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''Mel Tappan''' (1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III, the "grand daddy" of the [[Preparedness]] movement<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> was the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. He was also author of the [[Survival]] books ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.  
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'''Mel Tappan''' (1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III, the "grand daddy" of the [[Preparedness]] movement<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> was the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. He was also author of the [[Survival]] books ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.  
  
 
A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[Vote with your feet]] [[strategic relocation]] to a "[[Essay:Free_States_Movement|free state]]s" from a [[liberal]] "death spiral" [[Nanny state]]-[[Police state]] (See [[Blue state]] - [[Essay:Free_States_Movement#Naughty_State_List|unfree state]]s). Like [[James Wesley Rawles]] and [[Joel Skousen]], Mr. Tappan advocated [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions in .<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref>
 
A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[Vote with your feet]] [[strategic relocation]] to a "[[Essay:Free_States_Movement|free state]]s" from a [[liberal]] "death spiral" [[Nanny state]]-[[Police state]] (See [[Blue state]] - [[Essay:Free_States_Movement#Naughty_State_List|unfree state]]s). Like [[James Wesley Rawles]] and [[Joel Skousen]], Mr. Tappan advocated [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions in .<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref>
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==Incremental Gun-Grabbing of the Police State - Nanny State==
 
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According to Mel Tappan, [[liberals]] and [[socialist]]s support so-called "common sense" measures - a "good first step" of the [[Police state]] - [[Nanny state]]. To a [[conservative]] [[citizen]]-[[prepper]]-[[patriot]] [[Oath Keepers|Oath Keeper]] and to the [[Bill of Rights]], this is "[[incrementalism|death by a thousand paper cuts]]". (See [[Essay:List of celebrities against Second Amendment]])
 
  
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Mr. Tappan supports the [[Second Amendment Foundation]] and this video, which is the formal response to [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]]'s [[Demand a Plan]] [[gun control|gun-grabbing]] [[propaganda]] video. The video shows one of the main differences between [[liberal]] [[gun control]] [[Nanny state]]s ([[Blue state]]s) and [[conservative]] and/or [[libertarian]] [[Second Amendment]]-supporting "[[Essay:Free_States_Movement|free state]]s" ([[Red state]]s). This video shows why [[conservative]]s and [[libertarian]]s "[[vote with your feet|vote with our feet]]": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBelF4UddcY<ref>As of December 8, 2014, there are 60,819 views on [[YouTube]] of [[Second Amendment Foundation]]'s ''Equal [[Gun Rights]]'', Online. Published on Feb 24, 2013. http://equalgunrights.com and http://saf.org. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBelF4UddcY.</ref>
 
  
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== See Also ==
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== See also ==
 
* [[Preparedness]] and [[Survivalist retreat]]s
 
* [[Preparedness]] and [[Survivalist retreat]]s
 
* The Eastern [[American Redoubt]] - [[Cumberland Gap]] [[Kentucky]]
 
* The Eastern [[American Redoubt]] - [[Cumberland Gap]] [[Kentucky]]
 
* [[Police state]]s-[[Nanny state]]s violate the [[United States Constitution]]-[[Bill of Rights]] (especially [[Second Amendment]] and [[Fourth Amendment]]) and [[Citizen]]'s [[Unalienable rights]] by not upholding their [[oath]] to support and defend the [[Constitution]].
 
* [[Police state]]s-[[Nanny state]]s violate the [[United States Constitution]]-[[Bill of Rights]] (especially [[Second Amendment]] and [[Fourth Amendment]]) and [[Citizen]]'s [[Unalienable rights]] by not upholding their [[oath]] to support and defend the [[Constitution]].
  
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===Related People===
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===Related people===
 
* [[Stewart Rhodes]] founder of [[Oath Keepers]], [[Montana]]
 
* [[Stewart Rhodes]] founder of [[Oath Keepers]], [[Montana]]
 
* [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]] and author of ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]''
 
* [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]] and author of ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]''
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** '''[[Big government | Big Government]]''': [[Liberal values|Liberal]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Gun control]], [[Militarization of police]], [[Asset forfeiture]] and Domestic [[mass surveillance]] of law-abiding [[citizen]]s via the '''[[Police state]]''': [[Globalist]]-[[United Nations]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]]
 
** '''[[Big government | Big Government]]''': [[Liberal values|Liberal]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Gun control]], [[Militarization of police]], [[Asset forfeiture]] and Domestic [[mass surveillance]] of law-abiding [[citizen]]s via the '''[[Police state]]''': [[Globalist]]-[[United Nations]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]]
  
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* [[Second Amendment]] [[unalienable]] [[Gun rights]] versus [[Liberal]] [[Gun control]]
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* [[Second Amendment]]
 
* [[Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms?]] -- According to [[Thomas Jefferson]] it is as the final deterrent against potential [[Tyranny]] of [[government]]
 
* [[Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms?]] -- According to [[Thomas Jefferson]] it is as the final deterrent against potential [[Tyranny]] of [[government]]
  
 
* [[Essay:Invest_in_tangibles#2._Defense_and_Security_.28.22Bullets.22.29|Invest in tangibles: Firearms]] - buy [[Precious metal]]s (that is [[Copper-jacketed lead]] and [[Firearms]])
 
* [[Essay:Invest_in_tangibles#2._Defense_and_Security_.28.22Bullets.22.29|Invest in tangibles: Firearms]] - buy [[Precious metal]]s (that is [[Copper-jacketed lead]] and [[Firearms]])
 
* [[Boston T. Party]]’s [[State Firearms Laws Ranking]]s from ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'' -- [[Vote with your Feet]]
 
* [[Boston T. Party]]’s [[State Firearms Laws Ranking]]s from ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'' -- [[Vote with your Feet]]
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* [[Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]]
 
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* ''[[You & the Police!]]'' by [[Boston T. Party]] a.k.a.[[Kenneth W. Royce]]
 
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* ''[[One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye]]'' by [[Boston T. Party]]
 
  
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==External Links==
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==External links==
 
* [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mel+Tappan Mel Tappan search on [[Duck Duck Go]] [[Privacy]] search engine]
 
* [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mel+Tappan Mel Tappan search on [[Duck Duck Go]] [[Privacy]] search engine]
  

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Mel Tappan (1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III, the "grand daddy" of the Preparedness movement[1] was the editor of the newsletter Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter. He was also author of the Survival books Survival Guns and Tappan on Survival.

A graduate of Stanford University, Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest survivalists to promote the idea of Vote with your feet strategic relocation to a "free states" from a liberal "death spiral" Nanny state-Police state (See Blue state - unfree states). Like James Wesley Rawles and Joel Skousen, Mr. Tappan advocated survivalist retreats in lightly populated rural regions in .[2]

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Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism

Mr. Tappan's works see influence preppers more than three decades after his untimely passing. In 2009 Tappan on Survival was re-published as a new edition with a foreword written by Bruce D. Clayton. As of December 2014 it ranks in Amazon's top 90,000 books (out of more than 5 million titles.) The seminal work Survival Guns is also back into print. Mr. Tappan's books are published by Paladin Press.

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References

  1. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014
  2. ↑ [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014
  3. ↑ 160 word Fair Use quotation from 848 pages of firearms and Second Amendment details: Boston T. Party (Kenneth Royce), Boston's Gun Bible, Wyoming, American Redoubt Javelin Press, 2002, 2009: p. 10/1. ISBN-13: 978-1888766066, http://javelinpress.com/bostons_gun_bible.html, https://www.amazon.com/Bostons-Gun-Bible-Boston-Party/dp/1888766069
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