“A large portion” of the infamous Georgia Guidestones monument was destroyed early Wednesday, when an explosive device detonated, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
“The preliminary information indicates that unknown individuals detonated an explosive device at around 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 6th,” the agency said in a statement.
The blast was captured by CCTV.
The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office is also investigating the explosion, and a bomb squad was called to the scene, according to Fox5 Atlanta.
[Update: The entire structure has now been demolished for safety reasons, according to the GBI].
The blast comes weeks after Georgia’s gubernatorial primary, when third-place Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor said the Guidestones were satanic and that she would make demolishing them part of her platform.
The mysterious monument—also known as “America’s Stonehenge”—was reportedly unveiled in northeastern Elbert County on March 22, 1980, before an audience of 100 to 400 people.
A man using the pseudonym Robert C. Christian commissioned the structure in June of 1979 on behalf of “a small group of loyal Americans.”
Christian said that 19-foot-high monument would function as a compass, calendar, and clock, and should be capable of “withstanding catastrophic events.”
“The Guidestones also serve as an astronomical calendar, and every day at noon the sun shines through a narrow hole in the structure and illuminates the day’s date on an engraving,” the tourism website says, adding that the structure is “mysterious in origin, for no one knows the identity of a group of sponsors who provided its specifications.”
The stones are engraved with ten guidelines for humanity in eight languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. It begins with a chilling message espousing extreme population control.
- Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
- Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
- Unite humanity with a living new language.
- Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
- Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
- Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
- Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
- Balance personal rights with social duties.
- Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
- Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature
The world’s population in 1980 was 4.43 billion. It is now almost 8 billion.
To “maintain humanity under 500 million,” we’d have to eliminate about 90 percent of the current world’s population.
The Guidestones have always been controversial, with detractors labeling them as Satanic, and the “Ten Commandments of the Antichrist.”
“God is God all by Himself. He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones,” Taylor tweeted Wednesday morning.No arrests had been made in the case and the explosion...
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My question is... why would they have this on cctv? Why would they be monitoring it. Truly troubling, in many ways.
ReplyDeleteTry looking on the bright side…
DeleteThey’re GONE!
-Frank
They have been under camera for years as they kept getting vandalized.
DeleteExile1981
How is it that the detonation is recorded, but not the perpetrators>
ReplyDeleteI imagine the images of the perps have been recorded yet not released to the public. Not released because the perps are on 'their side'.
DeleteSo why release the explosion but not the perps? Probably to get the people riled up by creating the perception of vandalism, which all normal people perceive as bad.
And to cast a bad light on Kandiss Taylor.
DeleteThis is Abrams' territory.
I'm sure it was a MOSTLY PEACEFUL explosion...
ReplyDeleteWhat is interesting is the cctv images appear that it was hit with an RPG or something similar.
ReplyDeleteAnd they sure cleared the debris away fast for something you'd think they would want to leave around to collect evidence and analyze.
Just how many rocket launchers are floating around out there anyway? Bet this is REALLY freaking out the authorities.