Art Crow is a former U.S. Army Military Police Investigator, platoon sergeant, and operations sergeant. In his civilian career, he was a regional security manager with global responsibilities for an Internet infrastructure company and was the security team lead on the company’s business continuity and disaster recovery team in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He was also a regional director and director of special projects for an international security contractor and an independent security consultant. Art is also a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Sustainable Development Foundation, a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization and registered NGO in East Africa that provides relief and assistance to refugees in the war-torn regions of South Sudan and Gambia, Ethiopia.
Art is a proud tribal member of the Lenape’ Nation of Pennsylvania. He is currently retired and lives in Indiana, where he enjoys fishing, barbequing, and morning coffee looking out over the lake.
Why I Write
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. – Erin Morrison
Having successfully dipped my toes into the writer’s world with Facility Security Principles for Non-Security Practitioners (2018) and needing more to do in my retirement years, I decided to wander further into these new waters. Instead of sticking to the comfortable world I had roamed for 40+ years, I stepped into the oh-so-forbidden sociopolitical realm. Partly because of the challenge, partly because my daughter has always told me that I am the only person she can have a reasonable political discussion with – I’m on the center-right, and she leans more to the left – but more specifically because I wanted to understand what lays at the root of the of our current deleterious sociopolitical discourse.
I was halfway through my research and first rough draft of With Malice Aforethought: Hijacking the American Republic when I came across Erin Morrison’s quote during my daily brain exercise with morning coffee – Cryptograms. Moreover, I do not believe that quote could have popped up at a more appropriate time. I remember questioning myself about the idea of writing the book. Asking what in the hell I had gotten myself into. Had I bitten off more than I could chew? Would my time have been better spent doing something else? Then, the cryptogram puzzle popped up on my cellphone, and solving it motivated me to soldier on and get the job done.
I’m gonna tell ya right now: I am by no means an apostle, philosopher, or visionary of any ideological belief, a wanna-be leader of any social movement, or envision myself as anything other than an ordinary man blessed with a good heart, common sense, and curious mind. I also have the unique ability to break down complex information and present it in everyday language that can withstand the most brutal academic scrutiny but, at the same time, doesn’t require the reader to possess a Ph.D. to understand the information I am putting before them. This is especially important when examining sociopolitical issues and the inherent vagaries that dominate social discourse.
While most people know what socialism and communism are on an elementary level, very few possess a deeper understanding of their ideological roots or historical impacts on society, let alone the ideological subversion necessary to transform free societies into socialism and its end goal of communism. Even the proponents of socialism, especially the younger generations, when asked what socialism and communism are, cannot answer the question when asked what it is. They think socialism is better than capitalism, but they have no idea what it is. I wrote With Malice Aforethought: Hijacking the American Republic: to let people know what socialism and communism entail, how the ideological subversion process works, and how it creates social division and heightens divisive social discourse to achieve its goals. If nothing else, I hope that the information in the book, the resource links on this site, and the Author’s Blog – or Things That Make You Go Hmmm… – are educational and inspire you to become part of a movement, any movement, to stop the madness before it consumes society and we step off the cliff into the socialist abyss.
When our history is erased, our words are censored, our freedoms taken away, and we are waiting in food lines for handouts from the all-powerful government machine, what will we tell our children, our grandchildren, and their children were our reasons for not speaking up sooner and taking action to stop the madness before it consumed society?