2007
Episode
8
The
Crisis Turning
Previously in "Saecula:” An elite Republican
cabal conspires to fix the
2008 presidential election, but its plans
to embezzle money from the RNC
are uncovered and lead to murder.
Democratic congressman Jack Stibik
and his mentor, Professor Gar Reynolds,
reunite. Martys, Jack's twin brother
and Delta Force veteran, visits Annapolis.
Congressional hearings begin on
the disasterous Islamic war.
Today, Democratic Congressman Jack Stibik's
mentor, Professor gar Reynolds,
testifies on comprehending 9-11 and the
Islamic War in light of The Saecula
The hearings were not going well for the Republicans. Even their two
co-chairs had been knocked off balance
by Scott’s assertion, and had lowered their invective in the face of
overwhelming public anger that the administration
had not at least considered peace talks. Although the White House continued
to deny the accusations, its credibility
on the War was scraping bottom. Spokespersons had pounded home its
resolve that America could not trust Islamic
terrorists and terrorist rogue states, but it didn’t wash in the face
of Russian and European tranquility. And, the détente
wasn’t just the result of inability on the part of the Jihadists. England
had suffered three major terror attacks over the
same period of time.
As the lowest ranking of the four co-chairs, Jack’s witness led off
the wrap-up session. Gar would have to be
extraordinarily erudite and pugnacious to offset the Republicans’ advantage
of appearing last. He’d soon know.
Senator Hollingsworth was in the process of bringing the hearing room
to order and asking Jack to call his final
witness. Following Jack’s introduction, outlining Reynolds’ impressive
vita, Gar gave an impassioned review of
Western-Islamic relations stretching back more than 20 centuries.
Muslim historians knew that the war between themselves and the West
had raged, on and off, for centuries.
The Roman Empire, and prior to it, Alexander the Great, had occupied
the fertile crescent before the time of Christ.
Most significantly, in all that time, while Europe continually invaded,
occupied and exploited the Middle East, and
bribed, overthrew and assassinated Muslim leaders, Islamic forces had
captured western territory only three times.
The last Muslim incursion into the West was 600 years ago, when the
Ottoman Turks occupied Greece and the
Balkans. Before that, the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Malta were
held by the Saracens in the 11th century,
and Spain by the Moors in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Gar outlined the atrocities of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church’s
villainy during the first three Crusades,
and the German, French, British and Imperial Russian conquests of the
18th and 19th centuries. Finally, he charted
America’s and Europe’s “velvet colonialism” of the 20th century as
they expropriated Middle Eastern oil through
bribery of the ruling sheiks. He definitely had the
panel’s, the media’s, and the gallery’s attention.
“Americans may wonder how today’s hostilities seem to come out of nowhere.
For the Islamic freedom fighters
we call ‘terrorists,’ this war has been going on with the West since
before Christ. The present battle began in 1917,
when Britain seized Baghdad for its oil after the fall of the Ottoman
Empire. In fact, today’s terrorist tactics are a
direct result of America’s awesome supremacy. When a besieged people
are so overwhelmed by conventional
warfare, they have no choice but to use unorthodox methods to defend
themselves.
“Imperialists no longer fly the Union Jack, the Tricolor, or the Hammer
and Sickle over third world countries,
as Britain, France and Russia, in various guises, had done for centuries.
However, the corporate flags of British
Petroleum, Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon Mobil are just as intrusive
as foreign marines and tanks guarding the
palaces. Cozy relationships and offshore bank accounts set up for compliant
officials are just as effective as bullets
and torture. Riches beyond belief, never seeping down to the people
whose land was being pillaged, have accrued
to American corporations and their acquiescent corrupt regimes.”
After a concise synopsis of Saecula theory, both orally and in written
handouts distributed to all in attendance,
Reynolds introduced the main thrust of his presentation.
“Will history record September 11th, 2001 as a deadly aberration or,
as with April 4th, 1775, May 6th, 1857
and October 29th, 1929, the initiating event of a Saeculum Crisis?
William Strauss and Neil Howe, in “The Fourth
Turning,” traced patterns of recurring ‘Saecula,’ or cycles, each lasting
about 80 years, comprising a High,
Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis. It is apparent to anyone that America
went through a High in the 1950s,
an Awakening beginning in the mid-1960s, and a long unfortunate Unraveling
of its core values during the
greedy me-decades of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
“Strauss and Howe’s interpretation of social history places the next
cyclical Crisis beginning in the early 21st century.
According to their timetable, a period of Crisis begins approximately
80 years after the initiating event of the previous
Crisis. From Lexington and Concord in 1775 to the Supreme Court's Dred
Scott decision in 1857 precipitating the
Civil War Crisis -- 82 years. From Dred Scott to the 1929 market crash
setting off the Great Depression/
World War II Crisis -- 72 years. The September 11th attacks match to
a tee predictions made years before.
The World Trade Center/Pentagon strikes occurred 72 years following
Black Friday.
“Although the natural rhythm of the Saecula requires that a Crisis must
occur, nothing predetermines its magnitude.
Only with the perspective of history can we know what alternative measures
cooler heads might have chosen if the
ultimate consequences could have been seen. In a climate of uncertainty,
misunderstanding and emotional rage,
small sparks can easily ignite flames of cataclysmic proportions.
“Would the militiamen have fired on British troops at Concord and Lexington
merely to protect their small cache of
weapons had they known their actions would put into motion America's
War of Independence? At the time, the vast
majority of colonists had no intention of overthrowing British rule.
Future events, notably Canadian independence,
would demonstrate that a costly and bloody war might not have been
necessary to gain the same constitutional
prerogatives. Would Americans on both sides have engaged in the years
of demagoguery, or would they have
found peaceful solutions had they foreseen the carnage their acrimony
wrought in the War between the States?
Would Allied leaders have imposed harsh penalties on post-World War
I Germany if they could have predicted
that the direct result of their spiteful revenge would be the catalyst
for Hitler's rise to power?
“I have no doubt that September 11th was the initiating event of a 15
to 20-year long Crisis that could include
continued attacks on American soil, economic disruption, destruction
of our basic civil liberties and possibly even
nuclear or biological devastation. What will history tell us about
the alternatives we do not presently wish to pursue?
When one views American social history through the prism of Saecula,
and comes to understand the natural desire
of Islam to free itself of historic western imperialism, you must ask
yourself if Senator Scott’s disclosure might not
be that alternative the administration does not care to see.
“The lesson of Vietnam is not so much in the quagmire, but in the truce.
Fifteen years after the last American death,
there we were trading with the same Communist government that in 1965
we determined was worth expending
58,000 lives to defeat. How many lives and how much annihilation will
it take this time?
“The Saeculum Crisis Turning is inevitable; it is our choice how America
responds that will determine a positive
or negative end result. Will the High of the next Saeculum be
one of recovery from devastation or euphoric
cooperation among former enemies.”
Next in “Saecula:” The Vice-President's "A-Team"
sets in motion the
ultimate October Surprise, a terrorist attack
upon the nation.
by Martin
Gresko
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