I had this whole litany of facts ready to explain why NATO's latest misadventure in Macedonia--like NATO's misadventure in Kosovo, like NATO's misadventure in Bosnia, etc., etc.--would not only fail in its publicly-stated goal ("rights for Albanians"), but would also fail in its actual goal (setting up a client 'Greater Albania' state to carry out the wishes of Big Oil and Big Illegal Drugs by de-stabilizing legitimate but pesky, weak sovereign nations) as the KLA/NLA/UKC axis has no intention of remaining beholden to their NATO-CIA-Brit Secret Service mentors, not if these out-of-control fascist thugs can show the NATO/EU crowd for the paper tigers they really are. I had a list of links I had researched to back my claim that the NATO/EU operations were a scam for public consumption.

But then 9-11 came along, Black Tuesday, the Day of 'What Goes Around Comes Around' for Americans. Roughly 8:05 Tuesday morning my husband picked up the phone and his friend told him someone just crashed a plane into the World Trade Center. Sure enough, we turned on CNN--now I know you know that I'm not crazy about CNN's liberal-media bias--and immediately saw that second plane crash into the South Tower while the North Tower top was burning. And like anyone else who first turned on the TV to see this, my first mental reaction was 'Islamic terrorists' but in the remote corner of my mind it was also '...or the government wanting us to think it was Islamic terrorists...'--after all, I've seen those scenes of Wac; I've seen those scenes of Vicky Weaver blown away; and I know that the Clinton Administration/FBI probably knew about Oklahoma City before it happened since some Federal employees had been told not to report for work that day.

We will probably never get the truth of why this happened from the mainstream media--either they will cover it up or they will outright deny the truth as some nutcase "conspiracy theory". I mean, let's get real here! Does any thinking person really believe the most sophisticated intelligence machinery on the planet (CIA/FBI/NSA/Echelon) didn't know what was going to happen? (Are all those calls by Congress to fire Tenet just a smokescreen of outrage?) I think it is safe--politically incorrect, but safe!-- to say that our "intelligence" community knew about it, certainly in light of the fact that the nefarious Osama Bin Laden (the CIA's man in Afghanistan vs. the Soviets) had warned them three weeks beforehand of terrorist attacks here, and in light of other facts. So, just as Roosevelt failed to warn the Pearl Harbor folks in time of a Japanese attack, our own authorities failed to warn us of 9-11. Why?

On the other hand what kind of crazy conspiracy theories will the alternative come up with? (And will OmegaZine be suckered into reprinting these as truth?)

Then, on the one hand, we have a government (And Dubya has done nothing to disprove this by his actions) that is itching to take away any freedoms we still have, and on the other hand, the force, we are told, that is behind the terror attacks is this jihad, this Islamic fanaticism that convinces folks to destroy themselves for a piece of Allah's Heaven and dancing girls and wants to take over the world (Interesting! What we have "wanting to take over the world" is the New World Order/One World Government crowd vs. the nefarious "Jihad"--Pinky and the Brain must be rolling over in their Warner Bros. animation files!). Now the power elites, who don't like competition, just might be setting the world up for more conquest against an enemy they don't understand, they can't see, and is even more hidden than they are. World War Three, perhaps? Which sets up more pretext for terror bombing....you get the cycle of madness!

Does the NWO crowd really expect to defeat people who actually want to die for their cause? For these folks, this "act of war" is actually a "mission from God" (or, for Christians, a "warning from God?"). Now how can any human being stop that!

A warning from God? History is a clue

Some will argue that (and I think it's a valid argument, but I am not entirely convinced of this) we were founded as a nation under God, but we have sinned gravely against Him: abortions, wanton homosexuality, a popular culture that belongs in a sewer, idol worship on an unprecedeneted scale (you know, our celebrity worship), unbridled greed, US imperialism, the rejection of God and His Son because it's politically incorrect, etc., etc. Throughout the Old Testament, major and minor prophets have warned His chosen people (Jews in the Old Testament, Christians in the New Testament) that unless they repented their sins, God would send their enemies against them. All the minor prophets, particularly Joel (Chapter 2), Malachi, Amos, and Micah warned of the destruction of Israel and Judah for the second time--Joel and Malachi are especially eye-opening! The major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel) give graphic descriptions of what will happen to His people if they refuse to repent (see especially Jeremiah Chapter 52). The Bible's "history books"--first and second Samuel, first and second Kings, first and second Chronicles--give the full blow-by-blow up to Israel's captivity under the Assyrians (the forefathers to today's Syria of terrorist-sponsoring fame) and Judah's captivity under the Babylonians (today's Saddam-loving Iraqis).

Need I say more?

"Okay, Lagarde," you say, "stop sounding like one of those Armeggedon-freaks, those Identity weirdos." Me? Christian Identity? In Pete Peters' dreams!

No, I just happen to like reading history, and the Bible is full of it--history, that is! In the absence of those power elitists who can't and won't tell us what their real agenda is--nor will their fawning media--us "little people" only have history and historical truth to guide us (thus the Bible--it's history PLUS the truth!).

Knowing their history and culture is why I can write about what the Albanians are doing in the Balkans. If you want to know more about them, read any of Ishmael Kadare's fantastic historical fiction works, and if you live in a city where they sell out-of-print communist literature, get yourself a copy of The History of the Party of Labor of Albania, which tells not only about the Hoxha years, but before, when the Nazi-sponsored Balli Kombetar was out to ethnically cleanse Albania and the rest of the Balkans of Jews, Gypsies, Serbs and the rest, and, of course, about the infamous Code of Lek, the cultural justification for the KLA's "Greater Albania" scheme--backed not only by the CIA, but also by Osama Bin Laden. If I can write about what's happening in Macedonia (a country I know nothing about), it's because I know who is attacking them. At the same time, I can't write about Turkey vs. the Kurds; about Israel vs. the Palestinians; about Russia vs. the Chechens, and on and on.

I say this--we must know history--even though in public schools now history is being presented in only a politically correct light: ie. the founding fathers were slave owners--forgetting that some of them were not, and that all of them feared God and not England, for example. Students are being brought up to disregard history and just go with what the politically correct authorities tell them.

And this--as well as our sins and our herd mentality--is what will bring us down. Those who fail to know history are condemned to repeat it, so, if you can't stomach the Bible, open up another history book on any peoples and begin reading and connecting the dots!

September 15, 2001