Paul lives in Germany these days. A former captain in the US Army Ordnance Corps 1983–1993, Paul served during Operation Provide Comfort in 1991, which was a mission to defend Kurds fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War. Though he’d hesitate himself to blame his debilitating lung disease (COPD) on exposure to chemical weapons in Iraq, I’m here to suggest his service cost him years of life. But Paul’s sacrifice and service during the first Gulf War are not what I admire most about him. His devout Orthodox faith and his dogged pursuit of the truths about Russia are. Here is a part of Paul’s unusual story.
How I Got a Life — Paul Joseph Payer
When Twitter was still relatively new, I decided that since it would take a while to get my own commercial site up offering web design ready, I decided to concentrate on promos for human rights issues to do a bit of good while learning how to conquer social media.
I focused mainly on Iran, and other spots where I thought fundamental rights were infringed upon both in law, and how against whom (in an equal protection sense) laws were enforced. Soon, I found myself having to tweet about the worst violations, happening in nations that were allies of the US especially in the “War on Terror.” Saudi Arabia comes most to mind.
Around the time I had the framework for that setup and expanding my tweets, I also indulged my love of creativity, promoting Indi musicians, actors, etc. mixed in with mega hits to generate interest. I also met some that had been A-Listers when I was growing up, honing my skills by working on a friendship/fan basis on Twitter with Mark Lane, Tony Tarantino, Adrienne Barbeau and a few others, and made some lovely friendships. Meeting Bill Zucker though is what took my endeavors into the Promotional Big League. An entertainer on the old Kelsey Grammer Todd HD site, and famous for the TARP song, we met while he was doing a live concert online in Lydia Cornell’s living room of all places. We hit it off and decided to conquer Twitter together, he already with over 100,000 followers. Many a night we would knock heads developing, testing, then honing strategies; to include quick talks in between sets during his live concerts. By the end of it all, at his passing, Billy had just shy of 1 million followers (half of which were deleted by twitter when they started suppression of accounts for business and political reasons), and I had achieved an exposure of well over 12 million accounts per day. Bill himself was never political, stuck to entertainment and the occasional charity. I was about to become extremely political.
At this time, Russia was also a fascination. At the fall of the Soviet Union, while still in the military, I had studied the Tsar and any new info I could find. I was enthralled by the rise of the Orthodox Church once again, in its journey to become a lynch pin once again of Russian society. I almost broke my ribs laughing though when I’d read that the Church had glorified the last Tsar and family as Saints. So, I researched it, re-reading among others Dr. Sutton, the newest cross-referenced findings out of the old Soviet Archives, Russian and then General Eastern Orthodox Church history and doctrine, etc.
About half way through I made the decision to convert to Orthodoxy and the Holy Royal Martyrs Romanov are among my most revered Saints.
As the quality of press reporting continued to degrade to the point of almost pure propaganda and black out, and as the courts neutralized more and more of the US Constitution, coupled with we (US) morphing from fighting terror to starting wars of Empire, more and more my task was getting out accurate information and to combat the now continual war mongering propaganda. It was no longer just a matter of human rights, but of the preservation of what was left off, and that someday, reinstatement of the Constitutional Protections that had made the US Republic unique and exceptional.
South Ossetia, the clear start of a war, actually bombing Russian Military Peace Keepers there by treaty, was a good background from the recent past… the so-called Color Revolution blueprint, of course, being the overthrow of the Tsar and shown with original documentation presented, by Dr. Sutton.
Ukraine, the violent over throw of a democratically elected government, murder and rape in ODESSA while the MSM cheered, outright easily seen thru lies by State Dept., MSM and the govt to include POTUS. Ethnic cleansing of the Russian speaking population that had been there since the 9th Century and had been the clear majority there since the 18th.
Hillary Clinton’s famous “We came, we saw, he died” after the murder and rape of Gadhafi .. and opening the once nation of Libya into a mish mash of areas mostly controlled by ISIS.
Gen. Clark’s revelations of “our allies” founding, funding, and training ISIS to take out Hezbollah, itself founded, funded, and trained to take out the PLO by Mossad.
Because of the absolute incompetence of the US occupation of Iraq, making the need for another war inevitable once ISIS was unleashed on the now Shia rulers of Iraq.
My strategy or types of tweets never really changed in as the US lost more and more of its Republic, and increased the intensity of the wars of Empire. I would research the claims, call out lies or inaccuracies and tweet the facts. Apparently, this made me a Putin troll. It got to the point, especially regarding Ukraine, that I would only call it a day tweeting, once I had received so many death threats, as then I could be assured that I had done my job.
Also as the years went by, the destruction of the US as a Republic was becoming more and more clear. Court rulings weakening some and then almost all aspects of constitutional protections, self-imposed news blackouts, and outright propaganda, CNN selling infomercials presented as news to the highest US Ally bidder, the rise of the Deep State to unprecedented power and for the first time for all practical purposes, rule.
And of course, in my opinion, the reason (working with ISIS / Al Qaida) of Sens McCain, Graham, Rubio, Sec Clinton, Kerry, President Obama, etc. … and the latest; the sitting heads of intelligence agencies and cabinet departments working in the open to take down the elected President of The United States.
Only truly free exchanges of perspectives and accurate information and news can thwart the endless bloodletting of Imperial wars, and lead to the restoration of some semblance of justice and restoration of the Republic. Only these will stop the blood-letting now going on, and the deaths of so many including the now into the millions martyred Christians — the most since Mao’s executions, the attempts to destroy a now free and with the moral values of a Christianized, Russia. A Russia whose values have now come to reflect those of the working-class Americans in the 50s and 60s to include the religious, and those of a striving for liberty, but in the context of Russian culture. The war mongering and outright attacks against her are for the sole reason for fear of economic competition, and the loss of trillions to some back home in deep state war profits. Russia grows because she largely implements the domestic policies that the United States used to, before the Petro Dollar and FED deficit spending.
The wars of Racism, Empire, and Economics, formerly attempted by the Fascists and Communists past, this time done, for all intents and purposes by our US neocons both left and right, in the name of peace and tolerance, while all the while nurturing and using the brutal murderers of organizations such as ISIS.
Witnessing the video of the walk thru in the aftermath of the Odessa Massacre, the rape, execution, and burning alive of children; against such heartless atrocity I will NEVER back down. This destruction of the US Republic and the unleashing of such brutality on the world cannot be allowed to stand.