“If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

The FBI has thwarted yet another terrorist attack that it planned and financed from the beginning. FBI agents recruited a mentally ill ex-convict, Emanuel Lutchman, and supplied him with equipment for a suicide attack that included masks, zip-ties, knives, duct tape, ammonia, and latex gloves. It is now common for the FBI to create terror plots from scratch to keep the public in a constant state of fear. Under such conditions, there will be little opposition to growth of government and loss of liberty in the name of fighting terrorism. Prison Planet 2016 Jan 1 (Story) (Cached)

Fethullah Gulen is a Turkish Muslim Iman living in Pennsylvania who FBI officials say is a dangerous radical. The CIA, however, is known to be doing business with him. Gulen owns 130 charter schools across the US that are spreading radicalized ideas and Sharia law to impressionable young minds. These schools receive US taxpayer funding each year ranging from $150 million to as much as $500 million. InfoWars 2015 Dec 29 (Story)

These stories do not need explanation except to suggest that they clarify the warning of Abraham Lincoln, who said: “From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia… could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

2016 will present many challenges to liberty but, in spite of the darkness of our hour, the force of freedom is on the rise. In the new year before us, we will have many opportunities to change the course of history. It’s an exciting time in which to live.

G. Edward Griffin
2016 January 1