Essays

Unsung Heroes – The CUCV

Michael Cessna September 15, 2023

No, not that! Don’t be juvenile.

Militaries around the world use vehicles. In the 21^st Century, that should be obvious, but the range of the vehicles military forces – and their irregular counterparts – use covers a very wide spectrum. What usually makes the nightly news are vehicles like main battle tanks, various classes of APC’s, and small “tactical” vehicles that all look like they were given massive shots of steroids and testosterone.

More rarely, you may see military cargo trucks, carrying anonymous crates of “military stuff”, vaguely termed “cargo” or “supplies”. If you’re very lucky, you might see some sort of construction vehicle, similar to those you may see working on road repaid during your daily commute, albeit the military vehicles are probably painted in “Army Green”.

But, there is another class of vehicle, rarely spotted (or paid attention to) by news crews, humble little heroes that slog along in the background, mostly ignored because they appear so plain next to their more military-looking cousins…those are the COTS vehicles.

Military ground vehicles have unique requirements that civilian vehicles do not need. Military vehicles require at least some level of armor protection for their crews and passengers, as well as needing to be massively built to absorb both the recoil of heavy weapons and the impacts from bullets and shell fragments. Their drive-trains and suspension systems need to be far heavier and more robust than civilian vehicles, and their electrical systems need to be much larger, the better to handle the much heavier load of electronic equipment that most military vehicles carry – in militaries that plan for electronic and nuclear warfare, the electrical systems also need shielding against Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) – to name just a few.

Clearly civilian vehicles require few, if any, of these very heavy and very expensive systems.

However, military bases (as we have pointed out previously) very much resemble small towns. As a result, in addition to all of the specifically military vehicles needed, there are a host of functions that require vehicles, but not vehicles requiring the heavy and expensive features outlined above.

When a military identifies such a need, the smart move is to turn to the civilian sector. This is concept is called “Commercial, Off-The-Shelf”, or C.O.T.S.

In the early 1970’s, as the Vietnam War ground to its conclusion, it became painfully clear to the United States military that its faithful little warrior, the much-loved “Jeep”, was nearing the end of its service life. Requirements were changing, and the little vehicles were simply no longer equal to the task. Thus, the Pentagon began development of a new light vehicle in 1970 that would eventually become the High Mobility, Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), now known as the “Hummer”.

The problem? The Hummer would not enter service for over a decade…but the M151 Jeeps would not last that long. A new idea was needed – and that idea was a COTS program to buy civilian pickup trucks as a “short-term” solution.

And thus, the CUCV was born.

*Dodge M880 CUCV, 2006. Photo Credit: Mike Davidson. CCA/3.0*

In 1976, the Pentagon began buying a “militarized” version of the Dodge D200 and W200 pickup truck models; eventually, the Pentagon would buy c.44,000 vehicles, designated the M880- (W200) and M890-series (D200); they were termed, in classical military lingo, “Civilian Utility Cargo Vehicles”, hence, “CUCV”. These early batches of vehicles were very basic civilian pickup trucks, essentially car-lot models painted “Army Green”. There were a few minor additions, however.

While most vehicles had a conventional 12-volt electrical system, some models added a 24-volt system to handle an increased electrical draw for more electrical equipment. That 24-volt addition came at a cost, however, because the 24-volt system took up the space needed for a power steering pump, making them rather difficult to drive in rough terrain and snow. Their engines were also gasoline-powered, in a military that ran mostly on diesel.

The M880/890 vehicles, all of them models from 1976 and 1977, have had a long – and continuing – service life, although the vast majority have long since been either scrapped or sold off as surplus, as more and more Hummers came online.

But, that wasn’t the end of the CUCV program. This was because the M880/890 series was so successful, the military wanted to make lightning strike twice…so, beginning in 1983, the Pentagon went to General Motors, and handed them a set of requirements based on its experience with the Dodge vehicles.

The result was the “M10XX”-series vehicles.

*GMC M1009. 2011. Photo Credit: Joost J. Bakker. CCA/2.0 Generic*

Starting with a standard Chevrolet K5 Blazer chassis, the M1008 and its derivatives were all uprated to a 1¼ ton capacity, or higher, and were equipped with the GM 6.2lt J6 Detroit Diesel V8 engine. The main modification, however, was a hybrid 12/24-volt electrical system, running two 12-volt batteries and two 12-volt/100 amp alternators. The vehicles also came equipped with a NATO-standard 24-volt slave cable jumper connection, to provide jumps for 24-volt vehicles. The Pentagon would eventually purchase over 70,000 of the M10XX-series, a vehicle count rivaled only by the M113-series APC.

*View of a NATO Jumper cable slave receptacle on an M1009 CUCV, 2008. Credit: Wikimedia User CatCube. CCA/3.0*

Beginning in 1987, the US Air Force began buying limited numbers of what became known as the CUCV II. These vehicles were all based on the Chevrolet C/K, Tahoe, and Suburban models, and were “militarized” in a manner similar to the previous M100XX-series. As well, following the adoption of U.S. Army Regulation 750-1, these vehicles all received the Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) coating, which provided enhanced protection against nuclear, biological and chemical threats; while some of the earlier types of CUCV were repainted with CARC material, most of the older models were surplused before receiving the updated paint.

Although produced from 1987 to 2000, the CUCV II vehicles were never procured in large numbers. Beginning in 2001, another small order was placed for a new CUCV-type program, called the Light Service Support Vehicle (LSSV).

*Canadian Military Police Light Utility Vehicle Wheeled (LUVW)/LSSV truck. Public Domain.*

The LSSV is a GM-built Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD, Chevrolet Tahoe, or Chevrolet Suburban that are powered by a Duramax 6.6 liter turbo diesel engine. In 2005, LSSV production switched to AM General, a unit of MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings.

Like all of the CUCV models, the LSSV is intended for non-combat duties, like base services and maintenance, military police patrol, light cargo and monitoring functions. With the rise of the “combat technical”, however – and especially in light of the US Army’s awful infantry squad vehicle concept – the notion of possibly revisiting the CUCV concept as an active combat vehicle is not as outrageous an idea as it would have been fifteen or twenty years ago.

Sometimes, the dedicated military design process fails. When that happens, innovation will step in, if allowed…and, almost always, in a more cost-effective manner.

*The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To*

African Chess: Russo-Chinese Rise on the Corpse of Neo-Colonialism

Michael Cessna September 13, 2023

By Michael A. Cessna, Military Affairs Correspondent

INTRODUCTION

On July 26th, the Presidential Guard of Niger arrested and detained the country’s President, Mohamed Bazoum, in a palace coup. The Presidential Guard’s move was quickly approved of by the Nigerian military, with General Abdourahmane “Omar” Tchiani being named to head the military junta now ruling the country.

The international response was as swift as it was predictable, with stentorian platitudes about immediately “restoring democratic rule.” However, events swiftly took an equally unexpected turn, which has brought Western Africa to the point of all-out war, not just internally, but with France, and potentially NATO itself.

In brief: Africa is sick of France’s runaway neo-colonialism and is starting to find its legs with a nascent unified front…and Russia is waiting to pick up the pieces.

THE CURRENT SITUATION

As news of the coup spread, Nigerien civilians swept into the streets, in apparent support of the coup. While not unusual in coups, especially in Africa, what made this particular coup immediately different was the number of civilian coup supporters openly waving Russian flags and signs saying “Thank You, Russia!” in French (the country’s official language), accompanied by similar chants, shouts, and “man in the street” interviews.

The response by the wider “world community” was also predictable, with strident calls to release President Bazoum immediately and restore him to power. In doing so, this knee-jerk cheerleading figuratively shot itself in the foot, as it openly demanded restoration of “democratic rule via status quo ante” at all costs, even if the “democratic leadership” in question was openly corrupt.

Whether that is true of Bazoum’s administration is open to question, but there were certainly complaints within the military that Bazoum had a lackadaisical – at best – https://my.bible.com/users/paulcollier/reading-plans/13630-bibleproject-old-testament-in-a-year/subscription/940218825/day/58approach to the ongoing threat of Al Qaeda- and Islamic State-aligned jihadist insurgents threatening the nation.

1. ECOWAS – Again, none of this type of rhetoric – on both sides – is overly unusual, being the common refrain in virtually every coup since World War II. However, the rhetoric quickly took on a completely different tone, as France (the former colonial master of Niger) immediately began threatening the use of direct military force against the junta. The regional ECOWAS coalition (led by neighboring Nigeria) also quickly threatened military intervention to restore Bazoum, something to be taken seriously, as the regional body has done exactly this in the past.

The junta’s response, daring both France and ECOWAS (the regional economic, and now military, interstate body, that has intervened militarily in several West African states in the last twenty-odd years) to attempt to use force against the coup, was almost immediately backed up by the nations of Burkina Faso and Mali, who have declared that any attempted military intervention in Niger will be regarded as a “declaration of war” on them, presumably requiring an equal response.

These acts, by two countries that have both undergone coups in recent years, have effectively broken ECOWAS as a body, as several member states – critically, including the nation of Chad – have expressed their unwillingness to participate in either military action or sanctions. In fact, the Senate of neighboring Nigeria, to the south, is dragging its feet (as of this writing) on authorizing military action, despite the resolute calls of that country’s President for military intervention.

2. FRENCH DEPENDENCE ON NIGER – This seemingly extreme response is easy to understand when viewed in light of uranium extraction: Niger supplies 10-13% of the raw uranium that powers French civil nuclear power. While the loss of Niger’s uranium would be annoying for France, it would not be devastating…unless Niger’s neighbor, Chad, follows suit with the other landlocked uranium suppliers.

But for France and the wider Western “First World,” this is about much more than uranium – it is about both the rapidly collapsing structure of French neo-colonialism (using local proxy governments, propped up by bribery and occasionally French military muscle, to maintain highly unbalanced trade and mining concessions with the former colony), and the loss of strategic partnerships and military basing to the nascent Russia-China alliance that has quietly spread across the African Sahel in the last five years.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY?

The African Sahel – that band of land separating the Sahara-Mediterranean coast from the tropical-temperate southern portion of the continent – has been locked in a desperate battle with a brutal Islamist insurgency for over twenty years. The fighting has been fierce and bloody, especially when viewed in light of the comparatively small populations involved (relative to the physical size of the nations involved.

For example, Niger is approximately twice the size of the US state of Texas, but has a smaller population. While France certainly stepped up a decade ago, and the United States saw a Special Forces team overrun and nearly annihilated in October of 2017, very little has happened since to improve the military situation, despite nearly 3,000 French and American troops being deployed in the country for nearly a decade.

1. THE SAHEL – Adding to this toxic state of affairs is the continued imbalance of remits for mineral extraction rights, not just within Niger, but within the wider arc of former French colonies in the Sahel. In true neo-colonialist fashion (not to be confused with “neo-cons,” although the two are related), the imbalance of remits is theoretically balanced by French and international aid packages to these economically disadvantaged nations; these are, however, demeaning to peoples who want to stand on their own, but are prevented from doing so by “leaders” who are kept in power by “foreign state backing” (read: “bribery”).

Eventually, this led to coups…but the recent spate of coups has taken on a new dimension, in that those executing the military removal of their corrupt and ineffectual, but “duly elected,” governments have seen the local putschists reach out to a new set of foreign backers: Russia and China, forming a kind of “Trans-Asian Pact” (TPA).

2. WAGNER FACTOR – Where China offers the possibility of access to cheap consumer goods provided by its “Belt & Road Initiative.” Russia offers military muscle, not only in the form of weapons, but also in the form of combat support, training, and “direct action” combat missions by its “deniable” mercenary army, the Wagner PMC.

Militarily, despite the abysmal performance of Russia’s main military actor on the continent – the Wagner PMC, formerly headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin – the current policy has worked because the vast majority of the internal conflicts that have been hammering Africa in the last two decades are primarily tribal and/or ethnic in nature, rather than sectarian; for example, Niger’s Bazoum comes from the country’s Arab minority, comprising barely 0.4% of the population. In fact, Wagner troops’ performance in the field has fallen off considerably in the past when opposing the forces of the Islamic State, who – despite their much-reduced size – are far more motivated to stand and fight, like conventional infantry, rather than hit-and-fade, like strictly tribal forces.

One factor about Wagner needs to be kept in the forefront: Wagner is an extension of the Russian government. While it is technically a private corporation and does take contracts not directly associated with Russian foreign policy, it is entirely at the beck and call of Moscow, despite the recent putsch and its reorganization to stage in Belarus.

As well, the source of the corporation’s frequently poor troop performance in the past was tied to the fact that, at present, an estimated 80% of the corporation’s forces were recruited directly from Russian prisons.

While that might have worked 150 years ago, that is no longer a viable or effective recruiting ground for a modern military force.

However, the above facts should not be taken as bookends to define current Wagner troop capabilities. While much is being made of Wagner troops’ poor performance in Mozambique in 2019-2020 and against US Army Special Forces in Syria, as well as its equally poor performance against IS and Al Qaeda forces elsewhere in Africa, the local view among the people of the Sahel region is that Wagner troops are willing to get their hands dirty fighting terrorists, but without the presumption that they are colonizing troops.

Similarly, the Russo-Ukrainian War directly impacts this situation, as veteran Wagner forces realigned to Belarus are being filtered into Africa.

This is not something to be discounted – these troops have recent experience in a type of all-out combat not often seen in Africa, and the extensive combined arms operational doctrines associated with that type of warfare. While many, if not most, of the armies in Africa pay lip service at best to this type of warfare, they are mainly focused on operations more tied to counterinsurgency.

In this environment, it is entirely likely that Wagner’s poor performances of past years are no longer, and counting on the PMC to deploy poorly motivated and inept forces is likely a very bad idea.

THE BATTLESPACE

The fighting area is the African “Sahel” region, the “ecological/environmental buffer zone” dividing the Mediterranean-Saharan Desert region of northern Africa from the temperate-tropical “Sub-Saharan” regions to the south.

Broadly speaking, this region extends in an unbroken line from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

The resource base of the countries in this region is vast and commercially exploitable, security concerns aside.

Given the regional political situation, France would have to enter several states to get at Niger, states that will either engage them directly and immediately, or whose populations will not exactly receive them with open arms.

Next, even a cursory examination of events in the preceding decade shows the clear nature of the Russo-Chinese Trans-Asia Pact’s “soft penetration”: there have been a steady string of “invitational interventions” by Wagner forces across the Sahel, as well as a steady string of coups (many successful) in the same nations.

On the larger map, this shows the clear scope of the Trans-Asian Pact’s operations, as local power elites across the entire Sahel region have either staged – or at least attempted – coups with support (either direct or implied) from Wagner…and thus, from Russia.

The sole exception, as of early August 2023, is the nation of Chad – which announced on August 3^rd that it would not participate in any military intervention against the Niger junta.

1. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS

The Trans-Asia Pact’s goals are clear and easily understandable: Supporting the coup groups in the African “Sahel” region weakens the West’s control over those African states and impedes the strategic capability reach of Western powers.

In a minor sense, while this appears to imply a type of “mercantilist” plan – i.e., extracting local mineral resources in trade for pittance-level remunerations in cash and cheap goods – the trade balance is far more equal (at present) than those Sahel states’ situations with the West in general, and France in particular.

2. COUP WAVE – The wave of coups against openly corrupt governments, which are then replaced by Trans-Asia Pact-friendly juntas, makes possible a continent-spanning trade corridor.

3. TRADE, NOT SOCIAL ENGINEERING – Russia and China have quietly developed a mirror image of the Western colonial/mercantilist model of transactional relationships, but one with a fundamental difference: Neither Russia nor China make any pretensions to a “civilizing mission” in Africa – they are open about seeking strictly transactional relationships with local power elites; there is no presumption that either state cares about “helping to raise up” the populations of their local partners…and neither is there a presumption of imposing democracy on states that are ill-suited to the concept.

The current situation is most emphatically not the same as the “proxy wars” of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s: There is no pretension of “fighting the capitalist-imperialist-colonialist diktat for the greater liberation of the Proletarian Workers according to the principles of Marx, Lenin, and Mao.” This is strictly about economics and tangentially about military basing.

4. MILITARY REALITY – Militarily speaking, the West is confronted by two potentially insurmountable issues in Africa: First, aside from Wagner PMC forces, there are no apparent plans to attempt to deploy Russian or Chinese national forces to the Sahel, aside from Chinese warships already deployed to Djibouti as part of the international anti-piracy naval task force, and a pre-existing Russian basing agreement with Sudan.

This is extremely important, as it eliminates claims of “colonial garrisons” in the partner nations.

The other problem is the growing military professionalism among African militaries. Western nations have gone to great lengths to bring officers from Third World national militaries to Western military academies and professional staff schools, in addition to the training teams of special forces deployed to their countries.

This has been coupled with the easy availability of weapons and support equipment at parity with Western nations…and, significantly, the ability and willingness to use that equipment. While the military forces of a Niger or a Burkina Faso are certainly no match for French or American forces in an antiseptic, “one-on-one” contest, the reality is that France cannot invade the region like it was the 19^th Century…and for completely different reasons; no US administration is willing to endure the firestorm of masses of mostly-Caucasian infantry doing more in Africa than training local forces or defending themselves.

It is a situation predicted over eighty years ago in “The Small Wars Manual (1940),” a semi-official “war-fighting” manual written by the United States Marine Corps at the dawn of World War II. The manual points out that its recommended tactics did work at that time, but that the more developed insurgent forces became, and the more they were able to source modern weapons and equipment, the less effective the book’s tactics would become.

Two much more worrying factors for the West are Algeria and the Great Rift Valley. Algeria, also a former French colony, has angrily denounced French threats of military intervention in Niger. Having watched the 2011 NATO destruction of its eastern neighbor, Libya – by NATO forces led by France and Italy, and the earthshaking instability that resulted – it is not about to stand to see it happen on its already-threatened southern frontier. And Algeria has both the economic and military muscle to back that up, as it controls many of the oil pipeline heads supplying Europe with African crude.

5. GREAT RIFT INSTABILITY – The other issue is the continual instability in the Great Rift Valley, in Eastern Africa. This mineral-rich region has been kept as undeveloped and disorganized as possible, as it produces sky-high profit margins for the vital minerals that keep the West’s high-tech industries running…at the cost of what amounts to slave labor, strip mines, and continual banditry and insurgencies.

6. CULTURE WARS – In light of ongoing events, including the recent move of insanity by the World Bank to shut out the nation of Uganda from any further loans because of their passage of openly anti-LGBTQ laws, it is no feat of clairvoyance to see that many states in the region may reach out to the Russia-China TPA, and its associated partners in BRICS, to obtain cash loans against their mineralogical outputs. While still disadvantageous to the African countries, such deals would still likely be better deals than what they currently get from the West.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

Over a period of thirty-odd years, the West figuratively built a massive stone wall – then promptly ran into it, face-first, and at full speed. This construct was built from a combination of Victory Disease–inspired arrogance after the end of the Cold War, abject greed, and a not-small amount of paternalistic “plantation” racism.

The result has been the West resting on its laurels, assuming that the Third World peasants it has deliberately kept in an undeveloped state to maximize corporate profits were too stupid and brutalized to take any meaningful action against them and their money-generating interests.

In fact, the near-constant state of war in Africa has created the ultimate Darwinian laboratory, where only the most cunning and ruthless leaders and forces survive…with leaders who are far more intelligent and crafty than anyone in the leadership echelons in Western Europe or the US.

Africa is now at the point where, while perhaps unable to fully operate on their own, they are more than capable of ditching their neo-colonial masters for others who, while also not caring about them in any functional way, are at least open and honest with them about what their intentions are.

And, unlike during the “proxy war” period of the 1960s–1980s, the grotesque incompetence of the Western Powers – especially the United States – has resulted in a state where the West is unable to take meaningful action against a Third World regional bloc. Western militaries and defense industries are incapable, as of 2023-2024, of doing more than chasing the occasional goat herder – the Western powers who goaded Ukraine into a no-win war with Russia did so without the ability to back up their saber-rattling…And now, not only are they unable to back their Ukrainian gambit, they cannot intimidate a Third World bloc unwilling to bend the knee, if that bloc keeps its spine straight.

Military action by France against the Niger junta is impossible, even with US support. As stated above, this will never happen, as no administration inside the DC Beltway will risk the image of masses of white American troops doing more in Africa than defending themselves, if that.

Added to the possible north-south advance of Wagner into the Great Rift Valley (where Western tech firms get the critical materials for their technologies), a possible axis of advance helped in no small part by the deranged response of the United States to Uganda’s recent anti-LGBT legislation, this means that the long-dreaded, fundamental shift in economic balance is now visible on the horizon:

Africa is on the verge of entering the world commodities market as a single negotiating bloc, capable of executing “most-favored-nation status” trade agreements as a continent, with any and all other countries.

This will fundamentally undo the current economic paradigm of globalism that has clamped onto the jugular and carotid arteries of the world for thirty odd years.

The end results will not be pretty.

FURTHR RESEARCH

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007 – Al Venter

Small Wars Manual – Department of Defense

Fiasco – Thomas Ricks

How To Make War, 4^th Edition – James F. Dunnigan

New Mexico Experiments with Gun Control Fascism, It’s Not Going Great

Paul Collier September 13, 2023

The seditious Governor of New Mexico, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, was selected by the DNC-CCP to run a test pattern and see what happens, at least that’s what this writer theorizes. She was told to declare a health emergency in response to gun shootings and use that as a justification to ban gun possession by American citizens for 30 days.

It’s not going well as members of her own party, in the media and even in her own government, are telling her to stop before she exposes the mask-off reality of authoritarianism at the root of the DNC-CCP’s current ideological platform. It might already be too late, though, as more and more Americans are learning through this deranged wanna-be fascist dictator the true nature of the Democratic Party.

The criminal governor (who should be immediately arrested and charged with high crimes and misdemeanors) got a taste of the members of her own party running scared at her actions when CNN host Poppy Harlow confronted her on the blatant unconstitutional authority of her actions.

Harlow asked her if she thought she had a right to do this, and Grisham answered, “We’ll see what all of these court actions do.”

Harlow countered, “No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality of county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”

She was quoting the New Mexico Constitution, which Grisham is sworn to uphold and defend, in addition to upholding and defending the U.S. Constitution as well.

Republicans in the State Legislature have immediately called for her impeachment, with State Representatives Stefani Lord and John Block releasing a statement calling for that very thing, saying, “This emergency order violates the Governor’s oath to protect and defend the rights of New Mexicans and is illegal in nature. The legislature has a duty to intervene when the government is overstepping its boundaries, and Governor Grisham’s order and comments disqualify her from continuing her tenure as Governor.”

They should be calling for her immediate arrest for committing a blatant act of reason against the American republic, but in typical republican fashion they’ll only go so far to challenge the party they’re ultimately there to protect from real American opposition.

Her own Attorney General, Raúl Torrez, has come out and stated he won’t enforce the emergency order, while at the same time joining her in supporting having a “debate” about gun control where the “debate” is controlled by the DNC-CCP to produce the outcome they ultimately want, the death of the 2^nd Amendment, which will hasten the death of the 1^st Amendment, which will hasten the death of the Republic.

The Albuquerque Police Department and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office have stated they will not enforce this unconstitutional ruling. They also haven’t arrested her for committing terrorism against the state of New Mexico and overstepping her constitutional authority.

The order, it should be noted, only applies right now to these two jurisdictions as they are the only regions whose gun violence levels meet the standard set by the order, but all of New Mexico knows this is only a test intended to be extended to the whole state.

This writer wants to make it clear, I’m not buying the Democrats’ feigned concerns at the right to bearing arms being violated. There are three possibilities why this is happening, and this writer assumes there is a little truth to all three possibilities.

The first possibility is the Democrats are using Grisham to make them seem reasonable, even though deep down they’re still fully committed to confiscating arms and ending the right to bear arms so they can force Americans more easily into the cattle cars these deranged lunatics have planned to ship us way to a nice work vacation of sorts.

When David Hogg gets to “champion” the constitution in rebuke of Grisham’s order it might be viewed as a way to make that fascist boi seem more reasonable than he otherwise actually is.

The second possibility I think is even more of a factor than the first, especially when the Democrats saw the immediate reaction from rank and file Americans, who set out to openly defy the governor’s order and dare any cop to execute such a seditious order.

The Democrats are afraid, and rightly so, that the governor is taking the mask off the “reasonableness” of the DNC-CCP, showing average non-engaged Americans just how insane and anti-American the DNC-CCP really is. Sure, they’ll give you the freedom to murder your unborn child, the freedom to smoke cannabis without fear of arrest, the freedom to marry whoever or whatever you want to marry, but they’ll do that at a cost, and that cost is the American republic itself.

Non-engaged single-issue voters are increasingly finding it hard to ignore all the parts of the DNC-CCP’s agenda that might actually hurt them. In California, for instance, even if you support gun control, and thus the DNC-CCP, you now must do so at the cost of also supporting grooming children in state schools without the consent or will of the parents. Even if you want to get rid of all guns, you might not want to get rid of parental rights as well.

But that’s the full package deal of the DNC-CCP.

Even if you support gun control, you probably don’t support dictatorships, as Grisham is now attempting to make herself in the state of New Mexico. And these voters notice this. Maybe they won’t vote for republicans, but maybe they just don’t show up to vote at all.

The third reason is to run a bad idea up the flagpole and see who salutes, as in try to do something tyrannical and see if the constant psychological terrorism being foisted on Americans by DNC-CCP-controlled machines that produce our socio-cultural signals (through news, education, entertainment, etc.) has finally debilitated the American spirit. Will Americans submit to this tyranny? If they do, then every state with a Democrat governor will follow this fascist’s lead.

Grisham claims she’s starting a debate on how to address gun violence, but she reveals more than she would intend by using such language. “Debate” in a Democrat’s depraved mind is to acquiesce to their demands before the debate ever starts, which is what she demonstrated by using her office, which has the power to use lethal force against American citizens, to silence dissent before the “debate” ever happens.

A debate begins when both sides have the freedom to express their beliefs, in word and deed, not after one side is holding a gun to your head while it takes your guns away.

This writer believes she didn’t come up on this on her own, she was told to do this by the elites behind the DNC-CCP curtain that run this anti-American terror machine. They chose her because she was one of the few governors dumb enough to try this. They are testing the American will just as they did with the plandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates (which delivered mixed results for the oligarchs seeking to condition Americans to blindly accept authority, even if it means the death of the republic).

This writer believes this action will not have the desired effect the elites hoped for. It’s not going to convince normies the DNC-CCP is not completely unhinged because some Democrats are now playing at being defenders of the constitution. All they’ll see is a rabid mediocre middle-aged crazy white lady acting as if she’s the dictator of New Mexico.

It will disenfranchise their own DNC base, who probably won’t switch to vote republican (though some will), but who will simply not vote at all. It will galvanize independents to vote republican, for even if their particular one issue is not represented by the republicans, the immediate threat of losing the republic will trump even that one issue that made them vote for Democrats in the first place.

If this writer is right, and this was planned by the oligarchs of the party, these oligarchs are about to find out they don’t understand humanity at all, for Americans are not quite ready to roll over and play dead for this anti-American cult, and they’re not buying the faux concern of Democrats who talk out both sides of their mouth, calling the actions of this fascist governor unconstitutional while continuing to spread misinformation intended to terrorize Americans into believing we’re all gonna die if our neighbors continue to have the right to bear arms, at home and outside the home, fully locked and loaded, not disarmed by laws that make it illegal for you to have a weapon ready for self-defense in the first place.

She might end up being the greatest champion of the 2^nd Amendment since the redcoats attempted to take Americans’ arms in 1775, and that ended with the redcoats being summarily removed from the land, a scenario the Democrats might want to pay attention to, being the redcoats of the 21^st century.

One hopes this wicked woman repents of her evil ways and turns back to America’s founding principles, rejecting the dark arts of the DNC-CCP, after all none of us are without sin and we all want and need forgiveness, mercy when we come to realize our sins and repent of them. Unlike the DNC-CCP, we Americans don’t believe anyone is unredeemable, and this woman is no exception.

Should she not repent, let her suffer the legal consequences of her criminal ways.

Why Armies?

Michael Cessna September 8, 2023

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.” – Sun Tzu, Chinese general and strategist, c.500B.C.

There are some questions floating out there, which are generally considered as “no-brainers” – questions that appear so basic, that everyone just assumes that they know the answer, when in fact their understanding of the question is merely superficial, at best. Questions such as “Why is the sky blue?” for example – the correct answer is simple, but many people are unable to formulate the correct response.

Which brings us to the title of this article.

Why do armies (military forces, really) exist? At first glance, the possible answers appear to be self-evident. For many people, their nations create and maintain military forces to defend the country and its peoples. However, their neighbors may see the same nation’s military forces as everything from brutal police enforcers to mercenary enforcers for large business interests.

In fact, that last idea formed part of a statement from Smedley D. Butler, Major General, USMC (ret.), in a speech he gave in 1933. Butler had, in fact, seen monumental levels of corruption in 33-odd years of military service in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. He had fought in numerous wars and interventions during those 3+ decades, from Mexico to Central America and the Caribbean, to France in World War One, and in the Far East.

“It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” – Smedley D. Butler, 1933

He was not incorrect.

Likewise, many people point to the opposite extreme, best exemplified in the South American nations of Argentina and Chile, from the 1960’s to the 1980’s, where those nation’s armies were used primarily as heavy muscle to back up the nominally anti-Communist actions of brutal and irretrievably corrupt military junta’s.

Throughout history, from the time of the savagery of the Assyrians, to the rationalizations for the 1990-91 looting expedition of Saddam Hussein (some of which, if we are being honest, were valid), and beyond, military forces have been used to grab everything from gold, crops and women, to industrial plant equipment and raw materials, despite that inevitably becoming an ultimately losing proposition.

And it is no secret that military forces are extremely expensive, even when military leadership, governments and economists manage to carefully balance military budgets (an almost unheard of event, on a par with finding an actual herd of unicorns). This is because – for the reasons just outlined above, among others – military forces are a net drain on their parent economies, as they can never produce enough economic output to balance the expenditure necessary to create, organize, equip, train and maintain them.

“Raising a host of a hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the highways. As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded in their labor.” – Sun Tzu

And yet, the rule remains: military forces are necessary for a society to maintain, because whatever other uses militaries are put to, there is always someone on the other side of the river/mountain/ocean that wants a piece of what you have, and is not willing to negotiate for it.

There is, however, a trap inherent in all military forces, that being the breathtaking feel of the power and majesty of command. That is not hyperbole – it is very frighteningly real. “Drunk on power” is not an empty statement. The knowledge of having the ability to wield the power of literal life and death over hundreds, thousands, millions – or more – people can be more intoxicating than any mere chemical action.

People with that particular failing also believe that they are smart enough to disregard Sun Tzu.

“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” – Sun Tzu

That is not “paranoia” – that is history…and History does not care whether you believe it or not.

So, where does this leave us?

“We, the People” – of whatever nation – need military forces. Despite the dangers of armed forces having the monopoly of violence within their borders (which, ignorant arguments to the contrary, is the entire purpose of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment), the People, as a whole, need an organized, well-trained and well-equipped force to protect them. Like any tool in a home, like any kind of vehicle, device or machine, the object itself is just an object – it is inanimate, and has no mind of its own. The “good” or “evil” actions that tool is used for, is solely the responsibility of those putting it to use.

It is responsibility of the citizens of a nation to hold their governments accountable when their military forces are misused…because if they don’t try, they have no right to complain: You, the Citizen, are paying for your military forces. Even if you have never been in a military force, if you think you have a say in how your country operates, you need to inform yourself about “things military”, in general, and your country’s military in particular.

That’s part of what is known as “adulting”.

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington, First Annual Address to Both Houses of Congress, Friday, January 8, 1790

The Spirit of Pedophilia: Part Two – From Marx to Current Year

Paul Collier September 7, 2023

By Paul Collier, Editor

Read part one here.

INTRODUCTION

In the first part of this report, we breezed through the emergence of modern political reality, culminating in Jacque Rousseau, whose central idea was this; the individual is only free if the individual is in harmony with a new social man that breaks down the traditions that bind men, born free, in chains.

This notion is not new to Rousseau, though his writings were what made such a notion acceptable in polite society, at least in the European West. What follows from this notion is Marxism, the next great sophistic justification for sacrificing children for the good of the whole.

From Marxism, variations of Marxism emerge, culminating in current year with post-structuralist thought centered around the notion that the minority in any institutional sense (be it race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identification) is the preferred class that has been artificially diminished by systemic oppression. This requires a complete dismantling of what is to make room for the new ideal conditions for the collective social man to flourish, ushering in true equity and social justice for all who fall into one of the preferred classes.

This part of our report will begin documenting the early Marxist assumptions regarding the nature of the “nuclear family,” one of the major impediments to the dream of ensuring every child is given the exact same social DNA to ensure the collective social man becomes reality. From there, we’ll leap forward to the 1960s, with the emergence of post-structuralism, most fully recognized by the often leftist-claimed father of post-structuralism, Michel Foucault.

We’ll show the commonly shared belief among these thinkers to not only countenance, but engage in pedophilic activity, bearing the fruit of the pedophilic spirit this ideology requires and cultivates to make its stated dreams come true.

Finally, we’ll bring you to current year and the efforts by the Democratic Party, or the DNC (Democratic National Committee), to force a post-structuralist ideology on the Constitutional Republic of America, despite the fact that post-structuralism and individual liberty, individual sacredness, are existentially at odds with one another.

MARXISM

Marxism derives its name from Karl Marx who, along with his sponsor and partner Friedrich Engels, convinced a whole mass of people to reject the sacredness of the individual and embrace the sacredness of a very specific collective to be defined by the party elite and imposed by violence on all who find themselves within their authoritarian control. In order to get there, and to keep it going, these same party elites needed to control the thoughts and intentions of the next generation, the children, by any means necessary, for the good of the whole. This is reflected from the start in the Marxist view of the family.

1. MARX AND THE FAMILY – From revisesociology.com:

“Marxism is a ‘structural conflict’ perspective. They see society as structured along class lines with institutions generally working in the interests of the small elite class who have economic power (the ‘Bourgeoisie’) and the much larger working class (the ‘Proletariat’). The Bourgeoise gain their wealth from exploiting the proletariat. There is thus a conflict of interests between the Bourgeoise and the Proletariat.

However, this conflict of interests rarely boils over into revolution because institutions such as the family perform the function of ‘ideological control,’ or convincing the masses that the present unequal system is inevitable, natural, and good.”

Engels erroneously asserted that the nuclear family and monogamous marriage only existed as capitalism took form. To Engels, and the Left in general at that time, the nuclear family and monogamous marriage were symbols of systemic oppression, perpetuating hierarchies that needed to be torn down to bring about equality and justice for all.

Karl Marx made it clear in the Communist Manifesto of 1848 his intentions to abolish the family. To Marx, the family was simply “money relations” intended to preserve bourgeoise power and make the proletariat complicit in their own enslavement. He promised his audience that through Communism, children would be freed from the bourgeoise indoctrination of their parents. They would be educated by the State, run by the enlightened elites as designated by the Communist Party. He said communists would “rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”

Counterfire, a self-described “revolutionary socialist organization,” makes it clear how they interpret the proper Marxist perspective on family:

“…. What it seems to me Marx and Engels were trying to do was to explain the origins of women’s oppression, to point to societies where this oppression did not at one time exist, and to look towards a future society where again it would be a thing of the past. This is why both were concerned with how monogamy developed, with who controlled the children in any particular society, and with what work became identified with certain positions. It is this general approach which makes Origin of the Family such an important book, whatever its weaknesses, and which allows us to use this general approach to understand strategies for ending women’s oppression today.”

To buoy this claim, the writer adds this quote which the writer, Lindsey German, asserts is their translation: “Abolition of the family! The bourgeois family will disappear, in the course [of history] as its supplement [private property] disappears, and both will vanish with the destruction of capital.” – The Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels.

Roughly 50 years after the death of Marx, ideologues would take his anti-family, pro-grooming ideas and put them to flesh, with two early examples standing out, one which would last for 70 years and one which would last for 133 days.

2. RUSSIA’S INCREMENTAL MARXISM – From Heritage.org, “…. As soon as they won their first victory, in Russia in 1917, the communists now in power put into practice these policies. Alexandra Kollontai, the Soviet’s first People’s Commissar for Welfare, put it succinctly when she wrote, ‘The old family, narrow and petty, where the parents quarrel and are only interested in their own offspring, is not capable of educating the “new person.”’ Soviet schools even encouraged students to snitch on their parents.”

The revolutionaries of Russia did not aggressively end the family unit, though they did everything they could to discourage it. This move alone might explain why their experiment lasted 70 years, while another experiment, in Hungary, lasted only 133 days. However, one of the architects of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky, would later claim that the reason for the failure of the revolution to produce a true communist utopia was because they DIDN’T aggressively work to eliminate the family.

3. HUNGARY’S “SOCIALISM NOW” – In 1919, another communist revolution successfully overthrew the existing power, setting to flesh the ideas born in Rousseau and flushed out in Marx and Engels. This time, they would seek to use the model of the French Revolution, which attempted to immediately, and by force, implement a completely new social order that fully destroyed the old social order. The French Revolutionaries even changed the week from 7 days to 10 days, but with 10 days being 10 hours, which are now 100 minutes, with minutes now being 100 seconds.

From Heritage.org:

“…. But it didn’t stop with Marx and Engels. Hungarian communists managed to establish a Hungarian soviet for a short time in 1919. They quickly realized that the way to completely change society was to destroy the most important civil society institution, the family. Its culture and education commissar, George Lukacs, therefore instituted a system to instruct young children into sexual perversions.

Lukacs’s biographer described it this way: ‘Special lectures were organized in schools and literature printed and distributed to “instruct” children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy, and the irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasure. Children urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church, and to ignore precepts of morality.’”

If this doesn’t sound like America’s current year school curriculum, you’re not paying attention.

The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils of Hungary lasted from March 21, 1919, to August 1919, 133 Days. Its failure was mostly its aggressive efforts to abolish all existing institutions, especially the family, faster than the people could accept.

From Marxist.com:

“In reality, the peasantry, because of the entire mode of existence and role in production, is the social class least capable of developing a collective consciousness. Some of the Hungarian Communists seemed to grasp this fact better than Bela Kun. In an article published in the first issue of Communist International:

Laszlo Rudas pointed out that the poor and middle class peasant was ‘in the best of cases indifferent to the fate of the dictatorship of the proletariat.’

…. In 133 days of its existence, the soviet republic issued no fewer than 531 decrees. If revolutions were won and lost on the strength of paperwork, the Hungarian workers would never have lost. Unfortunately for Bela Kun, the reaction fought with real bullets, not paper ones.”

They concluded, “But the idea of the Hungarian CP leaders of introducing ‘socialism now’ without taking due care and consideration for the problem of the transition between capitalism and socialism caused serious difficulties.”

Marxist.com declares the purpose of their site on their header, “In Defense of Marxism,” so what you’re seeing in these quotes is Marxists interpreting their own ideology, making it clear that the family is anathema to their dystopian fantasies.

THE DNC’S VEHICLE OF POWER: POST-STRUCTURALISM

We will not go down the rabbit hole of the underlying epistemological assumptions of post-structuralism in this report. We are more interested in the conclusions post-structuralism comes to in relation to children and the family. An article in Evie Magazine by S.G. Cheah summarizes well the spirit and intent of post-structuralism as it relates to children and the family:

“At the root of postmodernism lies the subjectivity of values. Nothing is objectively right or wrong. Human morality is merely a social construct. And since society’s moral standards are merely constructed by the status quo, it’s imperative that we deconstruct social structures. This movement is known as ‘Poststructuralism’ or ‘Deconstructionist’ in academic circles. A real-life version of this that you might have encountered is ‘Down with systemic racism in America!’

…. This is how a postmodernist thinks: Since everything is subjective to a person’s experience, feelings, and consciousness, then nothing can be objectively sacred. Childhood innocence, for example, is just a social construct. Since different people have different opinions about ‘childhood sexuality,’ who are we to judge what’s right or wrong?

But worse than just being ambiguous about cultural standards is how the postmodernist-deconstructionist movement is actually promoting the destruction of universally accepted values. They see this as ‘challenging the hegemony of power.’ Because the dominant hegemony of society’s sexual morality lies in ‘traditional patriarchal values,’ these radical intellectuals believe that sexual desires can be utilized as a revolutionary force in politics.

…. According to an article written by a women’s rights activist with extensive expertise on the subject, the promotion of pedophilia is encouraged because: ‘Transgression of norms, and in particular sexual norms, became the only response to punishment and classification, which would, in Foucauldian thinking, challenge oppression and power’.”

1. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 2.0 – In May 1968, a French Revolution of sorts was taking place, led by the academic classes, specifically, but not exclusively by the students. As part of that revolution, the thought leaders called for the reduction, if not outright abolishment, of age of sexual consent laws. The mantra of the time was “It is Forbidden to Forbid,” which is, of course, a self-refuting statement. It culminated in a leftist-led petition in 1977 to end various laws that addressed the notion of an age of consent.

From socialimpactscience.org:

“According to Zizek (2018), in 1968, ‘the French “progressive’ press published a series of petitions demanding the decriminalization of pedophilia, claiming that this would abolish the artificial and oppressive culturally constructed frontier that separates children from adults, and would extend to children the right to freely dispose with one’s body’ (p.127). Among the people who signed these petitions, there were Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Derrida.

In addition, in 1977 ‘he contemplated the idea that rapists should be punished only for a crime of violence, and not for a sex crime’ (Taylor, 2009, p.1), and he added that sexuality cannot be the object of punishment under any circumstances (Cahill, 2000).”

Wikipedia, a bastion of leftist thought itself, described the efforts of the 1977 petition to end age of consent laws like this:

“In 1977, a petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law.[1] A number of French intellectuals – including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Bernard Besret [fr] and various prominent doctors and psychologists – signed the petition.[2] In 1979 two open letters were published in French newspapers defending individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape, in the context of reformation of age of consent laws.

Many of the signatories – including, but not limited to, Foucault, Danet, and Hocquenghem – later argued in favor of legalizing sex with children, claiming a child can consent – ‘listen to what the child says and give it a certain credence. This notion of consent is a trap, in any case. What is sure is that the legal form of an intersexual consent is nonsense. No one signs a contract before making love.’ The same year, Michel Foucault presented to the Commission for the Revision of the Penal Code to equalize and lower the age of consent to 13. In 1977 and 1979, two open letters were published in French newspapers defending individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape. In 1977, another petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law. The laws were considered an infringement on the sexual autonomy of children’.”]

THE FOUNDERS OF THE CURRENT-YEAR DNC

The post-structuralist thought leaders of France would soon cast their de-humanizing vision to America’s shores, to be picked up by such leftist “heroes” as Judith Butler, Angela Davis, and Judith Levine. They would build the current-year vehicle of power now being implemented by the Democratic Party (the DNC) and its market vassals. For some of them, including the most important thought leader of them all, Michel Foucault, not only did they champion decriminalizing pedophilia, but they also engaged in it themselves.

1. MICHEL FOUCAULT – Michel Foucault not only advocated for legalizing the sexualization of children by adults, but he also practiced it himself. Allegedly, Foucault engaged in sexual relations with boys as young as 10 in Tunis, Tunisia, in May of 1968, which he described as his great turning point. He said, “Tunisia, for me, represented in some ways the chance to reinsert myself in the political debate. It wasn’t May of ’68 in France that changed me; it was March of ’68, in a third-world country.”

French essayist Guy Sorman claimed on a French Public TV Channel that he “witnessed what Foucault did with young children in Tunisia…. Ignoble things. The possibility of consent could not be sought. These were things of extreme moral ugliness.”

2. JUDITH BUTLER – From devislane.com:

“…. One disciple of Foucault is specifically prevalent in our own era: lesbian Marxist Gender Studies matriarch Judith Butler. Adjacent to trans activist (and former chemist) ‘Julia’ Serano, she is credited with having developed the sociology offshoot of ‘Queer Theory’ which merged with ‘Women’s Studies’ (i.e., Critical Theory and Feminism), which has produced the monster of ‘Gender Studies’.

…. ‘If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.’

…. Butler is the author of ‘Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity’ (1990), which has its thesis one of the dumbest ideas yet, formed as the bastard child of Freud, de Beauvoir, Lacan, Derrida, and St Foucault. That idea being biological sex, gender, and sexuality are involuntary ‘performances’ over time coerced from ‘disciplinary’ techniques, rather than anything to do with human biology’.”

Judith Butler is the precursor to Robin DiAngelo, author of one of the DNC’s sacred texts, White Guilt.

3. FROM FOUCAULT TO ANGELA DAVIS – From Frontpagemag.com:

“When Angela Davis, a domestic terrorist, wrote, ‘Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition’, she began by extensively citing an ex-Marxist French philosopher. ‘Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish” is arguably the most influential text in contemporary studies of the prison system,’ she argued while crediting herself with an analysis of the ‘racial implications’ of his ideas.

There is a straight line that runs from Foucault and Davis to the ‘prison abolition’ movement that, in its mildest form, encompasses police defunding and reducing penalties for offenses and diverting criminals away from prison, and to proposals like Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s BREATHE Act that would create a ‘roadmap for prison abolition,’ with the ‘full decarceration of federal detention facilities within 10 years’.

While black nationalists are more likely to cite Davis and other black nationalists, she and leftist intellectuals very clearly credited Foucault and his Marxist analyses of criminal justice. Neither group tends to mention that aside from leftist extremism, Foucault was also a pedophile.”

4. JUDITH LEVINE – From The Public Discourse:

“The publication of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex promised readers a ‘radical, refreshing, and long overdue reassessment of how we think and act about children’s and teens’ sexuality.’ The book was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2003 (with a foreword by Joycelyn Elders, who had been the U.S. Surgeon General in the Clinton administration), after which the author, Judith Levine, posted an interview on the university’s website decrying the fact that ‘there are people pushing a conservative religious agenda that would deny minors access to sexual expression,’ and adding that ‘we do have to protect children from real dangers … but that doesn’t mean protecting some fantasy of their sexual innocence.’

This redefinition of childhood innocence as ‘fantasy’ is key to the defining down of the deviance of pedophilia that permeated college campuses and beyond. Drawing upon the language of postmodern theory, those working to redefine pedophilia are first redefining childhood by claiming that ‘childhood’ is not a biological given. Rather, it is socially constructed – a historically produced social object. Such deconstruction has resulted from the efforts of a powerful advocacy community supported by university-affiliated scholars and a large number of writers, researchers, and publishers who were willing to question what most of us view as taboo behavior.”

POST-STRUCTURALISM MADE FLESH

In the January 2023 Edition of MIA, on page 20, Joshua Bontrager did a report called “DNC AMERICA: THE EVIL, UNRESTRICTED WAR ON OUR CHILDREN,” in which he outlined some of the ways the DNC was essentially bringing post-structuralist thought to flesh, directly assaulting American children and their parents using every means of market and state coercion they can bring to bear.

He says in his conclusion:

“What must be done? First, parents must take back responsibility and be willing to make serious sacrifices for the sake of their children. We cannot simply point fingers at the social engineers without acknowledging our own complicity.

Are we trapped by political correctness and comfort? Do we care enough about saving our children to invest the love, time, money, and energy required to raise them to be warriors for truth? Second, parents must opt out of every leftist institution that is destroying their children.

TikTok is not your friend. Disney is not your friend. American Girl is not your friend. The government schools are not your friend. The social engineers (aka, ‘experts’) are not your friends, and they do not believe that your child has any humanity. To them, your child is nothing more than a lab rat upon which to be socially experimented and ultimately discarded.

We must refuse to be part of the corrupt system that is destroying our children (i.e., government schools, social media, Disney, etc.). We must also dedicate ourselves to creating good culture within our own homes that can withstand bad culture.

Third, legislators must step up, and parents must stand right beside them. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) have all shown courageous leadership in this fight.

Last, we must never be ashamed to call out evil for what it is and to stand for children, who are most vulnerable. We must not care what the other side calls us or thinks of us.

They hate us simply because we stand for truth, justice, and purity. We must understand what evil actually is and call it by its name.

As noted in the May 2022 MIA, ‘What has become an open agenda of grooming and child abuse will only accelerate…in all of today’s woke institutions – academia, law, politics, art, Hollywood, media, social media, and corporate America. These institutions will continue to destroy American kids and turn them against everything that our Founders stood for, unless parents wake up and take back responsibility for educating and discipling their own children.’

The most powerful thing a concerned parent can do is to simply exit the DNC’s corrupt cultural system and disciple their children to love, live, and proclaim the truth. The war against the DNC can be won, one parent at a time.”

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

This writer believes that the current paradigm being followed by the DNC is increasingly closer to the failed Hungarian revolutionary model rather than the incremental assault on family the Russians chose to utilize.

The pushback long predicted seems to finally have arrived, with two of the DNC’s powerful market vassals, Anheuser Busch and Target, losing billions in market value after aggressively pushing post-structuralist ideology through their product marketing, with Target specifically targeting children for this perverse indoctrination.

The DNC’s success in capturing most of the major public and private institutions of America might also lead to its downfall, as the perception of potential accountability for their actions has largely disappeared, leaving them vulnerable to their will to perceive the world and its actors a certain way versus the actual reality of power they find themselves facing. In their minds, only the far-right fringe still wants traditional monogamous marriage, parents’ rights, and the nuclear family unit. They can’t begin to fathom how wrong they are in their echo chambers.

Just as the Hungarian experiment went too far too fast to hold together, so too will the efforts of the DNC be unable to hold together. Their dream to shatter the constitutional republic of America using this not-so-concealing trojan horse we call “Woketarianism” (which is the current manifestation of post-structuralist thought being utilized by the DNC and its market vassals) might or might not succeed in shattering our republic, but it won’t be the new ruling authority when the dust finally settles.

We are in a liminal period in human history, between what was and what might come to replace it. An old civilization is dying. The age of the enlightenment is found wanting, as are the antithetical developments of enlightenment thought, as reflected in today’s DNC-deployed Woketarianism.

What comes next is less certain than this; the Woketarian experiment will not survive as a viable vehicle of power in what’s to come. Still, as surely as this spirit, the pedophilic spirit, existed long before Woketarianism, it will exist long after it is put to rest, should the Lord tarry.

Instead, it will take up new terms while it waits for new opportunities to exploit the plea of the needy for their de-humanizing political ends.

So long as humans seek to be gods rather than pursue understanding and becoming more like God, in humility and not in pride, the pedophilic spirit that has infested many civilizations before ours (and now including ours) will continue to loom as a threat to the sacredness of the individual as represented in the way we treat the most vulnerable in our society, our children, starting from the ones forming in the wombs of Mothers.

Read part one here.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Marx & Satan – Richard Wurmbrand

The Marxification of Education – James Lindsay

The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration – Paul Kengor

Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism – A. James Gregor

The Spirit of Pedophilia: Part One – From the Time of Moses to Rousseau

Paul Collier September 7, 2023

By Paul Collier, Editor

“The gods did not enrich man with a knowledge of all things from the beginning of life. Yet man seeks, and in time invents what might be better.” – Anakreon, Greek poet, 5^th Century B.C.

Read part two here

INTRODUCTION

Throughout documented history, mankind has long sought to make the world in his image. It is as natural an impulse to humanity as breathing. One of these natural impulses, breathing, is required for life, but the other impulse, making the world in man’s image, inevitably leads to death. The adult seeking to make himself or his collective a god here on earth requires the assurance that his ideational or ideological DNA be transferred from one generation to the next, lest he be a mere mortal.

The child is a threat to the man-god so long as that child can become a steward of its own preferences and beliefs. Man must make the child in his corrupt image in order to assure the transference of his DNA to the next generation.

What follows is a brief outline of the development of methodologies to control the emergence of adulthood in children in an effort to serve the self-centered desires of the man-god-wannabes throughout human history.

This writer calls this the spirit of pedophilia, fully crystalized in Michael Foucault, the post-structuralist philosopher most influential on the current ideology now laying siege to America, thanks to the Democratic Party and its market vassals.

Foucault serves as the face of the attempt by the Left to undo the progress made thanks to Christianity to protect children from the ravages of the pedophilic spirit, the man-god impulse within fallen man that caused him to attempt to build a Tower of Babel to reach the throne room of God so he could overthrow God and replace Him with man’s own image.

Part One of the report lays the groundwork for what fueled the father of the modern pedophilic spirit. Part Two of the report documents Marxism’s assault on children leading up to Foucault and the unholy children that came after him.

The purpose of this report (both parts one and two) is to convince you, the reader, that the current prevailing political ideology in America is formed by a spirit of pedophilia that continues to be an existential threat to the health and well-being of the most innocent of Americans, our children, starting from the unborn and continuing through to adulthood (if the children are allowed to be born).

If you are already convinced of this fact, then this report seeks to give you the resources to make an informed case against the rise of the pedophilic spirit in America by the party of pedophilia, the Democratic Party, or the DNC, and its market vassals, Foucault’s children.

This part of the report gives you the ancient and historical development of the pedophilic spirit. The second part gives you the spirit made flesh (Marxism) and America’s current-year assault by this same pedophilic spirit on the American Republic and, more significantly, on the innocent children now being brutalized by this unholy attempt to make man a god, collectively, beholden to the experts given authority by the elites of the Democratic Party, the party of pedophilia.

ED.NOTE: You can read part two of this report here.

THE SPIRIT OF PEDOPHILIA

“They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.” – Psalm 106:36-39

1. THE SPIRIT OF UNEARNED SALVATION – In the orthodox interpretation of scripture, man is born fallen as the seed of Adam, in need of a redeemer. He is destined to sin and thus is in need of salvation, deliverance from sin, though nothing he can do can earn such salvation. He is given unearned grace if he would but bend his knee in fear of the Lord and walk in the love of God, as demonstrated and witnessed by the son of God, the Christ, who is God over all.

That same Christ descended from heaven, taking the form of man, the Word made flesh, the first fruit of the dead, the second Adam who, by his nature, could pay for the sins of man, being a man himself. Because of His perfection, being God as well, his blood alone could atone for our sins. He became the final sacrifice of the Old Covenant that ripped the veil in the temple, ushering in the New Covenant where God’s law is written on our hearts.

Christ shed His blood on the cross so that fallen man’s sins will be forgiven if he worshipped the Christ, taking up His cross and following Him and forgiving one another as Christ forgave them. He conquered death and Satan, the father of lies and pedophilia, ushering in the spiritual Kingdom of God.

This worldview was, and is, unlike any other worldview in human history. It is a worldview that binds the human’s ambitions to become a god himself, compelling him to forgive as he has been forgiven and to leave vengeance for the Lord. It is a worldview that compels us to recognize that by the grace of God alone we are saved, not through works, lest we should boast, and thus, even as we are being perfected, we are yet compelled not to view ourselves as better than anyone else, even the wicked, who can be forgiven even as we have been forgiven.

If lived out, the spirit of unearned salvation conquers tribalism, racism, bigotry, and hate, in humility, not pride.

The innocent Christ sacrificed Himself, becoming like sin, our sins, with full volition and consensuality. He did so to free us from the wages of sin, which is death, leading us through sanctification to reject sin and live righteously according to God’s laws, through the Holy Spirit within us.

This spirit, the spirit of unearned salvation, is imperfectly reflected in the founding of the American nation, whose constitution created a state that was not given the power to make man in its image, but rather to allow man, and thus children, to steward their preferences, to steward their beliefs, to define their own happiness and be free to seek it.

The spirit of unearned salvation is born from an innocent sacrificing himself of His own free will to redeem the fallen so they can escape the slavery of sin.

2. THE ANTITHESIS OF THE SPIRIT OF UNEARNED SALVATION – There is an anti-Christ spirit, the spirit of pedophilia, which takes on many forms throughout human history. It is a spirit that demands the innocent among us, the child, sacrifice himself (or be sacrificed) to empower man to continue to live in sin. It is not only antithetical to the Christian spirit, but also to the American spirit. It requires the violation of individual liberty, both of children and their parents, and the re-creation of a priest-king class of elites who dictate to the masses the terms of their conditions, conditions designed to empower the elites and preserve their god-like advantages over the many.

At the heart of the spirit of pedophilia is the notion that children are not created by God to be stewarded by adults but are impersonal objects, disposable if they fail to meet the needs of the collective god, the social man (as defined by the appointed priest-kings of the god-state). It is reflected not only by sexualizing children but by murdering them in the womb should their lives be inconvenient for adults.

THE CARROT AND THE STICK

Adults throughout the ages have used two methods to prevent the deviation from social man’s imposed image on individuals by the generation of humans emerging, the children. One method is the carrot, to offer the child indulgence in sin that leads to bondage to a system that sacrifices the child in the end for the good of the whole, whether literally through murder or spiritually by crushing the child’s sense of self-stewardship, a spiritual murder. The other method is the stick, to control through force the potential for stewarded action, not just of the child but of the parent.

In America, both the carrot and the stick are being deployed by the party of pedophilia. Nothing new is under the sun, and the current iteration of the spirit of pedophilia is no exception. Its examples go back generations and can be reflected both in history and in the arts.

1. PLEASURE ISLAND – “And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one of his fellow and every one of his neighbor: the youth be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.” – Isaiah 3:4-5

In the story of Pinocchio, the wooden boy seeking to become a real boy is led astray by the Coachman, who promises him a life of indulgence and ease on the island that, in the novel, is called the Land of Toys. In the 1940 Disney classic, the island is called Pleasure Island.

On this island, children can indulge in adult vices like gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Pinocchio enters the Land of Toys with his friend Lucignolo. Behind him, the Coachman’s henchmen, in looming silhouettes, lock the doors behind them. As Pinocchio and Lucignolo indulge their fantasies, acting like adults in all the vice-like ways, they are slowly being turned into donkeys, which was a symbol of ignorance in 19th-century Italian culture, where the book that became the movie was originally created (1883).

The Coachman and his henchmen can later be seen capturing the now-converted donkeys of other children and sending them off to a life of slavery. Pinocchio would ultimately escape and face more challenges in learning how to be human by becoming a stewarded self, an individual aware of the consequences of his actions and the need for some form of salvation outside the self. However, most of the children in this story did not escape, as most, this writer fears, of the children in this land and this time will not escape the Land of the Toys trap being set for them.

In the current year, the Democratic Party and its market vassals are offering children a Pleasure Island that gives them the “freedom” to be sexual, the “freedom” to define their genders as they please, and an escape from accountability based on the lie that their parents invented evil or were helpless to stop them, and so now they are the heads and their parents are the tail.

2. THE SPARTAN WAY – The Spartans may have been the first people to aggressively adopt some form of the spirit of pedophilia in a systematic way rivaled only by the Democratic Party of today. The goal of the engineered work was to glorify the collective god of the state, which for the Democrats is the party itself.

It started at birth, when the child was scrutinized to determine if he was a useable form. Any deformities in the child would lead to that child being dashed on the rocks or exposed to the elements, a practice that was widespread in the ancient world before the rise of Christianity but which was perhaps never more zealously executed by anyone else other than the Spartans until current year with the legalization of abortion, thanks primarily to efforts by the Democratic Party.

After that, the Spartan child would be given to the family to be raised by a nurse until he was 7 years old. Then he was shipped off to state school where he would live and study, being groomed to be an instrument of the state, which would be to become a warrior for boys and a matron for girls. Any deviation from the social orthodoxy imposed on the child by the few elites would be met with physical punishment, ostracism, or death. The Spartans were the masters of the stick method of the pedophilic spirit.

In Sparta we see the seeds of fascism and socialism that have reared their violent ugly heads again and again throughout human history, causing death and trauma wherever they go. It appears the Democratic Party would like America to follow a similar path. They use the stick as well as the carrot, with the stick being social ostracism and removal from paths that lead to good standing in the “social man,” which is being imposed on them by the few elites dictating to the many through violence.

LEFTISM RESTORES THE SPIRIT OF PEDOPHILIA

Politics as a justification of authority alone is relatively new to most of human history. Previously, the primary foundation of authority was divine authority, claiming in some form to have divine authority, be it Christ in the West or the Mandate of Heaven of the Chinese. This was often coupled with genetic legitimization in the form of royalty, a family deemed to be the heirs of divine authority exclusively.

2. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION – The birth of the modern nation-state is often cited to have begun with the French Revolution and the subsequent reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. What distinguishes the nation-state from past states is the emergence of a bureaucracy whose authority is derived from some form of contract, such as a Constitution, which was legitimized by claims of moral and/or philosophical correctness that could be reliably used as tools of accountability which restrained the power of the state over the citizens. It is the structure of rational language alone that the political uses to justify its claims.

It is as the French were doing away with their divinely appointed King and seeking to justify authority based on “ideals” that the terminology of the primary divide in the political arena took place. That terminology classified those who favored a preservation of tradition in the form of Kingship as being “the right” while those who favored the creation of a republic based on the ideals of liberty, fraternity, and equality came to be called “the left.”

The terminology emerged from the Tennis Court Oath on June 20^th, 1789 in Paris, France during a meeting of the Estates General when members of the Third Estate, comprised of non-royals and non-elites, held a meeting at a nearby tennis court in defiance of the first two estates they feared would block their efforts to reform the French government.

They took an oath not to disband until the French government was bound by a constitution. The members who sat on the right happened to support a constitutional monarchy while the ones who sat on the left happened to support a republic.

Thus we inherit this terminology to describe the fundamental divide in the game of politics, between those who seek to use government to make man anew and those who seek to use government to mitigate conflict. Of course, it’s more complicated than that, but this writer asserts that this is the essential divide in the justification of authority using ideas, or ideology, alone.

With this, the birth of the modern political state began, and thus leftism began, and thus the systemic spirit of pedophilia began to spread across the earth, leaving millions dead and wounded behind it.

But even before the Tennis Court oaths, the ideas that formulated these divides were emerging in the immediate centuries leading up to this moment. One such precursor was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose ideas would codify the notion that humans are born innocent and become evil through oppression, a core assumption for those who seek to use the state to make man in their image rather than allow for the stewardship of the self discovering the true sovereign, God alone.

3. THE BORN-FREE CHILD OF ROUSSEAU – “And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me’.” – Matthew 18:2-6

Jean Jacque Rousseau is considered by many to be the father of the French Revolution and the creator of childhood, with the former claim having far more credibility than the latter. The fact that he himself forced the mother of his five children to give them away to a Paris hospital is an irony not lost on the claim that Rousseau invented childhood. Rather, he “invented” (really, gave sophistic justification of ideas as old as civilization itself, that children are instruments of the state) the justification for using the state to mold the child in a new image that must, by necessity, break with the traditions from which evil was invented, mainly, the creation of the notion of private property.

From Hub Pages:

“Rousseau is the first one to write about childhood as a distinct period in the life of a person, as opposed to what was the norm in time that regarded children as miniature adults which were expected to act and think like adults. It is said that he created the childhood theory.”

4. THE BIBLICAL REBUTTAL – Scripture makes a distinction between adults and children, creating different standards in how God judges one versus the other. After the Israelites gave a bad scouting report on the promised land God told them He would conquer for them, God punished the Israelites by consigning them to forty years in the wilderness to assure that those then alive would never enter the promised land.

“Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all of your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.” – Numbers 14:29

Those under the age of twenty were spared this fate, for reasons that are explained in Deuteronomy 1:39 when God tells Moses, “And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it and they shall possess it.”

The Christian notion of childhood existed long before Rousseau, though not in the same “ward of the state” way that would emerge from Rousseau. We see it in the verse from Matthew 18, where Christ describes very different attributes to children than He does for adults, though, unlike Rousseau, the assumption is not that children are born innocent. We are all born under the sin of Adam, as Paul spells out in Romans 5, where he says, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned – for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.”

5. ROUSSEAU’S JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PEDOPHILIC SPIRIT – For Rousseau, then, the human is inherently good, able to engineer the good through the state. The only savior needed is the state, who will know more about how to raise the child in the good than his own parents would.

The author of the pedophilic spirit in the political game, Rousseau, demonstrates the true nature of such a spirit in how he treated his own children, who were all rejected due to their potential inconvenience to his libertine lifestyle. That tendency in those who follow such spirits has not disappeared. If anything, in America, it has only increased.

Rousseau gives sophistic justification for unbinding the state to not be constrained by self-stewardship and seek to use its monopoly on violence to force people to be free. He is famous for writing “man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” as a condemnation of individual property standards that recognize the stewardship rights of self.

The notion that the self is “born free” gives sophistic justification for the state to claim it can know the true social self and can thus use tyranny and oppression to FORCE people to be “free” as defined by the same oppressing state.

Rousseau might blush at just how far his pedophilic spirit might go if he were to witness the policies of the Democratic Party today. Nonetheless, he is the left-identified father of the political pedophilic spirit who will lead to the father of current year’s version of this pedophilic spirit, Michel Foucault.

SUMMARY

Leftism takes on many forms in the centuries that followed Rousseau, but they all have a few things in common, such as the assumption that the individual is born free, that experts can define what the ideal self should be, that the self is only fulfilled when it conforms to the centrally planned and designed social man, and that children must be conditioned by the state, not the parents.

In part two of this report you will see the depraved outcomes of the potential patterns of governance in this political game that Rousseau gave voice to, Marx gave structure to, and Foucault gave spirit to, the spirit of pedophilia that emerges from the political left over and over and over again whenever they put their thoughts to innocent flesh, the children of whatever land these wannabe man-gods happen to hold.

America’s Show Trials: Donald Trump Vs. The United States

Freedomist Editor September 5, 2023

By Joshua Bontrager, Political & Cultural Correspondent

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“Law in the Soviet Union is not conceived as a check on power; it is openly and proudly an expression of that power.” – Richard M. Nixon, 1960

“Stalin, Hussein, Putin, Hitler, Mao, and Castro all got their guilty verdicts. This will be no different. This is a show trial that is completely fixed. There is no reason to give it the legitimacy of legal analysis. Call it what we all know it is. A show trial.” – Mollie Hemingway, responding to the Trump indictments

“If Putin did this to a political opponent that was polling higher than him in an election year – Biden would call him a dictator.” – Jackson Hinckle

“To use the justice system against the political opponent, in Hungary, I think it’s impossible to imagine. That was done by the communists. It’s a very communist methodology to do that.” – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

INTRODUCTION

The left claims that the unprecedented act of jailing a former president and Biden’s chief political rival (Donald Trump) for over 700 years is necessary to save “our democracy” from “far-right fascists.” But American Jacobins are not the only ones conspiring to eliminate freedom and all opposition to the globalist “New World Order.”

Last year, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics,” “lost” a close election amid widespread reports of voter fraud and irregularities. The country’s leftist Superior Electoral Court not only refused to investigate reports of fraud, but has now banned Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030 for even daring to question the results.

The German government is considering banning the “far-right extremist” Alternative for Germany Party after it surged to 21 percent in the polls. This same German establishment has convicted author and playwright CJ Hopkins for comparing the Covid cult to the Nazi era. A German whistleblower warns that the German state is returning to “Stasi era” surveillance and snitching.

In Pakistan, former populist Prime Minister Imran Khan now sits in jail, after he was ousted by the Pakistani and U.S. Deep State (with the likely help of State Department regime-changer Victoria Nuland). Revolver News reports, “Khan now languishes in a small 6×9 cell, not allowed a phone, books, newspaper, or human contact, with only insects and flies to keep him company. If the Pakistani deep state can send Pakistan’s beloved populist leader Khan to prison, surely Biden is salivating at the prospect of a similar fate for Trump.”

Several weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin had his chief political rival, Alexei Navalny, sentenced to 19 years in prison. Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded: “The United States strongly condemns Russia’s conviction of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on politically motivated charges. The Kremlin cannot silence the truth. Navalny should be released.”

Yet Blinken’s response reeked of hypocrisy, deliberately ignoring three important facts: (1) The politically motivated indictment of Donald Trump was handed down on the same day as Blinken’s self-righteous tweet. (2) Blinken ran election interference by organizing the phony letter signed by 51 intelligence officials dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation” in October 2020. (3) If convicted on all counts and given the maximum sentence, Joe Biden’s chief political rival, Donald Trump, would serve over 700 years in prison.

Throughout history, corrupt, power-crazed, and genocidal tyrants – Caesar Augustus, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, and Adolf Hitler – have ruthlessly eliminated their opposition when able to do so. In the light of history, the indictments of Trump are a declaration of war against the American Republic, an indictment of an illegitimate regime, and a frightening portension of far worse to come if this lawfare is not stopped in its tracks.

This article will cover the latest two indictments against Trump, the 14th Amendment scheme to keep Trump off the ballot, and the greater crimes of the left. We will explore why these indictments are so dangerous, why most Republican politicians are still missing in action, and how this lawfare could end.

THE JANUARY 6 INDICTMENT

“Always accuse your enemy of what you are doing yourself, as you are doing it to create confusion.” – Karl Marx

“These prosecutors are very left-wing, and they’re in left-wing jurisdictions, and they depend on left-wing grand juries and eventually a left-wing trial jury. They’re assuming that otherwise, they don’t have a good case.” – Victor Davis Hanson

THE THIRD INDICTMENT – On August 1, just one day after Hunter Biden’s close friend and former business associate Devon Archer testified before Congress regarding Biden family corruption, DNC lawfare activist Special Counsel Jack Smith announced the third indictment of Donald Trump, over alleged efforts to “subvert” the 2020 election. Ironically, Trump was charged for the very crimes committed in 2020 by the DNC and their RINO allies in key swing states. The indictment builds on the work of the sham partisan January 6 Committee and the previous trials of the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and other January 6 political prisoners. It carries four counts:
Conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding
Obstruction of justice and an official proceeding
Conspiracy against voter rights

The case rests on the novel argument that (1) Trump knew his 2020 election claims were false, but (2) he spread them anyways. Former Trump Senior White House Advisor Stephen Miller says, “This indictment says…that if we, the Department of Justice and prosecutors at the Department of Justice, believe that you, as a citizen or as an elected official, are not telling the truth as we recognize it, that we can throw you in jail.” In other words, only Democrats can legally exercise their First Amendment right by questioning elections or speaking their mind; Republicans can now be jailed for speech not approved by the ruling regime.

LEFT-WING PROSECUTOR, JUDGE, AND JURY – Special Counsel Jack Smith’s previous accomplishments include covering for Biden family corruption and securing a bribery conviction against Virginia’s Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, which was so weak that it was eventually overturned at the U.S. Supreme Court 8-0.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is a radical Marxist ideologue who has handed down some of the harshest sentences thus far to January 6 political prisoners. The New York Post reports that the Obama-appointed Chutkan “is the scion of a family of revolutionary Marxists in her native Jamaica” and “is the granddaughter of Frank Hill, a Jamaican communist revolutionary, who along with his brother Ken were briefly jailed by the island’s British governor during World War II over suspicions of ‘subversive activities.’” Chutkan is also a previous employee of Boies, Schiller, & Flexner LLP (BSF), the law firm that employed Hunter Biden and lobbied Burisma. To remove any lingering doubts, Chutkan has compared January 6, 2021, to September 11, 2001, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

The judge and prosecutor are not impartial arbiters of justice; they are Communist activists who specialize in using lawfare to destroy the American republic. The trial will take place in deep blue Washington, D.C., ensuring a leftist jury eager to mete out injustice.

DNC ELECTION INTERFERENCE – Trump’s attorneys requested an April 2026 trial date, which they said would give them time to review the millions of documents involved in the case. Judge Chutkan had previously allowed January 6 political prisoners to languish for years in prison before even having a trial. But she set the Trump trial date for March 4, 2024, one day before Super Tuesday, when around one dozen states will vote in the Republican primary. Donald Trump, the current clear frontrunner for the GOP nomination, will not be allowed to campaign the day before the most important voting in the primary season! Yet Democrats fastidiously claim, “It’s not interference if we commit the same behavior for which we jail Republicans. Even if it is interference, you can’t (or won’t) do anything about it.”
THE GEORGIA INDICTMENT

“The Georgia Indictment is the most insane yet, by the looniest prosecutor yet. It claims tweets are conspiracies, legal advice is a crime, Constitutional law is a criminal act, and demanding officials do their job is criminal solicitation. It is an embarrassment to the state of Georgia.” – Attorney Robert Barnes

THE FOURTH INDICTMENT – On August 14, days after the Biden DOJ appointed a sham special counsel for the Hunter Biden case, election denier and Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis announced the fourth indictment of Donald Trump. Former Republican U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said a trusted source told him that Willis was told to proceed with the indictment to cover for the Biden special counsel “screw up.”
THE REAL FRAUD – Attorney Robert Barnes, who helped prepare Trump’s 2020 legal contest in Georgia, says that “constitutionally unqualified ballots” exceeded Biden’s margin of victory by “more than 10 times. Unlawfully, Fulton County courts [the same courts that will try Willis’ case] blocked the case from ever being heard.” Willis is not indicting her fellow party members who perpetrated fraud; instead, she is indicting Trump and his allies for daring to question that same fraud.
THE INFAMOUS PHONE CALL – The indictment stems largely from a January 2 phone call in which Trump allegedly asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes to “overturn” the 2020 election. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz observes, “Al Gore, his legal team, and I tried to find uncounted presidential votes, lobbied officials, and fought in the courts in 2000. The only difference now? The candidate’s name is Donald Trump… That’s why this prosecution is an outrage.”

The 41 sham charges were accidentally posted online one day before the grand jury voted. The charges leveled against Trump and his 18 co-defendants (mostly attorneys who provided legal counsel) included violation of the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is seeking to move the case to federal court. If he is successful, other defendants (including Trump) might be able to do so as well, and the case could break down.

14TH AMENDMENT HAIL MARY

Democrats have concocted another “anti-democratic” scheme to “save democracy. Constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe and retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig have advocated keeping Trump off the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment’s “Insurrection” clause. In other words, “Trump is so dangerous to ‘our democracy’ that you cannot be allowed to exercise your free will in voting for him.” The scheme is nothing more than a fraudulent rebuke of the American voters and an illegal backup plan in case the indictments fail. Law Professor Michael McConnell warns, “We must not forget that we are talking about empowering partisan politicians such as state Secretaries of State to disqualify their political opponents from the ballot, depriving voters of the ability to elect candidates of their choice. If abused, this is profoundly anti-democratic.” Law professor Jonathan Turley, a former Bill Clinton voter, responded, “I think this is the single most dangerous constitutional theory I have seen pop up in decades.”

John Daniel Davidson explains how this could play out, “A summer 2024 conviction sets up the real play here, which is for blue states and counties to remove Trump from the ballot, citing a faulty and blatantly lawless reading of the 14th Amendment. Assuming Trump wins the GOP primary, this will leave Republicans with no candidate on the ballot across vast swaths of the country heading into the fall. Even if the Supreme Court steps in, if Democrats time it just right, it will be too late to send out corrected, lawful ballots in time for Election Day.”

THE GREATER CRIMES OF THE LEFT

At the Georgia courthouse, Donald Trump said, “This is a sad day for America. I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election – and I should have every right to do that. As you know, you have many people that you’ve been watching over the years do the same thing…Whether it’s Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others.”

DEMS STOLE THE 2020 ELECTION – The Covid-19 lockdowns (which Trump unwisely fell for) provided the perfect excuse to radically overhaul America’s election system and “win” via mass mail-in ballots and counting shenanigans in key swing states. Trump’s attorneys say that the indictments give them a platform to “fully re-litigate every single issue that occurred during the 2020 election.”
2. DEMS HAVE LONG QUESTIONED ELECTIONS – Democrats have questioned every Republican presidential victory since 2000. (See here for ten straight minutes of Democrats protesting election results.)

Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams repeatedly claimed that Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election was stolen for her, but she has yet to be prosecuted by Fani Willis. Hillary Clinton not only claimed the 2016 election was stolen, but put forth the false “Russian collusion” narrative and encouraged faithless electors to choose Hillary instead of Trump after the 2016 election. But Hillary was never indicted.

BIDEN FAMILY CRIMES – Every Trump indictment thus far has been perfectly timed to coincide with and distract from damaging new information on the Biden family crimes. Journalist Glenn Greenwald summarizes, “At exactly the same time the Biden administration is prosecuting Donald Trump, they are also shielding Hunter Biden, who is guilty of far more blatant and obvious criminality, just blatant political corruption, tax evasion, and hiding assets in a way that most people go to jail for many years.”

But once again, the establishment is sending a clear message that all who advance their globalist agenda (Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden) will be protected; any who dissent (Donald Trump and his supporters) will be ruthlessly crushed.

4. ANARCHO-TYRANNY – The DNC is promoting what conservative columnist Sam Frances described as “anarcho-tyranny.” As in the Soviet Union, Biden’s regime is far more concerned with prosecuting alleged “treason” against the state than with punishing the lawlessness that is tearing apart America’s cities. Author Valery Chalidze observed of the Soviet Union, “[T]he new regime concentrated its oppressive efforts on political opponents and class aliens. Amid the crowd of real or supposed enemies of the regime, non-political criminals were still regarded as sociallyakin; they received shorter terms of imprisonment and served them in less severe conditions.”

Americans may now be terrorized by the IRS and FBI for praying outside an abortion clinic or failing to report a $700 transaction on Venmo. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden, Antifa rioters, and San Francisco looters will walk free.

E. IS THE GOP COMPLACENT OR COMPLICIT?

The verdict of history will harshly judge both Jacobin Democrats and the spineless or traitorous Republicans who enabled them.

Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Mao’s brutal cultural revolution, reacted to Trump’s Fulton County mugshot, “I have to say I think America is quickly becoming a communist country and our rule of law has been turned into what Marxists call proletarian dictatorship. The party in power is after its political opposition, and it is not just the president, but people like activists are now in jail, as political prisoners in the free country of the United States…Now it is Donald Trump and MAGA, but eventually, it is everybody because a communist regime does not tolerate any opposition, any dissenting voice. So they are coming after all of us, including those who are cheering now for Trump’s indictment and think they are on the winning team. They are not. We all will become victims if we let them succeed.”

Van Fleet concluded, “I really have a word for everybody, including the conservatives: learn a little bit about history and about the Cultural Revolution. What’s happening here is a repeat. Only when people understand the history and the nature of what’s going on, will they wake up. We are dealing with communism, we are dealing with Marxists, who want to transform our country into a dictatorship.”

If the script were flipped, and Republican prosecutors under a Republican President were handing down coordinated indictments to the leading Democratic opposition candidate, the media would be beside themselves with fury against the “right-wing fascist Republicans.”

Yet why are most Republican leaders strangely silent? Are they ignorant of history and reality? Or are they secretly bought off (or even in alliance with) the other side?

The disconnect between Republican leaders and their voters was clearly seen in the contrast between the Fox News-hosted GOP debate, which virtually ignored the weaponization of justice and gained a paltry 13 million views, and Tucker Carlson’s interview of Donald Trump, which aired at the same time and reached a staggering over 260 million views.

EXHIBIT A: GEORGIA REPUBLICANS – Rather than defend Trump against the ridiculous indictment from Fani Willis, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who won with Trump’s help in 2018 and ignored thousands of sworn affidavits detailing election crimes in Georgia in 2020, doubled down on his claim that “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.”

When Georgia State Senator Colton Moore called on Kemp to convene a special session to impeach Fani Willis, Kemp refused. Like Kemp, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has been silent and refused to use his power to stop the persecution.

WEAK D.C. REPUBLICANS – Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says the U.S. House (led by Trump-endorsed Kevin McCarthy) could use a special select committee to legally immunize Trump from false charges: “Unfortunately, none of those things are happening. Instead, Congress is not in Washington, not assembled. And I think the timing is on purpose. No timing in DC is ever just a mere coincidence. And so right as Congress is leaving town, right as we are walking away from our responsibility to be just and fair, we see this acceleration of activity against Trump.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has yet to commit to impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden.

GOP PROSECUTORS – Charlie Kirk and Attorney Stephen Miller discussed how conservative prosecutors and attorney generals could level hundreds “of criminal cases” for the DNC’s real crimes against the Republic “in response to the unprecedented legal offensive from the left.”
2024 GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES – Most of Trump’s opponents know they stand little chance unless Trump drops out or is otherwise removed from contention. Vivek Ramaswamy (an untested Big Pharma billionaire with a record of contradictory statements and shifting positions) is seriously threatening to pass up Ron DeSantis – America’s most successful Governor, who defied Covid lockdowns, stood for families, defeated Disney, and turned the biggest swing state bright red.

Why? DeSantis has repeatedly talked about “moving on” from the rigged 2020 election and January 6, claimed that the 2020 election was not stolen, and given far weaker responses to the Trump indictments than has Vivek. By contrast, Vivek has consistently defended Trump against Marxist lawfare, and because of that, voters are seriously considering him for second place.

HISTORICAL PARALLELS – By doing nothing to stop the DNC’s lawfare, Republican leaders are complicit in the criminal conspiracy against the American republic. These leaders are like Pilate, unwilling to use their power to stop the rage of the crazed mob (the DNC’s increasingly radical coalition) and its Pharisaical leaders (establishment elites who stir up the people to demand the guilty go free and the innocent be destroyed). These spineless Republicans want the benefits that come with position, but they disdain the sacrificial responsibility demanded of true public service.

Over 700 years ago, Scotland’s freedom fighter William Wallace resisted English tyranny with little help from the Scottish nobility. The nobles had the power to fight the English, but they valued comfort more than the liberty of their people and were content to receive favors from their English overlords in order to safeguard their lands and lives. At the critical battle of Falkirk, Wallace and the Scots lost in part because most of the Scottish cavalry in reserve, led by John Comyn, fled rather than fight the English. Britannica notes that their “allegiance to Wallace was questionable; many of them had English estates or relatives who were hostages in Edward’s hands.”

THE UGLY PURPOSE BEHIND LAWFARE

The anti-Trump lawfare is far more dangerous than many American and most Republican leaders realize.

LEGITIMIZE DESTRUCTION OF THE REPUBLIC – Donald Trump is the convenient boogeyman the left uses to channel their anti-American hate. The DNC cult tells its followers, “Trump is as bad as Hitler; therefore, we must take extreme measures to ensure Orange Man never gets close to the White House again. To save ‘our democracy’ from the menace of Trump and his fascist ‘domestic terrorist” followers, we must criminalize all opposition, destroy free speech, and give the regime total authority to protect us from lies. The regime and its goons at the FBI, IRS, and DOJ must have expanded budgets and unlimited power to censor, audit, imprison, or intimidate anyone who threatens our safety.”

Unfortunately, most DNC voters appear to agree. They want their enemies punished, and they do not understand that if the law can be weaponized against their opponents, it will eventually be weaponized against them. Former Democratic strategist Dr. Naomi Wolf relates her August 3 experience from the liberal West Coast:

“Happy Indictment Day!” shouted the neighbor of my host, as my host and I sat out on a balcony. The neighbor was emerging from a car, three stories below us. The building must have contained thirty apartments. The man was certain that everyone who was in earshot of his joyous shout agreed with his sentiments.

He witnessed my silence. “Don’t you agree?” he goaded me, a near-stranger, still shouting. “Don’t you?”

Finally, I responded, “I am not sure that this sets a great precedent. Every sitting President in the future will try to indict his or her political opponent.” He cut off the discussion – a reaction from the Left, to which I am getting accustomed – and headed inside.

2. NEUTRALIZE AND DESTROY THE OPPOSITION – The Georgia case especially, with its 18 co-defendants and 31 unindicted “co-conspirators,” is designed to financially bankrupt Trump-friendly attorneys and to frighten away attorneys from giving legal counsel to conservative campaigns in the future. With the indictments, the regime wants to terrify everyday American patriots into doing nothing for fear that they will be imprisoned just like Trump or the J6-ers.

Professor James Lindsay believes those waging lawfare want to deliberately provoke conservatives into overreacting, thereby creating another January 6 event and justifying a massive crackdown on liberty. Lindsay explains the Marxist strategy, “You don’t hit them too hard, you don’t hit them too soft, so you’re clearly not the aggressor…and then you make use of their reaction.”

Austen Ruse writes, “It’s not just about getting rid of Trump. It’s really about getting us, smelly conservatives and Christians, patriots who love this country. By taking out Trump, they are taking out everybody associated with him, including those who voted for him and put him into office.” The message is clear: “If we can destroy Donald Trump, the former President, just imagine what we can do to you.”

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS: 2024 AND HOW THIS ENDS

President Donald Trump will face multiple trials in 2024, designed to drain his campaign financially and destroy it politically. Each trial will be scheduled to overlap perfectly, not just with the Republican primary but with the general election.

Trump could very well end up in a jail cell in 2024, although he could still legally run for office from jail. However, leftists are hoping Trump’s campaign will be restricted (by the jail or courtroom), and he will have become so bloodied and unsavory that a majority of Americans reject him. Simultaneously, Democratic and DNC-controlled states will seek to deny their voters, who they fear will make “the wrong choice,” by keeping Trump off the ballot in the name of “saving democracy.” If all of that doesn’t work, Dems will try to rig the election once again, maybe with the help of a war or another pandemic.

There is a high probability that the Trump lawfare will end up at the Supreme Court, with the court having to uphold or strike down the sham indictments and the 14th Amendment scheme. Attorney Alan Dershowitz predicts that a Trump conviction in the January 6 case would be overturned by the Supreme Court.

If the Supreme Court fails to uphold Donald Trump’s innocence and repudiate the DNC’s lawfare, it will reveal its complicity in the death of America. On the other hand, if it rebukes the left, Justices will face death threats, mass Antifa-style protests, and cries of “illegitimacy!”

Like the Scottish nobles in the days of William Wallace, most Republican leaders will cower in silence, but some, like Robert the Bruce, will find the courage to stand. The Republican Party will only continue to exist as a viable opposition party if it denounces and acts against the regime’s lawfare against Donald Trump. If the GOP responds to the DNC lawfare by dumping Trump from the nomination by foul means, they will certainly lose in 2024.

The biggest question is this: “How will the American people respond, specifically those in the middle who could be swayed either way?” In 1960, corrupt Fulton County prosecutors took the mugshot of a man who was deeply unpopular nationwide, much more than Donald Trump is today. However, Martin Luther King Jr.’s popularity soared after he was jailed and his supporters were attacked by a corrupt system. If the more than seven in 10 Americans who think Trump can’t get an impartial jury see Trump’s indictments as a mortal threat to their own liberties, the DNC’s lawfare will backfire massively.

History’s two alternative visions lie before us: “the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order” or “the ant heap of totalitarianism,” as described by Ronald Reagan. DNC totalitarianism means a“New World Order” in which America is a pawn of global elites in Davos, Beijing, and Silicon Valley; snitching, show trials, and gulags are the norm; and those who love the republic are sub-humanized and even genocided (just as unborn babies have been). If the left wins in 2024, the Marxist takeover of the legal system will accelerate. Show trials will come for the rest of us.

The other path is that trod by William Wallace and Robert the Bruce against the English, William of Orange against the Spaniards, English citizens against the tyrannical Stuart kings, and American Patriots against the British. Rebirths of freedom have occurred throughout history, but almost always against overwhelming odds.

Our enemies are powerful, ruthless, and coordinated. But they are not Sovereign, they can be defeated, and their very existence clarifies those precious things that are worth fighting for. Regardless of setbacks, we never lose hope, and our fight never ceases.

Attorney Jeffrey Clark, one of the victims of Fani Willis’ rogue “justice,” put it this way: “They indicted Trump. So America, you have two options. Which do you choose? (1) Curl up in your basement. (2) Oppose the insane lawfare.” May most Americans oppose the truly “insane” lawfare.

Founding Father Samuel Adams said, “It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

FURTHER RESEARCH:

They Don’t Just Hate Trump. They Hate You! – John Zmirak

The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties – Robert Conquest

Purges, Purges, and More Purges – Diana West

Trump Indictments Meant to Demoralize and Provoke Americans – James Lindsay

An Inconvenient Trump: Republicans Are Living an Enormous Lie – Melissa MacKenzie

Republican Party Sets Up Trump for Democrats – Paul Craig Roberts

Save the Rule of Law By Destroying It? – Victor Davis Hanson

The Trump Indictment and 2024 – Steve McCann

What Does Trump’s Mugshot Represent? – Trevor Loudon

Trump’s Mugshot Is A Symbol Of The Right’s Struggle Against Tyranny – Evita Duffy-Alfonso

You Never Go Full ‘Don Quixote’ – Or, When ‘Crazy Eddie’ Throws Pasta

Michael Cessna September 1, 2023

In 1974, authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, writing in their seminal science fiction novel “The Mote In God’s Eye”, coined a character concept called “Crazy Eddie”, a concept-figure who would appear in a society’s mindset at time of extreme social stress, and take the most insane and contradictory actions possible, which usually resulted in accelerating the collapse of a society or civilization.

The world is in a remarkable state of tumult as of September 1 of 2023. The war in Ukraine is well into its second year. In Africa, a wave of military coups is obliterating France’s sixty-plus year old “totally-not-an-empire”, sending the region and the wider world into a frenzy of impotent rage, as no one wants to wade into a quagmire against black nations standing up to imperialist and corporate interests. Russia and China, aside from rattling military sabers to whet the appetite of the ravenous bloodlust of the Western media and entertainment spheres, are quietly marching towards an economic checkmate against the West, in a move that will not simply destroy the Western business models, but will smash Western economies flat, potentially reducing many Western European economies to a state no scene since the post-World War 2 recovery, and the Marshall Plan…only there won’t be a Marshall Plan this time. Maybe a Putin-Xi Plan, but not a Marshall Plan.

Pretty heavy for an opening bit, eh?

Amid all of the current tumult in the United States – the possible return of Covid lockdown restrictions not least among those – there is a quietly increasing crescendo calling for actual military intervention – meaning, “invasion” – of Mexico, in order to “deal” with the flow of illegal drugs.

I wish I were joking.

The current power bloc in Washington, DC – supported by their cohorts in The City of London, Paris, and Brussels – had goaded Russia into what they thought would be a “warm-n-fuzzy” kind of “Cold War, 2.0”; what they got was a full-on invasion. Although there initial, hysterical screams to “go to war” with Russia, both from within the power blocs and from those in the general public who should probably be on emotional-management medications, it soon dawned on most people that “going to war” with Russia would almost certainly mean a “nuclear” war, that no one would “win”.

Then came Africa: Beginning in 2017 (YouTube link), people seemed to suddenly remember that there were still islamist jihadi’s out in the world, burning, looting, raping and killing people in order to serve the warped vision of religion espoused by a tortured political prisoner. However, murderous religious maniacs were “so three years ago”, and virtually no one on the “Western Street” considered barely-literate bandits hiding under the cloak of religious fervor to be an existential threat to Western civilization. Likewise, the recent wave of coups – not coming at the behest of Western governments and corporations – aren’t exactly revving the martial engines of Western populations being crushed under rancid economies and continual political scandals.

Something else was needed…And in the United States that answer is, increasingly, the illicit drug problem.

And it is a problem: tens of thousands of Americans die every year from drug overdoses, a large percentage involving the drug fentanyl. Unlike the normal cries for “Bayonets UP!”, however, this group of calls comes from the opposite side of the aisle: instead of Democrats leading the charge for military intervention, this time, the main thrust is coming from the Republican side of the fence.

This should not be a surprise, given the GOP’s continuous cries against illicit drugs. After all, it was no less a figure than Richard Nixon, who authorized the placing of cannabis (aka, “marijuana”) on the list of drugs as a Schedule 1 compound, right next to heroin – a position it retains to this writing – in 1970. And, like the vigorously enforced alcohol raids of the Prohibition Era – also enforced by successive Republican administrations – the GOP’s “war on drugs” has directly sparked the explosive growth of massive, high-revenue and well-armed and frighteningly well-equipped drug cartels, who have an international reach, and who have now diversified into human trafficking.

Given the abject inability of the US military to deal with the opium trade in Afghanistan during its twenty-year long occupation of the country – which saw opium poppy fields expand five-fold – the idea that a smaller military, struggling with recruiting efforts, and quietly speaking the dreaded “D-Word” out loud, can deal with the various drug cartels is not a matter for political or military debate, but a matter to be dealt with by mental health counselors.

The US military is having trouble recruiting people with bonuses exceeding $50,000 to sign up. As Mexico itself has discovered, military recruiters have a hard time competing with their counterparts in the Cartels, especially if the Cartel recruiters can use Mafia-like threats against potential recruits’ families. Likewise, the Cartels not only pay what regular forces term “combat pay”, but offer bounties against specific targets.

As well, with revenues between US$20 billion and US$60 billion per year (minimum), and far less overhead than conventional corporations and nation states, the Cartels have plenty of cash left over for high-intensity R&D: the wave of combat footage coming out of Ukraine, showing drones – from both sides – dropping small bomblets into trenches and bunkers are merely the current state of a technology pioneered by the Cartels, and refined in Syria in the aftermath of the rise of ISIL.

Much worse, from both a tactical and an operational standpoint, is the ability of Cartel members to blend into the general population. While islamist jihadis are comparatively easy to target, as they belong to a very narrow slice of the US population, Cartel members are a subset of the largest minority group in the United States. Where – to get rather “ugly” about it – potential jihadists tend to limit themselves to Muslim mosques, Cartel soldiers are largely Catholic, and are thus able to circulate freely among the Catholic population, the fastest-growing Christian denomination in the world.

The Cartel’s leadership echelons are not idiots. In fact, a distressing number began as military professionals, as is clear from their ability to organize a military-style logistics system. They are watching the rhetoric coming from within Washington, DC and various other organs, both from within the government, and from government-adjacent groups – nothing presented here is new to the Cartels.

Decades of neglect of border security, up to and including the recent encouragement of millions of desperate economic refugees to cross the southern border of the United States illegally – an action which helps to fuel the cartels’ diversified revenue structure, to say nothing of the very real physical dangers of the northern Mexican deserts and the human trafficking predations of the “coyotes” – has fueled an massive surge in drug-related deaths across the United States. Communist China is certainly complicit in this, as they are the Cartels’ prime suppliers of fentanyl precursor drugs…something they have no issue supplying, as Beijing sees this as “payback” for the Opium Wars…but that is a whole other story.

With the hyperventilating actions of people who should know better, calling for a Presidential authorization to use military force against the Cartels, alongside equally breathless and stentorian calls to designate the Cartels as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (FTO’s), and coupled to a military establishment that has seemingly lost its way, to the point where it is quietly considering a return to a military Draft, the notion of an all-out “hot” war on the southern border of the United States is the height of lunacy, a lunacy driven by both sides of increasingly incompetent power blocs.

“We, the People” have allowed our “elected” leaders to paint us into a corner, a corner from which there is no real way out, except through the use of extreme levels of violence.

Kind of like Africa in the last few months.

When ‘Forever Wars’ Fail – Delusions vs Realities

Michael Cessna August 26, 2023

On July 26 of 2023, a military coup unseated the president of the West African nation of Niger; details of this situation and its wider implications are the subject of a Freedomist monthly, subscription-only article, set to go to press as this article is being written. While coups d’état are not unusual in post-1960 Africa, what made this one unusual was that it was the sixth since 2020, and was only the latest in a string of some twelve coups in the region, beginning in 2008. Another unique feature in Niger is the open public praise of Russia, complete with homemade Russian flags.

And this is aside from the absolutely remarkable statements from both the US State Department and the Pentagon’s AFRICOM command that they have no idea and no way to track what happens to the Third World military officers (some of whom earn Master’s degrees in US and British military universities) that they train.

These coups are not complex events to understand – not that the various “think tanks” advising policy makers around the world seem to understand them. At all. In fact, the tone-deaf mewlings of people overly impressed by the letters after their own names begs inquiry as to whether or not they are using word-salad AI Chatbots to write their papers.

Additionally, the non-military sphere is heating up as well, as the BRICS Group has just extended invitations for membership to six states: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. This is no small thing…again, however, not that the US, British of Western European foreign policy, military and financial power structures seem to care.

And this is also separate from the catastrophically embarrassing failures of the same nation’s attempts at training Second- and Third World military forces to something approaching a Western military standard. From the nation of Georgia in 2008, to the collapse of the Iraqi Army in 2014, that of the Afghan National Army in 2021 and the abysmal performance of the “retrained” Ukrainian Army in 2022-23, Western – meaning, United States and NATO countries – military training programs have consistently failed (and failed miserably) to train up effective forces. Given that the current US Secretary of Defense, retired General Lloyd Austin, testified before Congress (YouTube link) on the spectacular $500 million failure to train more than a handful of “friendly” anti-regime forces in Syria, it would seem obvious that rather penetrating questions should have been asked, on numerous occasions.

But, I digress…Back to the original question: Why is it so hard to understand what is happening in world affairs?

There are only three realistic possibilities: incompetence, delusion and/or corruption.

Incompetence at this level, while alarming to the uninitiated, is depressingly common in areas of higher education. Classroom theories about lofty and obtuse notions of “democracy”, finance, resource management and social equity fail instantly and completely when confronted with the stark realities of the real world – as education widens in the population base, the “common folk” begin to learn just how badly they are being screwed…and eventually, they will stop taking it, rise up, and either stand on their own, or at least look for a new partner that isn’t insultingly paternalistic and slimy.

That, in a nutshell, is what just happened in Niger, as the population is fed up with France acting as the glowering, judgmental schoolmaster, desperately trying to hold on to a zombified economic dominion over its former “colonies.” Russia – while certainly no saint – has no real colonial history in Africa, and is remembered by many as a reasonably friendly power from the Cold War era.

Turning to the possibility of delusion, that is also an easy, if depressing, possibility to grasp. The sad fact is that Western institutions of education have spent at least forty-odd years hammering at the nail of “democracy”, as if it were a panacea to all of the world’s ills. This is done despite the bald facts that “democracy” is extremely fickle, and fails abjectly when forcibly introduced into a populace who has little, if any, history or inclination to properly use what is a notoriously clunky system, a system that encourages discrimination at virtually every level if not carefully carried out. Countries and peoples that have political systems imposed on them with little education or even training quickly spiral into internal unrest, if not civil war. This is the historical record, from Sri Lanka to Iraq, to Niger; where exceptions appear, those simply ‘prove the rule.’

Corruption, too, is a distinct possibility. The Western “establishment” deeply fears an Africa whose national peoples – even though their “nations” are, for the most part, wholly artificial constructs with boarders drawn by distant colonial powers with delusions of adequacy – might someday agree to set aside their differences, overthrow their corrupt “leaders”, and tell the West that their free lunch is over…and lest you, the Reader, dismiss this as an empty threat, you would be wise to remember that cheap African minerals are why you were able to afford the computer, tablet and/or smartphone you are reading this article on.

In contrast to the incoherent bleatings of people with more letters after their names than actual experience, critical thinking and/or “plain common sense,” the issue at hand is not that the United States, France and other Western powers are somehow deliberately scheming to topple governments with whom they are already friendly (because they stage-managed the elections that put those governments in power), using officers trained in their own advanced schools of military education, in order to install governments antithetical to those Western states’ views and desires while aligning themselves with said Western states’ semi- (if not full-on) hostile opponents (read that again, if you need to; I did)…it is far more a matter of “keeping the pot simmering,” to keep the local “partner nations” off-balanced, and in dire need of “friendly support”…the notion that local military officers, professionally trained by Western militaries, might go home, look at the rank corruption and incompetence of their “democratically elected” governments, and decide that “drastic measures” are required to save the country, is apparently unfathomable inside the air conditioned think tanks of Washington, DC, London, Paris and Brussels.

No word on how the Western troops at the sharp end feel about this. (YouTube link)

There is, however, another dimension to this situation: Grand Strategy.

*African countries that have had coups between 2020 and 2023 (July 2023). Credit: **Discombobulates**. CCA/4.0*

The BRICS Group, led by Communist China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, has used the wave of coups across the African Sahel region – the so-called “Coup Belt” – to their distinct advantage. When zooming out to a wider Africa map, it is clear that the pattern of coups in the African Sahel region stretch in a near-unbroken line from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean…and every coup in those states in the last fifteen odd years has been done with at least tacit Russian or Chinese support. With the BRICS Group inviting in new members, this opens the possibility of a revival of a British idea from their imperial days in Africa: instead of a “Cairo to Cape Town Railway”, the wave of Russia-friendly governments produced by the wave of recent coups opens the possibility of a “Port Sudan to Dakar Railway”, cutting across the breadth of the continent, causing a vast and violent shift in global commerce, as it would allow a transshipment route for cargoes that would bypass the Suez Canal…All that is needed for such a project is money (see: Saudi Arabia joining BRICS, above), and a much-improved security situation, neutralizing both “islamist insurgents” and general banditry. This would also open the possibility of reviving the “Cairo to Cape Town” route, as well as additional north-south spur lines. Russia is well-versed in the impacts of a continent-spanning rail line, as their more-than-a-century-old Trans-Siberian Railway remains a vital economic artery for the Russian state.

Another dimension, is the neutralizing of ECOWAS, the “Economic Community of West African States”, an economic cooperation sphere which has been increasingly flexing its military muscles, intervening in several member states over the years, for a variety of reasons. In Niger, however ECOWAS’s immediate order to the coup’s ruling junta to immediately return the deposed Nigerien president to power, was met with a blunt refusal – a refusal that has now been formally backed up by the nations of Burkina Faso and Mali, both of whom are currently led by military junta’s who also succeeded in their own recent coups. And in the broader ECOWAS nations, there is very little support for the idea of a military intervention, especially in light of increasing attacks by AQIM and Boko Haram in recent months.

On top of this, the Organization of African Unity (the “OAU”) has also taken action that is not being well received on the “African Street”. These unpopular actions in recent weeks hold the possibility of seriously fragmenting both organizations.

Which, to return to the corruption angle, also brings up an ugly possibility, one verging into full-on “Conspiracy-Theory Land” (a place that is increasingly “Conspiracy-Fact Land”): that Western militaries are being deliberately hamstrung in fighting islamist insurgencies – not simply in Africa, but around the world.

This is in no way the fault of the Western troops at the “pointy end of the spear” – major policy theories and decisions are presented to troops detailed to execute them far less often than they are presented to the general public, regardless of country. But there is a clear pattern in the preceding thirty or so years: Western forces are sent into a state which – although theoretically rich in natural resources – is almost hopelessly backward, and kept that way by Western interests who want both cheap resources, no matter the cost, and “strategic positioning,” also no matter the cost.

Military force has its limits. The problem with Georges Clemenceau’s tired saw, that “war is too important to be left to the generals”, is that politicians – and the “political” generals advising them – are almost always in a far worse position to be making military decisions than their generals.

This is as true in Africa as it is in Ukraine. In the latter case, the hysterical incompetence and base greed of “corporate donation”-driven politicians has brought the world closer to open nuclear conflict than at any time since at least 1983. (YouTube link)

But in Africa, this hysterical incompetence actually presents a far greater danger to the West: African states with enough military competence to make it difficult to invade them all, who can form a solid negotiating bloc – especially one with support from Russia and Communist China – can up-end Western technology and transport infrastructures to the point of collapse, without firing a shot. Those directing affairs in Washington, London, Paris and Brussels believe that they can “manage” these coming “adjustments”; they cannot, but that is not stopping them from proceeding with their plans, plans driven by arrogance, hubris, and not a little racism.

The people running things in the West are playing a game by rules that they think that wrote, and which they assume cannot be changed unless they want to.

The Universe will only tolerate a certain amount of stupidity. When that limit is passed, the Universe has a habit of collapsing things, in any of a number of way – none of them good.

To quote the Athenian scholar and general, Thucydides, “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”

Prepare accordingly.

“The Other Guys” – The Unsung Heroes of Military Vehicles

Michael Cessna August 18, 2023

Let’s face it – tanks are sexy. So are “combat vehicles.” We’ve all seen them on television for years: big, brutalist vehicles, racing around a course, firing monstrous cannons, or grinding their way across the desert. Massive engines of war, practically defining the idea of the “warrior ethos.”

*A Brigade of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division masses for the invasion of Iraq during the Gulf War, February 1991. US Army photo. Public Domain.*

Or, perhaps, they are carrying infantry, dramatically exiting their vehicle, perhaps under fire. These kinds of vehicles fulfill another part of the “warrior ethos” equation, with warriors heading into violent, close-range, face-to-face battle with a dogged opponent. Very Audie Murphy.

*US Army soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, dismount from a Stryker APC, Mosul, Iraq, 2005. US Army Photo. Credit: SPC Jory C. Randall, US Army.*

The idea of “sex” selling military equipment is alive and well, as can be seen by the marketing at any international arms show.

But this, of course, begs the question: Is this all there is? Of course, there are other aspects of “militarydom” that news media outlets and “infotainment” channels talk about relentlessly, as long as the public expresses interest in “things war-like.” These include paratroops, Rangers, or commandos, or special forces either stealthily creeping through enemy territory, or storming a “bad guy” hideout to neutralize said bad guys, or to rescue the hostages in dramatic fashion, especially if news cameras are present. Again – we’ve all seen these images and videos repeatedly, either on the news or in popular entertainment…and, for the most part, these all definitely deliver and validate that sort of drama, courage and honor.

*The SAS storm the Iranian embassy’s burning windows, 5 May 1980. ©Crown Copywrite.* *Combined Military Services Museum, Maldon, Essex, 1980.*

This, of course, brings us once again to the question: it that it? In a word – no. Not by a long shot.

Combat troops require support. While combat troops are certainly capable of improvising, they are far better at executing their combat missions when the “non-combat” troops are relentlessly driving food, fuel, ammunition and spare parts forward, and doing the jobs that the combat units do not need to expend time and energy to learn: maintenance, medicine above the 1^st Aid level, building (or destroying) structures – occasionally under fire – all of which are things that the combat forces need, but are too busy to spend time doing.

In “the biz,” this is expressed as the “tooth-to-tail ratio”, or, the proportion of combat to support troops. This is a very dense subject to get into, and there are a wide array of opinions on the subject, most of which disagree at one level or another with all of the other opinions. The point, however, is that any group with pretensions to military force is going to have more support troops who are unlikely to see actual fighting, than combat forces intended for straight up combat.

And those support forces need equipment – a LOT of equipment – and the unique supplies and spare parts to keep those running. And a main component of that equipment is armored support vehicles.

Lurking in the background, seldom photographed, and even less talked about or reported on, are the “combat support vehicles.”

These vehicles are not cargo trucks, but the sort of vehicles you can see on your daily commute when passing a construction site – everything from road graders to backhoes, bulldozers. These vehicles frequently have a coat of “military green” paint slapped onto them; hopefully, they have slats of armor plate welded onto them to protect the operator. They are then sent out to build anything from roads, to towns and camps for refugees, to large airfields.

A United States Navy Seabee uses a grader to construct a parking lot during the combined US/Honduran training operation “AHUAS TAR” (BIG PINE), 1983. Photo Credit: TSGT Ken Hammond. US National Archives. Public Domain.

But these vehicles also include highly specialized vehicles, such as minefield breachers and high-speed trenching machines, like the Soviet BTM-3. The BTM, in particular, has made a resurgence in the Ukraine war (YouTube link), as both Russia and Ukraine quickly turned to trench warfare, as the war bogged down into a bloody stalemate. With trench systems resembling those of World War 1, the BTM and its later derivatives and cousins have worked frantically to construct vast trench systems far faster and more efficiently than individual soldiers can. After a trencher slices through the area, troops need to do no more than to expand the position, “filling in” the parts that the trencher vehicle cannot easily do.

This is what “force multiplication” is all about.

*Bosnian BTM-3 trenching vehicle. Bosnia, c.1999. Author Unknown.*

Unfortunately, since these vehicles, as highly effective and vital as they are, are rarely given any kind of real consideration…because they are not “sexy.” And, disappointingly, the leaders of most countries have little interest in these vehicles (because they are not “sexy”), so the vehicles sit, rarely used or considered when discussions of “militarydom” occurs…until, of course, tensions suddenly escalate into actual war, and those vehicles – many times, barely running – become a decisive combat multiplier, usually outweighing actual “combat vehicles” in value.

And that’s before we talk about trucks.

If you’ve read this far, I will offer you the following advice: The next time your elected officials start talking about the “defense budget,” spend some time, and look into what they actually want to spend your money on. It’s your tax money, after all, that is spent to “defend” you.

You might want to look into how it is being spent.

Essays

Unsung Heroes – The CUCV

African Chess: Russo-Chinese Rise on the Corpse of Neo-Colonialism

New Mexico Experiments with Gun Control Fascism, It’s Not Going Great

Why Armies?

The Spirit of Pedophilia: Part Two – From Marx to Current Year

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