Publisher Bill Collier

God Is Bigger Than The NSA!

Bill Collier July 9, 2021

Tucker Carlson’s bout with the NSA, who he claims leaked his private emails, may give some pause to think they too may face such a powerful foe if they resist the march toward authoritarianism and oppression happening in this land. But while it may sound crazy to say the US Intelligence Community is at war with God, the Bible shows us that when we act outside of God’s boundaries, we make ourselves opponents of God, as it now appears the “intelligence community” has.

This is a spiritual perspective that seems to have been lost, even among Christians. When we step out of a narrow field of vision and see the arc of God’s timeline throughout history we get a better sense of the real nature of what is happening today as we witness the apparent abuse of power by our nation’s intelligence community without any consequences.

Too many Christians are afraid of speaking and acting with boldness, they are careful lest the all-powerful human agents of authoritarianism fix upon them and make it their mission to silence such words and deeds. The calculus of our earthly resources versus something like the all-powerful US Intelligence Community is easy: they have us beat unfairly and unsquarely. But we must be reminded that the weapons of our warfare are spiritual and, whatever God allows us to suffer for His Glory in this life, He will have the victory and so will we.

To be sure, we are not saying we, in this life at this time, may not endure hardships and suffer under tyrants. It has happened and is happening and can happen to us. The battle spans many lifetimes, it spans entire civilizations and the whole world. When we forget this we become too focused on the immediate vicinity in time and space and this gives us a false picture of hopelessness.

Authoritarianism is idolatry. When you deign to lord it over other human beings, removing their agency and disrespecting their dignity, you align yourself with the father of authoritarianism, the devil himself. Our conviction about how we are for our way of life without being against others doesn’t mean we aren’t certain our way of life fits the sacred blueprints for the universe, but it is proof we respect the agency and dignity of others and leave their choice between themselves and God alone.

In human terms we might be tempted to say the Democrats are the Party of the authoritarianism: their twisting and IMPOSITION of new sociocultural norms and their heavy-handed cancel culture intolerance are doing violence to the rights, persons, and property of their fellow citizens. But in spiritual terms, the Democrats are just people, they are just individuals who may sincerely believe they are doing good and justice and who, in their hubris, think anyone who cannot change to match their definition of justice is a bad person unworthy of being respected.

Democrats (and by this we mean the shot-callers, not anyone who happens to be registered or vote Democrat) have imagined a society of undifferentiated, non-gendered, atomized individuals who own nothing and slave away for neocomm corporate monopolies under the guidance and management of experts and woke leaders who know what is best for everyone. This isn’t humanity, this isn’t advanced civilization, this is inhumane and this is savage barbarism. But the roots of their vision come from the lie “ye shall not die (if you defy God’s laws) but ye shall be as gods.”

Regardless, the Democrats (the top shot-callers) and their now fully captured US Intelligence Community are hot on the tails of their opponents, who they don’t think even have a right to exist.

US media, also an arm of Democrats, whitewashes the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson and leaking his private emails as an operation against him. They are aligned with a politicized “intelligence community” that has become rife with civil rights violators who lord it over their fellow citizens, kissing up to their powerful masters in the Democratic Party and spitting down on the people, to borrow a turn of phrase from Tucker Carlson himself.

The root of this problem is moral and spiritual. These intelligence officials have lost their true north, an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of these United States of America. Their true north has shifted to advancing the parochial interests and increasing the power of the Democratic Party at all costs. Their “country” is the Party and only the Party, to hell with Americans, our Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights.

At this stage, it becomes such that merely affiliating with this so-called “intelligence community” puts you in the slop with the pigs and so covers you that you are indistinguishable from the pigs. This is not “a few bad apples” this is MOST “intelligence community” members are in gross and flagrant violation of the laws of this land, especially the Bill of Rights, and should not just lose their job, but possibly their citizenship (if that were possible).

The NSA allegedly collected information on Russian offcials who Tucker, a journalist, was contacting to get an interview with Putin, then allegedly unmasked him and tried to present a “conspiracy theory” that Tucker was in bed with the Russians. If true, this was a political power move conducted by and for Democrats to destroy a private US citizen for no greater reason than that he is an opponent of the Party.

The Democratic Party has become a mob-like structure, in a moral sense, and its hold over this land is beginning to feel a lot like a junta consolidating its power and lining up its opponents for some form of retribution. The “intelligence community” has been taken over by Democrats to inflict harm on the Party’s enemies. But we who are spiritual know this is a spiritual battle and these mere mortals are “set on their course by hell.”

We have news for the totalitarian shot-callers who run the Democratic Party, and for President Biden, their stooge: there is a law higher than them, an authority higher than the government, and a form of justice they cannot dodge. God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him and obey Him, and as the Democrats are at war with everything God calls good and as they love everything He hates, their time of imposition will not endure for long. Justice is coming, but not by man, certainly not from addled voters in manipulated elections or from the weak and wimpy GOP.

Attacking freedom, which comes from God, to make your merely human political Party a god to the people is very foolish. Your Party, Democrats, has made itself a vehicle for totalitarianism and oppression in a land given not to you, but to free people who love God. The God of these people, even if they be few and your army of addled followers be many, sees all and will recompense the wicked.

But, to paraphrase the Prophet Daniel, “God is able to deliver his servants from the fire but know this, regardless of whether God chooses to deliver His servants from this fire, we will not bend or bow.”

Today’s “intelligence community” are the modern Midianites, a scourge on the land seeking to end all opposition against the totalitarian Democratic Party. We are not afraid of them, as God is our covering and protection! They may spy and play games or whatever, but God’s Armies of Heaven number in the TRILLIONS of warring angels. They cannot do anything to us that God doesn’t allow.

Victory does not belong to the wicked, though they may have space to repent or fulfill their evil, and though their seeming triumph for a time may be a trial of faith to the faithful. Victory belongs to God and to anyone who is with Him, as opposed to those who imagine He is on their side. Whether God’s victory comes in our life or not or in the Return of Christ or a new cycle of civilization as new nations whose God is the Lord are raised up, victory will come.

The US Intelligence Community has aligned ifself 100% with lawbreakers, oppression, and authoritarianism and for this they have, almost all of them, become enemies of truth who are fighting against God Himself. If these immoral malefactors think all their high tech wizardry will help them win and impose the unnatural, godless, and authoritarian agenda of the Democratic Party on this land, they had better wise up.

Aside from pointing it out, reporting it, and confronting it with words, this is not our fight. The battle belongs to the Lord. We do not need to fear man. Period. Don’t do it. Don’t bend or bow or change what God has given you to say or do because you are afraid the NSA might spy on you and use that to hurt you.

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Biden Zero Carbon Plan Is A Poverty Producing Plan

Bill Collier July 8, 2021

President Biden’s zero carbon plan, which he plans to ramrod through using the legerdemain of “budget reconciliation”, is a plan that will dramatically raise energy costs for the poor and middle class and, because of its approach, increase poverty.

The plan is to make all US power “100% carbon free” by 2035, an ambitious plan that necessitates switching to much more expensive “alternative energy”, possibly among which natural gas with carbon capture (not commercially viable) and nuclear energy (vehemently opposed by his core base).

The effect would be threefold: discarding power plants that took hundreds of billions of dollars to use, building new power plants that will be exponentially more expensive and will face “environmental impact” reviews and delays, and the actual cost of the energy, which will be exponentially higher for consumers.

Once again a politician, chasing a histrionic bogeyman (“climate change spells doom!”), offers a massive, disruptive, top-down solution that is expensive and authoritarian. The top-down approach means, instead of promoting individual and local energy independence through house-portable and house-affordable solutions, the Biden team, egged on by utopian extremists, is focusing on a typical OBS (“one big system”) approach that will continue to keep people dependent on massive structures over which they have no influence.

The “house portable and house affordable” solution requires changing local ordinances to promote alternative building methods that are massively more energy efficient, investing heavily in solar and wind technologies for home use and providing the blueprints free to the public, and providing real incentives to individuals to adopt an individual and local energy independence approach.

The truth is, those who claim to care about the dangers of climate change and/or pollution, both legitimate concerns, are refusing to adopt an approach that truly empowers individuals. Instead, not wanting a good crisis to go to waste, they opt for an OBS approach that perpetuates dependency and concentrates yet more wealth and power in their hands.

The level of poverty will rise not because of seeking alternative energy solutions but because the top-down OBS approach is expensive, inefficient, and disempowering to individuals and the marketplace.

Israel: Pfizer’s Vaccine NOT 95% Effective

Bill Collier July 8, 2021

Stating the the effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine in preventing a Covid-19 infection fell from 95% to 64%, Israel’s Ministry of Health also said it was 93% effective at preventing serious illness or hospitalization, in a Tweet in July 5, 2021.

The “delta variant” is spreading in Israel which, despite 57.3% of the population being fullt vsccinated, Israel is seeing a spike in cases, an average of 372 per day as of July 7th, but nothing near the average of over 6,000 per day in January of 2021. However, vaccinated people are still getting sick with the delta variant and while hospitalizations are not jumping, there is some sense the promised immunity has not materialized.

Still, while there has been an uptic in cases, there has yet to be a corresponding uptic in deaths, with one death on July 5th.

Who Killed Haiti’s President?

Bill Collier July 8, 2021

Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moise, was killed on July 7th by a cammando of foreign mercenaries who portrayed themselves as US DEA agents prior to storming his home. The question is, why was he killed and by whom?

Moise was alleged to have ties to Haiti’s criminal gangs whose violence has been plaguing the nation’s populace. The fact the mercenary force claimed to be DEA agents, and were captured on video yelling “stand down, stand down” in an American accent, may be itself a statement as to the motive of the actual shot-caller who ordered the hit.

Another possibility is that one of the gangs had a beef for the President and thus ordered s hit.

Prime Minister Claud Joseph has now assumed the authority to succeed the President and while direct accusations of his complicity have not surfaced, anyonen investigating this assassination is likely to consider this possibility.

According to AP, in a report on Yahoo News, Jospeh said, “We need every single one to move the country forward.” Referencing enemies of the president, Joseph called the President ‘’a man of courage” who had opposed ‘’some oligarchs in the country, and we believe those things are not without consequences.”

At one point the commandos held three Haitian police hostage in a house they were occupying but they later surrendered. Four commandos were killed and two were captured. But running gun battles with the commandos continued as the acting successor claimed Haitian police would hunt them all down and kill or capture them.

There had been a series of protests, some violent, against his rule, which was becoming more authoritarian, and his inept handling of the economy and the security situation. His death, while shocking, has not been universally mourned inside Haiti.

He has been ruling by decree after failing to hold elections and an upcoming national election in September was the cause of tensions and violence within the country as of late.

During the attack his wife, Martine, was wounded seriously and is now in Miami, Florida, where she is in stable but critical condition. No doubt her survival was not planned by the assassins.

The attack was condemned by the opposition even as the acting successor declared a state of siege but also promised upcoming elections would still occur as planned.

Meanwhile the interim Prime Minister who claims power, was actually replaced the day prior by Joseph, who appointed Ariel Henry. Henry had not yet been sworn in to office and claims to be the Prime Minister while Jospeh, the replaced interim Prime Minister, claims that as the newly appointed Henry hadn’t taken office, he is not the Prime Minister.

Regardless, the US government is clearly backing Jospeh and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called him, assuring him of US assistance.

Building A Freedomist Movement

Bill Collier July 7, 2021

Basically what we want to do is to gather, equip, mobilize, and support a countrywide network of Freedomist Teams and Groups in every US Congressional District, every US County above 5,000 people, every State, and within each of 29 regions of around 12 million people each.

We are over the target, and the target is the freedom-taking “woke” cancel-culture agenda!

These Teams and Groups will interact with key officials, track and report on their activities, and organize virtual and physical activities to make the cause of freedom and the ideals of freedom visible.

In 2009 the Freedomist destroyed Obama’s plan to take over the internet by mobilizing hundreds of bloggers and activists. This is our pattern: we want to make it a regular and more powerful occurrence wherein whoever thinks they can attack our country or our freedom knows we will raise the alarm and mobilize against them.

Having people ON THE GROUND to actually mobilize other people, to show up and make freedom visible, is a vital part of this plan. A virtual-to-local activist network of Freedomists can reach and mobilize over a hundred million people and make the cause and ideals of freedol visible to almost every US citizen.

As a private network powered by subscribers and sponsors, this network is not politicians or insiders, it is people reaching and supporting other people for the cause of freedom.

Today, the battle is CRT and the cancel culture woke authoritarians, and we must engage that fight in two ways.

First, we must gather Freedomists in every US Congressional District as soon as possible. Our present email lists reach 450,000 voters, our goal is to find people who want to build their own District and State groups, using our platform.

Second, we must organize these Freedomists into 29 Regional and 435 Congressional District Teams of 5 or more people who take charge of their area.

Third, we must mobilize these Teams, which become Groups of 120 or more, to take decisive online actions and engage elected officials, the media, and corporations.

Fourth, as these Groups subdivide into specialty Teams and Groups, entire Freedomist Communities of people will emerge until there are hundreds and thousands of Freedomists influencing tens of thousands of voters in every Congressional District. The strong areas will support the areas that are presently authoritarian strongholds. But the days where a freedom-loving American is afraid to come out for fear of the leftwing authoritarian reprisals must be ended.

There is more to it, like pushing self-reliance and mutual support, creating legal defense cooperatives, and establishing local Clubs which are organized as Clubs and allow for social activities.

The Freedomist Movement is, if possible, going to be a free-market supported movement with the backing of paid subscribers and sponsors who wish to reach our 450,000 free email subscribers and our 80,000 activists.

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Biden’s Actions Betray The Right Things He Says About America

Bill Collier July 7, 2021

For the most part, excepting the bit about us being a democracy, what Joe Biden said about how we define being American is essentially true. Here are his words:

“I’ve often said that America is the only nation in the world founded on an idea,” Biden said. “Every other nation in the world is founded on the basis of either that — geography or ethnicity or religion. You can define every — almost everyone else based on those characteristics, but you can’t define America. I defy you to tell me what constitutes an American. You can’t do it. We’re an incredibly diverse democracy.”

“But there is one thing that does define us a country: We were founded on an idea that, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [and women] are created equal…endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty, [and] the pursuit of Happiness,’” he added. “It sounds corny to Americans, as we learn this in grade school and high school. We’ve never fully lived up to it, but we’ve never, ever, ever walked away from it. Every generation opens that aperture a little bit wider.”

Basically, he is saying America isn’t based on geography, race, or religion. While our highest idea, that everyone is created with certain inalienable rights, among which life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, hasn’t been lived up to completely, we have never walked away from it. And, as he said, every generation opens that aperture a little bit wider.

President Biden is right.

His base of supporters, however, don’t see it that way. Critical race theory, which is based on totalitarian disregard for human dignity and human rights, is actually a deliberate walking away from this central idea. Radical, violent, irrational, and intolerant to the maximum, Biden’s rioting mobs which helped him into office after some serious electoral chicanery, are diametrically opposed to America’s great idea!

So how can President Biden rely on a base of supporters who don’t actually embrace this, like NPR who essentially denounced the Declaration of Independence as being “deeply flawed”? How can President Biden push CRT so hard when its central idea is quite literally totalitarianism?

(The chief aim of “critical theory”, of which CRT is a subset, like “Marxist Racism”, is the justification of totalitarianism.)

America as a union of commonwealths, small republics, and national peoples can become a diverse, pluralistic, free society of equals in terms of opportunity and treatment under the law where this great central idea reigns. But the growing authoritarian response, especially, but not exclusively, from the left and Democrats in this land to every real, histrionic, or outright fake (bogeyman) problem is moving us backwards significantly for the first time in our history.

If President Biden or others want to insinuate or claim that an American “nation” exists whose only idea is this, even though this is, broadly speaking, a great idea, then they don’t understand how national identity creates and enables a form of organic cohesiveness. This organic cohesiveness allows vast numbers of people to act in their own individual self-interest while serving a greater good and shared purpose without the need to rely on a top-down system of control.

Nationhood without strong shared beliefs (especially religious), values, and convictions just isn’t a thing. But in a country with a dwindling ‘Christian” majority, most of whom do not hold consistently to historic Christian orthodoxy, making being a Christian a condition of being an American is intolerance and untenable.

America is a country, not a nation. And that’s OK. If the great idea of this country is something like freedom based on virtue, liberty, and independence, then this is a good thing as well. It is the basis of a true “empire of liberty” that acts as a homeland and protector to multiple nations of people within.

I’m an American because I love this country, I embrace its big idea for freedom with liberty and justice for all, I reject bigotry, racism, and intolerance, and I respect the original spirit and intent of our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights as the highest ethical and moral law of this land.

America isn’t a nation and it isn’t a nationality! Therefore, any persons or national peoples within our borders who start with respecting this big idea would fit in with and enhance this country.

There was a time when the American nation was almost exclusively Christian in character and beliefs, but never was it based solely or mostly on ancestry. Times changed and America has lost a national character based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and values to become this diverse union where citizenship and adoption of our great idea was all that made you an American.

Whether for good or ill, America is a country without a distinct national identity in the sense of the classical, ancient concept of nationhood. We are a country, not a nation, but a country whose core identity is supposed to be freedom with liberty and justice for all.

While for the most part President Biden said the right things, his reliance on a radical base who defy those things and his policies that undermine those things make his words as hollow as those who may have signed the Declaration of Independence while owning slaves.

NEA Solidifies Public “Education” As Blatant Authoritarianism

Bill Collier July 6, 2021

Doubling down on the Marxist-based totalitarianism of “critical theory”, in this case “critical race theory” (also known as “white people are morally inferior and so is freedom” theory), the NEA wants all children indoctrinated with Marxism. This radical totalitarian front group enjoys the support of most public teachers and therefore represents the true nature of what is being done in these government-run radicalization centers called schools.

Cis white boys will be mercilessly bullied by teachers to accept their moral inferiority and do penance by voting Democrat when they get old enough and, also, by fully participating in the whole rainbow of sexual activity.

Critical race theory is race-based Marxism that aims at cultural genocide of so-called “whiteness”, teaches children they are either demonic offspring of oppressors or oppressed little angels who can do no wrong and who the white kids owe something to. The “solution” to the “problems” is, of course, totalitarianism.

The National Education Association represents 3 million public teachers, most of whom embrace the radical authoritarianism of this front group. The teaching profession has devolved into a “revolutionary” position from which to brainwash future voters to support America’s authoritarians, the Democratic Party.

Critical race theory, like the whole rainbow fascism agenda, is basically also child abuse. For the “oppressed” it renders them powerless victim and for the “oppressor”, well, their only path to some limited form of rehabilitation is to renounce themselves and enthusiastically vote Democrat to prove their evolution.

(There is no “white genocide”, the real aim is to demonize “whiteness”, associate freedom values with whiteness, then banish freedom for all, white or other, in the name of “racial justice”, but for the purpose of creating an authoritarian state.)

The National Education Association is euphemism for the National Enforcers of Authoritarianism, which is all this un-American, anti-freedom organization has devolved into. Most public teachers either love and embrace this totalitarianism and will it upon children or they go along for fear of losing their jobs.

This Marxist front group also went on in its recent Representative Assembly to attack heterosexuality and even capitalism, both of which it wants to banish from schools as much as Democrats want them outlawed.

There’s no telling what will happen if, in 10 years, little Johnny dares to say he only likes girls and doesn’t want to watch the naked drag show at the school assembly.

Letting your children attend schools run by NEA thugs is opening them up to serious psychological damage.

Taliban Resurgent As US Leaves

Bill Collier July 6, 2021

After the deaths of over 100,000 people, costing the US over $2 trillion, America’s two decade “war on terror” has resolved little and achieved virtually nothing. Fighting for the freedom of people who refuse to fight for themselves has never been a fruitful proposition.

In Afghanistan, the US has never enjoyed popular support for its “nation-building” mission and the Afghan people seem more desirous of Islamic extremist rule than anything approaching freedom. Contrary to the claims of politicians, freedom isn’t sought universally.

As the US has exited the scene, the Afghanistan government is crumbling and the Taliban are marching in, seizing the very weapons meant to fight against them. Regardless of peace talks, it is probable the Taliban will be back in Kabul, back in charge, in a matters of weeks or months. The reset to the previous status-quo may even see a rebirth of Afghanistan as the nexus and safe-haven for Islamic terrorism.

Pictured above, Kabul, target of the Taliban

But aside from the effort to punish Al Qaeda for the attack on 911, the last almost 20 years fighting a “war on terror” have caused some 15,000 US deaths (military and contractors), over 50,000 were injured, but tens of thousands more suffer psychological trauma, such as PTSD, from the failed conflicts. The damage to American prestige and our economy had been immense.

Another casualty has been civil liberty, thanks to The Patriot Act, by which illegal spying Americans and serious undermining of our values for freedom has occurred. Presently, as the failure of a “war on terror” is being whitewashed, the full power of apparatus erected to fight that war is being turned on Americans at home by a Biden administration who deems anyone who is woke to their authoritarianism as a potential domestic terrorist.

As the Taliban marches toward Kabul in US vehicles, they are bound to make ISIS look trifling and soon enough some US politicians looking to burnish their street cred will begin banging the drums of “nation building” again in Afghanistan.

Freedomist Fires NPR, Demands They Disassociate From Declaration of Independence

Bill Collier July 6, 2021

(Satitre)- While many were stunned by publicly-funded NPR’s woke cancel culture renouncement of the Declaration of Independence, the Freedomist was “thisclose” to issuing our own demands to fire NPR from ever associating with the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Publisher Bill Collier said of this firing, “Every July 4th the NPR host would read the Declaration of Independence on air and every year it was just grating on us to know these people were not the sort who should be allowed to read such an ennobling document whose sentiments they stand against so strongly.”

The reading was always done in such a tone that one could clearly tell it was never meant and just never jibed with the true ideology that animates the people who run NPR: a blatant hatred for their fellow humankind on the basis of a woke cancel culture authoritarianism.

Collier addded that, “this year it was our intention to finally put an end to this blatant hypocrisy, the idea of them reading out this document just seemed like dishonorable to the original spirit and intent, a spirit and intent that transcends the writers themselves.”

Also, the Freedomist wishes it to be known that, while NPR quit their association with such principles as inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and are openly embracing their woke cancel culture authoritarianism, it remains true they were fired. As Publisher Bill Collier stated, “They knew our official announcement was eminent and the paperwork was already sealed, they announced they quit before we could make their firing official, but, in the end, they were fired.”

As to life, they are for killing the unborn right up to the moment of birth and, paradoxically, preserving the lives of the worst murderers, whose henious deeds don’t match those of the unborn child who might be an inconvenience to its mother, which, evidently, is a crime worse than murder.

As to liberty, this one always draws a guffaw from the NPR crowd whose version of “liberty” is akin to “freedom through slavery”, or something like that.

Finally, as it relates to happiness, these people are too angry at ghosts and bogeyman to ever be happy and, what is more, they want everyone else to also be miserable with them.

NPR were also fired from associating with the Bill of Rights whose sentiments are as far removed from their woke cancel culture authoritarianism as heaven is from hell.

Their lame “justifications” for quitting, when they were fired, further reveal the vapidness of their intellect and the depravity of their moral character. The truth is, authoritarianism has no place being associated with the founding principles of freedom which built this country and which we still strive ever more perfectly to actualize.

The fact some woke authoritarians cannot see this and wish to deconstruct our past in order to destroy our future, and the fact public money supports these people, is another matter altogether. But for now we are at least relieved some woke authoritarian loon won’t be pretending their totalitarian ideology is in any way connected to our Declaration of Independence by reading from it in some simpy little tone.

We end with these two words: defund NPR.

Glorifying Evil: Why do we call the SS “elite”?

Bill Collier July 5, 2021

The glorification of the Nazi SS troops, who fought in their own so-called “elite” units alongside the Heer, is terribly disconnected from the reality of what they stood for and were fighting to establish. In short, lionizing such units obscures the their true nature and intentions, which makes it more likely our future will see other versions thereof but only with different victims and different privileged classes or groups.

The goal of the SS was to create and maintain an absolute top-down dictatorship, to build a planned economy, to eliminate Christianity, and to exterminate or enslave all races save the fictional Aryan race. Unlike Wehrmacht soldiers and sailors, who may have not been as deeply knowledgeable of the true nature of the racist, totalitarian, Nazi slave state’s true nature, the SS knew full well and embraced that with gusto.

Every individual case is different, but the organizers and leaders of the SS combat units were, to put it simply, monsters of the worst kind. It therefore becomes immoral to extol this band of barbaric thugs as elite units. True, they were tougher fighters, but their unit tactics emphasized bravery and willingness to die over intelligence and efficiency. SS troops knew how to kill and how to die, but they weren’t necessarily the most efficient fighters: they wasted manpower and equipment in foolish attacks or suicidal defenses of no strategic value.

Depictions of the Germans in World War Two through living history actually tend to be more judicious in how they treat this. The goal is to show people something we must never forget.

It is true that German kit and combat gear was sharp and remains basically sharp today. I own many items, both original and reproduction, from WW2 and before, as well as modern, and in fact actually wear parts of these outfits, without any insignia of any kind, as “civilian” clothes. But sharp kit, which, again, I myself have no compunction repurposing, cannot and mustn’t be allowed to detract from the true nature of America’s World War Two foe.

My own love of military style clothing and accessories, from many nations and periods, and my love of living history, wherein I may depict an American, German, or other combat soldiers, doesn’t in any way distract me from the fact the Germans in WW2, especially the SS, were engaged in a war of extermination and were pursuing absolute dictatorship.

For some, even wearing a reproduction of this kit, even without the insignia, seems to glorify the “bad guys.” I don’t agree, I find this rather strict interpretation of these things overbearing, but I definitely prefer this to any attitude that says the SS were “elite” and not simply genocidal thugs.

Lionizing the SS in particular is morally repugnant to decent people who know what this organization of in-bred psycho thugs stood for. They are not elite, they are barbarians, criminals, and the worst kind of humans.

If we do not remind ourselves of what was done in history and what the beliefs of the bad actors were, we will eventually see some version of the SS emerge again to haunt our future.