February 25, 2016 03:10 PM UTC

Peggy Littleton Warns of "Electromagnetical Pulses," Martial Law

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• by: Colorado Pols

A noteworthy clip of video forwarded to us (above) from last summer of El Paso County commissioner-turned U.S. Senate candidate Peggy Littleton, speaking at the “Breaking the Silence” Christian activist conference hosted by the hard-right Alliance Defending Freedom. In this video, Littleton is making a sales pitch for an outfit called the Christian Emergency Network, which sells “advanced training, emergency supplies, and emergency response gear from our partners” to evangelical Christians and the churches they attend.

Littleton’s pitch for the Christian Emergency Network is, well, kind of freaky:

So what you saw here is, that the emphasis is not on disaster relief agencies like the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, or on government, like Homeland Security, or the county, or FEMA, but the focus was on us. Our churches, our community. My Christian Emergency Network is just a disaster organization. It’s not a disaster responder as we would make–as we understand it. The focus here today is really on what we can do. How we can be equipped to handle a crisis and emergencies that happen in our communities.

Whether that be something that’s local, a fire a flood or a tornado, or something that impacts us from a national level. An emergen-um, an EMP or electromagnetical pulse that takes down our power grid. A pandemic. A, um, a cyber attack on whatever systems that may be, or a financial crisis. Those impact us even though they occur nationally and could shut us down.

So what I’m sharing with you today is to help equip our church to help us to handle localized emergencies. What about martial law? What if something like that happens? All I ask of you is, we live in perilous times. [Pols emphasis] And while we pray and plan for the future, while we pray for God’s revival and harvest, it’s still incumbent upon us to be prepared. To have a plan. And to know how to respond in a Christianlike way. Because what we don’t want to do is not be prepared. And then that one second after say, “I wish I would have.”

As many of our readers know, an “electromagnetical pulse” taking down the national power grid followed by “martial law” is a favorite scenario of the vast-government-conspiracy Alex Jones wing of the conservative movement. There’s nothing inherently wrong with churches making plans to cope with disaster that might affect their members, of course, but it becomes a question of what they’re actually preparing for. A fire? A flood? A tornado? Sure.

Stormtroopers in the streets after the government fries the power grid? Probably not, folks.

But hey, whatever sells subscriptions.