Should We Prepare for the Worst?
July 11, 2009
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
My answer is "No." But let's read the question first. Recently Bill and Alice wrote:
Dear Henry,
I've read Dr Days transcript 3 times, I've been a student of the Elite since late 70's. What is your take on the complete "take over"..we are retirees 64 & 66,and I have Greg Evensens's dvd on order..He writes in news with views and gives seminars; he thinks it's "any time" now...we live right in town of 80,000 or more. The power grid may be the key to martial law, along with flu, blaming stuff on Muslims to confuse the masses..many folks cannot move and refuse to..I also read Jim Rawls survival blog. I have read others scenarios (terrorist attacks in larger cities, etc...We've been getting supplies and "purging stuff we don't need" in our house..should we sell our house and rent? Real estate will then be worthless and gov will turn fascist 100%.."
This was my quick response:
"No one knows the future but I think you are overreacting. This is a thousands-year-old plan and we are not likely to see it fully consummated in our lifetime. Martial law is a stupid idea because it would just upset the sheeple. The gloom-and-doomers are running a business. Don't get taken in."
We "patriots" suffer from a cognitive dissonance. We have been colonized by a Masonic Zionist Central Banking clique dedicated to totalitarian world government. They plot wars, false flag terrorism, plagues, dysfunction, decadence, depressions etc. yet the mass media (which defines reality, and they own) ignores all this and says we live in a democracy.
I'm no clairvoyant so I might be wrong, but my policy is "don't panic." Seek some sanity in the mindset of the trusting sheeple. We might be better served if we acted as if everything were OK: pursue careers, make investments, get married, buy houses and have children. Don't be stymied by your knowledge of the dark side.
If you move to a cabin in the woods or to a secluded valley in Ecuador, do it on its own merits. Don't assume we're going to hell in a hand basket in America, at least not anytime soon.
I bet a friend a free supper that Iran would not be attacked by May 30. I won of course. That was 2007. I could have dined out on this friend for two years!
THE FROG IN THE POT
The martial law scenario feared by Alice and Bill is not likely to happen. The US has its hands full pacifying the rest of the world without trying to administer a police state at home. Foreign countries are not likely to volunteer for service in Kansas any more than Afghanistan. Americans are armed to the teeth. The elite's biggest asset is the illusion that we live in a free and open society. They are not going to shatter that illusion. Oppressed people are much harder to manipulate.
The guiding image is the frog in the pot. They are gradually increasing the heat. They are gradually removing civil rights and wholesome examples. They are training the army and cops to violate the Constitution. They are re-engineering the population to embrace a candy-coated servitude. Martial law would be like turning the heat up fast and having the frog jump out.
What could interrupt this peaceful transition to tyranny? Domestic rebellion and targeted assassinations might. Is this likely to happen? No. For over 100 years Americans have taken their medicine like good children. There has been nothing resembling insurrection. The macho American male has proven incapable of violent resistance unless he is given a uniform, a rifle, a flag, a salary, a pension and a Sargent who instructs him to shoot Iraqis.
Could the elite fake acts of domestic terrorism? Certainly. But they are terrified because everyone knows they are responsible for 9-11. Everyone knows that they organize terrorism around the world. Everyone knows, or should know, they fund the other side. Moreover, as I said, they do not have the means or desire to put the US in a lockdown.
The elite have a symbiotic relationship with the masses. We are their "human resource," their "collateral."We are their debt slaves. We create the demand for their products. We are their cattle. They need us. They enervate, degrade and herd us, and occasionally have a cull. But generally speaking they are still buying our complicity with government debt. Life is still good for those on the government teat, which is almost everyone these days.
LOOKING AHEAD
Sarah Palin's resignation is an indication that the Zionists do not have a martial law-doomsday scenario. (Then, why should we?) They are looking ahead to 2012 when people will be disillusioned with Barack Obama. Sarah Palin will be presented as the next savior, and the Zionists will stage a "Conservative reaction." Palin has been bought by the Neo Cons and paid for with lucrative book deals.
Instead of running around like Chicken Little, Patriots ought to alert and educate the Intelligentsia and the masses to the New World Order and organize non-violent political resistance. We should form political action groups ranging from one to six people. They would protest loudly every time a leader talks about "world governance" or Patriots are identified as domestic terrorists. We need to expand our grass roots movement with speakers, films, meetings and demonstrations.
The political war is one of education and propaganda. We can thwart the globalist agenda by exposing it. The elite needs to keep the majority in the dark. We can enlighten them.
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Related: Why the media Embraced 9-11 Truth (for 15 min)
My answer is "No." But let's read the question first. Recently Bill and Alice wrote:
Dear Henry,
I've read Dr Days transcript 3 times, I've been a student of the Elite since late 70's. What is your take on the complete "take over"..we are retirees 64 & 66,and I have Greg Evensens's dvd on order..He writes in news with views and gives seminars; he thinks it's "any time" now...we live right in town of 80,000 or more. The power grid may be the key to martial law, along with flu, blaming stuff on Muslims to confuse the masses..many folks cannot move and refuse to..I also read Jim Rawls survival blog. I have read others scenarios (terrorist attacks in larger cities, etc...We've been getting supplies and "purging stuff we don't need" in our house..should we sell our house and rent? Real estate will then be worthless and gov will turn fascist 100%.."
This was my quick response:
"No one knows the future but I think you are overreacting. This is a thousands-year-old plan and we are not likely to see it fully consummated in our lifetime. Martial law is a stupid idea because it would just upset the sheeple. The gloom-and-doomers are running a business. Don't get taken in."
We "patriots" suffer from a cognitive dissonance. We have been colonized by a Masonic Zionist Central Banking clique dedicated to totalitarian world government. They plot wars, false flag terrorism, plagues, dysfunction, decadence, depressions etc. yet the mass media (which defines reality, and they own) ignores all this and says we live in a democracy.
I'm no clairvoyant so I might be wrong, but my policy is "don't panic." Seek some sanity in the mindset of the trusting sheeple. We might be better served if we acted as if everything were OK: pursue careers, make investments, get married, buy houses and have children. Don't be stymied by your knowledge of the dark side.
If you move to a cabin in the woods or to a secluded valley in Ecuador, do it on its own merits. Don't assume we're going to hell in a hand basket in America, at least not anytime soon.
I bet a friend a free supper that Iran would not be attacked by May 30. I won of course. That was 2007. I could have dined out on this friend for two years!
THE FROG IN THE POT
The martial law scenario feared by Alice and Bill is not likely to happen. The US has its hands full pacifying the rest of the world without trying to administer a police state at home. Foreign countries are not likely to volunteer for service in Kansas any more than Afghanistan. Americans are armed to the teeth. The elite's biggest asset is the illusion that we live in a free and open society. They are not going to shatter that illusion. Oppressed people are much harder to manipulate.
The guiding image is the frog in the pot. They are gradually increasing the heat. They are gradually removing civil rights and wholesome examples. They are training the army and cops to violate the Constitution. They are re-engineering the population to embrace a candy-coated servitude. Martial law would be like turning the heat up fast and having the frog jump out.
What could interrupt this peaceful transition to tyranny? Domestic rebellion and targeted assassinations might. Is this likely to happen? No. For over 100 years Americans have taken their medicine like good children. There has been nothing resembling insurrection. The macho American male has proven incapable of violent resistance unless he is given a uniform, a rifle, a flag, a salary, a pension and a Sargent who instructs him to shoot Iraqis.
Could the elite fake acts of domestic terrorism? Certainly. But they are terrified because everyone knows they are responsible for 9-11. Everyone knows that they organize terrorism around the world. Everyone knows, or should know, they fund the other side. Moreover, as I said, they do not have the means or desire to put the US in a lockdown.
The elite have a symbiotic relationship with the masses. We are their "human resource," their "collateral."We are their debt slaves. We create the demand for their products. We are their cattle. They need us. They enervate, degrade and herd us, and occasionally have a cull. But generally speaking they are still buying our complicity with government debt. Life is still good for those on the government teat, which is almost everyone these days.
LOOKING AHEAD
Sarah Palin's resignation is an indication that the Zionists do not have a martial law-doomsday scenario. (Then, why should we?) They are looking ahead to 2012 when people will be disillusioned with Barack Obama. Sarah Palin will be presented as the next savior, and the Zionists will stage a "Conservative reaction." Palin has been bought by the Neo Cons and paid for with lucrative book deals.
Instead of running around like Chicken Little, Patriots ought to alert and educate the Intelligentsia and the masses to the New World Order and organize non-violent political resistance. We should form political action groups ranging from one to six people. They would protest loudly every time a leader talks about "world governance" or Patriots are identified as domestic terrorists. We need to expand our grass roots movement with speakers, films, meetings and demonstrations.
The political war is one of education and propaganda. We can thwart the globalist agenda by exposing it. The elite needs to keep the majority in the dark. We can enlighten them.
-----
Related: Why the media Embraced 9-11 Truth (for 15 min)
Jeremy said (July 15, 2009):
The Indonesian Tsunami that killed and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in 2005 caused almost no loss of life on the island of Simeulue. It's not that the tsunami didn't strike there, it's that island elders led their people to safety well in advance of the tsunami landing, thereby preserving their people. These elders weren't psychic or somehow divined the coming calamity, they simply recognized the signs from the waters for which they were prepared to comprehend by the wisdom of their forebears. Learning from the past and paying attention in the present saved many lives on Simeulue that day.
In America in 2009, if we're looking around and pay attention, we can see equally ominous signs. We see progressively fascist laws being speedily passed in Congress with little or no discussion or debate. We see our government amassing debt in mind-boggling amounts it cannot possibly ever repay, rendering it insolvent. We see the global economy teetering on the brink due to a derivatives bubble of utterly incomprehensible proportions. We see more and more areas of the world succumbing to drought and pestilence, threatening untold millions more each month with starvation. We see pandemics running loose throughout the world. We see China and Russia threatening to dump the dollar as the global reserve currency, which is the only thing propping our economy. And on and on.
I'm middle-aged and I've never been part of the survivalist culture. Yet, as I see these signs around me, I sense major changes afoot. Something tells me things are not right and certain things need to be in place to protect my family in case of major societal failure. And I'm not alone. Some people - not a lot, but some - who ignored Y2K and thought food storage was for whackos, have also quietly sensed the signs and have started to prepare for big problems. Somehow, deep down, their minds (spirits?) recognize the drawing tide that will soon bring massive changes. We also see in history cataclysmic changes that sunk old empires and gave rise to new orders, so there is ample historical precedent. Simply being Americans does not make us immune as we pridefully think we are; that the cycles of human movements and shifts somehow don't apply anymore. I bet the Simeulue islanders were very glad four years ago that their elders didn't think that way. Heck, even our own government is telling us to get ready! (see www.fema.gov)
Yes, I understand the warning bell has been rung erroneously before, and that there are some out there that take it a bit too seriously. What we should keep in mind is that in the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' that the wolf did indeed show up in the end. Those who cry wolf in these times may often be attention seekers, but that doesn't mean they're always wrong. The signs are in ominous abundance for those that have eyes to see and ears to hear. Your normally commonsense writings may have served readers well in the past, but this time lulls them into a false sense of security at the worst possible time. Having a few extra cans of tuna and bottled water in the closet won't harm anyone, and if nothing else is a great hedge against inflation (or unemployment). When the tsunami is rushing to the shore, it's too late to head for high ground.