A response to Kelly Scoles’ letter:

Hello again, Kelly,

Thank you for defining the term “Blitzkrieg”. I guess there are still people around who are ignorant of the word. However,
once again you use it inappropriately with wild abandon.

I regret to see you so confused, almost, it appears, in panic. Once again you endite Trump for “criminal and civil”
activities “against our people to ensure eventual population compliance with an authoritarian state.” I say if Trump wants
to play Napoleon, he had better speed up the plan. He’s only got about three years left to go. But in a nation like
America, where civilians own about 500 million firearms, it will be an intimating task. Besides, those Democrats who have
contracted “Trump derangement syndrome (TDS)” are in a shrinking minority.

We rarely seem to get free from the swamps of political redundancy, Kelly. We need to move beyond overheated metaphors and
“Fast and Furious” speculation. (A poor phrase for Democrats if you recall) “Operation Fast and Furious - a plan
implemented by the Obama administration in which [2,000] guns were sold to Mexican cartels” by federal [ATF-] agents in
hopes they could identify the drug lords. Surely one of the stupidest plans in American Justice Department history, which
cost one agent his life. “The [final] report essentially cleared the leadership of the [Obama] Justice Department,
including US Attorney General Eric Holder, from any wrongdoing.”

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Kelly, I don’t have the patience to answer every political niggle. I’m completely fixated upon the coming war, the Third
World one. Interestingly enough, the real-world scenario closely aligns with the mystical one, which I find “worthy of
believe” at this moment. Some of my Catholic friends see events approaching at a slower pace, some not at all, most
understand them to cascade apace. I’m with the cascaders, but I acknowledge the subject itself is taboo among the

comfortable, well-meaning naïve, and atheists. If I were more confident of my remaining earthly longevity, I wouldn’t sound
the alert. But that would be cowardly and I’m not that confident.

God’s loving generosity has provided time for me to review His “very good” (read perfect) gift of creation, and we as

appointed stewards. World powers like NATO, America, and the rest of the Free World, are finally taking seriously
belligerent threats from Slave World nations like Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. We all have at least two
perspectives, war or peace. Credible western military historians mostly agree that war is inevitable, some see it coming

slower, others sooner. Those religious mystics I believe say war is imminent.

Judeo-Christian mystics emphasize prayer, spiritual mortification, and appeal to Divine Mercy in order to stave off what they prophesy as a “Chastisement” or “Purification” in unheard of proportions. From a Catholic perspective (which is not
dogma) much detail can be found in many books under the title of The Warning. According to this source the world is more
evil than at any time before, even before the Flood. These ordeals will affect the entire world and every human being.

Those of us who find these prophesies worthy of belief will be greatly ridiculed. It should be noted that the most esteemed
bishops, priests, including exorcists and noted mystics, today and from the distant past, find this prophesy worthy of
belief, though they are not bound to believe.

I think the famous poem by William Butler Yeates perfectly explains our condition:

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

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Who can say it better?