“You, my poor, pitiful brothers and sisters, you are opting to be a part of that that is unraveling right in front of your eyes. You see the country cascading downward.”
—The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, “The Unraveling of a Great Nation,” address to close the Nation of Islam’s 2020 Saviours’ Day national convention.
Hurricane Helene devastated mountainous parts of North Carolina, ostensibly wiping away the town of Asheville, and leaving Americans without electricity, water, food, transportation, communication and medicine.
Their federal government showed up to help. Instead of a hearty welcome, some were met with threats. One man was arrested with a rifle and a handgun and there were worries of roving armed, anti-government militias.
The problem was a distrust of government combined with growing division, increasingly bitter political, social discord and even hatred in the United States.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his surrogates denounced the government as untrustworthy, lying thieves who didn’t care about suffering citizens and wanted to steal their land.
On social media and right-wing media there were declarations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency wanted to take land because of lithium deposits. Some blamed government weather manipulation technology for the disasters. Experts stressed the government cannot control the weather.
Companies who have already bought land and would mine lithium, that is used in electric vehicles, smartphones and laptop computers, say claims of a land grab are false.
Mining lithium in North Carolina now is too expensive and the places where mining is planned aren’t near devastated areas like Asheville, N.C., and Chimney Rock, N.C., reported PolitiFact.
The anti-government threats were so severe that FEMA halted door-to-door visits but resumed them Oct. 14.
FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell, speaking the next day in a briefing, said, “The federal family has been here working side by side with the state since day one.
These are people who put their lives on hold to help those who have lost everything. So let me be clear. I take these threats seriously,” she said in an Associated Press report.
According to the White House, nearly 8,000 federal personnel remain on the ground working side-by-side with state and local officials to help survivors with recovery and rebuilding. The Biden administration has approved more than $1.8 billion in assistance for hurricane recovery efforts, the White House added.
“This includes assistance for individuals—including funding for temporary housing, essential needs like food, water, baby formula, and other emergency supplies—as well as public assistance to states for costs related to debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures, and restoring public infrastructure, including roads, bridges, schools, and courthouses,” the Oct. 16 statement said.
“In North Carolina, where the Administration continues to surge resources, more than $100 million in assistance has been approved for more than 77,000 survivors,” it added.
“For those affected by Hurricane Helene, FEMA has approved over $911 million, which includes $581 million in assistance for individuals and affected communities and over $330 million for public assistance costs like debris removal and other activities to save lives, protect public health and safety, prevent damage to public and private property, and restore public infrastructure.”
“Helene decimated remote towns throughout Appalachia, left millions without power, knocked out cellular service and killed at least 246 people. It was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005,” the Associated Press observed.
The stress and threats are taking a toll on FEMA workers and volunteers. One volunteer who uses therapy dogs to help people deal with disasters told the Associated Press, “I’m not coming to risk my life with it all, to be shot or hurt or trampled because of lunacy.”
In the past the woman said she has helped out after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, floods in Virginia and tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama, the wire service reported.
What are we looking at when a government shows up with aid after a major disaster and those needing help respond with threats and weapons?
“You see the country cascading downward. You see the moral fiber of America getting into the gutter. Who wants a membership in a house of whores? Bought and paid for leaders. … ” said the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on February 23, 2020, in an address closing the Nation of Islam’s Saviours’ Day national convention.
“When you unravel something, you undo twisted, knitted, or woven threads; you investigate and solve or explain something complicated or puzzling,” he said.
“There’s a verse in the Qur’an, it’s in the 16th surah, the 92nd verse and it says, ‘Be not like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces, after she has spun it strongly.’
Her here is not talking about a woman, as such, but if you see somebody knitting something, with a design, and they leave it not secured one stitch; and then the same woman who stitched it strongly starts pulling on the yarn that she has knitted until it comes to pieces.
“That’s what’s happening to America as we speak. America was not built on a firm foundation. Although the weaving was done strongly, the nation called America was doomed from its inception. How do you build a nation killing the native people?
How do you build a nation, bringing a whole people out of Africa to America to be made slaves? This is your foundation, so for them to lie to you, and make you think that America is a land of promise for you, and you believe it; no wonder Jesus said, You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free,” the Minister added.
America is falling. It’s evidenced not just by threats and weapons aimed at disaster relief workers, it’s also found in polls where millions of Americans believe a civil war or civil unrest are coming to their country.
Other research shows millions of U.S. citizens want to secede from the United States, alongside a deep lack of faith and intense skepticism about government and other bedrock institutions, such as Congress and the media.
How can a country fraught with evil and these internal divisions and enmities survive? She can’t.
—Naba’a Muhammad, Editor-in-Chief, The Final Call
