September 17, 2021 Updated: September 21, 2021
Commentary My career has taken me around the world, including the combat zones in Iraq
and Afghanistan to support our troops. Those travels have helped me appreciate
how fortunate I am to have been born in America—home of the free because of the
brave. On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States,
people across our nation gathered in remembrance of the lives lost and the
heroes who selflessly gave their lives to save others. On Sept. 11, 2001, I was
in Washington and saw the hole in the Pentagon. Later, I traveled to New York
and saw the massive hole where the Twin Towers had once stood. Those are images
I’ll never forget. In 2002, I was recruited into government service to lead necessary change
and transformation in the intelligence community (IC), including better
integrating our imagery and signals intelligence enterprises—America’s eyes and
ears. I was sworn in as a senior executive in defense intelligence and was a
civilian peer to general and flag officers. After the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI) was established, I was sworn in as the first IC
deputy chief information officer at ODNI. In that role, I worked across the 17
agencies that are a part of the U.S. IC and regularly met with the leadership
of both the IC and the Department of Defense. Through my 25 years of service in the national security community and my
study of history, I’ve become aware of the techniques, tactics, and procedures
that our enemies use. Though the Cold War ended 30 years ago, our nation is
still in a war that has been brewing for decades—a war for America’s soul. Nikita Khrushchev, who ran the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964, openly
predicted the destruction of the United States and said it would happen in the
way that every society eventually collapses. “We will take America without firing a shot,” he said. “We do not have to
invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.” He was talking about an entire system of Marxist indoctrination and takeover
that had been refined and executed in country after country during the 20th
century. Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB operative and high-level Russian
propagandist, escaped to the West in 1970. He warned the United States about
the KGB tactics used to subvert a nation that he witnessed firsthand in the
Soviet Union. Those tactics amounted to a planned process of altering the way
people think for a particular purpose, which is to affect a regime change. It’s
effectively the brainwashing of society—a slow, methodical transformation.
Those who conduct that ideological subversion are very patient to employ the
tactics over decades. Ideological subversion has four stages and follows the Hegelian dialectic, a
tactic long exploited by Marxists and Fascists to control people. Stage 1: Demoralization. This is the destruction of faith in the government
and society. Believing that society is broken, systems are failing, and
patriotism is evil are three key beliefs that are promoted to create guilt.
This leads to the acceptance of radical new ideas, because the current
structure is believed to be harmful. Traditional Judeo-Christian morality,
classical education, and U.S. patriotism are discarded. Stage 2: Destabilization. With the decision-making ability of Americans
negatively affected through demoralization, the next step takes a foothold—destabilization
of the nation’s foundations. Destabilization causes citizens to believe the
worst of what they hear about their nation and form of government. Supporters
of traditional values and foundational structures in the nation are ostracized
and even demonized. Stage 3: Crisis. The altered values of Americans cut to the root of the
current systems. Upheaval presents opportunities for change. Once a society is
destabilized, it begins to collapse into chaos. At that point, citizens want
the government to provide stability. We saw that recently as a demoralized and
destabilized society responded with fear and panic when a “pandemic” faced our
nation. Americans are willingly trading civil rights and freedoms for
authoritarianism and overreach that they believe will keep them safe. The
messaging in all of this is key. The mainstream media and their “tell-a-vision”
programming play a key role in framing the prescribed narrative as truth. Stage 4: Normalization. The “new normal” is a term we’ve heard constantly lately,
and it’s an accurate description of what the normalization stage is all about.
When the government and societal structures have changed to restrict liberty,
citizens are told the radical transformation is “the way it has to be.”
Ironically, it’s described as normal when it’s not normal at all. Normalization
creates a new baseline for what a nation will accept, value, and promote. The
cycle is complete. Those steps are repeated over and over, bringing a greater result with each
cycle, until there’s a controlled collapse. The United States could be on the
verge of collapse right now, unless we collectively wake up to reality and take
a stand to stop tyranny. The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding people’s thoughts and
actions into conflicts that lead them to a predetermined solution. The enemies
of the United States are using that tactic to create fear, turn citizen against
citizen, and divide our nation. A house divided can’t stand. If people don’t understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes their
perceptions of the world, then they don’t know how they’re helping to implement
the agenda, which ultimately is to advance humanity into a dictatorship—whether
by the fascists, the communists, or the globalists and their New World Order.
We must step outside the dialectic so that we can be released from the
limitations of controlled and guided thought. The most important thing about America is liberty. America is what has stood
between power-hungry people and their goals of world domination. The true
enemies of the United States are trying to convince us that we’re each other’s
enemies and that big government and control of the lives of the many by a few
is the cure for what ails us. We must all recognize that they’re weaponizing the crisis and that this
narrative is a lie. Government bureaucrats are now labeling anyone who thinks
that they’ve overstepped their constitutional bounds as enemies of the
state—“patriot terrorists.” What liberty-loving people are now combating is
pure evil. All it takes for evil to prosper is for good people to do nothing. As we
reflect back on Sept. 11, 2001, one thing that stands out about that time
following the terrorist attacks is that we forgot about the things that divided
us. We united as Americans. There’s no better example than what we saw in New
York. We were united together in support of one another fighting a common
enemy. So many have sacrificed so much to secure our liberty and preserve it for
future generations. Many of us have lost a loved one on a foreign battlefield
or from a service-connected illness after they had returned, or in the line of
duty here at home. How do we honor their sacrifice and that of so many others
in our nation’s 245-year history? We stand and fight to uphold liberty and our
unalienable rights enshrined in America’s founding documents. If liberty is to
be lost, it won’t be on our watch. Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. Read more: Taliban Hangs Four Bodies in Public Square in Western Afghanistan: Witnesses
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