Well... Like I said, I personally accept Mr. Bernard. His interviews strike me as authentic.

I think the issue that some critics have goes to the basic cognitive dissonance associated with exposing this evil. Like voting for an old time politician... they have to imagine an idealized person. If a victim or whistleblower comes forward to tell us about these things, immediately a majority will reject the story, and if pressed, they will look at every aspect of that person’s life through a highly critical lense. Their associations and occupations become suspect.

For example, some people apply this rubric: “Mr. Bernard is still involved somehow in finance (I think this is true... not sure); ergo he is not credible.”

Any reasonable person can separate his occupation from his testimony and see that they do not conflict. It’s just his job.

The problem stems from the nature of evil. When real evil is exposed to a person... it’s unacceptable. The mind can’t take it. We want to imagine a hero inside of each of us, capable of standing up and resisting the monstrous activities that have taken place in history, but the fact is that we all likely would fall into the categories of ‘collaborators’, ‘deniers’ or even ‘willful participants’.

We are fortunate to live in the bubble of protected society, where the madness of evil is only on the edges of our lives, hidden. We may choose to watch violence and evil as entertainment; knowing or believing it to be fake diversion. In ancient times, even up to the beginning of the modern era, this was not so. Ultra violence was a mandatory, state-sponsored community activity. On my honeymoon, I visited the pyramids of Cancun. At first, it was a lark.

But then the tour guide told us about the sacrifices. In anthropology classes, and personal research I leraned a reality. Have you ever seen that movie “Apokalypto”? It’s tame compared to the true story. Imagine what happens when crime scene investigators use luminal and their UV flashlight in a hotel room. Gross body fluid deposits can be seen everywhere. No imagine the Aztec pyramids. Every step, stone and stelae... covered with blood and guts... every day. For centuries. Imagine the culture that maintains that level of ultra violence.

When the tour guide took us to the cenote (a circular pond, more than a hundred feet deep), she told us about the bodies disposed of their, stacked up so high from the bottom, that the bottom was unreachable through the pile of bones under the water. Imagine commerce and daily routine in THAT culture. Realize that it wasn’t just Aztecs. Virtually every region worldwide echado a similar period in early history.

The lands around Israel are a prime example. People criticize the Bible, for its accounts of violent destruction of the cultures surrounding the early Israelite nation. The Bible only touches on the depravity of those cultures briefly. It’s the archaeologist’s lament. A prospective archaeologist can go to that area and excavate. It’s like a gruesome lottery, though. There is a chance of making a great historical find: maybe a fragment of an ancient scroll, or discoveryping a lost settlement, or a trophy from an ancient battle. But when they find an altar to Baal or Molech or Dagoth... it’s time to stop. If the find a sacred pole if Ashtoreth... it’s time to give up. Why? Because nobody wants to discover the gruesome second part: the pit of skeletal remains that accompanies that altar or sacred pole. There are uncounted sites all around the ancient Bible lads. The Israelites were surrounded by nations that practiced these evil religions, and the pits typically have the remains of thousands of chopped up and burned and smashed women, girls, children and infants.

It’s unthinkable. The mind can’t process it.in all of history, sane people have been introduced to these realities and faced them alone. Only a few moments in history allowed such ‘good’ people to band together and try to turn the tide. The most recent time before this arguably birthed western civiliazation. You and I are fortunate enough to be able to participate in a group of such individuals that support and strengthen each other, motivating each other to maintain our values and virtues and take a stand.

In history, most people like us were cowed and ran away and turned a blind eye. That is happening now around us as well. That, in my opinion, is why people are eager to be discredit Bernard and the like. Victims like Fiona Barnett and others are treated so badly.... beyond skepticism, partly because they take a stand against an implacable enemy, but also because of the sanity-preserving cognitive dissonance that humans tend to blanket their minds with.

I believe this evil is in its last us. Right now there are more people than ever in history, ready to see the truth exposed and in a position to see it righteously ended once and for all. Expect resistance. The monsters won’t go quietly. Keep up the good work. Take pride on downvotes. It means you did your part.