Good!

Blowback from Apostates of Liberty

A great discussion has been opened by the earlier post regarding the Apostates of Liberty.

One comment that helped to stir the pot was offered by Shadowfox 24 who had this to say in reply:

Perhaps if you’d listened for more than a “blurb” you’d have heard Rush go on to make all your points about these rent-a-mobs, their leaders and the Dem politicians before you did.

Perhaps if you’d listen for more than a “blurb” you’d realize that the ONLY people pushing the birth certificate “ad infinitum/ad nauseum” are Libertarian bloggers. The rest of us moved on the real damage the 2nd openly Communist presidency has been doing long ago.

Perhaps if you listened for more than a “blurb” you’d know that he pushes people to action EVERY SINGLE DAY. What he refuses to do is to do it for you! He’s not going to fund your movements for you. He’s not going to get signatures for your petitions for you. He’s not going to make your phone calls for you and he’s not going to pressure your elected officials for you. Physician heal thyself! aka If you want action then be the action!

I wouldn’t be a conservative and wouldn’t be politically active/aware if not for Rush. He provided the spark in my life and now I provide my own momentum. But if you’ve waiting for Rush to come on air and advocate that elected Dems start being made to dance the ‘Mussolini Shuffle’ then you’re going to be waiting a long damn time, thank God…

My response:

Oooh! I insulted the great Maha-Rushie!

 

Good!

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Then tell him and his 20 million listeners to come onto my site and prove me wrong.  I’ll gladly accept his wrath and that of his audience.  I dare the great one to come out and crush me with the dull edge of his rapier like wit.  Bring it on.  There’s a lot that we agree on, but if Rush or any of his listeners would like to explain to why a plummeting airliner that’s lost power and controls won’t crash into earth, I’m all ears.

As far as me only listening to a blurb, Rush’s suggestion is that you have to listen to his show for about 6 weeks before you really start to get it all into context.  Which means that after 6 weeks, you start hearing themes repeated.  The more you listen, the more you find that you only need a blurb to figure out on your own, the rest of what he’s got to say.  Which is exactly what I did.  Your comment confirms that.  Thanks!

When I started listening to Rush in the summer of 1993, I had to listen for about those 6 weeks before my mind was changed from ignorant to conservative.  This is about the same length of time that it took me in the summer of 2009 reading sites like Western Rifle Shooters and Sipsey Street Irregulars before my mind was changed again from conservative to Liberty minded.

If a 6 week rule is good enough for him, then it’s good enough for me.  If you come to my site, or any of my linked sites and read for about  6 weeks and you’ll get it all in context.  Otherwise, you’ll get the half of the message.  Will you hear some things repeated?  Sure.  After all, who can forget Cliffs rock star, Xochitl Hinojosa?

Conservatism is holding the line.  Conserving.  Holding the line sounded good in 1993.  In 2011, what “line” is there to hold?  The Patriot Act snoops into every corner of our lives.  The TSA molests us at the airport.  Obamacare is passed.  The EPA wants to regulate an element of the periodic table.  QE2 has been committed.  Our borders are a joke and our chosen one sues states to keep it this way.  Freedom requires going on offense.  For some reason, conservatives are unable or unwilling to do this.

In the way of action, I joined others in shouting down Hillary’s healthcare bus.  I stood with about a dozen other people on the side of a busy highway in the cold, pouring rain in February, 2009 as we birthed the Tea Party movement.  I have stood on the sidewalk outside the Federal Reserve in Atlanta with an M-1 Garand.  I have stood up with an AR-15 on my back, within sight of the Capitol Dome, in full view of a hundred cameras, reporters, and probably the Death Star itself and called our government Commiekazis.  In the way of action, many have done and given more than I have.  But I have nothing to apologize for or be ashamed of.

Some of my readers pointed out some things that I should have thought of.  Like how we who stood up at RTC rallies were smeared from the left and ignored by the right.  The silence from the right was worse than anything the left could say or do.  At a time when we really needed friends, we found out that we had few-if any.

I believe in that the time after 4-19-10, I got to feel a little of the burden of Patrick Henry.

 

…[I]t is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the numbers of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?

Later, Henry in a thunderous closing that echoes Joshua 24:15 says this:

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Read it all. How amazing the currency of his heart, his thoughts and his words!

Patrick Henry’s speech was not addressed to the crown. It was addressed to the good men around him as a call to cease indulging the illusions of hope, face the truth, and join the battle where it actually is (not where they imagined it to be.)  His speech took place at a time when death seemed a much more likely outcome than liberty.  Standing on this side of history, it’s all too easy for us to take his words and his heart for granted since we know the outcome.
I believe these apostates of liberty that I wrote about are indulging in the illusions of hope.  Some commenters have pointed out that the FCC might yank their licenses if they “went too far.”  Well isn’t that too bad?  How does that compare to what the founders went through?  And say, wouldn’t a yanked license or two prove my point?

“If you people don’t stop this, and now is the time and place, you people wouldn’t make a pimple on a fighting GI’s ass. Get guns.” – Bill White, Athens, Tennessee.  1946

So one more time, how much did our founders have to sacrifice?  How can we be unwilling to repeat the sacrifice of our founding fathers, yet still claim to honor them?  God help us.

Finally, if nothing I’ve written gets through or connects with you, what size boots do you wear? Posted by Alvie D. Zane

Enemy troops on the move

Updated: Don’t forget.

If Madison, Wisconsin = Cairo, Egypt, then the

Thugnuts (the SSEIU types)  = Muslim Brotherhood

Multiculturalism an Abysmal Failure – Worldwide!

Multiculturalism an Abysmal Failure – Worldwide!

From EUROPE, no less, comes the word: Failure! It is used to reference multiculturalism.

From England, from France, from Germany — the leaders of all three countries decry multiculturalism as a failure.

I must tell you that when I heard the news reports on this I cracked up with laughter.

I swear, sometimes the sheer idiocy of man is just immeasurable. The endeavor to foist multiculturalism on human beings was one of those totally nonsensical ideas of the bleeding heart lefties that was doomed from the “git-go” It has single-handedly caused deep hatred, suspicion, derision, and it has led to revolutions, and populations at each other’s throats in countries all over the globe where its practice was instituted — including the United States.

Now – can we get back to some common sense for a while? I know that is a commodity much in demand and sorely short in supply, especially on the left side of the political spectrum.

Contrary to what you may have been taught, multiculturalism did NOT make America great. On the contrary! It was that unique American culture forged in the crucible of the so-called “melting pot.” People of various cultures coming to America to actually become AMERICANS created it. They assimilated and poured bits of their unique cultures into that melting pot where it was blended with all the rest before being ladled out into the mold stamped “Made in America.”

It was dumb beyond measure to ever believe that multiple cultures could exist under one flag. Some cultures will simply run rough shod over other cultures. It is the way of the human animal.

From nations, to clans, to tribes, to families, each has its own culture. In order to live together peaceably we all have to sublimate our personal cultures to that of the country we choose to call home. Otherwise, there is no country.

When people of the same culture clump together they form clans, or tribes, and that will doom a nation. As evidence, I offer Afghanistan, and most of the Middle East. Why do you think Africa, one of the richest continents on the globe, (with the earth’s natural resources) is home to some of the most backward countries in the world where civil unrest and poverty rule the masses? THAT is a prime example of multiculturalism at its finest.

So what has suddenly opened the eyes of national leaders in Europe to the failure of multiculturalism? The answer is right in front of our eyes. The culture of those who practice Islam as a religion, as a way of life, with the total refusal to assimilate into the culture of the host nation within which they have chosen to reside does cause a problem and, at some point will kindle an explosion of resentment. At some point, the refusal to identify with the people of the host nation will inevitably create friction that will spark violence leading to the deaths of many of the citizens of the host country. The next step is all out war with an escalating body count.

Look. We can parse this any way we want – but the plain truth is — all this talk of the failure of multiculturalism was brought to the fore by the Islamist movement worldwide. The European governments have had their eyes opened to the threat to the peoples of their countries and the governments of their countries by Sharia law.

The governments of England, France, and Germany are far ahead of the government of the US. But they don’t have a pro-Islamist President as does the US.

Oh, one other thing. There is no such thing as multiculturalism under the rule of Islam. There is one way, one culture, one religion … Islam.

Here in the US we cannot expect our current crop of leaders to take the bold stand the leaders of Europe have taken and denounce multiculturalism. Oh, no. See, that would be politically incorrect. No one, it seems, on our side of the pond has the courage to actually state, out loud, the thing that everyone knows – the king has no clothes – Multiculturalism is an abject, abysmal, failure with the overwhelming potential to completely crush a country, and bring collapse and ruin to its government, as well.

It isn’t often that I praise the governments of England, France, and Germany. But this time, they deserve accolades for having the courage to speak the truth and hopefully open the eyes to the rest of the western world to the danger of multiculturalism.

But I don’t expect the same thing here. Not from our current President. If anything, he may apologize for, well, heck, he’ll find SOMETHING for which to apologize! Maybe he’ll apologize for Americans stalling his agenda for the “fundamental change” he promised during his campaign. Whatever.

We applaud the leaders of England, France, and Germany for telling the truth to their people and we recommend it to the US leader, Barack Obama.

February 14, 2011

~ The Author ~
J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.

He is a thirty-year veteran of the broadcasting business, as an “in the field” and “on-air” news reporter (contributing to radio, TV, and newspapers) and a conservative broadcast commentator.

Longstreet is a veteran of the US Army and US Army Reserve. He is a member of the American Legion and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. A lifelong Christian, Longstreet subscribes to “old Lutheranism” to express and exercise his faith.

Federal Observer contributing columnist, J. D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom.

Are We About To Reap What We Have Sown?

Ross: Are We About To Reap What We Have Sown?

It has been about a week since I wrote my last commentary and since then I have been doing a lot of thinking. You wanna know what I’ve been thinking? I’ve been thinking, “What the hell is the use?”

Part of that may be due to the fact that, instead of confronting me personally, some chicken shit son of a bitch went and cried to human resources, saying that what I had written offended them.

But that’s not all. This sentiment has been growing inside me for quite some time now. I just feel like I am fighting a losing battle and would be better off spending my time doing something productive, rather than trying to awaken a nation of sleeping ignoramuses.

In 1980 Neil Young produced an album entitled Hawks and Doves. On side B of the vinyl version there was a song called Comin’ Apart At Every Nail. From that song I quote, “Oh, this country sure looks good to me. But these fences are comin’ apart at every nail.” That’s about the way I have been feeling lately. I see this country comin’ apart at every nail.

If you have paid any attention to the news lately you will know that there are some serious fights taking place in both the federal, and sundry state governments. The Republicans appear to be making some attempts to limit the amount of spending in the federal and state legislatures, but are coming up against stiff opposition from Democrats and the people who these budget cuts will affect.

As I was watching the news the other night I remember seeing one Congressman saying that every time he passed through an airport he saw numerous TSA employees just standing around, that this was an area that could be cut back on to save money.

All this sounds good…on the surface. If you ask me these proposed cuts don’t go nearly far enough. I think that there are entire government agencies that should be shut down…permanently! It’s well past time the government had all this control over our lives. Shut these agencies down and let the states, or the people regulate their lives once more. We also need to make certain we close the doors on those agencies which take money from those who work, and give it to others in the form of subsidies and benefits.

The other day I got into a discussion with a few people on a Facebook thread regarding the making of the book Atlas Shrugged into a movie. There were a couple people who voiced the opinion that it is our responsibility to provide for all the homeless and those who are ill and cannot afford health care.

I mentioned that charity is fine, but mandated charity, when someone taxes me to provide for those less fortunate is both unconscionable and unconstitutional. That is coercion plain and simple. It is the same as if I came to your house and told you that you will spend a certain percentage of your pay for a specific purpose that you disagreed with.

Thomas Jefferson had much to say about this particular subject. He once wrote, “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

Furthermore, Jefferson said, “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

And finally, he said, “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

I admit that there are people out there who have lost their homes and their jobs and are facing some very rough times. But there are two things people need to realize. First, is that things are going to get worse. Second is that if we continue to allow government, at all levels, to pay benefits for these people, then the whole house of cards is going to collapse.

Face it people, this country is broke, bankrupt, and in debt up to its ears. The federal government has accumulated a debt of $14 trillion and currently is facing a $1.3 trillion dollar shortfall in funds. That means they are going to have to borrow $1.3 trillion more to keep at their current spending levels.

The various states are also facing serious budget shortfalls. My own state of California has been mismanaged for so long that it has a $366 billion dollar debt and is facing a $28 billion deficit.

We just cannot continue with business as usual if this country is going to have any chance at all for survival. The FED has promised more rounds of Quantative Easing, which is merely the printing up of more money to infuse into the economy to artificially keep it afloat. All that is going to do is cause more inflation, making the dollars you do earn lose more of their buying power. Prices will continue to rise, and people will find it harder and harder to make ends meet.

I hate to be the one who says I told you so, but we have done this to ourselves. We are reaping what we have sown. For far too long people have trusted the government to do what they thought was in their best interest and the best interest of the country overall. In the process of ignoring what their government has been doing, their elected officials have slowly dismantled what was once a manufacturing giant with a vibrant middle class, to a nation on the verge of collapse.

Some of you may be too young to remember, but Made In the USA used to mean something. It was a mark of value and craftsmanship. Now go into your local WalMart and check the tags on what you buy. You’ll see that the majority of the items are manufactured in countries like China, Mexico, Taiwan, and Pakistan.

Companies that were mainstays of the American industrial backbone have long since moved operations overseas where they can pay workers a fraction of what they would have to pay American workers. Then there are those who have kept their operations here in the US, but who have outsourced for foreign laborers, displacing more American workers.

Instead of imposing tariffs upon these imported goods which could have been used to fund its operation, our government has just placed that burden upon the taxpayers. What people don’t seem to realize is that the larger the number of people employed the larger the tax base upon which the government can draw upon. Not that I agree with the concept of taxing the people, but that’s the way things are right now and the more people working, the less your share of the tax burden would be.

But instead, people prefer to be able to get their items at rock bottom prices at WalMart, which means that American workers will still not be able to find the kind of jobs that built this nation into the economic superpower it once was.

As I said, this whole house of cards is starting to topple, and we the people are to blame for it because we have been far too interested in being entertained, instead of keeping ourselves informed and educated.

The whole process which is currently happening can be summed up by something Alexander Tytler once said, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”

These rumblings we are witnessing on the nightly news about the decision by governments across the land to slash funding are only the first groans of a nation about to collapse in upon itself.

As a side note, just yesterday I took my wife to the local mall to look around. As I sat there waiting for her I was watching these salesmen in a T-Mobile booth. They were aggressively, almost to the point of being obnoxious, attempting to get people to switch to their service. They kept asking passersby what type phone they had, who was their providers.

Finally I got up and walked over to the booth. I was immediately asked the same questions. I told the guy I would answer if he would answer a question I posed him first. He said sure, go ahead. I then asked him if he owned any guns, and if so, what model. He said that he did not own a gun. I then asked him what he would do if someone broke into his home at night, would he pick up his cellphone and throw it at the intruder? He gave me a funny look and said that was ridiculous, that he would dial 911. I then told him that I hoped he had a lot of cellphones laying around, because the way things are going in this country you are going to need them to throw at the people who will be breaking into your home to steal what little you may have.

And that’s the whole point of this article. I am wondering if people are really prepared for what is going to happen in this country in the upcoming months, and years? Could they survive what can only be described of chaos on a Biblical proportion? Do they have enough food to last them for weeks, months? Do they have enough guns and ammo to defend what they do have? If not, then it is my sincerest hope that they do begin preparing, before it is too late. For this nation is about to reap what it has sown, and it isn’t gonna be pretty.

~ The Author ~
Neal Ross can be reached for comments at bonsai@syix.com. Visit Neal’s Blog at http://www.zombie-slayer.com/neal

The cradle and the grave of liberty.

The cradle and the grave of liberty.

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As anyone who knows me can tell you, I have a prickly disposition.

Since commencing the writing of this blog, I have typed out explicit wishes for harm on a variety of people. Recently I suggested that people who put too much credence in horoscopes should go huff exhaust fumes in a locked garage. When Dick Cheney dusted his hunting buddy with his fowling piece, I wrote that his only real crime was shooting a lawyer in Texas without a lawyer stamp on his hunting license. In a two-day period last November, I hoped aloud that Sen. Chuck Schumer, everybody at the FDA, and an anonymous TSA agent would all die in a fire, screaming. I’ve used the phrase “Die, hippie” with a specific hippie as the referent more times than I can count.

And I still have my guns.

This is apparently mostly because I don’t live in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Travis Corcoran, proprietor of Heavy Ink Comics, whose nom de blog is “TJIC” does live in Arlington, Massachusetts. Travis identifies himself as an anarcho-capitalist; I’d say that on the philosophical axis, the pelt on his wookie suit is longer and more luxuriant than mine, if not quite as splendid as Billy Beck‘s.

In the wake of the recent shooting in Tuscon, Travis put up a post on his blog about how he didn’t particularly feel like shedding any tears over the shooting of a politician, entitled “1 down, 534 to go!” Provocative? Inflammatory? Even tacky? Sure. But it was just speech. Political speech. The kind that’s protected under the 1st Amendment, even when it’s about politicians further up the food chain than congresscritters.

Comic readers tend to trend younger and lefter than the norm, and some of his customers found out about his post and decided to organize a boycott. I have no problem with boycotts; lord knows I’ve called for the boycotts of businesses that did things that annoyed me, such as using murderers for pitchmen. Some people were so butthurt, however, that they went to the authorities, and Travis received a knock on the door: It was the Arlington, MA po-po, there to relieve Mr. Corcoran of his guns, his ammunition, his firearms license, and his 2nd Amendment rights, all for having the temerity to use his 1st Amendment rights in the former Cradle of Liberty, now its grave.

Folks, if Travis committed a crime, then I’m a criminal, too. To quote another famous Bay Stater (who would no doubt be disgusted with the current state of affairs there)

“Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.“

I am TJIC.

Walter Mitty’s Second Amendment

Walter Mitty’s Second Amendment

By Jeff Snyder

Once upon a time, there was a people who inhabited a majestic land under an all-powerful government. Now this government had the resources to control practically every aspect of human existence; hundreds of thousands of “public servants” could access the most personal details of every citizen’s life because everyone was issued a number at birth with which the government would track him throughout his life. No one could even work in gainful employment without this number.

True, the government left certain domains of individual action largely free, particularly matters concerning speech and sex. These activities posed no real threat to the state. When not used to entertain and divert, the power of speech was used principally to clamor for more or better goods from the state, or for “reforms” to make the state work “better,” thereby entrenching the people’s dependency. And insofar as sex was concerned, well, the people’s behavior in this area also really had no effect on the scope of state power. In fact, the rulers noted that people’s preoccupation with matters of sexual morality — whether premarital, teenage pregnancy, adultery, divorce, homosexuality or general “who’s zooming who” — diverted the people’s attention from the fact that they were, for economic and all other intents and purposes, slaves.

Slaves, though, who labored under the illusion that they were free. The people were a simple lot, politically speaking, and readily mistook the ability to give free reign to their appetites as the essence of “personal freedom.”

In that fruitful land, the state took about 50 percent of everything the people earned through numerous forms of taxation, up from about 25 percent only a generation earlier. However, this boastful people, who believed themselves to be the freest on earth, retained the right to keep and bear arms. Tens of millions of them possessed firearms just in case their government became tyrannical and enslaved them.

In that land, an astronomical number of regulations, filling more than 96,000 pages in the government’s “code of regulations,” were promulgated by persons who were not elected by the people. The regulators often developed close relationships with the businesses they regulated, and work in “agencies” that had the power both to make law — and to enforce it.

The agencies were not established by the government’s constitution, and their existence violated that instrument’s principle of separation of powers. Yet the people retained the right to keep and bear arms. Just in case their government, some day, ceased to be a “government of the people.”

In that land, the constitution contemplated that the people would be governed by two separate levels of government — “national” and “local.” Matters that concerned the people most intimately — health, education, welfare, crime, and the environment — were to be left almost exclusively to the local level, so that those who made and enforced the laws lived close to the people who were subject to the laws, and felt their effects.

So that different people who had different ideas about such things would not be subject to a “one size fits all” standard that would apply if the national government dealt with such matters. Competition among different localities for people, who could move freely from one place to another, would act as a reality check on the passage of unnecessary or unwise laws.

But in a time of great crisis called the Great Economic Downturn, the people and their leaders clamored for “national solutions to national problems,” and the constitution was “interpreted” by the Majestic Court to permit the national government to pass laws regulating practically everything that has been reserved for the localities.

Now the people had the pleasure of being governed by not one, but two beneficient governments with two sets of laws regulating the same things. Now the people could be prosecuted by not one, but two governments for the same activities and conduct. Still this fiercely independent people retained the right to keep and bear arms. Just in case their government, some day, no longer secured the blessings of liberty to themselves or their posterity.

In that fair land, property owners could be held liable under the nation’s environmental legislation for the cleanup costs associated with toxic chemicals, even if the owners had not caused the problem.

Another set of laws provided for asset forfeiture and permitted government agencies to confiscate property without first establishing guilt.

Yet the people retained the right to keep and bear arms. Just in case their government denied them due process by holding them liable for things that were not their fault. (The Majestic Court had long ago determined that “due process” did not prevent government from imposing liability on people who were not at fault. “Due process”, it turned out, meant little more than that a law had been passed in accordance with established procedures. You know, it was actually voted on, passed by a majority and signed by the president. If it met those standards, it didn’t much matter what the law actually did.)

Oh well, the people had little real cause to worry. After all, those laws hardly ever affected anyone that they knew. Certainly not the people who mattered most of all: the country’s favorite celebrities and sports teams, who so occupied the people’s attention. And how bad could it be if it had not yet been the subject of a Movie of the Week, telling them what to think and how to feel about it?

In that wide open land, the police often established roadblocks to check that the people’s papers were in order. The police — armed agents of the rulers — used these occasions to ask the occupants whether they were carrying weapons or drugs. Sometimes the police would ask to search the vehicles, and the occupants — not knowing whether they could say no and wanting to prove that they were good guys by cooperating — would permit it.

The Majestic Court had pronounced these roadblocks and searches lawful on the novel theory, unkown to the country’s Founding Forebears, that so long as the police were doing this to everyone equally, it didn’t violate anyone’s rights in particular.

The roadblocks sometimes caused annoying delays, but these lovers of the open road took it in stride. After all, they retained their right to keep and bear arms. Just in case their government, some day, engaged in unreasonable searches and seizures. In that bustling land, the choice of how to develop property was heavily regulated by local governments that often demanded fees or concessions for the privilege. That is, when the development was not prohibited outright by national “moistland” regulations that had no foundation in statutory or constitutional law.

Even home owners often required permission to simply build an addition to their homes, or to erect a tool shed on their so-called private property. And so it seemed that “private property” became, not a system protecting individual liberty, but a system which, while providing the illusion of ownership, actually just allocated and assigned government-mandated burdens and responsibilities.

Still, this mightily productive people believed themselves to live in the most capitalistic society on earth, a society dedicated to the protection of private property. And so they retained the right to keep and bear arms. Just in case their government ever sought to deprive them of their property without just compensation.

Besides, the people had little cause for alarm. Far from worrying about government control of their property, the more immediate problem was: what to buy next?

The people were a simple lot, politically speaking, and readily mistook the ability to acquire and endless assortment of consumer goods as the essence of personal freedom.

The enlightened rulers of this great land did not seek to deprive the people of their right to bear arms. Unlike tyrants of the past, they had learned that it was not necessary to disarm the masses. The people proved time and time again thaty they were willing accomplices to the ever expanding authority of the government, enslaved by their own desire for safety, security and welfare.

The people could have their guns. What did the rulers care? They already possessed the complete obedience that they required.

In fact, in their more Machiavellian moments, the rulers could be heard to admit that permitting the people the right to keep and bear arms was a marvelous tool of social control, for it provided the people with the illusion of freedom.

The people, among the most highly regulated on earth, told themselves that they were free because they retained the means of revolt. Just in case things ever got really bad. No one, however, seemed to have too clear an idea what “really bad” really meant. The people accepted the fact that their government no longer even remotely resembled the plan set forth in their original constitution. And the people’s values no longer remotely resembled those of their Founding Forebears. The people, in their naiveté, really believed that the means of revolt were to be found in a piece of inanimate metal! Really it was laughable. And pathetic.

No, the rulers knew that the people could safely be trusted with arms. The government educated their children, provided for their retirement in old age, bequeathed assistance if they lost their jobs, mandated that they receive health care, and even doled out food and shelter if they were poor.

The government was the very air the people breathed from childhood to the grave. Few could imagine, let alone desire, any other kind of world.

To the extent that the people paid any attention to their system of government, the great mass spent their days simply clamoring for more or better “programs”, more “rational” regulations, in short, more of the same. The only thing that really upset them was waste, fraud, or abuse of the existing programs. Such shenanigans brought forth vehement protests demanding that the government provide their services more efficiently, dammit! The nation’s stirring national anthem, adopted long ago by men who fought for their liberty, ended by posng a question, in hopes of keeping the spirit of liberty alive. Did the flag still fly, it asked, over the land of the free?

Unfortunately, few considered that the answer to that question might really be no, for they had long since lost an understanding of what freedom really is.

No, in this land “freedom” had become something dark, frightening, and dangerous. The people lived in mortal terror that somewhere, sometime, some individual might make a decision or embark upon a course of action that was not first approved by some government official.

Security was far more preferable. How could anyone be truly free if he were not first safe and protected?

Now we must say goodbye to this fair country whose government toiled tirelessly to create the safety, fairness and luxury that all demanded, and that everyone knew could be created by passing just the right laws. Through it all, the people vigorously safeguarded their tradition of firearms ownership.

But they never knew — and never learned — that preserving a tradition and a way of life is not the same as preserving liberty. And they never knew — and never learned — that it’s not about guns.

American Handgunner, Sep/Oct 1997, reprinted without permission

Cannibals At The Pot

Cannibals At The Pot

http://www.two–four.net/weblog.php?id=P2894

 

“When you have a federal government noses into nearly every facet of day-to-day life, I suppose it only makes sense that everyone with more at stake than a lemonade stand would feel the need to set up an office in Washington.”

(Balko, on cannibal culture)

Of course. All this is dictated by the logic of collectivism. A necessary implication of collectivism is that something like “rights” belongs to those who can dispose the rights of others. In this whole political context, there is no such thing as “the public”: that is simply a misgrappled finite number of individual human beings. So long as their individual values are subject to the force of government, it becomes a matter of survival to win the privilege of being (or at least being known as) “the public” where the action is. The more that everyone is living at the expense of everyone else (see Bastiat), the more important it becomes to make sure that you’re not thrown in the pot, because somebody will be.

Apostates of Liberty

Apostates of Liberty

http://cliffsofinsanity2010.blogspot.com/2011/02/apostates-of-liberty.html

A decent column. 

The blowup in Wisconsin is merely the beginning of the same kind of Greece fires we saw last year.

According to unions consisting of civil servants, the solution is to every problem is to raise taxes on the rest of us.  Wow, if only I could do that at my job.  A bunch of us get together to bang our silverware on the high chair and demand of our employer that they give in to every ridiculous demand.  It’s Starving The Monkeys 101.  Nothing more.

Democrats flee the state capitol when it’s time to vote-knowing that they don’t have the votes to stop it, but that they must at least be present for the vote to be legal.

I’m partial to Denninger’s solution.

The Governor is entitled to fire them all.  And he should do so.

Right now.

Word.

I caught a blurb of Rush while at lunch.  He was raising a fuss that the leadership of the left sits on their hands while their thugnuts using vicious and violent rhetoric.

As if….  Sigh.  I used to listen to Rush, but now, I may only be able to tolerate a minute or two.  He refuses to get it.

This behavior from the thugnuts is precisely what the left wants.  It’s what their leaders instruct and program them to do and they dutifully obey.  Why would they call for civility now?  That’s part of the Rules for Radicals.  Why would they call for Wisconsin unions to stop comparing Gov. Walker to Mubarak?  Or Hitler?  It’s precisely what they want.  Besides if a state like Wisconsin can roll back something this big, then what could more conservative states do?  (Note: Coming soon to a state capitol near you.)

Having made a living for 2 decades off the behavior of the left, you’d think Rush would not be surprised or outraged at the leaders of the left sitting on their hands.

Rush and many like him have the ability to steer the discussion, to set the agenda, to go on offense.  And they largely refuse.  Instead, we get flash stories about what Justin Bieber thinks about America.  Or a Journolist who gets treated badly by a mob.  Or birth certificate, ad infinitum.  (And ad nauseum!)  But never enough to actually encourage people to….DO anything.

Rush could be the George Soros of the right if he wanted to-funding the restoration of liberty at every turn.  People who have been in this fight a lot longer than me have been saying it for decades and yet Rush and others like him seem pathologically incapable or unwilling to make the leap of imagination.  It’s not that there can be no common ground (future tense).  The reality is that there is no common ground (present tense, right now, period, full stop).   Then again, having made millions for 2 decades off the behavior of the left, why should Rush be in a hurry to see it come to a close?  Why should any of the “conservative” media like Drudge, Joe Farah, Bill O’Reilly, or National Review be in a hurry to achieve victory that would mean an end to their power, position, and maybe their prosperity?

Perhaps that’s why they all sat on their hands for Restore The Constitution last year.

Perhaps that’s why they’re all sitting on their hands for Project Gunwalker now.

“Follow the money”, right Rush?

On the one hand, it’s easy to kick collectivists as enemies of liberty.  I’m not so sure the greater threat to liberty isn’t posed by Rush and those like him.  It’s interesting that on the one hand, he and others like him have prospered from the outrage at collectivist tactics and strategy, yet that seldom translates into real results.  It’s like perpetually keeping the tea kettle at 211 degrees.  The pot rumbles a little, a low, wet, gurgly, annoying whistle starts to happen.  But never any boiling.  Tea Party indeed!  It seems like someone claiming to be a leader who was actually interested in victory might have actually…you know, reached 212 and put that steam to work rather than backing off every time the pot made a little noise.

Our founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence,

“…we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

The attitude typified in the conservative media-and among many “conservative” politicians could best be embodied by this adaptation:

“We pledge to sacrifice our honor for the rest of our lives for your sacred fortunes.”

To bend a verse of scripture slightly, it is as if they have a form of Liberty, but are denying the power thereof.  I therefore crown them as Apostates of Liberty.

I have a simple message for them all:

Join the forces of liberty today, or join them tomorrow.

Some will join today and help the fight.  Others though are waiting to join until later-perhaps hoping that if we’re wrong.  If history is any guide though, then these late-comers to liberty could simply have their own corpses thrown on top of those they refused to help.  What an irony, by not succeeding in not being the first killed for freedom, they would still be, “on top of the heap” so to speak.

If you fail to join us as free men to stand up today, then you may join our corpses tomorrow at the bottom of an unmarked pit.

And in the spirit of the Fair Warning to The Collectivists, let me offer a fair warning to the Apostates of Liberty.  You may continue to commit idolatry against Liberty, worshipping money as your god while it lasts.  But when it all hits the fan, the man who in good times begged for your help while you plugged your ears may not lift a finger to help you when times are bad.

When we get right down to it, the only difference between the Apostates of Liberty and the Collectivists is that the Collectivists have taken off the mask.  At least we can know them by their deeds.

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Why Did the U.S. Military Buy 500 Fake Internet Personas?

Why Did the U.S. Military Buy 500 Fake Internet Personas?

The answer to the question “why does the government need software to create a bunch of fake Internet “people?” is probably quite simple, and while Daily Kos seems to feel it has to do with attacking progressives, I’m afraid the aim of the purchase is far more subversive and far-reaching. Leave it to libtards to take it personally and ignore the fact that there is an ongoing war against Americans, waged by their own government, that has so far claimed our privacy, freedom and now our economic well-being.

I also remind Daily Kos here that the American progressive is already an extinct creature, replaced by leftist maniacs too drunk on their own perceived invincibility to realize that they’re the ones holding the torches as Rome burns. I have no problem with progressives and could probably play one on TV as I believe in crazy ideas like advancing knowledge and equal rights and am fascinated by the sociology of economics, all matters progressives tend to say they are into. I believe gays should be allowed to marry but churches should be allowed to say they refuse to marry them (that’s the whole separation of church and state we seem to have forgotten about). Just as the true conservative has been replaced with a holier-than-thou army of Christian fundamentalist freaks who obviously haven’t read a Bible lately since the one I read said something about “love your brother” and “judge not lest ye be judged,” we are once again losing the battle by fighting amongst ourselves over semantics instead of attacking the true enemy.

But what if the enemy could replicate itself to infinity and invade our most sacred space of information exchange, the Internet? Worse, what if they already have?

We have known for a long time this happens. It’s why sketchy IP addresses show up in my stats and comments appear on politically-charged websites that seem to paint the OP as a kook or set up a critical mass of straw men to otherwise discredit the point of the article. I’ve seen it in practice and it’s usually more sad than frightening. Real commenters get so caught up in their feelings they let their emotions bleed through the keyboard. Real commenters are idiot Americans who were churned through our sub-par public school system and don’t know the difference between your and you’re. But fake commenters always seem to be cool and collected, with perfect use of their and they’re and even there. The next time you’re trolling Huffington Post, Daily Kos, the New York Times, WSJ, whatever your media poison, keep your eyes peeled for these disinformation agents and you might just see what I mean.

But I digress. We’re talking about defense contractors and their weird plans to make a bunch of fake Internet personas, right? The HBGary Federal attack is just a little too complicated to get into here without its own post, so let’s just say HBGary’s CEO Aaron Barr got humiliated by Anonymous while at the same time being outed to the very targets of his bizarre plot to attack the Internets with fake personas. But the plot wasn’t just a sick fantasy in Barr’s head, as the following excerpt from a hacked HBGary email explains:

Persona management entails not just the deconfliction of persona artifacts such as names, email addresses, landing pages, and associated content. It also requires providing the human actors technology that takes the decision process out of the loop when using a specific persona. For this purpose we custom developed either virtual machines or thumb drives for each persona. This allowed the human actor to open a virtual machine or thumb drive with an associated persona and have all the appropriate email accounts, associations, web pages, social media accounts, etc. pre-established and configured with visual cues to remind the actor which persona he/she is using so as not to accidentally cross-contaminate personas during use.

JDA would like to take this opportunity to assure loyal readers that she is, in fact, an actual person. TLP can confirm this but won’t because he knows better than to open his mouth but he’s a real person too. I’ve met WC Varones in person so I can say he, too, is real. Let’s not forget Financial Armageddon‘s Michael Panzner, who we know is real since we’ve chatted on the phone and my dear Going Concern editor the Caleb Newquist, who has to be real simply because of the very real pain in my ass I feel whenever we talk. As for anyone else? Your guess is as good as mine.

Anyway. The really bad news is that this isn’t theoretical, the Air Force actually secured the rights to 500 fake personas, claiming they’d be used at MacDill AFB, Kabul, Afghanistan and Baghdad, Iraq. Strange, MLM bots manage to do this on Twitter all the time and don’t need to shell out huge amounts of money to do it.

Solicitation Number:
RTB220610
Notice Type:
Sources Sought
Synopsis:
Added: Jun 22, 2010 1:42 pm Modified: Jun 22, 2010 2:07 pmTrack Changes
0001- Online Persona Management Service. 50 User Licenses, 10 Personas per user.
Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a number of different online persons from the same workstation and without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries. Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms. The service includes a user friendly application environment to maximize the user’s situational awareness by displaying real-time local information.

If you ask me, they’re trying to hide their stalker-like behavior. Why else would they need a bunch of fake IPs?

0003- Static IP Address Management. 50 each
Licence protects the identity of government agencies and enterprise
organizations. Enables organizations to manage their persistent online personas
by assigning static IP addresses to each persona. Individuals can perform
static impersonations, which allow them to look like the same person over time.
Also allows organizations that frequent same site/service often to easily switch IP
addresses to look like ordinary users as opposed to one organization.

You can’t tell me our military isn’t advanced enough to know how to use Hide My Ass or some similar proxy server, nor can you tell me whoever it is they’re allegedly watching in Iraq and Afghanistan (likely story, didn’t we win Iraq years ago?) use StatCounter (JDA’s tracking software of choice) or some similar tracking software themselves. Since when does Osama bin Laden blog and obsessively track his stats? I don’t buy it.

Related reading: The Information Super-Sewer: Will the Internet be Hijacked by Corporate Interests by Chris Hedges via Global Research.

It’s happening, people, the question is whether you’ll be standing there arguing with a fake sockpuppet of the establishment or shoving your foot up his or her fictitious ass when it happens to you.

And great… if “They” weren’t watching me before… you can bet your sweet assets They are now.

Form your own gang, or get eaten by someone else’s gang.

Denninger: If You Read One Article This Month…

Denninger links to this Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi on how FedGov insiders from POTUS on down are helping Wall Street banksters continue the largest scam in human history.

Read both in full, please, but note: language alert on each.

Since the utterly-predictable collapse of the Dead Elephants on both the budget and the defunding of Obamacare over the past week, I have felt a curious lift in my spirits.

I know now that the aircraft is undoubtedly going into the water, and that I will have to use my ditch gear and training.

If I survive the crash, that is.

But today, the clouds came in again, as the Wisconsin public-union thug demonstrations made me realize that the good guys are deeply and perhaps irretrievably disadvantaged by their own rule-set.

As a good guy, I was raised to respect the law (whatever it was), work hard, follow the rules, and keep my own nose clean. Doing so, taught my parents and the culture of first-half Sixties America, would ensure my success and that of the community in which I lived.

But the cataclysm that struck America in the second half of the Sixties and continues today tore away those social rule-set foundations.

That country and that culture are gone, almost certainly never to return absent a Renaissance presently unforeseeable in the coming decades.

I have fought in the nearly 30 years since my own personal resurrection from drug and alcohol addiction not just to believe in those rules, but to live by them.

Don’t lie.

Don’t steal.

Don’t hurt people (at least those who don’t need hurting).

Pay your taxes.

Wear clean underwear.

Obey the law.

Respect authority.

Be a good citizen.

Don’t break things that don’t belong to you.

Read the major news periodicals so that you are familiar with the issues of the day.

Register and vote in every election.

Pick up after yourself.

Be kind to others.

And don’t get me wrong — I have, in varying degrees and frequency, failed to live up to each of those “musts”.

But at core, I believed in each of them and, even as I failed, tried the next time to do better.

Events of the past year have convinced me that I have been nothing but a rube, a naif, a fool.

The rule of law in this country is dead.

The idea that you have to work for what you have is dead.

What respect should one have when your country’s leadership in both parties are accessories before, during, and after the fact to a parade of frauds and corruption bordering on the unimaginable in both scope and consequence?

The vast majority of my fellow North American residents actually accept the idea of soon being de facto slaves to our creditors — or, at the very most, will only grumble at the prospect.

What we have, here on the first springish day in the wintry South of the USA, 2011, is a worldwide collection of street gangs, each of whom understands that now and for the foresesable future is the time for root, hog, or die.

And Alex, we’ll take “root” for 3 trillion, please.

Each gang has its own colors, uniforms, language, and other anthropological markers.

The lawyer gangs, the cop gangs, the banker gangs, the politician gangs, the regulator gangs, the union gangs, the government employee gangs, the immigrant gangs, the NGO and QUANGO gangs, the drug gangs, the tax enforcement gangs, the gun enforcement gangs, the disability-rights gangs, the street crime gangs, the climate gangs, the commercial sex gangs, the pundit gangs, the enviro-gangs, the academic gangs, the Islamic gangs, the collectivist gangs….the list is nearly endless.

But the key commonality between all such groups is this:

There are those in the group, and then there is everyone else.

“Everyone else” breaks into two subcategories:

1) Other gangs (each of which can be, at any given time, an ally, an enemy, a takeover target, or an acquiring entity), and

2) The “unaffiliateds”: Individuals or small groups of individuals who are not part of any clearly-differentiated gang.

Guess who’s on the menu 24/7/365 for every other group looking for resources, victims, food, or just a bit of the old ultra-V?

Guess too where falls the average good guy or good gal who still believes in the old values?

Do you see the problem?

It’s all nice and happy to talk about “activism” and “fighting back” and “standing up”. And I don’t for a minute mean to disparage any of the good folks that I have met anywhere along the path of the last eight years of trying to do what I thought was (and likely was) the “right thing”.

But understand – in the Endarkenment, there is no such thing as “the right thing”.

There is only the cannibal pot.

Those unaffiliateds who hold to the old values rather than embracing the new savagery place a “kick me” sign on their own backs — a request that every gang thug of whatever persuasion within booting range will be glad to oblige.

But just know that the really bad guys will read that “kick me” sign as meaning:

“Beat me, take my stuff, savage and then kidnap for further savaging any females with me, and, if you’re feeling peckish and have dispensed with the primal taboos, throw me in the stewpot when you’re done.”

And spare me, please, just this once, the bellowing, chesty “From my seventy-pounds-overweight cold, dead hands in a pile of hot brass with my .308 man’s rifle by any means necessary but only after sufficient provocation lest we slide into the abyss when we gaze into becoming the beast we are fighting for our eternal souls” self-serving-and-deluding masturbatory-fantasy horseshit.

Just this once.

Please. For the love of all that is holy.

Readers of this blog know how few people will actually show up, let alone fight – in any circumstance.

Snyder called it right.

Let me be blunt, dear friends — anybody noticed any bankers going missing lately?

Anyone?

How about union leaders?

Government lawyers?

The other major and minor cannibals strutting about your AO – every single one of them still has all ten fingers and ten toes, right?

You do understand that these gang members have destroyed the country into which you were born, and ensured that your children and grandchildren face a nearly-inescapable future as debt serfs, right?

Go back now, please, and re-read those last six questions.

Think for a few seconds on each.

Do you understand yet?

At least this old rule still applies:

When you’re sitting around the card table, trying to decide who the sucker is, and you can’t tell……

It’s you.

The old way’s over, boys and girls.

New World Order, indeed.

Form your own gang, or get eaten by someone else’s gang.

It’s just that simple, and just that inescapable.

New era.

New rules.

Evolve.

Or die.

Washington Pisses On Our Shoes And Tells Us It’s Raining

Washington Pisses On Our Shoes And Tells Us It’s Raining

February 20, 2011

Western Rifle Shooters Association is a terrific blog about cool stuff like liberty, guns, survival and spotlighting the absurdity that surrounds us like the air we breathe.

First, read the comments by “Concerned American” below the graphic. Once you’ve finished that, drop back and read Karl Denninger’s article.

Click HERE to read the articles.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the stuff you’ll be reading here today is why I keep writing at DumpDC. Eventually, enough people are going to figure out how f**ked we all are by Washington, and that DC is unfixable. As we saw this week in Congress, even these new Tea Party Republicans flinched at spending cuts. And most of the “cuts” turn out to be just slowing down built-in tax increases. Where is the proposal to cut ANY entire Department of Anything?

Face it, friends. Washington is that bullet train I wrote about a couple days ago, heading for a completely unavoidable crash. There is nothing that anybody can do to fix the power structure in Washington.

The only possible solution for liberty on North American soil is secession. Simply separate yourself from what cannot be fixed. Divorce this insane bunch of criminals in DC. Stop trying to influence ANYTHING they do. Stop voting. Stop writing your congressman and Senator letters. They don’t give a sh** what you think. All of them are laughing at you because you’re so stupid…so willing to believe these people at election time, and then you go back to your lives thinking you’ve participated in the “democratic process.” And they know that they can do pretty much whatever they want without recourse.

I used to say that as long as an elected official wasn’t caught in bed with a dead girl, a live boy or a goat, they were safe come re-election time. I don’t think that boys, girls or livestock matter anymore. People that stand for election instantly become the ruling class when they win, and that’s where they want to stay. Because, as Concerned American and Denninger point out, the old rules do not apply anymore.

So, if you want individual liberty and property rights in your lifetime, join the movement to secede. If nobody in your state wants to secede (like Wisconsin), move to a place like Texas where lots of folks do want to secede.

Just leave.

Secession is the Hope For Mankind. Who will be first?

DumpDC. Six Letters That Can Change History.

© Copyright 2011, Russell D. Longcore. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

 

On “Winning”

On “Winning”

By Richard Spencer

 

I’m quite grateful to Alex, not just for interviewing me but publishing his ongoing series of portraits of the radical Right. Interviews like these help us understand the men and women in our movement in ways that simply reading their arguments and essays do not.

There’s much of interest for AltRight readers in my conversation with Alex, including my tale of being expelled from Canada, which reads a little like an episode from his dystopian novel, Mister. I also bring up an important theoretical point regarding what it would mean for our side to “win.” I hope we can begin a conversation about this matter here.

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Alex Kurtagic: The Left would like the apolitical man in the street to imagine that our winning the argument would mean a return to the bad old days: women would be summarily fired from their jobs and told to make babies; Blacks would be re-enslaved and lynched; Savitri Devi’s works would be standard university textbooks; people would be forced to carry bagfuls of gold coins to conduct their business transactions; television programming would consist of 24-hours solid of political speeches; court witnesses would swear on a copies of Mein Kampf; science would be abolished (except for eugenics) and society would be plunged into a dark age of brute force, ignorance, fear, and superstition. What does, in fact, a future where we have won the argument look like?

Richard Spencer: Oh sorry . . . while I was reading your last question, I became lost in a rapturous fantasy. No, what you describe is terrible! I would never want to live in this fascistic, masculine, gold-standard nightmare world.

Seriously, I think one of your most important contributions is to inspire us to imagine a future—even one that’s “impossible” or utopian—and avoid the standard reactionary trap of staunchly defending the last revolution.

Before I answer this fully, let me quibble with your question a bit. One thing I’ve noticed about American conservatives is that they often fantasize about “winning the argument”—they think that, deep down, every American–maybe everyone on earth—is really a conservative, and if preached to the right way, he will embrace the current catechism of loving the Constitution, free markets, family values, color-blind Civil Rights, and the rest. I don’t use these metaphors lightly; most conservatives imagine political activism as a form of religious conversion.

I don’t think this way. First off, I think we have foes who want to destroy us. We won’t be able to convert these people with the right cocktail of new data and argumentation.

Beyond this, I believe the impulses that we label “Right” and “Left” are natural aspects of nature and society that will never go away. Right and Left aren’t just seating arrangements in the French revolutionary parliament; they express fundamental human tensions such as collectivism/individualism, authoritarianism/anarchy, innovation/traditionalism, etc. And much like Good and Evil, Right and Left, and the other values mentioned above, exist in the same human heart. They certainly do in mine.

One extremely important thing the alt Right (and AltRight) seek to accomplish is to shift society in a fundamental way; we’re much more interested in this than “winning” some particular Left/Right dispute over, say, immigration policy or the new START treaty.

I want Western society as a whole to move away from egalitarianism—which manifests itself most obviously in “multiculturalism” and “anti-racism”—and towards an acceptance of Western identity and natural hierarchies.

To understand what I’m saying, let’s turn things around. We should recognize that multiculturalism and egalitarianism aren’t simply particular “issues,” “policies,” or “party platforms”—they are fundamental groundings for political and social discourse. These concepts determine our horizons. Both the modern Left and Right argue within multiculturalism and egalitarianism. No one (at least no mainstream person) is really arguing for or against racial equality; they accept it as a given and simply quibble over how “equality” is best protected and implemented. American “conservatives” and Christian “traditionalists” aren’t offering alternatives to egalitarianism and multiculturalism, so much as their own versions of them.

Let’s not focus on the obvious racial examples and look instead at the recent “gay marriage” debate. Superlawyer David Boyes, who’s been hired to make the case for this practice, asked a number of self-styled “conservatives” a series of questions, which included, 1) “Is marriage good for children?” (in an completely utilitarian sense) and—here’s the kicker—2) “Isn’t America really about equality?” The “conservatives,” of course, answered “Yes!” enthusiastically to both questions. Boyes then asked, “How then could you possibly oppose gay marriage?” They, of course, couldn’t rationally oppose gay marriage. And Q.E.D. for Mr. Boyes. When Left and Right operate under the same assumptions, they’ll usually reach the same conclusions. Indeed, those who actually do oppose the latest egalitarian advance can easily be deemed dangerous lunatics who should be locked away with Jared Loughner.

Put simply, we need to change the big stuff; the little things (for example, policy matters) will follow.

This recognition has also led me to conclude that trying to “work within the system,” or appeal to European-Americans using the language of FOX News and the GOP, is a bootless–not to mention a tasteless–strategy.

To return to your provocative question, in my fantasyland, there would still be a Left and a Right—and granolas and libertarians and animal rights activists and Mormons, et al.—but they would operate within Western unity and natural hierarchy.

Some, no doubt, might counter that you can’t have a “non-egalitarian Left.” But I don’t agree with this at all. Jack London was a collectivist; HL Mencken, an anarchist; both were “leftists,” of sorts, and both rejected egalitarianism. And they both operated on a different planet than the whole spectrum of contemporary Leftists and Rightists, from Glenn Beck to Cornell West.

Saudi Arabia surrounded by riots in Yemen, Jordan, Iran, Bahrain and more

Bloodbath in Libya, while Bahrain’s government backs down

Saudi Arabia surrounded by riots in Yemen, Jordan, Iran, Bahrain and more

Bloodbath in Libya, while Bahrain’s government backs down

Libya (Source: CIA Fact Book)

Government armed forced pursued a violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in eastern portion of Libya on Saturday, especially in Genghazi, Bayda and Tobruk. According to the Arab Monitor, long convoys of military vehicles went into eastern regions and fired on demonstrators with high powered weapons. The death toll may be well over 100, although exact numbers cannot be confirmed.

Bahrain’s royal family bowed to international pressure on Saturday and pulled its tanks out of Pearl Square in Manama, the capital city, allowing the protesters to continue their peaceful demonstrations.

Riots and demonstrations have been spreading throughout the Mideast. A country-by-country summary by CNN summarizes protests in the following countries: Libya, Yemen, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Djibouti, Algeria, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Palestinian territories.

There have been no major riots in Saudi Arabia, mainly because of the country’s vast oil wealth, according to the NY Times. However, the Saudis are feeling increasingly isolated and concerned, according to the article, and fear that the United States may no longer be a reliable backer.

I heard something of a joke on the BBC on Saturday, interviewing an analyst talking about all the demonstrations in the Mideast:

 

ANALYST: You know, I really wonder what George Bush thinks about everything that’s going on.INTERVIEWER: Well, he probably would say that this is exactly what he wanted — to start from the war in Iraq, and see democracy spread throughout the Middle East.

ANALYST: Then he simply should have raised food prices.

Good point. It’s somewhat romantic to claim that all of this unrest comes from a desire for liberty and freedom beating in the hearts of the oppressed masses, but it’s much more likely that it comes from a desire to feed their families, as food prices continue at historically high levels.

(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion, see the 20-Feb-11 News — Bloodbath in Libya, while Bahrain’s government backs down thread of the Generational Dynamics forum. Comments may be posted anonymously.) (20-Feb-2011) Permanent Link

Chris Rock Hates Whites

Chris Rock Hates Whites

http://age-of-treason.blogspot.com/

Chris Rock Quotes on Tea Party, Obama, Oscars Jude Law and More, interviewed by Scott Raab at Esquire, 16 Feb 2011:

SR: Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected. It was one of the high points in American history. And all that’s happened since the election is just a shitstorm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that?

CR: I actually like it, in the sense that — you got kids? Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last — this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane. You want to get rid of them — and the next thing you know, they’re fucking knocked out. And that’s what’s going on in the country right now.

SR: I hope so. Because it seems like a lot of people feel they just can’t live with this man being president.

Rock has made a living on race-based comedy. Here’s a skit that’s right in line with what Rock told Raab, making it crystal clear how he and his black fans view Whites. If that wasn’t clear enough, here’s another.

Wikipedia says “Raab is a self-professed ‘fat Jew from Cleveland’”.

Joe Sobran wrote something apt that comes to mind here:

Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible.

It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself.

Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared.

The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation.

The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And, superiority excites envy.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

- Sobran’s — April 1997

Dont Trend on Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnS09oQNexA