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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - 11/9/2020 - Zionist, anti-globalist, and gun
advocate Baruch Pletner is a man on a mission. Jewish, born in
Russia, and fanatically pro-Israel, Pletner spent the first 10 years
of his life in the Russian Federation before moving to Israel,
according to an online bio, and served in the Israeli Air Force for a
while, before making his way to Boston in 1973 as an engineer. In 2010 he
immigrated to Canada, taking up residence in the province of Prince
Edward Island.
Dubbed the “High-Tech
Traditionalist,” and a “scientist, entrepreneur and thinker,”
Pletner speaks with a noticeable accent and the
tone of an expert. He writes, blogs, participates in podcasts,
tweets, and appears on talk radio and a handful of Youtube videos,
most if not all catering to the views of America's far-right
nationalists.
The sad thing is that what Pletner
embraces, in apostle-like fashion, is nothing but a regurgitation of
old falsehoods, fears and prejudices. Pre-1990, it was the ominous
“New World Order,” long a target of anti-government and
fundamentalist Christian groups and a carry-over from the Cold War
era, in which it was feared that a godless communism and collectivist
world government would replace national sovereignty with totalitarian
rule and a One World Government. Progressives, liberals, the United
Nations, the welfare-state, international institutions and alliances,
all can be seen as building blocks of the beastly globalism trend.
Books such as the 1903 work, The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion (described as an antisemitic canard),
H.G. Well's 1940 book, The New World Order, and the work of
neo-theosophical occultist Alice Bailey -- a founder of the so-called
New Age movement – and other literary works and figures have
invigorated the anti-globalism conspiratorial mindset.
In lockstep with our lame-duck
president and others on the right, Pletner defines the Democratic
Party as fundamentally evil and its supporters as criminals without
honor, with a goal of complete destruction. The “Deep State,”
always capitalized, figures prominently in his writing. Ironically,
he fears that his enemies will completely destroy people like him if
they win, yet nearly in the same breath he states that if they win,
Trump will deal his enemies “a final crushing blow, a blow from
which they will never recover.” He continues, echoing a belief that
the existing establishment must be wiped clean or demolished entirely
in order to rebuild the kind of nation they really want. “Yes, this
will involve the destruction and rebuilding of many if not most of
America's most cherished institutions, but it is the only way that
America can be saved, the only way in which this first battle can
also be the last one.”
That's some iron-clad, black-and-white
thinking.
Pletner writes about a coming civil
war, about annihilating liberals, and about the collapse of nations -- a good
thing in his mind, it seems, necessary to rid the world of bad people
and to set things right. He may be educated in engineering and have
experience abroad, but his essays lean heavily on exaggeration,
misrepresentation, and inflammatory language. It is us vs them, and
everything is on the table.
“The globalist world order is in full
collapse. Nobody is buying the wares that it is peddling. Extreme
secularism, acceptance and glorification of LGBTx , extreme
feminism, and 'wokeness,' are all being rejected in favor of
nationalism, traditionalism, and renewed religiosity. There is and
yet will be a lot of screaming at the sky, but this reality is
undeniable. And so are its consequences,” Pletner writes. See:
up for grabs
In his last column before the election,
Pletner called the Bidens a crime family with less honor even than
the Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia), and a worse choice for elected
office than Al Capone or Meyer Lansky would have been. “These men
may have been gangsters, but they loved America,” he says. Loyalty
and allegiance are, apparently, Value No. 1. Morals and characer are
somewhere further down the list.
Former Utah Congressional candidate
Debbie Aldrich has interviewed Pletner on her YouTube channel and
radio show “Freedom Voice Radio.” Aldrich, meanwhile, is listed
as an “On Air Talent/Roving Reporter on the CDMedia staff page, as
well as author for the Center for Security Policy (CSP) – an
organization categorized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as
a hate group, primarily anti-Muslim.
As stated in the SPLC report: “Frank
Gaffney, Jr. founded the neo-conservative-turned-anti-Muslim think
tank CSP in 1988, following his tenure as deputy assistant secretary
of defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Ronald
Reagan administration. From the late '80s to the mid-2000s, CSP was
seen as a mainstream though hawkish organization that favored the
so-called 'peace through strength' doctrine popularized by President
Reagan. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CSP never
left its Cold War mentality, and instead shifted its focus from
battling Communism to fighting Islam.”
In a 2018 article posted on
myfintale.com about former Arizona state Sen. Kelli Ward, Aldrich was
described thus: “Ward has done three interviews with Debbie
Aldrich, a conservative pundit who made a failed bid to fill the seat
of retiring Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) in a special election last
year. On her Twitter feed, Aldrich falsely called Obama a Muslim and
promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. She blamed Obama and 'all
his anti-white hate mongers' for 'inciting race riots,' and said he
gave 'these #Black Thugs #BLM Carte Blanche to DESTROY AMERICA.'”
You might surmise that both Pletner and
Aldrich are supporters of our lame-duck president Donald Trump, along
with being big contributors to the broader far-right and conservative
media networks that support him, and you would be right. Of note:
In addition to YouTube
interviews and podcasts, Pletner and Aldrich are both contributors
to CDMedia, a site run by far-right writer and conspiracy publicist
L. Todd Wood. In addition to his own site, Wood's articles reach
the Washington Times, Washington Examiner, New York Post, and a
long list of other right-wing sites.
Wood is featured on a podcast hosted by Steve Bannon (Breitbart, Trump admin), Raheem
Kassam (former editor-in-chief of Breitbart) and Jack Maxey.
Wood hails from the financial
industry as a bond trader (Cantor), Bannon as an investment banker
(Goldman Sacs), as does another person on Wood's contributor list, Peter Cecchini (Cantor). See also: L. Todd Wood
Wood has a connection to some
degree with the anti-Iranian M.E.K. group, which was once listed as
a terrorist organization before rebranding itself and earning U.S.
support, including from Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani, both of
whom were in attendance at a 2012 rally in Paris for the M.E.K. Also
in attendance: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former State Department
spokesman P.J. Crowley, and former Bush U.N. Ambassador John R.
Bolton. “The M.E.K.'s political arm, the National Council of
Resistance of Iran, has its headquarters in Paris.” See: Iranian terrorist group
Bannon's writing and reputation
outpaces Wood's, but both make wide use of many of the same
techniques. Bannon was heavily involved with the alt-right news site
Breitbart and recently had his account suspended on Twitter after
calling for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Bannon also faced arrest in August in a case involving the suspected misuse of fundraising dollars. Wood's account was
suspended, as well, for spreading fake news and misinformation
related to the Bidens.
Bannon was VP of the Board of
Cambridge Analytics, “a data-analytics firm which allegedly used
illegal tactics to target American voters in the 2016 election and
is owned largely by the Mercer family, the family that also co-owns
Breitbart News.” He was appointed chief executive of Trump's presidential campaign 88 days before the 2016 election, but
the two appeared to part ways under public pressure. See Bannon.
Bannon has described himself as an
economic nationalist and “proud Christian Zionist.” He has also
been described as an admirer of paleoconservative commentator Pat
Buchanan, with an ideology that “is substantially similar to that
of Stephen Miller, Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, Raheem Kassam and
Matthew Boyle, the latter two having been protégés of Bannon at
Breitbart.”
While there is widespread ideological
agreement among each of these players, Pletner, interestingly,
accuses Bannon in one of his articles of conducting a “counter-coup
resting on rotten foundations of residual white bigotry, real and
imagined white oppression, and white nostalgia for what never was and
never will be,” while fully sharing Bannon's Zionist,
Democratic-hating, anti-globalist world view. Both men, however,
have been apologists, and publicists, for our 45th president.
As for the split between Bannon and
Trump, read this paragraph from an article by “author and political
analyst” Ava Armstrong. The article, titled, Is There a Secret Strategy to the Trump and Bannon Division and Feud?, was posted on
the America Out Loud site after Bannon was given the boot from the
White House early in Trump's presidency.
“Consider this, Donald Trump is a
very unconventional individual in his thinking and his tactics, a
strategist, an asymmetric schemer and out-right pretty clever man,”
Armstrong writes. “I believe this was by design, contrived by Trump
and Bannon as a tactic of presenting an overt separation between the
two – providing an appearance of severing of their political and
perhaps ideological ties. But here’s the deception, nothing has
really changed as they are clandestinely maintaining a covert dual
track strategy designed to destroy the Establishment and the Swamp.
This new tiff, albeit artificial and maybe made for politics and the
media, perhaps is just part of the perception designed to provide the
cover to create the illusion of a severing and separation between
Bannon and Trump. The cover story so to speak, to all of this
presents the belief that Trump no longer answers to Bannon … and no
longer does Bannon have any association or influence with Trump."
This may only be one person's opinion,
that of Armstrong's, but the attacks on established institutions and
norms we've witnessed over the past four years would seem to bear it
out, as well as from things Trump himself has said.
If there's one thing that Pletner,
Aldrich, Bannon, Wood, and all the rest seem fixated on it's
destruction. They want to destroy their opponents, not merely win or
beat them at the polls. They want to destroy the establishment, not
merely improve it, build on it, or reform it, or even replace it.
Concepts like diplomacy and compromise are rarely mentioned. And they
assure themselves, without evidence, that their enemies want to
destroy them in return.
This is not a sign of healthy minds,
nor of good intentions with respect to the future of our country and
the world.
On Nov. 7, 2020, Biden accepted the
election results as president-elect of the United States, as the
world awaits final certification of the results, as well as the
results of various court challenges the Trump campaign has filed.
Given the depth and history of the anti-globalist conspiracy, and the
sheer number of voters who remained loyal to the president in his
re-election bid, such fanaticism could very well intensify.
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