http://usdefensewatch.com/2018/09/the-deep-states-active-measures-campaign-against-trump/
By Ray Starmann
Like Caesar, Trump is surrounded by enemies, like JFK the Deep State is determined to destroy him at all costs.
President Trump is under 24-hour siege from Deep State traitors and
their loyal minions in the mainstream media who seek to bring down his
presidency.
Be in no doubt, President Trump’s enemies are your enemies. President
Trump’s enemies are America’s enemies. President Trump’s enemies are
freedom’s enemies.
They seek to open our borders in order to flood the nation with cheap
labor, while creating a new voting bloc for the Democrats, who have
been abandoned by Middle America. They want endless, unwinnable wars in
order to line their pockets and justify their government jobs and think
tank titles. They wish to bring back trade deals that eradicate the
nation’s industrial output, while putting the final nail in the
Forgotten Man’s coffin. They want high taxes, Soviet-style national
health care and the erasure of the Second Amendment.
They don’t believe in American Exceptionalism, in America First, but
in a global government, where America is only a seat at a children’s
table, no more equal in value to third rate nations.
The Deep State, the Establishment, and their obscene acolytes in the
media, in the Antifa, in BLM, in the ‘Resistance’ are anti-American
traitors who wish to destroy Trump because he represents something they
never will, the United States of America, and its founding beliefs of
small government and laissez faire economics.
The President is also a self-made man, who never worked a day in his
life for anyone, nor for the US government before he was elected to
office, and that very fact causes him to be hated by the Beltway
Establishment which has never known a paycheck that was not signed by
the US Treasury.
The Deep State Coup against the President is largely being
orchestrated by the intelligence community. It smells, sounds, feels
like an intelligence operation and has from day one.
The Deep State’s greatest weapon is what the KGB used to refer to as ‘active measures.’
Active measures range “from media manipulations to special actions involving various degrees of violence”. They were used both abroad and domestically. They included disinformation, propaganda, counterfeiting official documents, assassinations, and political repression, such as penetration into churches, and persecution of political dissidents.[1]
Retired KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin,
former Director of Foreign Intelligence for the KGB, described active
measures as “the heart and soul of Soviet intelligence”: “Not
intelligence collection, but subversion: active measures to weaken the
West, to drive wedges in the Western community alliances of all sorts,
particularly NATO, to sow discord among allies, to weaken the United
States in the eyes of the people of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America,
and thus to prepare ground in case the war really occurs.”[2]
Disinformation, propaganda, media manipulation, subversion, creating
discord, political repression (silencing conservatives on social media).
Sounds a lot like what’s going on now, doesn’t it?
The active measures campaign really kicked into gear the first day
the Russian Collusion Fairy Tale was broadcast to the world. The Russian
Fairy Tale serves three purposes: one, to justify why Hillary lost,
two, to depose Mr. Trump, three, to ensure the globalist gravy train
keeps running down the track.
Using the oldest trick in the spy tradecraft bag, every treasonous
act the Clinton’s and the Deep State conducted was now thrown at Trump.
It was the Clinton’s who sold missile technology to China in the 1990’s.
It was Hillary who opened up her server to Russian and Chinese hacking.
It was Hillary who sold the nation’s uranium to the Russians.
Yet, in one fell swoop, Trump was now the Russian agent, who colluded
with Putin and the GRU to throw the 2016 Election. Yes, through some
nefarious Russian operation, Trump became elected when every bleeding
heart knew it would surely be Hillary!
With the assistance of a mealy mouthed Attorney General and a Deputy
Attorney General loyal to James Comey and Hillary, a Special Counsel was
created to investigate something that never happened.
Enter Deep State hack and Uranium One bag man, Robert Mueller, who
along with Obama holdouts in the DOJ, has yet to prove that Trump
colluded with anyone on the planet.
In order to propagate the disinformation, the liberal media has been
totally engaged in the operation. Like Hitler’s Propaganda Minister,
Josef Goebbels, the mainstream media hammered and continues to hammer
the American public with the big lie, that if told often enough, many
will believe.
As time progressed, political opponents had to be silence on Twitter,
on You Tube, on Facebook, on Instagram. The big lie was being
challenged by America’s modern-day Sam Adams, Alec Jones, who is now
public enemy number one to the Deep State.
In the last week, the next phase of the active measures campaign
against President Trump began with the publication of establishment
journalist Bob Woodward’s book, Fear.
The book, a hatchet job, light on facts and heavy on embellishment
has one main purpose, to paint Trump as an erratic, know-nothing,
hot-headed maniac who must be consistently restrained by loyal
subordinates who refer to the Trump White House as ‘crazytown.’
Sounds like a setup for a 25th Amendment coup doesn’t it?
Mr. Woodward would be better served by writing a book on Hillary called Chinatown.
Woodward is the perfect Deep State operative, someone who many
believe is a sainted, impartial journalist, the anti-hero of Watergate, a
man who is supposedly a conservative, but is actually an establishment
liberal.
Yesterday, the NY Times published an OPED titled, I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.
Like, the Woodward work of fiction, the OPED whether real or not, was
designed to create an image of Trump as a dangerous leader whose
actions must be thwarted to save the nation.
Not only is Trump a Russian agent who stole the election, he is also a
crazy man who must be stopped at all costs by Quislings inside the
White House, by globalist operatives, by Deep State hacks. He must be
overthrown before the midterm elections.
A coup d’etat against Trump is in progress and at the heart of it, is
the active measures campaign being waged at this very minute.
In 1963, a bewildered and shocked nation watched as a coup d’etat took place under the guise of the Deep State.
Are we going to let it happen again?
Pray for Trump…
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Sunday, September 2, 2018
What If....
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/09/01/what-if/#more-182499
By Tim “xrugger” Stebbins for The Burning Platform
Part I: The United States “are.”
Most of the time what I read (including my own stuff) is long on descriptions and explanations of the problems besetting the nation, but woefully short on suggestions or thoughts on how to fix it. My views regarding the trajectory of the country have been clearly stated on this website and I stand by them. I do not think the country is salvageable in its present form and the odds of avoiding a national nervous breakdown are minimal at best. Having said that, mechanisms do exist for addressing the problems we face. What follows is a thought experiment in (Admin willing) several parts on what it would take to restore this nation without the massive destruction, bloodshed, and chaos which will inevitably engulf us if we continue our present course. I believe the chances of any of the needed reforms I hope to discuss actually coming to fruition are negligible. The alternative, however, is so horrific that we owe it to ourselves and to those we love to give voice to hope.
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
Robert E. Lee
The states are the key to any significant amelioration of the national dilemma. I am not talking about the states in terms of the people who live in them. I am talking about the states as sovereign entities separate from and opposed to the federal power. The distinction is crucial to what follows.
Prior to Lincoln’s War, national identity was an afterthought. One’s state commanded primary allegiance. This sense of state sovereignty and identity suffered near extinction in the bludgeoning that followed hard upon the South’s refusal to accept federal ascendancy. Its restoration is essential if the states are to have any hope of standing up to the federal leviathan. If any recognizable version of America is to survive, the United States must once again become an “are” instead of an “is.” As a people, we must do something we have not done in a very long time. We must learn to think of ourselves as Montanans, Virginians, Vermonters, Georgians and Minnesotans first and Americans second. State legislators and executives must think and act like the leaders of sovereign states and not like second-string players on the national team.
If the people of any given state wish to rise above the provincial subservience to which the central government has relegated them, they must be willing to pay all sorts of costs that the federal government will seek to inflict upon them. More importantly, they must instill that willingness in their leadership. State politicians must begin to fear the people of their state more that they fear the power of the federal government.
Usually the first tool in the federal bag is the threat to withhold all sorts of federal payments from recalcitrant states. Depending on the severity and duration of the challenge, everything would potentially be on the table. From highway money to Social Security, every form of federal largesse will be included in the threat and the actual withholding of these resources would undoubtedly cause significant disruptions to state operations and genuine pain to the vast number of individuals and families that have become dependent on federal handouts for their very existence. Sorry about that, but a genuine challenge to federal authority must be backed by the willingness to tell the national government to take their money and shove it.
Of course, many of the actions of a state that truly seeks to wrest authority from Washington D.C. would require the nullification of a host of federal laws and regulations. Even now, we see de facto nullification of federal law in the actions of many states with regard to immigration and drug law. California refuses to enforce federal immigration and drug law and suffers no consequences. If that bastion of leftist moonbattery can thumb its nose at Washington with impunity, why cannot Montana similarly invite the central government to piss up a rope when it comes to enforcing oh, let’s say… federal gun laws? The double standard in such matters is comically blatant.
Naturally, politically incorrect nullification would trigger a slew of court challenges certain to spark a chubby in every lawyer from Nome to North Lauderdale. Invalidation by the courts would surely follow. Ultimately, the Supreme Court would be the final arbiter of any challenge deemed serious enough to find its way to the top of the heap. Leftist lips, perennially chapped from suckling on the government teat, are nothing if not persistent. Rest assured that no state challenge to federal mandates regarding diversity, gender equality, second amendment rights, or any other liberty destroying pet projects of the protected classes would go unnoticed or un-litigated. Liberty to the hive mind is like a game of whack-a-mole; wherever it pops up, it must be hammered down. The trouble for tyrants is that like whack-a-mole, freedom, hammered in one place, has the temerity to pop up again somewhere else. Sovereign states, if they so choose, can provide a place where free men can hold their heads up without fear of the federal mallet.
The essence of nullification is indifference to federal power. Whether that power emanates from the Executive, the Legislative, or the Judicial is of no consequence. If a rebellious…check that…wrong word. If a sovereign state worthy of the name has had enough of federal overreach, the particular source of federal douchebaggery is unimportant. What matters is how willing the state and its people are to go to the wall to reclaim their place in the national discussion.
Indifference to federal mandates requires the national government to initiate some sort of action, though, once again, that appears to depend on the political leanings of the state in question. If no federal action is forthcoming, then nullification has achieved its purpose and has fundamentally altered the federal/state relationship without violence or bloodshed. This appears to be the case in states like California and Colorado. However, if there is direct federal action to compel state obedience the response must be commensurate with the severity of the federal riposte, up to and including armed resistance. I believe that any serious attempt by the states to restore their sovereignty would likely escalate until both the states and the federal government would be faced with essentially the same choices faced by the country in 1860. Here we get to the meat of the matter.
Any state challenge to federal authority must carry with it the explicit threat of secession. Otherwise, the whole exercise is pointless. The possibility always exists that the federals will blink when they once again stand eyeball to eyeball with a state that has rediscovered its backbone. When (or if) the brink is reached, secession must once again be on the table. Most Americans likely think that secession is somehow illegal, or simply unthinkable. It is neither.
The right to withdraw from a voluntary association is implicit in the very concept of such an association. Secession from a voluntary association, which is antithetical to the interests of one or more of the constituent members, is implicit in the original agreement; therefore, unless and until the original agreement is altered in such a way as to make withdrawal illegal, the right of secession still exists. It likely exists as a natural right in any case, but again, that is a discussion for another day.
As much as we might revere the Constitution, in essence it is nothing more than a contractual agreement between sovereign entities. There is in it no explicit prohibition on withdrawal from the agreement; therefore, the conditions noted above still apply. I believe that the South had the absolute right to secede, but was denied exit from the Union by force of arms. The Union victory in Lincoln’s War did not abrogate the right of secession, it only compelled the submission of the unwilling. The right of secession still exists and the several states need to remember that fact, as does the federal government.
The restoration of state sovereignty to its rightful place in the national debate is crucial if this country is to have any chance at a peaceful resolution of the growing conflicts we face. Our own history shows us the perils of such a course of action. I do not believe the federal government has the stomach to initiate a second civil war, but if the people of any given state utterly reject further association in the American Union, the only option left to the federal power is to compel their submission. As things stand now, Washington holds the whip hand and the lickspittle representation of most states would likely fold at the first federal threat to withhold government cheese.
It is clear that restoring state identity and sovereignty is largely a subjective process. The people of any given state must rediscover what it means to chart their own course. The risks inherent in opposing the federal beast we have allowed to run rampant are significant, but so too are the potential rewards. A re-ordering of the Union as something more akin to the original Articles of Confederation would allow states who wish to follow a socialist path to suffer the consequences of their foolishness without encroaching on the rights of those states that choose the freedom road. A vastly diminished federal government would have little power to continue to impose a one-size-fits-all credo on states wishing to go their own way.
The federal government of the United States, as presently
constituted, is a suppurating lesion on the American body politic. It is
orders of magnitude more overbearing and intrusive than anything the
Colonial era opponents of central government could have imagined. If not
brought to heal by the sovereign states, what remains of American
liberty will not survive its depredations. The power to restore the
nation resides primarily with the legislative power of the sovereign
states. Among other things, it is within their power to repeal
Constitutional amendments, or call an Article V convention. The states
are not federal lapdogs. They never were. Neither were they to become
the enforcers of federal edicts, or the collectors of federal taxes. The
government of a genuinely sovereign state exists to guard its people
from the overreaching pomposity of a self-aggrandizing central
government.
If there is to be the slightest chance of avoiding the horrors of internecine strife that are looming on the national horizon, the states absolutely must reclaim their rightful place in the original vision of the Founders.
Next up: Article V Convention, Amendment repeal, demoting the Supreme Court, Abolishing the withholding tax, and other impossible tasks.
Part I: The United States “are.”
Most of the time what I read (including my own stuff) is long on descriptions and explanations of the problems besetting the nation, but woefully short on suggestions or thoughts on how to fix it. My views regarding the trajectory of the country have been clearly stated on this website and I stand by them. I do not think the country is salvageable in its present form and the odds of avoiding a national nervous breakdown are minimal at best. Having said that, mechanisms do exist for addressing the problems we face. What follows is a thought experiment in (Admin willing) several parts on what it would take to restore this nation without the massive destruction, bloodshed, and chaos which will inevitably engulf us if we continue our present course. I believe the chances of any of the needed reforms I hope to discuss actually coming to fruition are negligible. The alternative, however, is so horrific that we owe it to ourselves and to those we love to give voice to hope.
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
Robert E. Lee
The states are the key to any significant amelioration of the national dilemma. I am not talking about the states in terms of the people who live in them. I am talking about the states as sovereign entities separate from and opposed to the federal power. The distinction is crucial to what follows.
Prior to Lincoln’s War, national identity was an afterthought. One’s state commanded primary allegiance. This sense of state sovereignty and identity suffered near extinction in the bludgeoning that followed hard upon the South’s refusal to accept federal ascendancy. Its restoration is essential if the states are to have any hope of standing up to the federal leviathan. If any recognizable version of America is to survive, the United States must once again become an “are” instead of an “is.” As a people, we must do something we have not done in a very long time. We must learn to think of ourselves as Montanans, Virginians, Vermonters, Georgians and Minnesotans first and Americans second. State legislators and executives must think and act like the leaders of sovereign states and not like second-string players on the national team.
If the people of any given state wish to rise above the provincial subservience to which the central government has relegated them, they must be willing to pay all sorts of costs that the federal government will seek to inflict upon them. More importantly, they must instill that willingness in their leadership. State politicians must begin to fear the people of their state more that they fear the power of the federal government.
Usually the first tool in the federal bag is the threat to withhold all sorts of federal payments from recalcitrant states. Depending on the severity and duration of the challenge, everything would potentially be on the table. From highway money to Social Security, every form of federal largesse will be included in the threat and the actual withholding of these resources would undoubtedly cause significant disruptions to state operations and genuine pain to the vast number of individuals and families that have become dependent on federal handouts for their very existence. Sorry about that, but a genuine challenge to federal authority must be backed by the willingness to tell the national government to take their money and shove it.
Of course, many of the actions of a state that truly seeks to wrest authority from Washington D.C. would require the nullification of a host of federal laws and regulations. Even now, we see de facto nullification of federal law in the actions of many states with regard to immigration and drug law. California refuses to enforce federal immigration and drug law and suffers no consequences. If that bastion of leftist moonbattery can thumb its nose at Washington with impunity, why cannot Montana similarly invite the central government to piss up a rope when it comes to enforcing oh, let’s say… federal gun laws? The double standard in such matters is comically blatant.
Naturally, politically incorrect nullification would trigger a slew of court challenges certain to spark a chubby in every lawyer from Nome to North Lauderdale. Invalidation by the courts would surely follow. Ultimately, the Supreme Court would be the final arbiter of any challenge deemed serious enough to find its way to the top of the heap. Leftist lips, perennially chapped from suckling on the government teat, are nothing if not persistent. Rest assured that no state challenge to federal mandates regarding diversity, gender equality, second amendment rights, or any other liberty destroying pet projects of the protected classes would go unnoticed or un-litigated. Liberty to the hive mind is like a game of whack-a-mole; wherever it pops up, it must be hammered down. The trouble for tyrants is that like whack-a-mole, freedom, hammered in one place, has the temerity to pop up again somewhere else. Sovereign states, if they so choose, can provide a place where free men can hold their heads up without fear of the federal mallet.
The essence of nullification is indifference to federal power. Whether that power emanates from the Executive, the Legislative, or the Judicial is of no consequence. If a rebellious…check that…wrong word. If a sovereign state worthy of the name has had enough of federal overreach, the particular source of federal douchebaggery is unimportant. What matters is how willing the state and its people are to go to the wall to reclaim their place in the national discussion.
Indifference to federal mandates requires the national government to initiate some sort of action, though, once again, that appears to depend on the political leanings of the state in question. If no federal action is forthcoming, then nullification has achieved its purpose and has fundamentally altered the federal/state relationship without violence or bloodshed. This appears to be the case in states like California and Colorado. However, if there is direct federal action to compel state obedience the response must be commensurate with the severity of the federal riposte, up to and including armed resistance. I believe that any serious attempt by the states to restore their sovereignty would likely escalate until both the states and the federal government would be faced with essentially the same choices faced by the country in 1860. Here we get to the meat of the matter.
Any state challenge to federal authority must carry with it the explicit threat of secession. Otherwise, the whole exercise is pointless. The possibility always exists that the federals will blink when they once again stand eyeball to eyeball with a state that has rediscovered its backbone. When (or if) the brink is reached, secession must once again be on the table. Most Americans likely think that secession is somehow illegal, or simply unthinkable. It is neither.
The right to withdraw from a voluntary association is implicit in the very concept of such an association. Secession from a voluntary association, which is antithetical to the interests of one or more of the constituent members, is implicit in the original agreement; therefore, unless and until the original agreement is altered in such a way as to make withdrawal illegal, the right of secession still exists. It likely exists as a natural right in any case, but again, that is a discussion for another day.
As much as we might revere the Constitution, in essence it is nothing more than a contractual agreement between sovereign entities. There is in it no explicit prohibition on withdrawal from the agreement; therefore, the conditions noted above still apply. I believe that the South had the absolute right to secede, but was denied exit from the Union by force of arms. The Union victory in Lincoln’s War did not abrogate the right of secession, it only compelled the submission of the unwilling. The right of secession still exists and the several states need to remember that fact, as does the federal government.
The restoration of state sovereignty to its rightful place in the national debate is crucial if this country is to have any chance at a peaceful resolution of the growing conflicts we face. Our own history shows us the perils of such a course of action. I do not believe the federal government has the stomach to initiate a second civil war, but if the people of any given state utterly reject further association in the American Union, the only option left to the federal power is to compel their submission. As things stand now, Washington holds the whip hand and the lickspittle representation of most states would likely fold at the first federal threat to withhold government cheese.
It is clear that restoring state identity and sovereignty is largely a subjective process. The people of any given state must rediscover what it means to chart their own course. The risks inherent in opposing the federal beast we have allowed to run rampant are significant, but so too are the potential rewards. A re-ordering of the Union as something more akin to the original Articles of Confederation would allow states who wish to follow a socialist path to suffer the consequences of their foolishness without encroaching on the rights of those states that choose the freedom road. A vastly diminished federal government would have little power to continue to impose a one-size-fits-all credo on states wishing to go their own way.
If there is to be the slightest chance of avoiding the horrors of internecine strife that are looming on the national horizon, the states absolutely must reclaim their rightful place in the original vision of the Founders.
Next up: Article V Convention, Amendment repeal, demoting the Supreme Court, Abolishing the withholding tax, and other impossible tasks.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Time to Stand-To…or Stand Down
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/08/27/time-to-stand-to-or-stand-down/#more-182262
By Tim “xrugger” Stebbins for The Burning Platform
The Problem
The substance of this particular rant finds its roots in three premises: First, that the depth and pervasiveness of federal corruption precludes any possibility of a peaceful reformation of the institutions of national government. Second, that a majority of the population of this nation have become so morally compromised, spiritually deadened, and economically dependent that they will be incapable of surviving any meaningful reform of our national institutions, peaceful or otherwise. Third, that excising the cancerous tumor, which sits astride the Potomac, will almost certainly lead to some level of societal breakdown and the ensuing chaos and violence will result in the destruction of a large part of the current population.
Can any thinking person doubt that the national government has moved so far beyond the boundaries set for it by the Founders as to be unrecognizable to both them and the posterity they enshrined in the Preamble? To be fair, the sad story of human governance tells us that when any sovereignty entity (be it an individual, a city, or a state) relinquishes any portion of that sovereignty to a more central authority, the result is never more liberty. The seeds of tyranny sprouted in the national soil before the ink was dry on the Constitution. If there existed one day of true liberty in this country, it was the day before the signing of that document. Everything after has been yet another chapter in the endless struggle of free men against those who would twist and pervert any good thing in order to lord it over their fellow men. Once the original colonies relinquished their sovereignty to a central power there could be no other result than the federal carbuncle that afflicts the nation today. Lincoln’s War only accelerated the consolidation of federal power, but that is a subject for another day.
The fact that it has taken nearly two and a half centuries for the United States to reach its present state of decay is a testament, not only to the quality of the Founders and their ability to craft a government conducive to ordered liberty, but also to the quality of the citizenry throughout much of that time. Sadly, the same cannot be said of those who govern us today. Neither can it be said of a majority of the governed. Whether a debauched citizenry is a reflection of a corrupted ruling class or the reverse matters not. Proper blame assignment does nothing to pierce the choking cloud of corrupted governance that belches from the halls of Congress like smoke from a factory chimney. A miasma of authoritarianism hangs over the country, little noticed by a population no longer fit to govern themselves. After all, if you are not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. So say the semi-literate future helots of the American Tyranny.
Scanning the horizon for the thunderheads of the coming storm holds no allure for a people content to look down at a machine rather than lift their eyes to the dangers that beset them. Gazing into the maw of the federal beast poised to devour whatever liberty remains to them is not an activity congruent with the oblivious nature of most Americans. Ignorance is, if not bliss, then at least a false contentment. Look not to the mass of the people to re-ignite the American experiment. They have relinquished that ability to the gods of convenience, physical and mental decay, and an unquenchable desire for bread and circuses.
McCain as Metaphor
As much as I would rather not add to the avalanche of opprobrium directed at him on this and other similar sites, I suppose I must admit that what triggered this essay is the death of John McCain. I was at the hardware store when an overly gregarious fellow denizen of the fasteners isle felt compelled to inform me of McCain’s demise. Almost without thinking I barked, “Good!” Well, let’s just say the look of shock produced by my retort was nothing short of profound and, thankfully, cut short any further conversation.
I care not a whit for the life or death of John McCain, except insofar as he is an example of all that is wrong with the governance of this nation. Like so many of his fellow senatorial reptiles past and present, McCain held on to power like grim death. Too often, only death extinguishes the power lust and avarice of the elite. John McCain held on to his power and prerogatives until his brain literally rotted away. Though I use him as a convenient example of the festering rot in Washington D. C., he is not its only personification. He is merely one brush stroke in a much larger and more deeply disturbing picture. John McCain was not the problem. He was just one tentacle on the vampire squid that has draped itself over the nation. His passing may provide a fleeting moment of relief for many, but there are any number of political ghouls lining up to take his place.
McCain’s life was a microcosm of the corruption and decay about which I am writing today. He was a pampered, protected, and promoted scion of wealth, position, and privilege with little, if anything, in common with those he supposedly represented. In fact, there are likely not enough synonyms for the term “supposed” to define his existence. He was an alleged war hero who apparently suffered torture at the hands of his seeming enemies. A soi-disant political “maverick,” he putatively represented the regular folks and ostensibly stood strong against the orthodoxy of his own and the other party. Rumored to be a good bet to win the Presidency, he, thankfully, failed in the reputed attempt. John McCain was a so-called man who lived a purported life. That is the paradigm under which we are governed.
Re-elected repeatedly by the idiot voters of Arizona for reasons that they, likely, cannot cogently explain, McCain attached himself to the body politic like a tick on a hound. He engorged himself on the blood of the innocents slaughtered in every conflict he supported and fattened on the wealth of those who kept him in power. John McCain never met a war or a contribution he did not like or could not accept. In this, he was no different from his fellows. He had not even the personal integrity to resign in the face of his immanent death so that the people of Arizona could choose new “representation” rather than have it foisted upon them by the governor.
“Well, he was just one man,” you might say. Wake up to the fact that there are 534 more just like him sitting in authority over you this very day. Everything I have said about McCain can be said about the entire pantheon of pathetic poseurs that make up the federal power that is eating this nation alive. It is a living, breathing monstrosity and its hot, fetid breath is a sour wind sweeping across the land. John McCain was just one mouth-breathing denizen of that noisome bog on the Potomac. Do not doubt that there are many others, worse than he, slithering around the halls of power and their unblinking eyes are looking right at you and me.
Now, to further insult our intelligence, the talking heads bloviate about the “succession to the McCain seat” as if our legislators have become some sort of hereditary class. The very phrase resounds as a call to arms for every remaining patriot in the country. The time is long past to put an end to the self-aggrandizing neo-aristocracy under which we labor. Repulsive to the ears of any free man, such a statement has no place in the national conversation of a true Republic. But then, we reside no longer in a true Republic.
The slobbering minions of militarism and the sycophantic cheerleaders of authoritarian excess will now interminably fete him and he will be honored for his lifelong “service to the nation.” I would argue, however, that being a lifelong government drone (whether in the mailroom or the Senate) is no measure of success and integrity. It is, instead, the full measure of the failure and corruption of a life poorly lived. There are millions of such failures populating the bureaucracies, departments, and agencies of the federal leviathan. The 434 living members of Congress are simply the head of a very large snake. One dead Senator, more or less, makes no difference.
The Solution
The dumb mass of the people, in their complacency and ignorance, have seen fit to allow these frauds and sociopaths to continue in authority over, not only themselves, but over those of us who see the situation for what it really is. The time remaining to rectify the situation grows short. The nation will not be saved at the ballot box. The sooner that particular false hope is extirpated from the American mind, the better.
Restoration can only come now, if it can come at all, in the thrust
of bayonet, the rattle of musketry and the roar of cannon. Such words
may seem like so much flowery rhetoric in this pedestrian age, but the
hard truth must be faced. We would do well to remember that bayonet,
musket, and cannon midwifed American liberty. Only bayonet, musket, and
cannon will restore it. The time for choosing sides is past. The lines
are clearly drawn to anyone with eyes to see. The time for taking up
arms draws near. When the fight begins is anyone’s guess, but it will
come. Freedom or tyranny is the choice before us. Either all that is
corrupt and corrosive of liberty will be rooted out and the nation will
be reborn, or we will descend into an age of darkness the like of which
the world has never seen. The Second American Revolution must come to
pass. All other roads lead to slavery.
and-To…or Stand Down
The Problem
The substance of this particular rant finds its roots in three premises: First, that the depth and pervasiveness of federal corruption precludes any possibility of a peaceful reformation of the institutions of national government. Second, that a majority of the population of this nation have become so morally compromised, spiritually deadened, and economically dependent that they will be incapable of surviving any meaningful reform of our national institutions, peaceful or otherwise. Third, that excising the cancerous tumor, which sits astride the Potomac, will almost certainly lead to some level of societal breakdown and the ensuing chaos and violence will result in the destruction of a large part of the current population.
Can any thinking person doubt that the national government has moved so far beyond the boundaries set for it by the Founders as to be unrecognizable to both them and the posterity they enshrined in the Preamble? To be fair, the sad story of human governance tells us that when any sovereignty entity (be it an individual, a city, or a state) relinquishes any portion of that sovereignty to a more central authority, the result is never more liberty. The seeds of tyranny sprouted in the national soil before the ink was dry on the Constitution. If there existed one day of true liberty in this country, it was the day before the signing of that document. Everything after has been yet another chapter in the endless struggle of free men against those who would twist and pervert any good thing in order to lord it over their fellow men. Once the original colonies relinquished their sovereignty to a central power there could be no other result than the federal carbuncle that afflicts the nation today. Lincoln’s War only accelerated the consolidation of federal power, but that is a subject for another day.
The fact that it has taken nearly two and a half centuries for the United States to reach its present state of decay is a testament, not only to the quality of the Founders and their ability to craft a government conducive to ordered liberty, but also to the quality of the citizenry throughout much of that time. Sadly, the same cannot be said of those who govern us today. Neither can it be said of a majority of the governed. Whether a debauched citizenry is a reflection of a corrupted ruling class or the reverse matters not. Proper blame assignment does nothing to pierce the choking cloud of corrupted governance that belches from the halls of Congress like smoke from a factory chimney. A miasma of authoritarianism hangs over the country, little noticed by a population no longer fit to govern themselves. After all, if you are not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. So say the semi-literate future helots of the American Tyranny.
Scanning the horizon for the thunderheads of the coming storm holds no allure for a people content to look down at a machine rather than lift their eyes to the dangers that beset them. Gazing into the maw of the federal beast poised to devour whatever liberty remains to them is not an activity congruent with the oblivious nature of most Americans. Ignorance is, if not bliss, then at least a false contentment. Look not to the mass of the people to re-ignite the American experiment. They have relinquished that ability to the gods of convenience, physical and mental decay, and an unquenchable desire for bread and circuses.
McCain as Metaphor
As much as I would rather not add to the avalanche of opprobrium directed at him on this and other similar sites, I suppose I must admit that what triggered this essay is the death of John McCain. I was at the hardware store when an overly gregarious fellow denizen of the fasteners isle felt compelled to inform me of McCain’s demise. Almost without thinking I barked, “Good!” Well, let’s just say the look of shock produced by my retort was nothing short of profound and, thankfully, cut short any further conversation.
I care not a whit for the life or death of John McCain, except insofar as he is an example of all that is wrong with the governance of this nation. Like so many of his fellow senatorial reptiles past and present, McCain held on to power like grim death. Too often, only death extinguishes the power lust and avarice of the elite. John McCain held on to his power and prerogatives until his brain literally rotted away. Though I use him as a convenient example of the festering rot in Washington D. C., he is not its only personification. He is merely one brush stroke in a much larger and more deeply disturbing picture. John McCain was not the problem. He was just one tentacle on the vampire squid that has draped itself over the nation. His passing may provide a fleeting moment of relief for many, but there are any number of political ghouls lining up to take his place.
McCain’s life was a microcosm of the corruption and decay about which I am writing today. He was a pampered, protected, and promoted scion of wealth, position, and privilege with little, if anything, in common with those he supposedly represented. In fact, there are likely not enough synonyms for the term “supposed” to define his existence. He was an alleged war hero who apparently suffered torture at the hands of his seeming enemies. A soi-disant political “maverick,” he putatively represented the regular folks and ostensibly stood strong against the orthodoxy of his own and the other party. Rumored to be a good bet to win the Presidency, he, thankfully, failed in the reputed attempt. John McCain was a so-called man who lived a purported life. That is the paradigm under which we are governed.
Re-elected repeatedly by the idiot voters of Arizona for reasons that they, likely, cannot cogently explain, McCain attached himself to the body politic like a tick on a hound. He engorged himself on the blood of the innocents slaughtered in every conflict he supported and fattened on the wealth of those who kept him in power. John McCain never met a war or a contribution he did not like or could not accept. In this, he was no different from his fellows. He had not even the personal integrity to resign in the face of his immanent death so that the people of Arizona could choose new “representation” rather than have it foisted upon them by the governor.
“Well, he was just one man,” you might say. Wake up to the fact that there are 534 more just like him sitting in authority over you this very day. Everything I have said about McCain can be said about the entire pantheon of pathetic poseurs that make up the federal power that is eating this nation alive. It is a living, breathing monstrosity and its hot, fetid breath is a sour wind sweeping across the land. John McCain was just one mouth-breathing denizen of that noisome bog on the Potomac. Do not doubt that there are many others, worse than he, slithering around the halls of power and their unblinking eyes are looking right at you and me.
Now, to further insult our intelligence, the talking heads bloviate about the “succession to the McCain seat” as if our legislators have become some sort of hereditary class. The very phrase resounds as a call to arms for every remaining patriot in the country. The time is long past to put an end to the self-aggrandizing neo-aristocracy under which we labor. Repulsive to the ears of any free man, such a statement has no place in the national conversation of a true Republic. But then, we reside no longer in a true Republic.
The slobbering minions of militarism and the sycophantic cheerleaders of authoritarian excess will now interminably fete him and he will be honored for his lifelong “service to the nation.” I would argue, however, that being a lifelong government drone (whether in the mailroom or the Senate) is no measure of success and integrity. It is, instead, the full measure of the failure and corruption of a life poorly lived. There are millions of such failures populating the bureaucracies, departments, and agencies of the federal leviathan. The 434 living members of Congress are simply the head of a very large snake. One dead Senator, more or less, makes no difference.
The Solution
The dumb mass of the people, in their complacency and ignorance, have seen fit to allow these frauds and sociopaths to continue in authority over, not only themselves, but over those of us who see the situation for what it really is. The time remaining to rectify the situation grows short. The nation will not be saved at the ballot box. The sooner that particular false hope is extirpated from the American mind, the better.
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