In the introduction to the 2002 edition of America’s Secret Establishment, Anthony Sutton asks the question that many of you are hopefully asking yourselves at this point: “What is to be done?” Sutton answers as follows:
If the voting public was even vaguely aware of this rampant and concealed scenario, it could, and possibly would force change. However, this is not a likely possibility. Most people are “go-along” types, with limited personal objectives and a high threshold for official misdeeds. What has taken over a century to establish cannot be changed in a few years. The initial question is education.
Apart from the dire need to radically reform education which we have already dealt with, Sutton ends on a cautiously optimistic note. “It is more likely that time, rather than the voting booth, will erode the secret power of this Yale group,” he believes. “Nothing
this outrageous can survive forever.”
Sebastian Haffner: “There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater.”
“sheepish submisiveness” (McGovern)
But rather than wait for time to heal all wounds, we would be well-advised to heed the words of G. K. Chesterton:
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air.
Notes
Anthony Sutton, America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones, 2002
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119639.pdf
G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils, p.13
Ray McGovern, “Creeping Fascism: History’s Lessons.” Consortium News, December 27, 2007.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/122707a.html
