Georgia Guidestones partly wrecked

A bomb – maybe, for the eye- and ear-witness reports are sketchy – has wrecked one of the famous Georgia Guidestones.

Facts on the ground

One of the five standing blocks has collapsed into rubble. The capstone has also suffered damage.

Details on this incident are sketchy, though reports have come in from at least seven sources so far. The sources include Eleven Alive, WSPA-TV, Fox 5 Atlanta, Fox News, WGXA, WYFF-TV, and Telegram user Lauren Witzke.

Media organs have rushed to report – and to find a “rational” (that is, non-spiritual) explanation for what happened. A Twitter user named John Mankey shared this photograph – his or a media photograph, he did not make clear.

The featured (at-top) image in this article comes from Lauren Witzke. In addition, WYFF-TV sent a helicopter to overfly the Georgia Guidestones site, and its crew shot this footage:

At 4:00 a.m. EDT, witnesses heard – and felt – something. Lauren Witzke said the first reports mentioned an earthquake. Elbert County, Georgia, is in a known active earthquake belt. But no one has reported any earthquake in or near the region at or near 4:00 a.m.

The Elbert County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation both blame the damage on an explosion. They have no suspects, “rounded up” or otherwise. But one mystery remains. The chatter on Telegram reveals that the Georgia Guidestones are under continuous camera surveillance. Vandalism against the Georgia Guidestones has been an incessant problem. So: why will no one in authority release the surveillance footage? If someone did set off a bomb on the Guidestones, the sheet of flame would show up.

What are the Georgia Guidestones?

The Georgia Guidestones have stood since 1980, atop a high hill in Elberton, Georgia. No one knows who commissioned or erected them, which is why people call it “America’s Stonehenge.” The architect used the false name “Robert C. Christian” under which he made all the arrangements.

The stones consist of one central slab, with four “projecting” slabs standing around it. A capstone surmounts these five blocks.

The five blocks hold ten specific commands, in English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. The commands are these:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

What has happened to the Georgia Guidestones before today?

The first act of vandalism happened in 2008. Someone defaced the stones with polyurethane paint and spray paint.

They left at least three slogans, among them:

The elite want 80% of us dead. See #1 [above].

In fact, half a billion people is less than twenty percent of humans now living.

More vandalism happened in 2014. Someone spray-painted “I am Isis, Goddess of Love,” “I banish all darkness,” and a few other messages on the stones. An Elbert County Maintenance Department employee called the FBI after that incident. The case is still open.

And now this. And again, surveillance footage should be available. But so far, the only footage we have is from today’s helicopter overflight.

What could have happened this time?

As above, vandalism has been a persistent problem for the Georgia Guidestones since at least 2008. The ten commands, for lack of a better word, would require a totalitarian, even brutal, solution. At present the Earth has nearly eight billion people living on it. To bring that number down to half a billion, nearly ninety percent of human beings would have to die. Either that, or one would have to wait until attrition – from warfare, famine, disease, or simple refusal to have children – took its toll. (The Total Fertility Rate of the United States stands at 1.7, significantly below the most optimistic replacement level. But that’s an average and includes South Dakota and Utah, where fertility exceeds replacement.) The rest of the commands look like New Age mystical commands.

So someone could have tried to blow the Guidestones up. Still, that would be a significant escalation, from painting slogans to using high explosives. Furthermore: where is the surveillance footage? And why does no media source mention it?

Lauren Witzke thinks she knows what happened – namely that this is a literal Act of God.

In fact, one can find precedent for an act of God in the Bible, and specifically in chapter thirteen of the First Book of the Kings. King Jeroboam I, having rebelled against Rehoboam son of Solomon and set up his own kingdom, also built two altars. He was about to burn incense on one, when he had an interruption:

Jeroboam’s hand withers, and the altar breaks apart

Now behold, a man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to burn incense. And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “Altar, altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.’”1 Kings 13:1-2 (NASB)

Then he gave a sign on the same day, saying, “This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn to pieces and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.’”1 Kings 13:3 (NASB)

Now when the king heard the statement of the man of God which he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” But his hand which he had stretched out toward him dried up, and he could not draw it back to himself. The altar also was torn to pieces and the ashes were poured out from the altar, in accordance with the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.1 Kings 13:4-5 (NASB)

King Josiah of Judah, second of the Great Reformers, did exactly as that prophecy said. (2 Kings 23:20)

Back to the Georgia Guidestones – a blasphemous message, and inconsistent reports

Details of the latest incident to the Georgia Guidestones remain sketchy. In fact the “ear-witness” accounts are inconsistent. One witness says he lives a mile away from the Stones and heard and felt nothing. But others talk of something booming, making enough noise to wake them, or shaking their homes.

Arguably the ten “guidelines,” or commands, on the Stones constitute a direct attack on God and His message. Keep the human population under half a billion? “Reason” superseding faith and tradition? “Harmony with nature”? These are commands to worship the creation, not the Creator.

So: have we seen an act of God? Or did someone with a merely human motivation try to blow the Stones up? Is the GBI telling the truth – or making it up as they go? And where is the hard, objective evidence for a bomb? Stay tuned.

Postscript:

Authorities have leveled the remaining parts of the Georgia Guidestones by now. More tomorrow.