John302....thank you for what I consider a very well thought out reply. I could recommend everyone look over the material you listed.
I can tell you are actually "thinking deeply" through all this time of great change and deception and not just feeding from the propaganda trough. I can personally tell you ...you are not alone.
What I don't respect is the people(sheeple?) that seem to think this situation we're now mired in is some sort of joke or something... ...as if a "one liner" wisecrack will make this nightmare all go away and things will be just fine. Things can change for the worse quicker than anyone realizes in my opinion.
...Cooper was truly a courageous and patriotic and decent man who paid the ultimate price just weeks after the 9/11 event transpired that he predicted.