In the aftermath of yesterday's assassination attempt on the GOP Congressional Leadership, the Corporate Media and Academic Mafia have been venting their frustrations that the scheme did not succeed. Jesse Benn, a Deep-State dirtbag who writes for The Huffington Post, was quite unapologetic about the spirit of the attack; it was the method with which he disagreed:
"For violent resistance to work, it would need to be organized" he expounds, "Individual acts can be understandable, but likely counterproductive or ineffective."
This sounds suspiciously similar to the very sort of thing that Right-Wing extremists like Vox Day and Andrew Anglin say after some Red Pill flips out and attacks innocent people. In fact, Anglin has said on many occasions: "We don't endorse violence---it's bad propaganda."
Jesse Benn is a doctoral student in Journalism at the University of Wisconsin who had previously written articles claiming that violence is an appropriate response to the Trump agenda (June, 2016) and that Whites should be collectively 'wounded' (August, 2015) for the US to understand racism, or something.
And on the subject of wounds, Benn also said this about yesterday's shooting:
"What's more harmful? Putting millions already on the margins at risk via draconian policies, or shooting a racist lawmaker in the hip? F--- Steve Scalise...the world would be a better place without him."
It should be noted that Rep. Scalise was shot while donating his time for an event designed to raise money for charities. Scalise is a married father of two; a Catholic who has been a foe of the abortion racketeers and the Gay Mafia. He also is a member of Italian-American community groups and has volunteered at youth camps during Congressional recesses. Can Benn say as much?
Jesse Benn is another example of why the American Corporate Media should be shunned by everyone. Unfortunately, trolls like Jesse Benn are read and followed by other losers like James Hodgkinson who eagerly act upon their suggestions. Benn even has a header on his website of President Trump hung in effigy. This is the type of person he is: and the type of person whom the Corporate Media and the UW School of Journalism welcomes into their inner circle as one of the 'Elite.'
As we've all heard, a 66 year-old Anarchist attempted this morning to assassinate the Republican Congressional leadership. Republican Congressmen and Senators were gathered at a local ball-field organizing a baseball team for an annual bipartisan charity game when they were viciously attacked. Federal Police responded quickly although several were wounded, including the House Majority Whip, Rep. Steve Scalise. The police sent the gunman, James Hodgkinson, to Tartarus under a hail of gunfire.
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords---a survivor of a 2011 assassination attempt--- sent a message of support. Nancy Pelosi issued a statement calling for unity; and Melania Trump praised the Federal Police for their heroism. But the national dialogue more-or-less took a turn for the worse after that.
In fact, throughout much of the day, the Corporate Media seems to have brushed the story aside in favor of the usual fare of fake-news and distraction. The suspect in this case had a notable criminal history and a notable career as an Anarchist in more recent times. He supported Senator Sanders in 2016---whose supporters were known for violent and aggressive tactics. It appears also that Hodgkinson was a great admirer of The Resistance especially Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. He also was a follower of the Whacko Left's anti-Russia conspiracy theories, and made several comments alluding to President Trump as 'a traitor'. Hence the Corporate Media---which has been trolling for just such an event to happen---would rather that the public didn't start connecting dots.
President Trump addressed the Nation announcing that the suspect was dead, and that the shooting was under investigation. In a radical departure from previous administrations, the FBI and BATF are tracing Hodgkinson's connections to determine whether or not others may have been involved. Trump's speech was denounced immediately by the fake Conservatives on the Alt-Right. Talk-show host Michael Savage, for example, called it a "milquetoast speech" with the "kind of vanilla language that Romney might have used." Savage went on to lament that Trump lacked the "kind of fortitude" that led the Alt-Right to support him and cursed his "RNC advisers."
Savage went on to advocate what his interpretation of a Conservative would do. Arrest Maddow and Olbermann; seize media venues like Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube that don't censor speech sufficiently; ban anti-Trump protests; and so forth. A lot of so-called Conservatives are calling for the same thing.
But these are the tactics of the Left. Real Conservatives are above shutting down speech and seizing or controlling businesses engaging in free enterprise who don't toe the PC party-line. The Alt-Right/Red Pill cultists are merely the Far Left with a different set of Commisars.
President Trump handled the situation like a grown-up. If Hodgkinson had co-conspirators, there's no doubt that Sessions will ferret them out and take appropriate action. Lashing out in all directions simply for the sake of action is what Leftists like James Hodgkinson do. But it's not our way of doing things.
The parents of a pair of Millennial-generation nitwits are speaking out to the media and playing the victim cards on their offsprings' behalves. America's 'Lost Generation' is mostly the result of bad parenting, and the cases of these two are fine examples.
First we have Otto Warmbier, a student at a university so extremist that it made national news last year after students held a petition to ban Christmas. At 21, young Otto went on his third vacation to North Korea. Otto was arrested this time---according to the Corporate Media for stealing a 'propaganda poster' on a dare. What the Media leaves out of the story is that Warmbier knowingly entered a Restricted Area and began vandalizing government property before being subdued after a struggle with the North Korean police. While this out-of-control behavior is acceptable at places like the University of Virginia, it carries a 15-year prison sentence in North Korea.
The North Koreans sent Warmbier back to the US today because of a medical condition. Rainbow Rex Tillerson made the announcement today, confirming that Warmbier is in a coma. The North Koreans state that Warmbier overdosed on narcotics---which given his bizarre behavior leading to his arrest is not totally implausible.
Warmbier testified during his trial that he was offered an absurd sum of money for taking the poster. It's hardly a smart policy for an American to tell North Koreans that he entered a restricted area because he was being paid by people back in Arlington, Virginia (you know, where the CIA headquarters is).
Warmbier's parents, Fred & Cindy, told the Corporate Media angrily that "We want the world to know how our we and our son has been brutalized and terrorized by this pariah regime." So say the same knotheads who had no problem with paying for their son to go over there. On Otto's last trip, he was part of 'Young Pioneers Tours' which advertise "destinations your mother would want you to stay away from!" We blame North Korea for producing this guy. The Warmbiers own this one all by themselves.
The second Snowflake in the news is named Reality Winner. Ms. Reality is a 25 year-old product of dysfunctional US public schools and the equally dysfunctional US Military.
Ms. Reality passed classified data to the Media which was the subject of an ongoing Congressional investigation. An obvious case of American institutional radicalization, Ms. Reality was given a series of promotions in both the USAF and NSA because of both her gender and her commitment to Left-Wing ideologies. Her actions illustrate that she was taught to value Cultural Marxism over the good of the Nation. Her mother's statement to the press gives us an indication of where this girl went off-track.
Her mother, a character named Billie Winner-Davis told the Corporate Media: "It will be difficult for her to get a fair trial if her case becomes this big deal about how 'we're not going to tolerate leakers.' I think they're going to try to make an example out of her because of the political climate right now."
Isn't it interesting that both the Warmbiers and the Winners made political statements about their children's plights the first time they opened their mouths? It does give us some pause to wonder what kind of moral training these two young people received. But I think that we can draw our own conclusions about that.
There have been a plethora of new discussions popping up in the Prozac Nation lately, all of which have some relevance to the Bill of Rights. Megan Kelly, a celebrity newswoman, interviewed Alex Jones, a Sandy Hook denier. This has the Prozac Nation up-in-arms, because the interview happened near Fathers' Day. One would think that Americans would be a lot more outraged at the decline in men becoming fathers and the way American fathers are treated; but that's swept under the rug. The debate has, though, reignited attacks on the 2nd Amendment such as happened during Sandy Hook in 2012.
And as we wrote in our last article, the Southern Baptist Convention is due to vote on an historic resolution condemning extremism from the so-called Alt-Right. This has generated a lot of discussion on the Internet relating to Freedom of Speech. This follows on the heels of a weekend that saw riots in 33 cities over something to do with American Moslems. Neither side seemed exactly clear on what they were fighting for or against; but the incidents brought into question some questions about Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Assembly, etc.
The debate between personal liberty and collective responsibility is almost wholly a modern phenomenon in Western democracies. The issue emanates out of World War 2 primarily, although the seeds were being planted during WW1. Technologies which grew out of those wars demonstrated that, for the first, human capability of reaching masses of people. Prior to 1945, there were no weapons capable of destroying entire cities. There were no missiles capable of reaching other continents until 1954 and nothing capable of reaching Outer Space until 1957. The same is true of mass-communications. Radio became popular during the 1920s, but the experience the world saw with the Nazi Propaganda Ministry led to regulations in the post-war period. Television grew during the same period and from the 1990s onward, Internet technology has connected the world.
Some pundits of the 1950s and 1960s began to address this problem; and it is one that cannot be dismissed lightly. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms allows us access to weapons capable of self-defense against an entire violent street gang; but those same weapons can annihilate a church or school full of people. The Right of Free Speech and its ancillaries protect even opinions considered offensive; but the with the technology of today, those opinions can reach audiences of scores of millions of people. The old dilemma of the Sword and the Pen have given way to the ICBM and the Twitter Feed.
What has actually happened---as the older generations of Sociologists realized---technology has evolved at a faster pace than civilization. And it cannot be stressed enough here that we are speaking of the moral aspect of our Civilization. Mankind is not really more violent or uncivil than before; those tendencies always existed but technological developments can bring them to the fore in times of social unrest. But it can also bring many good things---advanced weaponry can make war too costly and encourage peaceful solutions. This is true incidentally in self-defense situations: a would-be rapist is less likely to attack a girl defended with a machinegun than one defended with a nail-file. And the remarkable humanitarian effort in Syria was made possible only by high-speed communications.
The Silver Lining to this cloud is to understand that these debates we're currently having ---unpleasant as they may be---are actually very necessary steps in Social Evolution. The Gun Rights' advocates have done a great job in the wake of mass-shootings of increasing education and promoting responsible gun ownership. The 1st Amendment advocates have much catching up to do; but there are positive signs on the horizon. Our Founding Fathers understood that in an atmosphere of Liberty, things will rectify themselves so long as we follow the Spirit of the Law, rather than its Letter. And education, as always, is key.
The Southern Baptist Convention is meeting this week in Phoenix. A Baptist leader named Dwight McKissic has introduced a Resolution to their congress, which is truly monumental in scope. If adopted, this will be one of the first communal denunciations of the New-Age Far Right as exemplified by the so-called Alt-Right and the Red Pill Cult.
"Resolved, that the Southern Baptist Convention denounces every form of 'nationalism' which violates Biblical teachings with respect to race, justice, and ordered liberty; and be it further resolved that we reject the retrograde ideologies, xenophobic biases, and racial bigotries of the so-called 'Alt-Right' who seek to subvert our Government, destabilize society, and infect our political system; and be it finally resolved that we earnestly pray both for those who lead and advocate this movement along who those who are thereby deceived, that they may see their error through the Light of the Gospel, repent of their perverse nationalism, and come to know the peace and love of Christ through redeemed fellowship within the Kingdom of God, which is established from every tribe, nation, people, and tongue." concludes the proposed Resolution.
The various Scriptural references and arguments for the proposal can be found here.
We have pointed out on many occasions elsewhere the heretical tendencies of this movement---especially regarding its cultish and openly anti-Christian positions. Its disciples have their own conversion process which they term taking the Red Pill. The Cult teaches the literal enslavement of women, racial supremacy, and denies multiple Christian Doctrines related to Salvation, the Divine Incarnation, Redemption and Original Sin. They are especially perverse in their teachings relating to gender relations; which often exceed in their grossness some of the worst behaviors of ancient Gnosticism.
If the Baptists adopt this Resolution, it will be a major step forward for Conservative Christians---who especially need to address what McKissic rightly calls "a growing menace" that "affects the minds and actions of its violent disciples". As St. Clement spoke of the earlier Gnostics: "Their behavior causes the Name of Christ to be slandered throughout the Earth."
Now Nationalism per se is not a negative thing. But America has always existed as a culture predicated on cultivating the best aspects of various cultures towards a systemic whole. It's interesting that the other major country with a similar cultural philosophy is Russia. The US and Russia have been the two global superpowers since the end of WW2. So far from weakness and division, what the Red Pills call a convergence of cultures actually is beneficial: and we also have the earlier Hellenist, Roman, British, and French Empires as examples of national strength and unity through cultural interaction. The reason for this is obvious: a mixed culture is by nature going to be more innovative and open to new strategies and ideas. As we've mentioned here before, if cultural isolation and homogeneity were national strengths then Saudi Arabia and North Korea should logically be the world's most progressive and enlightened cultures.
But as Christians, we know from the Apostle John that we are "saved not by birth nor of the will of man" and St. Luke testifies that the Holy Spirit spoke in various tongues to the first converts. St. Philip, the first missionary, converted an Ethiopian ambassador and Christ appeared in a vision to St. Peter telling him, "What God has called clean, do not you call unclean." There is also a great diversity of cultures within Christianity itself---certainly we are not weakened by it at all.
Of course, the Red Pills are incensed at this proposal; denouncing the Southern Baptists as 'Cuckservatives', 'Churchians', and 'SWJ Converged." Vox Day, both on his own blog and via one of his sock-puppet faux-Christian blogs Bravian Thought, have called for Dwight McKissic's impeachment. In fact, they've turned the argument around and accused McKissic of being a "Social Justice Warrior" who himself is trying to infiltrate the Baptists!
"If the SBC makes this Resolution permanent" Vox/Bravian sternly warns, "that institution shall have fallen to the Prince of Lies. To prevent this, all members of the SBC should get a copy of 'SJWs Always Lie' (note: a book written by Vox Day himself; sort of the Dianetics of the Red Pill Cult) "and to clean up the Convention of any anti-Christian offenders, no matter how big they are, or how insignificant they may seem."
The 'two' bloggers also cite an anecdote from a 'Christian'---who's been a convert less than a year---complaining that he can't find a Baptist Congregation that isn't 'SJW Converged'. The cultishness here is transparent. Vox is clearly setting up a false dichotomy to distinguish his 'true faith' from the 'apostate' Baptists and draw any SBC dissidents into his camp.
Any readers who follow the Baptist Denomination should support McKissic's proposal---and actually work to build on it, because it is a good start. But even if one has some legitimate issues with it; work within the Baptist Church to modify it in some constructive and Christ-like way---and don't be fooled by charlatans like Vox.
Defense Secretary James Mattis---Commandant of the USMC under Obama---announced a new politically-correct appointment on Friday. 'Lt. Col.' Megan Brodgen will become the first female commander of a US Special Forces' Unit.
'Colonel' Brodgen will assume command of the 3rd Special Forces Support Group (yes, they actually call them support groups these days), stationed at the all-inclusive Fort Bragg. Col. Bradley Moses of Fort Bragg---all giddy with glee over the appointment claimed that 'Colonel' Brodgen was chosen for her leadership abilities and not her gender. It should be noted though that Ms. Megan spent her entire career in the Quartermaster Corps, a purely non-combat position.
In 2016, though, Mattis' former boss Obama officially allowed women to serve in combat positions, shortly after he eliminated restrictions on homosexuals in the Military. These changes also brought a lowering of standards to qualify for Special Forces. Attrition in these units remains high, as is finding quality replacements. No one in the effete Beltway Culture can figure out why top-quality fighting men don't wish to take orders from women, camp out with homosexuals or act as nursemaids for foreign militias.
During the nearly six months that Mattis has run the Defense Department, not one of these Obama-Era policies has been changed. In fact, Mattis hasn't even replaced any commanders from Obama's term: even the Pentagon's Official Spokesman is a holdover. The only swamp-draining or changes of any note have come from outside the Pentagon. Crackdowns on corruption have mostly initiated from the Justice Department. The Military Courts have overruled a few policies. Loosening the Rules of Engagement and increased readiness testing have come on the orders of President Trump.
One of Trump's campaign promises was to revitalize the US Military. It's becoming more and more clear though that these changes will not happen under 'Mad Dog' Mattis. Mattis' ties to the Deep State, via his connections to Obama and to his financial connections with shady defense contractors like General Dynamics indicate that reform and the national interest are not his top priorities. His appointment of 'Colonel' Brodgen and his unwillingness to de-feminize the Military shows that he is ideologically in sync with the previous failed presidential administrations, which he served faithfully.
Fort Gordon, Georgia---home to the Army's self-proclaimed 'Cyber Center of Excellence'---is minus its commander of communications upgrades. Col. Anthony Roper was arrested this morning along with his wife and two defense contractors on charges of bribery, criminal conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice.
According to the indictment, Col. Roper plotted with an unidentified ex-Army officer who headed the CREC Group---a defense contractor---to arrange supply contracts in exchange for bribes. Col. Roper also falsified Defense Department and Small Business Association documents. The scheme ran the entire 8-year course of the Obama Administration and took the Government for around $20 million.
These are the kinds of parasites with whom the Deep State has infested the Pentagon. President Trump has given Military commanders greater authority; but like many Conservatives, he has too great a faith in the character of the postmodern armed forces. Mattis, McMaster, Votel, Harris---and many others---are holdovers who worked for and served the corrupt Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. Commanders of these types groomed officers like Roper and their track-record with vetting contractors has been disgraceful. That's to say nothing of their overall incompetence as commanders in the field.
Fort Gordon is not only the home of Army Cyber Programs, it is a major center of Military Intelligence and their NSA coordinators. And these crooks had access to all its internal and external communications' systems.
But nobody really needs to hack Fort Gordon too much. The base even has its own Facebook page. Last week, the base hosted the USA Masters Cycling Championship, for example. And Adventure Camp opened this week for the kids; last week was the annual Kids' Spring Fishing Derby. On June 1st, the Fort posted a friendly reminder that June is LGBTQ "Pride Month"; complete with the hashtag #DoDPRIDE.
Yes, General Mattis, you're doing a really great job draining the swamp. All of us can rest more safely knowing that Military Intelligence and Cyber-Communication are in the hands of people like this. Well, at least they seem to be having a good time, anyway. But it's time to tell Mattis, "You're fired."
In fact, Fort Gordon even scores 3.9 on Google Reviews. Commenters have noted the gym facilities, the wonderful shopping at the PX, and some have remarked on what a great concert venue it is (Hank Williams, Jr. is appearing next week, incidentally).
God help us all if we ever have to fight a real military again.
