As I indicated here, this is the promised book review with the above title. Enjoy! You can also read the review here.

Saboteurs ASIN: B078WF52H3

Thomas Horn, is sadly no longer alive. Fortunately, he has left some of his work behind as a kind of legacy. In The Saboteurs he outlines many pieces of what he believes are connected shadow government entities that are gradually attempting to control America and also the world.

The usual suspects are present. There is the Vatican, Bohemian Grove, Masons, and nearly any other “secret organization” that comes to mind. Where most authors go wrong in this kind of analysis is that they begin to examine a given arm of any of these organizations and then interpret the symbolism of that specific piece. Horn, on the other hand, finds the unifying narrative with Biblical underpinnings that all of them are engaged in doing it would seem, and then explains their behaviors and symbols in terms of that identification. This keeps the work from being a type of fragmented, disjointed narrative that traces nefarious kinds of influence.

This work was written in 2017, and so it naturally looks forward to the Donald Trump versus the globalists narrative that took place. Horn rightly notes the media at first thought Trump was a joke, and then became serious later as the American media is controlled by globalist influences. As Trump came from “outside” the normal political clubs, he was not warmly welcomed by either his own party or the opposing party. The media also disliked this, and so pounced upon him and his administration.

The Saboteurs posits that all these career politicians are under one kind of influence that come from the spiritual conspiracy it outlines. It uses many quotes from the people themselves to prove these facts. One such quote is from Obama wherein he states, “Whatever it is that we were, we are no longer a Christian nation”. There are also references to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and correspondence between he and his vice-president, Wallace, that have stilted, occult, coded verbiage implying something about the nature of their beliefs and what they were doing while they were in office.

Much of what Horn outlines here actually happened in one way or another in the intervening time since 2017. There is, however, one problem with Horn’s scholarship, outstanding as it is, in terms of easily explaining complicated tendrils of nastiness. He tends to give these organizations perhaps too much credit for their plans. An example might be the US Founding Fathers. He correctly notes that Benjamin Franklin had many morally questionable activities. He infers that part of what was motivating Franklin where these kinds of organizations and so Franklin was interested in founding the US in the interests of these entities. On the other hand, Franklin was a politician and an ambassador to France. How many people could hold those positions without being in the kinds of “clubs” Horn outlines?

Indeed, though he is not directly mentioned in this book, it is well known that Mark Twain wrote about Israel as a kind of prophetic fulfillment despite Mark Twain knowing anything about what he was doing. The founder of Bohemian Grove himself, it seems, was used by God to write about the purposes and plans of God. It brings to mind the quote from Corinthians where it is noted that “…the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom.” So, really, it does not matter so much what the plans of all these groups are. One should of course, not be blind to them and what they hope to do. What takes precedence is what God is doing or has done. Therefore, whatever the beliefs of the US Founding Fathers, the question is not so much what they believed so much as it is what God was doing when He used them to found the country. The most nefarious secret plans of the past were confounded by the same God that will confound them again.

Another “Christian problem” this book outlines is the tendency also to see the Anti-Christ everywhere. Again, this is not to say a believer should be blind, but while the book considers whether or not certain organizations or spiritual beliefs might produce such a thing, one wonders if such introspection is being utilized on the sponsors and advertisers that make people like Horn able to be authors in what is a kind of niche, apocalyptic field.

Toward the end of the book, Horn allows some other authors to voice some of their perspectives, rather akin to the panel on Skynews which is a show that Horn helped to found. One of these authors speaks about a concept called Christian Dominionism, which believes that Christians should politically take over the world and impose their morality on everyone else. It is a curious fact that a company called Dominion was heavily involved in the US election as it dealt in software that was supposed to ensure secure voting. Whatever the case with the voting claims, something asserted dominion, whether it was Christian or not (subsequent actions suggest not). The debate is a distraction since one should simply do whatever it is that God is directing them to do. All Power rests with Him, ultimately. For some, that might mean being a politician. For others, it might not be. A Christian, however, ought to be able to recognize that the world surely is not going to be a better place by sitting around and praying and never taking action on the nature of what that prayer life reveals. Taking over the world and imposing Christian morality is not really necessary since the morality there underlies all moral decisions when understood rightly. The Bible is all ready the definition of morality, and righteousness. There is no world to take over, since the only thing required is for the world to recognize what is right, and therefore righteous.

Other voices at the end of the book do a better job with this in suggesting that faith should produce action. The problem with all of the voices toward the end, though, is they “weaken” the narrative of the book that Horn has developed. It’s rather like listening to several sermons after a guest lecturer. The sermons are, of course, great on their own, but they do not fit well with what Horn has put together. Some of the voices actually detract in that they introduce other elements that are not necessarily relevant. Such are the troubles with panels of speakers. If the focus is not clearly outlined, the product is often commentary that touches on but is not directed at the topic. A book could easily be written about any of the introduced speaker subjects alone, but then, that is not why one is reading Horn’s book. The purchase was not “Reasons the economy is going to be hard to fix for Trump,” but we get that anyway. Curiously absent from the reason that the economy might be hard to fix is the suspicion, normally ubiquitous throughout the work, that the economy itself MIGHT BE RUN BY THE ANTICHRIST. Of course, everybody, one supposes, has to draw their conspiracy shadow paranoia lines somewhere. Where those lines are drawn, though, tells you much about the person supposing them.

If Horn were still alive, it would be great to have a follow-up work to this one. Perhaps one exists that I will find since his death was relatively recent in 2023. What did he think, one wonders, about how things played out during Trump’s presidency and what did it mean to these shadowy orders? What about the medical system? What about technology? What about blue chip stocks, and 401ks? There are many questions this reader wishes Horn’s commentary extended to. For what it did extend to, however, Horn did an excellent job.