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2002 Conference
Attack on America, A Wake-up Call for
the West
(January 19-20, 2002)
Four months have passed since the brutal
attacks of September 11th, but as the smoke clears at ground zero,
the world emerges to face an all-important decision. Will it return
to God and thus arise stronger, and more ready to face the challenges
of an uncertain future, or will it allow evil to continue unabated
and thus call down upon itself the great chastisements Our Lady
predicted at Fatima? With this in mind, the American Society for
the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) gathered men
from France, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the United States
for a weekend to get acquainted with the thought of the TFP founder
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Held at the American TFP Pennsylvania
headquarters the 2002 University Student Seminar was titled, Attack
on America: A Wake-up Call for the West. Fr. Trouxessec and Prince
Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza also attended as guests of honor.
The program began on Saturday January 19th.
After Mass and breakfast, French TFP veteran, Mr. Nelson Fragelli,
gave the first two meetings on The Three Revolutions1, a basic presentation
of the philosophy of the TFP.
In these talks, Mr. Fragelli first colorfully
characterized the order of Medieval Christendom, emphasizing the
natural hierarchy which, far from crushing inferiors, served as
a staircase of authority which linked all of society to the heights
of heaven.
He then outline the different stages of a
five-centuries-old process, coined the Revolution by Prof. Corrêa
de Oliveira, which used the disorderly passions of pride and sensuality
to systematically destroy every aspect of this medieval order, starting
with the Protestant Revolution, continuing with the French Revolution
and finishing with the Communist Revolution.
But, the process did not end there. In the
next talk, American TFP speaker Mr. John Horvat discussed the emerging
Fourth Revolution. With communism all external and political hierarchy
of the medieval order was broken. The Fourth Revolution now targets
the mind in an effort to break down all barriers of individuality.
This process prepares the way for a utopian society of complete
liberty and absolute equality.
After Sunday morning Mass, sung by the American
TFP choir, Mr. Horvat gave the first meeting of the day titled,
Targeting America, A Look at Our Post 9-11 World. In it he offered
the well-developed hypothesis that the ultimate target of the 9-11
attacks was the American structure of order. This order, although
not perfect, is the dike holding back the tide of the Fourth Revolution.
The American TFP President Raymond Drake,
presented Revolutionary Islam - A Renewed Assault on Christendom.
He showed the existence, within the Moslem world, of a radical movement
he termed Revolutionary Islam led by the Moslem Brotherhood, which,
heavily influenced by Marxist philosophy, promotes the Revolutionary
process and a hardly concealed assault on the Catholic Church.
His Highness Prince Bertrand gave the final
meeting, The Position of the Counter-Revolution in Face of Current
Events. Defining this position, Prince Bertrand quoted Prof. Corrêa
de Oliveira who said, "In times of great crisis there are two
types of men: those who are overwhelmed by the crisis and those
who rise up to resist the trend of events and so change the course
of history."
The Counter-revolution's position is to rise
up, resist the trend of events and change history. Using logic and
supported by the prophesies of Saints throughout history, Prince
Bertrand then proved that the victory of the Counter-revolution
is irreversible.
After attending the 29th annual March for
Life in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, the conference attendees returned
home, with renewed strength and better equipped for life after the
attack on America, which all were convinced had been a wake-up call
for the West.
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