When in the Course of Human Events…

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

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Firing Line Friday: Has America Had It?

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     With protestations that America is fundamentally evil, with even calls to destroy Mt. Rushmore, some are asking the same question that William F. Buckley, Jr. asked nearly fifty years ago with guest Malcolm Muggeridge: Has America Had It?

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When The Revolution Comes?

     There are some people who seem to be curious contradictions. They are absolutely histrionic over America being lost an the eternal doom that would bring, yet somehow chalk this up to either some identified conspiracy or simply an example of perpetual surrender, while concomitantly believing that all it takes to defeat this unitary evil if for people so stand up in a manly way and by sheer lack of soy-products cause an instant victory for their side.

     The are both histrionic and Pollyannas: They are the Histrionic Pollyannas (who are taken advantage of by the snake-oil salesmen.

     To a large degree this is an underestimation of the Left, who have not only take over the levers of power, human capital, and financial capital, but have despite the stereotypes a plethora of people who can and will do all the “blue-collar” jobs that the Histrionic Pollyannas don’t believe they can do because their only exposure to these elements of the right are social media posts about the idiotic and disposable “vanguard” of “soyboy beta cucks”. ‘Tis also an ignoring of the unsurprising (well, unsurprising if you actually pay attention) fact that those of the Left stereotype the “Right” as a bunch of old and scooter-restricted (and diabetic, and fat, and …) fossils who will soon be gone and unable to stop the wokeness.

     One of these Histrionic Pollyanna fantasies is that if social order breaks down, the “others” of the Left will fall apart into anarchy, and that somehow the “alt-woke” right will be able to coordinate without interference as the “urban” centers self-destruct while the allegedly prepared can without too much psychological pressure not only organize and coordinate, but also feed, arm, and otherwise provide themselves with the most vain and superficial of luxuries that the shutdowns due to Corona-chan have shown that the lack thereof will cause the sunshine warriors to have mental breakdowns due to lack of a haircut or having to wear a mask.

     From this fantasy, the most optimistic delusion is that the masses will rise up and without need of any goods or ammo that might be disrupted from such an insurrection somehow be able (without foreign intervention) cause all the powers to be to be killed or surrendered. However, another such delusion from this is that as noted above: Brave manly-men and women organizing and winning with military tactics against almost tribal and uncivilized people. This is just wish-casting and a desire for a LARP they do not grok.

     So, how would a clever strategy of laying in ambush to defeat the aggressive mob and negate threats work in real life?

     It’s work very well… for those mobs who can, will, and have targeted the pseudo-military delusions of the Histrionic Pollyannas.

“The chief of the Tampa Police Department says his officers were “ambushed” early Saturday morning.

“TPD Chief Brian Dugan says officers were called to the intersection of 15th Street N and 26th Avenue E for a report of shots fired with a possible victim.

“He says when officers arrived, hundreds of people had all four intersections completely blocked, and as they attempted to locate a victim, the crowd became aggressive.

“As officers took one person into custody, the crowd surrounded officers and threw glass bottles, while several subjects jumped on one of the officer’s cars.

“‘There were hundreds of them. Hundreds. We ended up having to call every single police officer that was available that night to respond there, from New Tampa to South Tampa,’ Dugan said.”

     But that’s just thrown bottles… a fool might say.

     But the tactic works. If s**t really happens, bottles will be the least worst of one’s worries. And this assumes that the police will be allowed intervene further (As CHAZ/CHOD has demonstrated the limitations thereof) or that higher loyalties haven’t been swayed.

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Totalitarian Salutes

 

     Just as “Black Lives Matter” has become a woke shibboleth, the raised fist salute of defiance, with origins of the terroristic Wobblies and other hard Left ideologies, like Communism, has become the signifier of support for totalitarianism, much as the fascist hand salute was.

     Ah, but one might say that one was a fist of defiance, while the other in an open handed salute of support, right? Wrong: Both are a salute of support of what was considered the “correct” means and ends, that stand in defiance of the “institutionally privileged”. Both the open handed salute and the closed fist crushing opposition has been used by Communists/Assorted Hard Leftists and National Socialists.

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Whither Columbia?

     ‘Tis an interesting confluence in the year 2020, where statues of Columbus, et al., are being torn down because of “racism”, including by the California state Senate which ironically voted to endorse racial discrimination by removing the prohibition of the same from the state Constitution, while the House of Representatives voted for making the District of Columbia the State of Columbia.

     Will they really change their name from Columbia? Heck, will they unilaterally change the name of the City of Washington, whose flag is based on George Washington’s coat of arms, to something else?   How would this conflict with Article I of the Constitution be resolved?

     Will the cities of Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio be renamed, or the Columbia River, or the motion picture company? Will there be demands that British Columbia be pressured to change it’s name, or the country of Columbia?

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Venezuela, A Pariah Of Oppression

     Actual socialism doesn’t work, not even in Venezuela, so they’ve embraced… money laundering, schemes to get around sanctions, graft, and criminal cartels!   Yet they still have gas shortages.

     While some nations like the U.S. are standing up against Venezuela’s kleptocrats Venezuela still have friends in the world, like Iran, who are accepting gold payments from Maduro’s regime for a bit of refined gasoline, as well as military and espionage support!

     Funny, then, how they can afford to aid and abed, if not outright participate in, the violent riots that have hit the United States of America this year, along with instigators from Cuba and Sandinista Niceragua.

     And the people of Venezuela, at least those who are not outright “disappeared”, or the deaths of women during childbirth being kept secret. The prisons are becoming Coronavirus breeding grounds, which is about as bad as their regular hospitals.

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News of the Week (June 28th, 2020)

 

News of the Week for June 28th, 2020


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Firing Line Friday: How to Protest

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     There was a time when serious advocates of “fundamentally transforming America” had to distance themselves from riots and overt Communism, and rather try to maintain a semblance of a thoughtful reformer who pushed for respectable protests.   Mr. Buckley debates one such advocate: Dwight MacDonald.

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All The Cops Are Criminals; All The Fundamental Transformative Revolutionaries Saints

     So, after the city of Minneapolis was subject to lawlessness, arson, looting, violence, and arson, the woke leadership of the Minneapolis City Council got the bright idea to abolish the police department, explained their clever little scheme:

     The city council went ahead and voted to end the police department, despite surrounding police and sheriff’s departments saying that they wouldn’t touch a police-less Minneapolis with an eleven foot poll.  Any bets that Minneapolis will become the New Detroit (without the hope of becoming Delta City).

Send him to… Minneapolis!

     And what will the Minneapolis City Council replace the police with? A “transformative new model of public safety” and “invest in community-led public safety”.

     So, “Struggle Sessions”? Collective liquidation of Kulaks as a class? Somewhere in the pits of hell, Ernst Röhm smiles at the revolutionary wokeness.   Of course this “invest[ment] in community-led public safety” would probably be led by a… Committee of Public Safety.

     This would explain the sudden gushing of love for the Reign of Terror in the media.

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UN-Serious, UN-Fair, and UN-American

     The United Nations is know as, aside from child-raping “Peacekeepers”, as being a joke—and a bad joke at that. Now, the so-called “Human Rights Council” of the U.N. (which is run by the usual assortment of tyrants) is going after the “systemic” racism in the United States, which it just presumes to exist, lead by hardcore Leftist Michelle Bachelet (who has a helicopter-sized chip on her shoulder).

“In line with the final version of the resolution text, the High Commissioner should ‘prepare a report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents that resulted in the death of George Floyd and other Africans and of people of African descent’.

“The text also calls on Ms. Bachelet – assisted by UN appointed independent rights experts and committees ‘to examine government responses to anti-racism peaceful process peaceful protests, including the alleged use of excessive force against protesters, bystanders and journalists’.”

     The resolution was adopted without dissent.

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