Biden Admin Chooses Illegal Aliens Over American School Kids and Veterans

Paul Collier May 22, 2023

After homeless American veterans were booted from a hotel to make room for illegal immigrants flooding our country in response to the mass mailer President’s open border policies, an elementary school in Coney Island saw their gym sacrificed to illegal immigrants as well. The moves make it clear the Biden administration is acting more like a foreign enemy intentionally harming the American republic than an American government that upholds the Constitution and protects Americans from all enemies foreign and domestic.

The school in question is PS 188 in Coney Island. Residents in the district are not happy about the school being turned into an immigration center, housing illegal aliens who may are may not have been properly vetted to determine if they’re even safe to be in close proximity to school children during the school day (as they are now thanks to the Biden administration).

A woman from the district told the NY Post “Why a school? That’s the part I don’t get. There’s always other options. A lot of the buildings around here, they have fallout shelters that are spacious, and used for emergencies.”

The answer is simple if you believe, as we do, the DNC intends to destroy the Constitutionally-bound Republic. They intend on further terrorizing Americans and destroying their hope in an effort to create frightened cowards desperate for DNC-controlled state approval lest they no longer find themselves employable or able to even have a bank account in the new Revelation 13 Age of American history, ushered in by this same seditious organization, the DNC.

They choose schools to house illegal immigrants to demoralize us and create more chaos, hoping for violence either from the illegal immigrants or from Americans who finally snap and take matters into their own hands. We recommend no such action by Americans as it will only aid the DNC. So long as Republican controlled states refuse to declare the DNC a terrorist organization and start arresting the leaders and seizing assets, there is little that can be done to stop the continued onslaught on our Republic by this coalition of criminally insane murderers, rapists, and looters.

Biden Tells College Graduates White People Are Greatest Threat to American Democracy

Paul Collier May 22, 2023

The mass mailer President Joe Biden stumbled his way through a commencement speech to a traditional black college that accuses white people of being the number one threat to American Democracy, not the DNC that colludes with the FBI and Justice Department to eliminate political opponents using Lawfare. In the blathering speech, the teleprompter President said, “The harsh reality of racism has torn us apart. It’s a battle. It’s never really over, but on the best days, enough of us have the guts and the hearts to stand up for the best in us, to choose love over hate…to stand up against the poison of white supremacy like I did in my inaugural address to single it out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.”

The speech revealed the DNC’s campaign to keep the black voters on the DNC plantation in 2024, even as they lose more and more of that vote through the ineptness of the mass mailer President’s ad hoc committee administration. The strategy is to demonize white people and promise anyone who actually believes the myth that white people invented evil that a vote for them, even it means losing their basic human rights, is a vote against the white devil.

During the speech, Biden also pushed the lie that former President Donald J Trump did not condemn the actual white supremacists that showed up for the Charlottesville fiasco, also telegraphing the DNC’s ongoing commitment to use lies, misinformation, and half-truths to terrorize Americans so much they feel they can only be safe by supporting a new one-party Murica where individual liberty is sacrificed in the name of stopping the white devil.

Change the name of the race from white to black and ask yourself how racist, how violently racist, this man and the handlers that wrote his speech really are.

Musk Hires WEF Operative to Run Twitter

Freedomist Editor May 18, 2023

In a move that has caused many to question Elon Musk’s alleged commitment to make Twitter the American platform for free speech, Linda Yaccarino, an Ad Marketing maven and former high-ranking member of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, was announced as the new CEO to take over Twitter from Musk. The elites who favor hate speech laws and sexualizing children as early and as often as possible are accusing Musk of hiring a woman to do a job that she’s doomed to fail in carrying out. One such person, a business professor at Santa Clara University who advocates for the Woketarian agenda, complained that “Her credentials are impeccable and she’s been extremely successful so far. But she’s also been in settings where her success was achievable. I mean no disrespect to her or to diminish her in the least. I just think that this is an impossible situation for basically anybody.”

Pakistan In Crisis – A Sudden Upset

Michael Cessna May 12, 2023

“…While economics is a gun, politics is knowing when to pull the trigger…” – Caspian Report

In April of 2022, Imran Khan – the highly popular, 70-year old former international cricket player who had risen to the leadership of Pakistan, a state with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, on a broadly “Populist” style platform – was removed from office as Prime Minister by a no-confidence vote, the first time such an action had happened in Pakistan’s history.

The no-confidence vote that led to Khan’s removal, on its own, had shady origins, and potential foreign interference. On March 27, 2022, following the first attempt at a no-confidence vote in Parliament had been dismissed, Khan pointedly accused the Biden Administration of interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs, in an affair now known as “Lettergate”, in which Khan stated publicly that he had received a letter via a diplomatic cable from Pakistan’s embassy in the United States, that he claimed threatened “horrific consequences” for Pakistan, if Khan was not removed as Prime Minister; Khan’s government reacted to the cable with a strongly-worded demarche. Khan was blocked from releasing the actual details of the cable in question by Pakistan’s Official Secrets Act of 1923, but stated that he was prepared to show the diplomatic cable to the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

The possible reasons for such interference in Pakistani affairs are not difficult to understand. When Khan became Prime Minister in 2018, he immediately launched a vigorous campaign to start tackling the serious economic issues (YouTube link) Pakistan faced, cutting military spending, forging a realistic payment plan to address the country’s balance of payments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), committing the country to a renewable energy strategy, and then had to navigate the economic disaster brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the same time, however, Khan angered the Biden Administration by steadfastly refusing to distance himself from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, even visiting the Russian Leader in Moscow the day Russia formally invaded Ukraine.

*Vladimir Putin (R) with Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan (L), 24 February, 2022. Photo credit: www.kremlin.ru, CCA/4.0.*

But Khan did not stop there.

After attempting to smooth relations with India, Khan pushed forward with the country’s already strong ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which would create an economic transportation corridor (the CPEC) from the nation’s shared border in the Pakistani portion of the disputed Kashmir region, to the Indian Ocean port of Gwadar.

*Gwadar Port, Pakistan. Undated photo. CCA/3.0*

Notably, CPEC was promptly placed on the chopping block by Khan’s replacement as Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in August of 2022.

For its part, the Biden Administration – reeling from the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021 – was clearly smarting from its demonstrated weaknesses at all levels of governance, and needed to do something to reinvigorate its failing image. Much like the so-called “Maidan Revolution” of 2014, the removal of Khan from power immediately began to decouple Pakistan from the PRC’s orbit, and threatens the Communist nation’s “Belt & Road Initiative”.

Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, 29 August 2021, becoming the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan. Photo by Jack Holt, US Central Command. Public Domain.

But – for the average American…so what? Why should American’s care about all of this maneuvering in a foreign country many American’s know or care very much about?

The reason the average American needs to pay attention is that the political crisis sparked in Pakistan by Khan’s removal has erupted again, with disastrous results.

Khan – who refused to go away quietly, leading protests in an attempt to hold a special election that would likely return him to power if it were held – appeared at the Islamabad High Court on 9 May 2023 to address corruption charges. After voluntarily appearing at the court, and while being processed, the courthouse was stormed by a unit of the Pakistan Rangers, a Federal paramilitary police force operating under orders from the National Accountability Bureau, who bizarrely arrested Khan, dragging him out of the courthouse, to an undisclosed location.

In the aftermath of this, large and violent protests and rioting erupted across the nation, with angry mobs attempting to storm both regional military headquarters, as well as the local headquarters of the ISI, the Pakistani version of the CIA. Despite calls for direct military force to be used to suppress the rioting, a wide array of military commanders in the nation refused, point-blank, to apply such force. This has led to an alarmingly confusing situation, including the removal of some military commanders.

This has raised alarming concerns as to who is actually in charge of Pakistan’s armed forces, as the raid to arrest Khan seems to have come at the orders of the Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, with the support of Prime Minister Sharif. (The position of “Chief of Army Staff” is the Pakistani equivalent to the US Army’s “Chief of Staff” position.)

On 11 May, the Pakistani Supreme Court ruled Khan’s arrest illegal, and ordered his immediate release. As this article goes to press, Khan has been released, and cannot be rearrested on the same charges until at least May 17…

…But, again – why should this matter to Americans?

Simple: Pakistan is not Iraq; nor is it Sudan, Bolivia or Myanmar. Pakistan is different, because Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation…a nation that shares a land border with another nuclear-armed state, with whom it has already fought several wars. And, although relations had begun to improve while Khan was in office, those have noticeably cooled since his replacement.

Pakistan has had a shaky internal situation for decades, and beginning in 2004, the internal situation deteriorated into an actual insurgency by multiple groups, some focused on religion, like the “Pakistani Taliban”, al-Qaeda and ISIL, but also inflaming and rejuvenating supporters of an independent Balochistan.

With the sudden deterioration of the situation in a nation of nearly 248 million people, some 96.5% of whom are Muslim, the world is now facing the distinct possibility of a multi-sided civil war in a nuclear-armed state, that could lead to the reality of nuclear terrorism, potentially including actual nuclear war, something long believed to have been buried, as many of the factions now swirling in Pakistan would have no issue with loosing nuclear fire onto India, if they were to secure nuclear weapons, which would naturally provoke an immediate response.

While no “smoking gun” evidence has been released that shows conclusive interference by the Biden Administration in Pakistan’s internal affairs, the possibility cannot be dismissed. The Biden Administration has demonstrated absolutely irrational and even self-destructive behavior since assuming power in the United States…and the results of those irrational and self-destructive behaviors are now coming home to roost.

If you’re not worried – you need to catch up.

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

Biden Family Trading U.S. Power for Foreign Grift, GOP Investigation Shows

Freedomist Editor May 12, 2023

The Republicans in the U.S. House are pushing forward with an investigation into the corrupt Biden family led by Mass Mailer President Joe Biden. They claim they have access to “thousands of pages” of financial records that show multiple Biden family members receiving millions of dollars from foreign interests, with the Chinese Communist Party being the biggest “contributor” to the Biden family’s ill-gotten wealth.

In an interview with DNC organ MSNBC, Joe Biden doubled down on the lie that his family is not a seditious family trading America’s power for personal wealth, claiming, “My son has done nothing wrong. I trust him. I have faith in him. And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”

DNC-Controlled Jury Awards Woman %5 million from Trump Despite Having No Evidence Turmp Was Guilty

Paul Collier May 12, 2023

A jury out of a heavily-controlled DNC district awarded a woman $5 million from Donald Trump using evidence that besmirched his character but spoke little on the actual accusations made by the 79-year-old woman that Trump raped her in a changing room 30 years ago. The verdict is expected to be overturned by those who still believe the Justice system is still run by Americans, an expectation this writer questions at this point.

The Trump team chose not to put up a defense as her claims were wholly and completely unsubstantiated, coming down to her testimony versus Trump’s. The anti-Trump jury used a video of Trump where he said he would a woman “by the p$%#y” and the testimony of two other women who also made unsubstantiated claims he sexually abused them. The whole case was not based on the evidence surrounding the actual claim by the DNC operative E, Jean Carrol but rather on unsubstantiated claims and character evidence that should never have been admitted in an American trial.

The attempt by the DNC to demonize Trump with this kangaroo court ruling is having no impact on Donald J. Trump’s popularity, who now leads Biden in the latest Presidential poll by 7 points. The American people, unlike the anti-Americans who continue to support the party of sedition and systemic pedophilia (the DNC) see through the latest CIA-like psy-op.

The unjustified verdict that was in clear violation of American constitutional jurisprudence will only help Donald J. Trump and his bid to reclaim the office that was taken from him after another unjustified action by the DNC, the use of mass mailers to elect a President, took the office away from him.

Even people who were hesitant to support the abrasive President are beginning to see Trump as a symbol of resistance to the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Christian tyranny being imposed on us from on high by the DNC and its corporate holdings.

Staying FREE From The Totalitarianism of the Modern Trans Ideology

Bill Collier May 4, 2023

THE TRANS IDEOLOGY IS PURE EVIL, most serious observant Christians will agree. So then, what is our response?

People who identify as trans are no more evil than any of us without Jesus, and these human beings are not our enemy. The enemy is Satan, but even at that, we can recognize a coherent ideology, fruiting out as trans-genderism and trans-humanism, that is pure evil and that will destroy our entire civilization.

But what is the proper response to this hideous, Satanic assault aimed at making us all mindless slaves of a reprobate ruling class and erasing humanity itself? The response is to unilaterally adopt and build the genesis structures of a NEW Christian civilizational paradigm! The ideals of such a new civilization will empower and enable people to break free, maintain their Christian way of life in peace and abundance, and flourish even as society around them turns totalitarian, becomes poor, and experiences deadly upheavals almost constantly.

The trans ideology is really the justification and facilitation of the suicidal erasure of the human race. It is nothing less than that. To be clear, the trans ideology, whether it is radical and authoritarian trans-genderism or trans-humanism, represents a suicidal and totalitarian departure from the laws of nature that are rooted in the laws of God. It is the ultimate nadir of human culture and reveals how depraved, lost, and frankly unhinged our ruling class have become who push this evil.

The invasion of people who are males BY NATURE AND BY GOD’S LAWS into women’s spaces, violating their modesty, safety, and privacy, is abhorrent. This is unsettling to actual women who are being erased (e.g., “What is a woman?” has no answer from these idiots). But it is a far deeper problem even than that, which is severe enough. When trans-genderism is pared with its even more evil twin, trans-humanism, it represents the fatal decline of every civilization infected by it.

All things “trans” (in terms of this alt-gendered and anti-human anticulture ideology, while not calling people evil) are reprehensible and dangerous to a healthy life and society. We must destroy this trans ideology, or it will cause hundreds of thousands to millions of DEATHS and destroy our entire civilization. Everything you love and have worked for will be consumed and burned up by this wicked authoritarian movement.

Trans ideology = slavery and death to America. Whether it is the ideology that says a “trans woman” (natural man as Created by God) is in fact a real woman or the trans-humanism movement that ultimately adores AI and seeks the end of biological humans, the concept of “trans” from what God made you to anything other than that is wickedness. This is especially true of its authoritarian elements which begin with a demand for tolerance, then a demand for acceptance which leads to a demand for celebration at all times, and which then leads to a demand to force this evil ideology on to your kids, and, ultimately, which leads to a social credit system that pressures you to prove your acceptance by participating.

Just wait until you are forced by trans-humanists to “download” a map of your mind and let them install your memories into a machine which then replaces you, because it is cheaper to run a machine than to feed you! Once you accept trans-genderism and let them have your children to corrupt and indoctrinate, the table is set for the other shoe to drop: trans-humanism. You will be forced to accept the erasure of humans just as you accept the erasure of women. This is the true trans agenda, as envisioned by the evil ruling class: the erasure of humans.

All of this trans-gender and trans-human ideology in its authoritarian bent is dangerous to freedom and safety within a society that has already mostly lost its social fabric and modesty and made itself morally and spiritually unstable and weak! Essentially, every major world civilization, starting with Western Civilization, that has adopted this trans ideology, beginning with trans-genderism as the gateway ideology, is commiting suicide.

Unless you are not dependent upon the ruling class and their corrupted institutions and structures for sustenance, you are doomed to experience that destruction in your life. Breaking free from the people who run every major institution in this country according to ideologies we can only describe as doctrines of devils is one of the key radical imperatives of the hour.

It should be noted that a small isolated intentional community or collaborative association of fellow Christians lacks the scale and depth to withstand the onslaught that will be directed at them to force them to comply. Our problem is civilizational in scale, and our response must be civilizational in scale.

Trans ideology will ultimately run and then ruin the entirety of Western Civilization, especially America, and any other civilization, culture, society, country, or national people group who adopt its wicked ideas in any form. You have to decide for yourself and your family: ruin or liberation.

You will either be stuck in the flow of and dependency toward a dying civilization or you will decide to run with and adopt a new civilizational paradigm that will make you bulletproof against the many machinations of our corrupt ruling class. Anything less than the latter choice equals making the former choice, even if you do so by passive default without knowing it.

An individual who wishes to transition and assume the miene of a female is perfectly within their human agency, though in the eyes of God, unless this person is a born hermaphrodite, they have no “right” to demand God’s or anyone’s approval of their rebellion against the Creator’s laws! The issue is not trans people, which is people who identify as such and use their human agency to portray themselves as another gender, the issue is the ideology which also seeks forced “celebration” thereof on pain of some form of “consequences.”

While it is not at all our intent or aim to proscribe human agency, even to choose to adopt being trans this or that, it is not our intent to elevate that to some sort of right which everyone else must show deference to through forced acceptance. In short, human agency isn’t a right to disobey God, it just means that God judges and punishes in totality whereas we in our magisterial powers as ordained by God are limited as to what aspects of our human agency the state itself can proscribe. Hence, we aren’t seeking laws against people being trans.

When that womanface clown dude Dylan Mulvany threatens to sue anyone who doesn’t use his assumed gender, e.g. taking on the miene of a little girl who acts in the worst stereotypes of being a female, you can see how this is not merely a personal choice but an authoritarian ideology that is actually coming for YOU! Unless you are willing to engage in sex acts with a “trans” this or that, you will find that in time, especially in public schools, you and your children will become socially shunned pariahs constantly harassed and abused for your unwillingness to bow to their altrainbow pantheon.

This is us or them. This is freedom or slavery. This is either we become trans enthusiasts and betray God and His laws or we become a prey to angry woke cancel culture mobs bent on our destruction while we are physically powerless to resist their assaults on our rights, our property, and our persons. Unless you are sustained in your necessities by means not controlled by or connected to the structures that are run by our wicked ruling class, your protesting against all this will avail you no good: you can’t letter write or vote your way out of this, you must REMOVE your life’s sustenance in all aspects, as much and as soon as possible, from all dependency on this present system.

Mutual self-reliance and self-determination among fellow travelers is essential. You must unify with people who reject any notion society ought to ignore and not be governed by God’s laws. You must resort to the painful and difficult work of intentionlly restoring the social fabric in your life, relationships, and associations.

You must PREFER those of the same ilk as you. You must be deliberate about building and preserving community, extended family, the nuclear family, and marriage between one man and one woman as a mystical bond of oneness not available any other way between any two humans, solely on the basis of God’s laws.

In short, we must create a new form of shared identity at scale, called “nationhood”, that reflects God’s laws and righteous standards for the nations, by which we might reconstitute the social fabric and essentially give rise to the emergence of a new Christian civilization. Ultimately we must create a new nationhood, a spiritual nation based on God’s laws and ways.

The personal impact is felt as this nationhood allows us to facilitate connections and collaboration at the local level. As people gather and work together using this nationhood as a sociocultural and socioeconomic foundation, the social fabric is made unassailable. By this means we can build strong marriages in union with Christ, strong nuclear and extended families, and strong self-contained and self-sufficient intentional communities that may be distributed or clustered together in one habitation.

What we are saying is that the solution is not to reform the existing civilization and its political sociocultural, socioeconomic, civil, civic, or even religious institutions and structures ruled by a few evil scoundrels who view the entirety of the population outside themselves as cattle to be used and consumed. The solution is internal, peaceful, but very real economic, social, civil, civic, and cultural separation and independency to wit we build the rudiments of a new Christian civilization in our own lives, relationships, associations, and communities on our own terms, per our own beliefs, and for our own well-being and mutual benefit.

The baby steps we take today become the seedlings from whence future generations will find a strong, towering tree that offers sustenance and safety from the raging storms created by the forced adoption of this trans ideology by most people. Society and civilization itself will endure massive, deadly upheavals and ruination while those who today chose the path of a new Christian civilizational paradigm will remain mostly unaffected and free.

Trans ideology is the death of culture, of civilization, of society, and every country under its thrall. We cannot stop this civilization from falling for the lie, because essentially our civilization has run its course, become old and decadent, as well as senile, and cannot be saved. It must be avoided, separated from, and replaced in your own life and relationships with a new civilizational paradigm in keeping with our Christian ideals and faith.

Students-of-Color-Only Graduation Held By Univerity of Pittsburgh

Paul Collier May 3, 2023

The University of Pittsburg recently held a “special graduation ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate graduating students of color.” The Event was called “The Gathering.” The College Fix claims there was no public listing for the event.

The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Vide Chancellor Clyde Pickett told the school’s student newspaper the event is “…a chance to build unity and community with one another. Ultimately, the success of our students is our most important priority, so I think any elevation and acknowledgement of our students that allows for space for cultural exchange, cultural identity and cultural awareness is a good thing.”

The overtly racist event is being passed off as not being “separate or segregated” in the graduation ceremony. Rather, it’s an additional event to the shared final ceremony The President of the Latino student group, in defending the segregated event said, “I think it’s important to acknowledge — with Black students, Asian students, Hispanic Students, Indigenous students, first-gen, low income, they have been traditionally excluded from being able to access higher education. They have not always been wanted and they’ve not always been supported.”

If we are to be a united nation, the continued segregation of the world’s population into the leftist American constructs of “people of color” versus “whiteness” will only lead to further balkanization among those that reject the idea of the individual being sacred and unique in and of themselves, apart from their biological and ideational identities.

The idea of an individual being assessed based on their personal demonstration of character, integrity, quality, and reliability is the idea that creates the maximum amount of opportunity for the maximum amount of people, across all the diverse divides of the human experience.

So long as colleges and universities continue to teach hate and fear and division, our nation continues to risk the final fall.

As The Wheel Turns – Modern Ersatz Armies

Michael Cessna April 28, 2023

Previously here, we have reported on various aspects of warfare, both ancient and modern. The tools change all the time. Sometimes, the specific techniques to employ that technology changes, the better to employ the new sets of hardware that come out of inventor’s workshops and laboratories. But the basic rules, as the saying goes, do not change over time.

The proverbial “rag-tag band of rebels” – or revolutionaries, or guerrillas, as the reader prefers – have been a feature of warfare from the very beginning. In fact, a strong argument could be made that such groups were the very first “fighting forces” to appear on the battlefield; “organization” is the basic requirement for “organized warfare,” and that organization had to start somewhere.

But that is lost in the mists of eons.

Organized warfare, as such, waxes and wanes. The Mediterranean Basin and the European continent – south of the Danube, west of the Rhine, and north of Africa’s Mediterranean coast, and even extending into the Black Sea – was dominated by Rome and its army. This was, for the time, the best organized, regularly supplied and funded army in recorded history; the only real comparisons known are the armies of Sargon the Great and Alexander of Macedon…and yet, Rome “collapsed” (at least in Western Europe) in the 5^th Century; the final destruction of Rome in the east – what is now better known as “Byzantium” – would take another thousand years.

That Rome collapsed (both times) was not the fault of either form of its armies (that’s a long discussion). There were numerous factors involved in both series’ of collapses; in both cases, the ultimate failures of the Roman armies were merely the final acts. Indeed, it is no stretch of the imagination to say that the highly professional, disciplined and minutely organized Roman and Byzantine armies are what kept their respective states alive as long as they did.

Infantry wins wars, and the more professional your infantry, the faster and more decisively you win, all other things being equal. But, continuing with this historical digression, the battle of Adrianople in 378AD ushered in a perception of the superiority of mounted horse cavalry over professional infantry; whatever the actual historical truth of the battle (the arguments of Oman and Burns aside), the perception held true, and those ideas would lead directly to the rise of the mounted knight as the main military component of the medieval period. Horse-using elites were certainly not new, but they were never truly decisive, no matter how diverse the mercantile and military (YouTube link) trade networks were.

*Full-size replica of the Uluburun shipwreck, St. Peter’s castle, Bodrum, Turkey, 2004. Photo credit: Georges Jansoone. CCA/3.0*

In the aftermath of those Roman collapses, warfare reverted to a more localized and tribal form of organization. Even in the Levant, where the First Caliphate and the later Ottoman Sultanate largely ruled from the 7^th Century onwards, government regulation and control were not what they had been under either Roman or Persian rule. Warfare was largely thrown back at least a thousand years, each time.

Technology played a large part in this seesaw. Spears, swords, bows and arrows, and metal armor are all relatively easy for a blacksmith to turn out. As long as armies were small, and some form of “hard tack” (to use the modern term) was set back in a castle of some sort, small armies could maneuver cross-country without too much trouble. Bands of what we would now call “guerrillas” could also maneuver easily, as they generally operated in their native areas, and knew where watering holes and useful resources were located.

The advent of gunpowder changed all of this, however. While developed in Song Dynasty China in the 9^th Century AD (on the European calendar), the first use of the formula as a weapon dates to the early 10^th Century, in use against Mongol tribes. Once gunpowder became dominant as an infantry weapon in Europe, in the late 15^th to the early 16^th centuries, the scales that had been tipping slowly back towards infantry dominance slammed down decisively on the infantry’s side: now, as gunpowder weaponry rapidly progressed from the matchlock through to the flintlock, it became comparatively cheap and easy to recruit and train infantry en masse to a level sufficient to return cavalry to their nominal roles of scouting and decisive shock action.

*Vive l’Empereur!, 1891. Édouard Detaille (1848–1912). Charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807. Public Domain*

But, that tipping of the scales had consequences, as gunmaking was a very specialized skill, as its requirements were very different from making simple metal objects like blades or horseshoes.

Likewise, the advent of motor vehicles changed the factors of “battle calculus” yet again, by replacing the horse with the motor engine. While the automobile has a host of limitations, those drawbacks are minimal in comparison to those of horse cavalry…

Which brings us, at last, to our core topic: “Ersatz Armies.”

As noted above, “irregular” forces – rebels, guerrillas, etc – have frequently struggled to compete with better-organized and supported “regular” armies. Such groups have to improvise methods of supplying not simply weapons, but food, medicines and other basic needs of a military force. In the past, these services and products were generally stolen from an enemy government, or were supplied directly by a foreign government, supporting the guerrillas. More infrequently than is generally assumed, a guerrilla force might purchase arms from “black market” arms dealers; in those cases, the guerrilla forces were teetering dangerously on the edge of being a criminal gang, more than a “heroic band of fighters for the people.”

But, with the sudden and rapid anarchy taking place in Sudan, another factor has once again reared its head: a deliberately created ersatz army.

In 2003, the Sudanese government in Khartoum recruited a group of tribal militias that coalesced into what is now known as the “Janjaweed”. This grouping of tribal militias went on to commit a host of terrible crimes, encompassing all the worst categories of criminal activities. So bad were these events, both the Sudanese dictator of the time, as well as one identifiable leader of the group, have been formally indicted for war crimes.

In the aftermath of the worst parts of the Darfur Conflict, the Janjaweed was not paid off and stood down by the government of Omar al Bashir – instead, it was expanded, given better training and weapons, had its name changed to the “Rapid Support Force” (RSF) (YouTube link) and was then used a force of “shock troops” to fight in regional wars, such as Libya and Yemen, where they proved willing to do the dirty jobs no self-respecting and –disciplined military would touch.

In effect, al Bashir created his own version of Adolf Hitler’s SA or SS – a powerful armed force, separate from the regular military, willing to do whatever was asked of them. Unlike Hitler, however, al Bashir lost control of his non-Army force; this resulted in the RSF collaborating with the regular Sudanese military to remove him from power. And, as these things almost always do, this resulted in a falling out among thieves, leading to the current disaster in the country.

What makes the RSF different from similar groups in the past, however, is its size and equipment. The RSF is estimated to number around 100,000 men (YouTube link), and have been equipped comparatively cheaply, with the most basic of infantry weapons and gear, as well as the ubiquitous “technical” vehicles. A hundred thousand troops, even if poorly trained, is nothing to scoff at, even if you intend to engage them directly.

Sudan is not unique: while other states may not have armed groups to the extent of the RSF, it is a far cheaper thing to do, than most people think…But these types of forces – with little or no control, nor moral training, but with effective weapons and training – are growing in number.

Ponder that, the next time you hear about drug cartel armies on the south side of the Rio Grande (YouTube link).

FBI Hopes to Infiltrate Religious Orgs to Develop News Sources on “Suspicious Activity”

Freedomist Editor April 25, 2023

FBI WANTED TO INFILTRATE CATHOLIC GROUP IT DEEMED A THREAT – The Biden administration sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church, a report shows from the U.S. House Judiciary Chairman, Jim Jordan (R-OH). Jim Jordan received a report from the FBI that it had received information derived from at least one undercover employee” to infiltrate religious organizations as “new avenues for tripwire and source development. It was seek to develop those “news sources” to report on what it characterized as “suspicious activity.” Jordan responded, “I know that the FBI distributed this document to field offices across the country,” suggesting this was hardly an isolated incident. He seeks further information to clarify the breadth and depth of these programs.