The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (55 page)

One of our nation’s looming threats is the specter of martial law. Today, the federal government is adding firepower to its existing armed military. Even the IRS is arming. In February 2010, the IRS solicited bids on the purchase of sixty Remington Model 870 Police 12-gauge pump-action shotguns for its Criminal Investigation Division agents.

But ordinary citizens might consider putting a stop to armed government intervention before it starts. In
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956,
Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained how Russians held in detention camps bemoaned the fact that nothing was done to prevent government terrorism until it was too late: “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?…The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!” It is hoped that the rising American police state does not force its citizenry to respond in the way that Solzhenitsyn suggests. But as President John Kennedy observed, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

Any thinking person fervently wishes that any serious change in America should come about through the peaceful exercise of the basic rights contained in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the supreme law of the land. But after recent Democratic and Republican regimes shredded individual rights and stripped the U.S. economy, firearm and ammunition sales went through the roof. According to Federal National Instant Criminal Background Check system statistics, between January and March 2009, Americans bought 3,818,056 firearms. This is enough weaponry to arm both the Chinese and Indian armies. In reality, this number is quite low since it does not include the significant number of denials issued or private gun sales that bypass paperwork.

Is it possible that the nation is arming for something other than self-protection? Is a violent revolution inevitable?

GUN AND AMMO SALES BOOMING

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N AN ATTEMPT TO
mollify gun owners during a 2008 campaign rally in Lebanon, Virginia, presidential hopeful Barack Obama said, “I don’t want any misunderstanding when you all go home, and you’re talking to your buddies, and they say, ‘Aw, he wants to take my gun away.’ You’ve heard it here; I’m on television, so everybody knows it. I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away…. There are some common-sense gun safety laws that I believe in. But I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don’t use that one…. It just ain’t true.” Despite President Obama’s assurances, presidential promises are often weak. Many Americans still recall that President George H. W. Bush pledged “no new taxes” during his campaign, then raised them after taking office. Many are not taking chances to see whether Obama goes back on his promise—guns and ammunition sales boomed during the economic crisis.

“President Barack Obama is the best thing to happen to American gun and ammunition manufacturers since they invented the Defense Department,” wrote Eric Sharp in the April 9, 2009, edition of the
Detroit Free Press.
No one could image a business increasing its sales by 60 percent in these times. But this appears to be the case with firearm stores, online ammo sites, and regional gun shows, where sales exploded beginning in late 2008.

Joe DeSaye opened a family sporting goods store in Montana in 1946. In 1977, he moved the business to Prescott, Arizona, and began to sell guns and ammo under the name J&G Sales. His son, Brad DeSaye, said that since 2008 their business has tripled normal sales. “It’s unprecedented,” remarked DeSaye.

Roy Eicher of Hunter’s Den in Cincinnati told newsmen, “The issue with ammo is a pretty simple one, supply and demand, and it’s not so much that people are shooting it…it’s that they’re buying it. You can talk to gun ranges around town, around the country, nobody is shooting the ammo, people are just buying the ammo, in fear of the fact they won’t be able to get the ammo.” John Woniewski, operations manager at Cabela’s (the nation’s largest sporting goods store) in Dundee, Michigan, said ammunition there was “selling like wildfire.” “Anything that’s a center fire round is selling,” he said.

Although many argued that the rise in gun sales and ammunition is mostly due to an expectation that Obama will go back on his promise and will restrict firearms in some way, there was nevertheless a darker undercurrent to sales trends: Americans were arming themselves at an alarming rate—and with guns that aren’t necessary for hunting.

Many stores’ ammo shelves, especially surplus outlets, were depleted of military-type munitions, such as AK-47s, large .380-caliber rounds, 7.62 x 54 Russian rounds, and .223 rifle rounds (the caliber for the AR-15, the civilian model of the military’s M-16 rifle in common use around the world). Stocks of 9mm and 8mm Mauser ammo were dwindling.

The public ammo consumption has caused problems for law enforcement officers. Arizona sheriff Darren White expressed concern that ammunition shortages caused by the public’s buying could curtail police training. He complained that ammunition for his own sidearm had been on back order for nearly three months. “I’ve never seen it like this in my more than two decades of law enforcement,” said White.

Possibly in an effort to keep ammunition out of the public’s hands, the Pentagon, under orders from the Obama administration, in 2009 sent letters to the nation’s ammunition retailers stating that it would no longer sell spent shell casing brass and would instead reduce expended ammunition to scrap metal, virtually useless to ammunition reloaders. Normally, these spent shells are recast by manufacturers and resold to law enforcement agencies, gun shops, and other retail outlets. Curtis Shipley, owner of the ammunition manufacturer Georgia Arms, said, “The distressing part of it was that the government was going to lose money. They were going to lose $2 a pound and accomplish nothing. We felt like it was just an option to bring in ammunition control rather than gun control.”

The Defense Department directive, however, was rescinded about ten days later following a deluge of letters, calls, and e-mails from irate gun owners and manufacturers. “Upon review, the Defense Logistics Agency has determined the cartridge cases could be appropriately placed in a category of government property allowing for their release for sale,” stated the Pentagon in a statement in March 2009.

“It just restores my faith that the system works,” said a relieved Shipley. “If enough people are motivated and say ‘Hey, that is wrong,’ the system does still work.”

The system can work if the zombies of modern America refuse to remain in a dazed and drugged state. They can make the system work by seeking alternative sources of news and information and then acting on such information. Most important, they can regain their freedom and sovereignty by seeking a government that goes beyond mere lip service and provides a true democratic republic. Otherwise the nation could slip into collapse and chaos, perhaps even revolution.

To avert such a future, the American public must gain control over their country. National politicians no longer refer to the “Republic,” because modern America has ceased to be one. Today, it is the American empire and like Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich, it has spread its corporate and military tentacles throughout the world. Political and corporate leadership continually swap roles, creating a merger of the state and industry—the very definition of fascism. This change to socialist fascism—whether from the right or left—has been engineered by the globalist elite who hold monopolies over basic resources, energy, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and telecommunications, including the news media.

It appears that the “New World Order” is really just the “Old World Order,” a continuing game of the wealthy minority against the working majority confounded by debt, a controlled mass media, and political confabulation. Today, thanks to amazing media technology, the game is packaged with modern advertising slickness—new names, logos, and slogans. But it still remains a matter of the haves lording over the have-nots.

These self-styled globalists are now attempting to subdue the American population through a maze of government policies, drugs, a dumbed-down education system, and a controlled corporate mass media. Mergers and leveraged takeovers have concentrated corporate power into fewer and fewer hands. The weakening of the national economy and corporate downsizing have placed undue stress on workers, resulting in the gradual destruction of the nuclear family. Even the fields of religion, education, and entertainment are being used to transform whole generations of formerly free Americans into cowed and subservient zombies in a system increasingly under the control of the globalist elite.

The current socialist fascism in America is the way it is simply because somewhere, someone wants it that way. If no one truly wanted the problems that beset the nation, they wouldn’t be there. These problems have been created, or excoriated, by globalists—many of them not even Americans—and their secret societies in the hope of molding the entire world into a few competing socialist blocs. They view the United States as the biggest stumbling block to their plans. This is due to America’s tradition of individual freedom, its Constitution that guarantees such freedom, and the fact that so many Americans possess firearms to protect their freedom. But true freedom is a transient quality. It must be continually nurtured by a people unified in their dedication to liberty. Americans must seek common ground if the nation is to progress and prosper. America still has millions of competent workers and an abundance of natural resources. If these assets were put to proper use, a unified America could once again become a shining beacon of liberty, justice, and production. And the formula for unity is quite simple—men and women of good intention and faith all should just agree to disagree but do so without being disagreeable. They must approach disagreements in a thoughtful and considerate manner. A return to civility is long overdue.

To prevent such thoughtful unity, the globalist fascists have attempted to break the United States into divisions of race, sex, age, generation, and culture. They pit bureaucrats, politicians, academics, corporate leaders, and the public against one another in an agenda of divide and conquer. They maintain control in a society fragmented by combative ideologies and philosophies as well as competing corporate interests by using their corporate mass media assets to degrade the popular culture, downgrade the education process, permit acceptance of a steady flow of illegal immigrants, and divide the population over peripheral issues such as party politics, abortion, sexual relationships, stem-cell research, so-called hate crimes, and the like.

These globalist fascists scoff at the concepts of true individual freedom and multicultural egalitarianism, for they have no faith in the innate goodness of humankind or its ability for self-government. They have no real faith in a god and use religious ideals and concepts merely as another tool for social control. These globalists see their agenda for worldwide socialism as the only means of maintaining their power and control, the only way in their view to maintain the purity of their race and class. They are in it for the long haul. The owners of the multinational corporations with their membership in secretive societies and their well-paid administrators know their goals will not be achieved overnight, although since the attacks of 9/11 they seemed to have redoubled their efforts.

The struggle against such steadfast will to power and its attendant control will not be easy. All areas of society will require sacrifice and change. Lifestyles will have to be altered. But it can be done—hopefully before the United States falls into depression, anarchy, and then a police state. New energy sources and technologies are on the horizon. Technological breakthroughs await only the change of attitude on the part of conventional politics, commerce, and finance. An aroused public could push this attitude change along.

Though seldom reported in the corporate-controlled mass media, there is a rising consciousness well under way in the public mind. Informed consumers are beginning to realize they can improve their health by changing their diet and seeking alternative health remedies. Individuals are taking the initiative by listening to voices outside the mainstream media; writing their representatives and local news media; taking part in peaceful demonstrations; and conducting study groups and book review discussions in their homes. They can also vote with their spending habits. If enough people refuse to buy a certain product—whether it’s a brand of car, gasoline, or some federal policy proposal—it can force a change of direction in the corporate controllers, who, after all, must respond to the bottom line.

Many Americans are hopeful. They sincerely believe the system can be changed nonviolently and will begin to work for the benefit of all citizens. But just in case, they retain the right to hold on to their guns. It’s not as if America has never experienced a revolution before.