Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear during the halcyon days of Watergate in the early 1970s. For those too young to remember, Watergate was a political crisis in which President Richard Nixon was brought down by a cover-up to hide a group of CIA operatives who broke into the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) national offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., to dig up dirt on George McGovern and other Democrat candidates.
If this doesn't sound familiar, please click over to CNN for 10 minutes before reading on.
One of the major features of that crisis was the reporting of two Washington Post hacks named Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward (played by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in the movie). The two reporters had several meetings with a mysterious source who called himself (or was called) Deep Throat. The identity of Deep Throat has never been revealed, though there are reams of speculation, with a dozen or so books written on the topic. Leads and information provided by Deep Throat led to evidence and key revelations that brought down the president and put a number of folks in jail, as well as making Nixon's name the stuff of bogeymen dreams for future politicians for decades.
I could wax verbose on Watergate and frankly, the jury of history is still out, since the reporting on the crisis was so heavily skewed to the Left that there has been little balance. It will take years still to sort it all out, but one key feature we know for sure is that Hillary Clinton began her political career as a junior lawyer investigating that scandal.
Skip forward 40 years, and we are watching a similar, if not far more massive scandal unfold in Washington, D.C. This time, it is a DNC cabal, centered around the very same Hillary Clinton, who have been caught trying to manipulate the 2016 election by fabricating evidence to justify surveillance on an opposition candidate, and then perpetrating a massive cover-up using government agencies - specifically the Department of Justice and the FBI.
The delicious irony here is obvious.
What makes this newest scandal so amazing is the vast scope of the criminality - only now coming to light - and the use of government resources across all branches, such as the FISA court, Congressional committees, NSA and other intelligence agencies to perpetrate the crimes. One cannot overestimate the breadth and depth of this scandal. If it goes even a fraction as far as the Watergate investigation, it will bring down hundreds of government bureaucrats, a former president and a former presidential candidate - the latter of whom was part of the effort that destroyed Nixon.
History does't repeat, but it rhymes.
What makes this scandal even more mind-blowing (in the truest sense of the term) is that it threatens to expose a decades-old, and quite possibly a centuries old operation to blackmail and extort politicians around the world.
I am referring, of course, to the PedoGate scandal, so named in the American tradition of relating every scandal to Watergate, which is oddly poetic in this case.
The use of compromising information to control politicians is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Feeding off of their human foibles and weaknesses, secretive groups lure politicians into compromising situations, then use the traps to control them by threatening to expose the dirt.
Records of this trick pre-date the Roman Empire, but the modern form is so insidious and demonic as to cause most people to collapse in fits of incredulity. The tools to obtain and use the compromising information are sitting in front of you as you read this.
For likely hundreds of years, a small group of interests have controlled most of the world's political entities by luring politicians into pedophilia, a crime so vile that no one could survive being exposed.
Through this nefarious means, global events have been steered by a relatively small number of people, who have been able to control entire nations by simply compromising key political and business figures.
It works very simply but effectively. Play the game and your pockets and bank accounts will swell, and you have a position of power and influence for life. Don't play the game, and your name will be dragged into the dirt for all eternity and you will spend your remaining years swabbing toilets at the local correctional facility. Just sell your soul and the deposits will start first thing tomorrow morning.
The problem is, you may be asked to fall on your sword for folks higher up the chain of command. Kind of a slimy multi-level marketing scheme.
Because of the nature and scope of this scandal, and its rhyme with Watergate, it makes sense that a Deep Throat character would emerge, but instead of using two hack reporters from a disgraced newspaper organization owned by one of the most corrupt people in the world, this new Deep Throat would utilize the internet and turn all of us - or those willing to listen - into the Neo-Woodward-and-Bernsteins.
Enter stage right: Q and the Anons, which would make a killer band name. Think of the Anons as Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street Irregulars, or Buckaroo Bonzai's Blue Blazer Irregulars. The drops remind me of the Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring and the secret messages at the end of every radio broadcast.
I personally have no idea what to make of Q. I have listened to the gaggle of YouTubers out there posing, postulating and preening on the topic. I watched as Alex Jones and Jerome Corsi imploded all over the story. I have read all the posts, also known as "drops" and "crumbs". I have examined the so-called "winks", where someone will demand proof of Q's proximity to Donald Trump by getting the president to say or write something that can be directly linked to the request. (see "tippy-top" around last Easter)
I have to admit, I am intrigued.
But I am also very leery. Q purports to be military intelligence and part of a team that recruited Trump to run for president in order to avoid an all-out military coup d'etat in the United States, against the gaping void of corruption in Washington known as the Clinton-Obama cabal. Q is supposedly 'dropping' hints that allow researchers to find evidence hidden in plain sight, as well as predict actions the president will take in order to gain credibility and prove to everyone that Trump is keeping his promise to "hang" the cabal.
It seems a long shot to recruit Trump as the last resort before a full military coup, but then the whole scandal is predicated on Clinton assuming she would win, as well. Touche.
To say that Q has all the ear-marks of a psy-op, or minimally a disinformation campaign, is an understatement. The plot sounds like something straight out of a Tom Clancy novel with healthy doses of Robert Ludlum and Ian Fleming thrown in.
In other words, it's all just a bit too convenient and sensational.
But - and there's always that "but" hanging out there in the mists - suppose Q is real and the promised anti-coup is actually underway in Washington and worldwide? Suppose this scandal threatens not just the Clinton-Obama cabal, but European, Asian, and Arab leaders, and even the Pope himself?
Certainly, for anyone with their eyes wide open, there are piles of events going on globally that can be interpreted to be part of a massive effort to expose the cabal that has controlled so much of our history and the world for centuries. Events in Washington, Saudi Arabia, Europe, the Vatican and elsewhere seem to indicate a panic at highest levels of the dark side.
For years, many writers, including myself, have speculated on a perceived angst gripping the halls of power. Perhaps they have been aware, or at least perceived a global shift in what we 'little people' are thinking and doing. Perhaps they have tools that can predict mass movements and take the proverbial temperature of the entire human race. Perhaps they have foreseen a swelling of ranks on the part of us wild-eyes conspiracy nuts who don't buy the public narrative.
Perhaps...
Perhaps Donald Trump really is a recruited face-man for the white hats. Perhaps Q really is a Deep Throat, cueing all of us to search for specific information and watch certain events. Perhaps the great Battle Between Good and Evil has begun in earnest. There's a whopper-load of conditionals and speculations loaded into a handful of sentences, which would be better discussed around a table at the local pub over several long nights.
The moniker "Q" strikes me as a choice designed to activate Star Trek fanboys who live in Mom's basement and live for researching minutae and building stories around them.
The use of anonymous handles, 8-Chan and crypto keys seems well chosen to activate the conspiracy hounds and comic book buffs.
The element of military intelligence and spies seems perfectly selected to activate the political intrigue crowd who live for cat-and-mouse tales.
And the addition of PedoGate seems carefully selected to hook just about everyone else.
I offer no insights into who or what Q is. I can only observe the project design and the influence it is having across the NetSphere. As I have said, the phenomenon intrigues me from the standpoint of a mass behavioral study.
One thing I know for certain is that if Q is real and the things Q 'drops' and the 'crumbs' it leaves are real, then it will be the stuff of legends for decades, even centuries to come. If we assume that everything about Q is true and accurate, then we are looking at a profound and probably unprecedented shift in Humanity and the way the world operates. Q will become legendary in a way that Deep Throat only dreamed of, and the resulting crash of systems will make Watergate look like a perambulation in the park on Sunday afternoon.
Mostly what it reminds me of is the CICADA 3301 phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301). If you are not familiar with the Cicada puzzle, I highly recommend reading up on it. Many aspects of that global phenomenon match almost perfectly with the Q. It may even have been a training or test run for the Q.
In any event, Q and the surrounding events and individuals bear watching from an historical perspective. If my instincts are as accurate as I believe they are, then this Q phenomenon will be something our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will ask us about.
And if not, then it's wildly entertaining to watch. It may become a Ph.D. paper or two for behavioral scientists if nothing else.
Either way, those of us who watch these things will learn a number of valuable lessons for future generations to ponder.
