Publisher Bill Collier

Racism and America Never Matched

Bill Collier September 4, 2022

A post from September 3, 2016

TLDR: We must guard our own hearts against hatred just because the left use certain nationalities, groups, and persuasions to champion the authoritarian aims and as a foil to divide us.

THE ALT-RIGHT AND THE END OF AMERICA

A brief speech on our possible future by William Collier (to be read as a speech and not like a normal article.)

Ladies and gentlemen, the hour is late if you want to save the American political union. I feel that, as I have seen so much of what is happening now way back in 1982, I must warn you and I must show you that, if we who value a color-blind society rooted in Christian virtue are to escape and preserve ourselves from the crisis to come, we must consider what I saw as the path of refuge back then- the deliberate embracing of a new nationality defined by Christian ideals and a covenant bond without reference to race or even statehood.

But if you wish to save this Union you must also consider the same path, a new intentional ethnicity as it were, as a defender of the true meaning of America and the ideals upon which she was founded but which we have yet to achieve.

In 1982 if I told you that throughout parts of America a doctrine of white identity as the basis of citizenship would once again lead to the rise of a confederacy, you would have said I was nuts. And people did. But what I saw as a fictional scenario that sets up the end of America, the rise of racialism and racism, is fast becoming a real life scenario. With the rise of the alt-right movement we are seeing the potential demise of the American political union, but it’s NOT the fault of the alt-right.

The alt-right movement agrees on one point- that white identity deserves the same political organization as all the other racially defined groups. They believe that races are inherently different and unequal. They believe that the white identity, especially Anglo-Saxon identity, is more associated with America than any other racial identity.

When the left says America was a racist nation which favored white people, the alt-right says “so what, so do Arab nations and so does the Jewish state favor their race and religion.” Indeed, it is argued, the argument that Israel must be preserved as a distinctly Jewish state has been accepted by many and, so the logic runs, why wouldn’t the natural progeny of the Founders of the American state want to preserve the Anglo-Saxon and Christian identity and nature of their state?

America was and should remain an idea. But it should be a distinct idea. And to be an American one ought to demonstrate adherence to that idea. This naturally includes the core beliefs and values which made America what it was, as outlined, perhaps, by Alexis D’Tocquiville. To become American ought to be a conversion of ideology and values which must be confirmed in a covenant bond with other Americans.

But, the alt-right correctly conclude, being an American means nothing at all. There is neither an identity based on common ancestry nor conscious conversion to a faith or ideology which define America. And so the left have made America mean nothing and a nation based on nothing disappears. Their hypocrisy on the matter of identity politics has destroyed all of their moral high ground.

In 1982 I saw a future in which America continued to betray its faith and ideals, thus opening the door to dissolution and the rise of alternative forms of self identity. The alt-right is a manifestation of that.

It would be intellectually cheap to say they are racists. To say this would be to say that groups and movements based on the perceived shared interests of blacks or Jews or Hispanics were racist. The idea that white people could decide they had interests common only among themselves is completely defensible compared to other racially defined groups who make the same claims. Identity politics is the norm with all save white groups in America and with most peoples and nations around the world. It is the left which has argued over and over for identity politics based on race, albeit only selectively and for their political advantage. But you cannot argue identity politics for one group and not other groups.

In 1982 I saw a future new nation not based on race, but ideals and values. It is intentionally established as America and many other nations and states come apart and Western Civilization itself starts to become unravelled.

I saw a new and intentionally created national people among whom membership was recognized after being confirmed to be in covenant with that nation as a nation of people whose God is the Lord. Among this national people and their communities, people consciously chose their new non-racial ethnicity over all other natural identities and considered all their fellow nationals their peers, without distinction by ancestry or skin color. The ideals and covenant bound them, but to accept these ideals and follow them was a prerequisite to attaining standing by merit.

In my fictional story from 1982, identity politics takes root and America’s largest ethnic group, the white ethnicity, enters the fray and asserts its own collective rights and and interests. This sets the stage for the recreation of a race-based state that takes over parts of the old south.

Racism, the belief that race is real and your race is superior, follows racialism, which is merely the belief that races exist and have their own self-interest. The efforts by the left to use racialism (identity politics) for coalition building have come to a point in the real world where the premises of racialism, which say black or Hispanic or Jewish people have their own self-interest separate from the white race (which is demonized), are now being embraced by whites who say they also have their own self-interest as a racial community which is separate from those races.

Tired of being the bogeyman and tired of every culture being celebrated while theirs is demeaned, for many whites, racial consciousness grows and and more whites begin to embrace racialism in their own race’s self-interest, which leads eventually to racism.

The premise that ideals and culture, values and a way of life, which transcend bloodlines and race, because there is ONLY one human race, is defeated because the very notion that any nation or state would afford standing on the basis of actual adherence to its ideals is denied. Through identity politics among only “minorities” and efforts to redefine America in a way that betrays the values of, for instance, the Bill of Rights, the white person in America is left with only a racial identity as a vehicle for defending a way of life they rightly know is threatened.

It is a dangerous road. But, sociologically speaking, it makes sense.

I reject it.

I reject race. I reject the idea of race. But as a white person, at least that’s how the left defines me, I am keenly aware of the pull to cling to my “group” and protect its existence and honor. Even I, who have always rejected race and who envision a new nation defined by its faith and values and not by bloodlines, have sensed a growing awareness of a white identity. It is not a happy feeling. Not that I bear shame for my ancestry, I am proud of my ancestry, but because I believe that racialism and racism are dangerous to human Civilization and contrary to God’s laws.

The idea that we can be defined by anything but our merit or that we would associate on the basis other than shared values and standards makes us savage beasts. The left have cooked this brew and we will all be forced to eat it.

If my prophetically inspirational story proves true, as ever more it has (and I am sad to see that), then the only way for many to escape this mess will be to claim and adopt a new intentional ethnicity based not on race or biology or even statehood but, rather, covenant bonds. In America, according to my story, people will adopt this new intentional ethnicity (and so will people around the world), because they reject racialism and racism and yet also because they embrace covenant as the basis of ethnic union and identity, covenant that is rooted in shared faith and values, shared ideals, and and a shared way of life that are explicitly defined. (Again, if my prophetically inspirational story turns out to be more truth than fiction.)

When you remove covenant bonds based on these things as the basis of a nation, then all you are left with is racialism and racism on one hand or ideological dogmatism on the other hand. In trying to destroy America’s covenant values so that they can create a new leftist ideological basis for a new America, the left has had to use identity politics. But, too late, they have destroyed the foundation before they could establish their new ideology, leaving only identity politics to fill the void.

I do not blame the alt-right. Their emergence is inevitable and was only made possible by the cultural arson inflicted on America by the left, and by their insistence that they could encourage identity politics among only their targeted groups while denying that white people even had any right to return the favor in kind.

The America which I saw flying to pieces in my 1982 vision is fast emerging today. The battle is on and yet none of the defenders of our Christian ideals, which alone hold hope for our Union, have come forward to join the fray. The end could very well be what I saw then, and it will not go well for anyone who is not prepared to weather the storm.

UPDATE SEP 3, 2022

The “alt-right” may have seened to fade, though to the left this bogeyman is the caricature of everyone they disagree with. But I feel strongly the backlash to white guilt, wokism, CRT, the alt-gendered anticulture, and the raging authoritarian left will awaken this again, perhaos in a more powerful way.

The issue is not for Freedomists, Bill of Rights Americans, to avoid racism or racialism so we don’t become an easy target for a media lynching. The issue is for us to not do that because it is morally reprehensible and is an abomination to God, every bit as foul as the child grooming garbage being pushed by fake teachers who are really subversive political hacks in the employ (not formal, de facto) of the Democratic Party machine.

Every human being regardless of ancestry, race, gender, creed, religion, citizenship status, and whatever pursuasion owns and ought to respect liberty as we find it in the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights! Every. Singe. One.

We must believe this, insist on this, and defend this and though the leftwing neomarxist corpostaters won’t hesitate to blood libel us, we will press on knowing that bigotry and intolerance are truly anathema to any Freedomist.

My Heart Dogs

Bill Collier September 3, 2022

HOW MY ONE TRUE LOVE, DORA, GOT ME NOT ONE BUT TWO HEART DOGS

They say you only get one heart dog. Fortunately, I’ve been blessed with two heart dogs; Shekel Sr and Shekel Jr. When Shekel Sr passed, he was only known as Shekel back then, friends conspired to get me anothet Border Collie, this time a puppy, so I wouldn’t have to be Shekeless…

Shekel Jr took time for me to get close to. I loved him at first site, but not the way I did Shekel Sr. Shekel Sr was, from the instant we got him, just too precious. He had come from 3 owners and lots of abuse and was in many ways a damaged dog.

And I didn’t even want him.

Dora, my wife who is now in memory care, insisted we get a dog. Hold on to the thought about memory care, it is part of our story.

Not long before she found this border collie they called “Spark Plug” at the local Humane Society that she located online we were in Israel. Dora liked the money there, called the New Shekel, and decided whatever dog she got, and she wanted a boy dog, we would call him Shekel.

When we returned I told her if she got a dog I was not in any way responsible. I’d be nice to the dog, but he would be her problem all the way around, including feeding and walking. So she finds “Spark Plug” and we go to see him. We had seen another dog before, but he wasn’t the one as someone else snagged him before we could get our landlord’s permission sorted, which you need to adopt a dog when you rent.

I was warned to the dog, but Dora just adored him. They said he was a defeated dog and wouldn’t really interact with people. He was a biting hazard and would take lots of tlc.

Now at the time we didn’t know Dora was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s at only 50 years old (stared in 2015, we are at 2017 in our story). She was 52 in the year 2017. What the doctors had said was she was suffering catastrophic anxiety and generalized anxiety.

Other than some short term memory loss and her anxiety, Dora was cognitively active and alert, she could still cook and stay at home by herself and be just find. She had lots of energy and felt that a dog, especially one that needed a lot of tlc and would be a challenge, would give her something today and help her anxiety.

Or that’s what she told me to practically break my arm convincing me she needed a dog and even though I didn’t want one, it was necessary for her well-being.

Obviously I couldn’t say no.

Spark Plug came to this visiting room and at first looked defeated and wouldn’t interact, but slowly he sauntered over to Dora and suddenly pushed up against her, looked her in the eyes, and was like, “you’re my person, now let’s go home.”

He also pressed against me and I pet him. I tried desperately not to fall in love, but my heart went out to him.

After all the paperwork and etcetera we came to pick up our new dog, who Dora immediately renamed Shekel, per her decision in Israel.

I don’t know what happened or how or why, but when we took that boy, he had my heart lock, stock, and barrel. Before we even got home, he was “my baby” and I knew he was my first and then only ever true doggy love.

He did help Dora…and me. When I got stressed or angry, Shekel would pounce on my and put me in timeout until he sensed I was better and then he would let me move. I have to say, aftdr 4 years of him doing this I rarely get as angry or stresseful as I used to before he came along, so his rehabilitation of me was permanent.

Fast forward to February, 2021, and Dora is in the hospital after what seemed like a psychotic break. The past year prior was hell and we couldn’t get a diagnosis or medication, but Dora’s “anxiety” was almost 24/7, and she wasn’t her normal self. She was not nice to me, either, and yet Shekel would often calm her and shorten her episodes. She was never mean to Shekel.

She ended up in Pittsburgh at UPMC where they ran many tests. I was there staying with Shekel at a dog-friendly hotel. These were such dark times and had been for a year but that boy, my Shekel, softened the pain and was just always there for me.

One day, somehow, Dora called me from the hospital. By then we had for the terrible news of her diagnosis lf Alzheimer’s and that it was fairly advanced with an unusual amount of brain atrophy.

Somehow this was an extremely clear day for Dora.

She tells me how much she loves me. She tells me she understands what’s coming and for me to always tell her story and to be brave and to use this to show people the love of Jesus. Sbe says she has lived a happy life with me and is content and that if Jesus told her she would have to get tbis terrible disease in order for Him to save one soul, she would choose this path so I needed to make this count for her.

Then she says, “I have a confession to make though. I didn’t insist on getting Shekel for me. I didn’t need a dog, though I do love him.” (The hospital says she about Shekel all the time)

She goes on, “Shekel is YOUR dog, Bill, I got him just for you. I knew when I saw him, you needed him and he needed you.”

Now fast forward to August 13, 2021.

Dora is on medication and doesn’t have near the anxiety, but she can no longer have such conversations and she can’t walk Shekel alone. At this time have a caregiver who comes every day for 8 hours and she cooks for Dora, and me, cleans, and also walks the dog with Dora.

Today my boy is sick and I get the terrible news I need to come in and say goodbye.

As this is unfolding a friend instinctively knows that for my wife and me, another Shekel needs to be found and brought to us asap.

He shows me pictures of dogs he found and I then take them and show them to Shekel and ask for his approval that another Shekel comes to us. Shekel actually paws one picture, the rest he ignored, and gives me a “nose kiss”, as if to say, “this one will do, Daddy.”

We are with him until just seconds before the second needle. In light of Dora’s condition, it was felt if Shekel passed in front of her she might have a terrible breakdown. I am still sad I wasn’t there right at the very end, though it had to be this way for Dora. If she was still “there” she certainly would have stayed right to the end. She loved that pup.

Dora couldn’t register he was gone. She thought he took a nap and we’d be back for him. She didn’t understand why I was crying.

What do you know, between my friend who found the dog and another who was close enough to the area to get him and drive 3 hours to my house, the very next day Shekel Jr arrived, practically a puppy version of Shekel Sr!

(I’m not sure the Shekel Jr I got is the one in the picture, my friend Jean picked him from 3 choices based on his behavior, which was a good choice. But without Shekel Sr choosing the picture he did we would have gone to a different place, so he did choose Shekel Jr in my mind.)

Dora loved him and somehow to her she was Shekel turned back to being a puppy. She had always said she wished we could have had Shekel as a pup and now, here “he” was, as a pup!

I loved the boy and his presence helped Dora a lot. I’m wondering if somebody in her spirit Dora had pulled the same stunt to once again get me a Shekel.

Chosen by his adopted doggy dad, Shekel was here and he was now my doggy son.

In October of last year, after not being able to find more than one person to help with home care, and as her condition had worsened, my beloved wife had to be taken to memory care full time, though I still hoped it was just temporary.

That’s when my little boy became my second heart dog.

He knew mommy was gone and it was just him and his daddy, so he poured on the affection and he started putting me in timeout, just like Shekel Sr did.

I see Dora at least three days a week. She always asks about her “Shekel”, and to her, he is just reborn as a puppy. She has a stuffed animal version of Shekel Sr, so do I, but to her Shekel Sr and Jr are the same dog. The point being she never had the trauma of losing Shekel Sr thanks to my friends’ fast and efficient actions.

But it was that first lonely night without Dora I knew I had my second heart dog.

I was upstairs and Shekel Jr’s crate where he sleeps (and, yes, he loves his crate) was downstairs. I was obviously quite depressed and heartbroken, at times I still am. Suddenly he starts crying and barking and making a big fuss.

I go downstairs and open his crate and he instantly jumps out and jumps on me to put me in timeout. He nuzzles my face and pushes against me and gives kisses. I’m a blathering mess, releasing my grief but happy to have my boy, and then I suddenly feel for him exactly as I did for his adopted dog daddy.

At that moment I can’t thank Dora enough who even as she knew instinctively what she didn’t tell me back in 2017, that she knew and sensed she couldn’t be with me, like she had been, for much longer and that I just needed a heart dog of my own. Without her doing that, I wouldn’t have had either Shekel Sr or Shekel Jr.

And so thanks to the love of my life and wife of my youth, I have now had two wonderful heart dogs to help me be a better human.

Pictured: Dora with Shekel Sr back in 2017 and my boy Shekel Jr taken in August 2022.

It’s NOT Whataboutism To Criticize An Imbalanced Legal Scale

Bill Collier August 10, 2022

By Bill Collier

It’s not whataboutism to cite the fact the DOJ comes down heavy and hard on the slightest things Republicans may do wrong and ignores the gross and out in the open misdeeds of Democrats. The claim is not that anyone is above the law, the claim is that the DOJ gags at a gnat to prosecute and destroy Republicans while swallowing the camel of massive misdeeds by Democrats. It is an uneven and crooked balance.

Anyone claiming “Trump isn’t above the law” and then saying that us citing how major Democrats like Clinton get a pass is “whataboutism” is not an honest broker and is not arguing in good faith. They know full well that criticism of a legal system that makes the misdeeds of some carry a far higher weight than the misdeeds of others is injustice.

These same people, rightly I think, question how crimes are prosecuted against the poor or minorities versus how they are not prosecuted for the rich or majority ethnicity. To gag at a gnat to destroy people on one side while swallowing a camel on the other side is injustice.

If you don’t think it matters that Hillary got off without consequences, or an FBI raid, for the very same thing the partisan FBI allegedly raided Trump for after spending YEARS falsely and illegally getting warrants to spy on him and destroy anyone associated with him, then you are inept or dishonorable or both.

If you don’t think the burying of Epstein clients and the lack of prosecution against them by the same DOJ that is trying to jail Steve Bannon for a process crime matters, then you are not arguing at all in good faith.

If you think the DOJ should not be investigating Hunter and Joe Biden to either prosecute or clear them of serious allegations based on publicly known and verified evidence, while they try to destroy Trump, matters, then you have no moral compass.

Again, criticizing the DOJ for gagging at a gnat to prosecute Republicans and destroy them through lawfare while ignoring the camel-sized misdeeds of Democrats is not whataboutism, it is a well established critique of any legal system.

Trump is not above the law and if he broke the law the consequences are his. But if Trump is prosecuted to radical maximum extremes for a relatively minor crime while his political opponents, who had to sign off on this, are not even investigated, than we can consider this to be an injustice.

As for planting evidence: the FBI has already been proven by publicly known facts to have manufactured evidence and claims against Trump which it knew to be false. So we cannot and will not trust an organization that has proven itself to be more like the armed wing of the Democratic Party than a law enforcement agency.

The problem here now is twofold: if Trump did a misdeed worthy of prosecution half the country has a very good reason to suspect evidence was planted or manipulated and many good reasons to argue that this is a political witch hunt. This is especially true when considering the scales of justice are weighted against one side in favor of the other. We have a DOJ who prosecutes to the extreme letter of the law anyone they don’t like while ignoring and covering up any misdeeds done by people they do like.

ON AMERICA’S TRUE MANIFEST DESTINY AND WHY I LOVE MY COUNTRY

Bill Collier April 17, 2022

By Bill Collier, Publisher- TLDR: Loving America Means Loving Our TRUE Manifest Destiny As a Free and Pluralistic Society of Equals and An Empire of Liberty and Justice For ALL

I love my country. If America ever needs me, I am there. Period. This country has given me far more than I could ever give back, and that includes my life. I meant it in 1987 when I donned a military uniform and I mean it now and always will.

Every country has its flaws and I don’t cotton to the idea America is objectively superior to every other country, but for me, America is the greatest country in the history of the world and is the best country for me. I will defend her always and until my last breath.

America has not always been America to EVERYONE.

Over the years we have been more and more inclusive and we have yet to fulfill our potential for every person, national people, or even community in this land. But the arc of our history has bent every more toward including everyone in this dream of true freedom surrounded by opportunity and fairness so that no person regardless of anything is ever left behind in our progress.

This work is ongoing and is being threatened by forces that come from a place of hatred, anger, and authoritarian control. The hazards to our true manifest destiny come from left and right, and even the middle, as a grievance culture, cancel culture, and jingoism compete as dark alternatives. We are seeing people look to the past to both condemn the future and their fellow Americans who weren’t alive as well as others who see in the past some idealized reality they think they can return to.

I look to the future, being informed by the past, good and bad, without using it to condemn or idolizing it to stop progress. I crave to see a time when our true manifest destiny as an empire of liberty and justice for all, an empire that protects and nurtures a totally free and pluralistic society of equals without favor or discrimination, is achieved and will always work toward that future, a goal which we have never fulfilled.

This is in fact the manifest destiny of America as a free and pluralistic commonwealth of multiple nations of people and totally sovereign persons within a federal union of free republics and local consensual democracies. This FUTURE is what makes me feel so proud of my country. I take this as an a priori article of faith that this land and its many peoples and sovereign individuals has a true manifest destiny to become an empire of liberty and justice for all.

To clarify, the “sovereign citizen” movement is a wacky, often jingoistic, archaic, and pathetic misrepresentation of what it means to be a sovereign individual in this world.

I am speaking to the future instead of getting lost and mired in the past. When we fulfill our manifest destiny to a substantial degree, then we can look back more dispassionately on the past and be more frank and honest. I do not ask you to idolize our past any more than you should use the failures of the past to condemn people or our country today. I ask you to love our future based on striving toward the goals of our manifest destiny.

As I see it, I know of no other country has the ideational framework, natural resources, or heritage and diversity of peoples that could create a future such as America could fulfill. That doesn’t mean I am right, but I suspect I am right.

Until everyone in this land almost always feels and experiences this manifest destiny, until THAT America of our IDEALS is America to EVERYONE almost all the time and in every place, then looking back is not a guide to the future but a way to keep us chained to the past. We must replace recriminations with aspirations. We must replace blame for the past with responsibility for the future.

The fact so few really understand and then also embrace and work toward this noble manifest destiny makes me grieve for my country.

Regardless of that, I love America, my country, and will always stand for her, for our flag, and for a more glorious future which will advance the cause of human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing like no empire in the past has yet done. This is my hope and it is a hope not limited by the past or present.

If perchance this future never arrives and if in future centuries America is no more, it will not be said that Bill Collier did anything other than fight for that future out of love for this country and its many peoples.

If all the national peoples and every free and sovereign person as well as every resident of every local community as a consensual democracy were to embrace this vision for our land then they would all, regardless of how they got here and even if they came illegally, be true Americans worthy of this manifest destiny and worthy of being treated as my equal and my countrymen.

But if even the “legal” citizens, by birth or naturalization, do not embrace such a vision for our country, then in truth they are no better than than the “illegals” they so staunchly fear will overwhelm this land and be used to turn it into something far worse than it has ever been. By rejecting or just neglecting this vision, these legal citizens are as much a hazard to our country’s long-term survival as anyone wants to claim the illegal migrants are.

We need people who love America and that really means loving our manifest destiny and as for me, anyone, regardless of legal status, who embraces this becomes my ally and everyone who rejects this is at least my political opponent, regardless of their Party or citizenship status.

How The US Could Counter Putin

Bill Collier March 13, 2022

William Collier- Regardless of HOW and WHY we, the US, got to this place of Russian revanchism, which was certainly goaded on by the would-be globalist hegemonic ruling class of the West, the situation now is that Russsia has become a hazard to our country and its allies. We can leave for future articles how we the freedom-loving masses ought to deal with our own corrupt ruling class who are to blame for this and focus for now on how we, as the US, might contend with the Putinistas, basically Putin and the oligarchs who support him.

We can start with the premise that Putin’s strength comes from a 60% to 70% approval among the Russian people because, basically, although it’s never quite as simple as this, he is viewed as a strong man and Russians, in the main, but not all Russians, adore the strong and despise the weak. There may be many reasons for this, but in general, when a leader is seen as strong they enjoy support, even if in character and in how they treat the Russian people, they are corrupt and evil.

This may SOMEWHAT be shifting as more and more Russians do not cotton to such thinking, but among most, among at least 60% if polling is accurate, it still holds that “strong is good and weak is bad.”

Keep this in mind.

Next, let’s consider three other factors: Russia has a basically under-developed and corrupt economic system, Russia is essentially a gas station, and the only real power Russia has is their nuclear arms.

So now we have four key things: Russians support the strong and hate the weak, Russia has an underdeveloped economy due to massive corruption, Russia’s only economic asset is gas and oil, and the only real military strength they have is nuclear arms.

The Putinistas are authoritarian and corrupt. While they cater to the Russian nationalist sentiment and some rightly see them as a counter to the West’s vision of a globalist corporate-government hegemony that is directly against nationalist sovereignty, the Putinistas are mostly for themselves first. Perhaps in Putin’s mind he and his cronies ARE the living embodiment of Russia, but the net effect is all wealth and power centers on Moscow and to hell with everyone else.

Add to all this that we, as in the US, have other fish to fry, as it were. We face threats in many quartets.

Internally we have this corporate-led assault on our history and way of life through the cancel-culture wokatariate and their rather intolerant behavior toward anyone who refuses to ditch their Judeo-Christian values for the new alt-gendered fantasy they call progress. On the other hand we have a reactionary core who, in response to this, are embracing things like identitarianism and either racial separatism or racial supremacism, and this could grow.

But externally we have threats coming from places like Iran and China, North Korea, Pakistan, Cuba, and Venezuela, among others.

Thankfully, at this time, our internal and external threats haven’t unified. The true powers, as in the actual shot-callers behind each of these threats, are as much against each other as they may be a threat to the people of the United States of America.

With all this in mind, how do we, as in the US, counter Putin and his cronies?

At the basic level we have to seek ways, in every possible arena, to make him and his cronies look weak and powerless. His chosen arena is Ukraine and while countering him there may be important, as we analyze all the arenas Russia must operate in we will find many opportunities to out Putin on his back foot.

First, there is the more obvious fact Russia depends on energy exportation. Second, there are Russian goals in Syria whose regime Putin props up. Third, there is the Russian defense industry which exports weapons all over the world. Fourth, there are Russian territories claimed by Japan and China. Fifth, there are Russian economic and investment schemes in Africa.

All these vulnerabilities present opportunities to bring pain to bear and make Putin look weak.

In Syria, for instance, and with Iran as her ally, Russia has severe disadvantages if we care to exploit them. The US can shut Iran off from all exports and imports via the sea. The US can arm anti-Assad forces in Syria while Russia cannot bring seaborn reinforcements as long as the war in Ukraine is happening. These moves would potentially force the Russians out of Syria and would demonstrate how Russia could do nothing to help their ally Iran.

As for Ukraine itself, efforts to continue to supply Ukraine with anti-air and anti-armor weapons and munitions should continue apace, albeit through many points and not via massive convoys the Russians can bomb. The erosion of Russian military might in Ukraine plays into a narrative that Putin is weak.

Now let’s consider all the places where Russia is vulnerable internally and use our covert means to foment trouble on every periphery. Russia has a substantial and growing, and disaffected, Muslim minority, some of whom may feel strongly that Russia is their foe. Russia has cordial relations with the Central Asian countries, this is something we ought to be undermining.

We can support the opposition in Belarus and Khazajstan, for instance, and foment unrest at a time when Russia cannot spare forces to put them down.

Instead of thinking holistically about a global response on Russia’s periphery, the present US administration, whose policies in line with past Presidents have goaded the Russians into attacking Ukraine, are thinking in a very limited and one-dimensional way. They are actually perpetuating the mythos of Putin as a strong man who they are powerless to stop because it might “escalate” things. Having goaded the Russians we are now saying we don’t want to escalate things further with them lest they unleash nuclear holocaust.

It would have been better to counsel the Ukrainians to pursue strong neutrality, to cool their ambitions to join the EU and NATO, and to actually invest in a credible air defense, which they neglected up until now. As for whether or not the US actually operates or funds biolabs and whether or not they are former Soviet labs or present-day bioweapons programs, the activities of the US, under Fauci’s management, in these things remains suspect.

But, be that as it may, the mythos of Russia as being 10 feet tall and Putin being beyond our reach stems from the fact we are playing in his sandbox and on his terms instead of taking a holistic approach. Goading the Russians into a war that is spiraling out of control was bad policy, but now that we have, the question is, “should we retreat and let Putin be the strong man or should we take the battle into arenas where he is helpless?”

Undermining Putin’s standing as a strong man is the easiest way to depict him as weak and undermine his support among his people but, most importantly, his fellow oligarchs.

The fact the US is not taking a holistic view of limiting Putin’s power and is not encouraging peace in Ukraine based on neutrality may prove that the people pulling the levers of power in Washington today aren’t really doing so in the interest of the American people.

Politics Drives Medical “Science”

Bill Collier March 11, 2022

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How ONE man, a certain Andrew Hill, single-handedly torpedoed serious medical science in service of a political agenda. Why are medical scientists and medical professionals being pushed so hard to ditch the science and alter the evidence and facts? The answer is, we propose, a wonton and deliberate effort to EXPLOIT a man-made crisis in order to gain power and wealth. Suppressing the science is all about not treating a known disease, one probably man-made with the collusion of official persons, because the regimen sought by officials, namely lockdowns and mandates, is more useful than simply treating and curing people.

To be clear- the ruling class, through their organs of control, have pushed an agenda that is as anti-science as it is anti-freedom, and the result is not only needless deaths due to the disease, but needless deaths caused by the lockdowns and disruptions of health care and basic services they caused, Basically, human lives were sacrificed in a bid to further erode human freedom and transfer more productive wealth to unproductive legacy billionaires.

This is a crime against humanity in which dozens, or at most hundreds, of powerful people have betrayed billions of people.

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The Root Cause of The Demise of Our Culture: It’s NOT What You Think!

Bill Collier November 13, 2021

Bill Collier, Publisher- What is the real cause of the demise of our culture, which involves moral confusion and depravity, the prevalence of corruption in every major institution, and the rise of authoritarianism, throughout all Western Civilization?

It’s not what you think!

Darbyism and other form of pessimistic millennialism represents the first stage of failure of what was once a mostly Christian civilization, our once noble and ever advancing Western Civilization, and the retreat of men and women of faith from their role as salt and light within a fallen world. This is the root cause of why our culture is a failed culture and why, even in our lifetime, we may see failed states replace our country unless this death spiral is somehow halted.

Darbyism and post-millennialism writ large and taken to literal extremes have undermined this civilization and relegated the church to the corners and edges, with neither economic/political influence nor challenging ideas.

“The imminent return of Christ totally forbids all working for earthly objects distant in time.’ Francis William Newman, Phases of Faith; or, Passages From the History of My Creed (London: George Woodfall and Son, 1850), 35.)*

This idea pervades the western church and has made it easy prey. Its idea of “engagement” and “relevancy” is mostly a marketing ploy to gain parishioners by accommodating their embedded assumptions and sociocultural constructs that contradicts core Christian ethical, moral, and basic doctrinal essentials. The church establishment in most mainline churches, including the Catholic church, has adopted the priorities and sociocultural constructs of the worldlings, with few marked exceptions, such the Catholic stance on abortion.

This reflects the negative eschatology in which it is believed that darkness alone will grow while light recedes and no advances or victories other than the “moral victory” of persecution and martyrdom, are possible until the Return of Christ.

I do not hold to such a negative, passive, eschatology.

If I am wrong but I diligently seek both to be a witness and influence, as salt and light in in proclaiming the Gospel, for Jesus and to build structures and institutions that will reflect the Christian worldview and last for generations, then what harm have I done? At the least, I have occupied until He Comes, and I have been a light in darkness without compromise.

But if I am right and the negative eschatology is wrong, and I say negative because merely waiting passively for the Return while the institutions around you devolve, insures ongoing defeat in this life and a lessening of the Christian witness and presence, then what of that? If you are wrong in your eschatology and you take Darby’s advice and then within 100 years the Christian witness and presence is virtually non-existent, because followers have been cancelled and starved and future generations brainwashed and prevented from even knowing the truth, then what guilt do you bear?

A negative eschatology is the best way for the enemy to triumph and to stamp out our Christian witness and if it is wrong then it is doubly problematic and harmful. But a positive eschatology that propels us to witness, to be an influence, to build our own sociocultural constructs and structures independent of the world, and to seek in our careers and livelihoods allows us to be a witness and influence. If then the end comes suddenly or the darkest days emerge, we have done no harm and have only saved more souls from eternal death.

The discarding of the Darbyist claims and all those that stemmed from them is essential both to the emergence of a Christian civilization and, more importantly, to the preservation of the Christian witness and presence for generations to come.

On November 2nd Let’s Hope that Virginia Voters Will Send a Loud Message to Washington

Bill Collier October 30, 2021

By Ralph Benko- We approach the 30^th anniversary of America’s noble victory in WWIII—the Cold War. On Christmas, 1991, the USSR dissolving itself, lowering the hammer and sickle for the last time.

As a (civilian) veteran of the Cold War (a junior White House official under Reagan) I really, really thought that the Era of Biggest Government, Communism, was totally over! We won!

Silly me. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a specter is haunting Washington DC.

The Lunatic Fringe of the Democratic Party has proposed massive confiscation of the property of the 700 richest Americans, dressed up as “taxing unrealized capital gains.” Having spent almost 40 years wandering in the desert of national politics it takes a lot to shock me.

This proposal shocked me. It’s right out of the Communist Manifesto.

As Marx and Engels therein wrote:

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

So, what’s a Red Blooded American to do?

Well, in 2022 all American citizens will be able to vote the current bums on Capitol Hill out and vote our team’s bums in. But a lot of damage can be done in the year before that election.

But we, the people, may be able to stop it. As it happens, all eyes of the politicos of Washington are on the Virginia governor’s race.

Candidate Joe Biden shellacked his predecessor, Donald “Covfefe” Trump, in Virginia by a ten-point landslide. The Donk’s standard bearer, Terry McAuliffe, should be cruising to victory. He’s not.

So unhappy are the Virginia voters with the current state of America under President Biden that the race between former governor Terry McAuliffe and businessman Glenn Youngkin is a dead heat.

And that was even before leading Senate Democrats’ proposal to literally put into American law one of the key provisions of the Communist Manifesto!

Now, there are many legitimate factors in deciding for whom to vote. Now, I live on the wrong side of the Potomac River, in Maryland. I don’t keep up with Virginia commonwealth politics.

That said, it is a fact that the politico-government complex based in Washington is incessantly looking for clues as to the mood of the voters. The outcome of the Virginia election will be searched for clues.

The Donks have a paper-thin majority in Congress and, with the VP’s power to break ties, in the Senate. They fully expect to lose one or both of those majorities on November 8, 2022, and have their agenda thwarted for another decade.

The hard left is seeing how much of their “class warfare” agenda they can push through in the time remaining. Electing Youngkin would be heard round the world. Or at least Capitol Hill.

A Youngkin victory could persuade a critical mass of Democratic legislators from moderate and conservative districts that it is just too politically suicidal to succumb to the social pressure of the House Progressive Caucus and the media pressure from the left-leaning establishment media.

A Youngkin victory could strengthen the spines of enough pragmatist Democrats to get one Senator, or four Congresspeople, to pull the emergency cord on the orgy of taxing, borrowing and spending now running riot in DC.

Youngkin might end up being a good, or average, or even mediocre, governor. That said, if Virginia elects Youngkin that surely would be seen in Washington as a vote to stop the enactment into law of a page torn right from the Communist Manifesto.

Exposing The Faux Wokatarians

Bill Collier October 24, 2021

YOU ARE NOT WOKE!!!

You are not woke if you think people should be punished for stating things you don’t agree with or denying the veracity of your claims. If you think anyone who thinks the marital household of a mom and dad and their own children is far superior to any other form of marriage/family then you are not woke. If your rights must include boycotting, shaming, shunning, canceling, or punishing people who will never agree with your alt-gendered theories, then you are not woke.

Woke is the attainment of open-mindedness, independence, tolerance, and a passion for seeing every human being be free and prosperous. It is a passion for equal treatment and opportunity that leaves nobody behind who is willing to pursue success and happiness through hard work or anyone who is disabled and unable to work hard. Woke seeks peace and liberty without favor or discrimination for every single human being.

Woke knows that the end never justifies the means. It knows that using authoritarianism and hatred to advance even social justice is archaic and regressive. Woke knows that forcing anyone to parrot your theories and ideas is really just totalitarian backwardness.

All you parrots invoking all the very ideas being pushed by every institution, major corporation, and media establishment think you are edgy and progressive and you imagine you are somehow an underdog coming against an evil establishment. You are the establishment and your flaky, famtastical alt-gendered ideas are merely part of an effort to destroy our social fabric and transform our country into an authoritarian one-party regime. You are digging the grave of your own liberty and prosperity and you are foreclosing your own future.

There are real problems of inequality and injustice which the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights can address and solve if we, finally, seek their fulfillment en toto for all human beings in this land. But the phony wokatariate are attacking these things and seeking a form of totalitarian top-down control which treats anyone who remains faithful to millenia of useful and beneficial sociocultural constructs as a domestic terrorist. You are the baddies!

The AUTHORITARIAN OVERREACH of lockdowns and mandates is NOT justified on the basis of the true nature of this pandemic. These lockdowns have enriched the ruling class and made us all serfs. The great reset has occurred and while you pursue alt-gendered faux wokatariate propaganda and bogeyman fears, your very liberty and livelihood are being buried. It is no coincidence the alt-gendered wokists are also passionate advocates for lockdowns and mandates and push the establishment’s narrative that the unvaccinated are a grave threat, as in “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

We who are woke are not wedded to an unchangeable past nor obsessed with a fantastical, utopian future. We are woke to the real state of affairs, the real power dynamic, and to the need to see the high-water mark of freedom and happiness that was obtained for some Americans now be fulfilled for all Americans.

We know that reverting to the archaic totalitarian ideas of the 20th century, or ancient imperialism, in the name of justice or anything else is not “woke” and all the phony wokatarians who parrot these orchestrated top-down ideas are not woke, they are MINIONS AND SERFS on a corpostate plantation.

We are the true woke. We may call ourselves liberal or conservative, we may be Democrats or Republicans, or Independents, but we are wed to the notion that we cannot advance the equal achievement of freedom and prosperity for all by reverting to archaic authoritarianism.

We know that exploring new ideas and technology doesn’t ipso facto demand we discard or dishonor the past, even though it is imperfect and the advancement of the spirit and intent of our liberty has been inconsistent and uneven, and not shared fairly and justly with all. We know that if our ideas demand punishing those who reject them, even of that punishing is unofficial and limited to just shunning people for wrongspeak, then our ideas are bad ideas.

To be woke doesn’t equate to parroting all the nonsense about an alt-gendered atomized future sans the social fabric of marital households and kinship-based communities founded upon faith and shared values through freewill participation alone. To be woke is to recongize that even though we believe the marital household and kinship-based communities founded on faith and shared convictions are the future of human civilization, this must be acheived through freewill participation alone and cannot include punishing or shaming anyone who doesn’t agree.

The advance of human civilization looks like absolute personal, familial, kinship, and local autonomy so that the socioeconomic and sociocultural norms and standards which most govern your life are based on freewill participation with people and associations of your own choosing.

The revelation that top-down hierarchical systems of command and control are always bad and should always be avoided is the true heart of being woke, just as an embracing of all human beings as dignified and free persons deserving of respect and humane treatment, along with equality of liberty, opportunities, and treatment is also essential to being truly woke.

The faux wokatariate isn’t truly woke. It’s ideas and, more importantly, both its practices and its leaders, are simply pushing archaic barbarism as a means of creating an authoritarian state as the god of every human being. Many earnest people parroting these party lines, while sincerely claiming independence of thought, have no idea how they have become deconstructed into atomized alt-gendered or non-gendered, but overly sexualized, serfs and pawns slaving away on the corpostate plantation.

You are not woke. You are fast alsleep in a matrix. You are being spoon-fed “edgy” notions about sexuality and gender, “institutional racism” (a claim made by EVERY major institution to justify authoritarian measures), and other bogeyman fears, to appeal to your own ego and desire to find purpose. Meanwhile, you are helping to build the architecture of tyranny which, one day, will turn on you and clap you in chains!

How To PROTECT Your Values and Freedom In An Authoritarian Culture

Bill Collier October 2, 2021

If you recognize that Western Civilization has become morally and spiritually deranged and you don’t recognize how your lifestyle might be thereby influenced then you are probably in your own delusional bubble. If you think you can be a solo actor, a lone wolf, and maintain your own cultural convictions in a society that is hostile to your faith, then you are deceived.

If you want to be free and to prosper, you must consider your own lifestyle choices first. If you want to change your lifestyle to fit real needs and truth, you must build a strong support system of mutual care and even accountability that is never forced and that always promotes YOUR happiness. If you don’t radically change your way of life, all your efforts to fight back against the growing storm of authoritarianism will fail!

Your atomized life with a small circle of support and care, confined mostly to your own house, without a strong and connected community of other people who share your values is a severe limitation on your potential.

On one hand, you recognize that the prevailing culture has become sordid and practically barbaric, without a moral compass or real respect for moral and ethical standards that might affirm life and promote human dignity. This culture is confused, childish, savage, and corrupt to its core and you know it is.

But you haven’t thought through WHY it is so. You can point to religious and philosophical norms and ideas that have been tossed aside in favor of utopian, outlandish, and fantastical alternative theories. But these outlandish and nonsensical experimental ideas spawned from structural realities, namely the atomization of nuclear families into islands as small as each individual house. Now we see the redefining and impermanence of even nuclear families and of marriage itself as a transactional relationship for self-satisfaction, mostly revolving around what pleasures you sexually and then emotionally at a shallow level.

The atomization of nuclear families and then of individuals who are all disconnected islands has allowed the void of sociocultural self-government at the local level to be filled by larger-scale top-down hierarchical systems, like monopolistic crony corporations and the overreaching state until what has emerged to control culture, and your life, is a crony corpostate system.

We submit that the large familial community of around 120 adults who enjoy a high degree of organic cohesiveness and who revolve around the basic idea that children ought to be raised by their own biological parents within the maternal enclosure of a close-knit village-like community of related people is the ideal fractal of human civilization itself. Indeed, true advanced culture is based only on such arrangements but our culture has created legal and financial impediments and mental roadblocks to developing and maintaining such familial fractals.

Your lifestyle is an atomized lifestyle without connections or accountability to others who both share your values and genuinely root for your happiness, well-being, prosperity, and success. You have likely not experienced this kind of warm and loving embrace and absolute acceptance for long periods of time by more than a few people.

The outlandish and foolhardy notions of this present culture and its utter spiritual backwardness didn’t CAUSE this atomization. This atomization, which really begins in the 1950s lifestyle where nuclear families in suburbia became disconnected from larger familial communities, is where the outlandish experimental notions came from.

When people cluster together using this basic assumption that children ought to be raised by their own biological parents, or adopted parents as the case may be, they don’t wander off the cliff of rationality to explore these fringe lunatic notions. It is the loss of familial community at scale, again around 120 adults in some form of relational connection of shared beliefs and values, that has generated destructive negative ideas.

Atomization has decimated our capacity to reason and think rationally and morally. We have abandoned our historic heritage, all the hard-won lessons of our ancestors, and forfeited our future and that of our progeny, condemning them to a life of servility where their only “freedom” is the ability to itch their more base and shallow animal lusts.

We thought, collectively, that disconnecting from larger familial communities made us less mutually accountable and therefore more free. But we see, the way the largest-scale structures of a power mad corpostate dictate to us far exceeds any “control” we image a extended family within a close-knit community might “control” you through mutual accountability to common standards and norms.

To rebel against a culture in moral and spiritual decline is not so much about arguing against its outlandish level of confusion or the corporate and political regimen of control. No, to rebel against this culture one must make a conscious choice to CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE.

Herein lies the problem: the people we are related to by blood are not necessarily willing to join you in this lifestyle change and are also not necessarily likely to have your shared values and beliefs. Basically, trying to reconstitute the social fabric of family as we understand it (the nuclear family in one house or apartment), the extended family, and the familial village isn’t possible for most people if you are limited to people you are related to by blood.

The phrase we use for the quality that defines and connects these village-like familial communities is “organic cohesiveness.” Organic cohesiveness is a quality of interdependence and connectedness that comes from the heart, it isn’t dictated or imposed, it is something you desire and want because it embraces you and affirms you without controlling you. Seeking affirmation with people whose core beliefs and identity do not reflect your own faith and convictions is generally a fool’s errand, they may generally accept you and affirm you at some level but it won’t ever be as deep and warm as that which people of a shared identity based on deeply shared beliefs, values, and convictions can enjoy together.

This doesn’t mean we should stop being connected to others and let them challenge our beliefs or navigate a pluralistic society and revel in its diversity. Outside of this need for a true maternal enclosure one must realize that uniformity and an aversion to opposing ideas or challenging ideas is death to any culture. Pluralism is essential to inventiveness and competitive advancement.

The pluralism we speak of isn’t just how each individual may be different. No, the pluralism we speak of is the diversity of familial communities of around 120 or so adults who can cohabitate a city or area within many different such communities, cheek by jowl, and engage in mutual exchanges that respect and uplift human dignity. Competition and freedom will sort out the familial and community notions that bring the most happiness to human beings, as opposed to top-down sociocultural diktat from corrupt corpostate systems.

The larger scale connection of similar communities distributed throughout a land, not as the sole sociocultural body of people but as a distinct body of people, is what we call spiritual nationhood. This is a meta identity that connects vast numbers of people with the same organic cohesiveness spoken of for these familial villages. It isn’t necessarily, or usually, necessary, for this nationality of people to be the sole nationality within a given land. In a free and pluralistic society there are diverse communities of people and many are part of diverse meta identities or nationalities. It is diversity layered within diversity but all within plurality.

We cannot in any way compel anyone to adopt this concept, which we call nationhood at the meta scale and kinship community at the local scale. Likewise, even if they agree in principle with this concept, we cannot compel them to adopt our particular form of nationhood, which we call “Upadaria.”

Upadaria is a nationality whose ideals, principles, and practices will tend to make you more free, happy, prosperous, and successful in your own life. This nationality can be adopted by any human being who loves God and who has a heart to reach the nations for Yeshua. If you adopt this nationality and use its ideas you will begin to transcend the surrounding culture and escape its artificial constraints on your own fulfillment.

You NEED a strong support structure of people who share your beliefs and values if you are going to be able to be free and prosper AND maintain your values! That is, in a nutshell, what “nationhood” does for you, it provides the spiritual and intellectual ideas/norms that make the creation of such supportive communities readily possible and scalable.

Our approach is not to try and reform or control society through corporate or political power that forces people. Our approach is to unilaterally build what we envision, namely a shared form of nationhood as the basis of re-creating the lost maternal enclosure of these kinship communities.

We desire a lifestyle change that builds a lost life in modern form because this life of individual sovereignty balancing interdependence for mutual profit is advanced culture while the present culture is barbaric, savage, primitive, and archaically backwards.

What the Upadaria Platform will do for its subscribers, in part, is enable them to find local people who deeply share their values and who desire to form community on the basis of those values and in defense of a Christian way of life, even in an authoritarian cultural setting that opposed this way of life.

People say it’s HARD to find people they can trust, who share their values and beliefs, AND who are willing to actually make the kind of mutual commitment needed to build a solid support system that helps you in times of trouble, defends your way of life, and protects your rights, person, and property from harm. Through both the Upadaria Platform and the adoption of this shared identity/nationality, it will be much easier to find such people who have been vetted and proven to be reliable trustworthy, and compatible with your own Christian worldview and way of life.