With economic collapse looming, legislators planning on banning guns, and outright world war seeming inevitable...we are getting pretty close to a civil war don't you think? If this premise is true, what about that fellow John Titor?
Don't you think that the premises should be posed as questions rather than facts?
I don't see economic collapse looming, the Democrats in Congress have always had in mind banning guns, outright world war doesn't seem to be inevitable and no, I don't see civil war getting close.
George Bush, neither of them, weren't the Presidents who dispatched our troops and ships to the Middle East. It wasn't Ronald Reagan nor was it Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.
The US dispatched a battle group to the Med that included the USS Enterprise to keep the peace. No, not the nuclear aircraft carrier CVN-65 Enterprise. It was the frigate USS Enterprise, along with the frigate USS Constitution "Old Ironsides". The year was 1803 and the President was Thomas Jefferson. We have been there ever since keeping what little peace there is to be had in the region and keeping the shipping lanes open. Nothing new with us being there. Nothing new about part of the reason being protection of national and international commerce.
The economic "crisis" that we're facing isn't the worst we've had and political strife is a way of life in the US. Again, nothing new. Try 1969 if you want to see how close we were to civil war. We're not even in the same Zip Code as in 1969. And while dangerous the mini civil war in the 1969-1971 era was communist led, limited to a dozen or so university campuses mostly in California, would spring up, miraculously, around Spring quarter finals, rarely occured during "Summer Beach Time" (No Summer Bummers) and was over with about as quickly as it started. The campus radicals suddenly realized that Vietnam was just about over and they had neither a degree nor a job. Radicalism was replaced by pragmatism. They went back to school, graduated and jot a job. Oh, that Mother of Necessity. Got to love her. Exception: The totally drugged out ex-revolutionaries got their lay-off notices from the CCCP Commisariat for the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), could no longer pronounce the word "book" let alone read one and took up living in bushes and subsisting on SSI checks. They were called Street Freaks.
The Congressional Democrats will continue to try to ban guns but there's not a single state that I'm aware of that can come close to ratifying an amendment to the 2nd Amendment let alone 34 states which is what is required to ratify a Constitutional amendment.
So, what do I think of Mr. Titor? Boomer wrote well, was entertaining and all the best to his company (The John Titor Foundation) as it attempts to make some money from The Book, The Radio Program, The Movie, coffee mugs, The Graphic Novel, t-shirts, etc. It wasn't deep philosophical thinking, deep social reflection, astute social commentary or even new social commentary. It wasn't national security and it wasn't time travel. It was an early attempt at capitalizing on the new mass communication-marketing-entertainment medium: The Internet. The ideas for the story were borrowed from Googling Internet forums and the novel "Alas, Babylon".
That's it. That's all there is, other than an entertainment industry lawyer who is running the John Titor Foundation show and making the rounds on Art Bell and George Noory's "Coast-2-Coast AM" and Italy's "Voyager" series on RAI while trying to get the movie of the ground (and their Titor movie website was taken down a few weeks ago).
What does the world think of Titor? If you do a Google Trends search on Titor you'll see. Other than a recent spike in Internet hits in the Milan area the world isn't thinking about him much at all. The story is almost 10 years old, mostly forgotten and when the Italian Spike is over the majority of dwindling Titor hits worldwide will resume being right here...and it's no longer even a hot topic here.
