Over the past four or five years, I have read some pretty horrifying things. It started by getting on the internet and looking into 9/11. Horror. That poking around lead to Peak Oil. More horror. Since then I’ve come across various other plausible explanations for all manner of disturbing events, like this for example. The good thing about being serially horrified is that after awhile, I began to accept it as baseline. It just doesn’t shock me much anymore. I don’t believe it’s impossible that people do insanely greedy, selfish, evil things; in fact, I assume it’s happening. And here I must defer to the wisdom of one of my spiritual companions, Brother Lawrence.

When he was told of any great wickedness, he was not a whit surprised; rather, he would say, he marvelled not to hear of more, when he considered the baseness into which sin leads a man; that for his part he rose straightway to the throne of God, and forasmuch as He could remedy such, yet permitted evil for reasons very true and useful in the order of His Providence, he prayed and interceded for the sinner, and, having done so continued in His peace. - The Practice of The Presence of God with Spiritual Maxims, Spire 2003, p.93

Consolamini. Be ye comforted.

So if I had to pick a theme for everything I’ve learned the past few years, it would be Big.

For example, Sibel Edmonds has been trying to get her story out and uncensored, and you’d think that would be doable, but apparently the story is just Too Big. Because it’s not small. It’s not something about we can credibly say, “Oh, pshaw!”.

SE: Essentially, there is only one investigation – a very big one, an all-inclusive one. Completely by chance, I, a lowly translator, stumbled over one piece of it.
But I can tell you there are a lot of people involved, a lot of ranking officials, and a lot of illegal activities that include multi-billion-dollar drug-smuggling operations, black-market nuclear sales to terrorists and unsavory regimes, you name it. And of course a lot of people from abroad are involved. It’s massive. So to do this investigation, to really do it, they will have to look into everything.

CD: But you can start from anywhere –
SE: That’s the beauty of it. You can start from the AIPAC angle. You can start from the Plame case. You can start from my case. They all end up going to the same place, and they revolve around the same nucleus of people. There may be a lot of them, but it is one group. And they are very dangerous for all of us.

Sounds Big. Except she goes on to say that all investigations get shut down. Therefore, it must be Big.

That is, the guilty parties at the Pentagon and State Dept have the power to stomp on investigations into their own illegal activities. And as Sibel says, these people were involved in criminal activity, not just simple state-based espionage.

As reported in Vanity Fair:

“In fact, much of what Edmonds reportedly heard seemed to concern not state espionage but criminal activity. There was talk, she told investigators, of laundering the profits of large-scale drug deals and of selling classified military technologies to the highest bidder.”

Again, for corroboration about government sanctioned money laundering, follow the links and/or make your way though this. It’s not for nothing that we have a “War on Drugs”. And although it doesn’t get mentioned in Lukery’s piece, there’s the Scooter Libby connection to consider.

I’m afraid we’re living at a hinge of history. Big wheels are in motion, and we could very easily be ground up in the gears. I have profound respect and admiration for Sibel Edmonds, a deeply courageous woman. I pray that she will remain safe. I hope someone will match her bravery and tell her story in full.

I certainly don’t claim to understand everything that’s going on in the back rooms of power, but I can’t help but think of things I learned from my elders. 1) Don’t trust them as far as you can throw them; 2) They’re lower than whale shit, which is at the bottom of the ocean; and 3) You gotta know it, kid.