Alex,
I realize the following will be unlikely to match your escatology . . .
However, I'm increasingly convined that we need to pray for folks such as Crichton.
In fact, I believe we will be increasingly able to guage where we are on the road to the global tyrannical government by:
1. How many of such folks are speaking out against the MSM brainwashing from the puppet masters . . .
then
2. How many of those suddenly have terminal 'accidents' and 'heart attacks' and 'suicides.'
or
3. How many recant vociferously but not very convincingly.