Plugs: None Dare...pp. 85-87

Of all the things that author Gary Allen is bad at, I didn't think shameless plugs were going to be one of them. We'll get there in a second. First, we've got to deal with the clean-up from the list. What does Allen have to say, regarding his accusation that all of the signposts to slavery are being proposed? Nothing. 

He is as finished with that list as we are. This is foolish because that list could have been its own chapter if he was willing to explain it and then give the sources for his position that government control over private schools keeps getting proposed in many state legislatures. That's it, he name drops Reuther as a union organizer and then he's done. 

According to the page count on the pdf that I have, this book has 8 pages left. Scrolling ahead it only has two. This means that this book is now issuing its call to arms, "You are in this fight whether you want to be or not. Unless you are an Insider, you are a victim. Whether you are a multimillionaire or a pauper you have an enormous amount at stake." 

Whenever read this kind of statement, I always wonder who the multimillionaires are that the conspiracy theorist is pandering to. I assume that they exist, but I cannot help but chuckle at the idea of a multimillionaire sitting in a mansion thinking, "yes, I too am a victim of a grand conspiracy to keep me down." 

What? How is that the thing? It reminds me of the parable of the poor woman donating to the temple in the New Testament. Jesus tells his crew that the woman donated more than the rich person because she donated what she needed while the rich man donated his surplus and drew attention to himself. Well, that may be true, it's not that poor woman that gets to sit with the church council and make decisions...it's the rich guy. The same here, Allen wants to pretend that I am just as equal to someone like Alex Jones when it comes to the fight, but when the planning groups get together it's the wealthy people that are going to make the decisions.

We also have to think about Allen's claim in a different way. If he's right and the Socialists/SOCIALISTS are coming, the rich absolutely have more to lose. Allen is going to use the Soviet enslavement of 1 billion people in 1945 as his example...I'm guessing that this is the dropping of the iron curtain after the European War ended, but I don't know where he's getting his figure of a billion people from. 

No matter, Allen wants to implore there readers to act even though it does not appear that there is a battle to be fought. Which is good advice...if anything he was saying was true. He uses the words of Churchill trying to exhort the British populace to be prepared to fight until the last person. The problem is that the British were in an-actual-bombs-falling-on-them-war. Whereas Allen's war is that Nixon isn't enough of a right-wing partisan and your tax money might help a poor person someday. That's not a war that's a difference in political ideologies and the problem with drawing this analogy is that it has led directly to the hyper-partisanship that we see today. 

Describing a political difference as the fight between freedom and slavery is the extremist position. Goldwater was wrong, extremism in defense of liberty is a vice in much the same way that Popper describes the paradox of tolerance. Too much defense of liberty will lead to the loss of it just like too much tolerance. 

So now we enter into the end. Allen says that there are four keys in the program. The first is us. What we do is how the program (which I assume is the fight against the Globalists, er..., elites) begins. Do we recognize the problem and then go forward or close the book and ignore it forever? Well I wish it was the latter. I wish that this book was merely a historical footnote that appeared in my dissertation and that was it; however, enough people heeded the call. You know the type, they attempted a coup last year. 

The second is the book itself. That's ballsy and it's not the first time. Three pages ago he told the reader to distribute the book among friends and family. Here, he reminds us to do so because the elites can stop the publicity of the book but they can't stop you from buying it. That is very inconsistent with the portrait of the power of the elites he's been painting this whole time. If the book is in the store they can't stop you. They could however stop the book from being in the store, they could stop the printing of the book, they could have stopped the publisher from approving the manuscript, etc. There's a whole chain of events that this omnipresent all-powerful group could have done to stop this book. 

He follows this with deference to other organizations that also agree with him, but the organization that you should go to is the John Birch Society. I wrote about the John Birch Society for the Skeptical Inquirer about a year ago blaming them for the seed that the January 6th coup was the fruit. Allen and the John Birch Society's ideas are so close that this reference seems odd to me. If you are reading this book you already know the JBS. It is possible that you could have found this book by accident, became convinced, and now need a place to share your views with other like-minded wannabee ultra-nationalists, so maybe, just maybe this part is necessary.

It continues questioning why an organization like the JBS gets so vilified in the press while the CFR, the evil organization that promotes, "the centralization of power in the hands of a few within a world government, is practically never mentioned?"

I have an answer to this question, it's because the claim against the CFR is not supported by any evidence, while the JBS wrote a book claiming that President Dwight Eisenhower was a Communist and opposed any measure of civil rights for African Americans as part of a Communist plot. To call the JBS an organization focusing on making people equal and free is not supported by their publications (especially in the 1960s) and their members. 

Allen promised us four keys to the program, and we will wrap them and the book up next week.