A PLEA FOR CALM

NOVANEWS

I think it’s safe to say none of us saw this coming, or at least I didn’t. With Jeff Rense’s threat to sick the FBI and DHS on someone for something as relatively trivial as voicing a dissenting opinion and then Henry Makow’s letter last weekend attempting to gloss over that fact, the reaction has been, well, explosive. With the number of emails I have gotten from people supporting me you’d have thought I just won the lottery and everyone knew about it.
And I certainly understand why. Finding what appears to be traitors in our midst, given how dangerous this business we are all involved in is, how could people NOT react like they have? It’s like being at war with another country and then finding out a couple of guys in your own platoon have been meeting with them at night when everyone else was asleep. You then wonder what kind of deals have been made that could end up in you dancing with the Grim Reaper.
However, what I would ask from everyone now is to just let it die, and for several reasons. First, there are more important things to deal with, and all someone need do is look at the news for proof of this.
Secondly though, and I know this is going to sound strange, given that I am now being accused of partaking in a conspiracy to have Jeff Rense murdered, I ask everyone to pull back for the sake of Jeff Rense himself.
The fact is this–He is not a well man. I now know from personal, first-hand knowledge that he is personally going through a traumatic situation right now involving the authorities (that I cannot disclose because I promised not to) that if not rectified in his favor could utterly destroy him. I believe this–and not that he is a “Zionist agent” as some are suggesting–best explains why he is acting so irrationally at the moment, first by threatening to call out the FBI and DHS for something as trivial as a dissenting opinion and then alleging that yours truly is part of the same shadowy conspiracy out to kill him.
It doesn’t take someone with a degree in abnormal psychology to see that he is in the midst of some sort of psychological meltdown as evidenced by his holding on to 2 completely contradictory ideas at the same time, one of the criteria used in diagnosing people with all sorts of mental disorders, including acute paranoia. Whether this is being made worse by any substance abuse on his part I don’t know, but as I said, I now know from someone very close to him that he is not sleeping or eating well and is heavily weighed down with worry.
Making matters worse for him is the fact that he certainly lost a lot of his following with this latest episode as evidenced by the deluge of emails I received over the last 5 days (my apologies to those I have not yet responded to, I have been doing my best but the truth is there are too many to deal with at one time).
People certainly recognize the danger posed by someone with access to hundreds of thousands of personal IP addresses, email addresses, bank account info and home addresses that could be turned over to the authorities if told to do so and understandably this makes people nervous, given the kind of ‘political’ climate we are all living in today.
However, at this time, throwing gasoline on this thing will not serve any good purposes at the moment. All it will do is put even more trauma on him, resulting in him (and his followers) slipping deeper into this strange, irrational behavior we have all been witness to and lashing out with even more nonsense.
So, as strange as this may sound what I would ask from everyone is this–just let it go. Give him time to get a little quiet and relative peace of mind to wander back into “Camp Reality”. He stands a better chance of getting some help and healing whatever malady of the mind and soul he is dealing with if things quiet down a little.
Besides, he has done no damage to me. No one in their right mind would give an ounce of credence to what he’s alleging and those who would are obviously just as troubled and in need of help as he is. Besides, we can all imagine the howls of laughter taking place in locales such as the ADL, SPLC and others when they witness what is taking place so let’s not give them anything more to laugh about.
Lastly, if you are the praying type, perhaps we should keep this man (and his followers who seem to suffer from cult of personality syndrome) in our prayers.
Certainly in a world as brutal as the one we are all living in these days a little compassion might not be totally out of order here?
mg
10/27/2010