THIS IS JUST SICK

    Once upon a time, an American Conservative was someone who stood for American values. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Faith, Family, and Freedom. Equality Before the Law. Fair Play, Competition, and Free Enterprise. 

   Then, somewhere along the line, the Right lost its way. Greed, selfishness, and cruelty became virtuous. Manipulating the system and the pursuit of power replaced reasoned debate and leading by example. Force and fraud became good policy while a mockery was made of friendship and faith and the value of a single human life. We hardly need to give examples: anyone who's watched the last 30 years of a movement built by the likes of Reagan and Buckley degenerate into the moral Anarchism of today's Republican Party has seen it. The last 10-20 years have been especially bad; the rise of the Red Pill Cult with its nihilistic the ends justify any means philosophy; human beings translated into human capital---all the way down to having a sexual market value and the recent displays of governors using migrants as show-props. Our system was predicated on the Right of free men to choose from among them representatives best qualified to administer a free State and safeguard those freedoms; not bowing to some 'Alpha' like a bunch of savages dancing around their war-chief. 

    As if we needed any further proof of the level to which 2023 'Conservatism' has sunk, Eric Lendrum, one of the pundits of the 'New Right' wrote this disgusting article published on a leading 'Conservative' website---a site which seems to be degenerating exponentially into White Supremacy, Nihilism, and the Cult of the Alpha Superman. We'll have more to say about Mr. Lendrum presently, but first the problems with his thinking.

   Now the background to this story is that crowdsourcing platform GoFundMe refused funding for the legal defense of an Arizona man facing 1st Degree Murder Charges and $1 million bail for allegedly killing a migrant who was trespassing on his property. Lendrum is all in a knot over this; foaming about "the left-wing crowdfunding website...has shut down all fundraisers for an Arizona cattle rancher who defended his property by killing an illegal alien, thus leaving him and his wife to bear the financial burden of the coming legal battle," which---the last time I checked was the right of a company to set its own Terms of Use. Especially in this case because GoFundMe is not a monopoly and Lendrum even mentions other sites where donations can be made. 

   This type of promoting a Conservative version of Cancel Culture is disturbing enough: but what's particularly chilling about this article is that Lendrum seems more outraged over one company's refusal to fund a legal defense than he is about the actual circumstances involved in the crime. Remember here that we're not talking about some 'woke' Liberal county in California where people don't even stop robberies because they think it's too mean. We're talking about Santa Cruz County Arizona---where the sheriffs don't exactly have a reputation for being anti-2nd Amendment. Arizona, in fact, has some of the most lenient gun and self-defense laws; and for them to charge someone with premeditated murder should imply that something a little more than self-defense was involved here. 

  In fact, there is a lot more to this story. The suspect, George Alan Kelly, is portrayed by Lendrum as "an Arizona cattle rancher who defended his property by killing an illegal alien," and by his shady alternative fundraiser as "a simple farmer, who should be protected by the government, has been abandoned and had to defend himself. That is bad enough, but the government that caused this, now wishes to persecute him.”

      

    We get a little different picture of things by hearing what the police and other officials actually said. According to the police, on January 30th, there were shots fired at a fleeing group around 3 P.M. in Kino Springs, (a 20 year old subdivision of Nogales, Arizona; and not a ranch passed down from generation to generation as is being assumed). Police found nothing at the time (which also doesn't seem to square very neatly with the narrative of an out-of-control 'invasion' going on). They received a second call of 'shots fired' in the same area about three hours later. A half-hour's search found the body of 48-year old Gabriel Cuen-Butimea (yes these migrants actually do have names), a resident of Nogales, Mexico---a few hours' walk from the border. 

   Cuen-Butimea was unarmed, and was 150 yards from Kelly's house when he was shot---according to some sources in the back. Police matched the bullet to a gun Kelly owned, stating that Cuen-Butimea was killed with a single shot (likely at close range, since Kelly's weapon was said to be an AK-47, which is designed for close combat). 

  A few other tidbits emerged: Lendrum doesn't seem to have noticed that Kelly was not only a rancher, but a published author as well. 

  "Kelly has published a novel titled 'Far Beyond the Border Fence;' which, according to its description on Amazon describes how the protagonist and his men have to patrol the ranch daily with AK-47 rifles."

  An excerpt from said story:

  "Stopping construction of the Border Wall was just a ploy taken by Washington politicians trying to buy the votes of Hispanics living legally and illegally in the US."..."George had emptied both clips but he ran towards the cut fence with his Glock drawn and ready to fire. "

So far from being a 'hero' and a 'true patriot' what we obviously have here is yet another sap egged on by Red Pilled rhetoric who lost it one day and gunned down an unarmed Mexican in cold blood. Given that the migrant actually lived just across the border, he was probably not even intending to stay but likely visiting people he knew in America. As for Kelly, he's probably going to hang; and deservedly so.

What about people like Lendrum, Abbott, DeSantis and others encouraging anti-immigrant hysteria and violence? Nothing will happen to them. We've seen it before with these Red Pills: people like Vox Day, Gavin MacInnis, Andrew Anglin, Rollo Tomassi, Mike Cernovich---they go on getting fat donations, doing interviews, and publishing new books while the chumps who act on their advice end up in jail.

This is what is so sickening about all this: it's bad enough that dupes like Kelly are gulled into committing these crimes---but not a word of empathy or even thought passes Lendrum's pen for the victims. And don't imagine that it isn't contagious---just look at the applause Kelly gets from various sources:

It's past time that the Conservatives dealt with this problem. We don't need these people. Thugs, killers, supremacists, grifters: if it takes their kind to win, then we don't deserve to win. In the 1960s, William F. Buckley led a movement to cut these kooks loose, and it created an effective opposition to the radical Left until the turn of the century. Today, it's apparent that the only antidote to Left-Wing extremism is Right-Wing extremism: and that is no improvement.