If you spread the cost among willing instructors that would help. Jim and I paid for our walls and also the sand/concrete to hold the walls since locals haven't been willing to purchase these. The expo intends on going back to Texas once or twice a year.

This is your chance to do this expo Texas style! I have a how-to document I can send to give you a frame to work with.

If someone will take this on, we'll make sure the rifles and traps get towed down there.

What do you say? Are you going to back up all that bragging we always hear about Texas?

Please let us know!

Jim and Kim

[Prone to Knit]

I will decline this opportunity.

Kim

[Fred]

    OK, there must be some mistake here!

    Texas folks not stepping up to a great local (but think, "state-wide") promotional opportunity like this?

    It must be simply that none of them have seen this thread, yet.

    You reckon?

    (Boy, we better hope so!)

[Two Wolves]

Actually Fred, you killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.    However, all is not lost. Surely Floyd is gonna step up to the plate. Ya think?  Regards

[dragit]

Quote from you Fred, "It's no secret that this program has always distanced itself from anything which can be construed as "militia training", and Battleroad offers things like "field medicine", "combat tracking", etc."

Then you say this, "Texas folks not stepping up to a great local (but think, "state-wide") promotional opportunity like this?" for a Self-Reliance Expo where people have booths set up for field medicine and militia groups.  But you want us to mingle with these people as we run a booth with pellet rifles.  Or should we put blinders on and pretend they are not there.

A bit hypocritical, ya reckon?

"Militias" stood their ground on April 19, 1775.  Does that term mean something different today?  I believe "field medicine", as in continual amputation until they died of gangrene, was the order of the day.  Millions of people are about to rely on their self-reliance in the not-so-distant future in this country for survival.  If you do not want to be part of that good luck eating your ammo and cleaning your wounds with gunpowder. 

It is too bad 501c3s are beholden to the very entities that are sinking this ship. 

[TimBeatty]

I was impossible to fully staff the events for both days in DFW and we have over 20 people with red and orange hats within 50 miles. We have 1 in Houston and maybe only a few within 50 miles of the event. Even if nothing changed from last year we still could not staff the event.

[Two Wolves]

I was impossible to fully staff the events for both days in DFW and we have over 20 people with red and orange hats within 50 miles. We have 1 in Houston and maybe only a few within 50 miles of the event. Even if nothing changed from last year we still could not staff the event.

Tim, the difference is in leadership. When the first self reliance expo came to the DFW area, Scout put out the call and we came. From all over the state.  When Scout said he needed help opening a range in deep south Texas, there wasn't enough room for everyone that would go. When the NRA convention was coming to Houston, Scout had volunteer staff lined up a year in advance.

What is it about a broken down, beat up older man like Scout that he can command so much loyalty from his followers? It's certainly not because he's rich and famous. Could it be because of his passion for the mission or his compassion for his fellow man? How about his willingness to give 110%. Radio shows, billboards, full use of his facilities for FREE.

Remember what happened to the world's greatest army on April 19th, 1775 when the colonist militia took out the officers in command. The troops fell apart.

The question is, can Scout be replaced? Can we find another dedicated Appleseed home range centrally located in Texas. One that can host boot camps and a KD range?   Let me know what you find.

One thing that hasn't changed is that the love and the loyalty we have for Michael Adam has been strengthened. Whatever he chooses to do or where ever he goes he will be surrounded with fellow compatriots.