When the Music Stops... by Matt Bracken

Special Thanks to Matt Bracken

The following 2 essays are reposts but they stand on their own merit now!

Matt predicted the La Rasa objective to reacquire the American Southwest in his book ‘La Reconquista” 20 YEARS AGO… which yesterday was again made the stated goal of the current Mexican President.

Check out Matt Bracken’s Substack Here…

Read PART ONE here... Read PART TWO here...

Who else could have predicted this? Just one name comes to mind… Matthew Bracken, former Navy SEAL Officer who led SEAL Teams in the Middle East and has become an AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE. If he was a Globalist Stooge, like all most all famous Authors infusing and seasoning their literary works with woke agenda, his name would be a household mention around the world. Aside from the above, I believe Matt Bracken saved thousands of European lives from certain terror. This post is long because of my respect and admiration for the man. In short… “I owe him… the Europeans owe him!”

Early on, Matt pulled his ballcap down firmly on his head against the hurricane winds of ideological “the Constitution is outdated” bullshytte. Matt continues to promote and cherish the sacrifice of what our Forefathers had so brilliantly conceived and laid out with checks and balances to allow coming generations of Americans to live in unbroken peaceful freedom free from tyranny.

Much of it now has been trampled on and is ignored by forces of tyranny, but it has been America’s great experiment in Individual Liberties. It has been the greatest mass experiment of its kind ever in the recorded history of this world. Good God! Even though I’m some 10 years older than Matt, he has formed some of my later-in-life character. We had both worked as welders and had a common thread there. But he built his own steel yacht and sailed it by himself to Guam….. what!?

Holy schnikes! The average person would never do that, but his drop-dead-gorgeous wife had just been stationed in Guam and his deck hands jumped ship on him in Panama, scared of the voyage. Matt’s far from your average guy. Not to be deterred, Matt pulled his ballcap down firmly on his head against the wild and unpredictable winds of the Pacific Ocean and set course. The man’s gotta have steel balls the size of grapefruits. Sailed straight to Guam by his lonesome.

Matt Bracken warns you of the dystopian future, that he paints a picture of in many hues and shades of color in his books and essays. Like Queenie said in the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “…Ya never know what’s comin’ for ya!” True to a degree.

But to get a good idea… to “know what’s comin’ for ya” go to…

www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com

and order Matt’s books and essays… you’ll enjoy non-stop excitement reading them and you’ll get a glimpse… just a peek into the future that the present course of that America is on in its voyage. My wife almost kicked me out of the house after the first week I started reading his books… that’s all I did for 16 hours a day for a week. And reading is extremely difficult for this dyslexic and ADD riddled guy.

What can I say…? I owe the man and I tell you why later on in this post. But Matt Bracken doesn’t need my words… he stands alone on his merits. Don’t say you have never been warned of “what’s comin’ for ya!” Matt Bracken’s literary works are at…

 www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com

But from another blog that I posted the following… and it’s in my new book “A Collapse Of Society” …this statement…

True, almost all of these warnings by Right Wing Traditionalists have some basis and WILL MOST LIKELY happen at some point in time. Unless the forecaster has a “crystal ball” or some mystical connection to the future or access to secret and privileged information I and others don’t have, they should not be stating what, how, why and when as an absolute. Many do so because of self-generated hysteria that overwhelms them and or their predicted time becomes a purposeful attention getter to promote their forecast.

One exception in “forecasting” is Matthew Bracken. Look him up on the internet and read his books that I believe predict what will happen in America. Aside from encouraging me not to quit writing and mentoring me, Matt is a true Foreteller. He researches backwards and then projects forward what he believes will occur.

Like an airplane pilot plotting where he was, where he is now… so, with corrections, what he has to do to get to where he’s going or without corrections, he knows where he’ll end up. He has generally been correct and his predictions and information are the best I’ve seen and read. I don’t recommend him because he mentored me on writing… read his works and you will see why Matt Bracken is exceptional at forecasting.

Go to www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com and start by buying and reading his “Trilogy Series.” Earth shaking parallels to what’s happening now… written 25 years ago.

In one case, through a connection I had with French DGSE (French Secret Service/French Intelligence through the late Special Forces Green Beret Legend Colonel Sully H. deFontaine, of the book I wrote from his memoirs “The Slavers Wheel”), I believe Matt Bracken’s writing of  "Tet, Take Two: Islam's 2016 European Offensive" prevented the “European Tet Offensive.” Matt published this essay on it just prior to its execution and Colonel deFontaine talked to his family member about it, who was at the time the Assistant Director of DGSE. Matt and Sully probably saved thousands of lives from widespread massacre by Muslim Extremists.

How!?

It was almost humorous, that within a month I read the Interpol (the International Criminal Police Organization) bulletin on this warning that was widely disseminated. Ha! It was Matt’s essay, barely rewritten, as if it was a warning originated by them. My late Friend, second Father and Green Beret Colonel Sully deFontaine, in his cryptic sentences learned from decades of working with Intelligence Agencies, insinuated to me that quietly, many arrests were made across Europe and huge arms caches seized.

They didn’t want to tell the European Public or the citizens would have stormed their Capitols for treasonous immigration creating this situation. Like anything else the Globalists don’t want publicized it remains “classified.” Sully speculated most of the participants went underground or fled Europe. Matt’s information simply came from him not sitting on his thumbs like Interpol but analyzing the news and public information. Who knows… maybe the man is clairvoyant?

From Author Jack Lawson…

Intelligence and Information Gathering for your CDM Neighborhood Protection Plan™ (NPP) on the local, regional, country and world situation is critical to your survival. You have to know what’s going on around you and in the world. There is detailed information in a Chapter of the Civil Defense Manual titled ‘Shelby, On “You must know your Area,” Crisis Intelligence.’ A MUST READ. Also studying Catastrophic Events and watching how they progress through stages and how long these last will help you gauge progression and the danger of them.

All this information will tell you how deep you are… or are going to be… in the shytte. Analyzing this information will tell you what you have to be on alert and ready for. Intelligence and Information Gathering will give you an idea of what to further expect in your area. But there is a third avenue by which you can judge how you will be affected… in advance of an actual event occurrence. Prior to a Catastrophic Event, you can evaluate the potential for direct effect to your CDM Neighborhood Protection Plan™ (NPP) by Matt Bracken’s CW2 Cube (Civil War Two Cube). What compounds this and puts the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation at more risk now than ever, is how Bracken describes our society now as “High Trust” and the open raging hatred of the latest generations towards the Baby Boomers. Again, Americans haven’t been subjected to what the Third World lives in.

Matt Bracken’s books opened my eyes to what was really going on around me and what will be the probable future for America. Regardless of where you live, his essay here, this article, will assist you in plotting your position on the ‘CW2 Cube,’ which is shown. That, in turn, will give you some idea of the intensity of a civil disturbance and/or a Catastrophic Event and its direct effect on you and your area. I consider the possibility of a Civil War in America between diametrically opposed beliefs and ideological factions ever more probable by the day. I am a student of the Spanish Civil War and still learning of the complexities and horrors of that conflict, of which organized violence in the form of open military operations started in 1936… as a ‘Hot Civil War.’

Author Jack Lawson has taken the liberty to bold some following important points, combine short paragraphs and make minor changes because of space restrictions of this book. For the uncut Matt Bracken article including all photographs and to enable links, go to… EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com and search the title of this essay.

The CW2 Cube — Mapping The Meta-Terrain Of Civil War Two

By Matt Bracken

A second civil war in the United States would be an unparalleled disaster. Nobody who is sane and/or has experienced the brutality of a combat environment would ever wish to see one occur. Those who have studied modern civil wars from Spain to Lebanon to the Balkans and beyond know that. But when political, cultural and demographic trends are sweeping us toward that unhappy destiny, it would be wise to at least cast a weather eye over the possible terrain.

First, a caveat. I am not going to waste our time making politically-correct genuflections after every controversial sentence, because this essay is intended to be read by mature and rational adults. Before we move on to the cube, let’s begin with the CW2 Square. The cube is best tackled in another step. Draw the square and label one axis Poorer to Richer. Label the other axis Darker to Lighter. Darker, for brevity, includes African-Americans, Hispanics and so on. Lighter refers to those of European ancestry.

An armed inhabitant of a Bosnian City under siege.

The two opposed meta-groups are the poorer and darker versus the richer and lighter, or whiter if you wish to be blunt. The richer/whiter have the power of their wealth, but counterbalancing that advantage is the fact that the poorer/darker have succeeded in wresting control of much of government power. This is so, even if most of their elected leaders are anything but poor or dark.Now, before you scream out your exceptions, yes, there are rich black cattle ranchers and poor whites living in blighted urban areas and so on. However, to focus on them is to miss the critical centers of gravity of Civil War Two for the over-study of interesting but insignificant outliers.

Filling one corner of the CW2 Square will be the poorer and darker, who primarily are Liberal and Progressive Democrats who believe in a malleable ‘living Constitution.’ And in the other corner will be the richer and whiter, who mainly are conservative or libertarian Republicans who believe in the original spirit of the written Constitution. Again, keep your eyes on the two meta-cores, not the exceptions. Now, let’s add the Third Dimension and shoot another axis out from the square to form the CW2 Cube. Label the third axis Urban versus Rural, or City versus Country if you prefer. This axis gives a geographical dimension to the meta-terrain, but there will be no convenient dividing line between the opposed sides as there was during the first civil war. It has frequently been observed that today’s red-blue political map is better understood at the county than at the state level. Even blue states like Illinois, California and New York are rural-red outside of their blue urban cores. Obviously, these urban cores are heavily populated but geographically small, with all that means to the electoral process today and to a possible civil war later.

So the opposing corners of the CW2 Cube can be seen as the poorer, darker cities versus the richer, whiter rural areas. Again, don’t quibble about outliers. Yes, there are a few rich, conservative African-Americans living in Wyoming, many poor white Liberal Democrats in rural West Virginia, some rich conservatives in San Francisco and every other exceptional case imaginable. Most of us live in the mushy, mongrel middle, far from the tips of the two opposite corners. But the centers of gravity of Civil War Two shall be as I have described: the relatively richer, whiter and more rural against the poorer, darker and urban.

The CW2 Cube…

One can also propose many more axes of conflict than can fit on a cube, such as the religious versus the non-believers, socialists versus capitalists, statists versus individualists and so on. However, after you reflect upon the CW2 Cube, I think you will find that most of these extra axes can be overlaid parallel to one of the three already posited.

So, of what use is the CW2 Cube, other than in providing a conceptual map for Civil War Two?

In my research as a novelist who attempts to write realistic fiction about the coming years, I have long been a student of modern civil wars. One repeated lesson of modern civil war is that there is inherently dangerous, even fatal terrain. Some of this predictably-dangerous terrain is often highly desirable and even advantageous before the outbreak of civil war. To begin: you do not want to live as a trapped and cut-off minority in what might become ‘enemy territory.’ If you live amidst your civil war enemies, as defined and located within the CW2 Cube, you will be in mortal danger even if your immediate neighbors know, love and respect you. Those persons who have a stake in fanning the flames of CW2 (and their number shall be legion), will intentionally target those remaining ‘holdouts’ who may be respected minority neighbors. (In this essay, minority means ‘the minority within a given group or area.’ Blacks are the majority in some areas, and whites are the minorities in others, and so on.)

Frequently in modern civil wars, roaming armed groups (in or out of uniform) will even force people to kill their own beloved and respected minority neighbors as an ultimate loyalty test. If they refuse, they may themselves be killed as ‘traitors.’ Besides pre-conflict racists and radicals, there will be an ever-increasing pool of persons attempting to expel minorities from their homes. Those embittered unfortunates who have already been ethnically cleansed will be seeking new living quarters, and the homes and property of ‘enemy’ minorities still living in majority territory will be the first on the chopping block. (Not the auction block, because payment of any kind is rarely offered.) This process of minority eviction becomes self-perpetuating. Often, those members of minorities who escape as refugees are the lucky ones who do not lose their lives during the back-and-forth of escalating violence. The fact that they may have been loved, admired and respected for many years by their majority-population neighbors will not protect them. This is a clear lesson of modern civil war.

Another is that while the rich or the well-to-do can sometimes hide their wealth and pass as proles, the same cannot be said about concealing one’s racial or ethnic identity. Religious affiliation and political leanings can also be hidden, but outward appearance cannot. Civil War Two may begin on purely political grounds, but it will devolve into something worse. Does this mean that all white city-dwellers should head for the hinterland, or that dark-skinned folks living in the country should move to the city? It’s not for me to say. We all hope and pray that there will never be a second ‘Hot Civil War’ in America, instead of merely the ‘Cold Civil War’ we are engaged in today. But the lessons of modern civil wars should not be ignored. Another lesson is that it will take tremendous moral courage to defy the hot-heads and radicals, and shield your minority neighbors from harm. Think of Irena Sendler. Read about her. Think of those indescribably brave inhabitants of the former Yugoslavia who hid their minority neighbors, when the discovery of that fact could and often did lead to their own deaths.

While Civil War Two is on the table for discussion, allow me to introduce two aggravating factors that don’t fit neatly on the cube. The first is the concept of multiple embedded minorities. Picture the old cartoon mainstay showing a line of progressively bigger fish getting ready to gobble the next fish, from the leviathan down to the small fry. You might live in a neighborhood where you are in the majority, but the neighborhood is in a town where you are in the minority. And the town is surrounded by a larger area where your own kind once again predominates. Or you might fit into the picture as the smallest of all fish, living in the only minority household within a majority neighborhood. From street to neighborhood to city to state to region can easily place you in the middle of several levels of embedded minorities-within-majorities. This formulation might work for many decades during times of relative prosperity and well-being, but during a civil war it is a recipe for disaster, as unstable as nitroglycerin-filled bowling pins. It’s all cool just as long as the pins are standing still and calmly hanging out together, but look out when the Black Swan bowling ball comes rolling in! An unstoppable chain reaction ensues, as each new act of violence is avenged up and down the line.

Remember that funny line-of-fish cartoon, and imagine it a few seconds later when the biting begins. It’s not so funny then — especially for the smaller fish. The second aggravating factor is the unstable triangle of the three-sided civil war. The Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Muslims provide a classic example. Each side of the unstable triangle will backstab yesterday’s ally at the moment they perceive themselves to be at a local disadvantage, or when they see an opportunity to wipe out an historic enemy with a new Final Solution. The unstable ethnic triangle in the United States will in many places be composed of black, white and Hispanic sides. By comparison, the old black and white social dichotomy was inherently stable, even when it might have been rife with injustice.

In some areas, Asians, Middle-easterners, Native Americans and other groups will contribute to the formation of regional social geometries that are even more unstable than the unstable triangle. Study modern civil wars and you will cringe at the implications. A steel roller-coaster overloaded with old dynamite and electric blasting caps during a lightning storm comes to my mind.

And finally, some urban settings are just disastrous during a modern civil war, even if they might offer a terrific quality of life during peacetime. Perhaps the top of the list of danger areas are High Rise buildings located near potential civil war flashpoints or fault lines. Living in a cluster of High Rises divided by a ‘green line’ during a guerrilla sniper war is a worst-case horror show. Not to mention the misery attendant to life in a tall building without running water, electricity, sewage service, working elevators, heating or air-conditioning. While under intermittent sniper fire. For months.

So should you stay or should you go? If you don’t believe that another civil war in America is possible, then simply disregard this column. But if you think that a second civil war could happen then picture the CW2 Cube and map your location within it. If you think that you live near a possible civil war fault line, especially as a local minority, consider relocating. After the fact, a common sentiment heard from urbane, secular Bosnians living in the Olympic City of Sarajevo expressed complete disbelief that a brutal, bloody civil war could have come to their modern European city and tear their lives apart.

But it did.

A parting suggestion to students of modern civil war is to read ‘Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia’s War’ by the British journalist Ed Vulliamy. It’s currently collecting dust at your local public library, waiting only to be read.

Forewarned is forearmed.

From Author Jack Lawson of The Civil Defense Primer…

Your GREATEST ENEMY in Grid Down survival will be High Population Density. The more people who live around you, the less your chance of survival!

I personally believe the man has prophetic powers. Much of what he has written fifteen years ago has come to pass or is definitely headed in the direction he writes about. Matt is a true American Patriot. Reading his books helped convince me that The Civil Defense Primer and the Civil Defense Manual was sorely needed… because Matt’s books alerted me to the dystopian, hazardous, Individual Liberties threatening world that America is becoming. Reading his books will give you an insight into the world you’ll be living in and how to cope with America’s future. Because what he forecast a decade ago is coming to past.

I would also subscribe to www.ForwardObserver.com to see an analysis of world and national news AND what protests, which can turn to riots and a threat to you, are scheduled in your area or in areas you intend to visit or travel through.

Pray for our Nation…

Termini…

Jack Lawson

Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada

Author of the “Civil Defense Manual,” “The Slaver’s Wheel,” “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil” and “In Defense.” Go to www.CivilDefenseManual.com to check out what the book contains, Click Here…

“I've seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. Those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain.” - Rutger Hauer in his “Time to die” scene from the movie “Blade Runner” 

In my memories are the above in a figurative sense… the below in the literal reality of my past… 

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. The moonlit landscape of Zambia I parachuted into at two o’clock in the morning with 40 pounds of explosives in my drop pack on an “external,” a raid on a Communist Terrorist camp where we were outnumbered over 100 to 1. I’ve watched a frightened, but still majestic and graceful family of giraffes gallop the African bush as I hung out the door of a helicopter flying by them at treetop level, almost close enough to touch them. I’ve battled it out with Communist terrorists mano a mano while neck deep in crocodile infested idle waters on the banks and sandbars of the Hond’e and Limpopo Rivers in Mozambique. My Friends long gone and these moments are lost in time and fading from my memory. 

From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1976-79