“A lady asked Dr. Franklin, ‘well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if you can keep it.’” – James McHenry, from his 1787 journal
The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics released a poll that shows 47 percent of Trump supporters and 51 percent of Biden supporters view the other side as the biggest threat to America. More troubling is the second part of that poll, which shows 41 percent of Biden supporters and 38 percent of Trump supporters believing violence is justified in stopping the other side. 31 percent of Trump supporters and 24 percent of Biden supporters question the “viability of democracy.”
The poll is skewed from the start in its selection of Biden supporters versus Trump supporters, as a sizeable proportion of American citizens will either vote for someone other than Biden or won’t vote at all, as they are completely disenfranchised with the whole political institution. Still, the poll is useful in reading the barometer of the times, “America” is a divided house, even if this poll fails to get to the root of what that division is.
The pollsters themselves reveal their leftist bias by using the phrase “viability of democracy,” with democracy being the key operating phrase. The American Communist Party regularly uses the term democracy in a positive way when “justifying” their own potential rise to power, so “democracy” in and of itself is a problematic phrase that is existentially at odds with the American republic.
A democracy comes in many forms, including what most people in America think of as a democracy, a representative government selected through free and open elections. But democracies can be totalitarian, with one-party states that outlaw all other parties, with the party in power claiming it has the mandate, or at least the best interests, of the people. Therefore, it can rule in their interest to make it the best it can possibly be for the orthodox members of society (the people willing to conform to the will of the state, for the good of the whole).
America, under its validity of rule, its Declaration of Independence (the first and foremost source for the legitimization of our government’s right to rule) and its Constitution, is a limited-power Republic in which one branch of government is representative and selected through allegedly free and open elections. The limits placed on government by the Constitution, and the deputization by the Declaration of Independenceof the people in times when government does not act with Constitutionally-defined restraint makes us a republic, not a democracy.
We are not ruled by the majority, but rather, we are ruled by restraint, and empowered to BE the authority in times when that elected body and its appointees (be it judicial or executive appointment) violate the source of their right to rule.
A democracy is the mob led by the few to oppress the few. A republic respects the inherent rights of individuals not to be violated, even by the mob, whether that mob emerged organically from the bottom up or (as is almost ALWAYS the case) was manipulated from the top down to create the desired spirit the few find useful to their parochial interests.
The pollsters themselves reveal the two nations this land now occupies, nations that are so entangled they can both exist in the same household.
On one side is the progmerican, the individual who thinks of“America” as a Democracy and doesn’t feel so constrained by our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence. This individual thinks like one who denies the sacredness, the sovereignty, the stewardship of the individual and imagines (whether they realize it or not) that the world can and should be FORCED to be like them, to think like them, where dissent is called “mis/disinformation” or “hate speech,” and laws are supported that would criminalize such beliefs when they are publicly shared or publicly known.
The progmerican does not value the individual unless that individual conforms to a specific set of values that are ultimately defined by the “experts,” the de facto oligarchy of the land (until one charismatic power arises that can make himself or herself the beginning and end of the law in the land).
On the other side is the American, the individual who values the sacredness, the sovereignty, and the stewardship of the individual, and accepts the restraints on government as defined by our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, viewing the adherence to those documents as the legitimization of power, not the majority rule without restraint that “Democrats” envision.
The division between Trump and Biden supporters isn’t so clean, though, as plenty of Biden supporters do so out of a lack of belief that the Democratic Party is not American in nature and seeks to ultimately, definitively, end any vestige of Rule of Law as defined by our two documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. On the other side, plenty of Trump supporters end up supporting hate speech and disinformation criminalization, as we can see in the support for the censoring of Americans who dare support the Palestinians over Israel.
Neither party has demonstrated in deed any real commitment to the Rule of Law in America, with the Republican Party only being willing to use the language of the American Rule of Law to appeal for power authorization. Once they get that power, they consistently fail to address the open violations of that Rule of Law by their frenemy, the Democratic Party. Let us hope our new Speaker of the House is part of a process that is about to change that current reality.
There are two nations forming, with smaller ones nipping at both their borders, and neither nation makes God their first source of wisdom within our American republican framework. This is where the call to violence appeals to more and more people, as both sides find it increasingly hard to humanize the other side without the Holy Spirit-led conviction to do as Christ commands us, to love our enemies.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” – John 13:34-35
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? “ – Matthew 5:43-47
In a land without God, a land filled with nations that are existentially opposed to one another, the only hope for peace is a shared belief in the Lord of Lords, the God of Abraham, Jacob, and Isaac, who sent His Only Son to save us by grace alone lest we should boast. Unless and until Americans repent and turn to the sacredness of the individual, made in God’s image, then “Americans” will show no grace, no mercy to their enemies, and Progmericans will only grow bolder in their open defiance of the American contract that gives government in this land the “right” to Rule, our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
What follows is an “estimate of the situation”, concerning what may well become known as the “Guns of October”. This is a strategic assessment of the current situation in the Levant, and what the deeper plan[s] may be. Nothing in this article is based on “classified information” or “anonymous sources”, but sober estimates based on training, experience, intuition and “informed speculation”.
Around the world, October 7th stunned many people. Even after over twenty years of continuous warfare, the scenes of slaughter coming out of Israel were stunning, both in their daring, but even moreso for their brutality and savagery. Inevitably, perhaps, some people have began to promote an idea that the Israeli High Command was operating in full knowledge of what Hamas was going to do, because there was “no way” that the vaunted Israeli intelligence agencies could have missed Hamas’ preparations.
The fact is, people are always people, and people make mistakes – often, those mistakes boggle the imagination with their stupidity. There is no real evidence of anything like an intentional conspiracy on the part of the Israeli High Command’s part happening.
In this case, however, there are parties throughout the world, who have been desperate for a crisis like Yom Kippur 2.0 to restore their flagging efforts. This group has been pushing an endless series of wars since the 1990’s, and while their influence is, indeed great, they are masters of the notion espoused by one-time White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s quip, “… you never want a serious crisis to go to waste…”
The people in power, or hanging on to the tailings of power, who espouse such ideas, are known as “neo-cons”…But – what is a “neo-con”?
Foreign Policy Magazine accurately describes neo-cons as “liberal imperialists on steroids”. They are firm believers in the notion of a highly totalitarian vision of the so-called “Pax Americana”, a series of policies that have produced a national debt in excess of an eye-watering $33 trillion, as of 10/18/2023. These beliefs – and the people behind them – also led to the roiling disasters in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and most of the rest of the Middle East.
Another key descriptor of the neo-cons is that they have no political party, beyond that which is most expedient for them at the moment. Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928 – 2017), one-time National Security Advisor to Democrat party President Jimmy Carter, laid out the neo-con strategy and thought in his 1997 book, “The Grand Chessboard”. His criticisms of Republican President George W. Bush’s handling of the post-9/11 wars were not one of actual opposition, but complaining about their mis-handling.
Neo-Con thinking is also at the core of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in February of 2022. No matter what side of that conflict the Reader may fall on, the fact is that – like Japan attacking Pearl Harbor in 1941 – the West, led by the United States, goaded Russia into its attempt to dismember the Ukrainian state. Why? Because the neo-cons desperately wanted to initiate Cold War 2.0, because Islamic jihadi’s were simply not working as an existential threat to Western society that justified obscenely massive military spending; terrorists are annoying, but they will never seriously threaten the Western social order.
Russia and China, on the other hand…
In early-to-mid 2022, there was a point where the world held its breath, as it seemed that the major powers of the world might actually enter into direct, large-scale combat with each other, something that has not been seen since 1945. While that danger still looms, the important takeaway, is that these situations have sparked increasingly strident calls to revamp western military establishments, to something resembling “the old days”.
But – how does this relate to the “Guns of October”?
In the aftermath of the seeming failure of neo-con ambitions as the “Global War On Terror” sputtered out in the mid-20-teens, despite the flare-up provided by the so-called “Arab Spring”, the neo-con movement became increasingly desperate for something to revive their plans to continue their series of planned wars, the exhaustion and disgust of the people’s of the West – and Russia – over the never-ending series of wars at the dawn of what should have been a “golden century” for humanity.
The clearest example of the desperation of the neo-cons, including their abject hatred of US President Donald Trump, came when Trump rejected their plans to strike three targets in Iran in response to the 2019 downing of an unmanned US drone. Trump canceled the retaliatory attacks when he was informed that the attacks were expected to kill at least 150 Iranians; Trump did not feel that level of retaliation to be a “proportionate” response to shooting down an unmanned drone.
But now, with a reimposition of sanctions against Russia in April of 2021, leading to a near-war with that state, the neo-cons within Washington DC and allies in several European governments have been awaiting a crisis of an appropriate scale to move the world back into the realm of “forever wars”.
Enter October 7th, of 2023.
With increasing calls in the West to end the open and naked barbarity of Hamas – barbarity that organization happily live-streamed, until it realized how bad the optics were – coupled to the deranged bleatings of the Communist mullahs in control of Iran – handed the neo-cons the golden crisis they have desperately needed to galvanize Western governments into continuing the wars: the United States – even under an “anti-Israel” establishment – cannot oppose Israel in assaulting Gaza, nor in hammering the Iranian-back Hezbollah organization in southern Lebanon, especially in the face of Hamas’ barbarity, without suffering catastrophic political consequences. Similarly, the Western European “street” is fed up with their government’s policies of accommodation and appeasement of “refugees” who spare no expense to tell the world how much they hate their “hosts”, who spared little expense to give them shelter and sanctuary.
Caught in the middle, are the Muslim governments of the region, none of whom want anything to do with this war, but who have enough internal problems that they cannot be seen by their populations to be completely abandoning the Palestinians. But, with more and more US Navy warships being deployed to the region at speed, the possibility of an “incident” occurring that “required” a military response against Iran – one that would make the Iraq war look like a training exercise – is an increasingly likely possibility.
Why is this important? Put simply, the United States does not have the manpower to fight the wars the neo-cons want the West to fight. As has been pointed out previously at the Freedomist, two decades of no-victory wars – as well as policies to insult and demean the US military’s primary recruiting pool – have turned a generation of potential recruits firmly against military service…so much so, that there has been a quietly increasing spate of military officers “speaking truth to power”, pointing out that the current world strategic will eventually force the United States to return to conscription, the dreaded “D-word”, that has been anathema to both the political and military spheres alike, for fifty years, since peacetime conscription was ended in the US by President Richard M. Nixon in 1973.
The neo-cons have painted themselves into a corner: They have relentlessly pursued aggressive policies that have burned off most of any good will built up by the United States over the past four decades, in pursuit of a strategy of continual conflict that requires a level of military recruitment that is a pale memory. At the same time, their actions have severely damaged the US economy, because markets not under a regimen of centralized planning respond poorly to toxic cycles of borrowing money, then borrowing more money to simply pay the interest, all while expanding the pool of currency by running the printing presses at high speed.
With much of the potential military recruit-base firmly rejecting staggering enlistment bonuses of over $50,000, there will come a point where the United States will be forced to attempt to revive the Draft for 18-to-30 year-olds…and there has been legislation language already draft, that was repeatedly submitted for some thirteen years.
After the lawfare assassin, Judge Tanya Chutkan, issued a gag order preventing Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the Presidential election, from being able to challenge the false claims and unconstitutional actions of the DNC-CCP’s parade of seditionists, Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Clive, Iowa in which he stated he is willing to go to jail to defend this country. The statement in and of itself might trigger the Judge to issue an arrest warrant, which might be the last thing the DNC-CCP wants to happen, even if its manipulated revolutionary base, thirsting for blood, desperately wants to see it happen.
Judge Chutkun’s nonsensical statement to justify her unjust ruling speaks to the lawlessness of the party she serves. She said “First Amendment protections yield to the administration of justice and to the protection of witnesses. His presidential candidacy does not give him carte blanche to vilify … public servants who are simply doing their job.”
Americans have a fundamental right to confront their accusers, and a God-given right to “vilify” public officials. As a matter of fact, our country was founded by vilifying British officials who were “simply doing their job.” As for justice, an American land that does not grant First Amendment rights is not just at all, as can be plainly understood by any simple American.
The “best” defense the DNC-CCP has to justify its anti-American actions expose the true depravity behind their actions, and this characterless Judge exemplifies that reality in her own words used to justify such a damning anti-American revolutionary defense.
At the Iowa rally, Trump continued to rightly vilify the vilifiable, mainly this seditious judge who, if we were ruled by Americans and not progmericans (which are no Americans at all) would be IMMEDIATELY removed from office, lose her law license, and possibly face charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. But in progmerica, the “nation” this pervert of justice serves, she is in the “right” and we Americans are seditionists in her Empire of hate, fear, and fake hope.
He said in his speech, “They’re getting beaten very badly by me in the polls. They think the only way they can catch me is to stop me from speaking, they want to take away my voice. A judge gave a gag order today. Did you hear that? On speech. Which I believe is totally unconstitutional, what she did. A judge gave a gag order. A judge doesn’t like me too much. Her whole life is not liking me. She gave me a gag order. Do you know what a gag order is? You can’t speak badly about your opponent. But this is weaponry all being done because Joe Biden is losing the election. And losing very, very badly to all of us in the polls.”
The most relevant statement came shortly after when he declared, “But what they don’t understand is that I am willing to go to jail if that’s what it takes for our country to win and to become a democracy again.”
This writer does not wish jail time on President Trump, but, strategically speaking, should he continue to “violate” this anti-American revolutionary lawfare ruling and the DNC-CCP choose to put this man in jail, accompanied by the Secret Service (because that’s the law, a former President gets 24/7 Secret Service coverage), this will be the end of the DNC-CCP in most parts of the land, save for lost states like New York, California, and Illinois.
God has chosen to place in opposition to the rightful punishers of our land, the DNC-CCP, a flawed man who acts often without thinking and perpetuates crudeness and incivility into our political landscape that has no righteousness to it. Yet still it is that man, Donald J Trump, which God has chosen to make the only viable clear opposition to the perversion the DNC-CCP hopes to force on all Americans, stripping us of guns, legalizing unborn child murder up to birth (and probably soon beyond), denying basic human biology, and elevating sexual practices that will, if they become the norm, terminate the human species.
Satan has done a “great” thing through this party of fear, hate, and fake hope, and so far, God has chosen not to deliver our wicked land from this new Babylon. Only a repentant nation can be delivered from the scourge of the DNC-CCP. Not even Donald Trump can save us, only God can, and only if we seek him, which, so far, we are not.
Vengeance is the Lord’s, not ours, so these perverts of justice are yet still the rightful rulers of a land that chose manna over God, that chose Ba’al over Christ, and continues to do so even as we descend further into the maelstrom of the cult of death the DNC-CCP and its sheep have embraced.
An indictment against Biden whistleblower Gal Luft has accidently revealed the Bidens’ connections to a Chinese-Communist-Party-controlled conglomerate that depended on Joe Biden’s influence on government to essentially sell weapons to a provider of arms to the bloodthirsty death cult Hamas. The company, CEFC China Energy, supplied the Bidens with millions of “consulting” dollars in exchange for their manipulation of government to sell arms to Qatar which were then delivered to Hamas.
As revealed in Luft’s indictment, CEFC China Energy members engaged illicit trafficking of arms to countries including Libya and Qatar. Luft often referenced the weapons as “toys” in correspondence evidenced in the indictment.
Patrick Ho, the Director of CEFC China Energy whom Hunter Biden has described as his personal business partner and also the “spy chief of China,” sent Luft an email in April 2015 with the subject line “Shopping lists,” writing about Qatar’s weaponry needs:
“It so turns out that Qatar also needs urgently a list of toys from us. But the same reason that we had for Libya, we cannot sell directly to them. Is there a way you could act as an intermediary in both cases? Could you ask your man to see if he is willing?”
“Qatar good chance be there is no embargo. Libya is another case be going against an embargo is tricky,” replied Luft. Ho followed up stressing Qatar’s “urgent” need for weapons, adding he’d be meeting with “their chief” to discuss the matter:
“Qatar needs toys quite urgently. Their chief is coming to China and we hope to give them a piece of good news. Please confirm soonest.”
The news is not surprising to those of us paying attention. It will not be reported in any credible way by the media machine controlled by the DNC-CCP, though the dots are easy to connect. As Republicans consider “compromising” with the Democratic Party, the openly seditious (if you believe in the American republic, but not if you believe in Progmerica, which is no America at all) party, on selecting a new House Speaker you must all the more understand that Republicans are mostly controlled opposition, the DNC-CCP’s rearguard, more aligned with Chairman Xi and his “mixed economy” than Thomas Jefferson. This party lashes out more at MAGA than it does the DNC-CCP, and that’s no accident.
As news like this continues to pour out, and the Republican Party continues to act as if the DNC-CCP is just a family member in slight disagreement (as opposed to an existential threat to the republic their very party’s name claims to represent), then you, the reader, must realize the GOP offers no real opposition to the assault on the republic this corrupt party (the Democratic Party) represents.
God has made them vessels of wrath made for destruction to be instruments of wrath against a nation that has rejected God in exchange for a lie that man can make himself in his own image. Let God contend with them, even as we peacefully choose to not comply with their ungodly demands.
Jim Jordan has been nominated by the GOP to be their next Speaker of the U.S. House after the previous nominee, Steve Scalise, withdrew. Reports are emerging of DNC-CCP operatives within the GOP (so-called moderates) not allowing Jordan to become speaker as they don’t wish to “reward” the rebellion of the 8 who caused their preferred controlled opposition leader, Kevin McCarthy to be reomved from office.
CNN reported on one anonymous insider saying. “The approximately 20 I’ve talked to know we must be prepared. We cannot let the msall group dictate to the whole group. They want a minority of the majority to dictate and as a red-blooded American I refuse to be a victim.” That very statement reeks of a seditious heart that does not understand a republic, but only a mobocracy, which this “anonymous source” seems to support. That red in you is not blood, it’s communism.
A number of House Republicans are in talks to block Rep. Jim Jordan’s path to the speakership as the Ohio Republican tries to force a floor vote on Tuesday, according to multiple GOP sources.
One senior Republican House member who is part of the opposition to Jordan told CNN that there he believes there are roughly 40 “no” votes and that he has personally spoken to 20 members who are willing to go to the floor and block Jordan’s path if the Ohio Republican forces a roll-call vote on Tuesday.
After receiving two powerful endorsements, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is poised to become the next House speaker. Trump endorsed Jordan last week, and now Fox News is reporting that former speaker Kevin McCarthy is backing him.
Jordan announced that he was re-entering the race for speaker Friday morning after Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) threw in the towel.
Scalise dropped out of the race last night when it became clear that he couldn’t get the 217 votes needed to replace Rep. McCarthy (R-Calif.). Now, Jordan appears to be the favorite in the aftermath of McCarthy’s historic ouster from the speakership.
According to Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie, McCarthy announced today that he is supporting Jordan.
In response to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) potentially forcing a speaker vote on the House floor, anti-Jordan votes threatened to not show up and let Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) win the election.
This is how toxic things have become on the Republican side of the House:
“What happens when Jordan forces us to the floor to try to pressure us and all of a sudden we don’t show up and Hakeem Jeffries is speaker cause he wanted to be a bully ?” one upset House Republican just texted me.
It should come as no surprise to anyone reading this, that there is something strange happening at the southern border of the United States…even NEWSWEEK magazine is talking about it. No one who claims to watch the news at any level of attention has failed to see the hysterical cries from all levels of society in New York City that the mainstream media bothers to pay attention to, that the “migrant crisis” has finally come home to roost in the self-declared “sanctuary cities”, who are now facing just a fraction of what tiny towns along the US-Mexico border have been dealing with on a weekly basis, and for decades.
But, it is considerably more than that. In fact, it is alarming in the extreme.
In previous decades, a significant proportion of the illegal aliens crossing the US-Mexico border were women and small children; indeed, despite breathless denunciations to the contrary, the phenomenon of the “Anchor Baby” is very real. Prior to 2020, many, if not most, of the illegal crossers were unaccompanied men, actual “economic refugees” from Mexico and other parts of Central & South America, who were coming north to seek work, because even making significantly less than American-born workers, they were still able to make enough to more than fully support their families back home.
However, beginning at some point in 2020, that mixture began to significantly shift.
Beginning, again, in 2020, more and more Africans began to be observed at the border, crossing in illegally. However, like Mexican illegals before them, significant proportions of the flow were women and children.
But, beginning in 2022, the numbers shifted again. Increasingly, unaccompanied men of “fighting ages” (17-45 years old) began to appear – not mixed in with families, but in very large – alarmingly large, in fact – proportions of crossing groups.
What follows is an analysis that may sound “conspiratorial”. Given the current rhetoric from certain organizations – it is most definitely something that needs to be taken seriously.
ACTORS IN PLACE
“Men fleeing their country to take refuge in a foreign land, bring their women and children with them.
Men invading a foreign land – do not.” – Anonymous
Nearly fifty years ago, now, 1974 was a strange time. It was the height of the Cold War; the Vietnam War was grinding to its bloody end; tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were still very frosty, and getting more hostile as the political fallout from Richard M. Nixon’s resignation from the Presidency threw treaties and agreements into doubt.
In the midst of this turmoil, a small, 18-page study was presented to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under contract number RDA-TR-4301-001. Its title?
“A SOVIET PARAMILITARY ATTACK ON U.S. NUCLEAR FORCES – A CONCEPT”
The paper outlines the feasibility of an “asymmetric” (to borrow a phrase from the modern day) attack on the US’s “nuclear triad” by Soviet special forces teams inserted into the US by slipping them over the border, mixed in with the yearly flow of illegal migrant workers.
When viewed through a more modern lens, this study stands as a stark warning for the current situation at the border, with only minimal editing for the current situation: simply replace “Soviet” with “militant actor groups”, and “nuclear forces” with “civilian soft targets”.
This is not hyperbole – if the numbers remained as small as they once were, this view would, indeed, verge into paranoia. However, with even the lowfigures hovering around 10,000 people per week, and even being generous in estimating the numbers of actual refugees, that equates to the core cadre of an infantry division entering the United States each week.
BEANS, BULLETS & TRAITORS
Now, the above is a pretty heady statement to make. After all, how would such a hypothetical force be armed and supplied, to what purpose, and by whom?
If you, the Reader, think that we are about to go to a very dark place – you would be correct.
It has long been known that certain elements of the United States government’s apparatus have deliberately tread very carefully, lest they goad the c.100,000,000 private firearms owners in the country into doing something “rather rash”. Frequently, they even try to crack jokes about it – jokes which absolutely no one finds funny.
Those same elements, however, certainly seem hell-bent to inflict demented plans on not simply the US population, but on the populations of the wider world. The United States’ population, though, is unique as it has not simply the highest proportion of private firearms ownership per capita, but also the largest numbers overall…and a significant proportion of that number are military veterans, many with recent combat experience.
In fact, those elements are so concerned about this potential threat to their plans that they have been issuing increasingly strident warning calls about the situation since the mid-1990’s. Yet, for them, the “problem” remains.
But – how to mitigate that problem?
It is clear to these elements that deploying the actual US armed forces, or even police, against the citizens they are sworn to defend through “kinetic action” is not an option: far too many would almost certainly either desert outright, or might actually mutiny, taking their weapons and joining their fellow citizens who are being attacked. And this is all aside from the fact that those “regular” forces, even in concert with law enforcement officers, simply do not have the numbers to make “martial law” a viable option.
But…What if those forces were given an actual, hostile foreign target inside the United States? For that matter, what if those private firearms owners could be induced by circumstance to join the regular armed forces and law enforcement in an action to “defend America” against that force? Stentorian denials from the “right wing” on social media aside, this “Reichstag Fire” scenario would force self-proclaimed “2A supporters” into a Catch-22: Either support the direct defense of the nation – in concert with the armed forces and the police – or suffer consequences far worse than being exposed as fakes.
FMLN guerrillas, El Salvador, c.1980’s. Photographer Unknown.
However, as there has been no such credible threat inside the United States – because “Antifa” is not the threat many, including that group’s members, suppose it to be – such a force would have to be “imported”.
Hence: foreign, fighting-age men, flooding into the country in massive numbers – but numbers not sufficient to actually conquer the country, but certainly enough to cause a sufficiently large and alarming threat…a flood actively encouraged, by public policy.
Note that none of either the foregoing, or what follows, is even a possibility without the active collusion of large sections of the government apparatus in Washington, DC.
It is vital to understand that, even assuming that certain reporting, dismissed a decade ago as “deranged conspiracy theories” were to be true, such a potential hostile force cannot successfully seize control of any great portion of the United States – at least, not for any real length of time.
But – why?
Simply put, the potentially hostile forces that would act, would be extremely disjointed and lacking in any more than the most basic of direction, and outside the cities, would find themselves vastly outnumbered, outgunned and over-matched by the local population. Unlike other parts of the world where groups like these operate, the local population in the United States – overall, but most certainly in the more suburban and rural areas – are very well-armed, by current world standards, and are peopled with a high percentage of recent military veterans, most of whom are armed.
This does not mean that such hostile forces would be completely impotent. Indeed, current technology means that these forces could easily arm and equip themselves effectively, simply by raiding firearms dealers (making the publication of the personal information of firearms permit holders over the last few years…“interesting”) not simply for weapons and ammunition, but also for the information on the dealers’ Form 4473’s, as described in the famous scene from the original “Red Dawn” (1984). As well, functional support equipment could be constructed at reasonable speed, allowing this potential hostile force to cause a lot of “hate & discontent”, and all without a great deal of the typical heavy ordnance one would see in most of the conflicts of the last c.25 years…for a time, at least.
In the aftermath – if this strictly hypothetical plan were to be real – the surviving American citizens would be ready to fall in line behind a government professing to have “learned its lesson”, that would revitalize and regularize citizen “militias”…under strict government control and supervision, of course.
World Economic Forum Logo, 2008. CCA/3.0
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
Is any of the foregoing true, though?
There are no “smoking gun” documents – that the author is aware of – that detail the above speculative plan as a real, deliberate and ongoing operation…That in no way means that it is impossible.
There is an overused saw in current vogue, to wit, that “history does not repeat – but it does rhyme”. In this case, real, fundamental manipulation of a population to a meaningful purpose they would otherwise not only have no interest in, but would actively oppose if said plan were enacted too quickly, is not a thing that can be achieved overnight. It is a process that takes years to plan and decades to implement.
Once again – 1974 was an odd time. Lot of plans were flitting around the literal swamp that Washington, DC perches in, like a vulture’s nest…Plans like “NSSM 200”.
You, the Reader, should reflect on that link.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Amid all the shrill backbiting over continuing to flagellate the dying Ukrainian efforts against Russia, as well as the capering of France trying to stave off the disintegration of its African satrapies, as those states internally realign themselves with Russia and China – by force, when necessary – a specter lurks in the background, the proverbial “elephant in the room”: Communist Chinese insecurity over Taiwan.
In this insecurity, lay the seeds of global economic collapse.
At the end of World War Two, Communist leader Mao Zedong led his “People’s Liberation Army” out of their mountain hideouts, and slid in behind Soviet forces occupying Manchuria, swiftly arming themselves with ex-Japanese military equipment captured from the defeated Imperial Japanese Army. Thus armed, the Communists went on the offensive against the exhausted Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces, which had born the brunt of fighting against the Japanese for the preceding eight years (1937-1945).
Despite several billion dollars in US aid, and the poorly though-out deployment of the III Amphibious Corps and elements of the 7th Fleet, the sheer exhaustion and demoralization of the KMT resulted in a series of worsening defeats on the battlefield, until, in 1949, the surviving KMT military and government units retreated (for the most part) to the island of Formosa (now, Taiwan), and established a government in exile.
That is the situation as it remains, today.
Communist China, throughout its bloody and draconian history from 1950 until today, cannot abide that a recognized province of the country is not under its thumb. This manifests itself in the news of today, as near-continual violations of Taiwan’s declared air and sea boundaries by Communist military forces. The normal response of the United States has been to occasionally deploy aircraft carrier battle groups into the disputed waters as a dare to the Communists to fire on them.
The question for many, however, is – why? After all, the United States famously showed Taiwan the door in 1972, which made the country a diplomatic pariah state…so, why does the United States constantly go “eyeball-to-eyeball” with Communist Beijing over the island? For that matter, why can’t Beijing just let it go?
Two answers: For Beijing – and particularly for Premier Xi Jinping – Taiwan is a gaping sore for the Communists, as the island rapidly prospered under the KMT’s governance, while Communist China wallowed in poverty, famine and induced technological stagnation under the increasingly mentally unstable Mao…and that, in spite of the extreme brutality of the KMT’s actions in securing the island, beginning in the late 1940’s. As prosperous as Communist China has become in the aftermath of the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, the Communist state still lags behind Taiwan by a long distance.
Second, the United States knows a fundamental truth that many around the world (and particularly within the United States), a truth that is the basis of this article:
Any Communist attempt to invade and conquer Taiwan – even if it failed – would collapse the global economy overnight.
The reason for this is brutally simple: microchips.
Circuit board. Public Domain.
Silicon chips, semiconductors, or integrated circuits as the Reader prefers, are what drive modern technology, from the device you are reading this article on, to the CPU in your car, computer chips drive every object of any consequence in your everyday life.
Most of Taiwan’s chips are produced by one company, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Unlike other manufacturers like Samsung and Intel (who manufacture chips for internal products), however, TSMC chips are not proprietary to them. Instead, their chips supply manufacturers of computer-driven hardware around the world, companies like Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm, to name just three. Other nations around the world currently hover at less than half of TSMC’s production capacity; the United States currently holds about 12% of the global manufacturing capacity.
Invasions, as proven by the Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, are bloody, messy and highly destructive affairs. Any actual Communist Chinese attempt to seize Taiwan would be no different, the severe problems of a combined arms assault on the island equating to a probable Communist failure aside. To say that such an invasion would “disrupt” TSMC’s operations is a laughable understatement, not least because standard military doctrine virtually guarantees direct attacks on the company’s production facilities, to say nothing of worker attrition from “collateral damage”.
Devastation in Bucha, Ukraine. CC0/1.0, Public Domain.
What would such a circumstance mean for the global economy? Simply, virtually all generalized computer and electronic device production and repair or upgrades utilizing semiconductors would grind to a halt, as stocks of chips dried up virtually overnight. This is due to the phenomenon of “just-in-time delivery”, an outgrowth of the wave of globalization that has been the norm since the 1990’s.
The Reader may recall the term “supply chain disruption” that became popular during the recent pandemic. Workers at both manufacturing plants, but also – critically – stevedores and loading crane operators stayed home, either terrified of catching the disease, by legal order, or both. This ricocheted throughout the global supply and transport system, and was greatly aggravated by what many considered to be a minor event, namely the grounding of the container ship Ever Given in March of 2021. The effects of these body blows to the global economy continue as of this writing.
Container Ship ‘Ever Given’ stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt, March 24th, 2021. Copernicus Sential photo. CCA/2.0 Generic
In regards to a hypothetical – but very possible – Communist invasion of Taiwan, the disruption would be vastly worse, as there is no way for global manufacturers to quickly retool to make up for the loss, even if a ceasefire were quickly closed…And note that this does not address the general disruption of commercial cargo traffic in and out of the Communist nation, in the event of such a war.
But, there is an even greater danger lurking in this very possible scenario: the facts that not only will Taiwan not go quietly, but that they have a plan to take Communist China with them.
Without resorting to nuclear weapons.
The non-Communist Chinese in Taiwan all know full well what a Communist takeover of their country would entail. Given the Communist state’s recent history, to say nothing of its habit of “disappearing” political dissidents and anyone who disagrees with their regime too loudly. Because of this, there lurks a plan that Taipei lets slip every once in a while, to remind Beijing of what the consequences of invasion would be.
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, China, 2009. CCA/2.0 Generic
Taiwan’s “doomsday” plan (YouTube link) would be a series of strikes against the Three Gorges Dam. If concentrated, such a strike package would collapse at least a section of the dam, releasing the force of 39.3 km3 to pour downstream in a massive deluge.
Provisionally, this action could kill up to 400 million people…And this is not an idle threat, as the KMT has done it before. To say that this could result in a nuclear response is a given…with everything else that derives from that.
Right now, Communist China is desperate to appear tough and capable. The chances of bluster turning into an actual invasion are very real, however.
This fact is something that should be taken seriously by anyone reading this.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
“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 19th and early 20th 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.
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 Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
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.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Billionaire seditionist J.B. Pritzker appears to have bought himself a state, Illinois by buying his way into the governor’s office, a power he is now using to transform Illinois from an American state to a socio-fascist one. We’ve been covering his numerous laws he’s passed over just the past two months. Among them is a law that allows non-citizens to be cops, a move all police associations are against in his state. Now that he has passed the law, foreign nationals will be able to infiltrate our police departments in Illinois with ease, and there’s nothing that can be done so long as Pritzker is governor and his “laws” are not rightly struck down.
In any other time in American history, a law as overtly undermining to America’s rule of law as this would be immediately struck down, the Governor and those who voted in this monstrosity would be arrested and charged with high crimes and misdemeanors against the state, a capital offense these seditionists (those that created for, voted for, signed, and enforced this overtly revolutionary piece of socio-fascist legislation).
But we Americans, such as we are, have been inured to the smell of manure that socio-fascism is in the so-called “land of the free” so much that mainstream media and corporatocracies within our lands openly defend this man and is socio-fascist policies. One has little doubt this man has dreams of going beyond Illinois to attempt to do to the rest of America what he is doing to Illinois, turning it into the dystopian fantasies of Rousseau and Foucault at the expense of Jefferson and Washington.
From The Federalist:
Exploiting this opportunity could quickly become a new initiative for countries like China. The Department of Justice recently accused Chinese intelligence assets of running an illegal overseas police station in New York this year and arrested two Chinese agents for the alleged crime. The agents acted illegally in a police capacity to harass Chinese dissidents in New York. If Chinese citizens become cops in Illinois, then the same would happen to Chinese dissidents in Illinois.
This is a problem for Americans, but not for the seditious DNC-CCP that celebrates Pritzker’s anti-American billionaire elite policies that benefit only his kind and satisfy the bloodlust of the seditionists that continue to support the Democratic Party.
Remember, the CCP has already had “police stations” in America that it has used (probably still using) to target Chinese dissidents. With their entry into Illinois’ police forces, they can now expand their power to target Americans like me who continue to rightly expose the dark arts of the CCP and its unholy alliance with the Democratic party.
So long as Pritzker remains in power in Illinois and the Democrats remain in power, immune from the rule of law of this republic, Illinois should be considered a DNC-CCP occupied land that is no longer a legitimate member of our republic. Shame on the Illinois voters who cast their vote for such a seditious party. Most of them were probably voting for the party that will allow them to murder their unborn children so they can continue to practice sexual immorality with little fear of the consequence on their own lives for committing such sins. The burden will fall on the unborn child, as is the way of the child-sacrificing left, a cult that is willing to sacrifice the American republic to make their perverse fantasies come true.
NOTE: A violent revolt against the DNC-CCP will only lead to more tyranny, more violence. The most violent among us will take the lead in that sort of counter-revolution, and they won’t relinquish power once they have it. The authoritarianism of the “right” is as real as the left and this writer finds little comfort in vanquishing one enemy of America to be handed over to another. Not all members of the “right” will respect America’s rule of law, and not all Americans are members of the right. Some of us are not affiliated with either the “left” or the “right.”
Counter-revolution must come from the citizens through non-compliance, and through American-held states through a separation from the parts of the land that have handed over their sovereignty to anti-American occupiers. The DNC-CCP wants your righteous anger to turn into unbridled violence it will use to “justify” taking even more draconian measures to impede individuals’ rights to lead self-stewarded lives where they are empowered to define their own happiness and prosperity and pursue it as they seem fit.
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