From: Gray Shockley (gray-87a@cybercoffee.org) Subject: The Year 2012 of the NWO [was:!! New Militia Bust-- Sivik !! Update 3] This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: misc.activism.militia Date: 2004-04-08 09:30:03 PST
> Good Morning Newsgroup Readers, > > Associated Press reports today [040408] that Braveheart Militia > militiaman Darrell Sivik's erstwild cohort George Bilunka will be held > without bond until his trial. > > The article does make an interesting point which I wish to query the > newsgroup's more right-leaning members
[chuckle] I'm not sure I qualify but . . .
> about: the story refers to > Bilunka expecting "the end of the world in 2012."
I heard about 2012 long before I heard about Y2K (one of the benefits of being married to an anthropologist).
What I, originally, heard was that the Mayan Calendar "ran out" in 2012. Then there was a mention of one of Edgar Cayce's [whom I haven't read in decades] sessions mentioning 2012.
I just ran a google search on
+2012 +cayce
to see if my memory were correct and came up with:
> Is the right-wing resurrecting the failed > 2000 Millennialism already?
In my completely ignorant opinion, this appears to be more likely than not.
Background: okay, for the last fifty years plus, the United States has had a specific "enemy" and a number - in the last fifteen or so years - much more nebulous "enemies".
"Godless, atheistic, non-Biblical, anti-Christian Communism", of course. Then followed with what appeared to be the "new threat" of "secular humanism".
In 1995, I was driving from Virginia to Mississppi and a Sunday and as I was going through the Carolinas and part of Georgia, I listened to sermons from five widely-separated stations. All five of the preachers were preaching against this "secular humanism". There was no doubt in my mind that this "secular humanism" was the new "enemy"; that we had internalized the "enemy" and as Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us".
And it seemed to disappear as quickly as it appeared; amalgamated rather quickly into the new, expanded and improved internal "enemy", the rather silly-sounding "New World Order".
But the Y2K component ended up a bust and it - combined with the criminal convictions of so many people who were associated with the "pay-triot and not-for-prophet" groups - ended up with more people ridiculing - rather than being impressed by - these groups. [end synopsis]
> Are you now expecting the Second Coming in 2012,
I think you may have asked the most interesting question of all those which will be asked in the next eight years: is this, heck, /can/ this be twisted from a calendar in a Western religion to a "religious event" in an Eastern religion.
Now Edgar Cayce was a Presbyterian Sunday School teacher but - I think - he made direct reference to the Mayan Calendar so that would, perhaps, still be too tenuous a link to Christianity.
> or is this just the Second Fleecing? >
My guess is yes. But I still want to know how 2012 is going to be fed to the victims.
Gray Shockley -------------------------------------------------------- When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. -Author Unk
> Yours, > > JP > Happy Harpy >
> +++++++++++++++++++ > > Associated Press, `Second Alleged Militia Member to Remain In Jail,` 040408. > > ERIE, Pa. (AP)— The second of two men federal authorities say sold a > homemade machine gun to an undercover federal agent will also remain in > jail until his trial on federal weapons charges, a magistrate has ruled. > > Federal Magistrate Susan Baxter on Wednesday ordered George Bilunka, 59, > of Atlantic, held without bond after hearing testimony from federal > agents that he had started his own militia and stockpiled weapons at a > homemade bunker in preparation for the end of the world in 2012. > > Bilunka's attorney, David Ridge, unsuccessfully argued that Bilunka > should be allowed out on bail because he has no criminal record and > wasn't likely to flee. > > Federal prosecutors claimed Bilunka is the self-proclaimed leader of a > militia called the Christian American Patriots Survivalists, who believe > that the end of the world is near. Bilunka's goal was to survive until > 2009, when he believed Jesus Christ would return and usher the end of > the world 2012. > > To guarantee his survival, federal prosecutors said Bilunka built a > bunker on his land, about 70 miles north of Pittsburgh, and filled it > with six months of food and supplies. He also stockpiled about 60 > legally owned guns and plenty of ammunition at his home, preparing for a > standoff with authorities, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Marshall Piccinini. > > During testimony, federal agents said they believed Bilunka was more > dangerous than his co-defendant— 55-year-old Darrell Sivik of Meadville, > who is also being held without bond. > > Prosecutors allege Sivik claims to lead another militia and planned to > muster his members at Tionesta Creek in Forest County if government > agents moved against the group. Sivik planned to lead others to a nearby > hunting camp where he had arms stashed for a stand against the government. > > Both men were arrested last month on charges of unlawfully possessing > and transferring a firearm, namely a Sten gun— an easily manufactured > 9mm machine gun developed by the British in World War II. > > Federal prosecutors claim the men sold the machine gun to an undercover > agent for $300 last month. Sivik, a gunsmith, has also been charged with > making the homemade machine gun.
