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SCP LEAPS INTO A
NEW FUTURE
VOLUME 37:4
SCP’S
FORECAST OF
LIFE AFTER
9/11
BY TAL BROOKE & LEE PENN
AS HOPE
HOPE ARRIVES
ARRIVES THROUGH
THROUGH
AS
UNEXPECTED DOORS
DOORS
UNEXPECTED
Abridged From the Winter
2001/2 Newsletter, Mostly
Written in October 2001
S
eptember 11 came crashing in on
me (Tal Brooke) at the halfway
point of a round-trip airline journey
from the West Coast to the East
Coast. Before the 9/11 disaster, I felt
like a traveller with dignity during a
calm, hassle-free flight from San
Francisco to Savannah. But the
return flight after the tragedy
BY TAL BROOKE
SCP
is no stranger to trials and
hard times, but this has
been some ordeal. We have undergone
major sea changes since last summer’s
article “New Frontiers for SCP’s Future”
announced the serious challenges we
were facing then.
That July 2012 Newsletter covered
developments that had hit SCP like
meteors from the sky. Our account had
become precipitously low at one point,
forcing us to radically cut expenses,
later wishing we had done so earlier.
Of course some options were not available until recently (such as the Ooma
phone system that rings us in multiple
locations when you dial 510-540-0300
and leave a voice message).
As you will find out, surprising
good has come from all this, but only
after some severe soul-searching and
bold, radical moves. However we are
now far better off than almost anytime
in the last 20 years!
One shocker to hit us at our
conveniently situated Berkeley houseas-office (rented for almost 20 years) was
the threat of landlord eviction looming
over our heads. We had been put on
notice by our landlord that it could
happen at any time and we would have
only 30 days to move—an impossible
task considering our large library and
thousands of Journals and Newsletters in
storage.
Our office and publishing wing had
been working side-by-side in a turn-ofcontinued on page 4
reminded me of the half-day that I
spent marooned in the Moscow
airport in the early 1970s: I saw
incredibly long lines of people being
herded like livestock into longer lines
and waiting areas. Armed police
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SCP’ S F O R E C A S T
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ISSN: 0883-13
Vol. 37:4, 2013
Publisher
SCP, Inc.
Editor & President
Tal Brooke
ACCESS Director and Operations VP
Danny Aguirre
Contributing Editors
Peter Jones & Lee Penn
Letters Editor
Staff
Copy Editor
George A. Koch & Staff
Production
Tal Brooke & Staff
Webmaster
Chris Kersey
Pasadena Office Director
Dr. Mark Harris
Pasadena Office Team Leader
Joshua David
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authorities were everywhere. Stoic and
grim faces reflected the relentless control of the Soviet State—to me a fearful
omen of what could befall the West.
My post-9/11 return trip to the West
Coast in late September reflected the
changed atmosphere in America. Panic
in the Atlanta airport closed it for much
of the day, which in turn paralyzed the
Savannah airport, among others.
Almost all flights in the region were
canceled. The problem? One man at
the Atlanta airport ran through a
security gate to get his camera, which
he had left at an airport snack bar.
Alarms went off. Tens of thousands of
travelers were told to wait outside the
terminals for hours. Waves of flights
were
cancelled. Thus at the counter of the
Savannah airport I was told that my
flight was canceled and was sent to a
seedy motel to try again the next day.
The next morning I was given
repeated security checks as armed
soldiers stood by the screening areas.
Grim faces stood in long, unmoving
lines—a repeat vision of Moscow but in
America. Midway through the trip, at
the connecting gate in Dallas, before
entering the plane, some were told to
step aside for a “random” personal
search. Note, they had already been
screened getting in. I privately wondered how much people would put up
with this invasion of privacy.
During a more recent flight, because
of one man—the tennis-shoe terrorist—my shoes now had to be x-rayed
along with those of millions of other
people travelling since the incident.
One solitary example, a single precedent, becomes the new benchmark,
affecting millions of lives in a relentless
subtraction of rights through single
precedents. A truly dangerous trend.
The Unibomber became an earlier
model of this process, of one man abus-
ing a “freedom” or “right,” and in turn
enabling the State to confiscate those
same rights from millions. Consider
this precedent. After the Unibomber, it
was no longer possible to mail a
package weighing over a pound simply
by dropping it into the mailbox, as
Americans had done for over a hundred
years. By Christmas, lines stretched half
a block and more from post offices,
eating up countless hours of wait time.
An already inefficient system was
stretched to the limit. Again, like
Moscow.
Before September 11, 2001, there
were two long-established trends in the
US and Western Europe: toward more
powerful government, involving more
control over individual lives, and
toward radical scientific experiments in
which man tries to act as creator. Since
then, we have moved quickly toward
establishing a new regime with the
police powers of 1984 combined with
the weird science of Brave New World;
actions that would never have been
accepted before the attack on the
World Trade Center now pass without
a murmur. By stealth, they have now
been redefined as aspects of
“patriotism.”
Unlike previous wars against
nations—which had a definite end,
victory or defeat—the war against
terror is a global war against a vaguely
defined foe, with no end in sight.
Government officials themselves expect
the war to last for years—and as long as
the war lasts, the restrictions on liberty
will remain.
In October, Congress voted 98-1 for
the PATRIOT Act, which gives the
government broader power to monitor
e-mail, detain immigrants, listen to
phone calls, monitor financial transactions and secretly gather other data on
suspects, who can be defined at whim.
National ID cards had been
unthinkable for the US before 9/11.
OF
L I F E A F T E R 9/11
Immediately after the attack, members
of Congress, security experts and hightech executives (including Larry
Ellison, head of Oracle—a firm that
might build the new database) called for
a high-tech national ID card. They
were joined by Harvard University law
professor Alan Dershowitz—who also
favors judicial issue of “torture warrants” for terror suspects. Bush himself
does not support national IDs yet, and
implementation of a new federal system
would take years. However, the
American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators is planning to create
high-tech drivers’ licenses with imbedded chips, bar codes and biometric ID
of users (such as digital fingerprint
images). The card would link to driver
license databases in all states. Before
9/11, there was heated controversy over
video monitoring of public areas. Since
then, airports have lined up to test and
install these systems, a foreshadowing
of the ubiquitous telescreens that watch
everyone—outdoors and in—in
Orwell’s novel 1984.
Federal officials are making a plan to
shut down the entire cell-phone
network—which played a critical role
on the day of the attack—to anyone
who is not a government official, in the
event of an emergency. The reason: to
keep the airwaves free for response to
the crisis. (The rule could also ensure
that ordinary citizens are unable to
communicate with each other during a
crisis—measures similar to what Poland
instituted in 1981 when they declared
martial law and broke the Solidarity
union.)
In January, the Democratic Partyaffiliated Progressive Policy Institute
called for yet more police power:
addition of “smart chips” to drivers’
licenses—with inclusion of digitized
fingerprints, increased digital surveillance of computer users’ e-mail, use of
“spyware” to capture computer key-
strokes, and video monitoring
of public areas—with use of
face recognition software to
spot those who are on government lists. All of this, of course,
is to be limited by “proper warrants and other controls.” And
if you believe that, SCP has a
bridge to sell you.
Since September 11, lawenforcement officials and political pundits—from liberals to
war-hawk neo-conservatives—
have expressed frustration over
the silence of some of those
arrested on suspicion of terrorism. In
late October, federal officials floated a
“trial balloon” about giving truth serum
to the
suspects, or sending them to overseas
allies that routinely torture suspects.
Now, American liberals are joining the
call to get out the cattle prods. Alan
Dershowitz—a Harvard Law School
professor and O. J. Simpson defender
whom the press calls “one of the country’s leading civil libertarians”—has
written that judges should be allowed
to issue “torture warrants” to thwart an
imminent attack. He says that, under
current Supreme Court interpretation
of the protection against self-incrimination, evidence gained by torture could
be used in a civil case (such as a deportation hearing) against the suspect, or
in a criminal trial of another person.
The only limit is that the evidence
cannot be used in a criminal trial of the
torture victim. Of course, torture
victims can be made to say anything.
Another Harvard liberal, Jonathan
Alter, issued a similar apologia for the
rack in the pages of Newsweek; he began
by saying, “In this autumn of anger,
even a liberal can find his thoughts
turning to … torture.”
As goes the federal government, so
go the states. Maryland’s governor and
the leaders of the state House and
Senate leaders have proposed new laws
that would expand the governor’s emergency powers, allow wider use of wiretaps on criminal suspects, suppress hitherto-public records about security
plans, and quarantine people during a
biological or chemical attack. Governor
Parris Glendening said that the nine
new laws “do not infringe on civil
liberties.” Tennessee legislators have
proposed a law that would give the
governor and health authorities “sweeping new emergency powers to quarantine and test people,” ban guns, and
“destroy or commandeer private
property” in the event of a health
emergency. For a health emergency to
be declared, there must be an imminent
threat of widespread, serious illness due
to bioterrorism, the emergence of a
new or previously-controlled microbe
or toxin, attack by chemical or nuclear
weapons, or natural disaster. Since this
is a model bill, drafted by the
Georgetown University Center for Law
and the Public Health, it may soon be
considered in all states. The “natural
disaster” loophole is large enough to
drive a boxcar of prisoners through.
All of this belies Bush’s eulogies to
freedom in his State of the Union
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SCP LEAPS INTO
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UC Berkeley’s Sather Gate facing Sproul Plaza, on an “average day.”
the-century Berkeley house. We had
been in a prime neighborhood only two
blocks from the UC Berkeley campus,
and the pleasant area near famed Peets
Coffee and Chez Panisse. Now it could
all go up in smoke if the owner’s
daughter, who had been hired by
nearby Pixar, decided to move in.
So we scrambled to downsize our
footprint. This immediately ended the
luxury of storing thousands of Journals
and Newsletters in our basement. The
Newsletters were recycled at the ecology
center, while we shipped thousands of
Journals halfway across the country to a
mail fulfillment center near
Indianapolis. Beyond that, even more
dead weight needed to be jettisoned so
we would be able to move out if we got
30 days’ notice. We had needed to
lighten our “baggage-train” for a long
time anyway, but it was a difficult and
costly high-pressure predicament.
Houses like ours, whose rent was
held down by Berkeley rent-control,
were very scarce, especially in such
high-demand areas as ours. On the
open market, similar houses, once free
of rent control, after tenants left, were
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prohibitively expensive, priced at twice
what we had been paying. This forced
us to stare reality in the face and look
beyond Berkeley’s costly and meager
housing market.
But in order to organize a move
beyond Berkeley, we had to deal with a
long-term challenge: SCP’s burdensome and fragile office operations that
the publishing wing had been
connected to since the late 1970s, when
we consolidated two offices.
OUR OUTDATED OFFICE MODEL
We have been wedded to a very
fragile office model for 20 years—mostly because of our very real financial limitations (income that is 1/500th of such
ministries as Focus on the Family) while
depending on local UC Berkeley
students as an affordable labor resource.
I had inherited some of SCP’s
office functions from earlier eras, then
streamlined them. The core model I
devised was a part-time staff of UC
Berkeley student-interns with strong
connections to known ministries and
churches. This had advantages and
disadvantages. Christian students were
selected by word-of-mouth among
campus fellowships. Differing in
Christian commitment and maturity,
we had superstars like Cyndi Straus,
Kathie Aguirre (non-UC students),
Josh Ong and Marilyn Mai, while
others far less committed and reliable
had sometimes “jumped ship” without
notice, leaving SCP dangling on the
edge of a precipice. The latter was
terrifying for me as captain of the ship.
I knew that if Berkeley student-staffers
saw more desirable options opening
up—regardless of promised loyalty—
they could drop SCP like a hot potato,
and this happened more times than I
care to mention.
One recent alternative office plan
was to operate through “team Aguirre”
in greater New York City. Danny
Aguirre is VP of Operations and
long-time ACCESS director, and his
wife Kathie is one of SCP’s all-time
top-three office managers/database
programmers. But to be fair, Kathie
now has a nursing career, and Danny,
apart from SCP, is a full-time pastor,
heading up several other evangelism
outreaches. So we agreed to keep
Brooklyn on hold. He was willing, but
his hands were tied. We rented an SCP
Brooklyn PO Box, but in the swirl of
events, it was dead in the water almost
immediately. I made the mistake of
prematurely announcing the Post
Office box in Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, as another option, I
had found a small, affordable separate
office in Berkeley near the house. Woo
was slated to run it, as I announced in a
recent Newsletter. But Danny and I
realized it would not be fair to SCP or
to Woo to leave SCP’s future solely in
Woo’s hands. I realized this after
returning in late spring from
exploratory house-hunting in Hawaii,
knowing that our operation, like most
magazines, would need to be divided
into a business wing and a publishing
A
NEW FUTURE
wing, as in our early days. But I was not
feeling secure about the fragile arrangement of a small office in Berkeley with
me gone and no longer overseeing
things. We needed God to intervene!
And indeed I believe He did when
a new option came out of nowhere like
manna from heaven.
THE PASADENA “VIRTUAL
OFFICE”
Danny Aguirre’s missionary brother-in-law, Craig Prest, reminded him
about what could be best described as a
“virtual office” in Pasadena that handles
the full office operations of respected
ministries such as Vishal Mangalwadi’s,
plus two missionary organizations based
in Africa and the large U.S. Center for
World Mission among his clients,
through a corporation called
Accounting Management, Inc.
I hoped this was true, and I felt
compelled to call the company’s head
immediately, to tell him of our needs
and that we were in the middle of
moving. Out of the blue, Mark Harris,
its CEO and founder, suggested driving
from Pasadena to meet me and see the
SCP office setup.
True to his word, in under a week,
Mark Harris drove to Berkeley to
eyeball our operation. Like a rescuing
angel sent by God, or a CPR unit arriving in the nick of time at the scene of
an accident, this mature Christian
accountant and one-time CPA (who
also has a master’s in New Testament
from Western Seminary) appeared on
the scene as an answer to 20 years of
prayer.
I learned that through his company,
Mark Harris is the controller for the
U.S. Center for World Mission on its
stunning 35-acre campus in prime
Pasadena, one of LA’s most attractive
suburbs. He runs an international team
SCP’s New Virtual office at Accounting Management, Inc, in Pasadena, with use of offices at
the U.S. Center for World Mission/William Carey University.
of gifted Christians working under him
using the expansive offices there. As
someone converted in India through
missionaries, I was very appreciative.
Mark and I shook hands after we
toured the office and key areas of
Berkeley. The Pasadena office would
become SCP’s new office. Amazingly,
its rates would be maybe less than what
we had been paying here.
On a personal level, I had connected with Mark immediately and sensed
his capability, confidence, Christian
character and honesty. I also knew he,
like our long-term accountant, Chuck
Benedict (who had moved near him in
LA), would become friends, while
Chuck could act as an SCP resource.
We had almost moved out of the
Berkeley house, packing everything into
a large Matson container to be shipped
to Hawaii, when Mark arrived for a
second visit in early June, this time
arriving before his second-in-command—a handsome, bright young
fellow of Indian descent named Joshua
David (his dad is from Bangalore,
South India, where I was converted)—
made a dramatic arrival on our drive in
a large moving truck with his new wife.
My team, that had been packing
the large Matson shipping container the
week before (including a young GI who
could bench-press 500 pounds), now
helped the Pasadena Office pack the
large truck with SCP’s full office,
including our giant conference tables,
as well as stuff from the new office
down the street. What they didn’t need
would be given to missionaries,
students and faculty. Then the whole
team of us went off to one of Berkeley’s
prime Indian restaurants. By then, I was
feeling total relief and gratitude, certain
that this was the answer to years of
prayers.
So be aware that when you phone
SCP and leave a message on the Ooma
phone system, apart from Danny
Aguirre, you may well be speaking to
Joshua David when you get a call back.
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SCP’ S F O R E C A S T
OF
L I F E A F T E R 9/11
continued from page 3
address: “No people on Earth yearn
to be oppressed, or aspire to servitude, or eagerly await the midnight
knock of the secret police. … America
will always stand firm for the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity: the rule of law, limits on the power
of the state, respect for women, private property, free speech, equal justice, and religious tolerance.”
As the President praises freedom,
he and his henchmen are burying it.
Rather, it is under this cloak of patriotic flag-waving, whether the Super
Bowl or the Winter Olympics, that
more rights are being confiscated
than was once thinkable. It is pure
stealth.
As America goes, so go Europe and
Canada, and, vice-versa. A precedent
in one developed nation can be
accepted in others.
Six months before the attack on
America, Greece proposed new laws
to deal with terrorism, gangs, and
drug dealing: non-jury criminal trials,
limits on rights to appeal, forced
DNA testing, increased police
surveillance and infiltration power,
and longer jail terms. After the war
began, Europe and Canada have
moved quickly to clamp down on the
population. In December, Britain
agreed to implement the new
European Union wide arrest warrant,
in which anyone in the U.K. can be
arrested based on a warrant from any
EU member nation. This would be so
even if the arrest were for an act that
is legal in Britain (such as a “hate
speech” offense). The House of
Commons took less than 48 hours to
pass a 128-clause bill that establishes
new surveillance powers and bans
“incitement to religious hatred.”
Resistance from the House of Lords
may limit the damage to British liberties—but given the Labor
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Government’s ongoing attack on the
privileges of that ancient body, their
resistance to this measure may not
continue for long.
And as go the Europeans and
Americans, so may go the world, if
some dreamers have their way. At a
UN meeting last December, Pascal
Smet, the head of Belgium’s independent asylum board, proposed that
everyone on the planet be fingerprinted and registered, using a
universal ID plan. Smet said, “It’s a
basic rule of management that if you
want to manage something, you measure it. It’s the same with human
beings and migration. But instead of
measuring it, you have to register
them.”
As the political climate shifts
toward “command and control,” new
technology is becoming available to
support this. Applied Digital
Solutions, Inc. (ADSX) is now offering implantable ID chips (and Global
Positioning System tracking devices)
to executives in three Latin American
countries; initial orders exceed
$300,000. (The devices are being sold
first to overseas markets, since the
firm does not have Food & Drug
Administration approval for use of the
chips in people; approval is expected
later this year.) Company executives
expect the worldwide market for chip
implants to reach $70 billion per
year—but do not say when this may
occur. ADSX also sells external monitoring devices that can detect the
wearer’s location, or sudden movement (such as a fall). The firm is marketing this for use with children,
parolees, people with dementia, and
old people who live alone; the price is
$299, plus a $30 monthly monitoring
fee. Paul Saffo, a director of the
Institute for the Future in Menlo
Park, CA, says, “Are we going to see
chips embedded in the human body?
You bet we are. But it isn’t going to
happen overnight.” He also said, “As
some people wring their hands about
the invasion of privacy and civil liberty, a whole other generation is going
to go, ‘Cool! I’ve always wanted to
embed technology in my body.’ It’s
going to be fashion. One sure sign
that teenagers will love it is if it
terrifies their parents.” From
Generation X, to Generation Y, to
Generation 666—such would be the
trend, if Saffo is right. And the teen
body ornament, piercing, and tattoo
craze serves up a generation with
minimal resistance to chip implants.
These attacks on liberty—inconceivable before September 11—are
being accepted by the general public.
Poll ratings for the President remain
high, as is approval—70% or more—
for the new federal laws. In midDecember, the publisher of the
Sacramento Bee was driven off the
stage by hecklers when she delivered
a mid-year graduation address to
17,000 people at California State
University in Sacramento. Her
offense was to criticize limits on civil
rights due to the war.
The flying public accepts the new
airline security regulations—even
when these involve long lines, intrusive random searches and groping by
guards (a Congressman was recently
strip-searched because his hip implant
set off the metal detectors), arbitrary
confiscation of property (including
nail clippers, pocket knives and some
jewelry), and arbitrary arrest (a man
carrying an Edward Abbey book with
a picture of dynamite on the cover
was kicked out of the Philadelphia
Airport, with the aid of the National
Guard and the state police). When
the middle class and the rich—those
who fly—tolerate these measures,
abandoning their usual assertiveness,
a critical barrier has been crossed.
Americans are being—coincidentally
or not—“softened up” to accept a
police state.
This conditioning was yielding
fruit even before the 9/11 attack. Last
August, 93% of IT executives polled
by Chief Information Officer (CIO)
magazine said that use of wireless
technology to continuously track
individuals’ location and transactions
was not a “dangerous threat to privacy.” As of last fall, federal regulations
require new cell phones to include
location-tracking sensors that allow
911 operators to locate callers within
a few hundred feet.
Some will argue that these new
laws are a threat only to terrorists, not
to law-abiding citizens. This hope is
naïve, since many powerful people
want to define their political and
religious opponents as “terrorists.”
Anti-abortion protesters, orthodox
Christians who support traditional
moral codes, and anti-globalization
protesters all face being labeled in this
fashion and being sent to jail on a
pretext.
As the establishment worldwide
asserts greater political power over
citizens, scientists move forward
everywhere with their plans to use
unborn children as raw material for
medical research and for the selective
breeding of “designer babies.” Thus
does science move from the search for
truth to the imposition of lawless
human will, contrary to God-created
order.
All of this confirms the warnings
C. S. Lewis made 50 years ago, speaking against the false promises made
by politicians, social planners and scientists. In The Abolition of Man, Lewis
wrote, “Man’s conquest of Nature, if
the dreams of some scientific planners
are realized, means the rule of a few
hundreds of men over billions upon
billions of men. There neither is nor
can be any simple increase of power
on Man’s side. Each new power won
by man is a power over man as well.”
In the essay “Is Progress Possible,”
Lewis said of the politicians in his day,
“All that can really happen is that
some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy,
cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered
some new reason why, this time,
power should not corrupt as it has
done before?”
Apart from God’s grace and protection, no government—however
rich and powerful—can give safety to
its nation and its people. To believe
otherwise is idolatry. Attempts by
mankind to wrest health, wealth and
longevity from nature by all means
necessary, no matter how perverse,
represent the same kind of pride that
led to the Fall in Eden. In the end,
the worshipers of Government and
Science, like the worshipers of
Mammon, will find themselves
enslaved; the devil will claim his end
of the Faustian bargain.
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Tal Brooke is the President of SCP, Inc.,
and has authored nine books. His work
has been recognized in Marquis Who’s
Who in the World and Who’s Who in
America. Tal is a graduate of the
University of Virginia and Princeton.
He was converted in Indial
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Lee Penn, a convert out of atheistic
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Walter Pincus, “Terrorism Suspects Won’t Say a Word;
Law Enforcement Officials Talking About Sidestepping Civil
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Torture or Coercion Ever Justified?”, San Francisco Chronicle,
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Jeffrey Benner, “Frankenbugs in the Wings,” Wired,
December 7, 2001.
Roger Highfield, “Fertility Authority Gives Go-Ahead for
‘Designer Babies,’” London Telegraph, December 13, 2001.
Carolyn Abraham, “Cloning Pig Parts for People,”
GlobeandMail.com, January 3, 2001.
Paul Recer, “Scientist Wants to Clone People,” Washington
Post, December 14, 2001.
Jonathan Leake, “Monkey Test Breakthrough Brings
Human Clones Closer,” The Sunday Times, October 28, 2001.
Derek Gatapoulos, “Big Brother Fear as Terror Law
Looms,” Athens News, March 16, 2001.
Julia Scheeres, “Kidnapped? GPS to the Rescue,” Wired
News, January 25, 2002.
John W. Whitehead, “Terror in Our Airports,”
WorldNetDaily, January 26, 2002.
Charles Glass, “I Know What Camp X-Ray Feels Like,”
New Statesman, January 29, 2002.
Associated Press, “Review: Digital Angel Is a GPS Tracker:
Using Your Laptop to Monitor Someone From Afar,” CNN.com,
January 19, 2002.
Charles J. Murray, “Implantable Chip Opens Door to
‘Human Bar Code,’” EETimes.com, January 4, 2002.
CIO On-line Quick Poll, CIO Magazine, July 31, 2001.
Anonymous, “Tethered to Wireless,” CIO Magazine,
August 1, 2001.
Wendy McElroy, “War Comes With Unintended
Consequences,” Fox News, September 25, 2001.
United Press, “Democrat Policy Group Recommends
‘Smart IDs’ for Americans,” January 20, 2002, as reported on
www.rense.com.
“Refugee Meeting Hears Proposal to Register Every
Human,” December 13, 2001, smh.com.au.
Robert O’Harrow and Jonathan Krim, “National ID Card
Gaining Support,” Washington Post, December 17, 2001.
David Streitfeld, “A Chip ID That’s Only Skin-Deep,” Los
Angeles Times, December 19, 2001
Glen Johnson, “Bush Halts inquiry of FBI and Stirs Up a
Firestorm,” The Boston Globe, December 14, 2001.
“Sacramento Bee Publisher Booed During Her College
Graduation Speech,” The Associated Press, December 16, 2001.
Philip Johnston, “Blair Will Bypass Lords Over EU Arrest
Warrants,” London Telegraph, December 14, 2001.
Hugo Young, “Once Lost, These Freedoms Will Be
Impossible to Restore,” The Guardian, December 11, 2001.
Jayson Blair, “U.S. Considers Restricting Cellphone Use in
Disasters,” New York Times, December 12, 2001.
Jonathan Alter, “Time to Think About Torture,”
Newsweek, November 5, 2001.
Jon Dougherty, “Bill Would Give Governors Absolute
Power,” WorldNetDaily, January 10, 2002.
Sources:
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Tim Craig, “Governor, Assembly Leaders Agree on
Anti-Terrorism Bills,” Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2002.
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J 3603—BIG BROTHER ENTERS THE GATES—(Vols.
36:3-36:4, 2012) $7.00 Features: Surviving Life in
the Western World Part II—Tal Brooke, Big Brother
Enters the Gates—Lee Penn, The Two Israels—
Steve Wohlberg
J 3601—THE BURNING TRUTH—(Vols. 36:1-36:2,
2012) $7.00 Features: Burning Man: Preview to an
Alternative Pagan Social Order, Part 1—Steve
Matthews, The Greatest Prophecy of the Coming
Messiah and the Attempts to Alter or Cover Up Its
Message—Steve Wohlberg, When Leaders Deceive
a Slumbering and Unwary Public Through False
Flags and Misdirection—Lee Penn
J 3503—AYN RAND—(Vols. 35:2-35:3, 2011) $7.00
Features: Surviving Life in the Western World—Tal
Brooke, Ayn Rand: The Janus Face of
Libertarianism—Lee Penn, Christian Witchcraft
and Christo-Paganism—Brooks Alexander
J 3501—ANTI-CHRISTS AND FALSE MESSIAHS
DOWN THE AGES—(Vols. 34:4-35:1, 2011)
$7.00 Features: Two Years under an Anti-Christ—
Tal Brooke, Anti-Christs and False Messiahs Down
the Ages—Lee Penn
J 3403—THE ABOLITION OF MAN 2—(Vols. 34:234:3, 2010) $7.00 Features: Crisis and Betrayal—
Tal Brooke, Passing Through the Land of
Shadows—Danny Aguirre, The World Church of
2017—Lee Penn, The Toxic Invasion—Steve
Wohlberg
J 3401—THE ABOLITION OF MAN—(Vols.33:434:1, 2010) $7.00 Features: Encounters With
Familiar Spirits—Steve Wohlberg, A Perilous
Spiritual Journey—Greg Albrecht, Depopulation:
Making the Abolition of Man a Reality—Lee Penn
J 3303—VAMPIRES RISING—(Vols.33:2-33:3, 2009)
$7.00 Features: Vampires Rising—Tal Brooke, The
Menace Behind Twilight—Steve Wohlberg, An
Apologetic of Horror—Brian Godawa,
Depopulation: Making the World Safe for the
Elite—Lee Penn
J 3301—APOCALYPSE WHEN?—(Vols. 32:4-33:1,
2009) $7.00 Features: The Mayan Apocalypse of
2012—Lee Penn, The Shape of Things to Come
2—Alan Morrison, The View From Iron
Mountain—Brooks Alexander
J 3203—PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE—(Vols.
32:2-32:3, 2008) $7.00 Features: The Rapture—
Steve Wohlberg, The Millennium: The Thousand
Years of Rev. 20—Tal Brooke, The Shape of Things
to Come—Alan Morrison, The Twilight of
Freedom—Lee Penn
J 3201—STAGING THE FUTURE—(Vols. 31:4-32:1,
2008) $7.00 Features: Arthur C. Clarke: Visionary
of a Mystical World Order—Tal Brooke, The
Sunset of Liberty: Setting the Stage for Tyranny—
Lee Penn, Orchestrating the End: The Prophetic
Quest of Dispensationalism—Stephen Sizer
J 3103—THE COMING SPECTRES 2—(Vols. 31:231:3, 2007) $7.00 Features: Ironies of Disbelief:
Militant Atheism and the Law of Unintended
Consequences—Brooks Alexander, The TechnoUtopians 2: Managing the Masses for World
Order—Lee Penn, Witchcraft in the Military—
Brooks Alexander, Conditional Submission: The
Christian’s Relationship to Earthly Government—
Alan Morrison
J 3101—THE COMING SPECTRES—(Vols. 30:431:1, 2007) $7.00 Features: Sanctioned Mockery:
And the Rise of Attacks on Christians—Tal Brooke,
The New Spirituality & Its Hallmarks—Alan
Morrison, The Techno-Utopians: Managing the
Masses for World Order—Lee Penn
J 3003—FROM LIBERTY TO LEVIATHAN—(Vols.
30:2-30:3, 2006) $7.00 Features: From Liberty to
Leviathan—Lee Penn, Witchcraft: Real and
Imagined II—Brooks Alexander, Becoming
Conversant With the Emerging Church—D. A.
Carson, An Update on the Emerging Church—Tal
Brooke
J 3001—THE SPIRITS OF THE AGE—(Vols. 29:430:1, 2006) $7.00 Features: God TV—Alan
Morrison, Witchcraft: Real and Imagined I—
Brooks Alexander, Opus Dei & The Da Vinci Code
II—Lee Penn
J 2903—THE GREAT LIE—(Vols. 29:2-29:3, 2005)
$7.00 Features: The Great Lie—Tal Brooke, From
Old Gnosticism to New Age II—Alan Morrison,
Opus Dei & The Da Vinci Code—Lee Penn, The
Descent Into Unbelief—Jonathan Rice
J 2901—SOUL TRAPS OF THOUGHT AND CULTURE—(Vols. 28:4-29:1, 2005) $7.00 Features:
The Soul Under Siege II—Lee Penn, From Old
Gnosticism to New Age I—Alan Morrison, The
Suicide Option: When Life Has Lost Meaning—
Josh Ong
J 2803—CONTROLLING THE LAND & THE
SOUL—(Vols. 28:2-28:3, 2004) $7.00 Features:
The Soul Under Siege—Lee Penn,The Strange
Marriage Between Western Ecology and Eastern
Thought Part II—Jonathan Rice, The Strip-Mining
of Culture—Alan Morrison,The Role of Plagiarism
in Religious Movements—William Alnor
J 2801—OF GODS AND NATIONS—(Vols. 27:428:1, 2004) $7.00 Features: One Nation Under
What?—Phillip Johnson, The Emerging Reality of a
New World Order—Tal Brooke, When the State
Becomes God—Lee Penn, The Strange Marriage
Between Western Ecology and Eastern Thought—
Jonathan Rice
J 2703—THE TWO JERUSALEMS—(Vols. 27:2-27:3,
2003) $7.00 Features: The Intelligent Design
Movement—Tal Brooke interivews Philip Johnson,
The Two Jerusalems—Alan Morrison, The Promise
to Abraham—Brian Godawa
J 2701—THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS—(Vols.
26:4-27:1, 2003) $7.00 Features: Neale Donald
Walsch: Conversations With Myself—Lee Penn &
Tal Brooke, Harry Potter: Manipulating Reality—
Lawrence Burkholder, The Mystery of
Lawlessness: An Exposition on the Antichrist—
Alan Morrison, Angels and Demons in the
Movies—Brian Godawa
J 2603—THE ESSENCE OF PAGANISM—(Vols. 26:226:3, 2002) $7.00 Features: The Essence of
Paganism—Peter Jones & Tal Brooke,
Postmodernism & The Movies—Brian Godawa,
The Radical Islamic Agenda—Aleesha Khan, The
Masonic Quest—Lee Penn
J 2601—RADICAL ISLAM—(Vols. 25:4-26:1, 2002)
$7.00 Features: Strange Fire: The Invasion of
Pagan Sexuality—Peter Jones & Tal Brooke, The
Age of Masonry by Lee Penn, The Radical Islamic
Mind—Aleesha Khan, Anthroposophy: The Occult
Influences of Rudolph Steiner, Pt. 2 by Carrie
Tomko
J 2503—REALITY TV—(Vol. 25:2-25:3, 2001) (NEW
SCP Digital Reprint) $10.00 Features: Reality TV:
Cannibalizing the Moral Order—Catou Grinyer,
The Origins and Influence of Masonry, Pt. 1 by Lee
Penn, Between Isaac and Ishmael by Brooks
Alexander, Anthroposophy: The Occult Influences
of Rudolph Steiner, Pt. 1 by Carrie Tomko
J 2501—BATTLING THE SPIRIT OF DELUSION—
(Vol. 24:4-25:1, 2001) $7.00 Features: The Wedge
of Truth—Tal Brooke interviews Phillip Johnson,
Not by the Sword: Bizarre Signs, Prophetic
Commands & Group Intimidation by Matthew
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Davis, The World Church of 2017
by Lee Penn, Deconstructing
Satan, Part II by Brad Scott
J 2403—DARK APOCALYPSE—
(Vol. 24:2-24:3, 2000) $7.00 Features: The Great
Lie by Tal Brooke, Dark Apocalypse by Lee Penn,
Pokémon for the Uninitiated by Catou Grinyer,
The Proliferation of a Movement: The
International Churches of Christ II by Danny
Aguirre, Deconstructing Satan, Part I by Brad Scott
J 2401—WITCHCRAFT: SPELLBINDING A CULTURE—(Vol. 23:4-24:1, 2000) $7.00 Features:
Spellbinding a Culture by Tal Brooke, Harry Potter:
Occult Cosmology and the Corrupted Imagination
by Alison Lentini, The Witches of Harvard and
MIT by Tony Carnes, New Age and Globalist
Strategies: Unity, Collectivism & Control by Lee
Penn
J 2303—THE COMING WORLD RELIGION PART
II—(Vol. 23:2-23:3, 1999) $7.00 Features: A HighLevel Insider Converts—Michael Graham’s 28Year Journey by Tal Brooke, The New Age Christ of
David Spangler by Ron Rhodes, The Proliferation
of a Movement: The International Churches of
Christ by Danny Aguirre, The United Religions:
Globalist and New Age Plans by Lee Penn
J 2301—THE COMING WORLD RELIGION PART I,
& SWEET LIES CONT.—(Vol. 22:4-23:1, 1999)
$7.00 Features: Secrets of the Soul—Gary Zukav,
Putting God in Small Packages by Tal Brooke, Lost
in the Supermarket: Pop Music and Spiritual
Commerce by Alison Lentini, The “Oprah Effect”
by Ron Rhodes, The United Religions
Front—Foundations for a World Religion by Lee
Penn
J 2203—SWEET LIES II—(Vol. 22:2-22:3, 1998)
$7.00 Features: Spirit Voices—and the Van Praagh
Media Circus by Tal Brooke, Leaving Marianne
Williamson & A Course in Miracles by Tony
Carnes, Conversations With the God of This Age
by John Moore, Anthony Robbins and the Quest
for Unlimited Power by Ron Rhodes, Jean
Houston—Profile of the New Age Advisor to
Hillary Clinton by Craig Branch
J 2201—SWEET LIES—(Vol. 21:4-22:1, 1998) $7.00
Features: The Terrible Strength and Weakness of
Naturalism—an interview with Phil Johnson by Tal
Brooke, America’s Glitzy Guru, Marianne
Williamson by Ron Rhodes, The Mayan
Gospel—The Mass Appeal of James Redfield’s
Celestine Prophecy by John Moore, Brennan
Manning—The New Monk of Mystic Protestantism
by John Caddock, Terminal Ecumenism—Bishop
Swing and the United Religions Initiative by
Brooks Alexander
J 2103—THE COSMIC MEDICINE MEN—The
Mystery Teachings of Deepak Chopra, Andrew
Weil, and Bernie Siegel (Vol. 21:3, 1997) $5.00
Features: Deepak Chopra, Wizard of Boundless
Healing by Tal Brooke, The Temptations of
SCP
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Deepak Chopra by William Alnor, Energies of
Mind & Body by Ron Rhodes, Andrew Weil, NewMedicine’s Man of the ‘90s by Brooks Alexander
J 2102—JESUS AND THE DEN OF THIEVES II—
Further Assaults, Alterations and Redefinitions of
the Person and the Work of Christ (Vol. 21:1-2,
1997) $7.00 Features: The Cosmic Christ of
Channeled Revelation by Tal Brooke, A New
Christ by Peter Jones, Jesus on the Rack by Brad
Scott, The Jesus of the Watchtower by Ron
Rhodes, Between Isaac and Ishmael by Brooks
Alexander, Has God Really Spoken by Ron
Rhodes
J 2004—JESUS AND THE DEN OF THIEVES—
Scholarly Assaults, New Age Alterations, and the
Creation of Other Christs (Vol. 20:3-4, 1996)
$7.00 Features: Jesus and the Den of Thieves by
Tal Brooke, Apostasy in America by Peter Jones,
The Quest for the Historical Jesus by John Moore,
The Jesus Seminar by John Moore, The Cosmic
Christ by Ron Rhodes, The Real Jesus Already
Stood Up by Brooks Alexander
J 2002—VIRTUAL REALITY—Virtual Gods,
Designer Universes (Vol. 20:2, 1996) $5.00
Features: Virtual Gods, Designer Universes by Tal
Brooke, Virtual Bodies in the City of Bits by
Donald L. Baker, Embody the Avatar by John
Moore, Virtuality and Theophobia—Becoming the
Ghost in our Own Machine by Brooks Alexander
J 2001—CYBERSPACE—Storming Digital Heaven
(Vol. 19:4-20:1, 1995, double issue) $7.00
Features: Cyberspace: Storming Digital Heaven by
Tal Brooke, Welcome to the Cyber-Millennium,
Part One by Donald L. Baker, Virtual Man by John
Moore, Extropianism by Brian Godawa, The
Faustian Bargain by Brooks Alexander
J 1903—PREPARING FOR THE COSMIC MILLENNIUM And The Coming Global Church (Vol. 19:2-3,
1995, double issue) $7.00 Features: Preparing for
the Cosmic Millennium by Tal Brooke,
Community and the Cosmic Christ by Warren
Smith, Last Exit Before Judgment by Brooks
Alexander, Signs of the Times by Warren Smith
J 1901—NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES: Revelations
From the Deathplane (Vol. 18:4/19:1, 1994, double issue) $7.00 Features: Near-Death Experiences
by Tal Brooke, Embracing a False Light by Warren
Smith, Clues to a Near-Death Experience by Craig
Branch, When Heaven Can’t Wait by William
Alnor, The Tinsel Halo by Brooks Alexander
J 1803—JOHN BRADSHAW AND THE RECOVERY
MOVEMENT: Freeing All the Inner-Children (Vol.
18:3, 1994) $5.00 Features: A Brief Look at John
Bradshaw by Tal Brooke, Singing the Song of
Myself by Richard John Neuhaus, Recovery and
Codependence by Kenneth Meyers, Early Roots of
the Codependency Movement by Edward T.
Welch, Recovery’s Family Tree by Brooks
Alexander
J 1802—ONE NATION WITHOUT GOD: Life in
Post-Christian Amerika (Vol. 18:1-2, 1993, double
issue) $7.00 Features: When America Provokes
God by Tal Brooke, Can We Be Good Without
God by Charles Colson, In Defense of Liberty by
Keith Fornier, Censoring the Past by Gary DeMar,
Redefining Culture Through Media by Theodore
Baehr, Burden of Conflict: Church and State in
Crisis by Brooks Alexander
J 1704—THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA’S CHRISTIAN
HERITAGE: The Culture War on Christianity (Vol.
17:4, 1993) $5.00 Features: America’s Waning
Light by Tal Brooke, This Is a Christian Nation by
Herbert W. Titus, Restoring America’s Christian
History by Mark Beliles & Stephen McDowell, The
Christian Idea of Government by Rus Walton,
Burden of Conflict: Church and State in a Fallen
World by Brooks Alexander
J 1703—THE WAY OF ECOLOGY: Remaking Man in
the Earth’s Image (Vol. 17:3, 1992) $5.00
Features: The Ecological Great Awakening by Tal
Brooke, Eco-Religion and Cultural Change by
Brooks Alexander & Mike Coffman, America’s
Ecological Millennium by Douglas Groothuis,
Downsizing the Family of Man by Alison Lentini,
The View From Iron Mountain by Brooks
Alexander
J 1702—ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: UFOs and the Realm
of Shadows (Vol. 17:1-2, 1992, double issue)
$7.00 Features: Machines Made of Shadows by
Brooks Alexander, Encountering UFOs by John
Weldon and John Ankerberg, Part I: The Alien
Obsession, Part II: Of Gods and Aliens by Bill
Alnor, A Brief Look at “A Brief History of Time” by
Hugh Ross, Alien Messages on the Big Screen by
Tal Brooke
J 1604—EDUCATION: Capturing Hearts and Minds
for a New World (Vol. 16:4, 1992) $5.00
Features: Abolished Man: From Instruction to
Indoctrination in the New Education by Brooks
Alexander, Capturing Hearts and Minds for a New
World by Tal Brooke, Deconstruction: The Crisis
of Values and Truth in the Academy by Marc
Mueller
J 1603—WITCHCRAFT: From the Dark Ages to the
New Age (Vol. 16:3, 1991) $5.00 Special report
by Brooks Alexander—Tracing Modern Witchcraft
From Its Ancient Pagan Roots to Modern Times
J 1602—NEW WORLD ORDER: The Iron Hand of
Peace & Spiritual Unity (Vol. 16:2, 1991) $5.00
Features: Breathing Together: Conspiracy &
Intention by Brooks Alexander, I. The Emerging
Reality of a New World Order, II. World Order &
Freedom of Religion by Tal Brooke, Will
Christendom Survive the New World Order? by
Stuart Chevre, The State of the World – 12 Years
Later, by Marc Mueller, Dialogues With Malcolm
Muggeridge, Tal Brooke & Malcolm Muggeridge,
A Letter Home by George Koch
J 1601—GAIA: A Religion of the Earth (Vol. 16:1,
1991) $5.00 Features: Gaia—A Religion of the
Earth by Tal Brooke, I. Gaia: Sects and Squabbles,
II. Deep Ecology by Brooks Alexander, The
Goddess Comes of Age by Alison Lentini, The
Gaia Hypothesis: Science, Mythology and the
Desecration of God by Stuart Chevre, Creation:
The Christian View of Ecology by Francis Schaeffer
*J 0903—VISUALIZATION: Mind Power and the
Mind’s Eye (NEW SCP Digital Reprint) (Vol. 9:3,
1990) $10.00 Features: Visualizing the Tower of
Babel by Tal Brooke, Mind Power and the Mind’s
Eye by Brooks Alexander, Visualization, Guided
Imagery and the Holistic Health Movement by
Stuart Chevre. Reviews: Jacob’s Ladder by Tal
Brooke
*J 0902—THE MYTHOLOGY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL (NEW SCP Digital Reprint) (Vol. 9:2, 1990)
$10.00 Features: Adhesive for a Generic Religion
by Tal Brooke, Oracle of Transgression and Joseph
Campbell’s Myth-Conception by Brooks
Alexander, Myth and the Power of Campbell by
Doug Groothuis, Jung: Man of Mystic Proportions
by Charles Strohmer
*J 0901—MINDING THE STORE: Influences of the
New Age Movement in Business (SCP Digital
Reprint) (Vol. 9:1, 1990) $10.00 Features:
Identifying the New Age Seminar by Doug
Groothius, Gates of Entry for the Occult by Tal
Brooke, Not Built in a Day: Context and Pretext of
the New Age in Business by Brooks Alexander,
Business as Unusual: The New-Age Rage and
Corporate America by Carl Raschke, New Age,
Business and the Law by Herbert Rosedale
J 0701—SPIRITISM: The Medium and the Message
(Vol. 7:1, 1987) $5.00 Features: What Is Spiritism
and Why Are They Saying Those Awful Things
About It? by Brooks Alexander, A Matter of Course:
A Conversation With K. Wapnick, A Course in
Miracles: Seeing Yourself as Sinless by Dean
Halverson. Reviews: Dancing in the Light by
Shirley MacLaine, Riders of the Cosmic Circuit by
Tal Brooke; reviewed by Brooks Alexander
J 0102—UFOs: Is Science Fiction Coming True?
(Vol. 1:2, 1977) $4.50 Features: The Modern
Prometheus: Science Fiction and the New
Consciousness by Woodrow Nichols and Brooks
Alexander, UFOs: Is Science Fiction Coming True?
by Mark Albrecht and Brooks Alexander, and
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that remained from this teaching
in my heart. So SCP was a great
contributor to my early discipleship. I was an early subscriber to
the Journal, and recognized
much of the artwork I saw when
I came to your office.
Life on Telegraph Avenue
As Joshua and his recent bride,
Brittany, headed out in the big truck to
Pasadena, Mark Harris and I walked
the streets of Berkeley in the late
afternoon, deepening a quickly growing
friendship.
I learned that Mark had been a
missionary in Russia for 8 years, while
also earning a doctorate in Missiology
(also through Western Seminary). He
was converted while he was a corporate
CPA in the 1970s in Portland, Oregon.
Meanwhile, the bizarre nature of
Berkeley’s different areas showed him
how things that once were compelling
to him were oppressive. Sproul Plaza, a
once-famed free-speech zone, had
become inflexibly politically correct.
On his first visit, reflecting on the
huge Matson shipping container on our
street, Mark agreed that as a writer, I
needed to leave this place for a new safe
haven that would cultivate creativity.
SCP’s founder, Brooks Alexander,
one of my closest friends and a fellow
writer, had been saying the same thing
repeatedly: “Find a place less combative
and hostile, offering peace of mind and
creative inspiration.”
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Like old beer, Berkeley was long
past its “best-by date” and well beyond
its heyday. Signs of cultural decay were
all around. Darwin Fish and goddess
quotes on bumper stickers had become
tired clichés. Atheism and the occult
were still the only allowable options in
Berkeley culture.
I recounted to Mark how my close
friend and fellow board member, Bill
Kellogg, a former Marine and now the
Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of
Sacramento, had pastored in Berkeley
for years before he left. His words over
dinner recently: “You can feel the evil
in the air here; it is tangible. Get out
while there’s time.” We were discussing
God’s judgment in history. And we felt
a looming sense of judgment over the
region.
Then Mark told me of SCP’s critical role in his own life:
I had earlier walked away from my
liberal church background, having
been seduced by eastern mysticism.
After my conversion, I needed solid
explanations that would help me to
fully escape some of the thinking that
had held me in its power, and SCP’s
straight-forward apologetics helped to
pull down any remaining strongholds
Mark’s post-conversion
vision soon manifested in a
Virtual Office, as I call it, that
became the backbone of
nonprofit Christian ministries
like SCP. The fit between
Mark’s Pasadena Office and
SCP seemed uncanny!
With no staff in Berkeley to
pick up the mail or process it, an
arduous task in the busiest area
with no parking, among the first
things we did was close the SCP
P.O. Box 4308 (they forward
that mail to Pasadena). We then opened
a joint Wells Fargo SCP account while
keeping our Mechanics Bank account.
THE SHADOW OF BERKELEY
As I told Mark, apart from the high
cost of living, after 25 years in Berkeley,
my soul was worn down and longing to
escape this center of defiant
progressivism that embraced every form
of anarchy and dystopianism, while
shunning all the wholesome values of
yesteryear. God was taboo.
Cafés and eateries had become
dens of mockers where nothing was
sacrosanct. Some were starting to
resemble the very zombies that had
become the latest obsessions of
Hollywood. World War Z and The
Walking Dead had finally arrived on
the streets of Berkeley.
Ironically, much of Berkeley was
indifferent to the fact that hanging over
its head (and only four blocks above our
house) is a major geological fault-line
predicted to blow catastrophically—the
Hayward Fault. Seismologists from
Berkeley and Stanford have repeatedly
A
NEW FUTURE
warned that the fault is a ticking timebomb waiting to go off. Our neighborhood would be reduced to rubble.
Brooks Alexander, along with my
entire fellow board of directors, have
increasingly urged that the earthquake
threat alone was reason enough to “get
out of Dodge,” and was also why
Brooks moved 40 minutes away from
Berkeley.
Not only that, but there are other
menacing things hanging in the air
beyond the earthquake threat. There
are growing armies of street people,
where pleasant weather, food kitchens
and easy welfare are an open invitation
to the homeless from all over.
Violent gang activity has been
on the increase, spreading from
neighboring East Oakland into the
more upscale neighborhoods of
Berkeley.
Local residents have become easy
prey. Holdups and assaults have been
on the increase, and now there is a
neighborhood watch on my street
alone.
Recently, a software engineer in the
house across the street had a gun held
to his head by thugs from East
Oakland, their faces shrouded under
black hoods. It had made the papers.
This neighbor was robbed almost in
front of his house while returning from
work. It took the police more than an
hour to respond. The atmosphere of
carefree impunity has vanished.
In a real national meltdown, things
could explode across Berkeley’s “soft”
neighborhoods where residents are easy
prey.
Contrasting with Berkeley, when I
take my annual winter pilgrimage to the
Hawaiian Islands, I immediately feel my
soul breathing a huge sigh of relief.
God’s fingerprint of nature is evident
here like no place on Earth.
So this year I stayed on two months
to house-hunt, as our options in
Berkeley were running out. There was
too much writing on
the wall. Like my trip
to the Big Island of
Hawaii in May of
2012, I again split the
expenses with SCP.
By early May,
after a month and a
half of looking, a fantastic house opened in
the cooler Upcountry,
a staggering airy
house in a secure,
upscale neighborhood
May 30, 2013, the Large Matson Container sits ready
for almost half the
to be shipped to Hawaii. “TAL” is a corporate logo.
Berkeley rent. If the
lower coastal area was
Compared to the long months I
in the mid-90s five months a year,
have spent in the Calcutta and Bombay
Upcountry was in the mid-70s. Ideal
slums over the years, indeed long years
for writing. Too many doors opened
in the Third World, this is a welcome
and closed for me to not sense the
respite that I can truly appreciate.
guiding hand of grace.
I concluded last summer’s
In last summer’s Newsletter I had
Newsletter article with the words, “I
stated that the option of the Hawaiian
believe SCP can not only survive in
Islands was high on the list to move the
new conditions, but could grow like an
publishing wing of SCP. I concluded
Orchid in a rain forest. Tough choices
that article with the words: “I can
can open new doorways if we are
envision a huge container outside our
adaptable enough to move through
current house, filling it, then shipping
them.”
it to Hawaii through our local shipper,
SCP’s new publishing wing is
Matson Shipping.”
peaceful and elegant with God’s fingerThose words were fulfilled to
prints of nature all around—and at
the letter on May 30, 2013. The giant
close to half the cost of renting the
container was taken to the port of
Berkeley office.
Oakland that day, then shipped June 4,
Be assured we are here to work, not
just under the deadline before the rates
vacation. And no longer a source of
went from $2900 to $4200 for door-tonear-constant worry for me is our new
door delivery. I met the container on
SCP virtual office in Pasadena, under
June 13 in Hawaii and have been
capable and trustworthy hands.
scrambling ever since. A recent British
All this feels like grace to me.
study showed that relocating caused the
greatest stress levels, even above marMahalo
riage, divorce, death or job loss. I felt
this pressure-cooker for months.
During early morning coffee on the
deck of this expansive upcountry
Hawaiian sanctuary, I feel like a GI
finally returned from multiple tours of
duty on the war front to recover and
heal. As a writer, I feel profound relief.
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A LETTER OF THANKS & NEWS
Dear Friends and Allies,
This latest Newsletter was produced
because of your faithfulness for which we
are grateful. A big thanks.
As SCP has been in upheaval with both
main wings moving and setting up shop,
team Aguirre in Greater New York City has
been on the move. With a large inventory of
Journals that Danny volunteered to store in
Brooklyn from a previous printer, he has
handed them out on street missions.
Recently, in “Little India” in Queens the
response was huge. “We couldn’t give
enough away. They grabbed everything we
had. I had decided to bring copies of The
Great Lie, as well as Tal’s testimony in “AntiChrists and False Messiahs Down the
Ages”—perfect for the Indian population. —
Danny Aguirre
The Last
Journal
The late Spring Journal is delayed
till early fall due to our 2 moves!