The main reason the US did not see the violent police suppression of lockdown dissenters that was seen in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, etc. is specifically due to local police control. By and large, municipal police and county sheriff's said from the start they would not enforce onerous dictates and instead would rely on "education" (whatever that means). There were some exceptions but they were the outliers.
Bottom line is that it was pretty rare to see people carted off in cuffs for going to park or not wearing a mask in the US. This was not the case in many other so-called western democracies where even departments that appear municipal in their name are actually controlled at the state or national level.
This is the end goal of "defund the police" IMO. It's not to get rid of all police but those that are locally accountable. Of course they will be replaced with police controlled at the state or more likely federal level.
Wow, I did not know that, perhaps the police structure is different due to it's non-state status?
I'm in the belly of the beast (LA County) and even here the cops were nearly sedate about the whole thing. In the latest session the legislature tried to pass a law forcing municipal departments to enforce health department orders. It failed as even in nutty California they could not get the votes for it.
Well they weren't that sedate in April 2020 when they arrested that dangerous "surfer" or "paddle boarder" in the ocean by himself. For me, that was one of the most ridiculous moments in this hoax of a pandemic.
Yes it was ridiculous but there's a huge difference between what was done in the early weeks of the pandemic (when the mortality was not well understood) versus afterwards. In addition, that was an isolated incident and I'm willing to bet, though not positive, charges were dropped.
Compare that to what was done in the Netherlands and Australia over a year after covid first started and was by then well understood. Cops beat peaceful protesters on the streets with clubs and pepper-sprayed little old ladies. These were not isolated events but happened often, there is all kinds of footage out there. It's nothing at all like what happened to that surfer dude.
Police departments with local autonomy corrected these abuses far more quickly whereas "democracies" with state and national departments generally did not. That's why local departments have to go, they failed to "just follow orders" unlike those thugs pepper-spraying grandma.
In canada we got a good taste of abuse of power combined with state owned media to position it as if it were for our own good. Astoundingly most of us got our news from overseas about what a travesty an outrage it was we were experiencing. Trudo and Christia Freeland our acolytes of WEF eager to please Klaus schaeffer
I saw a couple of one off videos of skater boys and girls getting rough-housed... But generally yeah.
And as someone who was literally scanning the globe I had Tanzania, Mexico, and Southern US states as goto areas. Then the Tanzanian president got the heart-attack gun like several other tropical leaders. Then FED shut down border for unjabbed. Mexico and it's cartels are literally my only hope now if it all goes south this winter/decade. I have bags packed and if UK leader "is definitely not going to need to lockdown again" I reckon I have a week to bolt.
I would recommend you put Texas on that list. No chance of disarming the population in Texas. Florida too though stay north :-). The further south you go, the further north you get - as in domination by north easterners who fled the cold but brought their politics with them.
Two points of correction: 1, A person can not be an "illegal immigrant" under the united states constitution, no such thing is possible. An immigrant is by definition someone who has become a permanent resident via the immigration process as defined by law. A person who reside in the US by some means other than immigration, is illegal but not an immigrant. The term "illegal immigrant" was invented for propaganda purposes: the United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Labeling people who are unable or unwilling to immigrant per the legal process "immigrants" clouds the actual issues, misrepresents an illegal (and thus readily exploited and abused) population, with the intention of engendering sympathy along with the confusions. BTW several hundred years ago our federal law differentiated between immigration and importation. But we decided some time ago importation was a bad thing and stopped admitting to it.,
2. You are under the impression that state governors are bound by federal immigration law, am impression and scholar of our constitutional republic might make because it is fundamental that immigration and naturalization is explicitly a power (and responsibility) set forth in the constitution to congress. However the reality is many governors and mayors have publicly (and with great media attention) declared themselves "sanctuaries" and claim to defy federal law. The most recent rash of this fluff coincided with the Trump administration delivering a proposed law into the House of Representatives that would have reformed immigration law, including most or all of the provisions former president Obama enumerated in the now famous memo "DACA" and what these same governors and mayors claimed to be wishing to achieve via their defiance. That bill, of course was both stopped in congress and ignored by the media. The political party controlling the House and the committee that killed the bill is the same one that claims to represent the illegal population, and the one that blocks al actual attempts to change the law so as to achieve the stated "compassionate" goals.
Accuracy is important for many reasons, but mostly, you can't solve a problem without accurately and honestly characterizing the problem. Modern politicians seem genetically incapable of either, one reason they only create problems. In order to maintain the illusion of a "caring", Obama signed a memo that, in essence, instructed federal law enforcement to break the law, while selling it as a package of great things none of which can be achieved via an executive action without changing the underlying immigration law. This is what illusionists call success: it gave the appearance of something that did not actually happen.
I’m in Mexico City at the moment, and it’s fairly sane here... but they do still wear masks in businesses. Anything locally owned and operated probably wouldn’t care but if the business takes credit cards, assume you’ll need to mask up.
I can’t imagine the cops caring either way. They’re pretty unmotivated to enforce any laws.
Had my first "mask up" moment in a while on Saturday. One of the shop owners had a BIG sign that read "MASKS STILL REQUIRED HERE". I respect that it's their store so their rules. But it is kind of sad because we know these folks an they are good people.
St. Johns, Oregon, pastry shop had a mask message. Its on the north edge of Portland. That was more than three months ago. Not sure what the mask status is now.
I had an interesting experience in Santa Cruz during the peak of the mask politics. I had just left the UPS store and was sitting in my car, alone, catching up on email or text messages or something - mask off. A county sheriff's deputy and an CHP officer were in the parking lot when I walked out (with mask on) and got in the car, apparently consulting about something critical to the safety of the empire. The CHP officer walked up to my car, rapped on the window, and began to harass me for not having a mask. Before I could even roll down the window to respond, the deputy walked over and said something to the effect of "seriously, dude? WTF?" . BTW the CHP officer was not wearing a mask.
BTW my usual defense if someone got upset with me for not having a mask on was "I forgot sorry" and it usually worked because of my grey beard :-). Just another senile geezer :-)
I'm in LA County also, part of a group pushing back. Believe me, there are a LOT of local deputies who are enraged with the oppressive mask and vaccine mandates. Many went around even in mid-2020 specifically telling people to go ahead and unmask if they wanted, and that nothing would be done for radical non-compliance with Marxist Masking/Lockdown rules. They tend to understand the constitution and the origins of totalitarianism much better than your average police or CHP officer. I wish more people knew that now - many people just remember the disgusting paddleboarder incident. All the deputies I know were really mad about that absurd arrest. The riots of 2020 and how those were treated woke up pretty much all of the ones that didn't "get it " during the first half of 2020.
I wrote a three-part article against masking on my substack, in preparation for the next round of mask orders from our Marxist Board of Supervisors... maybe good for showing people when cases go up again and they want to demand performative compliance:
Very much so. Nothing short of gut wrenching vile behaviour from many police here in Australia on peaceful citizens - some respectful protestors, some 'disobeying' re maskless, but plenty who were well within "emergency powers" rules and still got trampled by the gestapo. Now I can imagine how bad it can easily get.
Watching that recent YT of a guy in the UK being ARRESTED (!) because he arranged the pride flags into a swastika was insightful. He apparently offended someone. Bonkers.
Hmm. It is a smaller scale republic, therefore could be a test proxy for the US . What hold does WEF have on that country? How active is the president with the wef crew?
Let's not forget that whomever has control over Panama also control the Panama canal and the flow of goods through said canal. Pretty big deal when you consider the alternative routes to circumvent that obstacle. Makes sense when you consider the WEF's agenda of choking economies and creating forced food shortages globally. Lots of tentacles emanate from the WEF. All their "Young Global Leaders" were and still are carefully hand-picked by the top brass for their potential to "contribute to the cause."
Long term, interesting to see whether the Chinese can get their Nicaraguan canal under construction. Why Schwabenklaus (as symbolic of the Davos crew) still draws air?
IIRC in the 90's, the canal was "leased?" by a Chinese shipping company. I remember it bothering me at the time - but - I seemed to be the only one concerned. I don't know if this is still the case or not (though I suspect it is)
Kunstler, retired CIA, mentioned that Panama was hit with everything they could throw at it, and it was all strictly kept out of the media, maybe via the US version of a "D-Notice." Panama is every bit the US colony the PR and other statelets.
Yeah, I was shaken up after standing my ground when a little old lady told me I should put it on in a parking lot. Can't imagine what a bunch of cops would do to my nervous system!
Wait, can you elaborate? you were in PR? Tell us more. Only 8 cops and how many people aside from cops? No one does anything they just let the cops have their way. I just don't get this. If the street was full of me, we'd have kicked their asses. We MUST push back. Peace isn't working
Yes we had some of that here in California. I'm not aware of such a show of force for mask infractions but some nearly as scary stuff. I think many if not most local LE entities tried to stay "clean" but not all. We some cities and counties almost as nuts as PR (stay well clear of SF for example). When a "banned" business attempted to remain open, cops were sent in to force closure. When local LE refused, the governor sent state LE in.
But Jeff's point is only reinforced by your experience. The diversity of LE in California was a significant impairment to absolute adherence to the dictates of Lord Newsom. You can count on The Party drafting legislation to try and fix that.
This is from two years ago but I just saw it this morning. It's from Columbus Ohio where a federal agent showed up at some guy's house and demanded to see his guns (without a warrant). The guy called the local police and they ended up cuffing the fed at gunpoint and tasing him. Watch to the end as the fed puts on a masterful display of claiming left-wing victim privilege.
The conversation my family had around it was centered around this: did you see how utterly uncooperative, belligerent, and aggressive- how much like a CRIMINAL BEING ARRESTED the Fed behaved? I think he even said "I can't breathe" and "my wife is pregnant" at some point. NONE of this would have occurred if he had surrendered- he'd have shown his ID and been back to work in 30 seconds, probably with an apology.
The fact that he resisted arrest ALL THE WAY points to tremendous deficiencies in the training and disposition of federal agents. Which, honestly, should make us feel good- these are not professionals. These are bullies.
The concept of federal agents intersecting with local law enforcement is neither new nor unusual- it's a cliche in movies and TV.
I would be extremely surprised if absolutely no one responsible for developing the training curriculum of field agents has ever considered this exigency and developed a protocol for it: cooperate and identify yourself as quickly as possible.
That this person did not do it means they were improperly trained or hired. It is unfathomable that there is no training for "what to do if local cops see you waving a gun and don't know you're a fed." I would bet my every worldly possession on it.
Both are related, too. I suspect some or much of the attitude and arrogance is the product of training, or if you prefer, indoctrination. But let us not discount the individual idiot acting alone theory, either.
Many years ago I trained LE officers in tactics (with and without weapons). Helping a friend's business he started after observing the dismal state of training and the large number of officers being hurt or killed as well as the amount of collateral damage. Most were good people and it was an honor and joy to help them learn skills and tactics that enhanced their career longevity prospects.
Once in a while we'd get a guy who could not be trained. Attitude and arrogance were overwhelming. Needless to say, training was ineffective in those cases.
I've not been involved with that for decades and so have no idea what training is typical anymore, but I have encountered my share of bad cops. More good ones, for sure, but more bad ones than I should. I avoid certain cities because there seem to be more of the later, and because the LE priorities are screwed up (SF and SJ to name 2).
Oh my goodness, the same federal agent that was tased by Columbus PD (James Burk) was charged with stealing wine from Kroger's back in 2015 (from Ned Ryun).
Buried lede: "A spokeswoman said the agency is aware of the charge and that it is handling the matter internally but would not comment further". They do look after their own.
Hooo my goodness. Now that is funny. Anyone else would have been out on their rumps. How does one demand compliance with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent when he cannot himself obey they law... with alcohol. Maybe HE should give over HIS gun. At the very least. He seems unstable. Pity the pregnant wife knowing she is birthing 50% of his genes. Blimey.
That is THE best! --- Have you seen the new video of the ATF agent with 2 armed back ups, local police, at some man's house wanting to see his recently purchased guns, because he purchased more than 2? This is evidently a new law. Purchase more than 2 and the ATF comes to check that you have them. Different outcome, for sure, the man went to get the guns. --- One of the versions of the video says to ask if they have a warrant, if you are under arrest, and to tell them you will meet with them with your lawyer present.
I doubt it is a "new law", more likely a new regulation written/implemented by an overreaching bureaucracy. If we can maintain the Republic, the recent West Virginia v. EPA ruling by SCOTUS should start affecting the ways that the federal bureaucracy can impose endless, arbitrary regulations on We the People.
Exactly, probably not even a regulation but a policy. Someone sent a memo.
Memos don't nullify the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. If a fed is pointing a gun at you then please comply, we don't need any martyrs. But make it clear they are doing it without your consent and sue them into oblivion afterwards.
If you are going to quote the fourth, be accurate: the prohibition is against search or seizure without a warrant issued upon probable cause. Any such action without a warrant is unconstitutional. In another example of ignoring binding law and making stuff up, courts have allowed an "interpretation" that a warrant OR probably cause is sufficient. But that's not what the words say. It says the warrant can only be issued upon oath or affirmation that there is probable cause. The idea is it takes at least two people - one (LE officer, DA, etc) to justify the action to another (a judge).
BTW "oath or affirmation" is also very clearly defined in the historical context (what the term meant at the time). It means swearing that YOU PERSONALLY know all the information you provided is true and correct. Thus warrants obtained using false information, or information not verified by the person swearing the oath, are illegal. Even in the FISA court.
In our current era, it seems the practical answer is that memos, policy "interpretation" and regulatory overreach do nullify the constitution. Time and again. It's wrong. It's destroying our nation. But it's become the SOP.
Just saw this and frankly don't even remember making the comment but I didn't "quote the fourth" but summarized its current practice. Good grief, what a life it must be to go around making pedantic, long-winded, contrarian corrections to strangers on the internet. Yet we get it, you are brilliant.
The point I was making was that someone sending a memo doesn't overturn constitutional protections regardless of what is claimed. Document the violation and take legal action if one has the inclination and resources. This has been done countless times by citizen activists and often results in an apology and a settlement.
I wasn't writing a legal brief but commenting on how public servants performing legally dubious acts are often held accountable. Regular people do this all the time regardless of your screed. But in your snarky condescension you couldn't help slamming me for "misquoting" the fourth which I obviously wasn't doing, it wasn't a literal summary of current case law. Normal thinking people understand that.
You can still write your off-topic diatribe about how everything is going to hell in a handbasket without impugning others making general observations.
It is not a federal law - see the point in gato's excellent analysis noting that ATF makes up it's own rules often quite far from what is actually law.
Depending on the state it may be a state law but then why would ATF be involved?
Could be a state law and they called the ATF to make it a bigger show.
It's all about "optics" and nothing about saving lives. The BATF reports that there are over 200 million guns THAT THEY HAVE RECORD of in the US. Given that until about 20 years ago BATF was prohibited from keeping records for more than 5 years and the large number of firearms sold before record keeping was mandatory (200 or so years) we can guess the number is much higher. The VAST majority of Americans have guns. Peaceful gun owners are not a problem - if we were, you'd know.
So rather than figure out how to stop bad things from happening, go after the people who are doing only good. After all, bad people are much more dangerous.
I completely agree. I’ve always said that the local police and the sheriff are one of the most fundamental elements to our freedom and liberty (sounds strange, I know) as it relates to fed gov tyranny. In many blue states, there is a lot of land that has county sheriff law enforcement who will ultimately be responsible for saying “no”.
What scares me though, and the second point of this article, and yours too, they are minimizing that local police and expanding the federal law enforcement. Agree that any (federal especially) law enforcement should not be politicized but sadly that’s already happened.
What about “no standing army?” What do we think the DHS, FBI, and DOJ are??
they get around the limit to an army raised for 2 years by passing an "authorization act" each year that describes the army (and air force) to be raised the next fiscal year.
the excuse is: war today is too expensive to let the war profiteers shrivel. 'complexity' is a profit center within the pork.
then they can apportion all the pork they can to the pentagon.
to be fair if the militia were "nationalized" they would one not shoot or two be beaten.
and biden sending f-15s..... see how that worked in afghanistan, and iraq.
Even in Ontario, Canada the police had their line in the sand. I think it was early in a 2021 lockdown, our provincial gov (Doug Ford) wanted the police to stop and question anyone who was out driving. This never happened because the police refused and it was a very public refusal.
Decentralization works. Right now reading Substack articles and watching Youtube news channels is a decentralization of media. We need to get control of our governments again and decentralize them. Decentralize everything! Like this:
Agree it works, though, akin to the book the Starfish and the Spider, be aware of opponents twisting terminology for their own ends i.e. spiders pretending to be snakes. I'm aware of some left-of-center community activists receiving letters from institutions encouraging them to embrace the end of politicians (and rule by AI instead) to be replaced by "direct democracy" whereby what people do and purchase is tallied by AI and thus their preferences are noted. But who can trust whoever is controlling AI to turn that into decentralized governance?
Exactly!!! Police become Polezi. Sheriffs are folded into a County-City Municipal Police under a "Chief" appointed by a mayor or commission, and no longer Directly Elected.
Standards are reduced, Equity promotions, and Patriots replaced by the Wokesters.
Military fast tracking on the same Bolshevik Pogrom. Ferals are already Corrupt Commie Polezi. Blue & Purple State "Highway" Police follow Governor's Orders via Bureacracy not Legislature.
Citizens are either Sheepled or Disinfranchised and removed from even pretended courtesy consideration. Just because It hasn't Hit you in the Face, doesn't mean that TS has already HTF.
I work with many local and federal agencies. They have chased away the traditional officers by making the working conditions awful. The ones remaining follow orders.
Culling, as you've described, has been going on for a long time. I'm old enough to remember how they culled NOAA of those who wouldn't tow the Global Warming line in order to successfully capture/propagandize that narrative. Looks like it worked...
This is happening in toronto, too. No doubt other munis, but toronto i have first hand knowledge of. The new ones can be characterized by their incompetence and adherence to rules and intolerance
Agreed. I don't know about other places, but NYC would be a total totalitarian nightmare (instead of just the dystopian nightmare insane asylum it is) if it weren't for the NYPD. I don't have any starry eyed ideas of the police (here in NYC or anywhere else) as I've seen them behaving in ways that were pretty awful, but they have been great (with the exception of the first few weeks) on refusing to enforce the illegal and unconstitutional crap mandated by our much-hated governors and mayors. I'm not foolish enough to think that couldn't change overnight, but for the time being, I'm feeling very good about the NYPD.
It is not just an opinion, Jeff, it is a verifiable fact. Read the actual federal legislation entered into the congressional record. Not the titles, but the text. None of these "defund" efforts cut funding (all include in fact new spending). All clearly remove control for local entities (and local voters) to centralize the power in the administrative branch of the federal government. And you can find the same in many states where legislators are busy seizing control at the state level. What is striking if you read some of these bills is the near identical language used by what were supposed to be independent legislatures. That is because there is a national political party providing the text.
Agree completely. As an Australian, I lived it first hand. It only took a few examples of outrageously over the top police reaction to innocent civilians walking about without a mask or attending a peaceful protest to subdue the population but what was even more effective was media propaganda demonising those that questioned the covid or vaccine narrative. This was the most effective. The fear of being called uneducated, a nazi, far-right extremist, Trump Supporter, racist…you name it, it was a constant message put out by all media platforms relentlessly.
The media and politicians practiced with "climate change". Really, before that, even, with the "gun violence" propaganda. Incrementally at first, but as the boundaries were pushed and there wasn't a meaningful pushback, constantly expanding until it hit absurd levels. Now if you point out an obvious logical disconnect that should be easily seen by anyone with functioning grey matter...all those nasty things. Scary.
I've got a couple friends who came to the US from Australia. One good friend (now a Texan but once a Californian) winks and says there's a reason he left. I can't say things are profoundly better here in California - but then, if I asked him I'm sure he'd wink and say there's a reason he left ;-).
"Outrageous Police Action in the Red State areas will prompt citizen "outrage" not cowering. It came very close in the Covid lock downs at a couple of locations, it won't be tolerated again.
Excellent points, Jeff C. There's another end game goal of 'defund the police', relates to something called "geofencing" and is part of the 4IR Great Reset Technocracy project to control everyone's movements all the time. The public architecture of this system is Human Capital Markets where human [slaves] are the direct capital investment in a rigged game. The first HCM in the US was in 2012, Riker's Island (Goldman Sachs). Releasing prisoners to hand over management of their sentences to corporations that continuously track and monitor on the level of China-style social credit scores on steroids. In HCMs, limits of mobility and access to all things depends on status and obedience. A geofence perimeter can be one's front door and communication can be easily cut off. Thus, owning a gun but unable to move about or get information about threats becomes the critical force deciding citizens' fate in a high-tech biosecurity dictatorship. That's the other reason Soros financially backed DAs - - to grease the skids on this project. Last year in our local newspaper a Denver DA was quoted saying DAs are becoming irrelevant as these new systems take over. HCMs have also been going after schools, at first low income inner city schools, and now health care systems. It's done via P3 privatization boondoggles going after infrastructure as well. Are you a thought criminal? Then you won't be allowed on local roads managed by 'woke' corporations just as some people say FB and Twitter can violate the First Amendment "because they're private". It's a big quiet tentacle moving in for the kill while we're understandably distracted with covid and political shenanigans.
You're welcome. It's happening in every nation. HCMs are global, thus the rush to privatize across Asia, Europe, S America, Russia, Middle East - truly all nations. You can find some excellent research from Alison McDowell on her youtube channel or her blog wrenchinthegears (dot) com. She was on Twitter with a large following but unfortunately, recently closed her Twitter account in frustration with shadowbanning and lack of engagement by followers. --- If you look for her on youtube, you'll see a bewildering number of videos. The longer formal presentations have the information you need to understand how it works. It's very sophisticated and flies under the radar. Here's one basic overview (altering it in case Substack holds comments for approval when there are live links): youtube (dot) com/watch?v=7sYRF99IT3w&ab_channel=AlisonMcDowell -- Please share this info in your networks if you think it's important. Thanks.
Every single big city police department needs to be disbanded and law enforcement operations moved back to the county sheriffs. Just like to get to be a colonel or up in the military, you need to be a politician, to rise in the ranks of Captain or higher you need to be a politician (as these rank promotions require many times require a form of political approval).
The sheriffs here in NYC are completely corrupt, the tools of the governor. It was the sheriff's department that padlocked restaurants that tried to stand up against the mandates. It's the police department here in NYC that has stood up to the mayor. I'm not pretending the police are angels or the great guardians of our rights--I've seen the NYPD in action and it's not at all always admirable--but you can't make assumptions about all police departments (or sheriffs). I know there are places where the sheriffs or the police have stood strong and insisted on living up to their oaths to the Constitution, but it really is case by case thing.
And I will say that the last thing we need is to disband any local police departments. Do you really want the FBI, NSA, DHS policing your community? As bad as some cops are, and as corrupt or incompetent some police departments may be, I'll take them anytime over a federal gestapo force. Should we reform many police departments? Do many need to have a thorough house cleaning? Yes! But if we must be policed (and ask people in neighborhoods the police avoid how no police works out), then we really do want it to be locally run and staffed by people who have a real connection to the community.
If you move the County Sheriff into position over the cities, then the city voters get to vote for the Sheriff? Then what do you get? A bigger bureaucracy with rural conservative voters outnumbered by urban progreSSives.
We need dilution of power of government. The Sheriff should have ultimate command of city police chiefs, but in practice the Governor usally has that control depending on each state's laws.
It comes down to the Voters, who seem divided by geography and philosophy and get or accept the Rulers they have.
A less obvious part of creating a national policy via corruption of local offices is the role played by national political parties. Well, mostly one right now (and really it's getting hard to tell them apart). The national party sets policy and this undermines the local control. By pushing massive $$$ into local and state races, The Party is gaining the seats to execute on the national agenda. Follow legislatures and you see bills with the exact same wording introduced into multiple states (soon all). The largest cities similarly have been "pumped" by massive campaign spending (often 100:1 the opposition) to secure key seats such as Mayors and DAs - and in some instances, county Sheriffs (e.g. Arizona where The Party spent millions to unseat Joe Arpaio, flooding in more $$ in that one election than had been spent in the history of the county!). This is a powerful means to centralize power that bypasses law and constitutional concerns, but effectively has undermined the principle of distributed powers.
The escalation that became evident in 2020 was the control of key election officials. Usually appointed offices. In key states, election heads admitted 9even bragged) defying the law of their state, ignoring deadlines, ballot handling and oversight requirements, and so on. In at least 6 states, the election officials responsible held press conferences to brag about these illegal actions! The Party successfully suppressed any investigation or opposition to these practices. Undermining the last remaining barrier to complete dominance, the electoral process.
Part of the solution is to restore local control by eliminating national parties (IMO). Disperse the power center(s). Billionaires will still find a way to dominate, but perhaps it will take a while.
To my point that reality is government at all levels are ignoring the clear, unambiguous words above and infringing. Even more telling is that so many people abide by it, even clamor for it. Because The Party has told them how to read those words, and reach a meaning in direct conflict with the words as written. "Legitimate sporting purpose" or the "who really needs a <whatever>" and all the other intellectual dishonesty.
Permission to keep and bear arms is not "infringing" so deemed by the courts. How anyone can accept that is beyond me. But even when the courts admit there must be limits to the "interpretations", it doesn't stop state legislatures and local governments, or congress, from blatantly violating the courts rulings.
What I've debated for decades is sure, you may think it's OK when it affects others (you think), but it won't stop there. But once started, it will consume everything. Having accepted the false premise, no provision is secure. We've seen the fourth and fifth, and now the first, completely gutted.
We learned in 2020 that you need permission from the government to exercise your religion, peaceable assemble, or walk your dog. And that permission can be revoked. so there you go.
And why do people allow it? Because The Party has decreed it. Loyalty to the party they believe (insanely) represents their best interests.
I guess that's an upside of a unionized police force whose pension and other benefits are so expensive that the department is necessarily always woefully understaffed. Budgets can never be large enough to hire the number of cops necessary to enforce something like mandatory masking policies in such cities.
They don't even have enough officers to prevent children from running around with illegally acquired guns, stop "mostly peaceful" looting and arson-fests, or confiscate the vehicles of drunk, uninsured drivers. In cities like that, law enforcement will never be able to effectively enforce mask mandates. It wasn't democracy. It was just incapacity. And replacing local officers with state or federal officers won't work either -- they cost just as much or more.
No, it was more than incapacity. They sent a rather blistering letter to de Blasio saying they would not enforce it and I can assure you, they don't. It isn't as matter of how many or how few officers are available. There can be a number of them on the subway. Even at the height of the 2020 hysteria, I would go ask directions of cops, maskless, and they would politely help me. Probably for most of them it's not a constitutional issue, but I met someone who makes a point of engaging the police in conversations about this, and she finds that most of them are on our side on this issue.
Maybe we're both seeing the same thing? I thought the reason *behind* that explicit statement of non-enforcement was that the PD knew it lacked the capacity to enforce the mandate. So the chief just made it department policy.
Similarly in Los Angeles County the sheriff said he would disregard mask mandate enforcement and went even further: he refused to fire personnel who rejected the Covid jab. his stated reason was, again, lack of capacity. he said he needed as much staff as he could get just to carry out all of the *other* law enforcement functions. he said the department needed everyone it could get and simply refused to fire 5% or more of his staff.
It's still around 40% of the Sheriff's department that has refused to get the jab. They understand the situation are many are willing to be fired over it (though that outcome seems less likely every week). You can bet *those people* will never enforce this nonsense on other people.
Ah but that too is mostly myth. Budgets are not the problem, priorities are the problem.
Departments are woefully understaffed yet find resources for breaking up political rallies, harass gun owners, write parking tickets and meaningless traffic stops, etc.
Here in California, one bay area city had officers available to break up Trump rallies, have run major operations to crack down on this or that non-violent offense like prostitution or "cruising" (really - driving too many times up and down the same street will get you jailed), parking tickets and meaningless traffic stops, etc. while gang violence, robberies, assaults and domestic violence continue to escalate. This same city has declared war on citizens who own firearms. And will spend police resources enforcing their unconstitutional ordinances so as to confiscate firearms from the people who pose no threat of harm to anyone other than criminals attempting to assault, rape, rob or murder them. This is given priority over actual crime.
Agree. There is a whole lot 'they' would like to do but can't as long as citizens are armed. Our second amendment is the only thing holding back a full on attempt at control. Thanks.
There are probably more guns in Australia since the ban of the 90s than there were then. And the ban in NZ only resulted in 30% of the weapons that should have been turned in being turned in.
There are a lot of guns in all these countries still, even in Canada. But only *Americans* have the attitude that guns are for self-defense or overthrowing the government. That is really not an attitude shared by Kiwis, Aussies, and Canucks.
MINDSET is really everything. Unfortunately, even Americans may have problems recognizing who the enemy is, and there is also a big prisoner's dilemma that generally holds Americans hostage to our rights gradually eroded even if we agree with the idea in principle. When is it "go" time?
That said, the situation is way better than it is in the commonwealth. I'm not complaining. Their downfall was in their naivety. Americans lost theirs a long time ago or never had it to begin with.
I completely agree. My point is only that are some lines our government won't cross unless they get the guns first - and this is proving to be key. They won't stop trying and certainly a significant percentage of us won't give in. And yes, mindset is huge. I imagine there will much intentional confusion about the enemy, (they'll want us shooting each other of course) should this become necessary. I hope we can avoid it entirely.
Yes, but it is important to note that none of the ten amendments found in any of the three Bills of Rights ascribe any "rights" to "U.S. Employees," and that "Employee" is synonymous with "Citizen."
Only Americans have 2nd Amendment Guarantees.
And, something else to remember: One cannot delegate authorities that one does not possess themselves. Meaning, the Police and Military can only be armed to the same extent their American employers are.
The Bills(s) (plural) of Rights could go away tomorrow and the right of actual Americans to keep and bear whatever military arms we choose would not change.
The three service contracts have been breached (the first, The Constitution for the united States of America is still considered "in abeyance" due to the disabling of "The States of America" branch of our delegated governance, and the other two are technically voided for fraud and gross misconduct on the part of the Brits and Romans respectively).
Our Constitutional Guarantees (there's no such thing as a "Constitutional Right," utter gibberish) were written in as a reminder to the subcontractors as to what they -absolutely could not do,- on pain of death.
All the "infringements" going on currently are carefully worded, or done "offshore" (all the so-called "Federal Gun Control Laws" only apply within DC or Puerto Rico, or to any commercial entity doing business between these two "States.")
However, they are all still criminally liable for -Fraud by omission.- They have failed to explicitly inform us of the limits of their "rules and regulations," and simply rely on assumptions and intimidation to gain compliance.
The moment people allowed even the barest infringement, the "2nd Amendment" was clearly not of use.
Useless mouth-breathing wastes of oxygen like "Michael Moore" don't seen to grasp that the "Bills of Rights" are not subject to "repeal." They are "commandments," not "Laws." As an employee, he has no standing to unilaterally abrograte or alter the service contracts he is bound to obey (especially not the "shalt nots" on the Employer side).
The Bills of Rights are "negative commandments," and stipulate what cannot, will not, and shalt not -ever- be undertaken by our subcontractors. The moment they opened their yaps regarding any of these things, they immediately lost any presumption of legitimacy (that would be 1918 regarding Arms, when the first infringements were codified).
Our Natural Rights are granted by our Creator. They were established in The Unanimous Declaration of Independence of 1776. Which means any attempt to abrogate them implies those doing the infringement fancy themselves our "creators."
"They" are doing their best to "repeal" The Unanimous Declaration by trying to foment a movement (foolish, misguided, idiotic) to establish a "Second Declaration of Independence."
Doing that would "reset" everything, and cast away all the sacrifices and blood spent to establish the (still fully functional) original Declaration.
Nothing has changed regarding our founding document. What has changed is the status of Americans. The foreign criminals couldn't beat us by force (because they are simpering mewling fops), so they undertook to defeat us by fraud and guile. Which they -almost- did.
The Declaration is still here, but unless you come home to the Land, it does you no good, since The Declaration and Constitutions are -only- enforceable *on the Land.* U.S. Citizens and citizens of the United States are considered to be seafarers on "Liberty" (shore leave granted by their Captain/Slavemaster). Eschew "Liberty." It is freedom you seek.
Something that struck me quite powerfully about one of our friend Yuri's posts was the relationship between compulsory national service and those "rooftop Koreans" who knew exactly what to do when circumstances demanded, and how to do it well.
Taking masculinity out of the boy was the real priming of the weapon, wasn't it? Everything going forward depended on that.
As an old anti-communist I don’t believe that either Marxism/Bolshevism or Fascism/Nazism explain our situation well enough. Both Communism and Fascism are totalitarian in nature but this totalitarianism is fundamentally different. Sheldon Wolin called it inverted totalitarianism for some good reasons. Both Communist and Fascist totalitarianisms are rooted in the idea that political sphere predominates (single party dictatorship) with a strong ‘leader" in charge. In our totalitarianism the political sphere is utterly subverted by the economic forces. There is no single party with a strong leader. Our presidents aren’t “leaders”; that must be painfully obvious to all. They are puppets of forces behind the curtains. This system borrows widely from the other totalitarianisms but it also innovates. Bolsheviks did not replace generals with political hacks, but introduced political commissars to enforce the “party discipline". Stalin did have military purges and some incompetents may have replaced competent generals, but that was not intent of his purges; Stalin feared popular and competent generals as potential competitors. Bolsheviks would have never done to their military what ruling forces are doing to ours. The cultural BS is not the end aim, but means of our destruction. Destruction of our culture, civilization, history, family, transcending religious frameworks, military, Constitutional framework,..., of life itself. Neither communists nor fascists would have done these things to themselves. This novel totalitarianism is infinitely worse than either of the historic totalitarianisms and therefore we should not use those to explain our reality. None of that which they are destroying is viewed by them as something to cherish or to at least worth keeping. From people’s perspective they are abandoning us, betraying us, killing us. Their interests have diverged from the interests of the rest of us. In practical terms, they might as well be Aliens!
are you sure? just because they are not announcing themselves doe not mean they do not exist.
i suspect the bigger difference here is that this movement has been much more transnationally effective and as realized that popinjays and puppets and not "strong leaders" serve its ends best.
can you name a "strong leader" in the west?
we can argue about whether that's a cause or an effect of totalitarian encroachment (and i suspect it's some of each) but the net effect is to open them up groupthink and co-optation.
"are you sure? just because they are not announcing themselves doe not mean they do not exist."
There is no such visible leader, that is for sure, but like I’ve said, the real power is not to be found within the nominal power structures. I have no way of knowing if there is one “leader” or not within the forces behind the curtain. I suspect not. But this is not as relevant as my claim that this totalitarianism is fundamentally different from its historic predecessors.
"can you name a "strong leader" in the west?"
No, I cannot! All Five Eyes countries are certainly run by puppets, as are all other important imperial vassals. They act according to instructions from a supranational level.
"globalist aims do not seek strong nationalists"
I agree that strong nationalists are not what they desire. They want an effective dissolution of nation-states to rule the world unencumbered by nation states. These "leaders" will use all the dictatorial powers available in their jurisdictions, but that does not make the Hitlers, Stalins and such.
There were many such "schools”. The latest prominent one is WEF’s Young Global Leaders cult. But there are also subversions of all radical traditIons which were, for the most part, pursuing class warfare angle. The focus has since shifted (by design) to cultural arena with all sorts of manifestations. We need to understand that these are little more than tools in destruction of our societies, civilization, our lives. They are means to the higher aims from the standpoint of ultimate controllers. Dupes and puppets may indeed believe in the "utility" of such efforts but they are not the ultimate goals.
it was never really about class warfare, that was pretext.
these are the inheritors of the club of rome and the awful mix of malthusiansm, globalist dictatorial aims, and self congratulation for being "so elite."
they adopt whatever meme is needed to push the ends and divide the people. race, class, health, climate...
I think you can leave malthusianism out of it. I don't think they believe for a moment that the world is really running out of 'things.' The average peasant today lives better than a king 500 years ago, or so they say. Technology and human innovation are an amazing combination.
What 'they' really despise is the idea that somewhere in say Alabama there's a bunch of rednecks, playing softball and drinking Budweiser and eating BBQ, and those rednecks are probably having a better time than they are. They hate us for that. And they want to see us dead. So that they can sit around like the disembodied brains in the Star Trek episode 'Gamesters of Triskelion' betting on the outcomes of staged battles to the death of their captives.
It may be so that socialism was never ultimately about class warfare, but this was the stated means to the new reality of all socialists. The fact is this stated goal has been effectively excised and replaced by culture wars. This has had profound effect on “socialism” and “socialists". They’ve hardly noticed this surgery, despite the fact it is of such ideological magnitude that has effectively changed the meaning of “socialism".
Malthusians are ruling the Western world. Mathusianism was an ideology of British Empire. Modern day Green movement, Club of Rome, WEF, eugenics,..., are all descendants of Malthus. Who do you think runs the world? Read Carrol Quigley’s Anglo-American Establishment and all of it becomes much clearer.
Never have. Find any mention of "parties" in The Unanimous Declaration of Independence of 1776, or even any of the three Constitutions.
"Parties" are -all- Communistic in origin, and really got started in the late 1840's (particularly in Wisconsin) thanks to all the Commie rats fleeing their failed Commie "Revolutions" or being forcibly deported. They found fertile ground among a particular subset of the American population, and began working the long con to help destroy this country.
A "political party" is nothing more than a lobbying entity, with no authority granted whatsoever.
Americans don't "vote," especially not in the private corporate elections for the nominal "employees" (Citizens) of these corporations.
"Vote" means "wish, swear, or pledge." Does not mean choose.
You "vote" once and only once (when you "donate" your proxy, aka "register"). Actually turning out at the polls means less than nothing, since those you donated your proxy to will make the choices for you. And, most insidiously, that "registration" is the single biggest millstone around your neck if you are in fact an American (and not a "Roman Municipal Slave" presumed to have been born or naturalized in DC), for it -proves- unequivocally that you have consented to whatever your would-be Owners wish to do to you.
The single most important part of correcting your status, if so eligible, is to cancel (preferably with a paper trail that can be recorded at your local County Recorder's Office) the "Voter Registration." When less than 50% of the populace is "registered," the criminals can no longer claim they have "consent of the majority of the governed."
It has very little to do with socialism, as it has been traditionally understood. In our modern context socialism has lost all its meaning. Globalist structures will use anything and anyone that will advance their ultimate agenda. Modern day “socialists" are mere puppets of the globalist class.
I disagree, I think socialism is still very relevant. When you look at how WEF and Friends frame the glorious new future we'll live under- centralized control of resources, full welfare, wait-in-line healthcare, the absence of personal property- this is a socialist framework. It doesn't have the aesthetic of 20th century socialism, but as an operating system, this is the same animal.
I don’t disagree that is what they want, but I don’t believe this could be called socialism by its historical proponents. Socialism is all about who owns the means of production. Surely, you don’t foresee that where they are taking us will result in the people owning means of production! They are telling that we won’t even own anything!
The new system is an Ouroboros called Technocracy - it's the term the pyramid cap elites use themselves in white papers and in their 20th century trial runs. It's a fusion of the worst elements of communism and fascism which explains why western bankers and industrialists propped up, financially supported, and passed on technology to the Western nemeses including China and USSR. See the research of Professor Antony Sutton, the work of his colleague Technocracy scholar Patrick Wood, context behind Major Jordan's Diaries, Mao as a Yale student in China and editor of the Yale paper in China, see James Perloff's research and books - and much more evidence on the modus operandi. Historians explain Nazi Germany was the first Technocracy and, btw, Hitler's govt was deep into the Occult/Theosophy with close ties to Blavatsky/Bailey and the Luciferian doctrine that dominates the United Nations. The next attempt was the big North American 1930s movement known as Technocracy Inc that sought a global totalitarian dictatorship with continuous tracking and strict rationing. Incidentally, Elon Musk's grandfather Joshua Haldeman oversaw the Canadian branch of Technocracy Inc and he was also the Chairman of the Social Credit Party. The founders, Howard Scott and M King Hubbert (geologist of "peak oil" fame), came out of Columbia (where several academics from the Frankfurt School settled) and had prominent advisors such as Buckminster Fuller. The next iteration of Technocracy was the USSR but Stalin went nuts with paranoia twice and executed his top technocrat managers and the tech wasn't sufficient (same problem with Technocracy Inc) thus the project collapsed under its own weight [of paper records]. There's a long rich documented history of Technocracy that you will never hear about in the MSM. Many long golden threads that weave the tapestry that is the ouroboros. I started studying this in college 20 years ago after 9II. It's taken me a long time to understand it fully, standing on the shoulders of giants.
Sozhenitsyn saw this happen before when Communism rose in his country, "we had no awareness of the real situation". This time we better understand the "real situation"
"We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...”
― **Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956**
jordan peterson has a great descriptor of how to do this:
They push a little until you resist, then they pull back. They let you calm down, Then they push again until you start to resist up. Then they stop again. Before long you are 3 miles from where you started and wondering how the hell you got there
Peterson is correct! They do indeed use these tactics.
It is important to understand that they aims and a strategy how to achieve these aims. This strategy does not change much, but they are very flexible on the tactical level.
I found that book 20 years ago, and read it once a year, every year (along with John Ross's (RIP) "Unintended Consequences")
I dont understand, people who do not understand, how this works.
But most people, I have found, do not have the "time" to think about such things.
Life is to busy for them, with the job, kids, who will get kicked out of the house on "Big Brother" this week, to worry about little things like what direction the county is heading
John only wrote one book, he was in the middle of a second, but said he could not keep up with the "true goings on" as they kept surpassing the fiction he was trying to write.
He passed away on April 29th, 2022. He was a good guy, and is missed.
But the book written by John F. Ross, War on the Run, is a very good read also
I hate to use this term because it evokes silly, smelly teenage activists, but the best descriptor is the non-ironic, academic meaning of the term "crypto-fascist," with "fascist" cleaving to Mussolini's description that "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
The framework is Globalist Socialism, something that- as you pointed out- is a completely new animal, because we simply didn't have a globalized society in the Cold War. Multinational corporations are the best example of this- capable of projecting tremendous power across legal boundaries and territories largely with impunity, and with allegiance to no one (or possibly any) national identity.
The real idea man behind Italian fascism was Giovanni Gentile. The important discovery must be that the ultimate destination of this “Globalist Socialism” is not any sort of real socialism, as this terms has been historically understood. Mussolini was a socialist before becoming a fascist, and Nazi was an abbreviation of Nationalsozialismus (national socialism). Neither Mussolini, nor Nazis could be rightly called socialists.
I know China is an easy target, but the group to which all those dear things mean even less are the current imperial controllers. At least to Chinese some of those things have value in their own context.
Re: "Both Communist and Fascist totalitarianisms are rooted in the idea that political sphere predominates (single party dictatorship) with a strong ‘leader" in charge."
That "strong leader" will be Trump upon his return. 🙄😬
LOL. Yes, indeed. When I hear such nonsense from friends I usually say, “imagine Hitler or Stalin being kicked off the Twitter!” or “Trump could not even command his driver where to go. Does that sound like a dictator?”
Great essay. A slow-motion revolution is going on as the military and big city police departments are being purged aggressively.
I fear that, just as Republican states pushed back for freedom during the Covid madness, Democratic states will act individually to eviscerate the Second Amendment. Illinois just banned 80% arms, unserialized blocks of aluminum or polymer that need to be drilled, milled, and meticulously assembled to form an operating firearm. The lying governor claimed that these "ghost guns" were a scourge in the state. The reality is, of course, that Chicago gangbangers have not the intelligence, skill, or patience to perform the task of completing these guns. Their "ghost guns" are stolen weapons with the serial numbers scratched off.
Democrats will work to ban semi-automatic rifles (ARs/AKs) in their states. They are not the equal of military-grade ARs, but they are the most formidable rifle available to civilians, so they must go. Can't have even the semblance of a fair fight when the SHTF...and that's where this is going.
An AR is a squad weapon and most do not train with others to create a fire team. The Iraqi and Afghan fighters found the best way to combat squads with a medium range rifle is to fight it with a long range rifle which the United States has lots of them. They are called hunters and train every year with lots of guns and know the territory. The US has 38 million hunting licenses last year alone.
But would private contractors "responding to an emergency situation threatening the lives and livelyhoods of valued members of the community" have that problem?
Not to mention that "emergency responders were prevented from operating in the disaster area due to extremist fringe elements of militias and looters firing upon the firemen and Medevac teams" necessitating pacification via airborne non-lethal dispersal vapours".
All you need is an enemy that is "evil"-seeming enough and you're good to go.
But wait Doc, isn't there something in the Brady bill about them disposing of these records after 90 days??
Ha-ha -- just kidding -- of COURSE they kept 'em all. Every last one of them.
An FFL goes out of business, it's his responsibility to ship every last one of his yellow-sheets off to ATF. They have just gotten cocky enough to admit the truth. That should tell us something.
Right, Wild Bill. They will try confiscation first; no doubt in my mind. Probably freeze bank/investment accounts of those unwilling to turn over weapons. Then draconian punishments for those with "illegal" weapons. Remember: they seek "equity" in all things. That would include prison enrollment. Too few white guys in prison. Gun "safety" laws will change that.
Correct. In 2016 the US led 114,000 alliance forces in the Battle of Mosul took 9 months to take the city and caused $50 billion dollars in damage to take out 8,000 ISIL fighters.
A quick search showed nothing about that...I think "a death by a thousand cuts" is how they'll bleed the 2A to death. Courts are standing firm, overruling government overreach in some of these cases. But for how long?
SCOTUS needs a definitive ruling on 2A. We need them to clarify what "not infringed means" and outlaw all screening rules for firearms.
Bannon did an amazing podcast a few weeks ago on how this constitutionalist supreme court is a once in a lifetime opportunity to dismantle the federal government (almost all of it is unconstitutional). That opportunity needs to be seized.
Many do not understand how we KNOW what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the Bill of Rights. You see they debated, talked and wrote about it and we can read them today. Here is an example from some of the people that actually wrote and voted for the 2nd Amendment:
“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
"...to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials." George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8
I should also note that if you believe this is a 200 year old out of touch document than by all means we have an Amendment Process that can fix that.
Some very wise men indeed in understanding human greed. That greed has never been tempered by our "civilization". Where are such thinkers today? Perhaps in the VDH's but well-educated idiots prefer to wallow in their greed. Worse, we often applaud it!
I agree with the sentiment of this article, which forces me to consider: does anyone else have 2A single issue voter fiends who seem blind to the wider cultural context?
One of mine, in particular, comes to mind. He’s so myopic about gun control that he has no sense of how badly we lose/have lost on every other vector. Ironically, these same losses are what pave the way for further 2A encroachment. It’s odd that he’s so redpilled on guns, but absolutely grill minded in everything else.
This is true of ALL single issue voters! In the same way that many conservatives still believe this is just about a “stolen election “ or mean tweets, completely not understanding the big picture. I WISH this was just about a stolen election instead of a New World Oder, the Great Reset, WEF, etc, etc, etc. Such naïveté….
I don't see the logic of your post. 1. There are No 2A democRats 2. many Repubs are pink on red flag gun confiscation laws. So 2A IS The TEST for Liberty and Freedom. Every other issue will Fall if the 2A falls. Name one exception:
How is my safe full of guns going to prevent my kids from being prescribed hormone blockers from the nurse at their kindergarten (in secret)? I feel like we’re the best armed, oppressed people that have ever lived...
That’s an option so long as they allow us to do that. If they perceived homeschooling as a threat, they would remove that from the table. Everything we have, we are allowed to have but them, until they decide otherwise...
“Massive”? Yeah, I guess, but please understand, we -meaning people who read dissident Substacks and want to homeschool- are still a tiny minority of the population.
The kind of uprising (of non-compliance) you are describing simply won’t be an option without elites on our side. Even if you successfully hide your kids away in a bunker until they’re 18, their ability to pursue higher education and/or land a job will be dependent on government endorsed credentialism that they can withhold at their discretion.
not to be a contrarian.(well maybe I am) humans got along very well for a very long time without higher brainwa, education, and there are always jobs for people in the real world of plumbing, wiring, music, farming. and all the other life skills.
I like where you’re coming from and I consider you a friend... but no, those jobs in the “real world” are only as solid as THEY allow them to be. With the flick of a wrist, a new law/building code comes into existence which states that all plumbing must be performed by ‘certified’ plumbers from a state sanctioned technical school.
The entry requirements for these schools included a diploma from an accredited high school. Accreditation will not be available for home “schools”. And no, there isn’t an option to “test out” and/or challenge the accreditation or certification processes. Such merit based tests are racist, haven’t you heard.
Just like that, one less job is on the table. That’s how easy it is to take away whatever you think you are building. Even if you get really involved in politics at the relevant level... even if you take over your city/county government, that still won’t stop the feds from flooding the labor market with ‘diverse’ workers willing to do the job for a fraction of what you and your kids would accept.
What are you gonna do, report them to ICE? Yeah, I’m sure the feds will get right on that.
Again, I like and agree with you in sentiment but we need to be realistic about how bad our situation is. LARPing as Amish isn’t something I’m enthusiastic about and if it actually threatened THEM, they’d just make it illegal anyway.
nice. and astonishing for me to have an articulate conversation on substack. my somewhat renegade neighborhood has since inception (68) been a quiet diy, ignore the regulations, build your own, barter, trade, harvest wildlife sort of place. to such an extent that the county actually passed a variance for those of us who ignored the subdivision rules about dividing our property. harder maybe now, but still gotta be possible.
that bit about the labor doing it for less makes me smile. decade ago all the bilingual laborers formed a union and started charging twice what unilingual folks got. their wages are still higher. as is the quality/dependability of work.
I got your acknowledgement, and I appreciate your response. Many of Us are not going to come out of this alive, from various causes, so it's just a decision to live free as long as we live. God bless, I wish You well and the rest of us as well. We all win if we maintain our personal Integrity.
Keep your kids home and shoot anyone coming to get them from Child Services. You didn't expect to live forever did you? Guns are made to kill not sit in gunsafes.
Just Decide "Who" dies. btw, when your kids are ruined, or dead and you did nothing, you will wish to be dead.
Don't argue with me for your excuses, that's totally on you.
Damn dude, I like the enthusiasm but sheesh. I already fought in one war so I don’t feel like I have to defend against accusations of cowardice.
You kinda bring up two strategies:
The first, where I shoot anyone from Child Services that comes my way, has been tried by better trained and equipped (Ruby Ridge is my best example). Not only do they always lose, but afterwards the Regime uses them to push through even more oppressive measures and often with popular support since normies are made to fear the defeated. Also, I would like my kids to be able to participate in a wider society, not just my cabin/bunker collective. I feel entitled to being access the fruits of my democratic participation.
Second, when you talk about deciding “who” dies, I think you are describing a “Decapitation Campaign”, where we use targeted violence to sever key nodes in the enemy’s structure and reduce their capacity. I like this idea but the historical data is not on our side. Many powerful nations have launched such campaigns against “terrorist” groups (organized crime, drug cartels, etc), and plenty of said groups have launched similar campaigns against their asymmetrically powerful opponents.
What history reveals is that these campaigns can be useful, but only when supported by wider, more conventional tactics. On their own, they almost always fail.
Let’s say we put together a hit list of everyone we perceive and the enemy. All of the WEF, and bunch of billionaires, politicians, twitter blue checks, etc. and we start picking them off one by one. The vacuums would be filled easily. All the while, this rise in right wing violence would be weaponizes against us to great effect.
The best way to utilize a decapitation strategy is to anticipate the vacancies we create and have sympathizers standing by to fill them. Either with direct supporters or with those sufficiently sympathetic to come to the negotiating table. Do you see that as being likely? I doubt that if George Soros disappeared, he’d get “replaced” by Peter Thiel.
Basically, there aren’t winning strategies available to us (us meaning normal people) at this time. We are basically in a holding patter, waiting for an elite of our own, to rally us to their cause.
A couple of friends of friends- colonel and above- told me two things recently (this past year)- in a chat over coffee where I began to express my concerns about this exact topic.
1) Unofficially, the US military (at least the Army) COUNTS on a largely armed civilian populace and factors this into their strategic planning for invasion defense. The military does NOT actually consider itself capable of effectively defending the continental US (open on two side with oceans and the other two sides with huge wide porous borders) by itself.
2) A significant portion of brass have had quiet conversations about "If... would we?" and pretty much everyone in these guys' social circles said emphatically "no." You would absolutely have a nontrivial splinter of the military joining whatever the "resistance" looked like, and they would mostly be way more experienced leadership.
I'm not saying nothing you're talking about today is a problem- it is, and it keeps me up at night- but it isn't all bad.
I want to be clear, I'm a real pessimist, and have been very firmly convinced of the opposite- this conversation really opened my eyes to the fact that we, the public, very simply do NOT see or hear accurately what is going on.
How cAn we see accurately? If "we" don't have friends in the military, in the government, who disagree, in the local police forces. If we don't have a large number of friends that "think like us" in our small area. Had I never found a link to a Toby Rogers post months ago, read other links I saw in the comments, and subscribed to more and more stacks I "found" in those links, I would have never seen your comment. I'd still be sitting here thinking, because people are still in the military, they're against us.
You're right, we CAN'T really see accurately, and much of that is deliberate. You need look no further than the near-total media blackout in the Western world of the literally MILLIONS of people around the world protesting in first-world nations against COVID tyranny and economy-destroying ESG/Green bullshit.
Making you feel like a fringe minority is part of the trap.
The solution is that people who are fortunate enough to stumble onto nuggets that contradict the narrative have to have the courage and effort to share and share widely, and for those that received them to pass it on widely.
That's literally it. It is not guaranteed that we will be exposed to dissenting views. Every instance is an example of luck that we are obliged to multiply if we want to keep the fire burning.
My son was in the National Guard, maybe 10 years ago, and he asked the guys in his unit if they would fire on American civilians if ordered to so. About 50% said they would. "You have to follow orders." I imagine the percentage is higher now. I wouldn't count the who's on my side chickens before they hatch.
"The guys in his unit" are the young kids Gato is talking about- they're going to, as you said yourself, "follow orders." What I'm telling you is that, even with the state of things today, many senior officers would absolutely NOT give that order, and in fact would probably give "opposite" orders.
THAT'S what matters. Kids fresh out of indoctrination training would do anything they were told- or, at least, that's what they'd say out loud while their friends were watching.
Many of them when exposed to real hazards will reconsider. Some of them will then refuse. In order to be effective you must accept hate for the enemy. The enemy must become the other and we are in a process to attempt that. Not sure of success.
I can only say I hope you're right. You may have identified a different dynamic that I didn't see. I think we can both agree that you'd have to be insane to order such a thing and the insane don't make the best leaders. They can sure do a lot of damage though.
I'm emphatic about this because it was a very revelatory moment for me. The crap you see 20-somethings on TikTok blathering about in their crisp new BDUs is posturing (no matter WHICH direction they go in).
The senior leadership are NOT spooging their silly trendy views all over social media because you don't do that if you're a military professional, no matter what your views are.
It cuts both ways, though- the kids are just as likely, for the same reason, to follow GOOD orders.
They are kids- in mentality if not body- and it's important to remember that.
We (as a public body) need to care more about the politics behind our military- and I don't simply mean defense spending- and signal to the leadership, who DO and CAN exercise critical thinking- where we stand. Which means having a more unified voice.
We also frankly need to get intelligence agencies the fuck out of our military. They're more detrimental to a Constitutionally-aligned military than PMCs.
Here in King County (Seattle), WA, the vaccine mandate/ideological purity test has succeeded in weeding out the 10% of the city and county police force that would think for themselves on this issue. Same with our State Patrol. Conform or be fired. The coopting of police is well underway here.
"the capture of justice and investigative/enforcement arms in service of ideology and one sided political partisanship is the road to one party rule. and “brand political foes as terrorists/reactionaries/enemies of the state” is pure bolshevism 101."
We have had uni-party rule and whitewash investigations with rare exceptions like 1976 Church/Pike Committees. Challengers have always been seen as "terrorist threats" and the illusion of fighting to protect Americans more facade than fact but now it has reached absurd, obvious imbalance. It's all true but hardly new just grown so huge it can't be covert.
CIA Family Jewels - Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents
June 26, 2007, 1 p.m. - The full "family jewels" report, released today by the Central Intelligence Agency and detailing 25 years of Agency misdeeds, is now available on the Archive's Web site. The 702-page collection was delivered by CIA officers to the Archive at approximately 11:30 this morning -- 15 years after the Archive filed a Freedom of Information request for the documents.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has embarked on an unusual approach to ensure that the United States is secure from future terrorist attacks. The agency has developed a network of nearly 15,000 spies to infiltrate various communities in an attempt to uncover terrorist plots. However, these moles are actually assisting and encouraging people to commit crimes. Many informants receive cash rewards of up to $100,000 per case.
It's hard to rely on rt.com for such stories when they have a vested interest in undermining our government. Not saying they don't tell the truth, but they're an avowed purveyor of another country's interest.
On a personal note: I've long noticed a pattern where "lone wolf" nut cases are amazingly detected and provided with fake bomb materials by the FBI. This happened so many times that I realized that they're being goaded/entrapped into doing this, and it's easy to dismiss a crazy person who says the FBI provided the materials or pushed them into doing something they would never have done.
Gotta disagree since so many Americans banned from corp media were hosted by RT including former NYTimes Pulitzer winning Chris Hedges.. Abby Martin, Lee Camp etc.
"i want to be clear here: this is not about self-identity. if you want to see yourself as a man, a woman, a 27 gendered “other,” or an internet cat, knock yourself out. that’s your business. pursue your happiness. i hope you catch it."
No, no, a thousand times no. This is the attitude that brought us to this point. "Just leave us be" turned into "we demand the right to marry" which quickly became "you must bake us a cake". When you let the enemy sneak close to your lines, eventually they will overrun you. It may be true that you can't stop someone from being what they are (or think they are) but what we've done is normalize it. And when society allows the abnormal to become normal all bets are off.
You can be sure that it won't be long before animal lovers will want to marry their horses and brothers and sisters will demand to marry each other. Don't think it will never happen; 40 years ago the idea of men marrying men was unthinkable.
Unfortunately, Rush was right about gay marriage and transgenderism. And I fear he'll be proved right about our continuing decline into utter depravity.
But there is still hope. Read the first part of Genesis 19.
"Gender" is a thing of grammar. There can be infinite numbers of genders. The only thing it will do is piss of the schoolkids that have to learn how to conjugate verbs in all these "genders."
"Sex" is a thing of biology. It is fixed, physically detectable, and at this time, cannot be changed. It is why the term "transsexual" that was prevalent in the early aughts magically disappeared and was replaced with "transgender."
Another thing to remember is that this is about "Trance," not "Trans." They are using mass-hypnosis and "Entrancing" people to accept this Woken Demon (for surely you have asked, "what has awakened?) nonsense.
Reject the Trance. Reject the skinsuit-wearing demon worshippers.
The main reason the US did not see the violent police suppression of lockdown dissenters that was seen in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, etc. is specifically due to local police control. By and large, municipal police and county sheriff's said from the start they would not enforce onerous dictates and instead would rely on "education" (whatever that means). There were some exceptions but they were the outliers.
Bottom line is that it was pretty rare to see people carted off in cuffs for going to park or not wearing a mask in the US. This was not the case in many other so-called western democracies where even departments that appear municipal in their name are actually controlled at the state or national level.
This is the end goal of "defund the police" IMO. It's not to get rid of all police but those that are locally accountable. Of course they will be replaced with police controlled at the state or more likely federal level.
alas, wow was puerto rico an exception.
getting mobbed on the street by 10 cops in literal riot gear for not wearing a mask on the street is a helluva experience.
trust me, you do not want it.
Wow, I did not know that, perhaps the police structure is different due to it's non-state status?
I'm in the belly of the beast (LA County) and even here the cops were nearly sedate about the whole thing. In the latest session the legislature tried to pass a law forcing municipal departments to enforce health department orders. It failed as even in nutty California they could not get the votes for it.
I am too Jeff (LAC). And to our points, sheriff Villanueva told the city council to go pound sand.
Well they weren't that sedate in April 2020 when they arrested that dangerous "surfer" or "paddle boarder" in the ocean by himself. For me, that was one of the most ridiculous moments in this hoax of a pandemic.
Yes it was ridiculous but there's a huge difference between what was done in the early weeks of the pandemic (when the mortality was not well understood) versus afterwards. In addition, that was an isolated incident and I'm willing to bet, though not positive, charges were dropped.
Compare that to what was done in the Netherlands and Australia over a year after covid first started and was by then well understood. Cops beat peaceful protesters on the streets with clubs and pepper-sprayed little old ladies. These were not isolated events but happened often, there is all kinds of footage out there. It's nothing at all like what happened to that surfer dude.
Police departments with local autonomy corrected these abuses far more quickly whereas "democracies" with state and national departments generally did not. That's why local departments have to go, they failed to "just follow orders" unlike those thugs pepper-spraying grandma.
In canada we got a good taste of abuse of power combined with state owned media to position it as if it were for our own good. Astoundingly most of us got our news from overseas about what a travesty an outrage it was we were experiencing. Trudo and Christia Freeland our acolytes of WEF eager to please Klaus schaeffer
And don't forget January 6th. The premise for sending in cops to break it up was that it violated the DC ban on public assembly.
or force vaccinated mentally handicapped people
I recall also there was something from China where a guy was walking on the beach on his then being chased/running from the police
I saw a couple of one off videos of skater boys and girls getting rough-housed... But generally yeah.
And as someone who was literally scanning the globe I had Tanzania, Mexico, and Southern US states as goto areas. Then the Tanzanian president got the heart-attack gun like several other tropical leaders. Then FED shut down border for unjabbed. Mexico and it's cartels are literally my only hope now if it all goes south this winter/decade. I have bags packed and if UK leader "is definitely not going to need to lockdown again" I reckon I have a week to bolt.
I would recommend you put Texas on that list. No chance of disarming the population in Texas. Florida too though stay north :-). The further south you go, the further north you get - as in domination by north easterners who fled the cold but brought their politics with them.
Well I have to break in and being an illegal immigrant I already mentioned the fed policy which your governors can't do anything about
Two points of correction: 1, A person can not be an "illegal immigrant" under the united states constitution, no such thing is possible. An immigrant is by definition someone who has become a permanent resident via the immigration process as defined by law. A person who reside in the US by some means other than immigration, is illegal but not an immigrant. The term "illegal immigrant" was invented for propaganda purposes: the United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Labeling people who are unable or unwilling to immigrant per the legal process "immigrants" clouds the actual issues, misrepresents an illegal (and thus readily exploited and abused) population, with the intention of engendering sympathy along with the confusions. BTW several hundred years ago our federal law differentiated between immigration and importation. But we decided some time ago importation was a bad thing and stopped admitting to it.,
2. You are under the impression that state governors are bound by federal immigration law, am impression and scholar of our constitutional republic might make because it is fundamental that immigration and naturalization is explicitly a power (and responsibility) set forth in the constitution to congress. However the reality is many governors and mayors have publicly (and with great media attention) declared themselves "sanctuaries" and claim to defy federal law. The most recent rash of this fluff coincided with the Trump administration delivering a proposed law into the House of Representatives that would have reformed immigration law, including most or all of the provisions former president Obama enumerated in the now famous memo "DACA" and what these same governors and mayors claimed to be wishing to achieve via their defiance. That bill, of course was both stopped in congress and ignored by the media. The political party controlling the House and the committee that killed the bill is the same one that claims to represent the illegal population, and the one that blocks al actual attempts to change the law so as to achieve the stated "compassionate" goals.
Accuracy is important for many reasons, but mostly, you can't solve a problem without accurately and honestly characterizing the problem. Modern politicians seem genetically incapable of either, one reason they only create problems. In order to maintain the illusion of a "caring", Obama signed a memo that, in essence, instructed federal law enforcement to break the law, while selling it as a package of great things none of which can be achieved via an executive action without changing the underlying immigration law. This is what illusionists call success: it gave the appearance of something that did not actually happen.
I’m in Mexico City at the moment, and it’s fairly sane here... but they do still wear masks in businesses. Anything locally owned and operated probably wouldn’t care but if the business takes credit cards, assume you’ll need to mask up.
I can’t imagine the cops caring either way. They’re pretty unmotivated to enforce any laws.
Had my first "mask up" moment in a while on Saturday. One of the shop owners had a BIG sign that read "MASKS STILL REQUIRED HERE". I respect that it's their store so their rules. But it is kind of sad because we know these folks an they are good people.
St. Johns, Oregon, pastry shop had a mask message. Its on the north edge of Portland. That was more than three months ago. Not sure what the mask status is now.
I'm thinking the same but it crossed my mind that even cartels can be bought.
I had an interesting experience in Santa Cruz during the peak of the mask politics. I had just left the UPS store and was sitting in my car, alone, catching up on email or text messages or something - mask off. A county sheriff's deputy and an CHP officer were in the parking lot when I walked out (with mask on) and got in the car, apparently consulting about something critical to the safety of the empire. The CHP officer walked up to my car, rapped on the window, and began to harass me for not having a mask. Before I could even roll down the window to respond, the deputy walked over and said something to the effect of "seriously, dude? WTF?" . BTW the CHP officer was not wearing a mask.
BTW my usual defense if someone got upset with me for not having a mask on was "I forgot sorry" and it usually worked because of my grey beard :-). Just another senile geezer :-)
I'm in LA County also, part of a group pushing back. Believe me, there are a LOT of local deputies who are enraged with the oppressive mask and vaccine mandates. Many went around even in mid-2020 specifically telling people to go ahead and unmask if they wanted, and that nothing would be done for radical non-compliance with Marxist Masking/Lockdown rules. They tend to understand the constitution and the origins of totalitarianism much better than your average police or CHP officer. I wish more people knew that now - many people just remember the disgusting paddleboarder incident. All the deputies I know were really mad about that absurd arrest. The riots of 2020 and how those were treated woke up pretty much all of the ones that didn't "get it " during the first half of 2020.
I wrote a three-part article against masking on my substack, in preparation for the next round of mask orders from our Marxist Board of Supervisors... maybe good for showing people when cases go up again and they want to demand performative compliance:
Www.vitalantidote.com
Someone (Newsom?) tried to get a fighter jet from the California National Guard involved, but apparently they pushed back.
https://ktla.com/news/california/after-fighter-jet-placed-on-alert-status-california-guard-members-feared-it-would-be-used-to-frighten-protesters/
Very much so. Nothing short of gut wrenching vile behaviour from many police here in Australia on peaceful citizens - some respectful protestors, some 'disobeying' re maskless, but plenty who were well within "emergency powers" rules and still got trampled by the gestapo. Now I can imagine how bad it can easily get.
Watching that recent YT of a guy in the UK being ARRESTED (!) because he arranged the pride flags into a swastika was insightful. He apparently offended someone. Bonkers.
An enemy of the state if you cross the Cult or one is f their pets. Puss on them all
I hear Panama was pretty bad , too. Apparently one of the Davos crews' test beds for lockdown politics.
Hmm. It is a smaller scale republic, therefore could be a test proxy for the US . What hold does WEF have on that country? How active is the president with the wef crew?
Let's not forget that whomever has control over Panama also control the Panama canal and the flow of goods through said canal. Pretty big deal when you consider the alternative routes to circumvent that obstacle. Makes sense when you consider the WEF's agenda of choking economies and creating forced food shortages globally. Lots of tentacles emanate from the WEF. All their "Young Global Leaders" were and still are carefully hand-picked by the top brass for their potential to "contribute to the cause."
Keep us hungry and compliant is the goal? Fukkers.
Long term, interesting to see whether the Chinese can get their Nicaraguan canal under construction. Why Schwabenklaus (as symbolic of the Davos crew) still draws air?
IIRC in the 90's, the canal was "leased?" by a Chinese shipping company. I remember it bothering me at the time - but - I seemed to be the only one concerned. I don't know if this is still the case or not (though I suspect it is)
Kunstler, retired CIA, mentioned that Panama was hit with everything they could throw at it, and it was all strictly kept out of the media, maybe via the US version of a "D-Notice." Panama is every bit the US colony the PR and other statelets.
You're A bad ass and humble. I saw end of video... 10 cops in ICU, you strutting around
This happened to you?
yes and to many i know.
Respect is all I can say.
Yeah, I was shaken up after standing my ground when a little old lady told me I should put it on in a parking lot. Can't imagine what a bunch of cops would do to my nervous system!
Wait, can you elaborate? you were in PR? Tell us more. Only 8 cops and how many people aside from cops? No one does anything they just let the cops have their way. I just don't get this. If the street was full of me, we'd have kicked their asses. We MUST push back. Peace isn't working
Sounds like PR was a testing ground for the rest of the states. What is gun ownership like in PR??
Yes we had some of that here in California. I'm not aware of such a show of force for mask infractions but some nearly as scary stuff. I think many if not most local LE entities tried to stay "clean" but not all. We some cities and counties almost as nuts as PR (stay well clear of SF for example). When a "banned" business attempted to remain open, cops were sent in to force closure. When local LE refused, the governor sent state LE in.
But Jeff's point is only reinforced by your experience. The diversity of LE in California was a significant impairment to absolute adherence to the dictates of Lord Newsom. You can count on The Party drafting legislation to try and fix that.
This is from two years ago but I just saw it this morning. It's from Columbus Ohio where a federal agent showed up at some guy's house and demanded to see his guns (without a warrant). The guy called the local police and they ended up cuffing the fed at gunpoint and tasing him. Watch to the end as the fed puts on a masterful display of claiming left-wing victim privilege.
https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1553709678089146368
This was one of the best things I saw yesterday.
The conversation my family had around it was centered around this: did you see how utterly uncooperative, belligerent, and aggressive- how much like a CRIMINAL BEING ARRESTED the Fed behaved? I think he even said "I can't breathe" and "my wife is pregnant" at some point. NONE of this would have occurred if he had surrendered- he'd have shown his ID and been back to work in 30 seconds, probably with an apology.
The fact that he resisted arrest ALL THE WAY points to tremendous deficiencies in the training and disposition of federal agents. Which, honestly, should make us feel good- these are not professionals. These are bullies.
I think it has nothing to do with training deficiencies and more with arrogance and a sense of being untouchable.
I would argue that at a minimum, it's both.
The concept of federal agents intersecting with local law enforcement is neither new nor unusual- it's a cliche in movies and TV.
I would be extremely surprised if absolutely no one responsible for developing the training curriculum of field agents has ever considered this exigency and developed a protocol for it: cooperate and identify yourself as quickly as possible.
That this person did not do it means they were improperly trained or hired. It is unfathomable that there is no training for "what to do if local cops see you waving a gun and don't know you're a fed." I would bet my every worldly possession on it.
Both are related, too. I suspect some or much of the attitude and arrogance is the product of training, or if you prefer, indoctrination. But let us not discount the individual idiot acting alone theory, either.
Many years ago I trained LE officers in tactics (with and without weapons). Helping a friend's business he started after observing the dismal state of training and the large number of officers being hurt or killed as well as the amount of collateral damage. Most were good people and it was an honor and joy to help them learn skills and tactics that enhanced their career longevity prospects.
Once in a while we'd get a guy who could not be trained. Attitude and arrogance were overwhelming. Needless to say, training was ineffective in those cases.
I've not been involved with that for decades and so have no idea what training is typical anymore, but I have encountered my share of bad cops. More good ones, for sure, but more bad ones than I should. I avoid certain cities because there seem to be more of the later, and because the LE priorities are screwed up (SF and SJ to name 2).
Yeah. After all, he's a Federal agent! 🙄 Therefore, laws don't apply to him! 🙄
Agree, an attitude we are cultivating in todays criminal
This is a prime example of why The Party wants to defund the police.
Oh my goodness, the same federal agent that was tased by Columbus PD (James Burk) was charged with stealing wine from Kroger's back in 2015 (from Ned Ryun).
https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/delhi-township/james-burk-atf-agent-charged-with-stealing-wine-from-kroger
Buried lede: "A spokeswoman said the agency is aware of the charge and that it is handling the matter internally but would not comment further". They do look after their own.
maybe his wife was pregnant. and needed a drink.
😂🤣😂🤣
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I hope there's a story out there that Burke also stole some tobacco. That way he'd hit the trifecta of his agency's mission.
Yep. Probably buying rez cigs and reselling them. But only because he has a medical problem: Congenital lying and arrogant prickdom.
😂🤣😂🤣 --- OMG! That would be sooo perfect!
Hooo my goodness. Now that is funny. Anyone else would have been out on their rumps. How does one demand compliance with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent when he cannot himself obey they law... with alcohol. Maybe HE should give over HIS gun. At the very least. He seems unstable. Pity the pregnant wife knowing she is birthing 50% of his genes. Blimey.
It is Alcohol TF.
Sorry, very lame. In hopes 1 in 10k will laugh
Well, you made me laugh, so you hit your mark. 😉😊😋
Oh, wow! A wino, too! 😂🤣
Probably sneaks in and takes drugs too
Cop to partner: "Get your taser out."
Fed, panicked: "NO DON'T DO THAT!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh that was great.
The video ends before it happens but according to local news reports they did actually tase him.
Oh that news makes my soul dance!
That is THE best! --- Have you seen the new video of the ATF agent with 2 armed back ups, local police, at some man's house wanting to see his recently purchased guns, because he purchased more than 2? This is evidently a new law. Purchase more than 2 and the ATF comes to check that you have them. Different outcome, for sure, the man went to get the guns. --- One of the versions of the video says to ask if they have a warrant, if you are under arrest, and to tell them you will meet with them with your lawyer present.
I doubt it is a "new law", more likely a new regulation written/implemented by an overreaching bureaucracy. If we can maintain the Republic, the recent West Virginia v. EPA ruling by SCOTUS should start affecting the ways that the federal bureaucracy can impose endless, arbitrary regulations on We the People.
Exactly, probably not even a regulation but a policy. Someone sent a memo.
Memos don't nullify the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. If a fed is pointing a gun at you then please comply, we don't need any martyrs. But make it clear they are doing it without your consent and sue them into oblivion afterwards.
If you are going to quote the fourth, be accurate: the prohibition is against search or seizure without a warrant issued upon probable cause. Any such action without a warrant is unconstitutional. In another example of ignoring binding law and making stuff up, courts have allowed an "interpretation" that a warrant OR probably cause is sufficient. But that's not what the words say. It says the warrant can only be issued upon oath or affirmation that there is probable cause. The idea is it takes at least two people - one (LE officer, DA, etc) to justify the action to another (a judge).
BTW "oath or affirmation" is also very clearly defined in the historical context (what the term meant at the time). It means swearing that YOU PERSONALLY know all the information you provided is true and correct. Thus warrants obtained using false information, or information not verified by the person swearing the oath, are illegal. Even in the FISA court.
In our current era, it seems the practical answer is that memos, policy "interpretation" and regulatory overreach do nullify the constitution. Time and again. It's wrong. It's destroying our nation. But it's become the SOP.
Just saw this and frankly don't even remember making the comment but I didn't "quote the fourth" but summarized its current practice. Good grief, what a life it must be to go around making pedantic, long-winded, contrarian corrections to strangers on the internet. Yet we get it, you are brilliant.
The point I was making was that someone sending a memo doesn't overturn constitutional protections regardless of what is claimed. Document the violation and take legal action if one has the inclination and resources. This has been done countless times by citizen activists and often results in an apology and a settlement.
I wasn't writing a legal brief but commenting on how public servants performing legally dubious acts are often held accountable. Regular people do this all the time regardless of your screed. But in your snarky condescension you couldn't help slamming me for "misquoting" the fourth which I obviously wasn't doing, it wasn't a literal summary of current case law. Normal thinking people understand that.
You can still write your off-topic diatribe about how everything is going to hell in a handbasket without impugning others making general observations.
It is not a federal law - see the point in gato's excellent analysis noting that ATF makes up it's own rules often quite far from what is actually law.
Depending on the state it may be a state law but then why would ATF be involved?
I think the new one was in Delaware, but I can't swear to it.
Could be a state law and they called the ATF to make it a bigger show.
It's all about "optics" and nothing about saving lives. The BATF reports that there are over 200 million guns THAT THEY HAVE RECORD of in the US. Given that until about 20 years ago BATF was prohibited from keeping records for more than 5 years and the large number of firearms sold before record keeping was mandatory (200 or so years) we can guess the number is much higher. The VAST majority of Americans have guns. Peaceful gun owners are not a problem - if we were, you'd know.
So rather than figure out how to stop bad things from happening, go after the people who are doing only good. After all, bad people are much more dangerous.
"...bad people are much more dangerous." And they are the ones that will get a probono attorney to sue your ass for some alleged discrimination, too.
Wow. That’s exactly how it should go down! Thank you for sharing that!
I watched it twice. So satisfying. High five Columbus police!
Gates, Harrari, pfizer , who want Global...
I want Neighborhood control
I'm all for what happened, but why did they taze him?
Also, Salty is described as far right. I view him as left of center
Only one problem, Jeff... We're gonna expect this high level and more going forward.
I think, because they were trying to cuff him and he just kept fighting the cuffs. I'd pay to taze a fed, if I wouldn't get in trouble.
Ok, if cuffs weren't on, yes
wriggling and improper appropriation of the "oink".
He is most obnoxious, unAmerican
But this doesn't warrant tazing. But, it's reality.
wow. real or not that is the funniest thing I've seen today
I completely agree. I’ve always said that the local police and the sheriff are one of the most fundamental elements to our freedom and liberty (sounds strange, I know) as it relates to fed gov tyranny. In many blue states, there is a lot of land that has county sheriff law enforcement who will ultimately be responsible for saying “no”.
What scares me though, and the second point of this article, and yours too, they are minimizing that local police and expanding the federal law enforcement. Agree that any (federal especially) law enforcement should not be politicized but sadly that’s already happened.
What about “no standing army?” What do we think the DHS, FBI, and DOJ are??
Don't forget all the guns and ammo bought for the IRS and HHS. All the alphabet agencies are armed.
That’s right. During “the shortage”.
i am retired air force. aka the 'trough'
they get around the limit to an army raised for 2 years by passing an "authorization act" each year that describes the army (and air force) to be raised the next fiscal year.
the excuse is: war today is too expensive to let the war profiteers shrivel. 'complexity' is a profit center within the pork.
then they can apportion all the pork they can to the pentagon.
to be fair if the militia were "nationalized" they would one not shoot or two be beaten.
and biden sending f-15s..... see how that worked in afghanistan, and iraq.
Great point. And nobody (D or R) ever questions that.
Much of that seems an effort to reduce supply for the rest of us. My re-loader pals say recycled brass was also made less available from US ranges.
Even in Ontario, Canada the police had their line in the sand. I think it was early in a 2021 lockdown, our provincial gov (Doug Ford) wanted the police to stop and question anyone who was out driving. This never happened because the police refused and it was a very public refusal.
Decentralization works. Right now reading Substack articles and watching Youtube news channels is a decentralization of media. We need to get control of our governments again and decentralize them. Decentralize everything! Like this:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/decentralize-everything
Agree it works, though, akin to the book the Starfish and the Spider, be aware of opponents twisting terminology for their own ends i.e. spiders pretending to be snakes. I'm aware of some left-of-center community activists receiving letters from institutions encouraging them to embrace the end of politicians (and rule by AI instead) to be replaced by "direct democracy" whereby what people do and purchase is tallied by AI and thus their preferences are noted. But who can trust whoever is controlling AI to turn that into decentralized governance?
Economics? Parallel is distributsism. All these hidden federal agencies, international agencies are bullshit. Way to control, by nefarious Gates types
Subsidiarity. Things done at most local level possible. States right? How about County rights. And family sacrosanct
Exactly!!! Police become Polezi. Sheriffs are folded into a County-City Municipal Police under a "Chief" appointed by a mayor or commission, and no longer Directly Elected.
Standards are reduced, Equity promotions, and Patriots replaced by the Wokesters.
Military fast tracking on the same Bolshevik Pogrom. Ferals are already Corrupt Commie Polezi. Blue & Purple State "Highway" Police follow Governor's Orders via Bureacracy not Legislature.
Citizens are either Sheepled or Disinfranchised and removed from even pretended courtesy consideration. Just because It hasn't Hit you in the Face, doesn't mean that TS has already HTF.
You know your shit
I work with many local and federal agencies. They have chased away the traditional officers by making the working conditions awful. The ones remaining follow orders.
Culling, as you've described, has been going on for a long time. I'm old enough to remember how they culled NOAA of those who wouldn't tow the Global Warming line in order to successfully capture/propagandize that narrative. Looks like it worked...
Wow. Didn't know that but it completely makes sense.
This is happening in toronto, too. No doubt other munis, but toronto i have first hand knowledge of. The new ones can be characterized by their incompetence and adherence to rules and intolerance
Agreed. I don't know about other places, but NYC would be a total totalitarian nightmare (instead of just the dystopian nightmare insane asylum it is) if it weren't for the NYPD. I don't have any starry eyed ideas of the police (here in NYC or anywhere else) as I've seen them behaving in ways that were pretty awful, but they have been great (with the exception of the first few weeks) on refusing to enforce the illegal and unconstitutional crap mandated by our much-hated governors and mayors. I'm not foolish enough to think that couldn't change overnight, but for the time being, I'm feeling very good about the NYPD.
It is not just an opinion, Jeff, it is a verifiable fact. Read the actual federal legislation entered into the congressional record. Not the titles, but the text. None of these "defund" efforts cut funding (all include in fact new spending). All clearly remove control for local entities (and local voters) to centralize the power in the administrative branch of the federal government. And you can find the same in many states where legislators are busy seizing control at the state level. What is striking if you read some of these bills is the near identical language used by what were supposed to be independent legislatures. That is because there is a national political party providing the text.
Very good. I would say WEF type bitches providing the text
local law did not enforce weapons bans in the past.
the reaction would have been civil war.
Agree completely. As an Australian, I lived it first hand. It only took a few examples of outrageously over the top police reaction to innocent civilians walking about without a mask or attending a peaceful protest to subdue the population but what was even more effective was media propaganda demonising those that questioned the covid or vaccine narrative. This was the most effective. The fear of being called uneducated, a nazi, far-right extremist, Trump Supporter, racist…you name it, it was a constant message put out by all media platforms relentlessly.
The media and politicians practiced with "climate change". Really, before that, even, with the "gun violence" propaganda. Incrementally at first, but as the boundaries were pushed and there wasn't a meaningful pushback, constantly expanding until it hit absurd levels. Now if you point out an obvious logical disconnect that should be easily seen by anyone with functioning grey matter...all those nasty things. Scary.
I've got a couple friends who came to the US from Australia. One good friend (now a Texan but once a Californian) winks and says there's a reason he left. I can't say things are profoundly better here in California - but then, if I asked him I'm sure he'd wink and say there's a reason he left ;-).
;-) Califoreignia winking only works for pretty girls at the border crossings, Comrade.
Perhaps CA will surprise us all, but you couldn't PAY All My expenses to move there. Not that I could afford to stay anyway. Good Luck!
"Outrageous Police Action in the Red State areas will prompt citizen "outrage" not cowering. It came very close in the Covid lock downs at a couple of locations, it won't be tolerated again.
Excellent points, Jeff C. There's another end game goal of 'defund the police', relates to something called "geofencing" and is part of the 4IR Great Reset Technocracy project to control everyone's movements all the time. The public architecture of this system is Human Capital Markets where human [slaves] are the direct capital investment in a rigged game. The first HCM in the US was in 2012, Riker's Island (Goldman Sachs). Releasing prisoners to hand over management of their sentences to corporations that continuously track and monitor on the level of China-style social credit scores on steroids. In HCMs, limits of mobility and access to all things depends on status and obedience. A geofence perimeter can be one's front door and communication can be easily cut off. Thus, owning a gun but unable to move about or get information about threats becomes the critical force deciding citizens' fate in a high-tech biosecurity dictatorship. That's the other reason Soros financially backed DAs - - to grease the skids on this project. Last year in our local newspaper a Denver DA was quoted saying DAs are becoming irrelevant as these new systems take over. HCMs have also been going after schools, at first low income inner city schools, and now health care systems. It's done via P3 privatization boondoggles going after infrastructure as well. Are you a thought criminal? Then you won't be allowed on local roads managed by 'woke' corporations just as some people say FB and Twitter can violate the First Amendment "because they're private". It's a big quiet tentacle moving in for the kill while we're understandably distracted with covid and political shenanigans.
This is complete news to me. Thanks for the info.
You're welcome. It's happening in every nation. HCMs are global, thus the rush to privatize across Asia, Europe, S America, Russia, Middle East - truly all nations. You can find some excellent research from Alison McDowell on her youtube channel or her blog wrenchinthegears (dot) com. She was on Twitter with a large following but unfortunately, recently closed her Twitter account in frustration with shadowbanning and lack of engagement by followers. --- If you look for her on youtube, you'll see a bewildering number of videos. The longer formal presentations have the information you need to understand how it works. It's very sophisticated and flies under the radar. Here's one basic overview (altering it in case Substack holds comments for approval when there are live links): youtube (dot) com/watch?v=7sYRF99IT3w&ab_channel=AlisonMcDowell -- Please share this info in your networks if you think it's important. Thanks.
Every single big city police department needs to be disbanded and law enforcement operations moved back to the county sheriffs. Just like to get to be a colonel or up in the military, you need to be a politician, to rise in the ranks of Captain or higher you need to be a politician (as these rank promotions require many times require a form of political approval).
The sheriffs here in NYC are completely corrupt, the tools of the governor. It was the sheriff's department that padlocked restaurants that tried to stand up against the mandates. It's the police department here in NYC that has stood up to the mayor. I'm not pretending the police are angels or the great guardians of our rights--I've seen the NYPD in action and it's not at all always admirable--but you can't make assumptions about all police departments (or sheriffs). I know there are places where the sheriffs or the police have stood strong and insisted on living up to their oaths to the Constitution, but it really is case by case thing.
And I will say that the last thing we need is to disband any local police departments. Do you really want the FBI, NSA, DHS policing your community? As bad as some cops are, and as corrupt or incompetent some police departments may be, I'll take them anytime over a federal gestapo force. Should we reform many police departments? Do many need to have a thorough house cleaning? Yes! But if we must be policed (and ask people in neighborhoods the police avoid how no police works out), then we really do want it to be locally run and staffed by people who have a real connection to the community.
If you move the County Sheriff into position over the cities, then the city voters get to vote for the Sheriff? Then what do you get? A bigger bureaucracy with rural conservative voters outnumbered by urban progreSSives.
We need dilution of power of government. The Sheriff should have ultimate command of city police chiefs, but in practice the Governor usally has that control depending on each state's laws.
It comes down to the Voters, who seem divided by geography and philosophy and get or accept the Rulers they have.
A less obvious part of creating a national policy via corruption of local offices is the role played by national political parties. Well, mostly one right now (and really it's getting hard to tell them apart). The national party sets policy and this undermines the local control. By pushing massive $$$ into local and state races, The Party is gaining the seats to execute on the national agenda. Follow legislatures and you see bills with the exact same wording introduced into multiple states (soon all). The largest cities similarly have been "pumped" by massive campaign spending (often 100:1 the opposition) to secure key seats such as Mayors and DAs - and in some instances, county Sheriffs (e.g. Arizona where The Party spent millions to unseat Joe Arpaio, flooding in more $$ in that one election than had been spent in the history of the county!). This is a powerful means to centralize power that bypasses law and constitutional concerns, but effectively has undermined the principle of distributed powers.
The escalation that became evident in 2020 was the control of key election officials. Usually appointed offices. In key states, election heads admitted 9even bragged) defying the law of their state, ignoring deadlines, ballot handling and oversight requirements, and so on. In at least 6 states, the election officials responsible held press conferences to brag about these illegal actions! The Party successfully suppressed any investigation or opposition to these practices. Undermining the last remaining barrier to complete dominance, the electoral process.
Part of the solution is to restore local control by eliminating national parties (IMO). Disperse the power center(s). Billionaires will still find a way to dominate, but perhaps it will take a while.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Sometimes it's just up to you, and if there are enough of "You", then it might secure a free community and neighborhood.
The County Govs probably won't survive intact if it goes Full Re-tard. CYA
To my point that reality is government at all levels are ignoring the clear, unambiguous words above and infringing. Even more telling is that so many people abide by it, even clamor for it. Because The Party has told them how to read those words, and reach a meaning in direct conflict with the words as written. "Legitimate sporting purpose" or the "who really needs a <whatever>" and all the other intellectual dishonesty.
Permission to keep and bear arms is not "infringing" so deemed by the courts. How anyone can accept that is beyond me. But even when the courts admit there must be limits to the "interpretations", it doesn't stop state legislatures and local governments, or congress, from blatantly violating the courts rulings.
What I've debated for decades is sure, you may think it's OK when it affects others (you think), but it won't stop there. But once started, it will consume everything. Having accepted the false premise, no provision is secure. We've seen the fourth and fifth, and now the first, completely gutted.
We learned in 2020 that you need permission from the government to exercise your religion, peaceable assemble, or walk your dog. And that permission can be revoked. so there you go.
And why do people allow it? Because The Party has decreed it. Loyalty to the party they believe (insanely) represents their best interests.
I guess that's an upside of a unionized police force whose pension and other benefits are so expensive that the department is necessarily always woefully understaffed. Budgets can never be large enough to hire the number of cops necessary to enforce something like mandatory masking policies in such cities.
They don't even have enough officers to prevent children from running around with illegally acquired guns, stop "mostly peaceful" looting and arson-fests, or confiscate the vehicles of drunk, uninsured drivers. In cities like that, law enforcement will never be able to effectively enforce mask mandates. It wasn't democracy. It was just incapacity. And replacing local officers with state or federal officers won't work either -- they cost just as much or more.
No, it was more than incapacity. They sent a rather blistering letter to de Blasio saying they would not enforce it and I can assure you, they don't. It isn't as matter of how many or how few officers are available. There can be a number of them on the subway. Even at the height of the 2020 hysteria, I would go ask directions of cops, maskless, and they would politely help me. Probably for most of them it's not a constitutional issue, but I met someone who makes a point of engaging the police in conversations about this, and she finds that most of them are on our side on this issue.
Maybe we're both seeing the same thing? I thought the reason *behind* that explicit statement of non-enforcement was that the PD knew it lacked the capacity to enforce the mandate. So the chief just made it department policy.
Similarly in Los Angeles County the sheriff said he would disregard mask mandate enforcement and went even further: he refused to fire personnel who rejected the Covid jab. his stated reason was, again, lack of capacity. he said he needed as much staff as he could get just to carry out all of the *other* law enforcement functions. he said the department needed everyone it could get and simply refused to fire 5% or more of his staff.
It's still around 40% of the Sheriff's department that has refused to get the jab. They understand the situation are many are willing to be fired over it (though that outcome seems less likely every week). You can bet *those people* will never enforce this nonsense on other people.
Yes, that makes sense.
Ah but that too is mostly myth. Budgets are not the problem, priorities are the problem.
Departments are woefully understaffed yet find resources for breaking up political rallies, harass gun owners, write parking tickets and meaningless traffic stops, etc.
Here in California, one bay area city had officers available to break up Trump rallies, have run major operations to crack down on this or that non-violent offense like prostitution or "cruising" (really - driving too many times up and down the same street will get you jailed), parking tickets and meaningless traffic stops, etc. while gang violence, robberies, assaults and domestic violence continue to escalate. This same city has declared war on citizens who own firearms. And will spend police resources enforcing their unconstitutional ordinances so as to confiscate firearms from the people who pose no threat of harm to anyone other than criminals attempting to assault, rape, rob or murder them. This is given priority over actual crime.
As they, thar's yer problem!
Also, we didn't give up our guns. Probably biggest reason. Some police forces committed treason.
Agree. There is a whole lot 'they' would like to do but can't as long as citizens are armed. Our second amendment is the only thing holding back a full on attempt at control. Thanks.
"Our second amendment is the only thing holding back a full on attempt at control."
Don't forget memes! We have memes and we are not afraid to use them.
actually think humour works as well as guns. guns they know how to escalate. but have zero sense of humour
I think it's slightly more complex than this.
There are probably more guns in Australia since the ban of the 90s than there were then. And the ban in NZ only resulted in 30% of the weapons that should have been turned in being turned in.
There are a lot of guns in all these countries still, even in Canada. But only *Americans* have the attitude that guns are for self-defense or overthrowing the government. That is really not an attitude shared by Kiwis, Aussies, and Canucks.
MINDSET is really everything. Unfortunately, even Americans may have problems recognizing who the enemy is, and there is also a big prisoner's dilemma that generally holds Americans hostage to our rights gradually eroded even if we agree with the idea in principle. When is it "go" time?
That said, the situation is way better than it is in the commonwealth. I'm not complaining. Their downfall was in their naivety. Americans lost theirs a long time ago or never had it to begin with.
I completely agree. My point is only that are some lines our government won't cross unless they get the guns first - and this is proving to be key. They won't stop trying and certainly a significant percentage of us won't give in. And yes, mindset is huge. I imagine there will much intentional confusion about the enemy, (they'll want us shooting each other of course) should this become necessary. I hope we can avoid it entirely.
Monica and Kathleen, you've both made great comments.
in the states which banned possession of assault rifles virtually none were turned in and local law ignored any suggested actions.
bc they were not ready or able to defend their 'facilities'.
Kathleen,
Yes, but it is important to note that none of the ten amendments found in any of the three Bills of Rights ascribe any "rights" to "U.S. Employees," and that "Employee" is synonymous with "Citizen."
Only Americans have 2nd Amendment Guarantees.
And, something else to remember: One cannot delegate authorities that one does not possess themselves. Meaning, the Police and Military can only be armed to the same extent their American employers are.
Not exactly. The fact that we have guns is the only reason we still have a Second Amendment . . . or anything else in the Bill of Rights.
Harvey,
The Bills(s) (plural) of Rights could go away tomorrow and the right of actual Americans to keep and bear whatever military arms we choose would not change.
The three service contracts have been breached (the first, The Constitution for the united States of America is still considered "in abeyance" due to the disabling of "The States of America" branch of our delegated governance, and the other two are technically voided for fraud and gross misconduct on the part of the Brits and Romans respectively).
Our Constitutional Guarantees (there's no such thing as a "Constitutional Right," utter gibberish) were written in as a reminder to the subcontractors as to what they -absolutely could not do,- on pain of death.
All the "infringements" going on currently are carefully worded, or done "offshore" (all the so-called "Federal Gun Control Laws" only apply within DC or Puerto Rico, or to any commercial entity doing business between these two "States.")
However, they are all still criminally liable for -Fraud by omission.- They have failed to explicitly inform us of the limits of their "rules and regulations," and simply rely on assumptions and intimidation to gain compliance.
The moment people allowed even the barest infringement, the "2nd Amendment" was clearly not of use.
Useless mouth-breathing wastes of oxygen like "Michael Moore" don't seen to grasp that the "Bills of Rights" are not subject to "repeal." They are "commandments," not "Laws." As an employee, he has no standing to unilaterally abrograte or alter the service contracts he is bound to obey (especially not the "shalt nots" on the Employer side).
The Bills of Rights are "negative commandments," and stipulate what cannot, will not, and shalt not -ever- be undertaken by our subcontractors. The moment they opened their yaps regarding any of these things, they immediately lost any presumption of legitimacy (that would be 1918 regarding Arms, when the first infringements were codified).
Our Natural Rights are granted by our Creator. They were established in The Unanimous Declaration of Independence of 1776. Which means any attempt to abrogate them implies those doing the infringement fancy themselves our "creators."
"They" are doing their best to "repeal" The Unanimous Declaration by trying to foment a movement (foolish, misguided, idiotic) to establish a "Second Declaration of Independence."
Doing that would "reset" everything, and cast away all the sacrifices and blood spent to establish the (still fully functional) original Declaration.
Nothing has changed regarding our founding document. What has changed is the status of Americans. The foreign criminals couldn't beat us by force (because they are simpering mewling fops), so they undertook to defeat us by fraud and guile. Which they -almost- did.
The Declaration is still here, but unless you come home to the Land, it does you no good, since The Declaration and Constitutions are -only- enforceable *on the Land.* U.S. Citizens and citizens of the United States are considered to be seafarers on "Liberty" (shore leave granted by their Captain/Slavemaster). Eschew "Liberty." It is freedom you seek.
Yes, all of it.
Something that struck me quite powerfully about one of our friend Yuri's posts was the relationship between compulsory national service and those "rooftop Koreans" who knew exactly what to do when circumstances demanded, and how to do it well.
Taking masculinity out of the boy was the real priming of the weapon, wasn't it? Everything going forward depended on that.
As an old anti-communist I don’t believe that either Marxism/Bolshevism or Fascism/Nazism explain our situation well enough. Both Communism and Fascism are totalitarian in nature but this totalitarianism is fundamentally different. Sheldon Wolin called it inverted totalitarianism for some good reasons. Both Communist and Fascist totalitarianisms are rooted in the idea that political sphere predominates (single party dictatorship) with a strong ‘leader" in charge. In our totalitarianism the political sphere is utterly subverted by the economic forces. There is no single party with a strong leader. Our presidents aren’t “leaders”; that must be painfully obvious to all. They are puppets of forces behind the curtains. This system borrows widely from the other totalitarianisms but it also innovates. Bolsheviks did not replace generals with political hacks, but introduced political commissars to enforce the “party discipline". Stalin did have military purges and some incompetents may have replaced competent generals, but that was not intent of his purges; Stalin feared popular and competent generals as potential competitors. Bolsheviks would have never done to their military what ruling forces are doing to ours. The cultural BS is not the end aim, but means of our destruction. Destruction of our culture, civilization, history, family, transcending religious frameworks, military, Constitutional framework,..., of life itself. Neither communists nor fascists would have done these things to themselves. This novel totalitarianism is infinitely worse than either of the historic totalitarianisms and therefore we should not use those to explain our reality. None of that which they are destroying is viewed by them as something to cherish or to at least worth keeping. From people’s perspective they are abandoning us, betraying us, killing us. Their interests have diverged from the interests of the rest of us. In practical terms, they might as well be Aliens!
"There is no single party with a strong leader"
are you sure? just because they are not announcing themselves doe not mean they do not exist.
i suspect the bigger difference here is that this movement has been much more transnationally effective and as realized that popinjays and puppets and not "strong leaders" serve its ends best.
can you name a "strong leader" in the west?
we can argue about whether that's a cause or an effect of totalitarian encroachment (and i suspect it's some of each) but the net effect is to open them up groupthink and co-optation.
globalist aims do not seek strong nationalists.
"are you sure? just because they are not announcing themselves doe not mean they do not exist."
There is no such visible leader, that is for sure, but like I’ve said, the real power is not to be found within the nominal power structures. I have no way of knowing if there is one “leader” or not within the forces behind the curtain. I suspect not. But this is not as relevant as my claim that this totalitarianism is fundamentally different from its historic predecessors.
"can you name a "strong leader" in the west?"
No, I cannot! All Five Eyes countries are certainly run by puppets, as are all other important imperial vassals. They act according to instructions from a supranational level.
"globalist aims do not seek strong nationalists"
I agree that strong nationalists are not what they desire. They want an effective dissolution of nation-states to rule the world unencumbered by nation states. These "leaders" will use all the dictatorial powers available in their jurisdictions, but that does not make the Hitlers, Stalins and such.
now ask:
was there a puppet academy in which many of the marionettes learned their trade?
a school for "future leaders" perhaps?
and perhaps we start to see the shape of where the intellectual leadership lies.
With such notable alums as Trudeau, Ardern and... dare I say... Crenshaw? Those 'future leaders'?
There were many such "schools”. The latest prominent one is WEF’s Young Global Leaders cult. But there are also subversions of all radical traditIons which were, for the most part, pursuing class warfare angle. The focus has since shifted (by design) to cultural arena with all sorts of manifestations. We need to understand that these are little more than tools in destruction of our societies, civilization, our lives. They are means to the higher aims from the standpoint of ultimate controllers. Dupes and puppets may indeed believe in the "utility" of such efforts but they are not the ultimate goals.
it was never really about class warfare, that was pretext.
these are the inheritors of the club of rome and the awful mix of malthusiansm, globalist dictatorial aims, and self congratulation for being "so elite."
they adopt whatever meme is needed to push the ends and divide the people. race, class, health, climate...
I think you can leave malthusianism out of it. I don't think they believe for a moment that the world is really running out of 'things.' The average peasant today lives better than a king 500 years ago, or so they say. Technology and human innovation are an amazing combination.
What 'they' really despise is the idea that somewhere in say Alabama there's a bunch of rednecks, playing softball and drinking Budweiser and eating BBQ, and those rednecks are probably having a better time than they are. They hate us for that. And they want to see us dead. So that they can sit around like the disembodied brains in the Star Trek episode 'Gamesters of Triskelion' betting on the outcomes of staged battles to the death of their captives.
As for me, its '500 quatloos on the rednecks.'
It may be so that socialism was never ultimately about class warfare, but this was the stated means to the new reality of all socialists. The fact is this stated goal has been effectively excised and replaced by culture wars. This has had profound effect on “socialism” and “socialists". They’ve hardly noticed this surgery, despite the fact it is of such ideological magnitude that has effectively changed the meaning of “socialism".
Malthusians are ruling the Western world. Mathusianism was an ideology of British Empire. Modern day Green movement, Club of Rome, WEF, eugenics,..., are all descendants of Malthus. Who do you think runs the world? Read Carrol Quigley’s Anglo-American Establishment and all of it becomes much clearer.
"Parties" have no place in American governance.
Never have. Find any mention of "parties" in The Unanimous Declaration of Independence of 1776, or even any of the three Constitutions.
"Parties" are -all- Communistic in origin, and really got started in the late 1840's (particularly in Wisconsin) thanks to all the Commie rats fleeing their failed Commie "Revolutions" or being forcibly deported. They found fertile ground among a particular subset of the American population, and began working the long con to help destroy this country.
A "political party" is nothing more than a lobbying entity, with no authority granted whatsoever.
Americans don't "vote," especially not in the private corporate elections for the nominal "employees" (Citizens) of these corporations.
"Vote" means "wish, swear, or pledge." Does not mean choose.
You "vote" once and only once (when you "donate" your proxy, aka "register"). Actually turning out at the polls means less than nothing, since those you donated your proxy to will make the choices for you. And, most insidiously, that "registration" is the single biggest millstone around your neck if you are in fact an American (and not a "Roman Municipal Slave" presumed to have been born or naturalized in DC), for it -proves- unequivocally that you have consented to whatever your would-be Owners wish to do to you.
The single most important part of correcting your status, if so eligible, is to cancel (preferably with a paper trail that can be recorded at your local County Recorder's Office) the "Voter Registration." When less than 50% of the populace is "registered," the criminals can no longer claim they have "consent of the majority of the governed."
Americans are Electors.
U.S. Employees ("Citizens") are "Voters."
Which one are you?
I think it's ultimately all about socialism-enabled globalism, and everything else is window dressing.
It has very little to do with socialism, as it has been traditionally understood. In our modern context socialism has lost all its meaning. Globalist structures will use anything and anyone that will advance their ultimate agenda. Modern day “socialists" are mere puppets of the globalist class.
I disagree, I think socialism is still very relevant. When you look at how WEF and Friends frame the glorious new future we'll live under- centralized control of resources, full welfare, wait-in-line healthcare, the absence of personal property- this is a socialist framework. It doesn't have the aesthetic of 20th century socialism, but as an operating system, this is the same animal.
I don’t disagree that is what they want, but I don’t believe this could be called socialism by its historical proponents. Socialism is all about who owns the means of production. Surely, you don’t foresee that where they are taking us will result in the people owning means of production! They are telling that we won’t even own anything!
If we're mainly arguing semantics here, how about if I called it "Communist?" No private property, needs met by social welfare.
The new system is an Ouroboros called Technocracy - it's the term the pyramid cap elites use themselves in white papers and in their 20th century trial runs. It's a fusion of the worst elements of communism and fascism which explains why western bankers and industrialists propped up, financially supported, and passed on technology to the Western nemeses including China and USSR. See the research of Professor Antony Sutton, the work of his colleague Technocracy scholar Patrick Wood, context behind Major Jordan's Diaries, Mao as a Yale student in China and editor of the Yale paper in China, see James Perloff's research and books - and much more evidence on the modus operandi. Historians explain Nazi Germany was the first Technocracy and, btw, Hitler's govt was deep into the Occult/Theosophy with close ties to Blavatsky/Bailey and the Luciferian doctrine that dominates the United Nations. The next attempt was the big North American 1930s movement known as Technocracy Inc that sought a global totalitarian dictatorship with continuous tracking and strict rationing. Incidentally, Elon Musk's grandfather Joshua Haldeman oversaw the Canadian branch of Technocracy Inc and he was also the Chairman of the Social Credit Party. The founders, Howard Scott and M King Hubbert (geologist of "peak oil" fame), came out of Columbia (where several academics from the Frankfurt School settled) and had prominent advisors such as Buckminster Fuller. The next iteration of Technocracy was the USSR but Stalin went nuts with paranoia twice and executed his top technocrat managers and the tech wasn't sufficient (same problem with Technocracy Inc) thus the project collapsed under its own weight [of paper records]. There's a long rich documented history of Technocracy that you will never hear about in the MSM. Many long golden threads that weave the tapestry that is the ouroboros. I started studying this in college 20 years ago after 9II. It's taken me a long time to understand it fully, standing on the shoulders of giants.
Ok, THIS is a fucking answer. Outstanding.
Sozhenitsyn saw this happen before when Communism rose in his country, "we had no awareness of the real situation". This time we better understand the "real situation"
"We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...”
― **Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956**
jordan peterson has a great descriptor of how to do this:
They push a little until you resist, then they pull back. They let you calm down, Then they push again until you start to resist up. Then they stop again. Before long you are 3 miles from where you started and wondering how the hell you got there
What they are currently doing with gas prices.
And mandates/lockdowns.
Peterson is correct! They do indeed use these tactics.
It is important to understand that they aims and a strategy how to achieve these aims. This strategy does not change much, but they are very flexible on the tactical level.
I found that book 20 years ago, and read it once a year, every year (along with John Ross's (RIP) "Unintended Consequences")
I dont understand, people who do not understand, how this works.
But most people, I have found, do not have the "time" to think about such things.
Life is to busy for them, with the job, kids, who will get kicked out of the house on "Big Brother" this week, to worry about little things like what direction the county is heading
Loved "Unintended Consequences."
Just discovered Ross has a number of other novels available on Amazon. Need to pick some of them up.
(I tried to "like" your post, but it wouldn't register…)
John only wrote one book, he was in the middle of a second, but said he could not keep up with the "true goings on" as they kept surpassing the fiction he was trying to write.
He passed away on April 29th, 2022. He was a good guy, and is missed.
But the book written by John F. Ross, War on the Run, is a very good read also
Thanks for the correction. I went to the search page on Amazon and didn’t look closely enough. The titles I saw were by Matthew Bracken. Oops. My bad…
Much to be learned from Solzhenitsyn.
I hate to use this term because it evokes silly, smelly teenage activists, but the best descriptor is the non-ironic, academic meaning of the term "crypto-fascist," with "fascist" cleaving to Mussolini's description that "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
The framework is Globalist Socialism, something that- as you pointed out- is a completely new animal, because we simply didn't have a globalized society in the Cold War. Multinational corporations are the best example of this- capable of projecting tremendous power across legal boundaries and territories largely with impunity, and with allegiance to no one (or possibly any) national identity.
The real idea man behind Italian fascism was Giovanni Gentile. The important discovery must be that the ultimate destination of this “Globalist Socialism” is not any sort of real socialism, as this terms has been historically understood. Mussolini was a socialist before becoming a fascist, and Nazi was an abbreviation of Nationalsozialismus (national socialism). Neither Mussolini, nor Nazis could be rightly called socialists.
Because Biden, et. al. are owned by Chiii-na? Our history, religions, customs, way of life, etc. mean nothing to them.
I know China is an easy target, but the group to which all those dear things mean even less are the current imperial controllers. At least to Chinese some of those things have value in their own context.
Re: "Both Communist and Fascist totalitarianisms are rooted in the idea that political sphere predominates (single party dictatorship) with a strong ‘leader" in charge."
That "strong leader" will be Trump upon his return. 🙄😬
(I'm not being sarcastic; I'm serious.)
Hummmm. That's definitely something to think about.
LOL. Yes, indeed. When I hear such nonsense from friends I usually say, “imagine Hitler or Stalin being kicked off the Twitter!” or “Trump could not even command his driver where to go. Does that sound like a dictator?”
I have not, but I suspect I’d mostly agree with him. Technocrats are just another word for managerial class.
Great essay. A slow-motion revolution is going on as the military and big city police departments are being purged aggressively.
I fear that, just as Republican states pushed back for freedom during the Covid madness, Democratic states will act individually to eviscerate the Second Amendment. Illinois just banned 80% arms, unserialized blocks of aluminum or polymer that need to be drilled, milled, and meticulously assembled to form an operating firearm. The lying governor claimed that these "ghost guns" were a scourge in the state. The reality is, of course, that Chicago gangbangers have not the intelligence, skill, or patience to perform the task of completing these guns. Their "ghost guns" are stolen weapons with the serial numbers scratched off.
Democrats will work to ban semi-automatic rifles (ARs/AKs) in their states. They are not the equal of military-grade ARs, but they are the most formidable rifle available to civilians, so they must go. Can't have even the semblance of a fair fight when the SHTF...and that's where this is going.
An AR is a squad weapon and most do not train with others to create a fire team. The Iraqi and Afghan fighters found the best way to combat squads with a medium range rifle is to fight it with a long range rifle which the United States has lots of them. They are called hunters and train every year with lots of guns and know the territory. The US has 38 million hunting licenses last year alone.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/253615/number-of-hunting-licenses-and-permits-in-the-us/
also, urban combat is a nightmare for an attacker that is not willing to level cities with artillery and bombs.
i doubt the US military would have the appetite for that.
But would private contractors "responding to an emergency situation threatening the lives and livelyhoods of valued members of the community" have that problem?
Not to mention that "emergency responders were prevented from operating in the disaster area due to extremist fringe elements of militias and looters firing upon the firemen and Medevac teams" necessitating pacification via airborne non-lethal dispersal vapours".
All you need is an enemy that is "evil"-seeming enough and you're good to go.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/atf-admits-secret-database-nearly-one-billion-gun-records
Did you catch this, Gato?
But wait Doc, isn't there something in the Brady bill about them disposing of these records after 90 days??
Ha-ha -- just kidding -- of COURSE they kept 'em all. Every last one of them.
An FFL goes out of business, it's his responsibility to ship every last one of his yellow-sheets off to ATF. They have just gotten cocky enough to admit the truth. That should tell us something.
Right, Wild Bill. They will try confiscation first; no doubt in my mind. Probably freeze bank/investment accounts of those unwilling to turn over weapons. Then draconian punishments for those with "illegal" weapons. Remember: they seek "equity" in all things. That would include prison enrollment. Too few white guys in prison. Gun "safety" laws will change that.
They really don't care about equity, Doc. That's just a straw man, to placate their useful idiots. What they seek is power in its most raw form.
But regarding tactics, for sure they will do just as you describe. Not because 'equity' but rather because 'power' and 'intimidation.' Think J6.
Correct. In 2016 the US led 114,000 alliance forces in the Battle of Mosul took 9 months to take the city and caused $50 billion dollars in damage to take out 8,000 ISIL fighters.
Mila 18, for sure...
I got the gist of the article 2nd hand I did not see it at all. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! --- Didn't Kommifornia just outlaw all guns?
A quick search showed nothing about that...I think "a death by a thousand cuts" is how they'll bleed the 2A to death. Courts are standing firm, overruling government overreach in some of these cases. But for how long?
SCOTUS needs a definitive ruling on 2A. We need them to clarify what "not infringed means" and outlaw all screening rules for firearms.
Bannon did an amazing podcast a few weeks ago on how this constitutionalist supreme court is a once in a lifetime opportunity to dismantle the federal government (almost all of it is unconstitutional). That opportunity needs to be seized.
From your lips to God's ears! --- Trouble is getting something to them to hear in time, and them agreeing to hear it.
the person Bannon interviewed (cant remember his name), is working on it.
👍
Thank-you, Doc!
Anytime, Bandit. Hang in there!
By my fingertips, I hang, Doc, but I'm still here.
Nope
Thank-you!
Many do not understand how we KNOW what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the Bill of Rights. You see they debated, talked and wrote about it and we can read them today. Here is an example from some of the people that actually wrote and voted for the 2nd Amendment:
“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
"...to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials." George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8
I should also note that if you believe this is a 200 year old out of touch document than by all means we have an Amendment Process that can fix that.
Some very wise men indeed in understanding human greed. That greed has never been tempered by our "civilization". Where are such thinkers today? Perhaps in the VDH's but well-educated idiots prefer to wallow in their greed. Worse, we often applaud it!
I agree with the sentiment of this article, which forces me to consider: does anyone else have 2A single issue voter fiends who seem blind to the wider cultural context?
One of mine, in particular, comes to mind. He’s so myopic about gun control that he has no sense of how badly we lose/have lost on every other vector. Ironically, these same losses are what pave the way for further 2A encroachment. It’s odd that he’s so redpilled on guns, but absolutely grill minded in everything else.
This is true of ALL single issue voters! In the same way that many conservatives still believe this is just about a “stolen election “ or mean tweets, completely not understanding the big picture. I WISH this was just about a stolen election instead of a New World Oder, the Great Reset, WEF, etc, etc, etc. Such naïveté….
I don't see the logic of your post. 1. There are No 2A democRats 2. many Repubs are pink on red flag gun confiscation laws. So 2A IS The TEST for Liberty and Freedom. Every other issue will Fall if the 2A falls. Name one exception:
How is my safe full of guns going to prevent my kids from being prescribed hormone blockers from the nurse at their kindergarten (in secret)? I feel like we’re the best armed, oppressed people that have ever lived...
well, what is your kid doing in the government kindergarten to begin with? time to create the world we want to live in
That’s an option so long as they allow us to do that. If they perceived homeschooling as a threat, they would remove that from the table. Everything we have, we are allowed to have but them, until they decide otherwise...
Sorry for the black pills
they can only pick us off one at a time. massive non compliance calls their bluff
“Massive”? Yeah, I guess, but please understand, we -meaning people who read dissident Substacks and want to homeschool- are still a tiny minority of the population.
The kind of uprising (of non-compliance) you are describing simply won’t be an option without elites on our side. Even if you successfully hide your kids away in a bunker until they’re 18, their ability to pursue higher education and/or land a job will be dependent on government endorsed credentialism that they can withhold at their discretion.
not to be a contrarian.(well maybe I am) humans got along very well for a very long time without higher brainwa, education, and there are always jobs for people in the real world of plumbing, wiring, music, farming. and all the other life skills.
I like where you’re coming from and I consider you a friend... but no, those jobs in the “real world” are only as solid as THEY allow them to be. With the flick of a wrist, a new law/building code comes into existence which states that all plumbing must be performed by ‘certified’ plumbers from a state sanctioned technical school.
The entry requirements for these schools included a diploma from an accredited high school. Accreditation will not be available for home “schools”. And no, there isn’t an option to “test out” and/or challenge the accreditation or certification processes. Such merit based tests are racist, haven’t you heard.
Just like that, one less job is on the table. That’s how easy it is to take away whatever you think you are building. Even if you get really involved in politics at the relevant level... even if you take over your city/county government, that still won’t stop the feds from flooding the labor market with ‘diverse’ workers willing to do the job for a fraction of what you and your kids would accept.
What are you gonna do, report them to ICE? Yeah, I’m sure the feds will get right on that.
Again, I like and agree with you in sentiment but we need to be realistic about how bad our situation is. LARPing as Amish isn’t something I’m enthusiastic about and if it actually threatened THEM, they’d just make it illegal anyway.
nice. and astonishing for me to have an articulate conversation on substack. my somewhat renegade neighborhood has since inception (68) been a quiet diy, ignore the regulations, build your own, barter, trade, harvest wildlife sort of place. to such an extent that the county actually passed a variance for those of us who ignored the subdivision rules about dividing our property. harder maybe now, but still gotta be possible.
that bit about the labor doing it for less makes me smile. decade ago all the bilingual laborers formed a union and started charging twice what unilingual folks got. their wages are still higher. as is the quality/dependability of work.
I got your acknowledgement, and I appreciate your response. Many of Us are not going to come out of this alive, from various causes, so it's just a decision to live free as long as we live. God bless, I wish You well and the rest of us as well. We all win if we maintain our personal Integrity.
When the SHTF, let’s be battle buddies. 😘
Keep your kids home and shoot anyone coming to get them from Child Services. You didn't expect to live forever did you? Guns are made to kill not sit in gunsafes.
Just Decide "Who" dies. btw, when your kids are ruined, or dead and you did nothing, you will wish to be dead.
Don't argue with me for your excuses, that's totally on you.
Damn dude, I like the enthusiasm but sheesh. I already fought in one war so I don’t feel like I have to defend against accusations of cowardice.
You kinda bring up two strategies:
The first, where I shoot anyone from Child Services that comes my way, has been tried by better trained and equipped (Ruby Ridge is my best example). Not only do they always lose, but afterwards the Regime uses them to push through even more oppressive measures and often with popular support since normies are made to fear the defeated. Also, I would like my kids to be able to participate in a wider society, not just my cabin/bunker collective. I feel entitled to being access the fruits of my democratic participation.
Second, when you talk about deciding “who” dies, I think you are describing a “Decapitation Campaign”, where we use targeted violence to sever key nodes in the enemy’s structure and reduce their capacity. I like this idea but the historical data is not on our side. Many powerful nations have launched such campaigns against “terrorist” groups (organized crime, drug cartels, etc), and plenty of said groups have launched similar campaigns against their asymmetrically powerful opponents.
What history reveals is that these campaigns can be useful, but only when supported by wider, more conventional tactics. On their own, they almost always fail.
Let’s say we put together a hit list of everyone we perceive and the enemy. All of the WEF, and bunch of billionaires, politicians, twitter blue checks, etc. and we start picking them off one by one. The vacuums would be filled easily. All the while, this rise in right wing violence would be weaponizes against us to great effect.
The best way to utilize a decapitation strategy is to anticipate the vacancies we create and have sympathizers standing by to fill them. Either with direct supporters or with those sufficiently sympathetic to come to the negotiating table. Do you see that as being likely? I doubt that if George Soros disappeared, he’d get “replaced” by Peter Thiel.
Basically, there aren’t winning strategies available to us (us meaning normal people) at this time. We are basically in a holding patter, waiting for an elite of our own, to rally us to their cause.
A couple of friends of friends- colonel and above- told me two things recently (this past year)- in a chat over coffee where I began to express my concerns about this exact topic.
1) Unofficially, the US military (at least the Army) COUNTS on a largely armed civilian populace and factors this into their strategic planning for invasion defense. The military does NOT actually consider itself capable of effectively defending the continental US (open on two side with oceans and the other two sides with huge wide porous borders) by itself.
2) A significant portion of brass have had quiet conversations about "If... would we?" and pretty much everyone in these guys' social circles said emphatically "no." You would absolutely have a nontrivial splinter of the military joining whatever the "resistance" looked like, and they would mostly be way more experienced leadership.
I'm not saying nothing you're talking about today is a problem- it is, and it keeps me up at night- but it isn't all bad.
God bless you, Guttermouth, for posting this comment. I pray for this and it gives me some hope for those of us that want to remain free.
I want to be clear, I'm a real pessimist, and have been very firmly convinced of the opposite- this conversation really opened my eyes to the fact that we, the public, very simply do NOT see or hear accurately what is going on.
How cAn we see accurately? If "we" don't have friends in the military, in the government, who disagree, in the local police forces. If we don't have a large number of friends that "think like us" in our small area. Had I never found a link to a Toby Rogers post months ago, read other links I saw in the comments, and subscribed to more and more stacks I "found" in those links, I would have never seen your comment. I'd still be sitting here thinking, because people are still in the military, they're against us.
You're right, we CAN'T really see accurately, and much of that is deliberate. You need look no further than the near-total media blackout in the Western world of the literally MILLIONS of people around the world protesting in first-world nations against COVID tyranny and economy-destroying ESG/Green bullshit.
Making you feel like a fringe minority is part of the trap.
The solution is that people who are fortunate enough to stumble onto nuggets that contradict the narrative have to have the courage and effort to share and share widely, and for those that received them to pass it on widely.
That's literally it. It is not guaranteed that we will be exposed to dissenting views. Every instance is an example of luck that we are obliged to multiply if we want to keep the fire burning.
Power of the meme
My son was in the National Guard, maybe 10 years ago, and he asked the guys in his unit if they would fire on American civilians if ordered to so. About 50% said they would. "You have to follow orders." I imagine the percentage is higher now. I wouldn't count the who's on my side chickens before they hatch.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, though.
"The guys in his unit" are the young kids Gato is talking about- they're going to, as you said yourself, "follow orders." What I'm telling you is that, even with the state of things today, many senior officers would absolutely NOT give that order, and in fact would probably give "opposite" orders.
THAT'S what matters. Kids fresh out of indoctrination training would do anything they were told- or, at least, that's what they'd say out loud while their friends were watching.
Many of them when exposed to real hazards will reconsider. Some of them will then refuse. In order to be effective you must accept hate for the enemy. The enemy must become the other and we are in a process to attempt that. Not sure of success.
I can only say I hope you're right. You may have identified a different dynamic that I didn't see. I think we can both agree that you'd have to be insane to order such a thing and the insane don't make the best leaders. They can sure do a lot of damage though.
I'm emphatic about this because it was a very revelatory moment for me. The crap you see 20-somethings on TikTok blathering about in their crisp new BDUs is posturing (no matter WHICH direction they go in).
The senior leadership are NOT spooging their silly trendy views all over social media because you don't do that if you're a military professional, no matter what your views are.
But that's what I'm saying. It's about the brass. It's not about the troops.
It cuts both ways, though- the kids are just as likely, for the same reason, to follow GOOD orders.
They are kids- in mentality if not body- and it's important to remember that.
We (as a public body) need to care more about the politics behind our military- and I don't simply mean defense spending- and signal to the leadership, who DO and CAN exercise critical thinking- where we stand. Which means having a more unified voice.
We also frankly need to get intelligence agencies the fuck out of our military. They're more detrimental to a Constitutionally-aligned military than PMCs.
Thoroughly and elegantly expressed. Thank you for the contribution.
Purging vax refuseniks is another ideological purification strategy. Vax compilers are way more likely to follow tyrannical orders.
It also leaves an exhausted, sickly, broken soldier.
Here in King County (Seattle), WA, the vaccine mandate/ideological purity test has succeeded in weeding out the 10% of the city and county police force that would think for themselves on this issue. Same with our State Patrol. Conform or be fired. The coopting of police is well underway here.
And will that 10% that has been culled stand with us?
Just like in the military.
Exactly
Tragically, I lost whatever firearms I may have owned in a tragic bass fishing accident.
Lots of people's boating excursions with firearms onboard are ending tragically. Democrats will demand that rifles be lifejacketed too.
*paints shroud safety orange* Done!
I hate it when that happens...😂😂😂
"the capture of justice and investigative/enforcement arms in service of ideology and one sided political partisanship is the road to one party rule. and “brand political foes as terrorists/reactionaries/enemies of the state” is pure bolshevism 101."
We have had uni-party rule and whitewash investigations with rare exceptions like 1976 Church/Pike Committees. Challengers have always been seen as "terrorist threats" and the illusion of fighting to protect Americans more facade than fact but now it has reached absurd, obvious imbalance. It's all true but hardly new just grown so huge it can't be covert.
CIA Family Jewels - Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents
June 26, 2007, 1 p.m. - The full "family jewels" report, released today by the Central Intelligence Agency and detailing 25 years of Agency misdeeds, is now available on the Archive's Web site. The 702-page collection was delivered by CIA officers to the Archive at approximately 11:30 this morning -- 15 years after the Archive filed a Freedom of Information request for the documents.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/
2012 Project Censored - Top Unreported Stories
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has embarked on an unusual approach to ensure that the United States is secure from future terrorist attacks. The agency has developed a network of nearly 15,000 spies to infiltrate various communities in an attempt to uncover terrorist plots. However, these moles are actually assisting and encouraging people to commit crimes. Many informants receive cash rewards of up to $100,000 per case.
https://www.projectcensored.org/4-fbi-agents-responsible-for-majority-of-terrorist-plots-in-the-united-states/
It's hard to rely on rt.com for such stories when they have a vested interest in undermining our government. Not saying they don't tell the truth, but they're an avowed purveyor of another country's interest.
On a personal note: I've long noticed a pattern where "lone wolf" nut cases are amazingly detected and provided with fake bomb materials by the FBI. This happened so many times that I realized that they're being goaded/entrapped into doing this, and it's easy to dismiss a crazy person who says the FBI provided the materials or pushed them into doing something they would never have done.
Gotta disagree since so many Americans banned from corp media were hosted by RT including former NYTimes Pulitzer winning Chris Hedges.. Abby Martin, Lee Camp etc.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/on-being-disappeared
Just to assist with your technical issue, I too received the email (in full) at 10:06amEDT.
My Substack notice for this post is time stamped @ 9:37 am.. NYC - ET
"i want to be clear here: this is not about self-identity. if you want to see yourself as a man, a woman, a 27 gendered “other,” or an internet cat, knock yourself out. that’s your business. pursue your happiness. i hope you catch it."
No, no, a thousand times no. This is the attitude that brought us to this point. "Just leave us be" turned into "we demand the right to marry" which quickly became "you must bake us a cake". When you let the enemy sneak close to your lines, eventually they will overrun you. It may be true that you can't stop someone from being what they are (or think they are) but what we've done is normalize it. And when society allows the abnormal to become normal all bets are off.
You can be sure that it won't be long before animal lovers will want to marry their horses and brothers and sisters will demand to marry each other. Don't think it will never happen; 40 years ago the idea of men marrying men was unthinkable.
Rush Limbaugh once said that after gay marriage was normalized, then transgenderism was next. After that would come pedophilia and then beastiality.
Unfortunately, Rush was right about gay marriage and transgenderism. And I fear he'll be proved right about our continuing decline into utter depravity.
But there is still hope. Read the first part of Genesis 19.
A reminder:
"Gender" is a thing of grammar. There can be infinite numbers of genders. The only thing it will do is piss of the schoolkids that have to learn how to conjugate verbs in all these "genders."
"Sex" is a thing of biology. It is fixed, physically detectable, and at this time, cannot be changed. It is why the term "transsexual" that was prevalent in the early aughts magically disappeared and was replaced with "transgender."
Another thing to remember is that this is about "Trance," not "Trans." They are using mass-hypnosis and "Entrancing" people to accept this Woken Demon (for surely you have asked, "what has awakened?) nonsense.
Reject the Trance. Reject the skinsuit-wearing demon worshippers.
Come north and save Canada when you've finished up there.
This started under the Obama administration with the generals.