The tenth day of the ninth month in the 2729th year of our dispersion.

The future seems so bleak for this country which has rejected the Torah. I can't help put think this is how the people of Israel must have felt under Rehoboam. Those who disagree with the federal government's increasing power and the increasing abuse of that power talk of revolution as if it were waiting to strike this country as a smith's hammer on a sword, shaping the government back into its original Constitutional paradigm. Others speak of Ron Paul and his "r3VOLution" of a different kind - the scaling back of government bloat, spending and bureaucracy, and a return to the days when individual liberty meant something. Still others say that eventually the great patriots in the Armed Forces will cease to take orders from an increasingly despotic regime. Others have a more pessimistic outlook - that the inhabitants of this country are either too lazy, too ignorant, or both, and will never vote for change because they do not know what needs to be changed or that the two-party system as it stands today amounts to little more than a front for an organized Globalist crime syndicate, and will never rise up to protect their rights through civil disobedience, revolution, war, or armed conflict. Now, I ask you: Where were the great lights in Germany who revolted against Hitler's bloody Reich? No - Hitler was the revolutionary! He was the radical voice for change and the hope of the German people. Now where were the great lights in Russia? Stalin had them shipped off to forced labor camps. Later, Solzhenitsyn was exiled and his ideas, thoughts and writings were anathema simply because he made the gulag system public knowledge. The world lauded him with a nobel prize - but it also lauded Stalin before him with Time's Man of the Year award, twice. And as for the army - where was China's patriotic young soldier? Piloting the tanks in Tienanmen Square.

The American people are asleep. They have been asleep for a hundred years or more. What sane people would allow the government to confiscate privately held gold bullion? Yet we see from the demise of von NotHaus's Liberty Dollar that things have not changed, it is today as it was in 1933. What freedom-loving nation would fight wars overseas to maintain global hegemony? Or is freedom only for the fortunate who are within its borders? And even then, only ostensibly - we are no longer a free people here. Nor are we a safe people. I do not think we would be content to exile our own Solzhenitzyn. We would "render" him to a prison in Eastern Europe and torture him to death. Nor do I think we will ever see our own tyrants for who they are nor attempt to dethrone them, any more than the German people rose up en masse against Hitler. What is left but for our own government to declare us heretics, extremists, terrorists, and to send the tanks after us as well? Where will the public outrage be? -- But by then the people will already be convinced that their freedom, liberty, security and safety will be secured upon our deaths! Because now, dissent is traitorous, seeking the truth is fanaticism, and distrust of government is support for the enemy. Of course. One of the greatest reasons to have a war is that wartime propaganda is so effective, and an outside threat can be a catalyst for change of the worst kind.

But the few who are reading, listening, and learning the truth now will be deprived of their voice and of their source of information - the Internet's "alternative" news can only be marginalized for so long, and then it must be either usurped or destroyed - and from then on, no one will know what has happened to us, and those who know, will not care, and those who care, will be the next ones dead or in prison. And if you think it could never happen here, think of what Hitler would have done with nanotechnology, and think what Stalin would have done with ECHELON. The potential for the abuse of government power has never existed to this extent at any time in history, and the sheer power available to those who would seize it is unmatched in history as well - power over billions of people. Babylon, Egypt, Assyria and Greece could never have dreamed of it, though they would have made use of it. It will only get worse as technology develops further.

Is it too late to repent? I don't know - is it ever truly too late? Perhaps, for any practical purpose. In that case, I only hope to share the fate of Baruch, and be rewarded with my life. But if only the people would see their sins and repent. From the way the Bible ends, though, it appears that the worse things get, the more people hate YHWH and his perfect Law. And it is that hate which got us into this situation to begin with. There is nowhere to go from here but down. The Old Republic is over in all but name. It has been dying for decades. Welcome to the American Empire. We earned it.