Scott Lively Ministries

According to an increasing number of pundits, World War III has already begun with this or that global event, but so far none of the governments embroiled in it has formally made that admission. So, as I see it, we remain merely “on the brink,” and our focus should be on agents of chaos like Joe Biden who are trying to push us over the edge. The questions we should seek to answer are: “Who benefits?” “Why do they want it?” and “What factors and precedents can we study for clues to how this war will play out if it actually occurs?”

I’ve largely addressed the “who” and “why” in my prior two articles in this series, “The top elites want Trump to run their pending war” and “3 steps Trump should take to prevent WWIII.” I’ll take a pass on rehashing the domestic dreams and tactics of the American far left in this context, which are obvious and predictable. But I will add that I think the warmongers’ list of key foreign-policy objectives for this war is short and quickly achievable (perhaps just a single item) so the whole thing could be over in a matter of days or weeks, rather than months or years.

One reason it would be short-lived is the likelihood it would involve a limited use of nukes – because nukes are reportedly the only way to destroy Iran’s most advanced nuclear weapons facilities deep in the belly of mountains, like the Balrog in the Lord of the Rings.

Not to be flippant about world war, but if I were the war planner on this strike of likely several missiles in rapid sequence, I’d name the final penetration bomb “Gandalf” to put the whole matter in a relatable pop-culture context. For those who don’t speak LOTR, the wizard Gandalf-the-Grey killed the ancient Balrog demon in epic hand-to-hand combat in the deepest, fiery caverns beneath the roots of the Misty Mountains.

Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” especially as interpreted in film by Peter Jackson, is an unmistakable Christian allegory in fantasy form that takes plenty of literary license, but the Balrog concept is clearly drawn from the Old Testament association of demons with mountains – such as Baal Peor in Moab (Numbers 25:3; 31:16; Joshua 22:17) and Baal Zephon on today’s Turkish/Syria border.

Christian pastors don’t typically teach on demonology these days, let alone the present-day implications of ancient spiritual realities, but contemplating such things is a hobby of mine, and I’ve published two books on the topic (“Dynasty of Darkness” Vol. 1 and 2). In these studies I have come to believe that casting out demons was what Jesus meant when He said, “[I]f you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done” (Matthew 21:21). It’s at least plausible that He wasn’t talking about a pile of dirt and rock, but about the demons who dwell in mountains (and are worshiped on “high places”) just as He personally cast a legion of demons out of the mountain-dwelling Gerasene demoniac (up on today’s Golan Heights) into a herd of pigs that then plunged to their death into the Sea of Galilee (Mark 5:2-20).

Ancient Persia (Iran) shared the belief in mountain-based spiritual entities and reached its peak as a world power in those years. Interestingly, it turns out there is a variation on this same theme in Persian mythology (in which the demon is the one casting a righteous hero into the sea) depicted in artwork here.

In any case, I think the Balrog analogy nicely suits the topic of nuking Iran’s nukes, which I think is at or near the top of the short list of WWIII objectives – if not the sole must-do priority.

I don’t think anyone on the planet but Iran wants Iran to have nukes, and that includes Russia, despite their current military alliance-of-necessity. (I can’t see Orthodox Christian Russia’s current partnership with Communist China and Islamist Iran surviving long if other options – such as an anti-Marxist partnership with a re-Christianized MAGA-controlled U.S. – were available.)

The U.S., to preserve our exclusive precedent of using nukes in the extreme exigencies of war (which, sad to admit, was a huge factor in gaining global dominance in the first place) would likely pull the trigger on that action. Less likely but possibly it would be Israel. Either way much of the world would secretly celebrate the result, even as they publicly deplored the use of nukes to achieve it.

I’m going to mix metaphors now by looking to Nazi history for another analogy, using the Baal Zephor reference above as a convenient segue. The demon Baal Zephor was also called Hadad, the Canaanite God of Storms. This same demon was known as Woton in Nordic mythology/demonology: the source of the Nazi “Sturmabteiling” or Storm Trooper moniker. SA founder Ernst Roehm, and as many as 2,000 others, were murdered by Hitler in the weekend of political assassinations known as the Night of the Long Knives to bring the SA fully under Hitler’s control. The Night of the Long Knives has ever since served as a metaphor for packing all of ones unpleasant military/criminal/political tasks into a short high-speed, high-energy sequence of actions.

My alternate title for this column was “The Winter of the Long Knives” because I think that’s the closest precedent we’ve got in modern history for how WWIII would likely play out. If it takes that form, it would happen soon and be all done but for the treaty negotiations by Trump’s inauguration. This way Trump couldn’t be blamed for it, so if the other belligerents declined to participate in peace talks or treaty negotiations, his role as commander in chief during further hostilities would be untainted by the actions of his predecessors. If, in contrast, the other parties agreed to end hostilities, Trump would instantly become the great peacemaker who saved the world (but, in light of end time prophecy, hopefully comes up with something other than a seven-year peace plan). Frankly, he’d earn that title even if world war continued for a while, so long as he made peace his aim and eventually achieved it.

If Israel were to do the nuking, the “fallout” (pun intended) would be so much more serious that I think the chance of that is slim as a practical matter – but in regards to prophecy could set many last days events in motion.

All this is, of course, speculation based on current events as I perceive them from a wide range of news sources and commentators, tempered by a biblical worldview that assumes we’re on the cusp of a transition from the time of man to the literal thousand-year Millennial Kingdom of Christ. I don’t think its mere coincidence that all the world has its eyes fixed on Israel as it ponders news reports about wars and rumors of wars – for the first time chronicling the use of nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles (the U.S. testing one in the Pacific on election night – Russia actually using a conventionally armed one in a Ukraine strike).

But my speculations have a decent track record for accuracy, as evidenced by a story that just broke as I composed this final paragraph, re-titled by Citizen Free Press as “NATO boss kisses the Mar a Lago ring,” implicitly bolstering my theory of an elites’ backroom surrender to Trump on which I began this series.

WND recently published my article “The top elites want Trump to run their pending war” in which I further elaborated on my theory that Donald Trump forced them to dismantle their barriers to his second term and let him back in the White House. What they’ve surrendered to is letting Trump take on the challenge of preserving the American Empire in his own way – which is dramatically different from their own Ukraine-centered, Russian scapegoating, global bullying strategy. Trump and the top tier elites share the goal of preserving U.S. military and economic global dominance but are polar opposites on Cultural Marxism and the battle between nationalism and “one world” globalism.

Trump’s win means he gets the chance to roll back socialism and restore constitutionalism against their will on the domestic front while pursuing their common priority internationally. This was the same general trade-off Reagan had, but, importantly, Trump’s agenda adds the component of anti-“one world” globalism. In this context, Trump’s “nationalism” might better be termed “international federalism” because it clearly presumes an international order in which nations remain cooperating independent sovereigns and not mere components of single global Marxist conglomerate like the neo-Soviet European Union strives to be.

They surrendered to Trump not just because he beat them politically, but because Vladimir Putin beat them militarily in Ukraine. When their military failure became so obvious in 2023 that they could no longer contain the situation with war propaganda, they fell back to Plan B: the much riskier Israel/Hamas gambit, which is mostly limited to the Iran problem and related Middle East objectives. I have contended since it happened that the all-too-real Oct. 7, 2023, massacre was allowed to happen for that purpose. I believe they let slip the rabid dogs of Hamas deliberately to shift the “Eye of Sauron” media focus away from Ukraine (which I disapprove), and create the justification for de-nuking Iran (which goal I endorse, if not the duplicitous staging.)

Are the elites truly that evil? Ask the hundred million plus innocent unborn babies they’ve slaughtered worldwide (including in Israel) by normalizing abortion as a population-reduction tactic. Or maybe we should ask the entire generation of dead and maimed Ukrainian men sacrificed as cannon fodder proxies in a 100% preventable NATO- orchestrated war.

Let’s review what’s really happening in the world of geopolitics – as seen from outside the bubble of neocon propaganda constantly being spewed by the corporate media of the U.S., U.K. and European Union.

Massive corruption and abuse of power by the Bush/Clinton/Obama/Biden tag-team cabal over the past several decades has bankrupted America, poisoned much of the world against us and driven a growing alliance of would-be competitors to formalize and implement a plan to end our global hegemony. The greatest threat their BRICS network represents is to the U.S. dollar’s dominance as the world’s reserve currency. If BRICS develops a way to dethrone the dollar, we will (supposedly) collapse like a house of cards under an avalanche of debt we have no ability to pay – some $36 trillion worth – or higher by some accounts. Our fall would be swift and spectacular – creating a political vacuum into which the BRICS nations would flow to replace us with their vision of a new multi-polar order.

Obviously, that existential threat has – in the warped minds of the elite megalomaniacs who rule us – warranted extreme measures, which included the anti-Trump color revolution and coup of 2020, facilitated by the global deployment of their COVID bio-weapon and imposition of de facto medical martial law. In one fell swoop they intended to crush the rapidly growing worldwide populist uprising that threatened their grip on the levers of national and international power AND at the same time intimidate the BRICS nations into submission in classic Mafia style.

To invoke the old Chinese idiom, they intended to “kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” But to their shock, the populist chicken (led by the MAGA movement in the U.S.) didn’t die. Instead it got stronger and began pushing back even harder, not just against the fake vaccine but also against government-coerced censorship, manipulative fake-news narratives, forced DEI lunacy and child-grooming … and the proxy war in Ukraine. That was only possible because MAGA’s champion, Donald Trump, did not retreat after J6 but redoubled his efforts.

So now we’ve all been rewarded with front-row seats to the greatest show on earth as a greatly wiser and fully unshackled President-elect Trump begins the process of draining the swamp and restoring America’s greatness – not just domestically, but internationally.

I think President Trump can prevent World War III during his delayed second term by doing three things:

First, by embracing some form of the BRICS multi-polar vision on the condition that the dollar remains the sole world currency for international trade. This would further his goal of withdrawing the United States from the roles of international policeman, babysitter and financial sugar-daddy, while earning the appreciation and respect of those BRICS nations being entrusted as true partners in international matters, no longer treated as mere vassals of the U.S. This would mean ending the top-down divide-and-conquer polarization model for international relations established long ago by the British Empire and replacing it with the model of international federalism mentioned above.

Second, by developing a partnership with Putin and Russia based upon our mutual Christian history and cultural foundations to 1) fully drain the swamp of Marxism globally, starting with the European Union; and 2) constrain Islamist expansion everywhere, starting with Islamist-targeted Christian nations like Nigeria. In my view the only reason Russia is militarily allied with Shiite Iran is to counter the U.S. alliance with the Sunni majority headed by Saudi Arabia. A U.S./Russia alliance on Islam and Middle East policy would completely transform the geopolitical dynamics, provide the opportunity to compel Iran to de-nuke without resort to military force, and protect Israel from destruction by the Islamic world by removing Russia’s incentive to ally with Israel’s enemies as a tactic of self-defense. Russia instead would be an ally of Israel, which I believe Putin would prefer.

Three, the lynchpin making the prior elements possible would be NATO and the Russian Federation entering into a mutual non-expansion agreement. What’s really driving all these currently failing international policies is the Mackinder theory of geopolitics held forever by the British (and by extension the Americans) that if Russia gains control of the Eurasian plateau it would become an unstoppable world power. If Russia formally abandoned any dream of a restored Soviet Union (which I don’t think it wants) and NATO ended its encroachment/encirclement strategy for containing Russia, then the threat of WWIII would fade dramatically.

All this, of course, assumes that the elites won’t start WWIII before Trump’s inauguration. I’ll address that issue in my next column.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The lofty ideals of the First Amendment have inspired humanity and rightfully swelled American citizens with pride from their first articulation on the world stage almost 250 years ago. For the first time in history a government had been formed with limited powers delegated to it by the citizenry. When those implied limitations were deemed not sufficiently clarified in the United States Constitution, the people added the Bill of Rights to paint unmistakable lines on the pavement to keep the federal government in its own lane. It included the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to add guardrails on either side to clarify that the final word on the reach of the federal government would be reserved to the people and the state governments, respectively.

The problem with lofty ideals expressed concisely is applying them to real-world situations where the inherent ambiguities of words and phrases meet the test of practical application – and where the personal philosophies of those tasked with sorting it out (bureaucrats, legislators and judges) affect the interpretation and thus the ruling. Therefore, it matters greatly whether those decision makers value “original intent” and see their own role as its guardians (“conservatives”) or whether they view the Constitution and its amendments as a “living document” to be reshaped to conform to their self-directed “tide of history” (“progressives”).

In my lifetime, the “progressives” have won that contest more times than not, and so today there is no part of the First Amendment that has not been seriously reshaped to suit progressive interests – except freedom of the press, left untouched because it has been the primary driver of progressive narratives to which the decision-makers have conformed.

To the founders, “religion” in the First Amendment meant Judaism-respecting Christianity, which was eventually refined in Supreme Court rulings to the phrase “Supreme Being” inside of a clearly biblical context. The court summarized the history of this legal doctrine in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892), after more than a century of careful development.

To the founders, forbidding “establishment of religion” meant government could not adopt or prefer one Christian sect over another, as had occurred for centuries in Europe and in the American states prior to adoption of the Constitution. It absolutely did not ban acknowledgment of God’s sovereignty over America as proven by countless unimpeachable documents including the Declaration of Independence and George Washington’s inaugural addresses.

In 1947 a progressive SCOTUS majority in Everson v Board of Education shifted America off that biblical foundation and onto a Secular Humanist one by intentionally twisting Jefferson’s “Separation of Church and State” metaphor into a ban on church/state cooperation and elevating their false revision to the status of binding constitutional law. (What Jefferson and the founders actually intended – and in fact established as policy – was the “coadjuvancy” of church and state!)

The follow-on case of Torcaso v Watkins (1961) – defining atheism as a “religion” with equal protections had the legal and practical effect of empowering militant atheists to purge Christianity from public life, to be systematically replaced over the next half-century by LGBT cultural supremacy as other cases fell like dominoes along that satanic new trajectory.

All of the other elements of the First Amendment have also been redefined to suit progressive interests, always empowering government at the expense of the people. The COVID plandemic lockdowns alone show how many freedoms we’ve lost on every First Amendment front. As for freedom of speech, who would ever have imagined that we’d fall so far into Marxist delusion that wide swaths of American youths would clamor for its abolition as a “cause celeb” of “social justice” to protect from criticism such atrocities as the genital mutilation of children?

All of these travesties have been orchestrated and facilitated by the one First Amendment sacred cow left entirely untouched: the “free press.”

WND’s motto is “A Free Press for a Free People,” but I am virtually certain that our government today, in cooperation with radical leftist groups like the SPLC, is using its power to limit WND’s reach. This affects me personally. To whatever extent government officials or agents are defining my speech in this venue or any other as “disinformation,” “misinformation,” or “hate” to justify suppressing it, they are violating the plain meaning of the First Amendment. Indeed, grassroots political opinion like mine was THE speech at issue in the days of the founders – not news reporting by corporations – meaning I (and all citizen editorialists) should have greater standing in this matter than all the multinationals combined. I’m pretty sure Thomas Paine would agree with me.

The Twitter files exposed massive government coercion of social media, and investigations of public health spending to push the fake vaccine have exposed big government payoffs to traditional media companies to peddle their COVID propaganda. I suggest such conspiracies are a First Amendment deal-breaker. To whatever extent these media companies are controlled or manipulated by government they are not “free press” in the original intent of the founders and should not enjoy its protections.

Trump’s stunning victory has presented opportunities to the MAGA movement to repair the massive damage Marxists have done to this country over the past century – starting by breaking their propaganda machinery by which they mentally enslave the not-yet-red-pilled masses.

I suggest two simple lines of attack. First, impose an “equal time” mandate on all media entities that accept government money or assets, starting with the infuriatingly biased NPR/NPM. On any topic of public controversy, all perspectives, accurately represented by people of comparable stature and knowledge, must receive equal time. Compliance will be monitored by a large body of registered volunteers – say 300, chosen by annually by lottery – operating under the supervision of the both the FCC and Congress: the whole system operating as a Public Media Oversight Network to ensure fairness and accuracy.

Second, by congressional statute create a “false light” cause of action in defamation cases for deliberate misrepresentation by media companies, with lower standards of proof, in which the punishment is limited to prominently correcting the record and issuing a statement of apology to the defamed – with monetary damages available only against four-time repeat offenders. Grant private media companies who voluntarily participate in the Public Media Oversight Network an exemption from litigation.

The “Free Press” must never again be allowed to manipulate We the People by abusing their power over public information.

Article first published on WND 11/11/24

My recent column asked, “Have Obiden and the Clintons cut a deal with Trump?” and predicted a Reaganesque landslide for Trump if they had.

I think there is substantial circumstantial evidence of such a deal. First is the reaction of Joe Biden himself: beaming like a kid at Christmas after Kamala crashed and burned (his immunity from prosecution presumably paid in full by sabotaging her so thoroughly). Second is that somebody with real juice (Pelosi?) obviously told the Antifa brownshirts to stand-down and put their Molotov cocktails back in the armory. (The fun’s over, boys – for now.)

Third, and perhaps most telling is how the legacy news media, in particular the New York Times, covered the election returns: It was almost fair and balanced. The reporters didn’t suddenly stop being true-believer leftists, but upper management had obviously given orders to play it straight and let the public accept Trump’s victory as the will of the people. That was the biggest shock of all, and would never have happened if the media moguls were in still in scorched-earth warfare mode against Trump as they had been continuously since Hillary’s unexpected defeat in 2016. They also, apparently, had been told to stand down.

To be clear, when I say that Trump probably cut a deal with his enemies I’m not suggesting he cynically sold out to them in exchange for power – as they would have done in his place. No, I’m saying he forced them to the bargaining table in the manner of a besieging warlord offering terms of surrender. He beat them at their own game, on their home turf by sheer force of will and, apparently, divinely ordained manifest destiny. With each step forward, against every weapon they could deploy against him, Trump exhibited courage and resolve not seen in America leaders since the Revolutionary War – or at least since Teddy Roosevelt.

As the battle raged most fiercely, he survived two assassination attempts while exhibiting such true manly bravery as to earn the praise of Russian President Putin, and then selflessly pressed in even harder toward the goal of restoring America to greatness. That was simply too much for his enemies to overcome. The deep-state dam of media-created fear-based reluctance to embrace Trump as a leader finally broke and virtually overnight a flood of both peasants and princes enlisted in massive numbers in the MAGA army – like the plot twist of a wartime action movie or a scene from the Bible (or both at once).

If this analysis is accurate we’re not going to see an Obiden repeat of “Obama’s Hitlerian Departure” in the 2024/25 power transition. My Jan. 3, 2017, column of that title detailed Obama’s extensive sabotage campaign to hinder Trump – comparing it to Hitler’s destruction of the city and harbor of Cherbourg immediately after the allied D-Day invasion in WWII.

Instead (contrary to my own predictions before I recognized a deal had probably been struck) we’re more likely see a surprising level of courtesy being extended to President Trump in conjunction with an appeal for “a new era bipartisanship” by swamp worms like Chuck Schumer. (I’m not expecting a total reversal but even a modest bump in respect for Trump will represent a sea-change compared to the past.)

I think we’ll also see outgoing Dem elites tossing numerous mid-level FBI, DOJ, etc. underlings under wheels of their escape vehicles as they flee the crime scene – people who either can’t link their bosses to the specific crimes or are willing (under threat or promise of reward) to take the fall without implicating the higher-ups.

Some upper-management lightning rods like Garland and Mayorkas and top warfare operators like Jack Smith will be thrown to the street-level mobs of MAGA wolves. Understandably, the people will expect – nay, demand – some public beheadings in recompense for what we all suffered during Obiden’s eight year plandemic-facilitated Marxist coup and occupation (which started on Trump’s inauguration day in 2017). It’s likely we’ll see some Trump-pardoned J6 political prisoners pulling the release cords on those guillotines (metaphorically speaking) before some of these same heroes join the incoming class of new congressmen and senators from the 2026 mid-term elections.

There will, of course, be attempts to lock in leftist policies before Trump’s 2025 inauguration, and continued sniping and square-offs of individual politicians and pundits on the left and right are as certain as the rising of the sun. But I think we may see a new seriousness and sobriety in the government as the search for true solutions replaces blind regurgitations of leftist narratives.

That may be too optimistic. Post-Election Day shenanigans in election fraud strongholds like Arizona, Pennsylvania and in Orange County, California, remind us that grassroots-run state-level election fraud machinery can operate largely autonomously – regardless of deals made among the elites (though its not likely the deal I am hypothesizing involved the minutia of secondary and tertiary races anyhow).

In the business world I think we’re going to see not just a rapid abandonment of DEI policies (some executives may be crushed in the stampede for the exit), but an actual reversion to traditional values in the culture and advertising of some companies.

However, what’s really at stake for the truly top elites (think military-industrial complex and the Banksters) who allowed this presumed deal with Trump to be struck is not domestic policy, but their global hegemony – very much in parallel to the reason they allowed Ronald Reagan to reign in the 1980s. (They tolerated Reagan’s Christian and populist-pleasing domestic policy shift to the right only because he was the right man to finally take down the Soviets, knowing their inside man H.W. Bush – and his buddy Bill Clinton – could undo Reaganism domestically after The Gipper termed out.)

The rapidly growing threat of a new “multi-polar order” represented by an ascendant BRICS alliance (which also indirectly threatens Israel by dissolving the long-ago British-created polar-division of Muslims along Shiite/Sunni lines) definitively trumps domestic policy concerns and in fact requires a new resurgence of patriotism. Their best hope of retaining control is to preserve the U.S. as the world’s sole superpower. That means war, which means “American” boots on the ground (the illegals earning citizenship the hard way), which requires a truly believable commander in chief and a populace willing (however grudgingly – wait for it) to accept war under his leadership as the only way to make America great again.

Little-noticed on election night was that the U.S. military field-tested a brand new hypersonic nuclear missile – firing an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile westward from California in an unmistakable message to American’s competitors just as the reality of Trump’s sweeping victory was taking hold in the collective perception of the world. That “shot across the bow” was long pre-planned, of course, but likely so was the decision to “surrender” to Trump.

What made the American experience unique in all of world history was the phenomenon of bottom-up governance. From Nimrod to King George, all prior forms of human civilization were imposed upon humanity from the top down by those with the power to make their own will the law. This was universally true in the realms of both church and state wherever settlements grew beyond the ability of their member families to collectively govern themselves – and even in small communities, the tendency of strong-willed men of means to impose an order of their own choosing was likely. That is the reality of all human society because of the reality of unredeemed human nature.

But Jesus
When Jesus Christ – God Himself – briefly joined the human race, He taught us how we could maximize the blessings, freedoms and potentialities of His created order by receiving into the temples of our bodies His Holy Spirit and then operating as sovereign governors of ourselves, in cooperation with every other justified “Christian.” That model was best reflected by the Apostles in the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15, which operated as a board of equals in the physical absence of the Master, using Holy Spirit intuition and the written biblical law as their guide.

That was the first example of self-governance under law since the Israelite Republic led by Joshua and the Judges. It was the first ever in which the Holy Spirit dwelt personally in each individual Christian, ending human dependency on priests and rituals, while affirming the terms of the Holy Scripture which Jesus (through the Apostles) then updated and upgraded during the Apostolic Age to suit the needs of the Last Days. Importantly, Jesus affirmed the covenant even as He clarified its meaning to a more matured humanity capable of higher behavioral standards than Moses had set for them (e.g. no more polygamy, concubinage and unjustified divorce).

But willful man
The Apostolic Age ended with the death of John and the close of the Canon of Scripture with his written recording of the Revelations of Jesus Christ (an updated and expanded version of the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24-25, Mark 13 and Luke 21). After that, the Jerusalem model of Christianity gave way to the Roman model, in which the doctrine of “the priesthood of all believers” was rejected in favor of top-down governance by an ecclesiastical order of priests under a dictatorial pope deemed to be God’s representative on earth. The transition happened slowly but inexorably, starting with an assertion of authority over church matters by Clement of Rome and eventually incorporating the “divine right” to murder dissenters to its increasingly un-biblical doctrines, which it enforced vigorously for centuries.

Yet even under this man-made institutional yoke, the Scripture itself was preserved and the lives of true Christians continued to be governed internally by the Holy Spirit. A great many Roman Catholic Christians lived (and still live) exemplary lives, and Christianity continued to reshape the world and raise the standards of human ethics and morality everywhere it spread. God’s will for individuals was not thwarted. Just as He had allowed the Israelites to reject His Tabernacle in favor of a Temple and His Republic in favor of a Monarchy, He allowed the Christian church to institutionalize itself in this Roman form and He worked around its deficiencies to achieve His goals for mankind.

For a season
In due time, abuses of power by both the church and the Christian kingdoms of Europe – most especially Spain – triggered the rise of a populist “protestant” movement of both Christians and Jews. In particular, the Spanish Inquisition’s torture-backed forced mass conversion of Jews to Catholicism convinced them they faced extinction as a religion if the trajectory of Christendom did not change. Similarly persecuted were Christian Millennialists, who shared with Jews the “heresy” of belief in a future thousand-year earthly kingdom under the Messiah. Out of that common experience and doctrine grew an on-and-off partnership known modernly as the Hebraic movement in Christendom, which to an unmeasured degree inspired and facilitated the Protestant Revolution.

Its effects also included the eventual overthrow of Catholic Spanish dominance of Christendom (and the Western world) by an ascendant Protestant British Empire, whose sense of destiny was heavily influenced by the Judeo-Christian theory/ideology/doctrine of British Israelism (BI). While BI “doctrine” was largely debunked and discarded after WWI, it had helped shape and steer British self-identity and policy for the preceding five centuries. BI’s most prominent legacy was the British restoration of the House of Judah to the Holy Land in 1917, supplanting the Ottoman Turks whom the Brits expelled by military force. (To be clear, in regards to geo-politics it doesn’t matter how much of BI theory was true, only that it was believed to be true by British leaders.)

God’s Providence
The most powerful impact Protestantism had on the world, however, was the restoration of the “priesthood of all believers” that took practical form in Scottish Presbyterianism under Pioneer Reformer John Knox. That spawned the Scottish Covenantors’ movement which swept the British Isles with its example of self-rule by sovereign Christians directly empowered by God to set law by mutual consent. Out of this grew “constitutionalism” as the term was understood by America’s Founding Fathers – making possible the United States of America: The world’s first government in which limited power was delegated to elected representatives by the people ourselves. Because of that theological/ideological foundation, America matured to become the all-time pinnacle of civilization in the middle of the 20th century – the envy and immigration magnet of the world.

And yet Satanic statist enslaving Marxism still grew as a parasitic infestation amongst us – until now, in the early 21st century, it has nearly killed the host. History repeats. The MAGA movement is America’s populist uprising against egregious power-grabbing and power-abusing by tyrannical elites who hate the Bible and the Messiah, whom both Christians and Jews prophetically await.

It may not be possible, even under a Trump presidency, to restore all that has been stolen from us. But if the prophecy of a soon-coming Millennial Kingdom under direct rule by Christ from Jerusalem is true, we of the God-fearing remnant can still recreate the harmony amongst ourselves that reflects all of the best we once were – and perhaps even attain bit of the better harmony we’re promised in the age to come. We can do that amongst ourselves even if hell is about to be unleashed in all its fury because the Devil knows his time is short.

If, however, we have a few years’ reprieve under Trump, the MAGA movement can speed and maximize the restoration of our greatness by getting us back to first principles in citizen self-rule and constitutionalism – so long as we remember John Adams’ warning that those blessings are the gift of God for those who submit only to Him: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Our history proves his case.

Written 10/27/2024

Last week WND published my article “Have Obiden and the Clintons cut a deal with Trump?” I explained why I think they did and in the process touched on the issue of abortion, and the choice of some Christians not to vote for Trump because he refuses to take a fully purist pro-life stance in this election. I call that decision – in context – “shameful, stupid, and unbiblical” for reasons I’ll let you read for yourself.

I’ll add here I have no problem with people deciding to stay completely out of politics in favor of just prayer to God to produce good results supernaturally, which He most certainly can do. There’s no hypocrisy in that stance. But if you decide to engage in social policy setting in the necessarily compromise-based political realm, you can’t simultaneously pretend to be a true purist, because every vote involves risk/benefit analysis about imperfect choices. It’s utterly unavoidable. And in this election, the risk is that Kamala Harris will win and reverse every pro-life victory Trump won for us in 2016-2020, resulting in the deaths of potentially millions of unborn babies that would otherwise be saved under a Trump second term.

Trump may not support a total ban on abortion right now (which is not achievable in today’s political climate), but he’s not going to stop chipping away at the baby-killing industry in doable steps – or undo the amazing, unprecedented work he’s already done for the babies. Are you going to let the Whore of Babylon win the White House because Trump is playing politics on hypotheticals?

Since I’ve stuck my neck out this far, I’ll stretch it a little more. A woman responded to my article with this:

“I read your WND columns and respect your political savvy. A question keeps confronting me: what is the underlying reason for the intense zeal and passion abortion proponents have for that ‘freedom’? What specifically do the demons do for them, their lives and fortunes in recompense for these sacrifices to Molech? I know their passion cannot be to simply protect their hedonistic lifestyles from life-trajectory-changing unwanted parenthood. I know practitioners of Santeria and Mexican American witchcraft often petition their spirit contacts to bless them financially, romantically or to execute vengeance on a target, and that radical pro-aborts are occult-affiliated as well. What’s Satan repaying them with? Thank you in advance, Dr. Lively.”

I replied:

“You might not like this answer, but support for abortion is mostly rooted in rebellion against the patriarchal order established by God as a foundation stone of human civilization. As Paul summarized in Ephesians 5:22-24, there is a specific sex-based order all humans (married or not) are subject to that is evident from the first pages of Genesis and was never rescinded or modified by God. ‘Women’s liberation’ from ‘patriarchal oppression’ was embraced by Lenin and incorporated as an early pillar of Soviet Marxism, ironically having its first major international victory in the U.S. – in the passage of the 19th Amendment by Congress in June of 1919, ratified by the states in 1920. The Marxists had been hard at work for a quarter century or so in the U.S. when they scored that win giving voting rights to women.

“Abortion is much more about Feminism than Satanism, which explains why the issue really IS ‘choice’ for so many women who would never actually murder their own child. It is the choice personally and collectively to reject male authority in favor of independence from the God-ordained order. The ‘right to abortion’ is the perceived guarantor of that right – without which the burdens of pregnancy and child-rearing would prevent women as a social class from competing with men as a social class vocationally and politically.

“Abortion is just a symptom of the deeper spiritual problem of rejecting God’s guidance in favor of Secular Humanist reasoning – the return of human sacrifice being the most poisonous fruit of it.”

In many ways America’s most fateful election was granting women the right to vote against the wishes of their husbands in matters specifically ordained as his area of responsibility. I believe every evil turn in public policy has occurred as a result of that election (technically a state-by-state series of them) because subjective emotionalism replaced objective rationalism as both the standard for policy and the means for swaying public opinion. This is not to say that all women are equally susceptible to subjective emotionalism or all men are equally driven by objective rationalism but these are obvious and valid stereotypes generally speaking, and that’s all that matters to social engineers. In a “representative democracy” it’s all about getting a simple majority – so “empowering” women to shape public policy while emasculating men to promote emotionalism in them is a win/win for them.

That’s why we’re largely ruled today by irrational raging Feminists and Beta-Male “Soy Boys.” And those are the very people who hate and fear Trump the most because he is an unashamed Alpha-Male who symbolically and practically represents the return to patriarchy.

I believe that the 19th Amendment would never have been ratified if the voters of that day could have looked into the future and seen its consequences. Conversely, I don’t think it’s possible or desirable to reverse it at this stage: Pandora’s Box has simply been open so long we’re no longer the same society. BUT, God’s natural order is organic and self-organizing. If we just drain the swamp and clear out the weeds, His garden will grow back, quickly producing many new and healthy examples of true masculinity and femininity, true marriages and a thriving network of natural families – God’s eco-system for human civilization.

That’s my expectation from Trump’s second term, which I hope every pro-life Christian will join me in voting for.

I’ve been holding my peace and watching from a distance ever since my prediction failed that Barack Obama would end up in a head-to-head contest with President Trump (directly or indirectly) in November. But all bets were off when the action on the political battlefield swung from crazy to surreal in the takedown of Joe Biden and replacement with Kamala Harris by the controlling Marxist elites. I knew the game had changed completely when they suddenly dropped all pretext of “democracy” and simply installed HER as the candidate (rather than Michelle) as if she were just another garbage company winning a no-bid contract in mob-run Boston, Philadelphia or NYC. And since then Barack (now as gaunt as an AIDS patient) has looked so impotent in his Kamala-surrogate role, I’m seriously considering scratching him off my list of Antichrist candidates 🙂 (Not really – because I think its all an act.)

It’s never safe in modern America to assume that the show being performed in front us accurately reflects the reality of the war behind the scenes. What I believe is actually happening is civil war in the Democratic Party, because powerful elements of their coalition, including OBiden and the Clintons, have decided to cut a deal with Trump to let their party take a fall in exchange for a promise not to prosecute them post-election for their many serious crimes.

Most of the Democratic Party propaganda, election fraud and GOTV machinery is grinding away to win the race by hook or by crook, as it has always done – but Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton are clearly undermining Harris through subtleties of rhetoric and tactics that are ostensibly pro-Harris but actually intend to weaken her. For example, Barack Obama’s tepid so-called appeal to black men to support her lacked only a conspiratorial wink to convey the true message to dump her. Some of Biden’s sabotage of Harris has not been subtle at all.

Back on July 3rd when the Biden takedown was in full swing I wrote:

“As long as other options exist, however, the Dem elites do NOT want Joe to be reelected! Why? Because, as everyone who’s ever witnessed the phenomenon up close knows, dementia is both irreversible and progressive at an ever-increasing speed, and thus in the event of a Biden victory in November there would be no way to prevent the almost universally despised Kamala Harris from becoming president – with no way to remove her. There is no way Biden can finish a second term at the rate he’s declining.

“But, of course, because she’s a black female, no one involved in the Biden removal process can ever publicly admit this … Even Harris would be better than Trump in their warped minds – but a Joe Biden reelection is clearly the worst-case ‘victory’ scenario.

“The supposed best-case scenario being floated now is for Joe to be persuaded to resign – soon – but the people with the most control of that decision are the ones most desperate to keep him in power: the dominant members of the Biden crime family whose exposure to serious jail time is a very real possibility if they lose the protections of the presidency and its ‘justice’ department. They will fight like cornered wolverines to stay in power – at least until they’re presented with an offer they can’t refuse or are guaranteed sanctuary in a foreign jurisdiction with no extradition treaty with the U.S.”

That last line was tongue-in cheek – the implicit real point being Joe would resign only when he got a deal to escape accountability for himself and his co-conspirators.

While the narrative says Pelosi forced him out Don Corleone-style, I think Biden in fact had made his deal with Trump and the supposed “offer he couldn’t refuse” was just a smokescreen. Harris’ subsequent coronation-by-acclaim indicates that ALL the key power-brokers with real juice and real criminal exposure (including Pelosi) were a part of it.

Does this contradict the election-season mass delusion on the right that sees Trump as a veritable demigod of virtue? I’m fully on board the Trump train for many reasons, but I’m not a dreamy-eyed newbie. Remember, Trump’s self-declared first principle of success is “The Art of the Deal,” which he mastered while “making his bones” in New York real estate – the “Madison Square Garden” of bare-knuckle political prize-fighting. Look how quickly he pivoted on abortion after the Dems proved in the ’22 midterms it was their silver bullet to kill his chances in ’24. I made MY bones as a Christian culture warrior during the pro-life Rescue Movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s, but I understand and accept his pivot because he actually earned our continuing pro-life support during his first term by handing us the Holy Grail of pro-life victories: the overturning of Roe v. Wade! However, post-Dobbs, large numbers of Christian voters turned their backs on him by not voting in ’22 and are now using Trump’s pivot (which their apathy reasonably made necessary in his mind) to justify their intention not to vote for him this year. It’s shameful, stupid and unbiblical.

As I state on my website at ScottLively.net, “Christians who can’t balance the aspirations of Christianity with the realities of politics sabotage their own interests by imposing an unrealistic standard of moral perfection on people who run for office: a standard God Himself never imposed on the people He raised up as Judges during the 400 year Israelite Republic America is modeled upon.”

But back to the presumed Biden/Trump deal. For years I’d been spotlighting Biden as the man being set up to take the blame for the whole corrupt cabal – I even nicknamed him “Joey the Scapegoat” and to the very end thought the controlling elites were going to publicly sacrifice him like Azazel’s prize. But, impressively, Biden’s leveraging of the presidency outmaneuvered even Obama, masterfully transferring his fated scapegoat role onto Harris. Biden may still be named and shamed for the crimes as a panacea for the masses, but his dementia will make him unprosecutable (and if I’m right nothing substantive will ever come of it per the secret deal with Trump). Meanwhile, Harris will take the blame for the 2024 political failure – which will, of course, be attributed entirely to racism and mysogyny, confirming core Marxist narratives and fueling continuing passion for “social justice.” In other words, she’ll skate too.

Heads will certainly role in 2025 and beyond after Trump wins (perhaps in a Reaganesque landslide – which would have been my price if I were Trump), but they’ll almost certainly be underlings and not bosses – as always seems to be the case in peaceful transfers of power.

I’m not carving this in stone or claiming “thus sayeth the Lord,” just offering what I think is the most realistic analysis based on today’s known and likely factors. I can also still see the dark clouds of World War III looming on the horizon with their potential as a pretext for martial law, suspension of our election and the one-two punch of a global “Great Collapse” and “Great Reset.” I much prefer the deal-based Trump victory scenario.

Update Oct. 28, 2024: Is this evidence of a deal?

I am very close to finishing the 6th edition of “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party,” which I am hoping will be well received by conservatives and the MAGA movement because it explains so much about how America was conquered by the LGBT armies who lurk behind every culture-war calamity we face. Germany was the pre-WWII dress rehearsal. America’s (continuing) post-war Cultural Marxist revolution is the main performance. And, of course, all those ugly facts of German history proving the Nazi Party was the creation of “Butch” male homosexuals, had to be suppressed in America or the leftists would never have succeeded. Thus, since its first edition in 1995 “The Pink Swastika” has been one of the all-time most “panned and banned” books in print despite, or rather because of, the strength of its documentation and analysis.

Today I want to expose the origin of the “Gay Holocaust” fraud that hid the shocking true history of the Nazi Party under a thick blanket of social-engineering mythology.

In 1923 a tragedy occurred in Galveston, Texas, that was to have a major negative effect on the world: a tiny baby boy, wrapped in pages of a Houston newspaper, was heartlessly abandoned under an oleander tree, found alive by strangers and put up for adoption. The name his adoptive parents gave him was James “Jim” Kepner, and they were honest with him about his abandonment. That boy, with understandably serious family and self-identity issues, did what so many other “lost boys” do, and fell (or was pushed by molestation) into same-sex attraction disorder. Perhaps in his case his perception of homosexuals as social “rejects” like himself provided an extra incentive to join, but regardless, Jim Kepner subsequently spent his entire adult life working diligently on behalf of his adopted clan to eliminate the social stigma attached to the “gay” lifestyle. He died in 1997 of a perforated intestine.

Most significantly, Jim became arguably the greatest archivist of the LGBT movement – co-founding along with other early members of Harry Hay’s Mattachine Society the One Letter (the first magazine of the movement in America) and the One Institute, which has since become the premier national archive documenting LGBT history. Jim was obsessed with knowing the history of that movement – apparently as a substitute for the personal family history he would never know. But in that process Jim grossly exaggerated an aspect of “gay history” that exemplified “rejection” of “gays” in its most traumatic form: the persecution of some homosexuals by the Nazis.

In essence, for his own deeply personal reasons, Jim Kepner created a “Gay Holocaust” by exaggerating and magnifying certain historical facts to serve his own inner agenda. And he did so at a time when the larger LGBT movement was desperate to win public sympathy for its own very public and aggressively political agenda.

To my knowledge, the first public contention that “gays” had suffered a “homosexual holocaust” was made in the May 1978 issue of One Letter, which referenced a “One Institute Seminar on German History [Jim Kepner] taught in 1959” on the front page, and contained the article “Silent No More: The Pink Triangle.” (Kepner had pioneered a “Gay Studies” curriculum he taught at the One offices long before any public universities began doing so and was thus perceived as a top expert by the movement.)

The author of that (unsigned) article was likely Kepner student and fellow Mattachine member Michael A Lombardi who began doing his own research for a book on the topic in 1977. Lombardi was a regular writer for the Coast to Coast Times based in Los Angeles in the 1970s, and wrote a piece for its Oct. 15, 1978, issue titled, tellingly, “Nazis: act now, research later,” which included the sentence: “Today holocaust curricula are being added to many school study programs yet any mention of the homosexual holocaust is being left out of them entirely.”

Lombardi was in correspondence with Frank Rector at that time, who thanked him for sending a copy of the Times and requested help documenting some of the dubious casualty figures the “Silent No More” article cited on homosexual victims of the Nazis. This is per a personal letter to Lombardi from Rector of which I have a copy. I also have a copy of a letter from Stein and Day Publishers dated March 21, 1978, stating Rector was under contract with them for a book “on the Nazi persecution and mass murder of homosexuals.”

Rector’s book, “The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals,” was finally published in 1981, taking the “Gay Holocaust” assertion to a ridiculous extreme, but unfortunately mainstreaming its false narrative among leftists.

According to Wikipedia, “Stein and Day, Inc. was an American publishing company founded by Sol Stein and his wife Patricia Day in 1962. Stein was both the publisher and the editor-in-chief. The firm was based in New York City, and was in business for 27 years, until closing in 1989.”

Stein was a U.S. government-trained master propagandist who “[f]rom 1951 to 1953 … was employed by the state-run Voice of America, eventually as senior editor of the Ideological Advisory Staff. He wrote daily scripts that were translated into 46 languages and broadcast to two million people listening behind the Iron Curtain. … In 1953 Stein was appointed Executive Director of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, an anti-communist cultural organization which was later revealed to be supported by the CIA. It was in this period that the eventual publisher supervised the writing and publication of McCarthy and the Communists, which made The New York Times Bestseller List for 13 weeks and was credited with contributing to the unseating of Senator McCarthy.” (Seems like the CIA put their own fox in the “anti-Communist” hen house.)

This, then, was the origin of the “Gay Holocaust” fraud – begun as merely an exaggeration by an emotionally troubled man revising history to fit his own psychological profile – then institutionalized by the LGBT movement as a knowingly false but detailed revisionist school of “hidden history.” The now multi-layered fraud was then popularized nationally by a left-wing master propagandist with his own publishing company, creating a new sub-genre of Nazi history with massive potential for pro-LGBT social engineering and “sexual anarchy” at the expense of the prior marriage and family based order of civilization. And that’s how one of the most socially destructive historical revisionist efforts in world history began.

Rebutting that campaign of disinformation and reclaiming the truth about the Nazi relationship with homosexuality and homosexuals – to help restore the primacy of the natural family in society – is the purpose of my book, the soon-coming 6th edition of which will be a dramatic expansion upon the 4th edition (which is available here).

Written 10/10/2024

“In various occult and esoteric traditions, there is indeed a principle that emphasizes the importance of revelation before change. This principle often ties into ideas of cosmic law, the balance of forces, and the need for awareness before transformation. The belief is that understanding the nature of a change, or being forewarned about it, allows individuals to align themselves more harmoniously with the flow of energy or fate.”

– ChatGPT, in answer to my question this morning “Is there actually an occult principle that all prescribed change must be revealed in advance?”

I went to bed last night thinking about a comment my son just made about the virtually overnight demographic remodel of Springfield, Ohio, into which 20,000 Haitians were dropped into a town of 40,000 residents – fully housed and funded – by the Biden/Harris regime. His comments emphasized both the unprecedented machine-like efficiency of it and the complete disregard for the existing population.

His observation was like the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle I had already largely completed. I awoke this morning with the awareness of a dark epiphany my mind had reached overnight: Humanity really is in the early stages of being culled – and we’ve been prepped for it for decades through the entertainment medium of “science fiction.”

The Great Replacement – foreshadowed by such classic sci-fi films as “The War of the Worlds” and “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers” – is an actual plan whose purpose is to replace the fiercely independent and entrepreneurial Alpha-Class of True Americans with more compliant and controllable Third World “scabs” – not because of their white skin color, but because of their worldview. I use the word “scabs” intentionally, not to denigrate our fellow human beings being used as pawns against us, but to invoke the Alpha-Class labor-union dockworkers who just threw a boulder in the path of their own great replacement – by robots. (The Third-Worlders are intended to be the factory workers building those robots – and perhaps dying as cannon fodder in a world war that heralds both the “Great Reset” and the Bible’s “beginning of sorrows.”)

Those dockworkers are some of the more visible True Americans now rising up as a MAGA army: an army of mixed races and creeds, certainly, but still dominated demographically by the descendants of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) majority who envisioned and then built this nation – the world’s first, best and longest lasting constitutional republic – from the 17th century through the early decades of the 20th century. Their True American worldview – which persists today both in the form of Christian faith and in the form of secularized custom and tradition – originated in the Protestant doctrine of “the priesthood of all believers” in which government was perceived as the natural product of the cooperation of sovereign individuals who collectively delegate limited power to “public servants.” Because of them, America’s long season of liberty and self-determination was unique in world history until it ended on Jan. 6, 2021. (Whatever we manage to claw back in November – if anything – will never be the same.)

The Pilgrim Separatists of Plymouth exemplified that spirit of self-determination with their defiance of top-down government – and top-down ecclesiastic religion – being reflected in our nation’s first, protean constitution, the Mayflower Compact, and then in its follow-up “covenantal oath,” the Declaration of Independence.

In the 20th century, the Empire Struck Back and our government “of the people, by the people and for the people” was steadily supplanted by a tag-team of Marxism and predatory corporatism such that our population still largely looked much the same from the outside, but on the inside had increasingly become a nation of serfs compliant to government groupthink but hostile to faith and liberty.

In the 21st century, our self-presumed Masters emerged from the shadows to reveal themselves and their plans, which were moving smoothly along – until (thank God) the narcissistic megalomaniac Barack Obama tried to accomplish too much too fast and triggered the populist backlash called the Tea Party, which later morphed into the MAGA movement.

But the plan has proceeded anyway, and nothing we’ve done to stop it has worked. Impediments like our Bill of Rights and election laws have barely slowed them: A world-enslaving, death-dealing plandemic to justify and mask massive election fraud to evict Donald Trump from office was nothing to them. Neither is the continuing systematic feeding of Ukraine and its people into the Russian meat-grinder – at huge cost in money and war materials – all to destroy the Clinton/Bush/Biden/Obama/Soros bio-weapons and money-laundering crime scene under the pretext of opposing “Russian aggression” which they themselves orchestrated.

Importantly, however, these are only skirmishes along the road to the future the elites behind those elites want for themselves. Films like “The Matrix” and Star Trek’s “Borg” show us generally where they’re headed: the integration of humans with artificially intelligent machinery more advanced than we are. The ghouls of the World Economic Forum entice us to support their vision of transhumanism by suggesting we will retain our individual autonomy and become a new species of humankind beyond Homo sapiens. But why would an Artificial Intelligence they fully expect to outstrip our human intellectual capacity deign to remain subservient to inferior human beings? Since intelligence growth is presumably unlimited, we would eventually, inevitably, become mere assets to exploit in whatever vision it deems important to its own self-development.

The idea that Trump can save us from all this is a fantasy. He’s now campaigning with Elon Musk at his side – the man developing the human brain implants for future cyborgs and self-driving robotic transportation systems, which are a first-step to automated-everything. Massive AI facilities are being built as we speak to run that world, needing such massive amounts of electrical power as to require the re-start of the Three Mile Island nuke plant (for Microsoft). Another, just a few miles from me in Memphis, is Musk’s own AI “Grok 3” supercomputer facility, which requires nothing less than the mighty Mississippi River as source of power and cooling.

Musk is selling this to the MAGA faithful as an “anti-woke” version of ChatGPT, and I’m grateful for his free-speech advocacy, but will free speech even matter in the world of robots and cyborgs he’s helping to create? What use are most humans there? The ever-eugenically minded elites soon won’t need many human workers. Most of us will be simply “useless eaters” then and expendable – especially the Alpha-Class; the troublemakers who demand government accountability to the people; the vaccine-resistors and “misinformation” purveyors; the “bitter clingers” to God and the Constitution; the “Deplorables.” Hillary says she wants us jailed, but any AI policy-setter worth its wattage would conclude it would be cheaper and easier just to kill us.

In contrast are the young and compliant whose self-identity and bodily integrity are already so fluid and malleable that tomorrow’s transhumanist augmentations and cyborgean “improvements” will seem as normal and natural to them as transgenderism.

I don’t see any way off this path to hell – except the path to Heaven in the prophecies of the Bible, which seem more realistic with every passing day.

Date written 10/6/2024

Short of the Holocaust itself, the most infamous pogrom against the Jews in modern times was Germany’s Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, on Nov. 9-10, 1938, in which Nazi-orchestrated and facilitated rioting over the assassination of Nazi Diplomat Ernst vom Rath led to widespread destruction of Jewish property, synagogues and businesses. I had intended to write about this event in my column last week but decided against it because there didn’t seem to be any thematic connection to current events, which is usually my goal. The very next day “the Gateway Pundit reported: “‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says Trump Preparing His Own ‘Kristallnacht,’ Precursor to Nazi Holocaust.”

Far from being a random fit of lunacy by airhead Hostin, this political grenade she lobbed was obviously planned anti-Trump electioneering by ABC following a precedent set in 2020, when CNN’s propaganda go-to girl, Christiane Amonpour, leveled a similar charge against the Trump presidency.

The claim is absurd on its face given Trump’s long history of pro-Israel actions, but it’s also dishonest about the Nazi role in that event.

Like almost every other Nazi outrage during the Third Reich, including the “Night of the Long Knives,” this “Night of the Broken Glass” had an intimate connection to the butch homosexuals of the SA and SS. Indeed, while there is evidence that some form of attack against the German Jews had already been planned, the sheer ferocity of Kristallnacht – openly characterized by the Nazi leaders as an act of “revenge” – suggests a deeply personal and genuinely spontaneous reaction among the brown- and black-shirted rioters. I contend their motivation was blind rage that one of their fellow pederasts had been slaughtered by a Jewish boy street hustler.

The following is a slightly modified excerpt from “The Pink Swastika,” 4th Edition (the expanded 6th Edition being my current book-in-progress).

Ernst vom Rath was a high-level SA official who had received a diplomatic posting to the German embassy in Paris. While serving there he had taken up with a 17-year-old self-identified male prostitute by the name of Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew. In partial payment for his services, Grynszpan had extracted a promise from vom Rath that his parents would be spared the consequences of a recent law that “revoked the citizenship of Polish Jews who had been living abroad for more than five years and who still retained Polish citizenship.” But vom Rath failed to keep his promise, and Grynszpan’s family, along with thousands of others, “were herded into camps in a no-man’s land along the border region of Zbonszyn in freezing weather.”

In retaliation, Grynszpan shot vom Rath on the night of Nov. 7, 1938. Two days later the Nazis staged the “Night of Broken Glass.” Grynszpan fled and was not caught by the Gestapo until 1940. They finally had Grynszpan, but their planned high-profile courtroom prosecution went up in smoke. “At the last moment the trial was canceled on Hitler’s orders: Grynszpan had threatened to reveal a homosexual relationship with Rath.”

The Nazis were furious.

Anthony Read and David Fisher (“Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror”) explain:

“Vom Rath had been sold to the world as an official martyr, shot down in the service of the Führer. He had even been given a state funeral at which Hitler himself had been a mourner. Was he now to be portrayed in the world’s press as a queer with a taste for 17-year-old boys?”

The Nazis claimed the confession was a lie, but there must have been enough evidence to support the story or the prosecutors could have easily refuted it. Instead, they delayed the trial.

“The delay gave Goebbels the time to create a new myth about the late Ernst vom Rath, and he set about it in a highly ingenious manner. He arranged for the letters of French prisoners of war to be specially vetted by one of his men, who seized the more passionate and erotic messages. The letters were then doctored to make it appear that they had all been written to vom Rath by various mistresses, with the aim of producing them in court as written evidence of his heterosexuality. At one stroke, Goebbels would have created a new Don Juan, a German womanizer irresistible to Frenchwomen.

“The Nazis could produce no legitimate evidence that vom Rath was a heterosexual, and even their falsified evidence went unused because the Justice Ministry had obtained additional information that made a public trial impossible.

“[A] story had been circulating in public that Herschel had in fact been vom Rath’s male whore and procurer for some time in 1938, and that vom Rath had been known in Parisian homosexual circles as ‘the ambassadress’ and ‘Notre Dame de Paris.’

“They also learned that vom Rath’s brother ‘had been dismissed from the service for homosexual offenses.’ This was too much for even Goebbels’ propaganda machine to overcome, so the trial was again postponed.”

In full disclosure it must be acknowledged that Read and Fisher ultimately adopted the official line that the allegations of a homosexual affair between vom Rath and Grynszpan were untrue – the creation of Grynszpan’s lawyer. However, I have since learned that the primary evidence used to discredit the allegations was another prison letter, this one “encrypted” and supposedly sent by Grynszpan himself stating he made some of it up. The prior history of the case suggests that the “Grynszpan letter” may have been ghost-written by Goebbels.

How a Jewish teen could have such insider access to Germany’s highest-ranked diplomat as to get the promise of favored treatment for his parents – and then kill him for betrayal – is never explained. And it’s not as if the Nazis were innocent of rewarding pederastic homosexuals with diplomatic postings. Consider for example Dr. Theodor Auer, the German consul in Casablanca, Morocco. His “affair with the son of a local sheik and his ‘behaviour’ with Arab, French and Jewish ‘bumboys’ were detailed by the British Secret Operations Executive (SOE).”

In any case, there is no denying Kristallnacht was a horrific attack on Germany Jewry, but there is no parallel to anything Trump or the pro-Israel MAGA movement have ever done. Indeed, the closest parallel is Queers for Palestine – and the nationwide Hamas-promoting terror faction of today’s Democratic Party.